Not Prison But Praise

Is so much wonderful to be with you today and I greetings to you that are online watching now or perhaps later, greetings from Canada from Calgary Alberta. So Valentine lead Church of the rock Calgary. And the last seven years, we went there and started to Tri-County in January 2012 and actually in October 2011. They first came by and wait. We ended up. He spoke to a small group. We were completely at that time. And so he came and spoke to our core team and then we didn't have money to give him anything for blessing. Us, we took him to a Christian bookstore. Got him a Bible, which she still uses today. So, there you go. So we've thoroughly enjoyed being with Dave and Julia. Thank you so much. You have wonderful leaders. They are so hospitable and we enjoyed Eddie as well. And it would, it's just been wonderful. Honestly. It's it's, it's been a great time and to be able to share today is my privilege. I am just so honored and blessed to be here and was reflecting on it. As I stood here, I was thinking of a spirit of spiritual father. Keep Hazel. How many of you would know? Keith Hazel? Yeah, we would know him from years past and I was thinking of him this morning, as I was worse to hear how he would like to be there. Now, he's in heaven. So, I don't think he's actually pining to be here. I think he's enjoying heaven right now, but I was thinking about him and how it was a great privilege to be here, to be walking in his footsteps, in that sense. So, today I want to talk about, we have a series, not b, u t t. S just to be clear.

Bright sofa PS4 tells us not to be anxious so be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving. So don't be anxious but be peaceful because you're going to pray. So that's a big butt. That was our first big but actually. So today I want to talk about a big but which is not prison but praise and you understand what I'm talking about. If you missed, not prison, but Freight I want to share a story. There is in America, there's a Christian music. Singer name is Kelly, had it. And Kelly has a really difficult story today. She's got three children and happily married, but sometime ago over a decade ago, she was a brand-new mom and she and her husband a.j. were out, visiting her in-laws ages parents with their 14 week old newborn in the back of the vehicle. And the sun was setting and they were enjoying laughing, enjoying the trip home. And all of a sudden, life completely changed. A car going, 100 miles an hour coming from the other direction. Skip jump, the median and landed on their car. And with the foot, with the ceiling of the car, that the top of the car being about an inch from the baby's face, like seriously just crush the car, instantly Megyn Kelly, sorry, and hurt her little boy, Eli were airlifted to the hospital and but she didn't know where husband wasn't her husband age. And she thought to herself, is she kind of was being helped to the hospital? She thought I wonder where aj isn't? She thought? Well maybe he wasn't seriously injured, maybe he was taking in the ambulance instead. So she wondered about this wasn't till later. If she was kind of coming to in the hospital, chaplain came to her and said really sorry but your husband was killed instantly. AJ was gone.

Actually had an amazingly escaped without a scratch, but he'll I was actually had some brain damage and was having seizures and was really a difficult shape. No one thought he would live. And so she was struggling to cope with his who wouldn't be, right? This is a tragic situation after 3 days of being in intensive care, with Eli and watching him. He flatlined a few times almost died. She the nurses said, you should go home. Go home, have a shower, take a break. You've been here the whole time. So she went to her in-laws house. And while she was there, the news came through from the doctors who have been assessing her son. And the doctor said it's really bad if he, if he lied, if he lives, he will never walk talk or show emotion again. He is going to be like a vegetable, which is obviously, really Grim news in Kelly said my heart broke into a million pieces, it was the lowest point of my life. I mean, I was at the bottom of Rock Bottom, can you imagine? I think we'd all be there at that moment. So the house is filled with family and friends about 54 there to comfort Cavalier there to support her. The pastor gather, the group and said, listen, let's come and worship worship. And so they all gathered quietly, you can imagine in the living room, and they all began to speak A Chorus of praise to God. There wasn't fancy music. There wasn't even videos or anything. There was just them and their voice, and they start to speak. God is good. God is trustworthy. God loves with an everlasting. Love God is on his throne which of course, their Declarations of face. That A Moment Like That. So, the room filled with spoken worship and and, and even though they never corporately prayed for Eli, they never actually stood him. Pray from that just started praising God in that moment so they can feel the presence of God. An hour later as Kelly went back to the hospital to the Intensive Care Unit for her little boy, she's the nurse ran towards. We've been looking all over for you Eli's woken up, but he's taken for bottles and not only that when she went to her baby, she saw that, the only cut he sustained in the accident was gone less than a week later. He was released from the hospital now, today not seem right there. He has some brain damage apparently, but he walks and talks. He's a delightful little boy and he's alive right now. What's the point of this story story? Isn't it that God intervene in a terrible awful moment. Which we've all had some terrible awful moments. Life is hard there, a couple things and like some things, we don't understand. I know that for Valentine one thing that we've gone through is that both her parents when I was 19 and I were twenty. I was 20, were killed in an auto crash suddenly. And 10 months later we were married and there was a lot of tough days with her siblings over the next few years. But here's the reality. God is still who God is, and we praise him and when we honor him, he is able to come into our pain and he's able to release us from the prison. We would otherwise be in Eli Eli story of healing. Is this is a testament to the power of praise. The Testament to how God moves in our lives. And I want to go to a store in Acts chapter 16 and show you in the Bible. And it was incredible story to me. This is like the gold standard of praising and difficult moment. And this is And Silas. So to the two apostles who went to the churches from Antioch and they share the gospel and they were ministering to the churches and their this moment where they had been touring around and preaching the gospel. But this woman who was demonized was following them and I know for some may be online or here that might seem odd family stories in the bible, let me know the background. You think demons and people it seems hard but the Bible square. There's a spirit realm and there's an enemy that works. And so there was that there was a force that was working with this woman, helping her to tell people's fortunes, but it wasn't gone. And so she kept walking around the place behind Paul and Silas and saying, listen to these men, they are ministers of God. Why don't know about you, but I don't want proclaiming who I am, right? I mean, that was so after it says a few days. So I'm pretty patient after a few days, Paul got tired of it but I'm fed up. I do want to hear this woman anymore so I told the demon Leave her now and she put all her ability to tell fortunes and help other people to know, their Futures was gone. And so the people who work with her who made money off of her, we're not happy. So it's kind of a weird story, isn't it? Imagine being thrown in jail for this in Britain, what happened to this woman? They go to the magistrate, the really upset this. These people are causing trouble and so they ordered them beaten. So they were beaten severely flawed and then the magistrate had them thrown into prison and told us the prison guard. Don't let these people don't let these guys Escape at all until they put them in the very energy dungeon and they put them in stocks which means their hands and feet would be confined babysitting their bleeding. Can you imagine this back bleeding? Know you, no remedy for that. It's a dark, it's stinks. It's nice. You get the pictures off. How many of you online or here would be just brimming to worship at that moment but the first thing on your mind would be, I just want to break out and glorious chorus right now. Right. Not really, I think I'd be whimpering into a fetal position and cry would but I be in stock so I couldn't do it being really bad situation and so what do these two great men do? well it says about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns, do you imagine midnight the darkest point the middle of the night ever been in a midnight your life Didn't really feel like worshiping didn't really feel like crazy. These two men are in their midnight, but they start praying and singing hymns to God, look what it says and the other prisoners were listening. Do you realize that other people are listening to your my life? And when they watch us, go through something very difficult and we somehow praise and we somehow of a positive mindset towards God, we speak, while I was saying, I don't know what's going to happen to hear it, but I do realize they're listening to us. The world is watching and there are amazing. They see believers do something that no one else would do Paul, and Silas should have been grumbling and angry instead. They're worshipping God, in prisoners are listening and the foundations are shaking and all at. Once the prison doors flew open and everyone's change came loose. Now this is interesting to you ever thought about the fact that everyone's chains, camera's not just Paul and Silas has deserved their changed of falling and what else should know actually, when they praise and worship God? It's interesting that other people were set free to you see the picture of that, the powerful picture other people got freedom when they stood in a place of trusting. God, even when it was impossible, when we praise and worship God, the sudden leaves of God to the song. I think it's Bethel worship. That says, praise is the highway of your praise is the highway to the throne of God. It's a beautiful songs and their latest album and it is praise is the highway. It is a connection point with God, the connection to his power. It opens the door for him to come into our life. We can see it that way. We would probably praise and worship a lot more in our difficulties. There's a God. I I know you're big and I'm going to make you beg by worshipping. You know, you think of Kelly's, family in that living room? 50 of them speaking out truth. What were they doing at the darkest moment? When the doctor says, your child probably won't have any normalcy to his life? And at the darkest moment there midnight, they start what crazy speaking truth in the middle of their midnight. And what does God do? The same thing back with Eli he comes in and he sets me like 30 powerful. She's so you have some tough things in your life. You can't be in a room like this and not have people with difficulty in online. I'm sure there's people listening right now and you have difficult things in your life. You have prisons that you're in right now. Maybe it's Financial, maybe it's physical difficulties with house, maybe it's relational problems with your spouse or your children, your in difficult times. Listen, God is present. He says, look at you, praise me. You'll begin to lift up my name, and my bigness in your smallness. And in your difficulty, I'm going to come through, I'm going to begin to enter into your situation. If praise and worship is so powerful. Why don't we do it more? What stocks is, why would I use another story? The man named Jonah. How many people went to Sunday school and colored pictures of Jonah? And the whale, the whale right Jonah in the whale. I remember paint, you know, coloring the whale. And and so we know this story. I mean, if you eat, we grown up at all. Some of you may not, if you're new to the faith or you're just speaking right now to determine akrish ice true, you may not know this, but let me just tell you right now. If that's the case, this is a weird story. Can I just say that? Because I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you the the short version. Jonah is called, by God, to go to a city of Nineveh and to give the ninevites a message from God in the message is repent or be destroyed. Only people still want to have that message in your life. That would be nice not to be destroyed. You say you know you're saying your evil is so great that I have to do something to judge you. And so before I do that I want to send one more person who's going to come to you? And going to tell you that I love you and I want you to repent. So he says he says Jonah. You have the privilege of going and being my emissaries. I feel privileged to be said by go right Jo and I Choose You. Jonah. Wait, it out Jonah. Kind of Huey The Book of Jonah had a lot of bad attitude, right? Is not a good role model. For a Believer. Has attitude was People don't deserve to repent and not have judgment. They should all fry that wasn't that if you didn't want to go and do this, he's like, no. God. I don't think I want to do this. So what he does, he gets on a boat and go the opposite direction and ever tried to do that. You've ever tried maybe online order to outrun God, you don't put your hand up. The thing is if you have you know you can't cuz God is everywhere and he sees you and so Jonah trying to run away the poor people on the boat with him. Don't realize what's going on a storm, awful. They're trying to throw cargo overboard. They're trying to, you know, save themselves. Jonah, finally figured it out. He thinks I think this is cuz of me does not happy. Of course, there's always people with me realize that our actions have repercussions for other people. That's what he tells his guys. Listen, you might understand this throw me overboard, the storms, going to end their like no I don't think we would do that. Right culture in the British Isles, we throw the guy overboard.

So he says, they know what I do. and finally they say, okay will do

I don't know what kind of fish this was, it's been, you know, kind of over the years people of conjecture, and there's different thoughts, but whatever it is something small with him. And he was inside for 3, Does that sound kind of it? Sounds were think worse than kippers to me.

Anyways, so is this like the fish for 3 days and he still stubborn and you read this? Passage the man is still stubborn and I don't think that it would take me longer to repent. I think as soon as I was going down the throat, I be God. Forgive me because I would want to be but the implication you online. Are you? This is a bizarre story but it illustrates coming probably. Pictures of Jonah says, he says, when my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord ebbing away. Where was his life? Ebbing away inside the fish. Think my life will be heading away to a my prayer Rose to you, your Holy Temple. Look what he says in verse 8, this is really important those who claim to worthless Idols forfeit, the grace that could be theirs, but I will, the song of Thanksgiving will sacrifice to you. What I have about. I will make good so they can come to Lord. I cling to my own desire, do it my way to go to follow my path? And by clinging to that, I forfeited your grace in my life. What's God's Great? It's his ability ability provides us that we don't deserve. It's God's. Grace is what we need. You think that could be my why? Because I cling to something else, according to my own way, I've come to Disobedience, I give that up now. God, I sacrifice Thanksgiving to you. Now, this is the Old Testament equivalent of Paul and Silas in the New Testament, but it is far more gross. Cuz here's what happened, he's in his prison, which is a fish, what is the stock price of praise to God? The fish vomit come out like, the prison break. I mean, seriously, it is like the Old Testament version little more disgusting and the New Testament versions easily, you know, they're in prison, but it's the same picture. It's the same picture when he Praises God, when he lets go of his own way. God comes through and says, okay, I forgive you Jonah. No Joda. Go and clean yourself up first, but go and preach to the three days. Just smell the Clippers. You understand what's going on there? And he does. He finally goes, He preaches. And here's the sad parts. They repent, which is wonderful, and he's mad. Read the end of Jonah.

Yeah, the other leave things plant minute. Anyways when idle you know, I don't have some statue in my house is always talking about there's attitudes and areas where we cling to sort. The first one's self Focus SEL Focus. A focus only on us and our preferences Jonah just didn't want to obey. He was focused only on himself and not obeying God. Empres gets his Focus back to where it needs to be because his focus on God. See, here's the problem. When you and I are in a tough spot, we are tempted to be only focused on herself and it kind of makes sense, right? I mean if your hand hurts, if you smack your hand, ever done that with the hammer and then resisted saying, bad words and then they put your store right here at your fingers. Where's your focus? It's all there and f*** your whole body is like, but praise takes us from the focus on our circumstance and it takes it back to God. Who is the only one who can save us from our circumstances? So self-focus, gets us into trouble. Here's what blogger. Debbie. McDonald are. Often selfie Focus world. We need this constant, reminder, life is not all about and I spent a lot of time in London, couple days in London, last year. What the self is happening. Funniest thing was yesterday we're on the double-decker bus and we're on the top and we're taking picture out at Piccadilly Circus. There's a lot of people there and that we're taking a picture out. A lady was taking a picture back with the bus. It was really funny.

Anyway, selfies, that's why I was going selfies. We made we made differently. We're prone to selfishness. We need to make a decision. Psalm 150 verse 27 says, praise him for his mighty Deeds. Praise Him. According to his excellent greatness. Praise him. When I struggle to think about, God's Mighty deeds in our lives And there's times where we can struggle with that, I want to be real with you think about his deeds even beyond your life, think about the Earth, think about the sun rising as we sang about this more. I think about the common Grace, we all have the things that blesses us everyday that we don't, we don't really are often, think about these Pride, Jonah was dependent on himself and didn't want to submit to God's way in Direction. James 4:6 says God resisteth, the proud, but gives Grace. There's that word again to the humble, resists the proud. Why was Jonah resisted? Because he was probably didn't want to honor. God, didn't want to obey God, wanted to do it this way, but when he became humble in the fish, He got Grace, that's what happened to the to a place of humility because we remember our dependency on God. We acknowledge our need for him. We admit that he's in control. You know, ultimately that really the Bible says every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God. Right every every Westminster Abbey went through Windsor Castle, all the king's all the Queen's looking at the tombs thinking to myself every knee will bow out. Every time these people were doesn't matter how great they were on this Earth. They will have to weather in this life or the next admit, it better just to look to the Lord right away. And sometimes you know what would keep this is bitterness And the sense of unforgiveness. Even two words, God,

And I shared valid my one of our toughest moments, we had a choice at the moment. Either, we're going to get angry at God at a young age, Shake our fists and say, I don't understand this guy. So I'm not going to serve you cuz you cuz it's not fair. And I don't understand, right? We could have, which would have heard us, which would have been resisting his grace, which would have turned us away. Or we could say, God. I don't understand my mind doesn't. Have the answers and I and I won't I'll never understand why do I need to understand why and I trust who it is. And I choose to praise him anyway and I choose to live from anyway because he is who he is, we live in a fallen world. We don't understand what all happens but I know who he is. And so I choose you understand, and when we allow it, when we make that decision, no matter what God's grace can come God's blessings, We can move forward. Surprise. Third is passivity and defeatism. The defeatist is resigned to defeat or failure accepting defeat or failure as a natural outcome about life. Things like my life will never be better. I guess this is just the way it's going to be. I might as well just give up. I'm going to choose to be cynical. I'm going to choose to stay bitter. I'm going to choose to Grumble and can you understand what I'm saying? Passive defeated, we walk around. I don't know about you, but when I get around people who are defeated like that, it is a downer member Paul and Silas in prison. The prisoners were listening. What when you and I are a defeatist, when you and I are negative, when you and I are bitter, the others are listening to and they hear it. And you know what God wants from us. He just says, you know, I want to give you a testimony to, this isn't about just trying to make up feelings or change the way, you know, self self-help. It's about allowing me into praise and worship to change your heart and to give you a testimony and to see change happen. God wants to do that. Maybe today you're here and you given up on part. Maybe you have settled into a rut in the way, you think what you say? One of the saddest things for me, is when I meet people who say, when I meet them, they have the same story every time. It's always a story of Will and it relates to the same situation. I have one person. I know particular who can break out of the Injustice to him and every time you see him at some point, he's going to go back and you don't misjudged and how I was mistreated and that's going to come out. Can I think and we try to help with his heart and to be honest you literally written us off now cuz something else happened now he's totally offended. It's so sad. He's defeatist. He needs to break in any say, God! Help me! Forgive me! Touch my heart! Lance! Lance, that moves out of my heart heal my heart so I can serve you. And then lastly entitlement title, which is all about me are right to complain of being hate to do this.

Well, we don't have rights. Even if you think about submitting to Jesus and giving in to him, we even give up the right to complain to be negative and some good or bad. I'm yours. And I'm going to trust you. Maybe you're online and this is ministering to you right now. I sent somebody there even right now and you're in a really hard spot and you just think this is hitting me and wants to touch you right now. And today is a day of freedom for you. Today is the day. We want to break you out of prison. He wants to set you free in about your circumstances. He doesn't want you locked in. He wants to release you and it means letting go of our right? Here's what I encourage you to someone or 3 instead of being entitled to complain or be negative. Here's what I encourage you to do. Psalm 103, praise the Lord, my soul, all my inmost, being Praise His Holy day, praise the Lord, my soul and forget, not all his benefits. I don't know about you. I have some health benefits like dental and I think I could forget about that and not use my dental. Do you have that here? Anyway, I do have dental benefits. I can forget about it and not use it and let a whole year go by and waste it. Then see my yellow teeth in wonder, why are my teeth? Oh, yes, I didn't go to the dentist. I forgot my benefits. I forgot to access. What? I had, I forgot to get my teeth cleaned. He says, these are like those benefits. Forget, not his benefits. He forgives all your sins heals. All your diseases. He redeems your license app. It's called you with love and compassion who you satisfy your desires with good things. So you do like swear to God tells us that God has been. If it's healing salvation renews our youth wants to bring Grace, enjoy some 1034. Some I would encourage you to men turn on that song. Don't forget his benefits. Even the hard times are like even in the time when things are so bad, he'll forget his benefits.

We know that Praises powerful, we see stories of how people have been impacted to praising me. See stories in the Bible, how when people gave up their own rights worship. God and praise God came through. But how can we do this in our Busy World? Are things as busy here as in like North America. Oh, we're really busy you're ever heard. And so it we just live in a busy world. Let's just face it, we're all busy. So how can we use times to pray while here's one for you, use your car time as praise time. I like some of these ideas that blogger Becky harling provide you should car time. I like this. I have time to our City's 1.3 million people was Freddy made. So there's lots of time where I'll be in the car. And I try to remind myself. Take this time to worship, you know. Turn off the stupid radio where you're not hearing any good news anyway. Just take time to worship. It's, it's it's found time. Start worshipping, even if you don't have a good voice and you offend yourself, when you say then speak, right? Speak out. Do what they did in the living room. Beto prays to God and begin to use that time. Don't waste that time or maybe take a worship hike, right? Some of these beautiful Parks go up to Windsor Castle, walk up with, what's it called again? He had a long walk. Which appropriately named yelling, loudly. They might come and take you away, but I have a Harley Davidson motorcycle and I Love to Worship on my bike. So I like going to the Foothills and I'll be worth Street. I don't raise my hands very often. Oh, I meant have it anyway but I do I love to seeing you wear sacred and secular. No, I mean the Lord Is With Us involved. Him in every part of, you know what, your wash your team favorite jeans in oh, Lord settling down. Praise God for this person. But this person, right, I mean just use colorful, Post-it notes to remind you of God's characteristics. I have some scriptures on my mirror at home that I put on my mirror. You can put characteristics of God to remind you about him. Choose a scripture verse of praise and make your screen saver. Right? Comes up. Remind you every week. I will take a mini pull. Anybody like to see the shower? I did.

Amazing. Like seriously, I think part of it is just well, you're focused on just getting clean, I guess singings, you sing and you hear God. And so don't waste that time. Why not write? Get a soundproof shower, if your self get all like whatever. But what if your journal or, I don't know if you somebody writes but you could write a prayer of Praise the Lord everyday or keep prayers in your notebook. Write, my wife is someone who doesn't she like Fanboy and invoices to my work if I need to be away singing and whatever and she'll just sit in the living room and right, she's very quiet Focus different ways before you go to sleep at night. Thank God for three things. And that is helpful time. I had a rough day been kind of hard. You don't feel pray that you know you don't feel like praising but ain't you stopping you focus and go. Thank you for the snacks. Reset yourself to sleep. God is good and bringing God into your circumstance. Again, keep it a jar, every you know what time? It's answer. And then at the end of my look at it and remind yourself. How many people you forget what God has done in your life at all? I don't know about you but it amazes me that that's the case. I mean, going to do something yesterday and today, it's also good. And I wonder where is, I think I'm going to stick up for you yesterday, right? We have really short memories. I mean, not just the guys, come on your problem. I won't be one of them, but we forget so quickly. So write it down. Make a prayer that like, remind yourself, a Caprese walk around your neighborhood. Thank God for your neighbors, worship, God around, and just bring them into your neighborhood sick. You're going to take over here. You going to move on these people.

but the bottom line is, Like Paul and Silas.

We find ourselves in prisons at times. The best thing we can do, the best thing we can remember to do is begin to praise God. Begin to bring him at that. Highway that brings him into our lives, lift him up. Making Brayden or midnight, see the prison doors, shake the chains fall and see God come in and do it only he can do. Just that with me I want to spray for you and you are mine as well. And listening, maybe even later you're watching this. I want to pray for you to pray for all of us here. We can just close your eyes just for a moment, just reflect one thing. I I like to do is just have us do that. We don't rush out the door. But instead we reflect Lord, what are you saying to me today? And that's what I would ask you. What is the Lord saying to you today? What is the next step for you? Maybe there's something in particular, you're carrying today. He saying son daughter. I love you. And I know you don't understand but I'm for you. And I'm going to work this out for good in your life. But I want you to start praising me wanting to start worshipping me what you start allowing me to come in. I want to come in. I want to free you from this prison. Maybe that's you Maybe God is just encouraging. Maybe you're here and God's giving you some next steps. This week of how you could take advantage of opportunity to praise him, maybe some of those ideas. You're just like yes that's right while I drive my car or while I walk and Hike tour. Whatever it is, that's just bring it to the Lord right now. Let's bring it to him right now. Will it set next step? Or whether he's saying, I want you to give that burn up today, whatever it is. Bring it to him now and I'm going to pray for you. Father. You know, each person. You know where they're at. You know. What's going on in their life today.

Father, there is there is pain here. There are difficulties here. The Lord. I Thank you that you're bigger. And father, pay for each person today, that you would encourage them that you would help them lift their eyes up to you today and begin to praise again. Those that are going through hard to difficult things, Lord in their Midnight Hour, give them the grace to praise to worship and to see you come through father, thank you that you're giving people testimonies hear testimony even if you are still the Lord and you still love me. And so I bless them right now bless his church. Father, I thank you. These wonderful people at this church. Lord, I Thank you for the hearts for you. I sent that I just sent first of all folks, I sent your heart for the Lord. You are true and genuine. There is a security and just a sincerity here and it's just reflects your leader sincerity and it's just threw out your church. And I just sent the Lord is pleased with that, and I believe the Lord just says to each of you, that there is a harvest reach. If you step out of this place he wants Continue to send you out. Send you out. I just see not like spokes from a hub, he send you out into this community and I just see you taking God's grace and love wherever you go. And actually, I said to my heart to from The Lord of combination to you as a church because that is your mindset. That is your heart. I know it's preached and promoted here, but I believe you, you will live. It works as good on you for taking his light into your community but I believe in the days ahead as you continue to do. So he's going to continue to give me even more opportunities going to canteen. Open Door is almost like a very organic way. There going to be more and more doors opening to this church and these people because you love people and people know that and therefore even in the in the city among the leaders, there's going to there's already favor but I believe there's even more coming in the days ahead, there are doors that are going to open for opportunities to minister and meet other needs because that's a heart that you have and I believe the Lord The eyes of the Lord search to and fro throughout the Earth, to see those who are fully committed to him, that he might strengthen them and I believe he looks down at this church and he sees those kind of hard and he wants to strengthen you and even expand you and release. You further in the days ahead, I sent that in my heart, he's pleased, and he's going to do even more above and beyond what you could ask for. Imagine in the days ahead, as you are faithful to continue to move forward. Bless this group, I thank you for them. Thank you for the Heart, Lord, I Believe by blessed, Dave, and Julia.

I thank you for their hearts.

Are such good. People are so committed to this church and most of all they're so committed to you. And I thank you for their own story, their own story of Grace, their own story of perseverance and pushing through no matter what and I blessed them, I thank you. Lord leadership isn't easy, but God, they are faithful, and they have done a good work here and I pray a blessing over them in the days ahead. I pray, you continue to expand the borders. I thank you that they are father and mother too many and that's going to continue in the days and years ahead. And Lord, thank you for the multiplication of who they are in two others, even increasingly overtime. We just blessed and we bless his church and I thank you again for the privilege of being here in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you.