Spiritual hurdles - November 19, 2023: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:03 Good morning. Everybody woohoo here we are in the house of God. Amen I’m filling in for michael Stephanie and I are filling in for michael and Chris they’re off to doing some other things and um we just hope you will just engage and get involved in the service today because this is for us for all of us not the we’re just part of you amen so this morning we’re going to start talking about the mighty one of Israel the mighty one of Israel that gave promise after promise throughout the word of God the Bible that he was going to bring deliverance that he was going to do great and mighty things for Israel now there’s a natural Israel and there’s a spiritual Israel and those those promises were for both so today here we are here probably mostly as spiritual.

▶ 1:09 Israel but God God will keep his promises and where we want to proclaim we want to announce we want to declare that our God is mighty that we believe his promises we hold those promises and we want to exalt him today so we’re going to sing this song the mighty one of Israel he’s mighty one of isel he’s the mighty one of isel voice shall be heard in the power of his word the mighty one of is he’s a mighty one of isel he’s a mighty one of is I am his voice shall be heard and the power of his heart the mighty one of is I am the Lord shall cause his glory his voice to be heard and you shall have a in.

▶ 2:20 Night come to the mountain of the Lord see his glory and his might for he a mighty one of Israel he’s a mighty one of Israel his voice shall be heard in the power of his word the mighty one of is the eyes of the blind shall be open and will see the ears of the death shall. He the lame man shall jo shall he as a heart the tongue of the d shall sing he’s a mighty one of Israel he’s a mighty one of Israel.

▶ 3:14 His voice shall be heard in the power of his word the mighty one of is the Lord shall cause his glorious beauty to be seen the des shall bloom and rejoice say to them that are here heart be strong and listen to his voice he’s the mighty one of hisel he’s the mighty one of Israel his voice shall be heard in the power of his word the mighty one of is. He’s the mighty one of isel he’s the mighty one of isel.

▶ 4:08 His voice shall be heard in the power of his word the mighty one of isel he’s the mighty one of isel he’s the mighty one of Israel his voice shall we heard in the power of his word the mighty one of isra let’s just praise him we exalt you Lord Jesus the king of kings and Lord of gl worthy is. Our you are mighty you are holy you are awesome in your power you have you have conquered you haveen the power of death you are mighty you are holy you are awesome in your power you have risen you have conquered you have beaten power of death you are.

▶ 5:31 You are holy you are awesome in your power you have ren you have de you have beaten the power of death hal. Hallelujah will. Rejo hallelu. We will. Rejoice you are mighty you are holy you are awesome in your power you have wi you have conquered you have beaten the power of death one more time you are mighty you are holy.

▶ 6:30 You are awesome in your power you have risen you have you have beaten the power. Of yes Lord you have called you. Are you Jesus our our deliv all power heav. You during this worship ship time if anyone has a prayer or anyone has something they feel as timely to say just feel.

▶ 7:50 Comfortable there is in the name of Jesus. We. Believe in his name. Yes we have called on the name of Jesus we are. Saved we are. Saved at his name the deest at his name for there is no other name that is.

▶ 8:49 Hard than j there is power there. In the name of Jesus like. The in our hand we declare in the name of Jesus we shall. St we shall sa. His. Name shall be.

▶ 9:43 Crushed. Our for there is no other name that is. Higher than j. His his name. His captives. Are for there is for. The that is. Hard. For there is no other name that is.

▶ 10:46 High than jes Lord you are good and your mercy earth. Forever Lord you are good and your mercy endur. Forever people from every nation and tong from generation to generation we worship. You. Hallelujah. Hallelujah we worship you for who you. Are we worship.

▶ 11:41 You. Hallelujah. Hallelujah we worship you for who you. Are you are. Good you are good all the time all the time you are good you are good all the time all the time you are good you are good all the time all the time you are good you are good all the time all the time you are. Lord you are good and your mercy endure it.

▶ 12:39 Forever Lord you are good and your mercy enduring. Forever people from every nation and come from generation to generation we worship. You. Hallelujah. Hallelujah we worship you for who you. Are we. Worship. You. Hallelujah. Hallelujah we worship you for who you. Are. You are.

▶ 13:34 Good you are good your mercy endures. Forever. Lord is good just sing your own song Lord you. Wor and we sing your pra worthy. Worthy.

▶ 14:32 Let. Your let your presence let your presence in word and to we worship and honor you this day we offer the sacrifice. Pr we will lif up our voices to our God oh you are worthy you are worthy you are. Worth. Mighty. Mighty.

▶ 15:31 You are God the heavens of earth you are God of our saor you were. The. Over. You were. For you. Are you are. God you are God God.

▶ 16:26 God you. You. Are you are. God you are God God. God you are in what seems like. Happ you are our God in every you are God when we fall and God when. We you are God who holds us in your hand.

▶ 17:24 You. You. Are you are. God you are God God. God. You you. Are you are. God you are God God oh. God.

▶ 18:57 O. Thank you thank you such. A thank you. Than of.

▶ 20:08 My heart open the eyes of my heart I want to see. You I want to see you open your eyes. The eyes of my heart the eyes of my heart I want to see. You I want to see. You to see you. Heart shining in the light your glory.

▶ 21:01 Pour out your power love as we sing holy. Holy. Holy holy holy. Holy ho. Holy. Holy holy. Holy. Holy I want to see. You holy holy. Holy holy holy. Holy holy holy. Holy I want to see.

▶ 21:56 You one more. Holy. Holy. Holy holy holy. Holy holy. Holy. Holy I want to see you as was in prayer open the eyes open the eyes of my heart. Lord open the eyes of my heart I want just see you. Jesus I want to see you open the eyes open the eyes of my heart. Lord open the eyes of my heart I want to see.

▶ 22:56 You I want to see. You to see you high. And shining in the light of your glory pour out your power and love as we sing holy holy. Holy see. You up. Shining in the light of your glory pour out your power and love as we sing holy holy. Holy let’s just lift our hands to the Lord holy.

▶ 23:49 Holy. Holy holy. Holy. Holy. Holy. Holy. Holy I want to see. You holy. Holy. Holy holy. Holy. Holy holy. Hool I want to see. Can someone just. Pray take us into the next part of the service.

▶ 24:51 Ag with the psalmist you are more than holy. You’re worthy of all our praises you’re worthy of all our love Jesus and you’ve been. Faithful to us for these many years you’ve been faithful you are a beautiful. God. Beautiful in splendor and majesty you we just love you this morning Jesus we love you we praise you there’s nobody like you Jesus nobody like you that’s beautiful that’s kind that’s. Patient especially patient.

▶ 25:45 God we thank you for coming today and being in the midst of our our service here we need you. Jesus. If you want to follow along don’t feel like you need to but there’s a little sheet here there’s no blanks on this one like michael always has sorry Mr. Kincer but but there’s some little pens over here if you just want to put a little highlight or something like that uh something you want to remember and go back. To. All right so we’re going to start out uh I thought I’d like to share not a preacher.

▶ 26:38 Not a preacher but I love the word of God and I love to share things that uh like Rita said this morning if I come up with something profound well there’s nothing I don’t think I’ve come up with anything profound but but God’s word is just full of surprises and things that can change our innermost beings so that’s what we’re dealing with the power of the word so in Matthew. 25 there’s a parable there and it’s about uh it’s called the parable of the talents but it’s kind of uh misleading because most people talk about it as talents as your gifts what God has in given you that you can use and if you don’t use it they’ll they’ll be taken and given to someone else and that’s kind of the crux that you usually hear but I I think we need to read that I was going to skip that let’s let’s go there Matthew 25 I’ll read that one just to get us going and then you guys have some scriptures you’re going to read um to get us through a little quicker so Matthew.

▶ 27:56 25:14 Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them and to one he gave five talents to another two to another one to each according to his own ability and immediately he went on a journey so remember that parables are truths that Jesus gives in the Bible um for us to learn something by and the parable is so that we can understand it they’re things of God but makes it easy for us to.

▶ 28:38 Understand let’s see and he gave one five to another two to another one to each according to his ability verse 16 then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents so he invested what was given to him um and likewise he who had received two gained two more also he invested what was given to him uh the focus is not on how many talents they were given one was five one was two that wasn’t the focus here it’s each according to his own ability which is very comforting God knows us he knows what we’re capable of and what we’re not and so he had given and then uh but he who had received one talon went and dug in the ground and hid his lord’s money now here it specifically says money so it’s uh it can be a gift or or a um talent but it it here specifically says money and so after a long time the Lord of those servants came and settled account and he who received five uh brought another five and said Lord you gave me five and I have gained five more and then the second one uh who g

▶ 30:08 he gave two he said I’ve brought you two more and the master said enter into the joy of the Lord then also who had received oh that’s two and then uh down in verse uh 24 then he who had received the one talent came and said Lord I knew you to be a hard man reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed so keep that in mind.

▶ 30:43 Yikes to his master he said this and I was afraid and went and hid your talent in the ground look there you have what is yours but look at the response here but his the Lord answered and said to him you wicked and lazy servant you knew that I reap where I have not sown I gather where I have not scattered seed so you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers and at my coming I would have received back with my own interest therefore take the talent from him give it to another for to everyone who has more will be given and he will have abundance but from him who does not have even what he did have will be taken away and cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness there will be weeping and nashing of teeth so very very harsh harsh um response from the master right and we can look at that and think why the other two servants did good what why did this third guy.

▶ 32:00 Just hide it and he said he was afraid now the master called him a wicked and lazy. Servant. So maybe he was just wicked and lazy but in my mind I want to know what brought him there why why when he had two others that were given why. So think about what that servant said I knew you were a hard. Man and uh he basically said you gathered where you sowed not he said he was prosperous he was we wealthy he was prosperous um even if he didn’t apply a whole lot of effort so the master he had a view of that master and he said he was was afraid and he buried what was given and it basically was wasted he did not invest it so in looking at that I thought this man’s.

▶ 33:12 Perception I call it perception it was wrong he didn’t understand his master right he shouldn’t have had fear there is a good fear godly fear which is respect and in that kind of fear you would invest it and he had the other guys to follow the example of so we need to make sure uh this truth applies to us that we have a good perception and understanding of the master who is Jesus right he is God he is Jesus our Lord and we have to have a great uh a good understanding so I’m going to go through um just starting from Genesis just to mention creation uh to set up what our perception should be what our understanding of our master let us make man in our own image uh there God walked and talked and it said God was pleased so we are made in the image of God that should say a lot and God was pleased in Psalms 8 David king David said what is man that thou art mindful of him thou mest him a little lower than the angels and

▶ 34:43 crowned him with glory and honor so God has put that on mankind glory and honor and is pleased and just from the those few verses we see God had a plan from before creation to create a people for himself to walk to talk to be in relationship with and we know he will fulfill that plan regardless of who does what if you’re the first to with the talents or you’re the last one regardless God will complete his plan but we want to be like those first to servants amen we want to invest what God has given us and we want to have a good uh perception and understanding of God the God we serve so we have great value to God now this is where I asked if you guys could read a few scriptures we’re going to hand the mic around to get through this list and it’s a list because it gives us a good balance of a really good balance so we want to take the time to go through these so Stephanie has the mic and we’re going to we’ll go ahead and start with the top there Matthew 10:29 through.

▶ 36:14 31 take your time are not two sparrows sold for a cup of coin and not one of them falls to the ground apart from your father’s will but the very hairs of your head are all numbered do not fear therefore you are of more value than many. Sparrows amen our hairs on our head are numbered he knows every sparrow that falls and then let’s go to Psalms 116:15 who has. That precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints amen even as a passageway into eternity God expresses his his sincere love for his people John I’m sorry Luke.

▶ 37:12 12:32 fear not little. Flock I miss it for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Amen it’s the father’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom it’s not like we’re having to scrape our way and try to be acceptable God makes us acceptable as we follow him and he desires to give us the kingdom so powerful all right um John 3:16. Yes for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life amen so there’s no greater than just knowing the love of God for all mankind for all human life God loves us he sacrificed his son what a understanding of who God is if nothing else from that one verse that God so loved us my m.

▶ 38:37 7:18 he will again have compassion on us and will subdue our iniquities you will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. Amen he has. Compassion and our sins are far from him he doesn’t see them when we repent and Matthew 5:45 he makes the sun shine and the rain to fall into just and unjust alive amen what a God what a God we serve he makes the sunshine on the just and the unjust alike and the rain to fall just well we have one more before I get to it Psalms. 89:14.

▶ 39:40 89:14. Psalms yes. 89:14 and then lamentations. 3. Take your time we’re good we’re having Bible. Study justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Beautiful mercy judgment. Mercy righteousness and lamentations. Because of the lord’s great love we are not consumed for his compassions never fail they are new every morning Lord great is your faithfulness amen so you put all those together all those verses and isn’t it very easy to see there God’s value for us and helps us to understand God yes.

▶ 40:57 Amen it’s. It’s there’s a thousand more verses that we could speak of but I just gave a few there so that we can correct our perception uh and he is not a hard master is. He God is not a hard master he has done everything everything he possibly could to bring us unto himself and the power to keep us in him.

▶ 41:33 So going on if you love me you keep you obey my commands and it says they are not grievous they are not burdensome 1 John 5:1-5 says um a lot of people when they look at the ten commandments and there’s the Psalms and the prophets with laws as well but in the ten commandments they get scared and think I don’t know if I could keep all those I I don’t know but it says they are not grievous they are not burdensome they are there for us so that God can bless our life protect us and teach us how to live in this life so loving God loving your neighbor as yourself loving ourself properly in in the the way that Jesus divided up the ten commandments is it is not burdensome God’s word and spirit when we add that to our life God gives you power uh it’s not just our own self trying so hard to keep the commandments or laws of God but it says that his word and his spirit gives us power now there’s hurdles to overcome of obviously life has.

▶ 42:59 Those and I want to read to you. Um from 2 Corinthians 11:3 Paul writing to the Corinthian church and he says but I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through subtility uh meaning craftiness or subtle so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity. That is in Christ so we see here it’s not a a one-time thing um we can come to know God but it has to be maintained we have to continue to uh come before God to let God expose the things in our lives that are impure or that God wants to change and it says here uh the simplicity that is in Christ that is what we could be moved away from by many things by many means it says any means and it talks about our minds it’s our minds what goes into us from all different things that could affect our minds so that word.

▶ 44:21 Simplicity means. Singleness it means means to be focused it means purity and sincerity that is the goal in Christ the simplicity of the gospel to walk in it. Focused pure walking pure walking in. Sincerity in Psalms 119:130 it says the entrance of thy word which is a living breathing word giveth light it giveth understanding to the simple so we see here specifically God is not um making it difficult for those that are um highly educated or have a high iq or anything like that it says he giveth understanding to the simple through his word and praise.

▶ 45:29 God Matthew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness um we were familiar with that scripture and um with the busyness of life sometimes we go how do you do that but we can we can put the kingdom of God first in our life it’s priority number one if we don’t we go through life and it gets spent on every other thing and it’s usually all the natural things in life consume us right but if we will have that singleness and focus to say I have got to put some time and effort into the kingdom of God in my life if we will do that and make it a priority you will see amazing things happen.

▶ 46:38 Amen now the opposite of simplicity or is hypocrisy Romans 12:19 just to show you the opposite it says let love be without dissimulation which means hypocrisy. Hypocrisy contains. Deceit error wandering which is like total opposite of being focused right it can be just our inconsistency it could be blaming it can be complacency where we are just happy with ourself and happy with our life and we don’t and we don’t pursue that God has more for us that God wants us to grow so it says there in that verse uphor.

▶ 47:35 Evil which means hate it hate evil uh we can’t just turn our head away from it we have to acknowledge it’s there and hate it and whatever comes with that and cleave to that which is good now he says any means let’s talk about that for a minute any means um he was fearful that as the serpent beguiled Eve by his um craftiness his deceitfulness so I listed along there about habits and addictions um those are the hardcore things in our life that can distract us that can bring us to ruin to where we cannot.

▶ 48:33 Achieve uh God’s goal his ultimate goal in our life wrong desires bad choices bad choices you can make one choice and that leads to another thing and another thing and another thing and so that’s why we try so hard with young people to get them on the right course because we don’t want them to take that one step to a wrong choice and that leads down a long path of wrong choices. Amen now it can even be any means um that um causes problems in our mind it can be doctrinal it can be cultural idol. Ideologies it could be wrong sources of information it could be a lack of information and truth that we are.

▶ 49:27 Allowing ourselves to stay in. Um doctrinally I I say that because in some circles a particular doctrine can actually inhibit you from fulfilling and living the life that God has planned for you by because your thinking is is uh. Kind of stunted it stopped you’re circling around that one doctrine and you can’t seem to get out of that I’ll mention this one just does you know we all love one another it doesn’t matter if we’re different in this but um there are some that because of the doctrine of a rapture and a a instant you know Christians going up to heaven.

▶ 50:26 Um in the middle of life that some people do not pursue excellence in their walk with Christ they’re just looking for that time to just I’m leaving I’m not going to be part of this world you know it’s it can turn into an excuse let’s put it that way now this uh your minds he’s saying um that that subtleness and craftiness can affect our minds we talked a little about about that the mind is part of the soul okay now we know we have a body we know we have a spirit and we know we have a soul and first Thessalonians 5:23 says I pray God your whole spirit.

▶ 51:20 Soul and body be preserved blameless. God’s not just after our soul he wants our spirit he wants our body and it says our body is the temple of God and it contains our soul in our spirit and God wants it to be pure God wants it to honor him the carnal mind the Bible says is at war with God it’s not subject to the law of God nor can. Be that that’s a hurdle we live with a mind that is at war with God and so what do we.

▶ 52:14 Do we have to go to God for his word his living word that changes that mind and his spirit that dwells in us and that’s part of being born again to change and transform our minds so the soul the inner life is about our own experience our mind our heart our will our imagination our thoughts our desires and it’s a channel to express what God is doing in us Mary said my soul doth magnify the Lord it cannot be killed it came from God and it stays with God at death it stays with.

▶ 53:11 God what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul meaning the soul goes to God but there can be eternal separation from God in this spirit the same inner life is represented in our spirit in relation to God it’s our faith our hope our love our character our perseverance when Mary said my soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit doth rejoice in God my savior it feels and that spirit God is after he’s after our soul he’s after our spirit and so um when he says I pray God your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless he’s talking about all of us every part of us he wants in um covered in his word in his spirit so it says there in um I’m looking for the verse about.

▶ 54:30 The uh how the word looking for that verse um it’s excuse me just a minute okay it says in Hebrews 4:12 the word of God is quick powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart now that’s deep right. So God is like a surgeon he uses his word to change us he divides up within us that soul part of us and that spirit part of us and uh the writer here uses an analogy he divides it apart the soul and spirit and the joints in marrow if you think about a joint uh like here and that sword going through a joint it goes through the covering we have a covering on us right we have a covering covering our soul spirit our heart our mind and it goes down to to the marrow the marrow is where.

▶ 56:02 Cells make blood right it goes down to the life let’s put it that way it’s going through the container which we are like a container and it goes down to the very marrow and that’s where it says is a discerner of the thoughts he’s looking at our thoughts thoughts he knows our thoughts he knows the intense I n t n ts not int the intense of our heart that’s that’s the word of God that’s how powerful and living the word. Is. So when the people in Acts 2 who heard the preaching of the word this is why it says they were cut to the heart because as the preaching as the word went forth that word began to work in them God began to take it and by his spirit which he says his word is spirit it is life it began to work in them and they said what must we do and and that’s where we talk about repentance and so.

▶ 57:31 Forth and then of course our body the last one it’s our physical functions your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and it says you are not your own did you know that you are not your own we are bought with a price Psalms 18 says as for God his way is perfect let God be true and every man a liar the fear of the Lord which is a respect is the beginning of wisdom but the fool has said in his heart there is no God that’s a prideful and arrogant frame of mind to think to say in your heart there is no God but in Isaiah 66 it says to him will I look one who is of a poor and a contrite spirit who trembles at my word.

▶ 58:34 When’s the last time you open that Bible and read and trembled right it takes a frame of mind it takes us focusing it takes us meditating on that word it takes us letting it come come in letting God speak to you through it not just running through verses so you can get through a Bible reading or whatever it takes letting your soul and your spirit just soak in that.

▶ 59:10 Word he has shown you oh man or woman what is good and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God. So that is God’s ultimate purpose for us that is why he’s given us the word that is why he gives us the spirit in Joel chapter 2:28 he said I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh we are all candidates to receive the spirit of God and in John 6 the words that I speak Jesus said they are spirit they are life now you you take that and you go okay those words written on that page are more than a written word they are spirit and they are life now you take that and you take when Jesus in John uh when it says the word.

▶ 1:00:18 Became flesh and dwelt among us how do we put that all together in our heads right there’s mystery in it and that’s okay we don’t have to understand it all but we see it we know it because it works in us that word and that spirit that Jesus is that. Word you don’t need to worry about the spirit and tongues some people worry about that what when they spoke in tongues in acts it says they were declaring the wonder wers of God we can all declare the wonders of God it doesn’t matter if you speak in tongues or not we just declare the wonders of God. Amen he says I will send you from the father the spirit of truth and he will testify of me in 2 Corinthians when we think about the commandments again the letter of the law kills but the spirit gives.

▶ 1:01:27 Life the religious people of Jesus’s day they didn’t understand the spirit of the law they tried to catch him in things that the law said that he wasn’t supposed to be doing like healing on the Sabbath day or things like that when the spirit of the law that’s what Jesus was walking in not the letter of the law and that that’s why we need to give time not just to reading the words on the page but to letting it soak in letting it speak even if it has to be here here’s something I. Do when you’re reading and you’re trying to understand and takeing something until God speaks something to you.

▶ 1:02:22 Personally do not leave it do not get up just say I’m here Lord speak to me through your word do something in me open my eyes open my understanding and I’m not getting up until you do do something make it a practice to give yourself uh to let God do something with his word in. You 2 Corinthians 3:16 through 18 when we turn to the Lord I shared about this a couple months ago the veil the covering the blindness that we tend to have over our minds when we turn to the Lord that veil is taken away the Bible.

▶ 1:03:16 Says now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom freedom within our minds freedom within our thinking freedom within our hearts and we are transformed into his image. So I think I’ve given you enough to help us look at some of the hurdles we have to overcome and I hope that we have seen the the correct perception of how we we see God our master our savior our Lord that it’s a amazing God that we serve amen he is not a hard master can you say amen to that amen amen he is a good God he’s good and he’s loves.

▶ 1:04:19 Us like nothing else he loves his people. So with that I’d like to just um take a few minutes as you ponder these things um we’re going to sing a song or two and just take your time there’s no pressure uh just let these words sink in and the words to the songs and let’s just um close with a little bit of worship. Okay let’s just sing this as a prayer me one pure. Andy. Obession me one glorious am for.

▶ 1:05:21 Life to know and follow. At the top. Andion. Me. Obession one glorious am for my life. And. Follow. After and follow after. You to as your disciple in the truth.

▶ 1:06:15 This world is empty and poor compared to knowing you my Lord. Me and I will. After me one. Magic obession. Me one. Glorious to and follow.

▶ 1:07:14 After. You to grow your discip in love. True this world is. Emp. Lord just talk to God yourself as I pray. Jesus. Jus.

▶ 1:08:22 Search. Gl. Love.

▶ 1:09:28 Oh. He he gave his life one. More oh how he loves you. Oh how he. Loves oh how he love you. And. Hees you. And Jesus convince.

▶ 1:10:22 Us. How he loves. You he gave his life more could. He oh how he loves. You oh how he. Oh how he loves. You he gave. His could.

▶ 1:11:18 He oh how he loves you. Oh how he loves. Me oh how he loves you. And. Amen.

▶ 1:12:24 Thank you for your word Jesus thank you for your Spirit thank you how you woo and long over your people thank you for your drawing. Power thank you Lord for redeeming our lives thank you for your purpose that you have for each and everyone here. Lord. Lord we just ask that you burn this word within us that we make your word and your spirit the focus of our lives every day thank you Lord. Jesus.

▶ 1:13:16 Amen dear Lord thank you Jesus thank you for coming to us and inhabiting the praises of us your people Lord God Jesus even though we’re flawed you still come to us Lord God you show us your power Jesus and we thank you just pray that uh with this offering you would help us you would support us in continuing to follow after you and bringing glory and honor to your name that we could do more things in the community for your name and bring people to you that uh we could all grow together in unity Lord Jesus and we just thank you Lord in your precious name amen. Amen for the online people thank you for joining us.