Thirsting for God in the Wilderness

e praise God brothers and sisters um i' like to start off this morning with a place from the Bible which most of us even know by memory um but it's a very good spot and it's Psalm chapter 1 verse 1 to3 blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of Sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful but his Delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law he meditates day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth that brings forth its fruit in its season whose Leaf also shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper very good part you know in the Psalms and in short um you know we should and Surround ourselves with people that are not good for us I think we know who those people are uh God kind of tells us uh don't really do that because we're like sponges you know we basically uh soak up anything that's around us and the people that you hang out with they also kind of affect you uh and then also it says we should meditate in his word day and night and that gives us a strong Foundation it gives us roots that go deep into the ground that keep us strong in our faith you know and it also says that if we do that everything that we do everything that we carry out it shall prosper in our lives so with that being said let's stand up let's pray for this service Lord God we thank you for this beautiful morning You' given us Lord to be able to come to this place God and we ask you Lord bless the service today God bless the preaching bless the singing Lord we ask you God speak to our hearts today Lord and also prepare our hearts Lord God for communion today Lord we pray and we ask God bless these service in Jesus name we pray amen good morning church today we're going to be singing count your blessings when upon life's below you are Tempest when you are discouraged thinking All Is Lost count your many blessings name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord have done count your blessings name them one by one count your blessings see what God has done count your blessings name them one by one count your many blessings see what God as us are you ever burdened with the load of care does the cross seem heavy you are called to Bear count your many blessings every doubt will fly and you will keep singing as the days go by count your blessings named them one by one count your bless see what God has done count your blessings name them one by one count your many blessings see what God has done so amid a conflict whether great or small do not be discouraged God is overall count your many blessings angels will attend help and comfort give you to your journey s count your blessings name them one by one count your blessings see what God has done count your blessings name them one by one count your many blessings see what God have done count your blessings AED in one by one count your blessings see what God has done count your blessings BR them one by one count your many blessings see what God [Music] I sing praises to your name oh Lord praises to your name [Music] oh Lord for your name is PR and greatly to be [Music] praised I sing praises to your name oh Lord praises to your name oh Lord for your name is great and great to be praised I give glory to your name oh Lord glory to your name oh Lord for your name is great and great to me [Music] praise I give glory to your name oh Lord glory to your name oh Lord for your name is great and greatly to be praised I sing praises to your name oh Lord praises to your name oh lord for your name is great and greatly to be prais I sing praises to your name oh Lord praises to your name oh Lord for your name is great and great to be praise praise God praise the Lord brothers and sisters for this morning you know definitely looks like winter right now with all the fog this week I was actually at Cascade yesterday and it's not nearly as Frozen as here which is kind of funny but um but praise God for everything of course and I'm going to read a Bible verse in Matthew chapter 17: 20 and it says here because you have so little faith truly I tell you if you have faith as small as a mustard seed you could say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move nothing will be possible for you praise God and I want to announce our program for this morning and we will have our guest speaker Joel say a word for us and we're always happy to have you uh God bless amen praise the Lord this morning how's everybody doing man everyone still sounds like they're asleep Hallelujah well I'll tell you right now it's time to wake up it's always a good thing when we wake up in the morning to give God the praise and the honor and the glory right amen I'm just so happy so thankful to be here with my brothers and sisters in Christ and I know uh the Lord's going to speak to me as well as to you I'm right there where you're at uh let us open our Bibles to Psalm 63 I don't know how much time I have brothers 35 all right I'll short shorten this because I I brought two hours worth material Hallelujah so Psalm 63 how many you guys have ever read Psalm 63 before it's a beautiful Psalms a lot of people run to the psalm especially when we're going through through hard times perilous times and uh something about the Psalms uh 63 captures my attention because we uh We've read about uh King David you know King David we know his life we know where God brought him from where God uh had him and where God took him um and we see that if you read Psalm 63 the introduction to Psalm 63 it says the psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judea so what was going on that David was in the wilderness of Judea we all know that David was running for his life because his own son Absalon was looking to kill him you might say wow but you read the Psalms and you would think it doesn't sound like a man that's running for for his life and uh that's where I want to take us today I want to take us there so it says like this if you want to stand in reverence to the word of God let's go ahead and we'll read uh the word of God and it goes like this oh God you are my God early will I Seek You My Soul thirsts For You My Flesh Longs for you in a dry and thirsty land where there no water so I have looked for you in the sanctuary to see your power to see your glory because loving kindness is better than life itself my lips shall praise you thus I will bless you while I have uh while I live I will lift up my hands in your name my soul shall be uh satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips I will remember you on my bed I meditate on you in the night watches because you have been my help therefore in The Shadow of Your Wings shall I Rejoice for my soul follows close behind you your right hand upholds me but those who seek my life to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth they shall fall by the sword they shall be a portion for the Jackal but the king shall rejoice in God everyone who swears by him shall be glory but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped amen Heavenly Father we thank you for everything done Lord we pray Lord that this word Lord let it penetrate to the depths of our soul bless each and every one of us that are here today Lord it wasn't by accident it wasn't Lord by mistake you had you have called each and every one of us here this morning Lord that we may take this word and use it in our daily lives father speak to me speak to my brothers and sisters here this morning in your precious and holy name we pray amen you may be seated amen you know as we think of David we consider the fact and many of us have heard this I've said it here a couple times but uh we consider the fact that he was a chosen king of God As a matter of fact the word of God says that he was a man after God's Own Heart to receive that title uh it's something special to be a man after God's Own Heart you know can you imagine the Lord saying Timothy a man after my own heart how proud We would be but we see that the word describes David as as a young man after God's Own Heart you know and we think of his Reign his character as a man after God's Own Heart but we also think of his fall with b bash Sheba but we cannot Overlook the fact that David spent much of his time in the wilderness you know not only is he running from his son but before that he was running from the King King Saul how many you guys remember a little bit of King Saul and uh you know at first King Saul found found joy with David because when King Saul was tormented David would go and he would play the harp and he would calm the evil spirits that King Saul had but after a while when King Saul found found out that David was chosen by God you know we see the enemy gets in as uh in the middle of things as as as as so often he does right when when there's promise when God is blessing us when God is moving over our lives the word of God said the enemy has come to kill steal and destroy and so when we feel the blessings of God when we feel so close to God what do we feel sometimes the enemy just has to weasle his way in try to take away that Joy you know he knew what he was facing and the add adversary or and the adversities and the heartache that was going on his life while he was going through the Wilderness you know in this journey David learns one thing and he learned it from the beginning as a young man that without God he cannot do nothing and that's one of the first things that I learned in my walk with Christ that without him I cannot do nothing without him I do not exist it was because of him that he showed me his Mercy his love his kindness from the moment that I accepted the Lord as my savior from the moment that the Pastor said for how long are you going to serve Christ and I uttered the words for the rest of my life I made a pack with him a pack that through thick and thin I was going to serve God and by serving God I was going to honor those around me I was going to love my brothers and sisters I was going to honor and obey God first of all and honor and obey my pastor when I agree and when I disagree and we see that David he finds this and he finds comfort in Psalm 63 you know there is a quote uh by Vernon McGee I don't know if you guys know who he is and he describes Psalm 63 and I find it so interesting and so intriguing in the these words he says Psalm 63 for me is like an ointment that is poured upon all kinds of sores it's like a bandage over a bruise it is like a bomb unto a wound to help them heal and we see that Psalm 63 was was widely used in the churches of old they used this verse to help them overcome adversity to help them come overcome the hard times and through these through these hard times they would take Psalm 63 and they would turn it into a song and they would say Lord early will I seek thee you know and I want to consider uh the Timeless principles found in this chapter this morning you know and I want to point us to the privilege that David had I say privilege because to know God is a privilege how many people this morning looking for a comforter looking for a savior looking for some kind of Hope shut their eyes last night and in the morning how many people longing to come and hear that there is hope that there is love that there is kindness are out there right now seeking but yet the Lord has been merciful why because we are here you know we are here and nice warm padded chairs it's warm in here it's comfortable we see David says in Psalm 63 and I can imagine as he's pouring out his heart and he's writing this down he says oh God Thou Art my God early will I Seek You My Soul thirst after thee my flesh longth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water running to the Wilderness is no joke how many of you guys have ever gone hiking amen I dabbled in that for about two hours of my life as you can see I'm am not a spectacle of Health amen and I remember somebody inviting me to take a hike and uh you know yes I have the Holy Spirit of God he gives me power he gives me strength you know and he gave me wisdom for but for one day I left that wisdom at home I remember he said is that all the water you need that little uh if you can hold up that bottle water Tim brought me he water right here for you and he said is that all the water yeah I'm good I drank a lot of water in the morning I thought I can handle it and I thought it was going to be a trail but it was a mountain that felt like Mount Everest and not even 10 minutes into it I tell the brother that I'm following I don't think I'm going want to make it you know and we see that David's he's in the wilderness and God knows what was going on in his mind his son was after comfor 14 verse one I believe you find it there sorry if I walk away from the mic oh I'm sorry amen welcome to those that are watching us online amen and we see you know for David it was a privilege to know the Lord and He reveals a couple of aspects about this you know he knew God presently we have already established that he was going through a difficult season in his life he was in the wilderness on the run his son looking for him 2 Samuel chapter 15 when you got time read it and even in his trials we see that David was confident enough in the Lord's present to give him presence to give him his life you know the world was after him his own loved ones were against him but yet David decides to say Lord I will not I will not forget who you are I will not forget what you've done because you have never forsaken me you have never abandoned me he trust the Lord at every moment at every time of his life you know I know sometimes you know there are times we walking real high up but there are times we walk in the valley no but let me tell you the god of the mountain is the same God in the valley and there isn't a place too deep where God cannot reach us there isn't a place too high where God cannot see us and we see you know maybe some of us this morning are walking through a valley we're in the midst of the worst storm in our life we have received the worst news we have been threatened you know maybe with uh the loss of a job maybe we're no longer secure but today I want to tell you trust in the Lord trust in the Lord for his love and his mercy endureth forever you know one great thing about David is that he knew God personally how many can say they know God personally here today you know to know God personally is something so beautiful so wonderful you know I in my walk with the Lord I've met so many people people from from so many walks of life you know and one of the things that intrigues me the most is you know to know God you know God is such a gentleman if he wanted to he can he could say he he doesn't even have to say you know and we would just automatically worship him but God is such a gentleman that he waits for you to come to him you know and some of us say well people people talk to me about God but I don't know this God you know and this is the thing he's waiting for us to invite him into our lives and the moment that we do I can guarantee you that A change is going to happen you I can guarantee you that something God to give we can no longer be the same you know I tell people to have a relationship because we don't preach religion here we preach a relationship with Christ everything else follows but to have a relationship with him you know many of you that are married or maybe you're not married or maybe one day you're praying Lord send me that right person you're not just going to walk up to somebody when Pastor Gennady met his wife he didn't walk up to his wife and say you will be my wife and you will fall in love with me she probably would have looked at him and said you're crazy no you got to know you got to know her right she got to know you your likes became uh her likes or her likes became your likes dislikes you guys agreed upon things didn't agree upon things you know with Christ how do we find who crisis how do we find who God is through his word we get to fall in love with him we get to know what his likes are and his dislikes are you know and David understood this David knew he wasn't a perfect man but God said he was a man after my own heart because David knew automatically that when he messed up he didn't blame anybody he said Lord it was all me it was no one else but me you know but the world we live in doesn't know accountability anymore well why did you stop going to church because brother Tim didn't shake my hand he offended me you know Pastor Gennady gave me an an ugly look and when in reality Pastor Gennady was just sneezing but this is the way the devil works right he has come to kill steal and destroy and we see that David he was on the run but yet he trusted in God he trusted in him you know he says a lot of things are going on in my life but there is one thing I know that I I will not leave him because neither has he left me nor forsaken me D David realized that whatever circumstance or whatever situation that he that he found himself in he could trust in the Lord he knew God personally oh God he says Thou Art my god when was the last time you pray and said Lord you are my Lord what's the first thing we do when we pray some of us not all of us Lord God you know I need this car Lord you know I need this house Lord you know I need this job you know when the psalmist says enter into his courts with what Thanksgiving with gladness and some of you might be thinking but what if I'm not going what if I'm not having a good day the word of God says says don't worry about it enter into his court with Thanksgiving with gladness there's a verse in Psalms right now I can't remember but he says as you're praising the Lord the Lord with his long arms behind is already fixing your life he's already putting things where they need to go he's already straightening out the path that's how God works we might have come in this morning with a problem we might have come in this morning saying well I don't know how I'm going to do it I don't know where I'm going to be but God's already working something marvelous in your life you know but this is a relationship and in any relationship we have to work at it you know every day every day I have to make my wife fall in love with me how because I look at myself in the mirror and I say how does my wife love me what attributes do I have you know and every time my wife says the more you love God the more I love you I don't have to do nothing it's saves me money praise the Lord I don't have to do nothing and David knew God on a personal level there is nothing more powerful or more powerful more comforting than to know that when you call on God he will answer that when you seek Him He you will find him it says when you knock he will open if you ask he will give it to you and some of us are are saying right now I'm going to challenge him Lord right now put a million dollars in my bank account the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves he says if I have a hard time controlling you with a $100 in your bank account God knows exactly what we need you know he was not a God that David vaguely knew he wasn't a God that David was familiar with David knew the Lord on a personal level and this is the key we have to know him on a personal level because when we know him on a personal level we know ourselves when we know ourselves we have better self-control we don't have to wait on the pastor to say Hey Brother there's something going on in your life I don't see you as much when you come you always have a frown there's something going on but when we're personal with God and we know him on that level guess what the spirit it helps us to understand you know what Lord I'm not right with you there's something going on in my life that I need to fix you know and David understood that there was something going on David understood but yet he trusted in the Lord there are things that I don't know but I can promise you that when I rejoice in him he opens the door I do know the Lord in a personal way and I am convinced that he is my God I have placed my faith in him I have trusted him I will trust him I have he has saved me he has cleansed me of my sins he has washed me as the psalmist says whiter than snow how many of you guys have ever seen uh snow so white so beautiful and you say wow you know I love the winter and let me tell you why because during the fall when all the leaves fall from my house once again I am not an active man and every every fall brother Gennady Pastor Gennady I can't wait for the winter to fall because as I'm driving in my driveway and I see those leaves and I say somebody has to break those leaves but when the snow falls and everything looks so white and beautiful I say wow wow it is beautiful amen but when the sun comes out and melts everything oh my Lord you know but the great thing about God is he says he washes us whiter than snow and whatever sin that we had if we ask him with an open heart and a contrite mind he says I will forgive you he says I will take those sins to the depths of the ocean David knows David knows he can trust in God you know we know we know at the beginning that David uh was privileged he recognized who the Lord was but also let me tell you without passion listen without passion if we do not pursue the things we love without passion we're not going to get far David had a passion for Christ Psalm 63 1 and2 says oh God once again Thou Art my God earnestly early will I seek thee my soul thirst after thee we see that there was a passion that David wasn't just saying it to say it you know you can tell the difference between a prayer you can tell the difference between a prayer and just vocalizing your words how many you guys have ever came to the presence of God and you just vocalized the words you say Lord I need you right now your words are there your mind is there but your heart is somewhere else maybe your heart's still on the problem your heart's still on the situation but there are those people that know they understand they trust in God we see that David he runs to God and he says Lord my heart seeks after you I am thirsty Lord in this Wilderness where there's no water I I will trust trust in you cuz you will provide there's a difference in this land you know to see the power to see the glory like I've seen in the sanctuaries you know these these verses they reveal a passion that David had and I ask you this morning do we still have the passion is the passion still there or is it there only when we see the blessings of God or when we don't see the blessings of God you know David desired to seek the Lord early in the morning you know one of the hardest things for us to do is to seek God early why because this flesh right now a lot of us would have probably been comfortable under the bed under the bed I mean under the blankets in the warmth right it cost us some of us you know and let's be honest who struggled to get up this morning some of us got up the young little young boys I did you know some of us struggled this morning I'm gonna be honest I struggled you know I put my my my foot on the ground my little toes curled up I said oh Lord and I and I'm LED back to to David early will I seek thee Lord you know it costs it costs this flesh wants to to do what the flesh wants to do but the spirit is willing it costs to seek the Lord you know when when Tim told me brother we rescheduled it you're not going to escape that easy you're you're on for next Sunday said amen I said Lord speak to me what message can I bring you know so what I I decided every morning you know and I'm not going to lie I do it every once in a while not every morning every once in a while but every morning this week I would get up five o'clock in the morning and almost seemed something purposeful I'd wake up at 5: I'd be like Lord you know I have to work but I will get up I would go I would wash my face I would get ready I would sit at the table I would open the word of God I would meditate and let me tell you with something so beautiful why so early in the morning because our mind is clear it's clean we have nothing else to focus on next thing you know five minutes turn to 30 minutes 30 minutes turn to an hour and here comes my wife why do you have all the lights on in the house I look at her and I say baby that's the glory of God those ain't lights come on and join me you know when we seek the Lord early in the morning when we find him you know I promise you there will be a blessing and it and it appears that in this chapter that David desires the Lord above all things you know he says if if he received nothing else that day he desire to receive a blessing from the presence of God and then goes much much deeper than a simple desire for a blessing of God you know we need him like we need air if I challenge somebody to stop breathing for I'm G to say 10 minutes because some people can breathe hold their breath for five minutes I want say 10 minutes I'm pretty sure we'd have a lot of people that are passed out here somebody saying 30 seconds that's as long as I can handle how many you guys remember going to the pool and challenging your brother I can breathe underwater longer than you you know but we need the Lord like we need air take a breath you know his desire was much deeper than just a blessing David wanted to be filled with the presence of the Lord he thirst for God he longed for him David wasn't interested in a casual drink and that right there the Lord says you know sometimes my people just want a casual drink how many you guys have ever drank water just to drink it you see water you take a sip and you put it down when you guys have't been so thirsty you've even said if I don't get a cup of water I will die and you drink that water and oh it just quenches you and you're just like that was the best cup of city water that I've ever ever tasted in my life you know that's the way we need to desire the Lord every moment every second that when we drink that water you know he is the best thing in our life you know a couple months back I wasn't having the best year of my life many of you know many of you saw back in February you know things started happening in my eyes and I thank the Lord for of it for for for that trial every moment I get I thank God but sometimes you know we think well you know Lord I serve you but the word of God tells me that the rain falls on everybody the good the bad the just the unjust who are we not to get reminded that God loves us as well you know we know it we live it but sometimes you know the Lord's saying hey you're not exempt but the difference is I'm right there with you you know I start losing my vision and mentally I didn't want to break down I didn't want to tell my wife I didn't want to tell my children and the first thing that Creeps in your mind is the enemy well where's God now what are you g to do who's going to take care of you so I sit there and I'm struggling and I'm struggling finally I start going to the doctor and and they start they start attending me and they start doing these things but I had to make changes in my life changes that I didn't want to change you know and as I'm now at the end of the tunnel I can see the blessings of God and I can even see the petitions or I could even see the things that I asked God come to fluish Pastor Gennady you know was at the beginning of the year I I told the Lord you know the Bible says that if we ask him with an open heart and a contrite mind he will answer the prayer prayers right and sometimes when we ask God we ask him but we want him to answer us the way we want him to answer us so the beginning of year I'm going to be honest with you guys I said Lord I need to lose 50 pounds but you know I hate putting the work into it father but you're a God of everything you can do anything if you want and I and I left it I toally forgot about it you know I tried my best but once again I'm not a very active man so through all this you know um my my uh right ey completely stopped working a couple months ago and my left eye was hanging on in there and you know at work and they basically tell me you're no good to us here go home we'll hold your job but we can't promise you for how long I said wow you know the Lord knows so there I am at home waiting for the doctors and it almost feels like an eternity you're waiting you know you can't even look look at the wall peacefully and the things that I desired the most you know many of us don't know what we have until we lose it you know some of us we have a Bible we read it every off every so often you know and I told my wife I would tell people you know the thing that bothers me the most is now that I want to dive into the word of God even more I open my bible and I can barely see it it would drive me crazy and I would cry and finally they decide to do the operation and the doctor says you know what Joelle we're going to do two types of operation oh there's two types you know either we're going to have to put a gas bubble in your eye or we're going to have to put an oil bubble in your eye regardless the gas bubble it's fine you know uh that'll disappear but the oil bubble he says we have to operate and then in a couple months we come back and operate again when he told me that my heart just dropped I said I barely want to be here I don't want to come back so they put me under I said Lord let your will be done and I and I got to a point I said Lord if I'm going to go blind just do it right now just just do your will Lord if I have to learn Lear how to serve you blind I will I will learn how to serve you blind Lord my lips was saying but my heart was saying something else so after the surgery the doctor comes and he says I have great news it wasn't as bad as we thought she had a couple blood vessels back there that were kind of Dripping and that's what was causing the retina to to detach from the wall but we were able to save it we cariz all those veins and he says guess what Joel you have Vision until you're 89 years old I tell well I was only planning to live to 70 but you know but when you trust God he makes the impossible possible and the next couple weeks I go to the doctor and do a res a a a regular visit they want to check upon me the doctor comes and I go and sit down and and I'm there and I'm and I'm say saying to myself wow my Lord I say thank you Lord because you're faithful and a doctor comes in he tells me to stand up and he gives me a big bear hug this a doctor and I'm like this doctor has gone crazy he puts he pushes me back and he looks at me up and down he says you know what you lost 55 PBS and the Lord took me back to the beginning of the year you wanted to lose 50 PBS right and you know what I thought I could have said amen Lord I thought man I should have said 120 pounds and then I think about it you know I would have been like man it probably would have been a miserable five months sitting there you know how did you do it well I couldn't see so I couldn't get up and cook and when my wife would leave the house she would leave a bowl of carrots and water you know carrots and water so the things I desired the most I wanted H maybe a site here and there I I couldn't I couldn't go get it so I'd eat this carrot and I'd be like this is a Snickers bar right here you know when we trust in the Lord David trusted in the Lord he knew that everything was was going to be okay he had to go through the process you know God sometimes we don't understand but he takes us through the process he refines us you know there's a song that we sing in Spanish and it says I'm gonna take you through the fire I'm gonna have to break you and it's going to hurt and you're going to cry but at the end you will come out the way the exact way the Lord wants you you know and David understood this and we see here David's on the Run he's trusting in the Lord he's on the Run hiding from his son but David yet still he wanted a spiritual saturation and I'm going to close with this you know some of us are okay with just getting sprinkled on you know but David said Lord I need a spiritual saturation you know and that's the key that when we come to God we need to be saturated with his glory with his grace with his forgiveness with his kindness why because that's what people are going to see when they see us there's something different about you there's something different in you I I can't put my mind I can't put my my my finger on it but you got something different you have something that I need you have something that I want you know it is only us Christians that can go through the worst of the worst and yet still wonder we know how to do it praise the Lord at every moment at every time you know the psalmist says yeay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil even though I'm going through this situation even though all hell is breaking loose in my house I will trust in you Lord even when my boss says you know what I'm about to to fire you because I don't like the way you're talking to your co-workers about Christ Lord do your will do what you got to do I was something before I got this job I will be something after this job you know my desire Lord is to honor you you know the song says this is my desire Lord It's to honor you when we can honor God everything else seek ye the kingdom of God and all is what righteousness everything else you don't have to worry about who's going to pay your bill you don't have to worry about where you're going to live where you're going to sleep tomorrow when we trust in the Lord Lord everything else follows but you have to put that to practice some of us trust the Lord why because we see it we live it all of us have good jobs all of us have a good vehicle you know but to trust the Lord you know David was the king of Israel and even when he had to leave his kingdom he still trusted in the Lord you know we don't know what he was thinking but we do know what he was feeling that he loved the Lord even much more than he did before you know at the end of the story The Lord prevails his son gets captured we know the story you know his hair got caught in an oak tree if I'm not mistaken Absalom and King David's soldiers killed Absalom yeah it's time it's time you know when we trust in the Lord we don't need to fear the enemy when we trust in the Lord you don't have to worry about what's what's going to happen tomorrow trust in the Lord today and he'll bless you the now and I want to invite all of you no matter what you're going through no matter what you're living no matter where you're staying trust in Lord and I promise you seek the kingdom of God and all his righteousness I don't have to tell you what you're doing is wrong or what you're doing is right you will know we are all creation of the lord we all have his DNA he chooses us Above All Things amen who do I give this place to let's pray let's go ahead and stand and you know and I want to challenge you you know if you if it's been a while and you haven't really had that passion like you should it's time to reignite that passion Heavenly Father Lord right now we trust you with all our heart Lord and just as King David did Father we desire you Lord As the deer panted for the water lord so my soul thirsts after you Lord you alone are my my heart's desire Lord I long to Worship You Lord I need you just like I need air Lord bless each and every one of us that took the time that made the effort this morning Lord bless all my brothers and sisters that are here today you know their need you know them by name you have been with them Lord in those moments when they've cried out to you you've heard their prayer and I know you will hear our prayer Lord today bless the pastor bless this congregation those Lord that work in your kingdom the musicians Lord the deacons the ministers everyone that takes part Lord thank you Lord for my brother Tim for this invitation Lord we praise and worship you in the name of Jesus we pray amen and now standing up we will be seinging Come All Ye Faithful Oh Come All Ye Faithful joyful and Triant Oh Come Ye oh to [Music] be come and be for the king of angels oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore in Christ the lord God of God light of light Eternal long he AB for not the [Music] bir son of the father begotten not created oh come let us our go oh come let us adore him oh come let us adore in Christ the lord seeing chirs of Angels seing in [Music] exal seing all ye ciens of Heaven [Music] glory to God glory in the highest oh come let us adore him oh God let us adore him oh God let us adore him Christ the lord [Music] praise God my dear friends it was good to have uh brother Joel here and his wife thank you for coming and you know I think we all heard an encouraging message and you know we do have times where life is hard and it teaches us that only God can help us in those times and um but today we're going to uh pray for Doug and before we pray for him um he his left leg is hurting uh to the bo that he can barely walk and we're going to have Doug come out over here in the front and I would like the the Elders of the church to to also come up but I'm I'll read from James it says is anyone among you suffering let him pray is anyone cheerful let him sing Psalms is anyone one among you sick let him call for the Elders of the church and let them pray over him so um I I'll call for the Elders of the church to to come up and we'll uh pray over Doug in his left leg Lord we thank you for this so that everyone would know that God has the power to heal in the name of Jesus Christ let his leg be healed we asking for your healing on him because you have the power and that everyone would know that you're the only true God and that Doug would know that you're the only true God so he can commit his life into you and and serve you in the name of Jesus Christ amen believe and God will give you that okay because those who believe God would heal them okay amen okay um if anybody else has any needs I know uh uh brother Josh he he um like asked us to to pray because his wife is in Texas and she wants him home and we will ask for God to to show his mercy and you know uh to like organize it to where he can get to his wife but if anybody else has any needs we'll close off with a prayer okay let's pray Lord God we thank you for this day Lord God we thank you for this wonderful morning God where your presence was in this place Lord God May the word God that was spoken today Lord God touch each heart here Lord knowing that only you can help us in our Hard Times Lord God bless each Soul here Lord God and we also pray for Josh Lord you see his situation Lord God and his wife is in Texas Lord may you resolve this issue that he gets to his wife Lord God and that they can rejoice in you Lord and bless the rest of this day in Jesus name we pray amen Our Father in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name Your Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from the evil one for your kingdom your power and Glory forever ever are yours amen be blessed and we'll see you in the gym