Psalm 57

Good evening to you again from the auditorium at beacon Baptist Church folks. Thank you for tuning in and making this regular habit weekly schedule with Tryon follows a similar format that we do if we were meeting present over announcements and in prayer requests's missionary correspondence and then a message from the word of God to thank you for joining us again this evening. I have enjoyed the cooler weather.

I know you probably have as well. Fall is here is my personal favorite time of the year so I am looking forward to long extended fall so just enough to tease us a little bit not enough to get your turn your heat on your house were not too far from that what we are very much looking forward to the full Bible conference that will begin. Not this Sunday but a week from this Sunday October 4-7. Dr. Jim Warrick from Louisville, Kentucky will be with us and he will be bringing a series of messages and with the theme living like sons and daughters God be preaching Sunday morning Sunday night and then Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night at 715.

All of those services will be people present services.

So what we've been looking forward to this. Given us an opportunity to have people present services beyond just Sunday morning which is been our our pattern here for the last several months, so please pray in, and plan to come and join us this brother spoke at the Ocean City Bible conference last September and those of us who went from the church her demon find him to be a very engaging very much appreciate his ministry.

The word is very capable preacher's wife is coming with them so we are looking forward to introducing him and his ministry to the beacon congregation of a sign-up sheet on Sunday. For those of you that would like to host them for a meal good many of the slots of Artie been taken by pastoral staff, but I believe right now Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are open. Maybe one afternoon open. In addition to the five messages that he'll be bringing our Bible conference. He will also be speaking at the tri-state particular Baptist Fellowship, which is not met for about four or five months so we are resuming that in October, Manny Pittman, member of our church will give a 30 minute message Dr. work will bring 30 minute message and I have a couple of people that I'm considering for the longer session after the break. So that'll be an extended time of industry with him. Dr. Ortiz Pease planning on bringing the message on praying like a son of God is consistent with the theme living like sons and daughters of God. Five messages of the conference within that six message it Fellowship meeting on Monday. Praying like a son of God.

Well, we are wanting to update our list of college students, so if you have a college student in your home or away were not aware of it in the office no them rotation as we make mention of them on a weekly basis. On Wednesday night before the Lord in prayer will send a note to them. When that when the time comes around just to encourage them.

Remind them that the church is standing with them and praying for them. Rob Conrad's mother-in-law is still in need of a CNA work a 24 hour shift one or two days a week, or as on a needs basis so that making mention of the need for a number of weeks.

If you can help with that.

Please contact Rob Conrad his phone number is 222-9877, that's 222-9877 Psalm 55 verse 22 says cast your burden on the Lord and he shall sustain you. He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

We join me as we commit our service here this evening to father Wiebe out this evening in your presence, rejoicing that we do have audience with you. We who are your children have been justified by faith in we have peace with you through the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you that not only do we have peace but we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Thank you God for the salvation blessings that have come to us been procured for us by your son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Truly we say with Paul the apostle. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ, we know that every spiritual blessing we have known and are presently experiencing in will be enjoying in the future has been secured for us by the redemptive work of your son, the Lord Jesus. So Lord, we give you praise and worship and thanksgiving for your kindness to us and the mercy that's been extended to us, Lord, we thank you for your kind providence that has sustained our lives and has brought us together in this way again this evening. I thank you for my brothers and sisters who are faithful to tune in via live stream participate in this Wednesday night service.

We pray that you would minister to us. Strengthen us in the inner person encourage our faith. Stir us up on the love and to good deeds remind us of those things that are secure and settled in the heavens remind us our God of the things that you are committed to in this world and in the lives of your children. Lord, we confess that easily can forget those things and get caught up and consumed with the living of life and on a daily basis and become dull and perhaps a bit disconnected from spiritual realities. So we thank you Lord benefit that comes to us as we set aside the affairs of life and come together as the people of God to pray and to join our hearts and be reminded of the activities of life. The church and to feast upon the word of God instructed Lord help us tonight as we give ourselves to these things that they may bring profit to us and that we might please you in our thoughts and our deliberations in the execution of those things that you have laid upon our hearts. We commit our service now to you name a man. Here is the words of the hymn that we often sing when all my mercies all my God before I read those.

Let me read a couple of scriptures. Titus chapter 3 verse one well, let's verse three Paul writing to Titus is reminding him of what we were before we came to Christ, for we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient to see serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another, but when the kindness and the love of God our Savior, your toward man appeared not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit and then in a similar pattern. Paul's writing in Ephesians again, chapter 2, he's reminding us of what we were outside of Christ. Prior to telling us what God is done for us in Christ is always instructed to see this pattern because we don't fully appreciate the good news until we see it against the backdrop of the bad news, here's the bad news we once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others and then verse four, but God who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Those two passages of Scripture are the backdrop to the opening stands of this hymn that I want to emphasize when all my mercies. Oh my God, when all thy mercies all my God, my rising soul surveys transported with the view I lost in wonder love and praise. I can then how can that not be true when we consider and think on the mercy of God, the mercies of God that have been showered upon us. How can I not move us to be a worshiper to stand in awe and wonder and offer praise to God. Unnumbered comforts to my soul like tender care bestowed before my infant heart can see from home those comforts flowed when worn with sickness, off task file with health renewed my face and when in sins and sorrows sunk revived my soul grace 10,000 precious gifts. My daily thanks employee, nor is the least, a cheerful heart that tastes those gifts with joy through every period of my life like goodness. I'll pursue an after death, distant world, the glorious theme renew through all eternity to the a joyful song, I'll raise for all eternity.

Eternity's too short to utter all thy praise a man well prayer requests this evening we have quite a number of trying not miss anything here praising the Lord that Rob Conrad pleaded his home IVs. He needs to regain his strength and a stamina after completing this regiment.

He said the kidney stones blasted had a stent removed. It was there to aid his healing from a kidney and bladder infection so pray for Rob that strengthen human and return him to the full measure of strength. Drew Guthrie has is just in need of our prayers as she continues to deal with cancer and issues related to that Leanne Michael Hannon is recovering from thyroid surgery or Pope had an MRI last Wednesday and is still waiting on the results of my understanding is Charlie Watkins admitted to regional hospital. She's in room 132 talked with Patty texted back and forth with her today. Shirley is just as good a UTI and she has C diff sought the bad combination. Talk to Shirley on the phone and I wasn't sure that she knew who I was. So I texted Patty and said that I talked to her mama when sure she knew to me and that he says all she knew you so anyway please pray for Shirley that the Lord would use this hospital stay to arrest these issues in her body and strengthen her under others to Yana with Leah, granddaughter of Henry and Dorothy Campbell will be having surgery tomorrow to repair a tear in her shoulder. The cottage of likely call assisted living facility in Elon has 13 residents in five staff member tested positive for Kovic, 19 Sue Vestal's aunt Maxine Cole had surgery for fractured vertebrae on Monday and came home yesterday. The receiving rehab at home. Sheila Ector is not a healing as well as the doctors would like we having another surgery tomorrow. Pray for Robert and Sheila Rebecca Ellis record Grace Ellis sizing finally getting back to feeling yourself after heart catheterization. She had last week.

Shelley Lange is a sister of Rose Bradshaw from West Virginia. She was in a car accident. She was stopped in the car.

It her and her 1314-year-old son from behind and she's got a broken wrist in a badly shoulder and a severe case of whiplash coal. Her son has nothing see here sprained ankle received from the accident. No serious injuries with him, Margarita Marino, one of our ESL students had surgery yesterday to remove a tumor from her abdomen. Surgery went well.

She is at home resting waiting on the results of the pathology report.

Please be in prayer for her husband Hugo and their three children, Leanne Michael Hannon's father, Gaylord Trammell, see I think I have an update hear from Leanne that she sent in this afternoon.

She says the doctor stated everything went well with the oblation.

Dad cannot lift more than 10 pounds for week the pacemaker should work properly and fully and fully from the top half of the heart. The bottom half of the heart has oblation. Dad got to go home yesterday afternoon thanks to our merciful and gracious God, due to a miscommunication.

Dad did not have the lung biopsy today that is been rescheduled for October 1. Leanne's is.

Thank you all for the prayers and for her dad and his health recovery Juniper Roy is recovering from a bad cut that he leave Vestal Sue Vestal's husband will be seeing the doctor for follow-up for an ulcer on his foot is also scheduled for an ultrasound next Wednesday and then Cheryl Ingold is ask us to pray for a person by the name of Ken who has headaches and health issues that one update from Laverne wall concerning Stuart is making progress. He's weak and it's taking some time for him to get some strength in his legs.

He walking some and but no complications have risen from the transplant surgery and then the cancer that followed. So that's all good, so we are encouraged with what's going on.

It's going to take time for him to regain his strength and be able to be released from the hospital on behalf of Linda Nance and her family.

Thank you for praying for for them and the passing of her mama's day cost of the tour so they had a sweet private graveside service Sunday afternoon were I think he said 11 people there but it was a sweet time and my understanding is that there will have a celebration of life service sometime in the future when all this coven situation subsides. Wendy Lynch is asking us to engage our hearts and prayer for her sister, Linda Bruner, cancer has returned, she had a biopsy today is waiting on results and Whittington called this afternoon and she's been battling with shingles and she also has case of David gets his word out die die anyway written some down here mature. But anyway, she's she's got some other issues that she's asking us to a pastor.

The tour is made us aware that Gina Boswell was at ARMC due to a blood clot in her leg expected to go home later today that from Sherry Myers so I think that's all the prayer requests that I have which are quite a few government officials the week is Village of alum Manse older member Gail Andrews and Caitlin Craig is our college student of the week at Bob Jones University. I was able to talk to Caitlin recently.

She was home for the funeral for her grandmother and she loves she's loved and BJ use really happy about that. So pray for her. I just have one missionary letter to share with you tonight. All of our missionaries are affected by his scolded deuced activity and therefore reduce communication so this is really a global thing. This is from C Lawson Monger compos the right dear friends in Christ. Warm greetings from Brazil. The highlight of this month was the return of our in person services. We were allowed to gather 40% capacity. Most of our elderly are still avoiding are people present gatherings.

He says even among the youngest many are very frightened.

But what a joy it is to gather together with God's people services online are okay, but face-to-face services are replaceable over the Internet.

If you don't like the sermon you you can find another preacher in the physical church, God put you there to hear a sermon that you may not like, but probably need in social media you choose your friends in the church, God chooses your brothers and sister in social media you exclude those you don't like, but in the real church you learn to get along with them and there is growth healing and maturing glorifies God. They were able to speak to about 900 college students, online youth Bible conference subject was purity. He says I had the privilege of preaching about the best motivation for us to pursue holiness which is Jesus's promise that the pure shall see God in some small ways. This promise begins to be fulfilled right here on earth, so they're just sending out update thanking us for our prayers and our faith. Poor so that's what I have in terms of missionaries this evening. All right, I want you to turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm 57 Psalm 57. What were doing that something else has come to my mind, there is a prayer walk in Washington DC this Saturday and you to be aware of that and be encouraged by that anticipate thousands if not tens of thousands of Christians gathering their marching from the Lincoln Memorial statement and praying for this country. God would have mercy on our country and bring renewal and bring revival.

Be aware that on Saturday Psalm 57 Psalm David is writing he says he merciful to me.

Oh God, be merciful to me for my soul trusts in you and in the shadow of your wings.

I will make my refuge until these calamities have passed by. I will cry out to God most high God, who performs all things for me, he shall send from heaven and save me. He reproaches the one who would swallow me up, God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. My soul is among lions. I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire whose teeth and arrows and their tong a sharp sword be exalted. Oh God, above the heavens let your glory be above all the earth. They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down, they have dug a pit for me into the midst of it. They themselves have fallen. My heart is steadfast. Oh God, my heart is steadfast.

I will sing and give praise awake, my glory awake lute and harp. I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you oh Lord among the peoples. I will sing to you among the nations, for your mercy, reaches onto the heavens and your truth unto the clouds be exalted. Oh God, above the heavens let your glory be above all the earth. Quite a Psalm. David two times short 11 versus says a repeated phrase verse five in verse 11, be exalted. Oh God, above the heavens let your glory be above all the earth, and he repeats that again there in verse 11, and in between those two declarations is a confession of faith. Verse seven. My heart is stead last. Oh God, my heart is steadfast and what's significant. I think about that is that he is exalting God. He is declaring the glory of God. He is steadfast he is committed to God and his circumstances are what shall we say he is between a rock and a hard place. His circumstances are terrible.

He's not offering praise and worship and exalting God in the context of a pain-free life know that's not the situation at all what we have here in Psalm 57 is a prayer of the David praise when he was running from Saul and in very real danger of being killed by Saul historical context of that is first Samuel chapter 24 and I'll just read three verses so you understand the context of Psalm 57 it says in verse one of four single 24 now it happened Saul had returned from following the Philistines that it was, told him, saying, take note, David is in the wilderness of in getting then Saul took 3000 chosen men from all Israel and went to see David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats so we came to the sheepfold by the road where there was a cave and Saul went again to attend to his needs. David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave.

The context here is the cave of the dual cave. There in the historical place of in getting there have been times when David was hiding from his enemies, but in this Psalm he has a very different tone. He's hiding, but he is not hiding necessarily from Saul.

He is hiding in God. It's something like the words to the him that we enjoy singing O safe to the rock that is higher than I my soul and its conflicts and sorrows would fly so sinful, so weary, thine line would ID thou last rock of ages. I am hiding in the hiding in the hiding in the thou blessed rock of ages. I'm hiding in the that's the context here in Psalm 57 David is on the run. He is as a fugitive. Saul is haunting him with the purpose of killing him and David is finding solace and peace and comfort in the fact that he is hiding in God. The question is where does such confidence come from well it comes from walking with the Lord it comes from experiencing the faithfulness of God in your life by tracing the hand of God, and by remembering God's grace and mercy extended to us and by recounting God's past dealings with us.

We have reason to be encouraged. First Samuel 17 verse 37 David says the Lord, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of the Philistines all speaking in second Corinthians chapter 1 and verse 10 speaks of God who rescued us from so great a death, and is delivering us in home we have hope that he also will still deliver us past a present in a future delivering that Paul had anchored his soul to you. Recall Jesus rebuked the disciples because they did not understand the miracles of the feeding of the 5000 Matthew chapter 16 verses nine and 10.

They were written they were rebuked because they didn't understand those miracles were there to strengthen their faith to remind them of all was that was among them that they wouldn't be weak in faith. So life has its challenges. Why would God head seen to it that David had been anointed to be the new king of Israel.

And yet, instead of taking the throne as the newly anointed king. He is running for his life and David is no doubt we were reading about this after the fact but he's living through this and trying to make sense of God's dealings in his life of a poem here before me penned by Cory Tim Boone you know her story along with her family. She helped Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II and is credited with saving some 800 lives. She was imprisoned along with her sister Betsy, who died in a concentration camp in 1944 Cory put pen to paper in, wrote this wonderful poem entitled life is but the weaving. She says my life is but a weaving between my God in me.

I cannot choose the colors he weave it steadily. Ofttimes he weave with sorrow, and I in foolish pride forget he sees the upper and I the undersigned, not till the loom is silent and the shuttles ceased to fly. Will God unroll the canvas and reveal the reason why the dark threads are as needful in the Weaver's skillful hands as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern he has planned. He knows he loves.

He cares nothing this truth can damn he gives the very best to those who leave the choice to him. That's a powerful powerful Pohlmann_by the testimony of this magnificent saint of God with a Psalm Psalm 57 before*11 versus and can be divided into three parts. Let me give you those divisions verses 1 to 3. I have entitled a call to God for mercy. Number two verses 4 to 6 is a description of the problem that caused David to cry out to God for mercy and then verses seven through 11, including praise of God.

Verses one and two begins with David asking for mercy. Be merciful to me. Oh God, be merciful to me for my soul trust in you and in the shadow of your wings. I will make my refuge until these calamities have passed by. I will cry out to God most high. David begins by asking God for mercy. And then there is this statement of confidence they that he has taken refuge in his God.

The title of the song is prayer for safety from enemies and it's natural to think that the cave that David was hiding in suggests the idea of a refuge, but David didn't view that cave is the refuge. David understood his God to be his refuge. David doesn't call. The cave is refuge, though it was in a certain physical sense of place of safety but he calls God is refuge for my soul trust in you and in the shadow of your wings. I will make my refuge. She says it's actually under the shadow of the wings of God and not the cave where he has found safety. He refers to God as God most high pieces I will cry out to God most high, verse two, to God who performs all things for me, this name of hers in the Bible for the first time in the story of Abraham and Melchizedek, Abraham had gone on a rescue mission to rescue lot and his relatives and was successful and when he comes back from that successful successful mission.

He has an encounter with Melchizedek and refers to God as of this as God most high in the name that's chosen here by David is a reminder that this God delivers his servants enemies into their hands. This is what David needed and this is what God did first God delivered David then he delivered Saul David's chief enemy into David's hand and we have that recorded in first Samuel read a couple of verses.

The irony of this percent to 24 again Saul is pursuing David.

Saul comes to the sheepfold by the road where there was a cave and Saul went in to attend to his needs.

David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave. Then the man of David said to him, this is the day of which the Lord said to you, behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand that you may do to him as it seems good to you and David arose and secretly caught off a corner of Saul's robe. You know the rest of that David reveals himself to Saul. We have recorded in verse 11, David speaking to Saul.

Moreover, my father see yes see the corner of your robe in my hand, for in that I caught off the corner of your robe and did not kill you know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand and I have not sinned against.

Yet you have yet, you hunt my life to take it.

That's the first time and then again in chapter 26, Saul had encamped on a hill was nighttime. Saul and his men were sleeping, says David. Verse four.

Therefore, sent out spies and understood that Saul had indeed, so David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped and David saw the place where Saul lay and Abner the son of near the commander of his army. Now Saul lay within the camp with the people encamped all around him.

You know the story. David went into the camp encampment took Saul Spear and could've taken his life but he didn't. But the point is that God most high, had delivered David's enemies into his hands because he had respect for the office at King Saul occupied. He did not listen to the voices of those who told him to take Saul's life we find the description then of what's going on with David. He says in verse four. My soul was among lions. I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues a sharp sword.

They have prepared verse six Annette for my steps that dug a pit before me. So David is not minimizing the danger he's in. He's given voice to adhere but we find in the midst of that David calling for God to be exalted God. He says my heart.

He says be exalted. Oh God, above the heavens let your glory be above all the earth. God is exalted above the heavens and his glory does fill the earth, but the statement is not that God has been or will be exalted. It is a prayer that he might be exalted, and that raises the question in David's particular circumstances.

How so this is a prayer be exalted. Oh God, above the heavens let your glory be above all the earth. How is God going to be exalted. How is his glory going to be manifested in what manner and by whom, and the answer is that David wants God to be exalted in his particular circumstances. By the way he trusts and praises God even in the midst of his difficulty. That's what's going on see the world thrills when human beings are exalted when your favorite sports star.

It excels people get excited about that. But those who know God rejoice when God is exalted, and they rejoice that they have the opportunity and the privilege to exalt him themselves, especially in circumstances that are disappointing and difficult, so David wanted to respond to these present circumstances in such a way that God would be exalted that God's glory would be manifested. And that's the challenge for us every day has its challenges and God brings difficulty into our lives, and God wants us to exalt him. God wants us to glorify him and how we respond to the circumstances that he ordains for our life, you're aware you are aware of Jerry Bridges in his life and ministry.

I want to read something from his book trusting God, he says it's difficult to believe God is in control when we're in the midst of heartache or grief. He says I've struggled with this many times myself, including two recent occasions.

Each time I've had to decide if I would trust him even when my heart ached. I realized the new that we must learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. It's not a matter of my feelings, but all of my will. And then he says I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so anyway. That act of the will must be based on belief and belief must be based on the truth that God is sovereign.

He carries out his own good purposes without ever being thwarted and nothing is outside of his sovereign will. We must cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy.

If were to glorify God by trusting him see the connection is making if were going to glorify God by trusting him. That's the way we glorify God we continue to trust him even when circumstances are unfavorable to us even when we don't understand necessarily what God is doing. He says I'll say this as gently and compassionately as I know how our first priority in adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting him gaining relief from our feelings of heartache or disappointment or frustration is a natural desire, and God's promise to give us grace sufficient for our trials and peace for our anxieties but just as God's will is to take precedence over our will.

So God's honor is to take precedence over our feeling and here's the here is the take away. We honor God by choosing to trust him when we don't understand what he is doing or why he is allowed some adverse circumstances to occur as we seek God's glory. We may be sure he has purposed our good and that he won't be frustrated in fulfilling. He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that for just a reminder.

Sometimes we get the idea that were the best positioned honor glorify God when circumstances are favorable, no. I think God's honor is vindicated in his he's exalted and he's glorified when we trust him when things aren't going our way when things don't look favorable when we don't understand necessarily what God is doing so. Is that true of you tonight. Can you say my heart is steadfast.

Oh God, my heart is steadfast as a declaration. David wasn't going to wilt. David wasn't going to crumble.

David wasn't going to cower in the corner in the dark of the cave he was going to be steadfast. He was going to trust God in the midst of these very troubling circumstances. Saul and an army of 300 men are seeking his life hard for us to get our minds around the danger that that implies. David wasn't consumed with that his refuge was in God, and he was going to exalt God and honor God and glorify God. So here's encouragement for us that we buy Grace may do the same.

Well, I trust the Lord will use that in your life tonight and in the days to come. When you join me as we bring some of these needs before the Lord. Father, we thank you that you are a very present help in time of trouble.

We thank you that you do all things well that you do things on purpose for your own honor and glory sake and for the good of your people. We thank you that you are, no respecter of persons that you are you are not only the God of David here not only the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But you are the God of every redeemed child of your we thank you that you grant grace and mercy to us that you provide that which is necessary for us to trust you in the midst of difficulty in Lord, there are many people that we are praying for tonight to our dealing with various and sundry health issues and financial issues, family issues and other things as well.

Pray that you would strengthen Rob Conrad that you would continue to undertake for Stewart wall and Laverne. We thank you for the progress that they are making. We thank you for being with Lee and Michael Anna's father and seeing him through this hard ablation lift up Shirley Watkins to you. She's at the regional Hospital and pray that the doctors would be able to get on top of this CDF and clear up this UTI that's troubling her Pray for Tiana with a as she has shoulder surgery tomorrow that that would go well, we pray you give courage to the staff at the cottage in Blakely Hall for those residents who been affected by covert we pray that you have mercy on them. Then you will would be done in their lives and that there would be people who would be looking to you in this time of need.

Pray for Sue Vestal's aunt Maxine Cole and asked that you would bring healing to her and she electors. She has surgery again tomorrow. I know she must be a bit discouraged be the lifter of her head. Remind her that she's a child of yours.

Thank you for Robert and his always positive outlook on life may be an instrument of encouragement to his wife during this difficult time. Pray for Rose Bradshaw's sister and her son were in this car accident.

Pray that they would recover from these injuries pray for Margarita Marino. She waits on the pathology report from this tumor that's been removed from Rapp. We don't know. I don't know her. Whether she's a child of yours do we pray that you will use this in her life to either encourage or in the faith that she is a child of yours to bring her to faith, pray for Judah, Roy, thank you that he's healing from this cut on his heel commit leave Vestal to you and the needs of his physical life.

Whatever spiritual needs are there as well for this man can who has headaches and other health issues.

Pray for Linda Bruner tonight.

Wendy Lynch's sister and asked that you draw near to her and encourage her help her to look away from these troubling circumstances in this troubling news.

May our faith be fastened upon him, whose unmovable and changes not pray for the village of Alamance altar member Gail Andrews and ask you to help this person as they seek to fulfill their responsibilities to the city of Alamance and then for Caitlin Craig would lift this dear sister to you and ask you to bless her and help her continue to adjust to school. We thank you that she has acclimated well.

We pray that she'll have a good semester. All of our students at her school, and adjusting elements Christian school in the Bradford Academy in others, other private schools in the area commit all of these needs to you, Lord, where very much looking forward to this fall.

Bible conference with Dr. Jim Mark.

We pray that you keep him healthy and well would be no hindrance to his coming.

We look forward to his ministry among us getting getting to know his wife as well. So Lord repair our hearts for this a concentrated time of preaching and Lord you are aware of the needs in our hearts and lives in the needs of our country and all that's going on around us, and how it can so be unsettling.

Pray that you will strengthen us in the inner man to give us courage that we would be men and women of hope and that we would be light and salt. In this dark and decaying world Lord help us to be ready to give an answer to any man who would ask us for the reason of the hope that's within us. These are days of gospel opportunity.

Lord, would you cause there to be a harvest of souls's is people are bewildered and peoples confidence has been shaken and many people have misplaced trust. All God would you so work in their hearts and lives that they might find themselves settled upon the rock Christ Jesus. Or thank you thank you thank you that we have access to you through this means of prayer receive our prayers to this evening through the merits of your dear son who loved us and gave himself for us.

We pray in his matchless name.

Amen