Sunday Service

Our Father in heaven. We thank you for The mighty cleansing power, through the work of Jesus Christ, who willingly came to the Cross. Not because it was exciting for him, but it was the will of God that he do that. So that we each and everyone of us have the opportunity to receive that precious gift of eternal glory with you. Thank you Lord. Thank you for the bread. Thank you for the bread that shows us the way that we ought to live our lives out here on this Earth. Bless us as we consume the cup and the bread in Jesus name, amen. Remember as we come forward? This be in the back. And come on out the outside. Take the communion back with you after you've grabbed it, and that will take communion together. Yes. First of all we'll wait for the crowd upstairs to filter through.

Is it piano? A precious gift that just brings the heart to the Lord. Amen, to that. Let's pray. Father in Heaven once again, we thank you and Praise. You Lord, the Willing sacrifice that you made for our lives that we have such an amazing hope of Eternal joy happiness. Because of your sacrifice. We didn't do anything but believe, thank you for that belief. Oh, father. Bless us. Now, as we take the communion, that we truly remember and move forward in you, in Jesus name, amen.

All right, I think it's supercharged time. Is it? There we have. Some members up there.

All right, before we get started, this asked the Lord to be here to guide and direct our paths and draws close to him. Our Father in heaven. Now, we thank you that we can gather together in your precious name and to worship you and power and strength from you because you're the one that changed our lives. It is your spirit that opens our hearts to understanding and wisdom. And so, father, we cry out to you, that your spirit would be active in each of our hearts, help us all to know you more and to draw closer to you and understand our walk more clearly Touch me or father that as I speak I would speak the words you giving me and not my own for your words. Change lives mine. Do not Bless us in this oh Lord Our God in Jesus name. Amen.

Well, we're going to be taking a look at provision today. That whole idea of seeking the Lord and asking for his Blessing really in circumstances in our lives. And, you know, it doesn't matter what they are or whether their food that we're asking for, or warmth or closing or any of those things, you know, financial aid, whatever we are called to come and ask the Lord, you know, and it's important that we do. If we don't go to the Lord and ask him about the circumstances that we are treading through and finding perhaps difficulty in, we don't recognize his response either. So that's why we go to the Lord and we asked Him to guide in each of the circumstances that we face, so that we recognize his movement. And so that's important when we go before the Lord and talk to him about those things. What are the things that we don't really think about the old one? We pray is that God is working on two different levels. The first level is what you're asking for. You know, hey, I need food today. I'm so hungry and I don't know where to get it. Can you provide it? And God does and you say, well, thank you or he doesn't need to go what happened. You didn't answer my prayer. Well, maybe he did answer your prayer. In fact, he did answer your prayer one way, or the other, God answers prayer, because he's not looking at just, the physical need is looking at the spiritual need as well. And we need to remember that that aspect is always there and when you pray pray as Jesus prayed, you know, I don't want to go to the Cross if there's any way I can get out of this, help me do that. And then he said but not my will, but your will. You see there, sometimes we Face the circumstances, like we don't want to go through it, but you know what? The spiritual blessing is worth the effort. And we need to remember always that aspect of it that OK, Google prayer wasn't answered your way but it was answered God's way and that's the real blessing, that's the real blessing. So let's take a look at that from Luke 11 chapter to chapter 11 verse 3, real simple one. Give us each day. Our daily bread, give us each day our daily bread. You know, that's not just, you know what we eat. It's our clothing. It's, you know, where we live. It's whether it's financially, whatever you think is a need you living before the Lord. And, and he'll answer. He'll answer, we're going to take a look at the two levels today. The first level is, we're going to look at that. The physical needs that we have, and God's desire for us to bring them to him. And this Second thing is, we're going to look at the spiritual aspect and I'm going to have to hustle through this because time is running a little bit short, but I'll do that. The first one is, we're going to take a look at the real quick at the life of Elijah. Remember, Elijah, the prophet calling down fire from heaven and all of these powerful things, you know? And he's this guy that you go. Wow, what a giant in the face. Well, he ran into Jezebel and started running. He ran out of the desert and he was going day or two, and he was wearing out before any fell down and he slept, and God provided for him. Then he slept again, and here he wakes up and this is from 1st Kings, 19 7, the angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, get up and eat for the journey is too much for you. In other words, what God was doing, was he was meeting a desperate need that Elijah had in his life and it wasn't this giant spiritual issue. It was a physical issue that he was meeting. You know why? Because after he got up the next time, he had to wait for 40 days out into the desert.

Wow, that's a huge issue. Think about that a little bit, same as Jesus Christ, spent in the desert. And it is then at the end of the 40 days that he finds the spiritual blessing. You see sometimes God calls us through and he meets those physical needs that we have to have, to lead us to a spiritual blessing. It desires to give us. OK, Google can surn about something. Take to the Lord, landed his feet. And really essentially leave it there. Leave their Matthew 6:31, Jesus is talking in The Sermon, on the Mount about, you know, everybody having these wants, they have all these needs that they have, and he's talking about each of them. And finally says, so don't worry Matthew 6:31. So, don't worries saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or? What should we wear? He says God clothes the lilies. Is he not going to take care of you? Who he really cares about more than anything else? Of course he is. So don't be concerned over that. You know what those things just be as God, would have them because going to care for those needs. Now think about this a little bit. Sometimes we have once and we kind of make them a need for our life, you know? Like boy, I'd sure like a new car or a new fishing boat and yet, God doesn't meet that need an okay. That once that it's the one that's not a need, you know, I think about that a little bit when God provides he provides for everything and certainly here in the United States he's provided abundantly which is the next idea. That one God does provide for our lives. He does. So in abundance he has five thousand men and then more women. And children is frowning at perhaps twenty thousand people around there and they're in need of food and Jesus provides for them. You gets a few pieces of bread and some fish and it breaks them apart and gives it out to all of these people. And they are all filled here. It says it Matthew 14:22, they all ate and were satisfied in the disciples. Picked up 12, basketballs of broken pieces. There would have left it over, he provided abundantly. They got stuffed, you know, that you would ever go to a celebration and you get stuff and, you know, I can't eat another thing. Well, that's where they work. Good, need another thing and they still gather 12 basket. Of the things he provided God provides an abundance of materials and you can say that to yourselves. Wow, I eat fine. Everyday, I have clothing that I can wear. I have a roof over my head, I have heating to keep me warm in the winter and cooling to keep me in the cool in the summer and all of these things and you can go down the list. I have a vehicle that can take me where I need to go. All of those things. You know, we can praise the Lord for and be thankful. He is the provider and he meets every need of your life. Paul writing Philippians from prison, finally gets down to the end of it. And he's talking about God and how he is looked over his life and he says, in Philippians 4:19. And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Wow. Did he pour out everything for us through Christ, Jesus? You know, you don't have to worry about anything in your life, once you know, Christ as your lord and savior because you know where you're going and if God were to take you this second, you know where you'd go. So why worry about the rest? He is the provider of every good thing for your life. He is the best provider for your life. Well, let's get into the spiritual bread portion of it because I think that this is the area where you and I tend to leave out when we think, oh well I have this huge need for my life. You know, I'm going in for this operation or I, you know, I have friends that, you know, are angry with me, and I need to resolve this or all these things. And we look for those to be solved from a human perspective, but we don't necessarily Pick up the spirituals perspective that is involved in the issue and so when we overlooked that part of it, we sometimes don't see God's real answer to the problem. And we aren't willing to wait for that answer. So we need to always be looking for that spiritual aspect in God's given us the guidance for that, you know, before Jesus Christ went to the Cross, he had a real nice session with a disciples and we see that from John 13 through 17. You know, where he just really encouraging the disciples and helps him along the way and he says to them in 14:26 but the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. In other words, we do what we just did and communion taking the bread. What's the reminder of the body of Christ, okay. What he's talking about. Taking in here. Okay, taking in the body of Christ so that we are more like him. That's the spiritual aspect and that's really the goal for our lives. You know, health is kind of an issue but it's not the goal. The goal is the relationship with Jesus Christ that I am growing in him and filling my wife up with, who he is. And I do that not by my might and my power. But by the holy spirit that lives in me, that guides Us in wisdom and understanding the truth It brings peace to our lives. If that is the case, if I'm truly trusting God, I am truly finding peace in my life. I can face any issue because I know that I am being being let in the right way. The next verse John 14:27. Peace, I leave with you. My peace. I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid. We don't have to fear the things in life. Because we have an advocate who is there to bring peace to our the circumstances of Our Lives, as we trust him to carry us through those issues that we have laid before his feet.

All the issues trusting in Him, you know, I'm truly that trust is where God has called us to. He wants us to be wise, you know, one of the great things in life is having wisdom, you know, understanding and knowing that God is there that he is, guiding that he is giving us understanding and clarity Of who he is and what he's doing for our lives. Paul and praying for the Ephesian Church in Ephesians 1:17. He says, I keep asking that God our Lord, Jesus Christ, The Glorious, father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Glory, his father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and Revelation so that you may know him better. See that's the goal, right? Knowing god better. So the circumstances are we facing Our Lives, whether we're praying for any of those other things. The ultimate goal comes back to knowing god and if we're looking to him for the answer, whatever, that answer might be. We're drawing closer to God, we're filling up with that spirit that we need in our lives. But that's tough. Sometimes, you know, there are issues that we Face sometimes issues that our life is laid upon the line there. And we wonder, do I have the courage to go through this the trusting in God, to face those amazing issues that I have?

Isaiah speak to this and Isaiah 35:4. He says, save those with fearful Hearts be strong. Do not fear. Your God, will come, he will come with vengeance with divine retribution, he will come to save you. And that's the case for each of Our Lives. You know, we're working. We are saved but worth working through the process of Salvation as well. Because each day were called to live more clearly In His Image in the image of Jesus Christ. And as we do so the clarity of our Salvation becomes More evident all the time and that's where God wants to take us. So when you go and pray now in this week and you ask for certain things Remember not only the physical aspect that we pray for and that's important, we need to lay those physical desires on the line, but remember that God is working through your prayers and he will answer your prayers in his way. Which is the spiritual way the right way.

Trusted trust him along the way. Let's pray.

Our Father in heaven. You're the mighty one. Help out to become more and more evident in each of our hearts, as we look to the holy God of the righteous. God, the God, of Truth and justice. That we will remember that your answers even though we may not like it are the best dancers. For our lives and may we trust that what you choose to do. Will enhance Our Lives. More powerfully. Then if you did what we wanted, Thank you for giving us what we want sometimes. But help us to remember, that isn't always the case. Bless us in this. Oh, Lord, as we look to you and trust in you, In the name of Jesus. Amen.