Lessons in Faith

Good evening to you from the auditorium of beacon Baptist Church. Thank you. Beacon Saints for joining us and others who perhaps are not part of our church have learned of our online ministry and have joined. I know some in my extended family in Florida and Pennsylvania had from time to time of tuned in, benefited from our service. The prayer requests that are pertinent in known to us are foreign to them, but they understand that in tuned in relief for the ministry of the word so thank you for joining us this evening.

Have a couple of announcements just to make to give you an update where we are with our faith promise program. We have received 66 cards through this past Sunday. That is about two thirds of what we have been receiving. I looked over the last four years and the average over the last four years is been right at 100 cards so it 66 we read two thirds. There is yet another third in terms of cards to be turned in, and those cards represent commitments so well. We are not done. It's early December, but just to give you an idea, and we stand at $110,010. In terms of financial commitments so hollow encouraging. That is these days of covert your stewardship is to be commended.

Your commitment to Christ and his church, and your commitment to worldwide missions is very evident and very encouraging. We are heavily committed to a large missionary family that are dependent upon us and others for their financial support and prayer support so your initial commitment thus far speaks volumes to us and to them as to our ongoing commitment to the work of the gospel around the world. If you haven't returned to card trust that you are you have received cards there are cards in the pews of when you are here on Sunday morning that you can fill out and put in the offering plate, but do pray with us about these matters.

We have another month or so before we gather as elders and deacons in bring some finalization to our missions budget so there is time to thank you for your response already and from where we stand. We are mindful of the spike in covert in our sensitive to the governor and the restrictions that he has made in watching that very carefully. They are suggestions for the churches they are not law or not mandated by the for the church, but we are sensitive to what is going on but with that being said, we are continuing to follow the pattern we been following with the people present Sunday morning service live streaming on Sunday night and live streaming here on Wednesday night to be one exception to that in the future. That is Sunday night December 20 we are planning a Christmas program for people present. So if you just get that on your calendar be praying about that Christmas is coming in usually have that is really a highlight.

I think at least in my mind during Advent season.

It is our lessons and carols service.

We will not be doing that in that of full display. But we were.

We are planning a Christmas program for that Sunday night, December 20 so plan to be with us plan to be present here for that service. And again, if you not able to are not comfortable you can still benefit from that via live stream Luke one verses 30 and 31 then the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus the beginning of our service. Could I simply ask you, are you rejoicing in the mercy of God. Have you found favor with God is God set his affections upon you. Are you mindful of his love.

Are you resting in Christ and Christ alone is your only hope of eternal salvation a W toes are said we please him. Most not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into his arms with all of our imperfections and believing that he understands everything and loves us still is a good reminder that we have a God that has come near to us is left up to heaven. The glories of heaven and the person of Jesus.

He came in tabernacle among us. God is drawing nigh and we have this wonderful message of Emmanuelle God with us. Glorious things of the spoken science city of our God.

He whose word cannot be broken formed the for his own abode on the rock of ages funded what can shake thy sure repose with salvation's walls surrounded doll made a smile at all the LIFO's see the streams of living waters springing from eternal love will supply thy sons and daughters and all fear of want, remove who can faint, while such a river ever flows their thirst to assuage grace, which, like the Lord, the giver never fails. From age to age. Round each habitation hovering see the cloud and fire appear for a glory and a covering showing that the Lord blessed inhabitants of Zion washed in the Redeemer's blood. Jesus home their souls rely on makes them kings and priests to God save your if of Zion city. I through grace, a member and let the world the rider pity I will glory in thy name. Fading is the world links pleasure all his posted comp and show solid joints and lasting treasure none but Zions children know by with me as we pray and ask the Lord's blessing on our Wednesday night service. Father, we acknowledge our dependence upon you. We come in the blessed name of the Lord Jesus Christ rejoicing that we are indeed accepted in the beloved that you have received us because of our faith in your son and what he has done. We thank you for his person. We thank you for his cross work and we rejoice, even as Paul said, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ, father, thank you for how you have blessed us because of him and we have entered into many of those blessings and yet there are manifestations and parts of those blessings that are yet reserve force in heaven, and yet reserve force in this life. As we grow and mature in make progress in sanctification and holiness. Lord, thank you that you have begun a good work in us will continue until the day of Jesus Christ. Thank you that you are working in us both to will and to do according to your good pleasure. Thank you for godly desires that you have planted in our hearts that are evidence of the presence of the divine nature.

We believe that Christianity is not external it's something that's deeply internal. It's transformative. It it is God coming in, if any man be in Christ he is a new creation old things pass away and behold all things become new.

So we thank you that we are new creatures in Christ Jesus were not the person that we used to be art our desires of change the things we used to love we hate in the things we hated we love and we thank you that part of the things that we love are the people of God and the word of God and communion with you and we love Advent season because it makes very conspicuous what you have done to rescue sinners, we pray as people make their way in our towns and in our communities and hear the Christmas music and see the homes that are decorated in perceive the festivities that are going on in our plan that they will reflect and think about him who came in lowliness and humility, who did not give up his glory did not give up his divinity or his deity, but was made in the likeness of men. We thank you for his humiliation. We thank you for his incarnation, and we thank you are God.

Even now that he is exalted at your right hand that he's ruling and reigning and we thank you that is there interceding for us. Lord, we thank you that we can pray to you, and look to you and believing faith tonight and ask you to draw near to us that you would come to us in Lord, there are distractions all about us. They are external distractions in our home's there are phone calls and there are people in there's activity around us, and there are demands crying out to us.

Helpless to set those things aside and then there are those internal distractions were minds wonder and think about those things that are causing his anxiety and worry and fear. Lord help us to cast all of our cares upon you, knowing that you cared for us.

Bless our gathering this evening. Glorify your son strengthen our faith receive our worship as we offered to you now in Jesus name, amen.

Living over the prayer requests with you our government official. The week is Gibson Bill Mayor Leonard Williams. There are a couple of praises listed at the top of the prayer sheet and that is Marie Forbes, Cheryl Engel reports that she is doing better from shoulder surgery.

Jonathan Wright is recovering from coven were thankful for that. Under members Don Burns is about three weeks into the six weeks that the doctors of told her to stay off of her foot.

She's getting around in one of those little scooters but rather extensive foot surgery and that being able to manage that pain with Tylenol for which we are thankful.

So continue to remember Dawn Marseilles, Councilman had eye surgery and endured five or six days on her back fall after the surgery, but she is now up and around and we thank the Lord for the apparent success of the surgery and for where she stands and that process. Thank you for praying for Drew Guthrie as she continues to battle with with cancer. She's trusting the Lord and yet the prognosis is not good for her, at least in terms of the cancer that sinner body.

Please uphold her in prayer that God will be very near to her and we'll show no peace and joy in the midst of these things Alice Marley is now at home. She had been at White Oak and recovering a bit there but has returned to her home on Liddy Norris has had the cast on her arm removed doctors put on a brace.

She still dealing with a fair amount of pain. So remember Liddy if you would Greg Phillips agencies dealing with the issues related to fire the disrupted his business there in Greenville. John Spencer is scheduled for hernia surgery on Friday, December 18 Charlie Watkins made a trip to the ER. They were able to give her some fluids and she's returned to her home were thankful for that. Under others Alfred and Connie Ash is a sister and brother-in-law of Sue Elliott. There struggling with health issues. Alfred has ALS and continues to deteriorate.

Connie has post polio Stephanie Corbett is a friend of Jane. The tours she has coven is quite sick in his many demands upon her with her family and particularly a severely autistic son who requires constant attention because of the coven. She cannot have staff there to supporter. She has an older son who's helping, but please remember Stephanie Corbett and Mary Hicks is an aunt of Sue Elliott she's been struggling with issues related to a heart attack. She had the summer. She's 94. Pray for her. Stephen Aaron Lynch's brother Harold has some health issues season ARMC currently does not doing very well. Jack Petrie has been in ICU returned to regular room will need to go to rehab center before being able to go home and there are some possibility that that may not happen were just entrusting Jack to the Lord, giving asking for wisdom for him and his daughter and son as they make plans for what's best for him pastoral tour talk to them today and is just flat out wore out and tired and ready to he's up and down the days as I'm I'm just undone. I'm ready to give up.

Tomorrow he may be of a different mind that's the situation going on with Jack so thank you for your love and this brother and praying for him under a missionary's know you been praying for Dawn Eden says she was in car accident with her daughter Rachel. Toward the end of October was a serious car accident. She broke three ribs and a punctured lung. Multiple fractures in her pelvis but she has some recovered and returned to her home in his rehabbing their home so were thankful for that. But there is ongoing needs. There Stuart Wallace. He's recovering from surgery. Recent thing was sent an aneurysm that they repair a Mike Webster. Mike began least. These were the plans on December 1 to begin chemotherapy treatments five days a week for five weeks and also radiation and after the that regiment. After a month or so is passed he'll have surgery so Mike is dealing with colon cancer.

Then I would ask you to remember the Paul Snyder family thought it difficult Thanksgiving had three Ford days of depression and I said it just comes on them without really any immediate cause it's related to this, the condition of his health was on medication.

The doctors are concerned about that because the long-term effects they believe can bring on dementia and Alzheimer's. So they changed his medication. He scheduled to have an MRI on 14 December so he's got a very supportive wife.

Their daughter is some doing better. She's doing well in school doing better with the sounds and things like that were bothering her son seems to be doing well so were glad by about that but one of the agonizing things is his desire to get well returned to the field. The people there the Kawai people are asking when you coming back when you coming back and is on answer is when the Lord is ready for us to come back so pray for them. These times in concerning these matters under cancer. You see Amy Freeman's mother's name highlighted Naomi Williams. She scheduled for a pet scan on 22 December and then Shirley Rocky. So I had consultations with the doctors had biopsy to determine that she does not have lung cancer but she does have endometrial cancer which is returned, she had that sometime back in the show begin taking chemo therapy treatments soon so pray for her. She's she's a dear sister in the Lord and in need of our prayers.

That's what we will bring your attention tonight terms of prayer equipment, prayer requests, and I think I will let my mention of those missionaries. The Snyder's and Mike Webster be our report for missions. I'll add one more thing that is speed my rescue mission. I had a conversation with Tony Honeycutt a day or so before Thanksgiving just to see how the.

The Telefon went radio thought in lieu of a greater vision banquet and it was some was moderately successful.

You know he's missions never done anything like that before and he reached out to the churches and the individuals in the businesses that it sponsored the tables for the banquet in the past and asked them to consider giving a similar amount in lieu of sponsoring tables and there was excellent response to that.

So with that, plus what was raised through the Telefon. They came close to about half what they typically would raise at greater vision banquet without expenses, so I think he told me somewhere in the $20-$23,000 range that they were able to raise and that's a big help to the mission others. At last count there were six men had contracted coven good number man had left the mission the residence, occupation or occupancy had been reduced to about 15 when I talked to him just because of the coven scare so health departments coming in and checking and testing so he's hoping to get that behind him but Jonathan Wright is one of those who was it tested positive for Covidien.

Some has recovered and in the process of fully recovering a W.

Pink has this to say about prayer.

The omniscience of God is an encouragement to pray there is no cause for fearing that the petitions of the righteous will not be heard or that their size in tears shall escape the notice of God, since he knows the thoughts and intents of the heart. There is no danger of the individual saint being overlooked. It's the multitude of supplicants who daily and hourly present the various petitions for an infinite mind is as capable of paying the same attention to millions as if only one individual were seeking its attention.

Think about that many of us get befuddled when were in a room and there's multiple conversations going on, were trying to hear more than one person at a time.

We don't have the capacity to do that. How great God's that he can entertain the requests the prayers of millions of people and do so as if each person had his undivided attention. Amazing.

We have this he says again a W a AW Pink. He says so to the lack of appropriate language. Sometimes we don't know what to say we don't know how to frame our concern.

The inability to give expression to the deepest longing of the soul will not jeopardize our prayer for it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking, I will hear wonderful promise from Isaiah chapter 65 in verse 24 heard the story.

Read the story the account of George Mueller was on a ship and was being transported by the ship to an engagement and the ship ran into dense fog. The captain of the ship was standing on the deck and looking into the fog ship it stopped its momentum and George Mueller said to the man I have got to get to this certain place by tomorrow and the captain says it's impossible.

Can't you see the fall to which George Mueller was reported to have said to the man know my eyes are not on the fall. My eyes are on a God who controls the weather. Let's go down below and pray so Mueller and the captain went down below and prayed and Mueller began and prayed and believe that God did hurt him and God had intervened and he put his hand on the shoulder of the captain and he says no need for you to pray you don't believe let's go upstairs.

Let's go back up on deck and went back up on the deck, the fog cleared. Mueller said I had I had not missed an appointment in 52 years and I wasn't about to it when I read accounts like that.

I don't know what you do you do you when you read and come across a lot of our biographies and read about the stories the do you long for that kind of power in prayer and say and ask, why don't we see more evidence of that. Perhaps it's because we're not as absolutely totally dependent upon God is. We need to be. My mind goes back to Zimbabwe when Juma became very sick and they had no way to get them to the hospital and even if they got him to the hospital.

There wasn't anything that the doctors could do foreign and because of the men in it was reported to us through the various people that were there. That particular night that they were he was. He was sick enough that they were concerned he might die, so are they, what you do when you have a loved one who's that say you can't get to a doctor can get to a hospital. Well, church members, they got word out. They came and surrounded Juma's hot and they prayed to me.

They prayed through most of the night and in the morning. Juma Ed improved remarkably. I think at times God waits until things are that Dyer before he shows himself because no one else can get the credit for that.

It's all to his glory and think were to were too resourceful were to independent. We have too many other things that we trust. Prayer is not the first recourse.

Unfortunately in our lives. Listen to what John Piper says he's talking about the church in general.

He says the church is not been spending its energy to go deep with the unfathomable God of the Bible against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible. Much of the church is choosing at this very moment to become lighter and more shallow and entertainment oriented and therefore has become irrelevant while at the same time claiming to be so successful in being relevant. The truth is the popular God of fun church is simply too small and too sociable to hold a hurricane in his hand. Well, George Mueller believed that God controlled the weather in May we be men and women of similar mind last time I was here on Wednesday night.

We were considering the ways of God in dealing with the children of Israel, looking at the Old Testament in broad terms the God was working in various ways, primarily to teach them to trust him and trust him exclusively in that these two great lessons one that God was there deliver and number two that God was there. Provider and God showed himself that he was there deliver in the Red Sea recall the circumstances, the plagues that came in Egypt to finally convince Pharaoh to release the children of Israel have been captive in and as they left Egypt pursued by Pharaoh and his army and he came to the Red Sea and impossible situation right, humanly speaking, the greatest army on the face of the earth pursuing them with ill intentions and the Red Sea before them. This is what Moses said in Exodus chapter 14 verse 14 the Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still.

Well that's good because it was anything they could do.

You know the story got all the water up on the right and on the left and allowed them to cross on dry ground. Once they had crossed the walls were removed and the waters of the Red Sea drowned Pharaoh and his army and Exodus 14 verse 31, just 17 verses later, after Moses had told him to be still and watch the Lord. We have these words and when the Israelites saw the great power the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant now.

The easily forgot the Lord like us.

So often how we tend to forget the promises of God and trust ourselves and not trust the Lord. We have these words in Deuteronomy chapter 1. This is a recounting of God's deliverance of them God's dealings with them how God directed them to go up into the promised land. And he says nevertheless you would not go up but rebuilt against the command of the Lord your God and you complained in your tents and said because the Lord hates us. He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. He brought us out of Egypt.

Listen to what CS Lewis said while he was losing his wife to cancer. He said quote I am not in danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is to believe terrible things about God. The conclusion I dread is not so there is no God. After all, but so this is what God is really like you see his fear was that he would interpret God's dealings and miss understand God misrepresent God. That's what they were guilty of is on their Deuteronomy 1 the recount of God. It led them by pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night housing provided food all the time they were in the wilderness highly provided water out of the rock County preserve their shoes from wearing out verse 32 says yet for all of that you did not believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to picture tends to show you the way you should go in the fire by night and in the cloud by day and the Lord heard the sound of your words and was angry and took an oath saying, surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land of which I swore to give your fathers, God took very seriously their unbelief.

I wonder, I believe is no respecter of persons is the same yesterday today and forever. The Lord Jesus is God is that jealous for their exclusive trust. I think as is as jealous for our exclusive trust of him. You see for the rest of Israel's history, God fought their self-reliance and God will fight our self-reliance.

He will work to frustrate us when we are trusting ourselves or any other thing. There's a him in our hymnal commie sinners, poor and needy and there's one stands I want to draw your attention to it says low, the incarnate God ascended plagues the merit of his blood venture on him venture holy, let no other trust intrude. Let no other trust intrude. None but Jesus none but Jesus none but Jesus can do helpless sinners.

Good can do helpless sinners. Good.

We need to be that determined and vigilant that we let no other trust intrude because any other trust is dishonoring to God were demonstrating that we don't trust him. We were trusting some other person some other thing. God is not honored with the again and again Israel was tempted to trust in other alliances they trusted Egypt. They trusted other nations not always. There were times that they trusted the Lord and when they did, God honored their trust in their faith and show himself strong on their behalf and second Chronicles chapter 14 and verse 11 we have King Asa praying in the face of an army of over 1 million Cushites who had come against them and this is what the king prayed Lord, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty help also Lord our God, for we rely on you and in your name we have, come against this vast army and God delivered Israel. He responded to that. Also second Chronicles chapter 20 in verse 12, King Jehoshaphat faced with a vast army of Moabites and ammonites, and this is what he prayed. We have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do but our eyes are upon you. Second Chronicles 20 verse 12 and what was the result. God delivered Israel, then there is the situation with the Assyrians in the reign of King Hezekiah and I want to turn your attention to Isaiah chapter 37 because in Isaiah chapter 37 we have a prayer that Hezekiah prays the Syrians absent their military general and he was intimidating. He was threatening.

Listen to what he says this military general verse of chapter 37 verse four. It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of rabbit shack, whom his master, the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God is heard. Therefore, lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. That's what Hezekiah say listen to what the field general says in chapter 36 verse four. Thus says the great King.

So he speaking on behalf of the king of Assyria thus says the great King. The king of Assyria. What confidence is this, in which you trust. He was mocking them your trusting your God, have you noticed all the other nations that were trusting their God. The date there lying in a heap of dust so there was this intimidation. Letters were sent. What does Hezekiah do Hezekiah realizes he has that he has no military match for this vast army is a 37 verse 14 Hezekiah received the letter that was this intimidating letter from the hand of the messengers and he read it and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord saying, oh Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the one who dwells between the cherubim, you are God, you alone of all the kingdoms of the earth.

You have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, Lord, and here open your eyes. Oh Lord, and see and hear all the words of Sinnott Caribbean which she has sent to reproach the living God truly Lord the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not God's. But the work of men's hands wooden stone. Therefore they destroy them.

Now therefore, oh Lord our God save us from his hand. What I want you to see is before he ever made to petition ever cried out to the Lord for deliverance. He's acknowledging who God is. These the creator God that he's the sovereign God. He's the ruler of the world. He's acknowledging that and he's not only concern for the deliverance of himself and his people, but he's interested in the honor of God. Because, listen to what he says now therefore, oh Lord our God save us from his hand that were so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the Lord you alone and I believe that God works in the hearts of his people and brings difficulty in bringing circumstances to bear and brings us in a times in places where our backs are against the wall.

We do not know where to turn and God is intentional about that so that we will turn to human and that when he delivers that when he shows himself. He gets the glory and our faith is strengthened so that the next time were not reluctant were not hesitant we go to him because we've tested and tried and seen that the Lord is faithful, and God did. God sent Juan Angel, not a host of angels.

He sent Juan Angel on a mission and that one Angel came and one that one Angel finished his assignment 185,000 Syrian soldiers were dead and Israel's army had lifted a finger.

Their faith was strengthened. They believed in God, but is human nature is bad to keep learning that lesson over and over and over and over again just like we do. So the question that remains for us to consider is what are you relying on where is your confidence.

What are you trusting when you're sick. We take advantage of doctors and hospitals in medicine. Yes, but are we trusting the Lord, I believe God is interested in what he was interested in with them their exclusive trust. Let no other trust in true venture on him venture on him. Let no other trust in true if we can keep this in mind, and again I believe that God is primarily trying to teach us. These two primary lessons. He is our deliver. If he has delivered us from the penalty of sin and were on our way to heaven. That is an anchor that is assurance that is if God is done that for us the ultimate deliverance, then we can trust him for any other deliverance that we might have got is able to deliver in life and in death.

It's a win-win situation were praying for a believer in Christ. They come to the end of their sojourn is another deliverance from this world and this all the difficulties of this life when God translates us immediately and was present. Yes, these are deliver temporal deliverance, salvation, deliverance and ultimate deliverance but is also our provider think it's shameful at times how we fret human worry about such temporal things God is saying, look to me, trust me. Let no other trust intrude because he wants to show himself strong on our behalf. He's the all nepotism God is the all-powerful God. He's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think God's interested in growing our faith and he grows our faith by testing our faith by putting us in places where, and unfortunately we have to learn the hard way that those things that we are trusting in place of him are will fail us, the arm of the flesh will fail us pulses in Romans chapter 7.

I know that is within me all of good thing Jesus set apart from me you can do a little thing a few things on a number things know you can do nothing you can do nothing.

Therefore, we need to trust him and I trust this brief devotion. Tonight will help us in that regard will need to pray define my prayer. She that I might be reminded of the needs that we have, will you join me as we look to the Lord. Father, thank you for the gift of faith. Thank you for the promise that you will work in us both to will and to do according to your good pleasure. You will strengthen our faith grow our faith and even when our faith is weak. I think of Peter when you told Peter, Peter, Satan desires to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith would not fail. And when you return. Strengthen your brothers. Jesus told Peter it's not a matter of that is that there was nice that wasn't in question whether his faith would fail because Jesus prayed that his faith would not fail so thank you that you're the one who sustains us. You're the one who keeps us.

You're the one who brings trials and circumstances and difficulties into our lives to grow our faith and with that in mind we think of those who are honor Percy tonight to and need in Lord, may you work in their lives, not just in a temporal way, but would you work in them in the inner man, would you strengthen them in the inner person would you strengthen their faith would you build up their faith in that they might trust you more wholly more completely. Pray for Don Burns. In that regard, we thank you for Marseilles in her improvement that we intercede for our sister Drew Guthrie, Lord draw near to her. Encourage, strengthen her helper to know that she is in the father's hands. Thank you for letting Orson her improvement relief of pain that she's experiencing. If it would please you help brother Greg Phillips is he's dealing with all the issues related to the disruption of his business because of this recent fire and may he get a fair and equitable settlement from the insurance companies he's working diligently toward that end. Thank you to Charlie Watkins's return home. Lord help her faith to be strong and vibrant. Even in a weakened body. We pray for John Spencer thank you for bringing them through knee surgery.

Pray that you do the same as he has hernia surgery on the 18th or the circumstances seem very dire for Stephanie Corbett. The circumstances and yet you go, Lord, show yourself strong. There meet those needs. Encourage those with faith, strengthen her and those who know her and love her first Sue Elliott's aunt Mary Hicks for her sister and husband, Alfred and Connie draw near to them minister to them according to their needs. Lord me brother Jack Petrie not be dreading the end of his life, but maybe anticipating what lies ahead for him helping Lord to trust you and these difficulties, we thank you the Don Eaton's was spared.

In this traffic accident as well as their daughter Rachel. Pray for her healing and recovery.

Thank you for their years of ministry in Niger and for the fruit that is being born in that country for the gospel sake, we lift up Stuart Laverne and pray that you renew his strength and bring him to the place that they can return to Zimbabwe, even in the month of December for would please you for Mike Webster is facing five weeks of chemotherapy and radiation followed by a surgery Lord give him endurance. Lord Mays faith not fail. May he maintain a vibrant faith. A growing faith may be a wonderful testimony to his church and his family and those who are ministering to his physical needs. Pray for Shirley Rocky tonight. We pray that you would help her to endure the chemotherapy grant her the desires of her heart. She she's a she's a teacher heart. She wants to return elements Christian school allowed to do that if it would please you and rest. This cancer in her body and help her to bring glory and honor to you through the process and how we bring Amy Freeman's mother to you and ask that you did undertake for her and her husband is there in their latter years and dealing with a multiplicity of health issues now facing this PET scan on the 22nd. Help them to manifest faith and confidence and trust in you.

We think of Betty Duncan who we learned this afternoon's suffering from a bacterial infection, Lord, intercede or intervene in her situation. Encourage Pat pray that you would do for her what no one else can do overlook to you look to you for the salvation of our children and our grandchildren and our friend and her family members. We thank you for being reminded even this past Lord's days we gathered that nothing is impossible with you those things that seem humanly impossible, are not impossible in the realm of heaven. So thank you for gathering tonight.

Thank you for the word of God that has come before us, help us to embrace it. Help us to believe it. Help us to profit from it dismisses now this evening with your benediction a blessing watch over us and keep us in May we find ourselves walking with the master enjoying communion with him being light and salt. In this dark and decaying world. We pray in Jesus name, amen