The Development of Persevering Faith

Romans chapter 12 or 17 and 18 printed at the top of our per sheet repay no one evil for evil.

Every guard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. That's a charge from the word of God and one that I think most Christians from time to time. Find and find themselves trusting God for grace to live that out. February is a beacon beacon broadcast month where we feature the radio ministry here at beacon Baptist Church and the broadcast is aired on 11 stations Monday through Friday Knoxville, Tennessee, Roanoke, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia Richmond, Virginia with two stations in York, Pennsylvania that are broadcasting of the beacon broadcast at 5 o'clock, which is an excellent time people are in commute from work so 11 stations Monday through Friday one station Monday through Sunday in Richwood, West Virginia, and that is our our friend Brent Seachrist from up in their 80s pastors up there in a church for 40+ years and comes down to our tri-state and he airs the broadcast. There and then six stations that we are on on Sunday. Charlotte and Salem Raleigh Richmond Virginia so God is given us a broad range of ministry opportunity through the beacon broadcast so familiarize yourself with the various stations there are radio cards. The usher station for you to take, distribute, make people aware pray for the ministry. Thank you for supporting the ministry and rejoice in what God has done and is doing broadcast had our staff meeting again today.

This afternoon we are just continuing to trust the Lord and pray in consider the present circumstances and when it will be wise and feasible to also begin to include other services that are people present.

Right now Sunday morning is the only service we have with people present and then were live streaming on Wednesday night and Sunday night so pray with us about that likely to see significant improvement in the weeks and months ahead of us is viruses rolled out our being vaccinated and his cases come down.

I think things are going to continue to open up more and more so that's what were watching and praying about you pray with us concerning that attempt ministries is ministry in Pennsylvania that ships study Bibles Bible reference materials children's Sunday school materials VBS materials hymnals and books on specific topics like prayer and prophecy, and theology and doctrine. They do not send magazines or devotionals or adult quarterlies or CDs or DVDs of the things they do not pass on their ministry but just to remind you that ministry in we have a receiving box out here in a connecting hallway to receive your donations and when the boxes full Steve Lynch box things up and sends it on the tap. Let's take a look at our request side of the sheet. We are rejoicing with Andrew Nancy Ellis in the birth of their 10th child 13th grandchild of Paul and Gail Alice's it's the earth it's their 11th grandson and it's also the 15th great grandchild to Evelyn Butler feels mother so we rejoice with them. Timothy Karel Ellis arrived last evening weighing 8 pounds and 20 and three-quarter inches baby and mother are doing fine. We are praising the Lord for successful back surgery for Scott Hayes lumpy went down again to South Carolina yesterday had had surgery. He had it once I done last week went back to have the other side, and was successful and they have returned from South Carolina or government official.

The week is Graham councilmember Melody Wiggins from Graham and our college student of the week is Jonathan Freeman who's taking classes right now online at Bob Jones University planning to relocate to the campus.

I think in the fall under members. We are asking you to remember Betty Duncan dealing with severe issues with her back.

She has relocated to better not say exactly where I forgot to her daughter Jeannie has bought a home and Pat and Betty are living with her and it's a much better situation for her to have family around her and caring for her needs. Drew Guthrie is continuing to battle with cancer and should covert and is come through that she's tired and she's weak and most likely this cancer is going to be God's way of calling her to glory.

But in his own time so we commit Drew T to the Lord and ask you to pray for her that she may have a persevering faith.

Charlie Watkins was admitted to the hospital with a couple of issues and has received help their and I had a text from Patty today. She did not sleep much at all last night so she was tired but was anticipating going home tomorrow per sheet so she went home today. I don't know that I am just going from what I heard from Patty that she was scheduled to go home tomorrow, so maybe they move that up so one where the other. She's either home today or are we going home tomorrow under others, we are asking prayer for Mr. Ladd management on life support for the last couple of weeks because of coven is now responding, for which we are grateful and said some people in church may know his sister Debbie Gunn, Mr. Ladd and said she doesn't know his first name, Melvin Purvis, cousin of Jean. The tour was released from the hospital yesterday. His kidney function has returned to nearly normal and he has recovered from covert is very weak and will be receiving home therapy but God brought him back from the brink of death really has confounded the doctors they certainly were not expecting this recovery. Keith Sir Mott ski friend of Leslie Fanon's son Joel in Canada has been on a ventilator since passing out a week, a week or so ago's probably been a couple weeks now. He now has a trach in a feeding tube. They have awakened him.

He has been responsible for which they are thankful because they really weren't sure whether he had suffered a brain damage so the fact that he is responding to them is very encouraging. So the prayer is that he will regain strength and they will be able to take them off the ventilator soon and for his salvation that God will use this to bring him to Christ, David Williams, Amy Freeman's dad remains and shepherds care in Greenville, South Carolina, Rose Bradshaw is asking prayer for her nieces brother-in-law who was shot is a US marshal. He was shot week or so ago and is now recovering from surgery and he's off the ventilator.

Pray for the families salvation that happened up around Baltimore, Maryland before we go on. Something is come to my mind that was at a phone call from Michael Abernathy asking the church to pray for him unspoken request, but a rather urgent request so please uphold Michael Abernathy as he seeks the Lord over some matters under missionaries were praying for Mike Webster rejoicing that Dawn Eden says improved significantly from the automobile accident that she was in. I know you're praying for Trevor Johnson and his family. Paul Snyder and his family. Mike Webster is been through five or six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer and the so please stand with he and Melanie in this trial but they're going through. Under sympathy, we express heartfelt sympathy for the families of Janet Miller, a neighbor to Don and Cheryl Ingold and then the young man by the name of Daniel Peacock 25-year-old son of Graham caulk night commitment name may not ring a bell to you, but Graham Peacock is a brother to Laverne wall. Laverne was a peacock and this is Grams's 25-year-old son who died of acute leukemia. Graham is a missionary I believe to Zambia so well this is a real blow to them, so please uphold them in prayer.

Then the Lord called our dear sister text. He owns home to glory this past Saturday will be a memorial service here at beacon this coming Saturday at 1 o'clock. Visitation will begin at 12 o'clock so not had very many memorial services here at the church because of coven. A lot of graveside services or small gatherings of chapels at the funeral homes but the families requested memorial service here.

So for those of you can come on Saturday 1 o'clock maintain social distancing. Be careful about our interactions but we want to minister to the family. Thank you for praying for Pam and Pat and herself. Several brothers their spiritual needs in the family so uphold the family in prayer. Pastor Barkman will be conducting the service. Pray for him in that regard, and then Naomi Williams, Amy Freeman's mother is home from rehab but she's very weak. So pray for strength and wisdom in making decisions for her care.

So that's a lot of prayer requests.

Thank you for being faithful in praying for the church and its needs and folks who are calling upon us to pray we have a reputation of being a praying people and therefore we get requests from far and wide people to pray. So thank you for your intercession of a couple of things to share with you long missions lines.

This is a thank you from Tom and Connie Chapman came in my inbox this morning and they write, greetings from way down south and summertime. Connie and I want to thank you and our brothers and sisters at beacon for your very kind and generous gift to us in December.

Since the economic recession of 2008 giving has lowered considerably, especially the extra gifts that we used to receive almost monthly. So it is especially encouraging to receive such an abundant gift as you sent us some sure that it meant sacrifice for some of your people. May the Lord richly bless them for their willingness to do that. We apologize that we are just now sending this note of thanksgiving, but please know that we are truly grateful not only for the Christmas gift, but also for Beacon's faithful support of our ministry here in Chile, both material form with your monthly gift and spiritually with your prayers, a precious and needed are your prayers, especially as it seems that the whole world is going to the extreme left and is gearing up for the arrival of the antichrist. Wholesale persecution may be just around the corner for all of us. We must pray much for each other and they close with grateful hearts Tom and Connie Chapman. Here's a update from the Piedmont rescue mission. We had a meeting here on Monday morning. 2 1/2 hours to go over the finances of the past year or financial secretary gave an excellent summary of finances of the past year and rehearsing what's going on in the ministry so I won't say too much about that but let me read this update from Tony Honeycutt, the director Piedmont rescue mission. He writes in world full of fear.

The verse there is no fear in love but perfect love casts without fear, because fear hath torment. He that fear is not made perfect in love. He says this verse is so comforting. Dawson reminds us that if we trust in the Lord and his love for us. We have no reason to fear from any however they do not know the peace that the love of God gives is a 26 three says thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on the because he trust us in the we praise his name for the love and peace. He's given us as believers and we want to share this with all those that we come in contact with on a daily basis. Here at the ministries of Piedmont rescue mission. Fear comes in all areas of our lives we get we fear getting sick.

We fear how we will take care of our family.

We fear are just that our jobs will be unstable. A lot of people we see here at the mission fear if they will even have their next meal or a place to sleep in the pregnancy service. Our ladies come in with fear of how they will provide for their babies on a daily basis.

Just this week we had one lady come in who is been forsaken by the father of her child and her family refuses to help her how to deal with such rejection and deal with how you will not only take care of yourself, but a precious baby. Within minutes of being in our office. This young lady was in tears after hearing how we would be able to help her through the most difficult time in her life knowing that she had help from us gave her peace and comfort but knowing that God loves her and wants wants to help her in her life will give her more peace than we could ever give her the rescue mission men come in at the end of the rope lost her job. The family and yes even self-respect. They fear they will never be the same again we have the message of hope in Christ to share with them and help them see if they'll put their trust in Christ they can live without fear, knowing that his love indeed casts out all fear. So that's from Tony Honeycutt how they had a challenging time at the mission. One of the significant men there who has oversight responsibilities on them inside. Jerome remember Jerome is the man who led the men's choir here. He's quite spiritually minded. He oversees a good bit of the training with the men he come down with coven had two heart attacks was in the hospital for five or six weeks and the doctors tell them that he will not be able to return to the mission so he is absences leaving quite a whole were praying for someone forgot to raise up someone to take over those responsibilities. A covert did manifest itself there to mission.

Quite a few men came down with it. The health services came into three times a week and tested so they navigated through that. I'm thankful for the way the mission is run mission works hard to find employment for the men who are working through the program and get through various stages in a get to a place where they can work return to the mission after work and spend the night and in again leave and go to work. The men are required that are working to pay $55 a week for that's the that's their contribution to be able to stay there at the mission and so revenue comes in through. That means most of the time. There's 18 to 20 men who are out working and that's a testimony to the way the mission is structured to teach men responsibility and financial integrity and so but that was disrupted because of covert lot of the men, but some of the men left the mission because of the fear of coven and so there was a time where there only half a dozen or so men at the mission, but that they been cleared by the health department and now the they're getting close to maybe three quarters capacity, the family shelter is progressing. Tony is done an excellent job of making contacts with businesses who are donating material fact one contact he has is with Lowe's home improvement donated all the ceiling for the family shelter windows for the family shelter and plumbing is being done free of charge by some local businesses so we have a lot of friends of the ministry who are helping, but when people are donating their time and their resources. It delays things a bit because covert is affected businesses and so on and so forth. So that's one of the reasons for the delays. Would like to see the family shelter finish so it can be operative operating but were were moving in that direction. So pray for the family shelter. In particular, I think all I had brought Bill Hills monthly newsletter with me, but I would will not take the time to go over that do that another time. Want to turn your attention to the first chapter of the book of Job, and I want to consider with you tonight. The development of persevering faith. The development of persevering faith.

Let me read the 22 verses that make up Chapter 1 there was a man in the land of Oz, whose name was Joe and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God in shunned evil and seven sons and three daughters were born to him. Also, his possessions were 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people and his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send an invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. So it was when the days of feasting had run their course. The Job would send and sat with would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus Job did regularly. Another was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them and the Lord said to Satan, from where do you come so Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and fro on the earth and from walking back and forth on than the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job there there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil so Satan answered the Lord and said, does Job fear God for nothing. Have you not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side you have blessed the work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land but now, stretch out your hand and touch all that he has and he will surely curse you to your face and the Lord said to Satan, behold, all that he has is in your power.

Only do not lay a hand on his person.

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house and the messenger came to Job and said the oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them. When the Siberians rated them and took them away. Indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword and I alone have escaped to tell you while he was still speaking, another also came and said the fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consume them, and I alone have escaped to tell you while he was still speaking, another also came and said, the Chaldeans formed three bands and raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword and I alone have escaped to tell you while he was still speaking, another also came and said your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house and it fell on the young people and they are dead and I alone have escaped to tell you. Then Job arose and tore his robe, and shaved his head and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

And he said, naked.

I have come from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there.

The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord in all of this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong we want to consider the subject development of persevering faith. William Bathurst wrote a him over for faith that will endure all for a faith that will endure though pressed by many a photo, a faith that always stands secure through every earthly will that will not murmur nor complain beneath the chastening rod, but in the hour of grief or pain can lean upon its God, a faith that shines more bright and clear when tempests rage without that when in danger knows no fear in darkness feels no doubt a faith that keeps the narrow way to life's last spark is fled, and with a pure and heavenly Ray lights up a dying bed.

Lord, give me such a faith is this. And then whatever may come I'll taste in here.

The hallowed bliss of an eternal home. The development of persevering faith probably take two weeks to do this work is a lot here in chapter 1, so will begin tonight and I will give you for headings that make up Chapter 1. In fact, really, there are because this is historical narrative and it. The chapter keeps moving from scene to scene.

I've chosen to give you four scenes in chapter 1C number one is verse one to verse five and five until I've entitled that section faith stated faith stated C number two verses six through 12 faith challenged faith challenged C number three verses 13 through 19. Faith tested faith tested, and then C number four verses 20 to 22 faith sustained faith sustained Hebrews tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God impossible to please God without faith. So that tells us how critically important is faith.

But God is not just interested in faith in and of itself.

God is interested in a persevering faith. A growing faith a strong faith and the during faith and that's what I want you to see here in Job chapter 1 the development of a persevering faith. So scene one verses one through five. Faith is stated were introduced to a man named Joe, a man with a large family. He has seven sons and three daughters, and he owns an awful lot of livestock. He is a very wealthy man. But what is of most interest to us is what is said about his character and what is that the Job was a perfect and upright man, one who feared God and the skewed evil, a blameless man. He feared God, he feared God and he shunned evil and are two things here concerning faith. Number one, his faith is described to us. Number two, his faith is explained for us the description of his character is man of faith is that he was blameless and upright, and he shunned evil. This is exactly what God said about him.

In verse eight, the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil what does that mean what it means that Job was a man of outstanding moral integrity. He was a man of integrity on the outside as well is on the inside. It was nothing crooked about him. There was nothing deceitful about him. The words shunned evil indicates that his life and behavior outwardly was consistent with the state of his heart. Now, when it tells us that he was perfect and blameless.

It does not mean that Job was sinless, far from he was a worshiper.

He served as a priest in his own home. He offered sacrifices, first for himself and for his family and here's just one verse that dispels any notion that Job was a sinless man Job set chapter 7 verse 21.

Job asks this question in one of the darker moments of his life and he asks this quote why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins." As Job speaking to God. So we have this description of this manna faith. Let's not.

Let's go beyond the description to the explanation and the explanation is in the phrase sees one who feared God, that means he took God seriously. He made God the center of his life. He worshiped God with reverence and godly fear tells us in verse five that this is something Job did continually. It saw was when the days of fasting had run the course.

The Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

For Job said, it may well be that my sons have sinned, God have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.

Thus Job did regularly. This was his custom, he continually did this he regularly did this this a good a good reminder to stop and think is our lives marked by this are we men and women of moral integrity do we fear God do we shun evil were living in a dark and sinful and wicked world and there is sin all around us and do we shun it. Are we combating it. Are we protecting our children and our families are we protecting ourselves.

Are we safeguarding our lives. Job was a man who did. Sometimes we think that God only tests and stretches the faith of week Christians. Those who have weak faith so that their faith may go from week to strong but note with me that here's a man who is blameless, upright, a man of strong faith ensure that tells us that there is none of us who have got to the place where we've graduated beyond the point of being tested that we got to the place where faith doesn't need to be developed where we do not need the benefit of being tested. If Job needed this UNI need this, there is none among us who have a perfectly formed faith.

All of our faiths are in need of improvement so this has application for all of us blameless. Could I ask you tonight.

Could you could you make that claim that before God, you stand blameless and if you can say yes. What is the basis for such a claim could I suggest an answer to you that if you are a Christian you have placed your faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

God has declared you to be righteous. He has justified you in on the basis of his justifying work, you stand blameless before the judgment bar of God, not because of anything you have done not because of your record, but only because of your faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Because God has imputed the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ to you and clothe you, and that righteousness and he sees you and that perfect righteousness and therefore views you as blameless now there is this matter of progressive sanctification. There are none of us who are sinless, but the goal of the Christian life is to be sinning less see the difference of what I'm saying none of us can claim more sinless that our lives are void of sin, but the goal of the Christian life is to be sinning less pursuing holiness without which no man will see the Lord winning those daily battles and struggles with our sinful flesh. That's the goal of the Christian life striving for holiness so that see number one faith stated. Let's look at see number two faith challenged faith challenge. The scene shifts to heaven. In verse six says now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them the angelic hosts appear before Jehovah.

They are his ministering servants set out into the world to do his bidding. In the latter part of verse six tells us and Satan also came among them and are curious minds asked the question, what is he doing what is he doing appearing there.

Satan, whose name means adversary, one who opposes God opposes truth opposes his people.

That's his whole 18's intention is to oppose these are adversary, I thought it was well stated and arresting in the context of the preaching this past Sunday morning when Pastor Barton was speaking of Paul's thorn in the flesh sent from a messenger of Satan. We were reminded that Satan is God's on willing servant. He doesn't intend to serve God's purposes, but he is nonetheless a servant of Jehovah an unwilling servant as we think of this scene faith challenge we learn a couple of things about our adversary. We learn something about his character and we learn something about his position think with me.

He is number one subordinate to Jehovah. He speaks when he is spoken to. He responds to the Lord, and he does not initiate. He gives a disclosure concerning his activity and he submits to Annie is confined to the limits that are set for him by God. That's what we see in this second scene we learn something about his activity when God asks the question when God asks questions recorded in the Scriptures is never for the purpose of obtaining information because God knows all things, least of all he has no need to learn anything from Satan, but he asks Satan the question several questions.

The Lord said to Satan, from where do you come another question. Verse eight. Have you considered my servant Job, God asks questions in order to teach us something and in this instance, the teaching concerns Satan's activity.

Verse seven, from where do you come Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and fro on the earth and from walking back and forth on it reminds us of Peter's description in first Peter chapter 5 in verse eight. Our adversary is like a roaming lion, seeking whom he may devour us what he discloses here when he's asked by Jehovah seems to be Satan's main preoccupation prowling roaming the earth like a restless lion, seeking its prey. The Lord takes the dialogue a little further in verse eight and the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil here again, God's question is meant to teach us something about Satan's activity that is the way he pay special attention to believers. Satan had indeed considered Job very closely, and he knew all about him, as evident from his reply. In verses nine through 11, God said if you considered him blameless and upright, one who fears God and shuns evil? So Satan answered the Lord and said, does Job fear God for nothing. Have you not made a hedge around him, around his household around all that he has on every side, you blessed his work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land but now, stretch out your hand and touch all that he has and he will surely curse you to your face.

He has indeed considered Job very closely and here's where we see faith challenged. He accuses Job of serving God out of self-interest. He says, does Job fear God nothing, in effect, he says to God. It is true the Job is blameless and upright any shuns evil, but that is only because it pays him to live like that. He's acting out of self-interest, not because he loves you.

You've guarded you protected. You put a hedge around him, so that his life is comfortable and easy is wealth and status in a happy family without any worries or problems and is why he serves you is what he is strongly implying here's the question. Is there some truth in that. Do believers render service to God. Out of self-interest or do we simply render service to God because he's worthy of that well. I think the answer to that is, there is nothing that we do that is not tainted with self-interest that our motives are mixed.

So the question is, is our love for God based on in large measure, self-interest, and I think it is more for some and less for others. Verse 12 says were were considering the second scene and that is faith challenged because Satan says now, stretch out your hand and touch all that he has and he will curse you to your face and the Lord said to Satan, behold, all that he has is in your power only do not lay a hand on his person. So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord sobering, frightening God took the hedge, down from around Job, and he allowed Satan to attack him in order to do what in order to prove the reality of his faith. Don't lose sight of the big picture here were talking about the development of persevering faith. Job needed his faith developed in that way and dear friend. All of us need our faith developed in that way, we need a persevering faith. We need a faith that will endure is the hymn writer says I think this is a good place to stop considered faith stated and we've considered faith challenged and when we come back to this, we will look at faith tested think it helps us not to have to work hard to get her mind around the details. We know about heard and read and preaching and teaching on this portion of historical narrative so that helps us were were familiar, but I think it's good to follow these themes in this team in particular the development of persevering faith as we seek to understand what God is doing in the life of Job and as we do, we'll see what God wants to do in your life in my life what his agenda is the God wants us to have a robust faith, a strong faith eight growing faith, a developing faith, a persevering faith in this wonderful to see that manifest itself in the lives of people. We have witnessed a good number of saints finish their course and be called away and to see people persevering in the faith, trusting God to the very end finishing well that is a testimony of the grace of God working in the hearts and lives of people evidence of persevering faith. So that's what is on my heart and mind. I trust you been challenged tonight as we use things. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Father, thank you for the revelation of your self to us.

We are encouraged that you would preserve this portion of your word for us. We know things that Job did not know when they were happening to him. We know what you were doing. We know why you are doing what you were doing and Job. It seems had no warning. He did not know he had no explanation ahead of time during or after. So we thank you that we live on this side of the cross that we have the benefit of the full revelation of God that these things are written for our instruction for IR admonition.

We pray that the spirit of God would take these things and use them for growth and development. Lord we we confess to you that our faith many times is weak and fragile and we confess that it stands in need of being tested and stretched and developed and how good it is to know that you know how best to produce persevering faith in your children so we submit to you. We yield ourselves to you in this regard, we thank you for answered prayer. We thank you for the blessings of life. We thank you for the gift of Timothy Carl Ellis to Drew and Nancy, how it is blessed them, and brought joy to them and to Paul and Gail and to Evelyn Butler. We thank you for the successful surgery that Scott Hayes La Paz received on a couple of occasions in South Carolina. We thank you for the skill the doctors have to do very delicate surgery on our backs and nerves and things like this that allow us to be more mobile and to be able to function. We pray for Graham councilmember Melody Wiggins and asked that you would cause her to be a God-fearing person, one who acknowledges her stewardship before you one who is looking to you for wisdom and guidance in the decisions that she makes. Thank you for Jonathan Freeman. What a joy it is to see him growing and developing using his gifts for your honor and glory. Help them to be diligent in the study into prepare himself for that which you have for him.

We pray tonight for Drew Guthrie and ask you to minister to her needs.

Strengthen her. Thank you that we are seeing the very evidence of what Solomon Job chapter 1, the evidence of persevering faith 04, a faith that will endure, and it is enduring in her case, thank you for what you're doing for her and in her.

Thank you for the help that Shirley Watkins received in the hospital. Thank you that she's either at home now or will be going home tomorrow. We pray for this person.

Annie has made us aware of Mr. Ladd whose battling a coven pray that you use this in his life for his good, thank you for the incredible improvement in Melvin. Melvin per purposes. Life for the return of his kidney function is recovering from coven help him as he is weak in body to regain strength for Keith surmount ski in Canada. We pray that his improvement will continue, that he will be able to come off the ventilator's we've heard the report that he has come to any ask what happened, what is happened and acknowledgment that he's mindful of his circumstances for which we are very encouraged.

Use this Lord to the salvation of his soul would commit David in Naomi Williams to you and their needs asked for wisdom for Amy and her siblings as they seek how best to care for their aging parents, thank you for preserving the life of this US marshal who was shot in line of duty. Thank you that he is has improved. There's the need of salvation and the family and pray that you use these events. To that end, want to pray for Michael Abernathy tonight and the needs that he has things that he's facing you clear direction and wisdom. Father I pray we pray for Mike Webster and ask you to encourage this man. Help them to the persevere through this ordeal of cancer treatments. Thank you for the improvement on Edens for Trevor Johnson and his family and Paul Snyder and his family for the ongoing needs of Laverne Walker family in the recent home-going of Stuart wall. Please encourage them comfort them because your piece to rule and reign in their hearts help the believers there in Zimbabwe to trust you through the unanswered questions that they have. We pray for these families that have suffered the loss of a loved one for the family of Janet Miller, the family of this young man who brother or son to Graham Peacock, Daniel. Please minister to them. Lord, we commit the family of techs he owns to you and you know the needs there and we thank you for the opportunity afforded to the church to rally around this family and minister to them by our presence in our prayers and particularly our presence at the memorial service on Saturday, we asked the that would be accompanied by your spirited preaching would be powerful that the hearts would be prepared and an open to receive the truth of your word. We pray for the salvation of any and that family you do not know you. We thank you for the memory of techs. The old ones and for the confidence we have that she is with you. Even now, as we pray pray for Betty Duncan and ask that you strengthen her in the needs that she has but we acknowledge our need of you and our dependence upon you. Pray that you would strengthen us in the inner man that you would fortify us that you would grow us that what you would increase our dependence upon you that we might honor you. We think of the promise of Psalm 50 and verse 15 were you set call upon me in the day of trouble and I will answer the and you shall glorify me or help us to have confidence that when we pray to you. We know that you hear us and we know that you will answer us and we know as children of God. You will answer us in such a way that will enable us to glorify you and our response to whatever it is you have brought into our life or cause it to be so for all of your children for their good and for your honor and for your glory. We pray in Jesus name, amen