A Growing Knowledge of God

The good evening to you from auditorium at beacon Baptist Church. That was not prerecorded music you are listening to. That was Carly at the piano regarding prelude music force this evening how my can ask you the question, is it well with your soul. Is it well he is seen or helpless estate and is shed his own blood for our souls. Wonderful truth. Thank you for praying for me. Time feeling stronger, stronger than I think I felt in a month when all this began about think around 14 December last week is the week went on, I just was getting weaker and weaker. I was in the office all week but I think on Friday morning I said to pass from the tour. I said I am pretty iffy about Sunday night. I don't know. Would you be available to cover for me if I can from the strong enough to preach and he said he was working on something and that cover for me if I needed him to an I needed him to just could not trust my voice consummately clear in my voice, coughing, sneezing, and so I think I made the right decision to just lay low over the weekend and get regain my strength and Reston, so I'm here. We are middle of the weekend, still feeling good. I have good stamina so thank you for your concern. Thank you for praying God's been kind and he's been gracious or blessed God. How kind are all thy ways to me, whose dark benighted mind was M the T with yet now subdued by sovereign grace. My spirit longs for thine embrace. How precious are thy thoughts that wore my spirit rule they swell beyond my faults and captivate my soul how great the song how high they rise.

Can there be known beneath the skies preserved by Jesus when my feet made haste to hell and there should I have gone but thou dost all things well thy love was great thy mercy free which from the pit delivered me a monument of grace. A sinner saved by blood the streams of love. I trace up to the fountain. God and in his sovereign counsel. See eternal thoughts of love to me. I love the theology that him I love how it is arranged in love how we can sing that read it, meditate on it and personalize it gracious God how kinder all your thoughts to me bow with me as we pray tonight.

Father, we are glad being justified by faith that we have peace with you through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Father, thank you for what you have done for us in your son the Lord Jesus, thank you for redeeming us. Thank you for reconciling us. Thank you for propitiate in the wrath away from us. Thank you for adopting us into your marvelous family. Thank you for forgiving us of our sins. Thank you for writing our names in the Lamb's book of life. Lord we are rich indeed, as we contemplate and think about what we have in the Lord Jesus, we come as children. Tonight we come in humility we come with no boast. We come with no merit. We, only through his merit our saviors merit the Lord Jesus, his merit through his blood, and through his perfect righteousness. We thank you God for answered prayer.

Thank you for your kind Providence in our lives.

We thank you that even in the midst of difficulty and storm you were with us that your grace is made perfect in our weakness that you do like to show yourself strong on behalf of those whose hearts have been made right toward you, Lord, thank you for the promises of Scripture call upon me in the day of trouble and I will answer you and you shall glorify me.

We thank you the name in the hour day of trouble. We have audience with you that you do hear us and you will answer us and you will answer us in such a way that you will enable us to glorify you. In response to the trouble, the difficulty that has come upon us.

That's our prayer for our brothers and sisters tonight who are dealing with difficulty are walking under the shadow of dark Providence you will sustain them that you will meet their needs.

You will enable them to respond to these things in such a way that you are glorified Lord, thank you for beacon Baptist Church for brothers and sisters in Christ that you have By your grace, Lord, if we are in the way because you set us on the narrow way and you have kept us in the way and you will keep us in the way until our final pilgrimage in this earth. So Lord, we come to you tonight and believing faith that you've called us together in this way, thank you for those who have discipline themselves and have arrange their schedules to be around their computers or whatever device they are if they have that is them access to this service they've entered into this prayer. They are believing you for the things that I am voicing so here is Lord, we pray in bless our service draw from our hearts, love and worship and praise in awe and wonder. Help us to love you more. Help us to love your word, help us to love one another.

Help us to love the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and help us to love this world and all of its darkness and all of its sin. We pray in Jesus name, amen couple of announcements golf encourage will meet this coming Saturday at the home of Claudette the Lorch beginning at 10 o'clock and I think the plan is to be over at 12 that's this coming Saturday, January 16 10 o'clock at Claudette gorges home on Doggett St. in Graham and then the next morning session of coffee encourage will be Tuesday, January 26, nine, 15 in the Fellowship Hall.

We are continuing our services as we have over these past seven or eight months. People present service in the morning live streaming all of our services Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night, but people present only Sunday morning I faith promise totals we have received 88 cards are mission total is it 157,203 and the building fund is a 12,808 two verses printed at the top of my purse sheet from Daniel chapter 9. Daniel says and I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession and said, oh Lord great and awesome God who keeps his covenant and mercy with those who love him, and with those who keep his commandments. We have sinned and committed iniquity. We have done wickedly and rebelled even by departing from your precepts and your judgments a lot of prayer requests tonight so let's go over them at this time we are praising the Lord that Eddie and Claire drivers. Kate and I think is a grandson had oral surgery and it is gone well. I had his wisdom tooth teeth removed this past Friday Sue Elliott's aunt that was she was at a rehab is 94 I believe wasn't really ready to leave the rehab's company was saying it's time for her to leave because they were in a pie anymore so they appealed, and the one that appeals so she's able to stay in that rehab a bit longer so we thank the intervening on her behalf. John Spencer is doing well after the surgery and hernia surgery for which we are thankful and he is rejoicing government official of the week is Gibson go over Clarence Olin. Pray for him or say Councilman is scheduled for a cornea transplant and cataract surgery from her other eye on February 2.

So remember her as she anticipates that may counts is a recovering slowly from coven. She's weak she's getting around the house with a cane, but done little by little I think is getting her strength back.

I think finally free of that season of running a temperature, she ran a temperature for eight or 10 days in a row late in the afternoon Allen and Teresa Dyer have both contracted coven pray for them. Drew Guthrie is not only battling coven but also cancer. Thank you for interceding for her.

Larry Hunter is recovering from the removal of two tumors from his bladder and waiting think.

Still waiting on the results of the pathology report Alice Marley is recovering from a fractured pelvis. In fact, I have a card hear from Alice that I'd like to read at this time. She writes in Psalm 3211. We are told to be glad in the Lord and rejoice. She says, and I am rejoicing in my recovery since I owe so much to my church for all the prayers the cards and thoughtful thoughtful deeds shown to me. I'm so glad to be a part of caring people.

Thank you for all the things you have done for me with love Alice Marley, our Pope is still waiting on the results of an MRI entity had done on his brain. His breathing test has been canceled until further notice. And then Joan Zentz and has tested positive for COBIT but is a symptomatic with her daughter in Tennessee, but if she stays well. She will return home on this coming Saturday under others gifts Gail Ellis's sister, Linda Bowker is running high temperatures. She is coven. There are spiritual needs in her life. Let me see if I can find this quickly here.

There's a number things going on in doing Craig's family's life at this time, so it may be best just to read this short email that came today at 1120 in the morning. This came from Lori on behalf of Duane and the family.

She says we lost Duane's sister last night at about 9 o'clock.

She had a heart attack and they rushed her to the hospital and were able to stabilize her and she died they say. Please pray for the family.

There are a lot of spiritual needs. Duane's dad is still in the VA with a blood clot in his leg which they will put a stent/screen in sometime today to prevent it from moving to his heart. Also they will do a procedure to try and find out why he is bleeding from his long we don't know how were going to tell him about Missy. He will be devastated. We covet your prayers for the days ahead. So a lot of things going on in their home. Please pray for them. Jack Petrie is back at the Assisted Living Pl. in Pittsboro. He's having breathing difficulties. They have had on oxygen on or off with oxygen.

Spirits are good for which were thankful about the pray for Jack may counts his sister and brother-in-law, Ernie and Nancy Robbins live in Tennessee and had a fire that consumed their home and all of their belongings. Ernie had some burns and had some lung damage from smoke inhalation so well. Pray for them as they recover and plan to rebuild on the very site the house burned. Leslie Fanon is asking us to pray for a man named Keith serum Sir Muskie he's a friend of Leslie Fanon's son Joel in Canada. He's in his 40s. He passed out at work yesterday and was airlifted to a major hospital in Saskatoon. His wife is a believer, but Keith is not and they have three young children and the last word we had is that he had not regained consciousness.

Pray for this wife. Nice children and this man Keith Mark Wallace is a man. Pastor Barkman is asking us to pray for who has severe Steward wall is slowly improving. Still longing to leave Johannesburg and make his way back to Zimbabwe is under the doctors care and he's weak so nothing real, nothing of any significance in terms of new news with him know you're praying for Mike Webster is been through a five or six week regiment of cancer treatment for colon cancer. We are asking you to pray for the families of Dorothy Kinley this is Brenda Blanchard's mother. She passed her.

She had a heart attack and stroke.

On 24 December and passed away this past Saturday, January 9 and the funeral was today. Pray for the family of Tony Trollinger. He died as a result of Covidien. He's a neighbor to Paul and Gail Ellis, his wife Linda was recovering from coven and then Tony contracted it and he passed away. Paul said all appearances man been healthy prior to this, but then Paul is favorable in thinking about his relationship with the Lord, believing that he was a believer before he mentioned doing Craig's sister Janice ran WRE and and known to them as Missy under cancer.

There's some three names that are highlighted. Dawn Hammon, daughter of Betty and Claire drivers scheduled for surgery on January 20. He's been battling cancer. Sue Lynch's's cousin needs a liver transplant, but it has been postponed since he's been diagnosed with cancer. That's Darrell Preston and then Mark riff brother-in-law Brenda Blanchard has cancer and coven. Please remember Betty Duncan who is at home having severe back pain, right at this time and Ruth Patterson at high Grove long-term care in Reidsville who had coven but I believe has recovered from so we thank the Lord for that. I have number of thank you notes here, read, and then on missionary update from Tony and Tammy Honeycutt the right to the church family. Thank you so much for the Christmas gift you gave Tammy and myself. God bless you for all you do for Ross and ministry clippings 413 Tony and Tammy this from Tim Easley.

He says to pastor being in all. I hope you are all doing well in this new year. Thanks for the gift in 2020, and for many years son doing well over here and pressing on in the faith.

God is good. Blessings, Tim Easley and these folks are responding to a monetary gift of $275 that we sent to all of our missionaries at Christmas has been a tradition for many many years. This from David and un-Jew Anderson in Richmond with capital commission do Pastor Barkman and beacon family. Thank you so much for your faithful monthly support in then your generous $275 Christmas gift. We appreciate your gracious help in partnering with us to reach our leaders, thank you for your kindness and encouragement.

We thank the Lord for you and appreciate the tremendous blessing that you are to us with much love and gratitude, David and un-Jew that this from David and Donna Eden's they write to say thank you so much for your Christmas offering of $275 that we received last month. We thank you for your faithfulness to supplier ministry over many years. We appreciate your prayers for us. Thank you for praying for Donna concerning her injuries sustained in the auto accident on October on October 24. Contrary to our fears. She is now walking again without having to use a God continues to bless the work in Agadir as at least eight special Christmas meetings were held by different groups of believers this month and there's one picture of one of the meetings on this appreciate.

He says some meanwhile the Islamicist Islamic terrorists continue to attack and threaten Niger. The bulk of her ROM came across the border to attack the southwest of the country on December 24 killing 28 wounding 100 and burning 800 home's.

Then on January 2.

Another group of jihadists came from Molly in the Northwest to massacre over 100 civilians into villages. Pray for the believers in Niger, as they are being particularly threatened Dawn and I thank you for your part in this wonderful ministry through your prayers for us in your faithful financial support. May God bless you. Sincerely, Christ is heartbreaking to hear of the persecution and the violence being perpetrated on people and is troubling as it is for us. Here's a man who's given his life to labor in that particular area. I have this update concerning the Snyders Paul Trish Lane and Marianne is there ministering to the Kawai tribe Calhoun, Indonesia, whether or not there right now. Explain their whereabouts and what they been up doing, dear friends, the family and I've been in Radford, Virginia for five months I began working at the heart cry missionary society office when we moved to rad being involved in the work of missions while I recover has been a tremendous blessing our sending church Bethany Bible Church in Big Lake Minnesota gave us their blessing to be part of the work at heart, cry, they believed in it.

They believe this would only aid us spiritually while being close to my doctor I want all of our supporters to know that I'm not sitting idly by while I recover from my sicknesses. I come into the heart cry office when my health will allow will allow it to help with the training and the needs of the Paul Poulin heart cry missionaries. They have given me an office where I can study, pray and write. The Lord answered our prayer about what I should be doing well in the states when we were invited to join the heart cry team. Our desire is to return to Papua once I am fully recovered, however, according to my current health condition. I know that it will be a while before we can touch down on Paul Poulin soil again. We greatly miss serving the Kawai people and we greatly miss the Donnie evangelists that we work with every day in the village. Thank you for your constant prayers for my family and me. Please pray that the Lord will strengthen my health enough to return. The Lord is done a tremendous work in our daughter is dealing with noises and certain movements much better. Pray for her salvation. As we continue to teach and catechized her house. My health, my MRI results showed some microvascular changes. This means that the small blood vessels in my brain are not giving enough blood to my brain matter. As part of the reason why my nerves are still damaged and I'm having trouble mentally. I have an appointment with a neurologist in March to see what treatments are available if left untreated. I could have some severe side effects in the future.

I'm still battling depression, anxiety, and am having trouble focusing. The doctors have changed my medicine again to see if any positive results happen therapy for my facial and eye muscles was put on hold due to coven.

I'm not sure when I will be able to start this with the specialist with all that said, I'm very thankful to the Lord that even though I am not able to serve right now in the field. He's allowed me to continue to be a part of the work from the states. Plus I've been able to do a lot of writing.

Pray for a writing project on completing this month. Pray for our family and thankful for a loving and caring wife always supports me as I battle the symptoms. Pray for her. Pray for sanctification in the spirit. Also pray for my children to follow the Lord faithfully pray that my strength is strong enough for our daily family worship. I love to catechized my family. I need your prayers for mental strength to see this continue daily and finally, please pray that my health will return and that we can continue to serve in Papua, Indonesia, that from our brother Paul Snyder well, let's spend some time considering the matter on January 7, 1855, a young pastor started his sermon like this quote the highest science.

The loftiest speculation.

The mightiest philosophy which can ever engage the attention of the child of God is the name of the nature of the person the work. The doings and the existence of the great God, who he calls his father JI Packer in his book. Knowing God says this on page 17. There is something improving to the mind in a contemplation of the divinity. It is a subject so vast that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity so deep that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can compass and grapple with in them. We feel a kind of self-contained and go our way, with the thought, behold, I am wise. No subjective contemplation will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God. But while the subject tumbles the mind. It also expands the mind. He who often thinks of God will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around the narrow globe. Nothing will. So enlarge the intellect, nothing. So magnify the whole soul of man as a devout earnest continued investigation of the great subject of the deity.

End of quote nears the question that I'd like to consider with you tonight and that is do you know God, do you know I'm better right now than you knew him at this place last year. Now I want to be specific about what I'm asking. I'm asking are you growing in your experiential knowledge of God. What I mean by that was possible to know an awful lot about God.

It's possible to grow in our knowledge of God simply our cognitive knowledge of God, but not really know God not have a growing experiential knowledge of God and my fear is that too many people have not been able to accurately made the brick make the bridge from the knowledge of God to the experiential knowledge of God that is the theology they know does not translate into the way they live their lives. They don't see the practical benefit of the study and the knowledge of God, and that's what I would like to speak to you tonight about and are people who would disagree with me and oppose me and would say something like this don't give me doctrine. I'm not interested in theology. Just give me Jesus not think about that statement and the sentiment behind not interested in theology what is theology the offices God is the study of God not interested in knowing God not interested in studying God just give me Jesus which Jesus are you interested in. Are you interested in the Jesus of the Jehovah witnesses. Are you interested in the Jesus of the Mormons or are you interested in the Jesus has revealed himself in Scripture. Too often people are only comfortable with the God of their own making. The God that they've created in their own image and that's a dangerous path to follow.

We must be men and women committed to truth and to doctrine in the study of God, as he has revealed himself in Scripture, we ought to be interested in Jesus as he has revealed himself in Scripture. John said in his first chapter in his gospel that the law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through our Lord Jesus Christ, grace and truth. Jesus is is God in the flesh.

He is truth incarnate, he is the living truth Jesus that I am the way the truth and the life that's the truth we ought to be interested in. Listen to what Paul said to Timothy in first Timothy four and in second Timothy chapter 3, he's writing to Timothy challenging this young preacher till I come give attention to reading to exhortation to doctrine, take heed to yourself and to the doctrine continue in them for doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. Second Timothy three verse one, but you have carefully followed my doctrine matter of life purpose, fake, long-suffering, love, perseverance, and then he says later on in the chapter. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for what for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers who will tell them what they want to hear so I came across a survey that was done in 2018. So this is very old. It's just a couple years ago and this survey said this 83% of think with me about that 83% more than 8/10 teenagers said moral truth depends on the circumstances and only 6%. Only less than 1/10 said that moral truth is absolute. The truth depends on the circumstances truth depends on your understanding truth depends on culture truth depends on so many things there is no such thing as absolute truth. That is a slippery slippery slope, talking about the matter of epistemology epistemology answers the question, what is your source of truth. How do what what you claim to be your source of truth. When people say I don't believe in absolute truth. Truth is relevant depends on the culture depends on circumstances depends on me. What's true for me can't be necessarily true for you and that's just an absolute contradiction, because if there's something that's there for something that's true then there's something that's untrue, it has to be that way. There can't be everything's true.

Nothing is wrong in the Scriptures in the Scriptures we meet the one who is truth incarnate truth in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember when Jesus stood before Pilate and Pilate proposed the question what is truth it was staring him in the face. Jesus. So here are a number of areas that we would probably put under the category of counseling needs in a person's life. Perhaps I maced address an issue that is pertinent to you tonight as we think about this. I want to raise about five or six issues that are very typical in our lives and I want to say I want to show you how knowledge of God.

Knowledge of the attributes of God bridge us back to our real needs. This idea that doctrine and theology is not practical is nonsensical. My posture is there is nothing more practical.

The doctrine and theology, and I want to demonstrate that for you. For instance, when you are weak when you are insecure where you going to go to get help with that sense of insecurity sense of weakness.

You look within yourself. You gonna look around and take inventory of what might be around you to help you or if you are a Christian, are you going to fall back on, draw upon rest and the fact that you might be insecure. You might be weak but God is omnipotent is all-powerful. That's what we need. We need to preach doctrine preach theology to our self. None of us view weakness in a positive light. But if we are understanding the Bible in understanding the purposes and will of God. We understand that in our weakness. God has set the stage to manifest his power is what Paul was talking about as he was speaking of his trials that God's power is made manifest in his weakness. Therefore, he would boast in his weakness that the power of God might be on display in his life. How many of us say you know what I'm I'm looking forward to the next time I'm in a place of weakness that God's power. God's grace might be put on display. We don't typically think that way.

That's why we need our minds renewed by the word of God because once we begin to understand this and have our minds renewed by the word of God. We will be aligning ourselves with God's purposes so that when we are in a place of weakness.

We understand I might be weak but God is powerful. God is not weak.

God is going display is power in my life.

So be encouraged with that about when you're confused you just confuse you, you can make sense of things your your confounded by the perplexities of life, what would you do about that. Well this wisdom in a multitude of counselors. It's good to come and talk to a pastor to someone who was a steam someone is mature but what about anchoring your life and your confusion in the God who is omniscient, the God who knows all things, and it is God's purpose is wisdom that is determined that we are not going to know all things. In fact, we don't know very many things about the future.

I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

I don't know what is around the bend in the road in my life and neither do you. And God has done that on purpose so that we can trust in what we know to be coming but we would trust the God who knows and ordains and determines what's coming. Now I'm not suggesting you to be content with confusion when you don't know what to do and you don't know how to make sense out of things but isn't there something so satisfying to realize there is a God is omniscient, a God who never learns anything. A God who knows it all that we can rest in. What about when you're lonely when you're lonely. Does not the truth that God is omnipresent. The God is with you at all times. He's the omnipresent God. Shouldn't that theology shouldn't that doctrine shouldn't that attribute of God minister to you and help you in that hour of loneliness.

The psalmist says in one Psalm 139. Where shall I go from your spirit, where shall I flee from your presence. If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed and she'll you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost part of this even there your hand shall lead me in your right hand shall hold me. That's good news for a child of God. This is very bad news for those who are pretending that God doesn't exist because there's no escaping the presence of God.

You can't give God the slip. You can out run God you can't find a place on planet Earth, where God cannot find you were never alone as a child of God. Do not fear.

Isaiah 4110 for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you I will uphold you with my righteous right hand were about when resources are running low financial bind financial crisis as long as I've known of the ministry in Zimbabwe. The needs so outweigh and outpace the resources it can become discouraging after a while we got news recently that a man who is a friend of Harry Maples who is helped Terry Maples on his plane tickets to Zimbabwe as he's gone and and help carry-on training conferences with me. This man lives in Texas. He sent a check for $10,000 to help with relief.

Famine in Zimbabwe and I had two thoughts about that one I thought will praise the Lord. Harry told me about this guy how generous he was and how he had a heart for the ministry there. I knew he helped Terry and his expenses and travel within the sit think that he was able to give $10,000 so I think first thing is I thank God for the man and for the tangible help to bring to the men and then I thought of the number of people over there and how $10,000 and how really hello how little in terms of the need that is and I'll say that to discourage anybody got.

I'm glad we got $10,000 to descend over there to buy whatever food we can to help, to whatever degree we can but only God has unlimited resources.

So when we are short at the end of the month and we are feeling the pinch and our resources are exhausted. What we do. We rejoice in the God who says I am Jehovah Gyro the God who provides he provides ahead of time. He knows our needs. He's promised to meet our needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. What about when were doubtful when things go terribly wrong when we have sinned and are suffering the consequences of our choices within will David wrote Psalm 34 we went when he was in a heap of trouble.

But in spite of his sin and his mistakes, the Lord delivered him and in response, David wrote in Psalm 34 80. Taste and see that the Lord is good and blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Sometimes when we're in a mass in the messes of our own making in our own doing. We feel like well God's dealing with me.

God's chastening may, I am suffering the consequences of my choices, my decisions, so just you know knuckle under it and bear through it and learn what you can through it no point looking to God he's wanted brought this on me that that's wrong thinking. What about Jonah when Jonah was at the bottom of the sea was that because of his choices was that a mess of his own making absolutely.

But what did he do, he cried out to the Lord from the belly of the fish.

And God heard him and God delivered him so let's not entertain thoughts that well I'm in a mass God's chastening. May God's discipline in me and God is not able or willing to help me in this no get our theology right so there's just a number of areas that I just wanted to the challenge you with an in and this is I think what we need. We need to be able to grow and our experiential knowledge of God bring a theology that we know that we have and I had that we've been taught and bring it to bear upon life where the rubber meets the road when you wake up in the middle the night and this is on your mind, you can't sleep and you're lonely or you're worried about this or whatever it is, let the attributes of God the knowledge of God fill your heart and mind and bring you in a place of peace, he will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on the because he trusted Finley that honors God that pleases God that glorifies God. Well, that's my challenge for tonight. We have many, many prayer request please join me as I pray and you join me in concert.

As we talk to the Lord about these needs. Father, we thank you tonight that you are everything that we have said, you are the omniscient God, you are the omnipresent God. You are the omnipotent God and you are so much more beside thank you that you have saved us by your grace, you keep us by your grace. You have purpose to use us in this world to be salt and light you're working in us both to will and to do according to your good pleasure. You are conforming us more and more into the likeness of your son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

From 1° of glory to the next so we praise you we praise you for the agenda that you have that you're committed to that, you will see to its fruition. We praise you for answered prayer for Kayden Hammond for Mary Hickson for John Spencer. We pray that you call Marseilles councilman as she contemplates eye surgery in February 2. Thank you that you brought her through this last one she knows somewhat of what it will be like but help her to look to you and trust you in it.

Thank you for being with May counts and for the recovery that she's known please bring her to full recovery from covert, we commit Betty Duncan to you in the severe back pain that she's been experiencing in, and brother Pat as he bears so much responsibility for her care for Alan and Teresa Dyer's. They both have contracted covert Lord have mercy upon them and raise them up for Drew Guthrie, Lord, please help this dear sister thank you that she's trusting. You think that she's looking to you Lord Mayor face not fail in Lord, would you be placed to arrest this cancer in her body and return her to a measure of health if it would please you for Larry Hunter thank you for this brother. We anxiously await the news of the pathology report. In the meantime, Lord, keep him by your grace and Nellie as well. Thank you for Alice Marley for this sweet Christian woman. Thank you that she's healing from her fractured pelvis. Thank you for Ruth Patterson. We have such fond memories of Patton been with you for maybe 10, 12 years already and no doubt Ruth will join you. Before long we left our pope to you and ask that you would help this brother and his breathing difficulties. As he waits the results of the MRIs. He continues to trust you for the salvation of his dear wife. Lord, please save Angela we would ask for Jones Ensign. We thank you that she's been able to be with her daughter despite the fact that she's tested positive for covert she is asymptomatic. We thank you for that. We pray that we continue that she will be able to return to her place of residence.

We pray for Linda Bowker get Wallace's sister Oprah to recover from covert and work in her heart all Lord please draw near to Duane Lori Cragin all that are dealing with in the passing of his sister, and then the demands of the care of his dad telling him of his daughter's death.

Lord, give them grace.

Give them all that they have need of. Thank you for Jack Petrie strengthen this brother for May's sister and brother-in-law, Ernie and Nancy, thank you for sparing their lives in pray that Ernie will make a full recovery from these burns in the lung damage that he is experienced for Joe Fanon's friend and in Canada we pray for this man who has a fallen unconscious and we ask you to have mercy upon a man Lord to preserve his life and Lord save him. Thank you for his wife was a believer and for these children as they wait upon you, Lord, encourage them strengthen their faith. For Mark Wallace's he's battling severe diabetes for Stewart wall and Mike Webster and Paul Snyder and many of our other missionaries. Lord, please encourage them strengthen them and meet their needs. Pray for these families.

Lord, who have known bereavement recent days for Brenda Blanchard in the death of her mother for Linda Hollinger in the death of her husband neighbors to: Gail, please give them an ongoing ministry there. We pray for Josh Boyd who is in need of saving grace. Lord, please break in upon him preserve his life until you save them. We pray, we ask you to give success to the surgery.

The Don Hammond will be enduring on January 20 Sue Lynch's cousin Darrell Preston to recover from this cancer that he might be able to have this liver transplant and then Brenda Blanchard's brother-in-law Mark grief were administered to this man, Lord, we are overwhelmed as we think of all these needs. We only know bits and pieces swilling know them because her claims is of people in our church and yet God you know them.

You know them inside and out the very hairs of their heads are numbered know everything about them, their circumstances, you've ordained these trials in their lives.

You have good and gracious purposes. And Lord, we ask you to bring them to pass for these people's good and for your own glory. Thank you that we can gather on this Wednesday evening and look to you and find instruction from the word of God or dismiss us with your benediction of blessing that maketh rich and had no sorrow.

We pray in Jesus name, amen