April 16, 2023 - How to know God as your good, good Father

What are welcome? You here all today? Wow. Do I hear echoing? Is that me? That's the monitors. Can we turn off the monitors? I'm hearing myself way too loud.

You might have noticed that Pastor Sean isn't here today. Well when he's away all the things I normally go, right, go wrong. So yeah, we're on our second broadcast this morning, but that's okay. I'll put them all together later today. And it'll work out. But anyway, big hand to Matthew and Karen's up there, and they were just really

It's a small room and you literally sweat up there, if the fans not on character, the fan on, that would be good for you anyway.

We're talking today about one of my favorite topics and it's how to know God as your good good father. No, the first question we need to start with this. Do you know, God And that's a really loaded question, right? We have all had the revelation of God through the son by the holy spirit. So yeah, you know, God there's there's you know, him. But then on the other hand, he's God.

He is all together. Holy all together, Perfect all together, knowing all together, outside of time and space.

He cares about you.

He cares about the things you care about.

He has put Desires in your heart that he's going to fulfill because it but those desires there. So of course, he's going to give you the desires of your heart.

We can never ever stop knowing more and more and experience, not just knowing, but experiencing the love of the father.

Throat time. There has been a progressive revelation of who God is and Justice wrote. I Am there's that Revelation throat, our lifetime, there's a revelation if you were to think about your own story Oh, I should have been. This was Yeah, just didn't make the cut, but anyway.

Did that the story of the man? Born blind, the Jesus heals. If you look at that very closely at talks about, you know, who heals you of man, they called Jesus. And then the next time who heals you? I think he's a prophet. The next time they confront them. It's, you want to be his disciple to and then Jesus hooks up with them afterwards. And he says, do you believe in the son of mad? And he says, tell me and I'll believe you talking to you as he. And that's, that's all of our story, right? We have a progressive, understanding about who God is. And then after we come to that knowledge that saving all of Jesus, we should expect a continual revelation of who got is there were going to know him a little bit better. We're going to experience him a little bit more because that's how good he is.

But for those of you who wants to do the research yourself and get the head knowledge at knowledge is, okay, it's not all bad but that's what the notes are for. I've given you, hundreds of verses to look up here, okay? Well, at least dozens but it would take hundreds to kind of explore all these things.

It's wrote it. If you go through the Hebrew scriptures, we can find 16 names for God in the Hebrew scriptures and I'm going to quickly go through those ones or you. El Shaddai Lord God Almighty it occurs seven times its first used in Genesis 17:1, El elyon the most high God. It's Genesis 14:18 the cursed 28 * + 19 * within the song. I don't know my lord-master at a curse 434 times, but if you were a Jewish scholar, you would say at a whole lot more. And I'm going to tell you why. I just a second, I was first used in Genesis 5:2. Yeah. Now this this word occurs over 6519 * first using Genesis 24 and is it's I got to geek out a little bit so just excuse me. This is going to appeal to 1% of the population who are logo files, okay?

Hebrew word is four letters long, we call it the text about the tetragrammaton. It's four letters is the holy Divine name? They're all consonants. So what does that mean? We don't know how that name was said. There's no vowels will there were battles that were added in the second century BCE by the masoretic. So we were trying to keep the language alive and keep keep that understanding, but when they got to the word, the holy word for God that Holy Name that nobody ever spoke, they always replaced it with the word Adonai. LOL, this is so true when I took the local Hebrew. That's what I was taught. You don't say that word. You just replace it with that or not. So then when I was reading my English Bible, every time I got to the word God, I would say the Lord, it was just wacky. My brain would work that way but

Yeah so so when the masoretic put in the valves they have been put in the valves for the name of how to say that name. They put in the valves for out of my. So people would realize, I remember to say I don't know when they came to that word. Now we got translated into Latin. You probably know this Latin has no Y sound. It's got Jay for the Y. So basically we find by the 16th century, the word Jehovah comes in the scene. It's the Divine name with the word of the Bells, from the I don't, I With a G instead of a y because the Latins going to say the word j a y. So they use big and we get the word Jehovah in about the 16th century. So it's a fairly modern word if you think that streak Spirits modern I do because it's we deal with ancient texture around. The time of Shakespeare, Jehovah comes in to use in the English-speaking world. I do really fascinating just isn't a side note. A similar thing happened with the word Yeshua, Yeshua in the Old Testament, Joshua, right? Yes. You were in the New Testament is primarily used for Jesus. Yes, you are right as good as AJ. So if you why so it becomes Jay They couldn't do the, you are with their mouths, so it becomes us and that's how we have Jesus when his name was yahshua.

Now, it's no, see a logical. It's not a, it's not a theological issue. It, if you're a logophile missile geek out on you is like this is awesome. How do worms develop our language has to help from one language to another? It is awesome. But anyway since I say Jesus and not, yes you are. I will say Jehovah Nissi instead of Yahweh DC, although that's how it's spelled. Do Jehovah, Nissi, the Lord is my banner. It occurs only in Exodus 1715, the Lord is my shepherd. Its use and Psalm 23 Jehovah Rapha the Lord. That heals was used in Exodus 15:26 Jehovah shammah, the Lord is there occurs only once in his Ezekiel 48 4835 Rehoboth Canada is the Lord, our righteousness and its first used in. Jeremiah 23 6 to hobo, nickel district, am the Lord who sanctifies you is? First used in Exodus 31-13 El Olam, is the Everlasting God. It's for shoes in Genesis 21 33 God which is in the plural, by the way, his first used in Genesis 1:1 in the beginning. LOL. Plural. It's used over 2,000 times in the Bible in the Hebrew scriptures. Icona is jealous. It occurs six times its first used in Genesis 22 3014 God is jealous for you.

Jehovah Jireh where we at the Lord will provide it only occurs in Genesis 22:14 jehovah-shalom with the Lord is peace occurs only once in judges 16 24, Jehovah shop out of the Lord of hosts occurs 285 times and is most frequently in Jeremiah and all through Isaiah Jehovah. Jehovah, Shuffle with his used, fur stands for Samuel. In the Hebrew. Scriptures. We we find that God is Holy. He is other. We are made in the image of him but we are

in capri pants. We, we can't comprehend the immensity of God. We can't understand a being outside of time and space when we are limited by time and space

but also in the Hebrew scriptures, we see this image of Father developing I got is specifically called the father of the nation of Israel eight times and the father of certain individuals 15 times and at least nine other times, the father imagery is as president even though the term father is never used in. That is all in your notes and I'd encourage you to go through those like. For example, Psalm 68:5 says that father to the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation holy and father

It was until the New Testament. When Jesus went under the waters of baptism and came up and the dove Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descended on him. And the voice from Heaven declare that this is my beloved Son. In whom I am. Well, pleased that the whole Emphasis on God, switched throughout the New Testament. If you read was going to read it but I got more stuff to talk about so I won't read it today. Matthew 55-43, 263, one of The Sermon on the Mount, you'll see him talk about your father in Heaven and your father sees what is done in secret and reward you. Your father knows what you need your father sees what is done in secret and will reward you your father forgives you your father sees what is done in secret and will reward you. Your father feeds, your father knows that you need a pack. Your father is perfect and according to Jack GDP. So I don't know if it's true and depending depending on the translation, not as cold, father, 245 x, and Jesus called Godfather's 165 x. In the gospel, that's in the New Testament. And there's other samples for that that you can look up on the back sheet here. So it's clear from the New Testament that God is our good. Good father now which is pause there. Whenever you hear someone say it is obvious or it is clear. Make sure they make it obvious and make sure they make it clear, okay? Because that's a throwaway statement that sometimes we say that, We got to call people to do account with that, right? Do it to me, right at dad, 12:21 at reviews of God, the father that we find in scripture, we see our God, the father is loving, he is kind, he is compassionate, he is giving his faithful. He is merciful, he is strong, he is forgiving, he is good, he is righteous, he is scary, is Sovereign, he's a Shepherd is ever-present, he's a refugees gracious, he's the Healer, he's powerful, he rejoices over you. He's your help or he's the one who makes all things new. Again, those are on the back study about God, learn about the Father's Love For You see what an awesome incredible wonderful Creator. He is We have a good good father.

But we have a problem.

What's the problem?

We've all had follow. We've all had fallen fathers.

Some of us have had evil fathers. Some of us have had missing fathers. Some of us have had bad fathers. And none of us have had perfect fathers.

But our experience can't Define how God wants to Define himself by. My definition God is the only one in the universe that can Define himself. Why do you think the world is so intent on self-defining? And this is how I self-identify because we're replacing god with their own image. God is the only one who can do that.

And he defines himself as the good good father.

Why do we want to know God as our good good father? That's a good question. Because as we know him is that we will trust him as that. What do we get when we trust God? Romans 15:13 says, I pray that God the source of all hope will fill you. So completely with joy and peace. When you trust in him that you will overflow with confident, hope through the power of Holy Spirit. When we trust our good good father, we get joy. We get peace and we get hope.

I talk to all sorts of people and all sorts of situation and you know what they need. Baby, joy. Joy. They need peace. I need hope.

All of us need to know our good good father, more.

So the question becomes, how do we trust God as our good good father? That's a great question. I'm so glad you asked. That's what I was working on all week this week on this message. How do you trust God as your good? Good? Father, here's the tool and I don't think the slides are working. Now, you can reset that computer again. If it's not working. But you guys got it all in the back of your notes and if you don't have notes, pick one up on the way out. And if we wrote, I can print some out, we're off to

How do you trust God as your good? Good, father. Remember the word trust? Please take time to wait for the lord. Always Are remember what he's done for you. You understand? Under that there's more of his love to experience. Ass is to surrender. Fear in, to let his love Rule and Tia's to thank God for what he's done. Let's not start on packing that today. Psalm 27 tells us to take time to wait for the lord always Psalm, 27, starting where my starting starting at verse but it will just be 13 and 14, 27. The Lord is the light of my salvation. So why should I be afraid? The Lord is my Fortress. Protect me from danger. So why should I tremble? When evil people come to end of our me when my enemies and foes attack me? They will stumble and fall. There was a mighty armies around me. My heart will not be afraid even if I'm attacked. I'll remain confident. There's one thing that I ask of the Lord and this is what I seek most the live in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, the lighting in the Lord's Perfection and meditating in his Temple. It's interesting that in the New Testament were called the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Pretty cool. You will conceal me there when Trouble Comes, he will hide me in his Sanctuary, he will place me out of a reach on a high Rock, then I will hold my head. High above all my enemies who surrounded me at is sanctuary, all offered sacrifice sacrifice, Michelle to Joy singing and praising. The Lord with music hear me as I pray. Lord, be merciful and answer me. My heart has heard you say come and talk with me and my heart responds. Lord I am coming. Don't turn your back on me. Don't reject your servant and anger for you. Have always been my helper. Don't leave me now and don't abandon me. Oh God, my salvation. Even if my father or mother abandoned me the Lord will hold me close. Teach me how to live O. Lord lead me along the right path for my enemies are waiting. Don't let me fall into their hands for the accuse me of things. I've never done with every breath. They threatened me with violence yet. I am confident, I will see the Lord's goodness while I'm here in the land of the living. So I'll wait patiently for the Lord, I'll be brave and courageous, and wait patiently for the Lord.

Have I ever told you what the Hebrew word for waiting is?

I think I was saving this one but it just it's awesome cuz you can remember to wait or look angrily for or to lie in wait for.

To collect and buying together with expectancy.

So often we think of waiting is just sitting around doing nothing. No, it's waiting expectancy for God to show up.

Is lying in wait to see what God's going to do.

Do you need an image of this ever? Remember the story of the earth of the Earth at the extravagant father. Maybe you remembered as The Prodigal Son but I don't like the title of that one. The Prodigal Son. What does he do? He is when he is off a meeting with the pigs, he decides, it's going to be better with my father and so what does the Father? The father doesn't Luke 15:20. It says so that the sun is so the son he returns to his father. And while he was a long way off his father. So I'm coming filled with love and compassion. He ran to the Sun and braced him and kissed. Him know, this is in Greek, we don't have the Hebrew word in there, but that's the emotion. I see when we wait in, in, in anticipation for God, we wait understanding he is waiting for us.

He is waiting for us to come back where the prodigal in this story. He's the father that is giving everything and still has enough to welcome his son home when he's been away from him so long. He's the one who comes running down this place to give the hug to embrace.

We need to give up our expectations and start living with expectancy. You know, our expectations, this is what's going to happen. ABCD expectancy?

What is you want me to do?

The irony, it's the irony. Where is the prodigal child? And once we wait for God, he's already waiting for us.

In order to trust God is our good good. Father, we need to know God as our good good father, experiencing him as a gnat Make space to curl up on his lap. Makespace give him your problems and let him give you his peace and his joy and his hope.

Question we can ask ourselves is do I wait for the Lord?

How can I start doing that again? Get practical on this. We're going to have a time and soaking afterwards but make space in your calendar. For this next space in your day.

We are and Trust reminds us to remember what he's done. This is from revelation. Chapter 12. Starting at verse 10.

It says then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens. It is come at last salvation and Power in the kingdoms of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of his, our brothers and sisters, have been thrown down to earth the one who accuses them Before our God day and night verse 11, and they have defeated him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.

And they didn't love their lives so much that they were, they were afraid to die.

Do you want to know God as your good good? Father, you need to look at what he's done and is doing instead of looking at your lack.

What do I mean by that? Or what remember when John was in prison? John, who had baptized Jesus and he heard the voice saying this is my beloved Son. John uses. His cousin was in jail and he would have known that. Jesus would have said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me to set the prisoner free and he was in jail. So he asked the disciples to go ask Jesus, are you the one or should we wait for another? And what did Jesus tell him to do Matthew 11 6 to 8? Jesus told them go back to John and tell him what you have seen and heard. The blind. See the lame walk and those with Leprosy are cured. The deaf hear the dead erase the life and the good news is being preached to the poor and he had it. And blessed are those who don't follow me. Because of me. Other translations and blessed. Is he? Who is unoffended because of me. We can get offended at God. Without even knowing it. We can come become so familiar with Jesus, like Nazareth. He could only perform a few Miracles there because they they knew who he was and they didn't have the faith to believe that he could do anything.

When we look to our lack, instead of looking to our Lord, we can become and we can become offended. A god.

Two people this week. I think they're different people. It might be the same person, but they commented on her website asking this exact question. You know, I've been so hurt. I've been so damaged. I've been so how can I trust God and my it takes a journey. You got to walk with people through that. You can be posting little things that truisms.

But I know is that, that's, that's that's my story. I've lived offended a god without knowing that. I could I thought it was theologically inappropriate. He's God, I'm not. He's the Potter and the clay.

Yeah. So I held onto my unbelief.

Till I realized I got to leave on a fender than him.

And it blows me away. Jesus told his disciples John's disciples to go tell him what you've seen and heard. Go tell John your testimony. Remember how did the Saints overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony?

You and I need to be talking about the good things of God. You need to be sharing about answers to prayer. We going to be talking about, you know, how God has moved in our lives in the past. And that what he's doing now currently? We need to be in Courage because that's how we overcome. The blood of the Lamb he gave on the cross, it's up to us and the word of Our Testimony now.

Look to the Lord, not to your lack.

How do you do that? It's through testimony.

It's not.

I'm saving that for later. It's not that we we did not buy the reality of what we're facing. I'm not telling you to do that.

talking with the pastor actually this week and he was He basically, this is what this is what he was doing. He was saying you don't ask him. How are you doing? It was how can I be doing bad? God is so good. if we got to talkin and his church is blowing up and want him out and he doesn't know what to do and

+ 2. We encourage them in that. But I think he was doing right? Like it's it he was he was saying like I've had conversations with them since 2 and it's it's it's a it's a matter of. He's going to focus on the good that God is doing. At what the enemy wants to do.

And it's it is with the training of our brain. Think about what is true and it was right in his holy and his righteous and is the good reports. It's not denying what we need to do or denying our responsibility. It's not that

with testimony. Magnifies God. You know it's a very thought of that word we magnify the Lord like that is silly. God is God. How can we make it bigger?

We Magnify Him because we focus on him.

Our problems. Become deeper when we cast our cares on him. Lately become puny really when we can be on our Daddy's lap and hear him. Say I got this.

Irum say that I feed The Sparrows, I'm going to feed you.

I I give the flowers.

Who plays in the flowers are? Don't you think I'm going to close you?

Saints will overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony is a question. We can ask ourselves is what could I can? What can I remember? Father God, God has done for me.

Keep a journal. Write these things down. It doesn't have to be a journal. I can be a note on your phone. You can you can what you were talking about an email service that you can send yourself future emails? That's a great way to do it. Yourself a reminder of how I'm so excited as well. Got done 20 years of the future and omad that would be amazing.

Do whatever you got to remember because God has move in your life in the past. You have seen Miracles take place. You have seen him deliver you from where you were to where you are now but sometimes where you are now doesn't seem like it's where you want to be but guess what? He's changed you from where you were to where you are now and that's been a really good thing. So sure thinking about what he's done and stop looking at the black.

Preaching to myself. That's why I got loud.

Okay. So we take time to wait for the Lord. We remember what he's done. You is we need understand, we can experience more of his love. This comes from Ephesians, where the heck is Ephesians in this whatever the Fusions for

Where am I reading or 3:14? Paul says, when I think of all this, I fall down on my knees and pray to the Father, the creator of everything and have it on on Earth and I pray that from his glorious unlimited resources, he will Empower you with Inner Strength through his Spirit In Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust him. Your ruse will go down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand that all got people should as all good people should how wide how long and how high and how deep is his love Mau experience. This raped me experience the love of Christ know, it is too great to understand fully, then you'll be made complete with all the fullness of Life. The power that comes from God. Did you know, you can experience more more of God's love? That's good news. It's good news. Paul Rudin 1st Corinthians 13. He said, well, when I was a child, I spoke and fought like an reason, like a child. When I grew up, I put away childish things. Now, I see things in perfectly like in the puzzling reflection in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity all that. I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely just as God knows me. Completely free things. Will last forever faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love, this is Paul following up on his section when he defined what love is love. That is patient and is kind is not jealous or boastful or proud router demanding its own weight or irritable or keep records of being wrong. That's the role of that you and I can choose to have for each other but it's also the agape. Love that God chooses to have for you.

I don't get it.

I don't get it. I I really don't I I I heard a while ago. Some, it was a, it was a fiction writer wrote this but he talked about The. What? It must have been like for the angels to see God. Pick up dirt and breathe. Walk into it. Breathe the spirit into it and it became a living thing.

And this writer suggested that's what ticked off Lucifer so much. Because he going, he would, he was thinking himself, the talk of he was the top of the angels and he thought he was taking himself next to God and God, made dirt live.

Adam, our first father needs dirt. He literally made dirt live.

It makes sense that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy. When he sees what God chose to inhabit with his life, with his breath, with his is being

Hurts my brain to think about. But it's funny things to think about,

We can we can't know until we experience more and more of his grace in overtime. I hope you've experienced more and more of his grace.

Grace for us and Grace for others.

What a good goal to have to experience the love of God, though. It's too great to fully understand.

Me know, the love of God. Never stop growing in the love of the father. Never never. Never.

Question, we can ask ourselves as if I am. I putting God in a box.

Have I become too familiar with God. Do I do my expenses the ways? I expect him. That ask, these are the prayers. I expect him to answer. I've never seen this. It can't happen, though. That's not you speaking. That's the enemy.

Look at the life of Jesus. Right again, back to the man, born blind, no one had ever seen a man, born blind have give site.

That's the kind of God. We did a measurably more than we could ask her. Imagine. That's his power at work within us.

Yes, in Australian mines has to surrender, fear, and let his love rule. We got this from 1st, John chapter 4,

Vs 17 and 18, where we at? I'm going to start at 16. It's a good verse. We know how much God loves us. And we have put our trust in his love. God is love and all who love living God and God lives in them and we live in God. Our love grows more perfect. So when we, we will not be afraid on the day of judgment for. We can face him with a confidence because we live like Jesus. You are in this world. Perfect love. Casts out all fear.

You ever experienced perfect love in your life woodwind, all fear kind of dissipates. It doesn't matter what your situation is, you know, God's going to take care of it.

That's a place you were designed to live, it shouldn't his experience and experience for all of us. We've all had that time when his peace that passes understanding just comes in.

How do you get that? If you're not feeling it?

Jehoshaphat. Was facing three armies. Coming against him. Call the people together for prayer. There was a prophetic declaration. They were to take up their positions stand firm and see the Deliverance of the Lord. What did Jehoshaphat do? He sent out the freezers out of his army?

Think about that, doesn't make any sense. Send the guys with the musicians out first and then the guys with the Spears in the will come later.

You don't win Wars that way.

But there is a symbol there for all of us, the freezing comes first. And when the frasers praised, the god set traps for the enemies and they started fighting against each other wiped each other out.

Paul and Silas were in prison or throw it into the deepest salad. But in stocks Let's read that. What? Actually acts 16 2226. Is the whole city is an uproar because of these Jews. They shunted to the city officials. This is in Phillipi. They were teaching Customs that are illegal for us Romans to practice in a mob quickly formed against Paul and Silas and the City of officials, ordered them to be stripped and beaten with wooden rod. They were severely beaten and then thrown into prison, the Jailer was ordered to make sure they did the Escape so that killer put them in the energy dungeon and clap their Feats. In stocks about midnight, Paul and Silas Silas were praying and singing hymns, the guy at the other prisoners were listening Suddenly there was a massive earthquake in the prison was shaken to its foundations and the doors immediately flew open and the chains of all the prisoners fell off. What a weird earthquake. I've never heard that happening. I had a guy tell that story. Anyway, usually like anyway, yeah, that's another story. That's not what we we

Something that happens when we praise God. When it doesn't make sense to praise God.

Now the change don't always fall off physically emotionally and spiritually. They will. Sometimes we have to fight the battle. But it's always best to freeze through it.

How do you do that? Peter tells us in 1st Peter 5:7, he says, give your worries and cares to God, why? Because he cares for you.

Because God cares for you. You can give your worries and cares to him. And when you give those worries and praised cares to him, it becomes easier to praise him. Even though the answer might not have come,

It is easier to praise it. What was that? That song We Sing, praise your name, I love the lyrics of the course. I would have seen my way out of the valley. I would have showed my way up to the mountain. I'm going to take hold of the truth of your promise. I'm going to praise. I'm going to praise. I'm going to push through till every lacrim. I'm going to dance in the midst of the rain. I'm going to rest in the arms of my father could have raised. I'm going to praise

That's how we Face anything that's impossible for us to face.

When we go to prayer with God, we take all of our problems. They are real. We can ignore them. But we give our problems to God and he gives us his peace.

even before we have that piece for the song we just resent my soul but my

The verse, my soul says of you tell me seek my face and my soul says, I will seek your face. Oh God, it is. What happened? Since David was around. Its natural response to the call of God in our life. It weren't we just. Okay. No, I'm going to choose their praise him. I'm going to choose to give him for a used to be thankful. We're going to get to that in a bit anyway. We praise him before the victory. We show gratitude and appreciation before the blessing and it's not wishful thinking, it's a it's a rewiring of your brain to think about things that are true and Noble, and right, if you're in lovely and admirable and things, excellent, and worthy of Praise, it's your choice to think about those things. It said a ruminate on your problems.

You want to trust God as your good? Good father, you need to surrender fear and embrace his perfect love. Question we can ask ourselves is do I let his perfect love drives out all my fear.

Final T in trust reminds us to thank God for what he's done. Colossians verse Colossians will do not do that one. Might have to look it up Colossians 3. Fusion. Collage of all, use that one. That's a readout of those tabs. Colossians 3 starting at verse 14 above all Clues, yourselves with a love, which binds us together in Perfect Harmony and let the peace that comes from Christ. Rule in your hearts for his members of one body, you were called to peace and always be thankful with the message about Christ and all its riches. Fill your lives teaching Council each other's with all wisdom. That he gives singing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. The god with thankful hearts. And with thankful hearts and whatever you do or say as a representative of the Lord Jesus giving, thanks through him to God the Father.

Gratitude is the attitude that helps us trust God as our good good father.

David knew how to do it. Look at Psalm 2869, he says, praise the Lord for he has, heard my cry for Mercy. The Lord is the strength of my shield. I trust it with all of my heart and health beef and fills my heart with joy. I burst out the song with Thanksgiving, the Lord gives strength through his people. He is a safe Fortress for his anointed. King saved, your people bless Israel, your special possession. Leave them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms forever.

Thanksgiving. Motivates us to know God more it empowers. Our testimony and took us to remember the good things he's done. Thanksgiving, gives us a Hunger for More of his love, Thanksgiving. Reminds us that we don't have to have fear if he's done It Before, He'll Do It Again. Gratitude help us to trust God as our good, good father, everything I've just told you how to do that. Gratitude unlocks, that key for that. Everything. The question becomes. Do I have a grateful heart?

So, remember to take time to wait for the lord, always remember what he's done. Understand there's more of his love to experience surrender, fear, and let his love Rule and thank God for what he's done. Remember to, trust God? Is your good good father.

No head. Knowledge is good. It's great. You got this sheet to study, probably for the next month.

But we don't just need to leave it at that.

We can experience more of the Father's Love right now.

If you can play the music for the soaking time, we're going to enter that right now.

As is the music, please. I just want to welcome you to.

To experience more of God's love.

To be still and know that he is God.

Lord, I know that it is, your will. to reveal more and more of your love to us and for us,

I pray for us for every heart that that is reluctant to come into your presence. Now that Lord you would draw them and speak to their heart and their heart would say yes Lord. I will seek you.

I pray for the ones who have all kinds of real burden. The real problems right in front of them. Lord, help us delay. Those at your feet knowing that you care for us.

We don't need Moorhead knowledge. God. We need more of you.

Oh Lord. You have examined my heart.

And you know everything about me.

You know, when I sit down and when I stand up, you know, my thoughts even when I'm far away.

You see me when I travel it, when I rested home, you know everything I do. You know what am I going to say? Even before I say it,

Lord, you go before me and you follow me.

You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. I too great for me to understand.

I can never escape from your spirit. I can never get away from your presence.

If I go up to heaven, you are there. If I go down to the Grave, you are there. If I ride on the wings of the morning, if I dwell in the farthest, oceans even there. Your hand will guide me. Your strength will support me.

I could ask the darkness to hide me in the light around me to become night. But even in the darkness, I can't hide from you.

Do you the night shines as bright as day? Darkness and Light are the same to you.

You made all the delicate inner parts of my body, you knit me together in my mother's womb.

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.

Your workmanship is marvelous. How I know it. Well, You watched me, as I was being formed in utter seclusion, I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born every day of my life was recorded in your book. The Moment was laid out before every uneven single day, in past.

How precious are your thoughts about me? Oh God. They can't be numbered.

I can't count them. They outnumber the grains of sand on every Beach on every ocean and every Dune and every desert.

When I wake up, you're still with me.

Lord, we speak peace to every storm in every life.

We speak Joy.

Every Soro that wants to rip.

We speak hope to every shattered dream.

we speak trust every pain that we want to hold on to

help us to know that we can trust.

Help us to know that you care for us.

He addressed the apiece have, is hoping to have his Joy. If it, you need. We're here together to Bear one another's burdens. And if if you got something that you can share with somebody don't leave here without sharing that,

If holy spirit is telling you to pray for someone, don't leave here without you go, pray for them.

I think we'll just let The Music Play and we'll just just miss the service.

You're free to go but don't go, if Willy Spirit doesn't want you to go.

Don't go. If you want to rest or you need to, you need a touch from him.

We do just thank everyone for being here today. And yes, if you want to stay and the presents to stay,

just make sure that you take those moments out throughout the week. So just continually remind you of who God is in the goodness that he's doing

Never did mention that website if anybody's interested, it's called futureme.org. And it is I'm going to start using it again just to be like you know what? This was an amazing thing that happened today for this is what God did in my life today and you can pick anything from It arrives the next day to it arrives, a hundred years 50 years from now. However long you think you're going to let

And it is something that from my past that I've experienced that God helps you with those dates, when you choose, cuz when you get those, those messages later on, it is always at perfect timing.

That is a free website so anybody can just sign up.

But it is just so important to remind yourself of the goodness of God.

It is so important to just search out those moments in your life that are just happy those moments that bring you Joy. It is such a simple thing to do. Outlook. The goodness. Your mind is not wired. That way. It's wired to seek negative

When you are concentrating on it to think, positive to see goodness. It rewires it, but it does become a natural thing in your day today.

And everyone is welcome. If you need to go now you can feel free to go. Pray blessings on you this week.