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His Way, Our Way, No Way Pt.4

I got some more details on that Muslim--I guess they're called Muslim priests--and it's kind of interesting. As he was watching our young people out on the streets, and some of our not-so-young people that are over there, and just looking at the joy in their faces, seeing the boldness that they had in proclaiming the gospel, and actually approached Dan and Lovenia and came up and said, "What is it about you people?" They began to share the Lord with him, and he had never heard the gospel brought in that way. They told him, they said, "You need to talk to one of the pastors here," and Pastor Tony came and met with him. He said he wanted to accept the Lord as his personal savior, and Tony said, "You know what it's going to cost you. [As a Muslim, back in the day, they'd kill you, and] it's going to cost you everything." The guy said, "I want to know the reality of Jesus." He accepted the Lord; he went back [and] told them he was done--he was officially a part of them--resigned. They accepted his resignation; he moved out, and he's joined the fellowship in Eldoret, praise God. A good day's work. Amen?

In Umoja--the team was there in Umoja and as the Word was going forth, as I shared with you this morning, there were six that were filled with the Holy Spirit, and one of the exciting things is [that] one of the team members was filled while they were over there. Praise God for that. We had prayed here before they left, and just believing that God would fill them with His Spirit. So one of the team members was filled also as they've been on the trip, so that's exciting.

Let's see--Chacha Cha--I told you about the attorney general and those that were stepped down in that situation. We still need to continue in prayer. There's the possibility of a regional official that could step in and in one day dissolve this thing, and we just need to believe God. We need a miracle, and so continue to pray and believe for that. The corruption is just beyond our comprehension of what's taking place down in that Maasai region. You know, Kenya is perceived as a Christian nation, but you have to understand [that] it's Christian just like we're Christian here in America--or the Christians in Haiti, as we've ministered there. It's primarily pagan, and it adds Christianity as just another god with their polytheistic approach of gods and deism and pantheism and many of the different things. So many people that are professed believers really don't understand the reality of the lordship of Jesus, and periodically some of these officials are true believers and some are stepping in and looking for justice. We're just believing that God will give us favor in some of those areas, so continue in prayer.

I'm trying to remember if there were any other announcements. Tony was sharing that concerning the land, also, it looks like in the cross-checking, things are going well, and if everything is on the up-and-up--and that's always hard to tell--we're going to have a good piece of property there in Eldoret for about half of what some of the other plots were going for. Periodically there are people that need some money. This guy is an older guy. He's just looking for quick cash to be able to build his retirement place, and we happen to have some. So praise God for that.

Let's turn to Psalms, Chapter 40. We want to conclude the study that we've been doing on understanding the will of God in our lives and that God's will is not so much, who am I going to marry, what job am I supposed to take, but more, how do You want me? The Scripture says in 1 Thessalonians 4:3, "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification..." So too much, we pray about the temporal things instead of the eternal things. "...this is the will of God...your sanctification..."

Now, sanctification, of course, is not talking about anything other than you and I being set aside wholly for the service of God. Many times people think of sanctification [as] being: we don't go to the movies and we don't dance and we don't chew and we don't run with the girls that do and all of the things that "American holiness" has been over the years. Holiness--sanctification--just means [that] I'm an instrument set aside for God. So the question is, Are we? Or is the world dictating to us (in its philosophies, its methods) in our lives just like it is everybody else's? Or are we a people that are set apart, that are doing things God's way, by His power, for His glory? Or are we trusting in the universities, our education, technology, and not in the Lord our God? Some trust in horses, some in chariots; we trust in the Lord. Amen? Are we a separate people, really? Doctrinally we are. "Yes, we're different, praise God. Here's what we believe." How are we living, daily? Are we a people that are walking by faith in the name of the Lord Jesus? Are we set apart? Do people know that we're different, and do we delight in being different? Sanctified.

So the psalmist said in Chapter 40, verse 8, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [Your law] is within my heart." Again, the psalmist said, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Psalm 119:11). "I delight to do thy will..." We've talked about not doing the will of God grudgingly, but just being able to say, "Father, I want Your will, regardless of what it costs me in my personal agenda. I just want to hear, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I'm not looking for the treasures that thieves can break in and steal, but I want to lay up for myself, in heaven, treasures. I delight to do Your will! The greatest treasure that I have is knowing that I'm bringing glory to You through my obedience."

So as the psalmist is speaking here, and the delighting of the heart for the will of God, we saw in Psalm 143:10--[we'll] take just a couple of minutes here to review these things--where the psalmist again says, "Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good..." That's what we've been emphasizing, primarily: the goodness of God. We can't ever totally abandon confidence in the flesh (trust in ourselves, protecting ourselves) until we really understand God's intention to do us good all the days of our lives. How many of you have meditated on that a little bit this afternoon, as we were sharing this morning? Did you spend any time this afternoon just thinking about the goodness of God--how much He loves you, how everything that's working in your life right now has an eternal purpose for your good and God's glory? Think about it. And yet we don't understand it, do we?

As we looked at the story of Joseph this morning, we saw that everything around him seemed to be turmoil, and it seemed to be trials and tribulation. His brothers hated him, and he was thrown into the pit--and he was taken out of the pit. Can you imagine--as they're pulling him out of the pit and he's saying, "Finally, I'm being delivered," he'd been sold. He thought he was being set free, and now he's sold into Potiphar's house. He comes into Potiphar's house, and the next thing you know, he's promoted. "Praise God! Here it is! God is for me, and things are starting to go good. I must in be right standing. God, You're so good!" Next thing you know, he's accused falsely and he's cast into prison. Joseph is learning a lesson that each one of us here has to learn: God is good whether the circumstances are bad or not. Because there's an eternal purpose that's working in our lives, and God's goodness to us can't be measured by your momentary experiences of what you would perceive as good or not. There are a lot of things that I've been through that in the midst of them, it wasn't good. And I don't want to go back through it again, but you know, I look back and I say--and you have to--"That was good for me." How many of you have experienced something like that? Have you? How many of you want to go through it again? "It was really good for me, and I'd rather not do it again." But you know what? You're going to experience it again, because God is not through with you yet, is He? The work is continuing in us, and His ways aren't our ways. And you know what? He's not going to spare for our crying. God doesn't spoil His kids--He purifies them; He makes them holy; He makes them strong.

So here we are, being conformed into the image of Jesus. Where are you right now? Some of us have just received the revelation. Joseph received the revelation (the sheaves were bowing down to him), and some of us, we've gotten the promises of God. We've seen Him, and the promise is there, the reality of it, and your faith is expecting some good things to happen--healing of our bodies, promotion on the job. Some of the singles are looking for that lifetime mate. Things are good! We have the promise; we have the expectation. Maybe you're excited about what God has just spoken to you. And then the reality of the fulfillment begins to manifest itself, and you think, I thought God said He was going to bless me, and now I'm in this pit! Now I'm out of the pit--now I'm a slave. Now I've been promoted in the house of Potiphar--now I'm in prison.

Where are you in this scenario right now? The question that we have to ask ourselves tonight is this: regardless of where I am in this scenario (mountaintop or valley), can I say, "God is good"? Like Job, can you say, "The Lord gives; the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord"? Amen. Where are you today? "Blessed be the name of the Lord! Though He slay me, I'm trusting Him, I'm serving Him, and I'm going to say, 'God is good!'" You see, that's the will of God for your life. It's not to fulfill your limited perspective of what's good but to be able to trust in God's eternal, infinite wisdom and His declaration of what's good for us. That's faith. That's what God is calling us to.

So here we are, a people journeying. Like Abraham [we're] sojourning, not knowing where we're going. God is working good things in our life. So in the midst of this, we hear the admonish of the Apostle in Romans, Chapter 12, verses 1 and 2, where he says, "I want you to present your bodies to Me as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you might prove what is the good, acceptable, and [finish it for me] perfect will of God." Do you want the perfect will of God in your life?

Now, some people seem to think--and this isn't what Paul is saying here; this isn't what the Holy Spirit is saying. Some people say, "Well, you know, there's a good will"--not the organization--"there's a good will, there's an acceptable will, and then there's the perfect will, and if you're not in that, well, God will tolerate it, but there's just one specific predetermined perfect will for your life." That's not what he's saying. The word "perfect" just means the will of God being completed in us. Because if you look at the context of that--look at Romans 12 there for just a second. Let's take just a brief look at the context, and then I want to go over to Matthew 6 and see what Jesus was telling us there about the seeking of the kingdom.

Remember, these little chapter divisions that we have in the Bible are not inspired; they just help us to refer to different things. In the context, he's talking about God's wisdom and divine purposes for Israel, and he's saying in verse 36 of the eleventh chapter, "For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." Because of that, because of this understanding of how God had purposed for Israel and perfected His will and promise to them in the person of Jesus Christ, because of that confidence in God's promises, "I beseech you to now offer yourselves up as that accepted offering." You see, God isn't satisfied with the offering of bulls and goats, but it's worship and praise and honor and obedience from His redeemed children that are the sacrifices that are acceptable to Him--the sweet-smelling fragrance of His children bringing forth praise and prayer that declare His greatness and draw on His love. What a delight Father has in answering our prayers and being there to comfort us--the Counselor that leads us, the Holy Spirit. So he says that God is looking for that sacrifice. This is what pleases Him today: a life that's wholly committed to Him and offered up. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies..."

So what is it that Paul is saying to us? There is a perfect will, or a completing of redemption, that he's wanting to take place in each of our lives. And he said, "Here's how you're going to get there." Look at the next verses. "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think..." Now, he's not talking about the natural tendency that most of us have to be puffed up and think we're great and we're special. He's speaking here about man in general--the haughtiness of man, the Adamic nature, the independent spirit (the consequence of man's eyes being opened so that we became as gods). Isn't that what the devil told Eve? "God doesn't want you to eat that because the moment you do, your eyes are going to be opened and you'll be as God. God is afraid that you're going to have your eyes opened and you won't need Him anymore, and God has got this inferiority complex." Satan is still selling that bill of goods to man today, and we're told that to be strong, we need to be independent and self-reliant. The Bible says that if you want to be strong, you have to be what? Weak. And if you want to be the greatest, you have to be what? Servant. The will of God is divesting ourselves of that independence and that self-confidence, presenting our bodies up and having our minds renewed [so] that we stop thinking like everybody around us and begin to, as little children, trust God for every aspect of our lives.

What do you think? Are we there yet? I'm not, but I want to be. What's it take? "Take up your cross daily and follow Me." "You know, it's bad enough to have to die once, but every day?" How about every moment? How about bringing every thought into subjection to the obedience of Christ, as the Scripture says? Didn't you like the skit they did that they're going to do over in Vacation Bible School in Africa? How many of you liked the little skit about the helmet? I loved that one. Those kids are going to eat that up. I thought that was so cool. You see the guy out there and all of his armor, but no helmet of salvation on (not having the mind of Christ), and the devil comes up and says, "Give me your shield." "There ain't no way you're getting my shield, man! I'm quenching the fiery darts of the enemy!" What a great little skit. The devil pops him on the head. "OK." [He gives up his shield. The devil says,] "Give me that sword." "You aren't getting my sword." Bang! [The devil hits him on the head again.] "OK." [He gives up his sword.] You see, if you don't have the helmet, you don't realize what you are compromising. You think you're strong. You don't understand what those decisions are costing you, ultimately, until you're standing there powerless, just like the world. Do you have your helmet on tonight? Are you able to think with the mind of Christ? "Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being God, coming in the form of man, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but He humbled Himself as a servant, became obedient to the death of the cross," the Scripture says (Philippians 2:5-8). Which methods are you using today? The world's? "No, I'm not using the world's. I'm trusting God. I'm just using a little bit of the world." What does the Bible say about mingled seed? What does the Bible say about lukewarmness? Is [having] any of the world mixed in acceptable? No. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

So the perfect will of God, then, that we're talking about here is getting free from all of that leaven, from all of the world's influence--"And be not conformed to the world but transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you might prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God." How do I get there? By not thinking too highly of myself; not thinking more highly than I ought to think. Now, it's one thing to say about ourselves what God says about us. That's faith, and that's what the Scripture talks about as very clearly being able to speak to our account, by faith, what God has declared. So when we call ourselves the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ, we're making a statement that agrees with God. We're not thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. We're saying what God said about us. Thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to think is when we begin to think that we've contributed to that, or that we're special or better than anybody else in the Body of Christ--thinking that our gifts are special or that our place is special. Thinking more highly of yourself is ever thinking that anything you do is meritorious. The way we [are to] approach everything is [that] we're just unprofitable servants--"I've just done what Christians do. I just do what Christians do. I pray, I fast, I study, I obey, I serve. I just do what Christians do. Nothing special about that." That's what brings glory to God. That's the perfect will of God in each one of our lives. That's what He's trying to bring us to through all of the preparation, the chastisement that we experience, the opportunities that we have to fail and be humbled.

How about even some of the successes and have to deal with that? You know, the toughest thing to deal with is success. How many of you want to succeed for the glory of God--and a little bit of recognition myself? Oh, did I say that out loud? Am I the only one in here that thinks like that? Anybody here know anybody [that thinks like that]? I saw some of you wives look over at your husbands, but I was actually talking to you. What about it? So many of us, we don't really realize the vanity of this system that's trying to destroy us! We seem to think that somehow there's an innocence, that secularism is amoral. It is not! It's antichrist. Secularism comes from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's the fruit that was forbidden. There's no place for us in that. So though we're in the world and we know what they think and we can communicate with them and we can do business with them and I can reason with them and I trade with them, I'm not of them. I'm in the world, but I'm not of it. Their treasures aren't my treasures. Their methods aren't my methods. Their god isn't my god. So this is what Paul is telling us here.

Now, as we finish up for this evening turn over to Matthew 6 for just a second. Let me show you what Jesus has to say about this. We're very familiar with the admonition in Chapter 6, verse 21, "Where your treasure is, that's where your heart is," He says. Then He goes on and He begins to make very clear that we're to be seekers of the kingdom of God, verse 33--seek first the kingdom of God, His righteousness, and all of the necessities of life are going to be added to us. Don't worry about these things that everybody else is taken up with: what I'm going to eat, what I'm going to drink, what I'm going to put on, who I'm going to marry, where I'm going to live, what I'm going to drive, what are we going to eat tomorrow? It doesn't matter, if you're walking in faith and you're praying "Give us this day our daily bread," if you're trusting God. Why are you concerned, like the world is? This is what Jesus is saying; He's saying, "You've got to realize that it's the pagans that are taken up with these things. Your Heavenly Father knows what you have need of." "Therefore [verse 31] take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?..." Then we want to end with this for this evening: "But seek ye first the kingdom [verse 33]...and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for [tomorrow]: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

Let's talk about this for just a moment: "take no thought for the morrow." That's the will of God for your life. "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord..." (Psalm 37:23). We have that promise. We understand that. We know what the word "ordered" means. I've shared that with you that in the Hebrew, the Hebrew word for "ordered" doesn't mean that God is specifically placing our foot in the exact place that He wants it, at the exact moment He wants it, every day. But the Hebrew speaking to us there--"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord"--that word "ordered" means "are set right." When our lives are in pursuit of God and we love God, we're still going to make some mistakes, but God is always going to set us right. He is always going to put us back on course if we have a heart to do His will. If, like the Master, we can come to the Garden [of Gethsemane] and--the Scripture said in agony He prayed, "Lord, if it's possible, let the cup pass from Me, but never the less, not My will [but] Thy will be done." Are you willing to, in the midst of agony, be able to say, "Father, if this is what You want, if this is what's going to bring You the most glory--I'd like to have the cup removed, but not my will; Your will be done"? That's what I want. That's the perfect will of God; that's what I want for my life. How do we get there? Daily--taking up a cross daily.

You know what the cross for some of us might be on a daily basis? Listen. All the cross is, is death to self (our personal agendas, trust in our own strength, our own methods). It could be praying, for the first time in a long time, the Lord's prayer in faith and not in memory. So many people pray that prayer by rote that we don't allow it to come from our hearts. It's coming out of our heads. [Pastor recites the Lord's prayer fast, with a monotone voice:] "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done..." (Matthew 6:9-10). Listen to what you're saying! "[My] Father [we saw it in Psalm 143--thou art God. My Father] which art in heaven, Hallowed [holy, separate, unique]." I like the term "unique" for God. There's nobody else like Him; there's not another one like Him. He's not just the biggest god of all the gods. He's separate; He stands alone. Everything that exists was created by Him and for Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made (John 1:3 and Colossians 1:16). Amen? "[So when we pray, pray after this manner:] Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be [Your] name [separate, distinct, unique]. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Every time we pray that, you know what we're doing? We're dismantling our own personal kingdoms. "Thy kingdom come [Your kingdom come into my life]."

How many of you build a personal kingdom on a daily basis? We do. And then God tears it down, doesn't He? And we build it back up again in our thoughts and our ambitions, all of our plans. Then God speaks to us, and we repent and we ask Him to come into our lives and purify us. And by faith we pull down the strongholds that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, and now we stand victorious again. We rejoice in the goodness of God, and we're so thankful to be free again--and we start building again, don't we? How long is this going to go on? As long as you're alive. That's why you need to pray on a daily basis, by faith, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in me, as it is in heaven."

How about dependence? "Give us this day our daily bread." I don't need any daily bread. I've got enough laid up for a couple of months. How many of you have some stuff laid up at home? You don't need daily bread. You see, tragically, we're in a place right now, most of us, [where] we don't have to trust God for anything. We've got insurance companies. We've got savings accounts. Got plastic [credit cards]. "Well, if I'm going to go, I might as well go owing somebody!" I tell you one thing: when I go, I'm not going to owe any man anything but to love them (Romans 13:8).

Are you trusting God on a daily basis? Now, even if we have abundance--and there's nothing wrong with it, and we saw the wisdom of Joseph this morning, remember, in storing up for the hard times. God gives us the ability to do that. In our time of abundance and blessings, put some back. Get ready for the hard times that might be coming, but don't live in fear [to the point] that you can't distribute to others that are in need. So be ready to distribute and communicate and give to those that are in need in our midst. But, see, you can't give if you don't trust God and believe in the goodness of God, and if you're not living beyond self-confidence. You can give it all away and still be at perfect peace. Why? Because my needs are going to be met on a daily basis. I'm taking no thought for the morrow.

Now, I'll say it again. I'm not talking about being foolish. I'm not talking about making stupid decisions. I'm not talking about thinking that you can squander everything and be presumptuous toward God. I'm talking about using wisdom. But I'm talking about believing God and not just going through the daily grind in America, where everything is dumped in our laps and we think we're prospering because we're living in faith, and we think that we're blessed because somehow we merit it. As Americans, we're being robbed of our trust in Father because of our abundance. Thank God for it! But trust God in the midst of it, as the supplier of our daily bread. That's a tough thing to do. It's tough to trust God in prosperity, and yet that's what we're called to do, because the will of God--"Thy will be done in me as it is in heaven"--the will of God, the perfect will of God, is for you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think. The will of God is your sanctification, 1 Thessalonians says. So in the midst of all of our abundance, we have to continually work to stay reliant upon God. Without Him I can do nothing! That's the will of God; that's what He trying to do in our lives.

Now, let me finish up. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow." That's God's will for your life: to be able to live in the sufficiency of today. I've shared with you before, I think this is one of the things I have the most trouble with. Not in the way that some might. Some are fearful of tomorrow. I'm not fearful of tomorrow; I'm just too busy, and I've got so much coming up tomorrow that my mind is already on tomorrow, and I'm not able to appreciate today! And that's not God's will for us, because we lose the momentary pleasure of God's presence and daily provision--because there might not be a tomorrow if Jesus comes back tonight. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus. Amen?

Boy, you don't hear much of that anymore. People are just so happy to live where they are. Most of them would just as soon the Lord didn't come back as long as they can get a bigger house and a better job. I want the Lord to come back, but if He doesn't, we're going to occupy till He comes and stay busy and see if we can be a light to the world and salt to the Earth. Are you fearful of tomorrow? Apprehensions? Are you somehow thinking that you have to wheel and deal to get ready? Are you at absolute peace, not taking any thought? The Apostle told us to "Be [anxious] for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7). Is there any anxiety? Is there fear? Or are you at perfect peace, taking no thought? For He says, "the morrow [look] shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

Now, He speaks toward the positive and the negative. The trials that we're in--I expect to be out of them tomorrow, but right now, what do I in the midst of this? "...count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be made perfect and entire, wanting nothing" (James 1:24). Ah, the will of God. Let me see. What is the will of God? I'm in the midst of a trial. Let me think. Now, what am I supposed to do? I've got to wiggle out of this thing somehow. Maybe I can buy my way out of it, con my way out of it, bully my way out of it, cry my way out of it. How about counting it all joy? Now, there's a novel thought! That's the will of God for you. Go back in your minds to Psalm 40: "I delight to do Your will." "Your Word have I hid in my heart." In the midst of all of these things, do you step back and say, Now, what does God say to do at this moment? And in the midst of trials, I don't throw up my hands and say, God, why have You forsaken me? I don't try to get out of the thing; I realize that God is working in me to will and to do His good pleasure, and so in the midst of it I count it all--joy. Not because I want to, not because I understand it, but because God has declared it. That's the perfect will for your life. "Don't take any thought for the morrow, but today, in everything give thanks, for this is the [say it] will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

So as we shut down for tonight, God's will--are you thankful for where He has you tonight? Are you thankful for what He's allowed in your life over the last 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, the last week, the last month, the last year? Are you thankful that all of these things are working together for good to those that love God and are called according to His purposes? That's the will of God for us: to realize that His intentions are good.

Father, we just ask You now to work Your will in us and to bring us to that place of absolute reliance and trust that what is working in our lives right now is for your glory and for our good, and so we count it all joy and in everything we give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning us. We don't always understand it, but we don't have to. Your ways are higher than ours. We don't always like it. We don't have to, and so we pray, If it's possible, let the cup pass from us. Nevertheless not our will but Your will be done. We subordinate ourselves to Your wisdom, to Your goodness, to Your daily care for us, and sufficient to this day--we know that as of today we are in the will of God, and we say, "Thank You" and we rejoice in it and boast in it that You might be glorified in us. We ask, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's stand before the Lord. As Gary plays for us, we'll take a moment and, again, allow the Holy Spirit to just make real to us what He has spoken and what He intends for our lives. I want to encourage you to be prayerful as [Pastor] Chuck and Greer and I will be leaving for Africa Tuesday to go check up on the [Missions] team and see what we can do to settle some of these other issues that are being dealt with over there. Be prayerful concerning the body, the fellowship in Maine. There are some needs in the church in Richmond. The Baltimore fellowship right now has a potential buyer for the building there so that we can go to the new land and begin to build. A number of things that are happening right now all at one time, and just believe God with us for His wisdom. Let's take a moment and pray for the journey that we're going to have on Tuesday, and believe that God will go before us and make a way.

Father, we do come and we trust in You. Our eyes are upon You, Lord. We don't know how to go out or to come in. We have no confidence in the flesh; our eyes are upon You. Strengthen us, Father. Give us understanding and wisdom, and go before us, and open doors, Lord, that You might be glorified. We go without agenda, Father. We go purposing to do nothing but glory in Your name and boast in Your righteousness. So we ask for Your strength and Your wisdom. Be glorified, we ask, Father. We'll be careful to give You all the praise. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Let's sing this together and just thank Him for His presence tonight in each one of our lives. "In Thy presence . . . " Yes, Jesus. We do thank You, Lord, for Your goodness. Oh, hallelujah! Sing it one more time. Just worship Him! Hallelujah! We do thank You for Your presence, Lord. The great treasure: the knowledge of our God. Make it real, Father. Be glorified in our lives, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, "I delight in His will." Amen. Go in peace; God's love go with you.

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