The Power of Words - Proverbs 18:21 - The Wise Family

Or will at all locations only say hello to you today my name is Eric Hovis of one of the pastors of new city tours on a tip of Florida like across a broad said on about one of many the mercy who will sit out in the summer of 2019 down to Tampa Florida with the vision to see missionaries sit out all over the world know we didn't know a soul when we went down to Tampa but we went and all replanted and we started in January 2020� Say the first year was a little hard it was. It was it was really challenging.

Actually, I would say was one of the hardest years of my life. In fact, that it almost broke me and God made it very very clear in that moment that I'm a broken man pastoring broken people, and there were a broken church for broken people is if you come in today and if you're hurting in your broken and I can say to you today that it's okay to not be okay. It's okay to not be okay in here this is the heart of God does not shun you or look past week past. You know the heart of God weeps with you in the heart of God hurts with you and in your hurting while you're there. There are two options two options you can either run from God or you can run towards God as a brother in Christ, you can testify when we run to God and our brokenness running to his word and the other brothers and sisters in Christ to speak life into you and encourage you with their words, God not only hues you and reshapes you, but he turned you into be more like him, because the son of God himself. He was broken for our redemption and I say all of this because over the past three years and to but this is been what God has taught me the fullness of God's love is realized in the depths of our pain, the deeper our pain in the deeper our brokenness, the greater God's love is able to fill that back up there was dog in the cavern of our pain. All these valleys of our life that aren't so much fun. That's where God deepens our roots so that we can then flourish more because God prunes. Those that he loves for the purpose of bearing more fruit like this is just what God does in those deep valleys God nourishes us and breathes life into us and he restores us. God doesn't rush past us in our brokenness.

Listen mercy know he certainly does not leave us there because God is in the business of redeeming that which is broken as a get this. Yes, 20/20 was one of the hardest years of my life. We moved our life left family and friends sold houses to charge the hill to play the church with the vision to plant churches and send missionaries all over the world to have our grand opening in January 2022 then be shut down seven weeks later by a global pandemic followed by racial political unrest about killed or church, not to mention the brokenness relationships that came with it go.

I've never struggled with anxiety in my life until 2020 when multiple nights a week. I would wake up in the middle of the night just panicked about all the hard conversations I've had that week mercy of God appropriately, but I would literally be weeping in my garage trying to do squats, which was to say that's not the greatest thing for your school hunts by the grace of God and 20, 21, God started to heal that which was broken in our church became incredibly unified are growing as a church seeing people baptizing discipled people who are hurting and broken you were coming into our church and finding healing and restoration in me and my wife and 20, 21, we as we began to receive counseling in every and every two weeks.

Week after week, month after month, God began to restore us and heal us, and by the end of 2021, we were finally at a place where we could begin to just dream again just to have hope again the guy God began growing or church doubling or church within a year with with well over 50 college students at our church and at Easter this past year we had over 200 people in attendance baptizing 13 people, nine college students to kids, one of which was my oldest daughter God praise God with several different nationalities represented someone with desire to be missionaries is at some point in the near future. And as I speak right now our very first short-term mission trip is on the ground in the Dominican Republic as we speak with one of our church planting partners and then praise the Lord and then a few months before sending another team to South Asia not to mention there are several people in our pipeline to move their life, among unreached people, people group which may even happen this spring will see mercy of God is in the business of redeeming and restoring that which is broken by God is in the business of fulfilling what he sets out to accomplish this is just what God does and you know one of the many ways God just breathe life into my discouraged soul. It was through the encouraging words of so many people around me. Through God's word and through the words of others into the words of countless books and sermons and podcast podcasts. God strengthens my troubled spirit and he he lifted up my sagging heart with words with powerful words. Mercy hill words are powerful.

They have the power to give life and also to take life they have the power to instill courage to a weary soul may have the power to also crush a happy spirit.

As of today were talking about the power of words receives a store anchor verse today.

Proverbs 1821 death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

That's our one verse for today also have some verses in James chapter 3 us if you have a bye week together. Also put your thumb there, but I do want to say this before you get too far into our words talk yes church planting was hard up but do you know where I believe God brought the most life out of all of the challenges was in my marriage was my family is regarded the most work in me and I can say with confidence that my marriage is to help. It is been in 13 years and anybody that knows me knows that on the boring one and my wife. She's the rock star of the family throughout all of our challenges God thought fit over the past three years to not only strengthen and grow our church for me. More importantly he grew in strength in my marriage, and he shake me and molded me as a death. So yes, planting a church is been one of the hardest things I've ever done in my entire life. And yes, even being a missionary overseas nine years ago.

That was also really hard but do you know what I will put at the top of the list is one of the hardest things I've ever done above church planting above moving across the globe to the former Soviet Union nation and situation.

We don't know the language or culture dealing with culture shock and language barriers.

The one thing I will put the top of the list as being the single hardest thing I've ever done is being a dad let me state very clearly today is not because of my kids is because of me know my kids are great on the problem, not my kids. I don't get me wrong yes must my kids a little center just like their daddy okay I just like the rest of us in the world but did this over the past couple of years. Yes, God made it clear to me that a broken pastor pastoring a broken church, but even more so that I'm incredibly broken dad that has been entrusted with the honor of pointing their kids pointing my kids to even better.and God the father know I fall short of this often and in that is very clear that I'm just like the rest of us in desperate need of grace. No, I think we can all agree that marriage is hard work. Parenting is hard work and it can be so challenging at times, but there's no doubt about it, the matters of the family there hard there difficult like I've spent time in rub shoulders with a lot of different people all over the world� Let me just ask why is it the sum of the top performers that work will have their home life crumbling like why is it that someone can crush you network can be incredibly successful, but be crushed as soon as they walked to the door of their own home was because the matters of the family are hard there difficult and just maybe some of the hardest work that we will ever face and then withdrawing the power of words in this whole conversation on top of all these other come out of the overall building to talk about today we find out real quick that we've got a tough one today. No, I just want to lay this out there. I just got back from two weeks at the beach with the whole family like a week with my side of the family with 15 people under one roof. Eight kids between two and 97 grown adults and immediately following with my wife's family eight adults and six kids under one roof.

And of course in God's kindness and his sense of humor I get to come back and preach on families in the power of words leading us to our big idea today lies families understand the power of words and let me say this, no matter where you are today. Whether you're single or married, whether an empty Nestor you have a house full of kids. I think we all agree of how true this is the words they both can give life and also take life also stat this past week that said that we speak on average 700 times a day and that women use about 20,000 words a day, and that menus about 7000 words a day. I saw that I first thought, there's no way I say 7000 words. Today I got elected talk and arise the way that's about the length of the sermon was everything let secondly, like that's a lot of opportunities every day to either give life or take life 700 times a day were either handing out words of life or handing out words of death again. Proverbs 1821 death and life are in the power of the tongue. Our words can either fuel, hope, and give healing and encouragement and truth to others, or they can crush others with discouragement and filled them with bitterness and resentment and lies in shame and fear. Our words can either give life or take life, death and life are in the power of the tongue, and then it says in those who love it will eat its fruits. Proverbs 1821, essentially saying the fruit of our words are either life or death saying work feeding other people and ourselves with words. I just think about this.

If we put all of our words this past week.

If we just cut it took all of our words and we just placed it on a plate.

We set on the table we handed to her guests.

What type of food were a guest beating like with the plate and the food that we put on with the plate with our words wouldn't be soul nourishing worded just kind of be like a plate full fluff for maybe a plate full of food that might just make someone sick. When they ate it. Our words sweet fruits or are they rotten fruits to those around us and how convicting. Maybe you've heard the saying sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me which lesson status of the biggest lies we've ever been told, because words they hurt, they can bring death. As Proverbs 1821 tell your two years ago for Christmas my mom that her kids the little fake cotton ball snowballs about the size of a baseball.

We live in Florida and well it doesn't snow in Florida so soon as we got them we start having snowball fights as the family like daddy versus the kids like they were they would take them by. They were thrown at me. I'd catch it on the just a number. Just like dollars. Harlequin is right at their faces peg him in the face biologist hold nothing back to take me back to mulligans the baseball days I was orally okay go release just throw it as hard as I could and it would just laugh hysterically I got was jumping on the couch dodging their throws at the one up in the air like they watch that one and I just peg in the face with the other one is like an all-out snowball fight was all-out war.

I could throw these things as hard as I possibly could.

At the face of my three-year-old at the time just hit her in the face. She would just laugh just laugh so we had some of these intense battles and of course I won the first battle dad versus the kids were there. We start they started getting smart and walk in the door from work and Webb's got a get peg in the face with a cotton ball size snowball for my kids notice from three weeks straight I go skiing peg in the face almost every time I walked in the door and yes all the snowballs they were fine but you know what is large cotton ball snowballs are often how we use our words thinking we can throw out our words as hard as we possibly can. Thinking that there's just no effects to it. Just peg him in the face with whatever I say, thinking it will hurt, but Mercy Hill. I think we know that's just not true. The crazy part about as we still do it. Our words to have more power than we often realize again lies families understand the power of words wise roommates and friends and spouses, and coworkers. We know the power of words that are not cotton ball snowballs that we can throw people without hurting them.

No words to either bring death or life are words either taste sweet or the rotten they can fuel the soul with hope and healing, or they can crush a person's spirit seizes two or two points today number one words of death in number two words of life measurement point out that like this is this is not just in one verse. This is all over the Bible, especially the book of Proverbs, like the government look. Proverbs 15 one. Memorize these.

A soft answer turns away wrath but a harsh word stirs up anger in our words can either bring life or death. A soft answer turns away wrath, like wheat. I like the way we respond to stop a downward spiral of arguments husbands and wives here that today moms and dads, roommates, coworkers, this is wisdom for us. A soft answer turns away wrath and a gentle response can stop an argument.

Moms and dads or kids need to see this modeled the need to see his take of the chest respond with gentleness and patience and grace. Proverbs 15 for a gentle tongue is a tree of life, the perverseness and it breaks the spirit gentle tongue.

A gentle word is a tree of life gives life. It builds up, it nourishes the perverseness harsh words, evil words, it breaks the spirit it takes life. It brings death surgeon words of life are words of desolate looking number one words of death. Isn't that just an encouraging point words of death like it's on, seems a little intense, like a war movie Bob that's a stark warning. The Scriptures give us about our words they can stir up anger. They can break someone spirit, our words can incite bitterness and resentment are words can lead someone to fear and worry and discouragement are words can really bring a person down, they can bring death to a person so they can break a person spirit. This is what the book of Proverbs shows us as we look at this first point, words of death. Unfortunately, I don't think I really have to explain this from that much. We just buy the world that we live in.

We each unfortunately have experienced discouragement or harsh criticism or people being rude or mean or put up being called names or put down or lied to and from that we all know unfortunately too well how it can affect us and maybe we can try to act like like we did have thick skin doesn't affect us. But let's not be foolish, harsh words, they affect us in James chapter 3 the author James writes about the power of the tongue to give several different illustrations of the will used today but one of which is that he describes the power that describes a tongue to his fire. He speaks of how a whole forest can be set ablaze and destroyed by a small fire and he mentioned how our words or tongue for consent on fire the entire course of life, but he say or tongue can destroy the direction of our life is really strong language. He calls it a fire but unfortunately it's true in the words we speak to her teeth to each other the like how we speak your kids or spouse or friends or coworkers. It directs the course of life likely scream and yell and call names and put each other down a degrade one another and jokingly mock one another and affects the direction of life. Can we walk into a room just by the words we say we can totally change the room of the entire the mood of the entire room with a friend or a child or spouse walks in. We did make a negative comment. It totally can affect the rest of the day, and unfortunately, as we look at the landscape of families screaming and yelling and name-calling and putting one another down has become far to normalize and maybe justifying it by saying were not yelling were dispassionately talking maybe thing. I mean come on this is just what families do and that we have to say no is faster issue has worded it. That's not what families do. He said no that's what sinners do and you know what that word.

James says these destructive words come from the book of James chapter 3, he says these words, he equates to fire the destroy where they come from is the destroying words are set on fire by hell.

These destructive words or not from God there from the enemy that is seeking to destroy our relationships and our families and our marriages again are words that either bring life or death is something that we need to understand her today is like and often Hebrew. The Hebrew quote is our words create worlds in the Scriptures tell us that our words that they direct the course of life. In essence they create the world that we live in a worse we speak, and that we here in the we believe they can direct the course of our life. We just think about how that the serpent deceived Adam and Eve what he do that he like take the fruit you can dangle in front of them is a look at his beautiful fruit, tasted cumin, light, look at it in that beautiful disease not know bespoke lying, deceitful words, what happened those deceitful words of the sport serpent spoke directed the course of life in James chapter 3 James gives the illustration of our words as far but he also gives two other illustrations about how our words and our time direct the course of life how they create the worlds that we live in James chapter 3 Kiki compares her speech to a horse being controlled by a small bit in his mouth and also how ship is controlled by a small rotor with Pastor Andrews, Erie, Publix by the horsemen probably have a place were to go with it, but I don't have a horse and to be honest at a YouTube what this whole bit thing does like I know it looks like that had to go on YouTube and figure out how it actually works suffered. I go with the above one because I live in Florida there's boats everywhere in Florida like I see about about every time I get my truck either in someone's yard your eye on the water are on the road in downtown Tampa is truly loves to show off their boats. Okay like they drive these hundred foot yachts to the park in. They walk off the boat and their fancy tire they go to dinner with me and my week memo average cannot pretend that there are us going take pictures but with the bozo Entrada I make friends with the boat people.

It just hasn't quite worked yet will I love notes.

I will have about a got a paddleboard that's about right now with the image I want you to think of is that all those boats to small boats. The big dogs, the hundred foot, 200 foot print of foot yachts. The ships there steered and directed by a very small rudder and were that small rudder goes the whole boat ghosts. The small rotor steers the boat and I don't care how fancy that yacht may look if the router doesn't work properly. They're not gonna make it to their fancy dinner like there can end up stuck out in the middle of the ocean like high heels on dress, make it come down there at their face and that read that rudder like it determines the destination and James tells us that this is what our words do or words direct our life and shape the worlds of others or words create worlds you just an example in everyday example of how our words can easily shape the destination and outcome that they can you have bring life or death disbar words now is one of five coaches of my son's baseball teams is that dispatcher a 70-year-old baseball Bayou baseball in Florida. It is no joke. Okay, people play year-round multiple times that multiple teams are time trials drafts like recruiting travel leagues another 70 years old guy by the stars like five years old may not my son's T-ball league All-Star team for his T-ball league for five and six-year-olds. They won the whole state of Florida for literally T-ball All-Star termini milk, five and six-year-olds traveling around the whole summer playing in T-ball tournaments so these kids were hitting home runs like out of the park home run's like turning double-play, sliding into home plate at first. Five and six years old.intense is seven and eight by they start to hit off of like a pitching machine. This is the machine as is all of their leagues are all the same. One of the better kids on the team that can help coach. He was just crossing the ball every single time of the back when he was hitting triples and doubles and home runs. I mean the kid batted over 800 for the entire season.

I'm just crushing blow. And yes they do keep stats in our league telling you it's intense but that same exact kid he also played on a traveling baseball team so you play with us on Saturday with his other team on Sunday afternoons, and that exact same kid that was crushing the ball with our team on Saturday. On Sunday was strike out at every event same kid same machine to drastically different results and asked his dad is on what was the difference because the exact same machine.

There is no difference know his dad said was the difference was how his coaches spoke to his son on our team were cheering them on to Stella like you to crushing him in high-fives having fun building each other up when he misses the first time we encourage them and then it hit the other team crickets. Nothing strike out coaches would get meta-yell at him go to the dugout, put on his help put his helmet down to start crying.

Nothing ignored him, told him to get together over 33 strikeouts following Tuesday 3432 doubles and a home run.

What was the difference words words. One team brought life and one team crushed his spirit and this is adjuster for seven and eight-year-old. This is true for all of us words create the world that we live in, and also the worlds for those around us. The words we speak to our kids and our spouses and roommates and friends that show the direction of that relationship. If you want to know your relationship, how is going to look at the words again are words that have so much power.

This is just so convicting to me like I'm convicting myself right now because I know with the same mouth that I preach with teach the word with and try to seek to exalt Christ with his the same mouth.

They can also in an instant, crush a person spirit by no means do I want to think that I've got all this together. I know how hard of that hard this is to hear because I know how hard this is to preach our words can bring death to a person so when I was given this text is like G thinks is super compact and they did this text like months ago and is a well. We must also do this you know.

But how can I priestess my know the struggle of this James 31. Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that heat we who teach will be judged with greater strictness like you do. Then he says in James three, two, and I am so thankful for this verse. He says for we all stumble in many ways and if anyone does not stumble in what he says he is a perfect man, know this is so encouraging because it reminds us in me of our humanness. It reminds me there's not a pastor or a preacher or any person on this planet that does not struggle with what they say. This includes all of us. Every single one of us can grow in this and why because not a single one of us are perfect. None of us are perfect and what we say, except for one, there's only one man that ever walked this earth that never stumbled and what he said there's only one person always gave life when he spoke. There's only one man that when he was squeezed and put under pressure and in pain.

He only spoke words of life and his name is Jesus.

You and I were not perfect weeks. We've all spoken many discouraging words that have brought down those around us that have been used by the enemy to still life and joy from others, like we've spoken and believed harsh words about ourselves. We believe lies in whispers that come from the pit of hell. We think about how we can so often speak harsh words or be critical or judgmental or rude or discouraging it very quickly will show us our need for grace and his mercy shall we sin, often with our words.

I soon, often with my words and we sin with our words. It doesn't just bring death to those around us, but those simple words we speak. May we remember those same words are words are words of death sent Jesus to the cross to die. Jesus went to the cross and die because our words brought him death. Every lie we told put Jesus on the cross. Every harsh or discouraged degrading comment nailed Jesus to the cross every critical job with ill intent. It drove the nails into his hands and feet. Mercy Hill words have the power of life or death. Yet, may we remember the truth and grace of the gospel that we remember that although our words bring death.

We have a God that is merciful and gracious is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness to a thousand generations, which includes you and me here today and in God's providential kindness, God gave up his son Jesus to give us his life. Jesus died so that we can live Mercy Hill. Jesus took our words of death of the cross and he gave us his life in return. Christian do not forget that today yes we often speak words out of our flesh. Yes, we often speak words of death. But if we are in Christ if we have placed our faith in Jesus. Jesus then he has put his spirit inside of us and in an instant he empowers us in over a lifetime.

He changes us to the were able to speak words of life to others. Because yes, our words are powerful and yes, our words can bring death with the same powerful tongue.

We can also bring number two words of life church were the most influential things God has given us to use in this world for his glory is our tongue are words it's being able to speak life into the kingdom of God. Just like we can walk into a room and totally change the mood in a negative way, bringing death we can do the exact same thing in a positive way to bring life moms and dads. Our kids need to hear that we love them they need to hear the things they do well. They need to hear us build them up. They need our encouragement they need us to be our biggest cheerleader. Why because it brings them life in it directs their world husband's and wife's your spouse needs your encouragement they need to hear what they do well. They need to hear how you love them and why you love them, they need to hear that you boast about them.

Our friends and coworkers and classmates and teammates and family members. We all need encouragement. Leaders of organizations and teams companies your people that God has entrusted to you to lead. They need words of life breathed into their soul. Why, because words create worlds know what God has entrusted you and me with life-giving words.

He is privileged us. Each of us with the task to bring life into people who are gasping for air. I God created the world with words, God speaks to us with words, God spoke and it existed in that same God used his power to create the world with his words is living inside of all those who have trusted in Jesus and he has entrusted us and empowered us with life-giving and life altering and life directing words the secretion your brothers and sisters in Christ, your neighbors and your family members. All those around us.

We all need to be reminded daily of the love of God. We need to be reminded of our good news that we have in the gospel that brings us lifelike if we are in Christ if we have responded to the gospel. Listen, this do you know the Scriptures call us the Scripture say were Royal ambassadors were Royal Pierce were considered children of the living God. Christian, this is your new identity.

You're no longer labeled a sinner know your team to St. Christian you are. Once dead in your trespasses and sins, following the course of the world because of Jesus Christ going to the cross in your put you putting your faith in him is made you alive in Christ clothing you and his royal garments process. Goodness, because her words of life like were no longer dead but alive in the world is too dark and sin is too wicked and too strong for us to walk around in condemnation. We need to be reminded of our calling daily or standing daily. We need to be constantly reminded that God has done everything necessary to save us.

We need to be reminded that in Christ our sin and our sin has been taken as far as the east is from the West like is totally gone forever Christian. Those are true words of lies for us today and guess what we were in Christ were not only forgiven of our sin, but he has given us and entrusted us to a holy calling. He says to us. I know you were once running away from me, but I know that you have this whole doubt thing going on inside of you and your still trying to run for me from time to time. But guess what I have called you and redeemed you and I am restoring you and I will still use you for my purposes. God says to all those who are in Christ. You are now a kingdom mover in a kingdom advancer and a gospel herald of good news that is recalling that is a holy calling church and while were doing all of this in the middle of that he says to us. I will never leave you or forsake you. That's what he says in his word he says doesn't let not your heart be troubled, fear not for I am with you.

He says just come to me and I will give you rest. He says come to me and you will be satisfied, but when I was in those dark days of 2020 try to do squats cry and weep and is totally failing at everything squats weeping and tears the life-giving words that I was cleaning to do to believing in faith was that God strengthens the downcast and he comforts the weary believing in faith that God is in the business of restoring that which is broken for God finishes what he starts in that joy comes in the morning church. We need to hear these gospel words of life like on repeat because we are a forgetful people that often sit in the condemnation of our enemy and our enemy.

He will do whatever he can to let us sit in those line words of death. But you know what God is said to our enemy know I have words of life and I have won the war and God says right back to the enemy while he's fighting for us, just as guess what I'm equipped and entrusted my people with words of life that will push back the darkness. You know what God says to the devil. When those words of life are spoken by brothers and sisters in Christ to a wounded and weary soul. That's us the W can take your line words of death and go right back to the pits of hell success reseal every day. The enemy is trying to speak words of death to us either in our minds or through others and then twist them in our minds by what others have said to us or to us a note we do when those line words of death are spoken over us or starting to be believed.

In our minds know we do we embrace that we are in a cosmic spiritual war, and we enter into the boxing ring and we speak true words of life over our soul and over the souls of others you know what we do replace the devil square in the nose with words of life, speaking words of life to others. We proclaim words of life we speak words of life to another. We tell ourselves what is true.

Listen if you want to place the devil in the nose.

Tell your brother or sister in Christ, that God has sent him or her apart for a holy calling, like if you want to place the devil in the nose serve your spouse and go out of your way and tell them how much you love them. How much God loves them and how much God is pursuing them. If you will place the devil in the nose build up your children in the Lord, pointing to Jesus and model the grace that God has shown you to them but show your children what it looks like to be merciful and gracious, and slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. When you mess up because you probably will model repentance to them and show them what it looks like to say I'm sorry, will you forgive me know what this does for them.

It breathes life into their build them up with courage and it strengthens their spirit church God has entrusted us with powerful words of life know there are too many people on this planet and around this world that are heading towards an eternity apart from Christ for us to settle for more words of death and take more life and more joy.

Know God has entrusted us with the life-giving message of the gospel to tell the world that forgiveness of sin is possible in the change in restoration is available know we have a message that gives hope to the downcast to give rest for the weary and there is a healing balm for wounded souls.

Proverbs 1821 says death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

You must ask yourself what meal are we serving with our words. As a plateful of nourishing food or is it a plate full of junk and I know soon as I say that the national responses. Think what I want to speak words of life like I desire to serve in nourishing plate of food to those around me with my words and the response is not to say will just keep trying harder just keep try and work harder next time. Now Jesus tells us in Luke 645 that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Church the words that come out of us, a reflection of our heart.

So yes recall to practice self-control and watch what we say and actively engage in disciplines that lead us to speak life-giving words, but even more so, before we do all of that first just come and sit at the feet of Jesus and let him just wash us with his word. Let him change our hearts become an rest with Jesus and we read his word and we eat and devour his words of life we slowly over a lifetime day by day, day in and day out, coming to his word slowly got changes our hearts and the byproduct is to cut within use us to speak words of life to those around us. It will nourish their souls and will give a taste of the goodness of God) God I know that under the sound of my voice. There are people that you are drawing to yourself that are just overwhelmed by the condemnation maybe just of words. God I pray that they will know the grace that is found in Jesus God. There is grace and mercy and forgiveness that is found at the cross. Father I pray that of all of the things that we hear today that we will just come and sit and be restored by the life that you give us to Christ, that we are desperate people that are in desperate need of your grace were so thankful for your were we pray that we would be sharpened by today we assess on Tuesday