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  MICAIAH, NOTORIOUS FOR TRUTH TELLING
  by Daniel Kenaston
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Summary: This sermon focuses on the story of Micaiah, known for his
truth-telling, as a powerful example of standing firm in the face of
opposition and peer pressure. It emphasizes the importance of speaking
the truth, even when unpopular, and the need to testify boldly about
God's work in our lives. The message encourages listeners to be like
Micaiah, unshaken by challenges, and willing to face persecution for
upholding the truth.

Duration: 36:41 Topics: "Courage in Truth", "Standing Firm in Faith"
Scripture References: 1 Kings 22:8, 1 Kings 22:14, 1 Kings 22:16, 1 Kings 22:24, 1 Kings 22:28, 1 Kings 22:30, 1 Kings 22:47

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This sermon focuses on the story of Micaiah, known for his truth-
telling, as a powerful example of standing firm in the face of
opposition and peer pressure. It emphasizes the importance of speaking
the truth, even when unpopular, and the need to testify boldly about
God's work in our lives. The message encourages listeners to be like
Micaiah, unshaken by challenges, and willing to face persecution for
upholding the truth.

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Good morning to all of you this morning. It's a blessing to have a full
house, and I am grateful for the opportunity to share God's Word with
you this morning. I guess the final session for you young people before
you go back home, and for all the families who've come to see you and
listen to you sing.

Thank you all for sharing those testimonies. It's exciting to hear some
of the overflow of what God's been doing in your heart over the last
week, and I'm excited for you. Absolutely, the things that God's been
doing in your heart this week are not intended to remain behind here,
but are intended by God to go home with you and be lived out in everyday
life, and that's definitely our prayer for you.

Let's turn to the book of 1 Kings this morning. I'm going to try to move
rapidly this morning because there's still quite a full program for
today, and so I'm not going to stretch this message very long this
morning, so hopefully I will be able to communicate what the Lord's been
laying on my heart for the last few days in regards to this portion of
Scripture. I'd like for us to look this morning at not one of the major
figures of the Old Testament, but someone that the Bible gives us a
snapshot of in this chapter, and then also a mirror portion over in 2
Chronicles.

I'd like us to look this morning at the life of Micaiah, and if you like
titles, our title this morning is Micaiah, Notorious for Truth-Telling.
Micaiah, Notorious for Truth-Telling. In the book of 1 Kings and chapter
22, we have the story of the king of Israel and the king of Judah
gathering together and wanting to go up and fight to take back a city
that they had lost to the king of Syria, and we're going to read these
verses relatively quickly and then come back through and grab some
points about Micaiah's life.

One of the things that stands out to me when I think about all of you
young people going home is that everything that God has done in your
life is going to continue to set you apart in the weeks ahead as you
move in the direction of what God is calling you to. It's a wonderful
thing that you've come here and God has worked in your heart and you've
learned new things and you've experienced new freedom, but in order to
live those things out in the weeks and months that are ahead, you must
be willing to stand alone. You must be willing to stand in a position
that makes you unpopular, and so that's why this message is a burden on
my heart this morning.

Let's read rapidly in 1 Kings 22, the story of Micaiah. And they
continued three years without war between Syria and Israel, and it came
to pass in the third year that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down
to the king of Israel. And the king of Israel said unto his servants,
know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still and take it not
out of the hand of the king of Syria.

And he said unto Jehoshaphat, wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth
Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my
people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. And Jehoshaphat said to
the king of Israel, inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord today.
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about 400 men,
and said unto them, shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall
I forbear? And they said, go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the
hand of the king.

And Jehoshaphat said, is there not a prophet of the Lord beside that we
might inquire of him? And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat,
there is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imla, by whom we may inquire of
the Lord, but I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning me,
but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, let not the king say so. Then the king
of Israel called an officer and said, hasten hither Micaiah the son of
Imla.

And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his
throne, having put on their robes in the void place in the entrance of
the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets prophesied before them. And
Zedekiah the son of Chanaan made him horns of iron, and he said, thus
saith the Lord, with thee shalt thou push the Syrians until thou have
consumed them. And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, go up to
Ramoth-Gilead and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into the king's
hand.

And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah said unto him, spake
unto him, saying, behold now the words of the prophets declare good unto
the king with one mouth. Let by word I pray thee be like the word of one
of them and speak that which is good. And Micaiah said, as the Lord
liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.

So he came to the king, and the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go
up against Ramoth-Gilead to battle or shall we forbear? And he answered
him, go and prosper, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the
king. And the king said unto him, how many times shall I adjure thee
that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the
Lord? And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills as sheep
that have not a shepherd. And the Lord said, these have no master.

Let them return every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no
good concerning me but evil? And he said, hear thou therefore the word
of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne and all the host of
heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left.

And the Lord said, who shall persuade Ahab that he may go up and fall at
Ramoth-Gilead? And one said on this manner and another said on that
manner. And there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord and
said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, wherewith? And he
said, I will go forth and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all
his prophets.

And he said, thou shall persuade him and prevail. Go forth and do so.
Now therefore behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of
all these thy prophets and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.

But Zedekiah, the son of Chenana went near and smoked Micaiah on the
cheek and said, which way went the spirit of the Lord from me to speak
unto thee? And Micaiah said, behold, thou shalt see in that day when
thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. And the king of
Israel said, take Micaiah and carry him back unto Ammon, the governor of
the city and to Joash, the king's son. And say, thus sayeth the king,
put this fellow in prison and feed him with bread of affliction and with
water of affliction until I come in peace.

And Micaiah said, if thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not
spoken by me. And he said, hearken, O people, every one of you. And
we'll stop reading there.

That's basically the story of Micaiah. This is this one snapshot that
God gives us of Micaiah, a man who was notorious for telling the truth.
Notorious for telling the truth.

Our first point is just that, our title. Micaiah was a man who had
gained notoriety as someone who tells the truth. It's an interesting
thing that even though Ahab was not living a godly life, he still had a
certain respect for the prophets of God.

And so when Jehoshaphat and Ahab got their two armies together, they
said, maybe we should find out. Let's inquire of the Lord whether this
is something that we should do. And they said, is there somebody that we
could inquire of? And so they got these prophets together, 400 prophets.

And though things were at a fairly low ebb spiritually, these were not
the prophets of some idle entity. These were the prophets of God. And
these 400 men got together and one by one, they gave the same report.

It's not our message for today, but oh my, what a sad day when 400 men
of God, and I say that in quotes, 400 men of God can get together and
the truth cannot be found among 400 of God's men. I don't know what the
statistics would be today, but it might be that we live in an era where
that's about the truth. It may be that we live in an era where you could
get 400 of God's men together and not hear the truth about the situation
that we're facing.

But they listened to these 400. I'm not sure exactly what element it was
of listening to 400 prophets coming one after another and giving all
these positives. Yes, you're gonna win.

You're gonna prosper. You're gonna push the Syrians. I'm not sure what
it was, but somehow there was still a question in their hearts as to
whether they had heard the truth.

Jehoshaphat says, isn't there another prophet of the Lord? We've only
heard from 400, but I really feel like if we could just hear from 401,
that would exactly be the number I would need to be convinced that we're
doing the right thing. Somehow in Jehoshaphat's heart there was this
question. Maybe it was the tone of voice.

Maybe it was the fact that everybody agreed so confidently. Maybe
Jehoshaphat began to feel like he was watching a performance one by one.
They just come up.

Hey, this is how you're gonna win. This is how you're gonna prosper. He
said, isn't there one more? I would just like 401.

Ahab says, yeah, there is one. There's that one. Yeah, he's not here.

That one. But you know, I don't like him because he's notorious for
telling the truth. I don't like him because every time I consult him, he
prophesies bad things against me, Ahab said.

Brothers and sisters, this morning, the value of someone who speaks the
word of the Lord is not whether the hearers like the word, but whether
the prophecy is true. The very nature of prophecy is to speak the truth.
And so Ahab, rather than sitting down and saying, you know, I've
consulted with this prophet seven different times, and all seven times
what he prophesied came true.

Instead, he said, all seven times he prophesied evil against me. It's
kind of an interesting way of quantifying truth. However, we live in an
age that likes to quantify truth in just that way.

Does it suit me? Is it comfortable for me? Does it feel good when I hear
it? And so Ahab says, yeah, there is, there's that one more man, yeah,
Micaiah the son of Imlah. A man notorious for telling the truth. I was
praying for you this morning, and I said, Lord, raise up from among
these young people some people who are notorious for speaking the truth.

Can I get an amen on that? Would you like to be one of those people who
decides even if 400 people who name the name of God all get together and
go to one side, when the spirit of God tells me something different, I
will stand there and speak the truth. Number one, he was notorious for
truth telling. He was also valued for truth telling.

And I want to highlight the fact that while most people will not value
you for speaking the truth, those with sincere hearts will. Jehoshaphat
said, let not the king say so. Don't speak bad about the man before he
comes here.

Don't say that he speaks evil of you. Let's hear from him also. Why,
pray tell, did they ask to hear from the 401st prophet, if not that
there was just a little bit of something in their heart that valued
hearing the truth? We're looking at the life of Micaiah.

May God make you and I to be like Micaiah, notorious for telling the
truth, unloved for telling the truth by those who don't want to hear it,
but valued by those who want to hear the truth. And I want you to know
on the authority of God's word, and the history that we see through the
word of God, there will always be people, there will always be people
who want to hear the truth. There will always be a Jehoshaphat who says,
I feel like there's truth that I'm not getting.

I feel like we're not quite hearing the truth, even though the 400
prophets have stood up and spoken with one mouth. There will always be
people who value the truth. May you be those who value the truth.

Young people, may you be those who love the truth. May you be one of
those who hears 400 of God's people, in air quotes, 400 of God's people
who say what everybody wants to hear, and yet there's still something in
your heart that says, is there not yet another prophet? Is there not yet
one more person that we could hear? I feel like we haven't quite gotten
to the truth yet. May you be a lover of truth, and may you be one who
speaks the truth, and know that there will always be people who value
you because they know that you speak the truth.

What an interesting scenario. This is a story, so we are supposed to
picture it, right? We've got these two kings setting up there in their
robes, all set up in their royal splendor, and they've got this just,
you know, like a display of prophets coming one after another after
another, why do you need to hear 400? But they've heard 400 prophets,
and they're there prophesying away, and Ahab sends somebody, go quickly,
go find that one prophet who I don't like. Go have him come here, and
that servant rushes out, I don't know how far away Micaiah was, but he
rushes out there to him, and on the way, he's giving him a little pep
talk.

He's like, hey, Micaiah, just kind of want you to know the lay of the
land today. We've already got 400 prophets here, and the kings are
waiting for their instructions, and they want confirmation, and I just
want to kind of let you know what's going on. How about a little
confirmation bias? Why don't you just agree with what the prophets have
already said? Let me fill you in ahead of time on what they've been
telling us.

Micaiah refused instructions to conform. Micaiah refused instructions to
conform. He said, as the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that
will I speak.

Put into common language, as long as God is alive, I'm going to tell the
truth. As long as God is alive, whatever God tells me to preach is what
I'm going to preach. As long as God is alive, I will live for the truth.

May God make you like Micaiah. Hey, you know what? This is kind of what
everybody's doing. Why don't you just kind of fit in? Excuse me, as long
as my God is alive, I will speak and live and preach and value the
truth.

Can you imagine that kind of conversation going along? You've called
this man as a prophet of God. We want you to prophesy the truth, and
you're getting a little pep talk on the side. This is what everybody's
saying.

Can you just kind of go along with it? I thought about that servant who
was giving him those instructions. That person might be typical of the
world trying to cow us, trying to get us to bow, trying to get us to
conform. Just kind of fit in.

I know among young people, there's this desperate desire to be normal.
Normal's not very good, guys. We need to stand out for truth.

There's this tremendous desire to just fit in. And so this servant from
the king who came to call Micaiah might be typical of the world trying
to make us fit in. Please, in a million ways, every year of your life,
now more so than ever before, the servants of the king come and say, you
know what? Can you just kind of fit in? Can you go along? We've already
got a very clear majority, 400.

You're only one person. Can you just go along? Do you hear that call of
the world, young people? Can you just fit in? Can you please just go
along? That servant from the king typifies the world coming in and
trying to make us just fit in. And just in case the numbers worry you,
in case you ever feel like you're a tiny minority, Micaiah was too.

Micaiah was in a tiny minority in the land of Israel and Judah, but he
was also a minority within the voices of the prophets, his peers, those
who supposedly heard from God. It was 400 to one. We actually might have
odds that are better than that in North America today, I don't know.

But I know that we're in the minority, and I know that the world wants
us to conform, and I know that God wants us, like Micaiah, to say, as
long as my God is alive, I wanna speak the truth. I'm not gonna fit in,
not gonna go with the status quo, not gonna fit in with the other
people, even if they're my peers and friends, and even if they name the
name of God, I will live as the word of God has been shown to me. Some
of you young people came up here and made agreements with God that your
own peers haven't made.

Maybe God wants to use you to go home and spread the light to them. Some
of you made agreements with God here that are not popular. Don't worry
about that.

I remember going to my father when I was about 15 years old, and I said,
Papa, I don't understand why, if we're right, why are we in such a tiny
minority? Wouldn't it make sense that the people who are right would be
the majority? I remember my father said to me, he said, son, it's always
been that way. Those who follow the word of God, those who live for
truth have always been a tiny minority, but that tiny minority has been
the hinge on which world history and church history has swung. Don't be
afraid to be in the minority.

So this gentleman who came to tell him to go along, he stands as typical
of the world trying to conform us to its plan. He also stands as a type
of the peer pressure which you may experience in your church or in your
friend group. These were, after all, his prophet peers.

I imagine the gentleman who came to call him was telling him, you know,
this prophet and then the leader of prophets over here, and this
prophet, everybody's doing this. May God grant you young people the kind
of spiritual understanding and backbone that says the fact that
everybody's doing it is not good enough for me. As long as my God is
alive, I will say only what God speaks to me.

He pledged and kept, our fourth point. He pledged and kept his
commitment to the truth. Even before he got there, he told the servant
who called him, I am going there to speak the truth.

When I get there and God tells me this, you can count on me to say
exactly what God's spirit speaks to me. He pledged and he kept the
truth. Now, I don't know exactly why when he stood in front of the kings
and they asked him the first question, he parroted.

But I believe, if you listen to me when I read it, I put on the parrot
tone of voice, at least I tried. I believe when he stood in front of
these two kings, he decided to sort of put a mirror or turn the tables
on the kings by parroting what everybody else said. Go up to Raim of
Gilead and prosper.

And somehow in his tone of voice, immediately the king knew. Yeah, this
is what we've heard from everybody else. This is that same message that
we knew wasn't quite the truth.

Young people, do you know that even for all the darkness and downward
trend of North America today, people are still looking for truth? They
are, they're looking for reality. They're looking for something genuine.
They're looking for something radical.

God make you the Micaiah. He says, okay, you want the truth? Here's the
truth. God told me that the king is gonna die and all the people are
gonna be scattered.

Ahab says, didn't I tell you he was gonna come up here and say something
bad? I told you this was what was gonna happen. But Micaiah pledged and
kept his commitment to the truth. Then he stood in front of the king and
he spoke the truth just exactly as God had given it to him.

This is the vision that I saw. I saw the people scattered. I saw them
without a king.

I saw the king dead. And of course, what you would expect occurs. He
spoke the truth as God showed it to him.

Immediately following that speaking and announcing the truth, he had to
accept persecution from his peers. You should expect a Zedekiai, the son
of Chanaan in your life. You stand up and speak the truth and say, God
has allowed a lying spirit in all of these prophets.

All of these prophets have listened to a lying spirit and all of them
are working together in cahoots to send you up there to die. You should
expect somebody to stand up and say, hey, hey, hey, just a minute. You
think you've got the corner on truth.

Where did God's spirit go from me to speak to you? So you think I didn't
hear from God? And it's not unusual for people to be defensive when you
speak the truth and your truth shows up their lies. Truth by its very
nature shows up the lies. And that's not really anything personal
between these two prophets.

It's just that this was God's word and Micaiah had to speak it. But he
had to accept persecution from his peers. It's one thing to be slapped
by the world.

It's another thing for one of your co-prophets to come up and slap you
on. But Micaiah accepted persecution from his peers. Next, he accepted
persecution from his king.

Ahab really doesn't understand that he's working with God here. He says,
go put this man in prison and make sure you feed him bread of affliction
and water of affliction. I don't know if that was a particularly bad
form of bread.

Like, you know, if it's bread and water, but if it's three day old
bread, that's bread of affliction. And if it's nasty water, it's water
of affliction. I'm not exactly sure.

But even if it was just bread and water, you fast on bread and water for
two weeks, it becomes the bread and water of affliction. He says, go put
this man in prison, hand him to the prince and tell him to keep him,
tell him that he should keep him in prison till I come back in peace. I
had a little bit of a funny thought which maybe I should have
controlled, but I'm gonna share it with you.

Does that mean Micaiah's still in prison waiting for Ahab to come home?
The king's last word to him was, keep him in prison till I come back in
peace. Well, he didn't come back in peace. So Micaiah accepted
persecution from his king.

King said, go lock him up. Go put this man in prison. I'm gonna come
back in peace and I'll deal with him later.

Go put him in prison. And Micaiah was willing to go to prison for
speaking the truth. Now, right now we're not facing that.

It feels to me like it's very likely in your lifetimes that we will face
that. But right now, the prison that we may face is simply being pushed
away or out of the cool group or held off by some of our friends or
looked at a little bit strangely. And that may be the most difficult
thing we face right now.

But for young people, that can be quite painful. And even for me as a
slightly older person, to have my peers look at me strangely is very
painful. And so I want to encourage us today to be like Micaiah, willing
to suffer persecution from my peers, willing to suffer persecution from
my king.

Verse 28, reminding us here in our final verse of a couple of points
here. Our next point is that Micaiah called out the lies which were
prevalent in his day. Micaiah called out the lies which were prevalent
in his day.

The day is coming quickly in North America where the challenge will be,
is the church going to be quiet or is the church going to speak the
truth? Is the church going to just decide to kind of hide as much as
possible or is the church going to be known for standing up and saying,
this is the truth? Micaiah spoke up and communicated the truth. Our next
point, Micaiah was unshaken by everything shaking around him. The Bible
doesn't tell us what Micaiah was doing, but in my mind I tried to think
through what must it have been like? You know, Micaiah's sitting in his
house, he's pottering around in his garden, maybe he's drinking a cup of
tea, and here comes a messenger from the king and just like two or three
hours later, he's on his way to prison.

What has just happened in my life? I was just having a lovely Saturday
morning and the king sends a messenger to me and I spoke the truth as
God gave it to me and now I'm on my way to the king's prison. But
Micaiah was unshaken by all of that. Micaiah didn't start to waver, he
didn't start to adapt his message, he didn't try to smooth it over a
little bit, he didn't try to connect with Zedekiah, the son of Chanaan,
and say, well, we can work this out.

He spoke the truth and finally, he restated the truth on his way out the
door to prison. He says to the people, Micaiah said, if thou return at
all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me. And just in case anybody
wasn't aware of what he was saying, he says, hearken, O people, every
one of you.

And by that action, all of those people became witnesses to the prophecy
that Micaiah had just given and they became witnesses to the truth of
God's word and what was about to happen in the life of these two kings.
Micaiah was not shaken, Micaiah was not cowed, Micaiah was not quieted,
Micaiah was not hiding, he was not looking for a cave, he's on his way
to prison. He says, listen, all of you, if this king comes back in
peace, God did not speak through me.

That's like he's doubling down on the truth that he's just spoken, he's
not bowing, he's not afraid, he's not bending, he's not cowed by all
that he's walked through. Micaiah restates the truth on his way to
prison. This morning, young people, I have a special burden for all of
you as you go back into normal life.

You know, Bible school is not normal life. It's special, it's special in
terms of friendship, it's special in terms of time spent in corporate
worship, messages every day, that lovely coffee you had downstairs, the
meals that all the staff put on, God bless you. Bible school is not
normal.

And two or three days from now, or five days from now, you're going to
be very much back into normal life. The need of the hour in your peer
group, in your church, in your state, in this nation, the need of the
hour is for men and women who will stand for truth, who will stand up
and be an example to those who are around them, whether it's to the
kings, whether it's to the nations, or whether it's to the prophets,
those who are already in the church. God is looking for people who will
stand for the truth.

You've learned something new. Don't be embarrassed. You've made some
commitments to Christ during this week.

Don't go home and be quiet about it. I appreciate you sharing your
testimonies. Obviously, not everyone did, but some of you shared.

You need to continue sharing. In fact, I would urge you, within the
first day or two of getting home, wherever home is, if it's here in
Lancaster County, this afternoon, when you get home with your parents,
sit down and share. Call one of your friends, call your best friend, and
tell them what God has done for you.

There is something powerful about testifying of the truth of what God
has done in my life. It helps it to stick. There's also something in the
opposite way.

Conversely, I think they say, there's something really powerful about
having God do something in your heart and you just, that's one of the
fastest ways possible to have what God did in your heart go away. And
you just keep quiet, and you don't wanna tell your friends, and you're
thinking, oh my, if I tell them I think I got filled with the Holy
Spirit, somebody's gonna be like, whoa, where did you go to Bible
school? Tell them, I got free! I'm not struggling with lust anymore!
They're gonna say, oh really? Well, that was a week of Bible school. If
you're cowed, if you hear the peer pressure messenger who comes to you
and says, look, this is what everybody has agreed to say, just kinda go
along with it.

When you hear that, and you live that way for a few days, it's a pretty
small thing for Satan to steal the seed out of your heart that God
planted. But when you stand up and tell people, this is what God did in
my life, I've renewed my commitment in this way, I have broken free of
this, I've received healing and forgiveness, I have forgiven others,
when you testify of what God's been doing in your life, you are speaking
the truth! I remember as a young man, around the time I got married, God
was teaching my wife and I that one of the elements of truth is being
willing to confess where we failed. But another element of truth is
being able to testify about what God is doing in my life.

You need both elements of truth. If you came here and cleared things,
you need to go home and tell people you did that. If you came here and
learned some new nugget of truth which is transforming your life, you
need to testify of it.

I'm praying that God will raise up here some Micaiahs, men and women who
are notorious for telling the truth. Yeah, there's gonna be lots of
people who are gonna say just like they said about Micaiah, there is
that one person but I don't like him because everything he says goes
against me. But there will also be Jehoshaphats in your life who will
say, I needed that.

Some of you were brought here by friends, some of you got to where you
got to this week because of somebody else testifying of truth in their
lives. May God make us a nation or a Christian nation of Micaiahs who
will stand up, tell the truth, be unbowed by the peer pressure and
criticism. I'd like to encourage you to leave this Bible school with a
watchword on your mouth from Micaiah.

As long as my God is alive, I will speak the truth. As long as my God is
alive, I will bear testimony to the things that God is doing in my life.
I'm not going to worry about whether it goes along with the status quo.

I'm not going to worry about whether everybody else is doing something
different. I'm going to stand. Micaiah, notorious for truth telling.

Let's bow our heads. Father, we wanna thank you this morning for 1 Kings
chapter 22 and this 28 verse snapshot of the life of a man who really
challenges us. Lord Jesus, you have done so many good, good things in
the hearts of these young people this week and Lord, you're still doing
them.

Father, I pray that you will add to all that you've done in their lives
this week. You will add to them the grace and grit necessary to stand
for truth. Oh Lord, the world cows us.

They attempt to change us. They want to conform us to their image. Lord,
let us be transformed by renewing our minds in your word.

I pray that these young people would have a commitment as they go home
that they are not going to go along with their peer group in any area
that does not go along with what your word is speaking into their
hearts. And especially this week, Lord, let them go home and testify
boldly. Let them go home and proclaim your goodness.

Let them go home and explain to people the great things that you have
done in their life. Pour your grace on each one of them, Father, we
pray. In Jesus' name, amen.

Thank you, young people. God bless you.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/_ULgwZ5e3Vo.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/daniel-kenaston/micaiah-notorious-for-truth-telling/
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