Trusting His Higher Ways

Okay, if you want a title this morning, I want to title this meditation, Trusting His Higher Ways. In Isaiah chapter 55, we have these words, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, and His ways are higher than our ways. I'd like to give you some words of encouragement this morning.

I was thinking about it, that God's word is multi-multifaceted. As I was driving this week, I was meditating on the verse which says, All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable. And for some reason, when I was meditating this week, I felt like God gave me a stop sign.

You know, the rest of the verse says, Profitable for, and then it lists, For doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction. But I felt like God wanted me to highlight and meditate on the word profitable. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.

And I would like for us to benefit from the profit of a few Bible stories this morning, and let it be an encouragement to our hearts. Let's turn first to the book of Exodus. We're going to read briefly, or quickly, five different stories.

Exodus chapter 14. I've been meditating recently on the fact that one of the challenges we have in trusting God is that when we're up against difficulties, God is primarily focused on His glory, and He's not primarily focused on solving our problems. We, on the other hand, are almost entirely fixated on the immediate removal of the challenge that we are facing.

And herein lies the challenge in trusting His higher ways. That's our title, trusting His higher ways. So let me repeat that.

God is primarily focused on His glory, not primarily focused on solving our problems. We, on the other hand, are almost entirely fixated on the immediate removal of the challenge that we're facing. And because of that, it's easy for us to feel like God's not coming through, or God doesn't really care, or the instructions that we're getting from God don't seem to make sense because we're thinking, God, I'm in a difficult spot.

I'm in a problem. I need an immediate... I need you to immediately solve this problem, or immediately remove this problem. And so I've been meditating on a few stories in the... mostly in the Old Testament, where God absolutely came through for His people, but maybe not in the way that they expected.

We're in Exodus chapter 14. You're very familiar with the story. I'm going to take it for granted that a church like this is basically a church full of Bible school students, and I'm glad for that.

I presume that we know the story very well of how God led the children of Israel out, how God led the children of Israel out of Egypt through Moses. And then we're going to break into the story in verse 9, when Pharaoh decides, you know what, I think I made a mistake. We're going to chase these people down.

So we're reading in verse 9, and I will read rapidly, again believing that we know this story. But the Egyptians pursued after them all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Bel-Zephron. And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them, and they were sore afraid, and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is this not the word we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. And Moses said unto them, Fear ye not. There are so many situations that the children of God face, and that we face, where we're almost beside ourself with fear, and the word of God comes, and says to counter our fear, Don't be afraid.

Are you kidding? Have you looked behind us, Moses? Do you not realize that Pharaoh and his army is bearing down on us at this very moment? And your reply is, Fear not? After you're afraid, what's the next response? Run! Except they were right up against the water. But the people were looking. There's a mountain on this side.

There's a mountain on that side. Where can we run? And God's word comes and says, Fear not, stand still. I'd like God to say into all of our hearts this morning, whatever we are facing, Fear not, stand still.

Overcome that, I gotta run! Fear not, stand still. And then, after you deal with that fear, and you stop that inclination to run, you will see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you this day. For the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.

So God is aware, Moses is aware, that everybody's eyes are on this army coming up behind us. He says, Hey, I don't want you to be afraid. And I don't want you to run.

I want you to stand still. And then once you stand still, I want you to see the salvation of the Lord. And here is God's pledge to you.

Those Egyptians that you see, they're like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we see them. We see them. They're bearing down on us.

The chariots are coming. We can see the dust. We can hear them.

He says, Those Egyptians that you see today, you are never going to see them again. Wow, what an incredible promise. Those Egyptians that you see, you are never going to see again.

Verse 14, The Lord shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. And the Lord said to Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward, but lift up your rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it. Again, I'm going to presume that we know this story.

The Bible says that God moved the pillar so that the pillar was now behind them, blocking the view of the Egyptians trying to find the Israelites. And the Bible says in verse 21, And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night. Sometimes we expect God to do something instantly because we recognize God has the power to do something instantly.

And it's like, God, if you're going to move the water back, why does it have to take all night? Have you ever felt like that? God, I mean, it's such an incredible miracle to stop the sea. If you're going to do it, why does Moses have to stretch the rod? And if you're going to do the miracle, why does it have to take all night? Couldn't you just say, there it is? Couldn't you just transport us to the other side? Why do we have to split the river at all? The sea at all? Why don't you just transport us over there? And we're over there going, hi Egyptians, there you are. And we're on this side.

But God chooses to do his miracles through obedience on the part of Moses. And God chooses to do his miracles sometimes through a process that takes all night. Whatever challenges you and I are facing, we need to be able to stand still and not run during that long night when we know the Egyptians are bearing down on us from behind and Moses is standing here doing this really strange thing, holding his rod out over a river.

Amen? Think about that night. We just read these little lines in the Bible and sometimes God puts a spotlight on it. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

What was it like about two o'clock in the morning? You come out of your tent or coming out. Well, I guess probably they hadn't set up tents, but you come out and there's Moses still standing there. It's like, what is Moses doing? We got an army behind us.

What is God doing? There's Moses. God is primarily focused on his glory, not primarily focused on getting us out of our problems. Sometimes it's difficult for us to trust him because of that.

You and I know what happens. God intervenes. The river is pushed back.

The people of Israel pass through. God lets the water return once the Egyptians are in the middle of the sea. And God's word is absolutely true.

Those Egyptians were never seen again. But it takes faith and confidence in God to stop running, stop fearing, stand still, and wait through the long night with your rod out over the river. Let's move to the second one.

We're jumping to the book of Judges. Again, similar story. Again, these are all very familiar to you.

All I'm doing is highlighting. Book of Judges, we have the story of Gideon. And I know you're familiar with this story.

Gideon gathers an army. It's not an easy thing to gather an army. God does a series of miracles in Gideon's life to gather that army.

Finally, there's Gideon with an army. And it's like, wow, after all of this, we've been able to gather together an army of 32,000, which up against the horde of the Midianites still doesn't feel very good, but at least it's an army. Let's break into this one also.

God says to Gideon, verse 2 of chapter 7, Judges 7, chapter 7, verse 2. And the Lord said to Gideon, the people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands. Gideon must have said, you've got to be kidding me. The horde of the Midianites? And I've got an army of 32,000 here, and you say this is too large? But see, here is where we get this glimpse of what God's focus is on.

He says, if I give you victory over the Midianites, there's a risk that Israel might vault themselves against me, saying, my own hand hath saved me. We're 32,000 of the best soldiers, and we lick the Midianites. Remember, God is primarily interested in displaying His glory.

I'm not taken away from the fact that God loves and cares for His children, and He wants to bring us out of our challenges, and He wants to hold our hand through the challenges, but sometimes God doesn't do things the way we think He should do them or as quickly as we think He should do them, because He's looking for an opportunity to broadcast His glory to us and to the nations. So He says, this is too large of an army. Hey, gather the people together and tell them, if anyone is afraid, you can go.

22,000 went away. You want to talk about a morale, loss of morale? Armies shoot single deserters because deserters break the morale of the army. What do you do when 22,000 people leave? And Gideon's probably there going, oh my, what have I gotten myself into? Verse four, and the Lord said to Gideon, the people are yet too many.

We're so familiar with these stories, but my, that is supposed to slap you across the face. The people are still too many, Gideon, 10,000. And Gideon's thinking, I'm trying to reorganize my groups.

You know, now you're not a captain of 50. Now you're a captain of about 17. I'm trying to bring all this organization down to the fact that I've only got an army of 10,000.

The people are still too many. And you know the story. God says, take them down to the water and let them drink.

And those who do this, let them go home. And those who drink in this way, watching, scanning the horizon for danger, those are the ones that you keep. And a couple hours later, Gideon is down to 300 men.

And you know the story, the tremendous victory that God wrought through Gideon and those 300 men, it brought glory to God. Remember that God is proving His power in front of His people. He's also showing His glory to the nations.

So, you know, the stories go down the camel trains out from the center of the world, which is where this was occurring at that time. That was the center of the world. The camel trains are going in all directions.

And these stories are being shared around the campfires. Well, the horde of the Midians came up against those people there in Israel. And Israel mobilized an army of 32,000 and they licked the Midianites.

And people are like, wow, that is, they must be some incredible fighters. What kind of skills do they have? Oh, but when the story gets told around the campfires that God used an army of 300 people led by a man who had never been a soldier, much less a general, that story redounds to the glory of God, amen? Because nobody listens to that and goes, whoa, those Israelis are real soldiers. Everybody listens to that and says, that's those people and their God, they've got some deity that 300 people beat the Midianites, amen? God is primarily interested in his glory, but we're fixated on our problem.

And so it's like, God, why aren't you coming through for me? God, why is your solution look like it's not a solution at all? Send home the majority of your army. God's looking out for his glory. Move to the next one, 2 Kings.

I realize we're moving rapidly, but again, you know these stories. Book of 2 Kings and chapter three. Kings had gathered to fight against Jehoshaphat.

We're breaking in in verse nine. So the king of Israel went and the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And they fetched a compass of seven days journey and there was no water for the host or for the cattle that followed them.

And the king of Israel said, alas, that the Lord have called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab. But Jehoshaphat said, is there not a prophet of the Lord that we may inquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, here is Elisha, the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah. And Jehoshaphat said, the word of the Lord is with him.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. Let's jump over a few verses there and jump down to verse 16. He, the prophet said, thus saith the Lord, make this valley full of ditches.

For thus saith the Lord, ye shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water that ye may drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will deliver the Moabites into your hand.

I want you as a new military strategy, all of you are dying of thirst. We've got the armies of three nations together. It's been seven days marching.

You long ago finished the water that you had brought in your skin pouches that they used to use in those days. And everybody's thirsty, very thirsty, very weak. And the word of the Lord comes from the prophet and says, why don't you start digging? Do you get the irony of that? That seems like cruel and unusual punishment telling thirsty, tired men, okay, the word of the Lord says dig.

Sometimes God's word comes to us and asks us to do something that seems like, it's like, God, are we understanding each other at all here? I brought you this problem. You asked me to do this. I brought a financial challenge to you.

I'm asking you to do a miracle. And your response was to tell me to give away some of the little I have to somebody else. I think maybe we cross some wires here somewhere.

I'm asking you to help me solve a financial problem. And your response is, I should take some of the little I have and give it away. See, God is primarily, I know I'm repeating myself, but I hope we can remember this line.

He's primarily interested in creating a platform on which his glory goes out. Jesus said, start digging ditches. And we can ask God why? You know, we're tired.

Start digging ditches, it's gonna be dust. Dry, thirsty men are gonna get really thirsty with all that dust. And we're supposed to do manual labor.

We're just hoping that we don't die of thirst. We're hoping that the Moabites don't realize how weak we are because we can't fight. Now you're telling us to dig ditches? That story forever stands for me as an assurance that sometimes the mundane things that God asks us to do are absolutely part of the miracle that God is about to do.

The next morning, the Moabites said, whoa, they've gathered three armies against us. The Bible says the Moabites went and gathered anyone who was able to hold any kind of weapon, even the boys with their slingshots. And they stood on the border.

And as the sun came up, the water reflect, the water that had filled that valley mysteriously by God's own miracle, the water reflects the rising sun. And the Moabites are confused and think that that's blood. Let's go and get the spoils.

And you know the story. Only God, only God can do that sort of a miracle. But sometimes it's difficult for us to trust his higher ways because we're so caught up in our circumstances and in our challenges.

And we're asking God to remove the challenges or give me some, you know, some great impression, some miraculous wisdom that will help me solve it. And the prophet or the pastor or the Bible or your counselor says, yeah, why don't you dig ditches? Ditches? Please explain to me what ditches have to do with us needing water and what do ditches have to do with the fact that we need to beat the Moabites. If you told us start digging a well, if the prophet had come down and said, okay, I've gone all around right here, dig.

They would have started digging. God didn't tell them to dig a well. Everybody knows if you need water, you don't dig a ditch, you dig a well.

And yet God said, dig ditches. Fill this valley with ditches. I have this beautiful picture in my mind of tens of thousands of Israelite soldiers spreading out across that valley with some kind of a basic hoe or pickaxe, if you will.

Remember, they're not using a ditch witch here. We're doing everything manual labor. I have this picture of thousands of soldiers spread out, tired, weak, weary, but in obedience to the prophet of God, they are digging ditches.

And those same men who dug those ditches in weariness and tiredness, in a desperate faith obedience to God's word, those same men woke up the next morning and drank from those ditches that they had dug. Hallelujah. They drank from the ditches that they had dug.

And just like God's word says, this is just a little miracle. You think drinking water from these ditches is a miracle? This is a little miracle. The big miracle is that these same ditches are gonna beat the Moabites.

2 Chronicles chapter 20. 2 Chronicles chapter 20. Here, Jehoshaphat is facing the children of Moab and the children of Ammon and other armies besides the Ammonites.

They came to Jehoshaphat to battle and Jehoshaphat was told, look, there's a great multitude coming and you're not gonna be able to fight them off. The Bible says in chapter 20 of 2 Chronicles verse 3, Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast. And basically just said, God, we don't know where to turn.

We've gathered together. We're in fasting and prayer. We're not out here training to, you know, get a little bit more skilled in our fighting.

We are praying. We're leaning on you. We do not know what to do.

Are you not the God that helped our forefathers? Now here, look at what we're facing. Chapter 20 and verse 12. Oh, our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us.

Neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. And all Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones, their wives and their children. Then upon Jehaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeel, the son of Mataniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation.

And he said, Hearken all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and thou King Jehoshaphat. Thus saith the Lord unto thee, be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God's. Tomorrow go ye down against them.

Behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz, and ye shall find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jerul. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord with you.

Oh Judah and Jerusalem, fear not nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them for the Lord will be with you. Again, this is another one of these situations where Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah are overwhelmed.

He says, We do not have the strength. We are not capable of countering this threat. So we're looking to you, Lord.

And God's word comes through the prophet and tells him, This battle is not on you. This battle is on me. I'm going to tell you where your enemy is coming.

I'm going to tell you where you're going to meet the enemy. And I'm going to tell you what you're going to do. You are not going to fight.

The children of Judah were so delighted with this prophecy that the Bible says they started singing with loud voices. That means they activated their faith to believe and stand on the promise that God had just given. They started singing with loud voices.

Oh, may God do that for you. May you be able to go from terror and fear. And we don't have the strength to stand up against this army.

May you receive God's word of encouragement to your heart this morning. And may you stand on it, activate it with your faith and say, OK, now we're going to sing with loud voices. Yet the armies are still coming.

They're still a mighty horde. We still don't have strength to overcome them, but we have God's word that he's going to fight for us. So what we're going to do right now, not another, not some more sword play, not a little bit more trying for a new effort, not some new skill, not some new strategy.

No, we're going to spend this time singing. And the next day, as God told them, they went down in their lines, all organized battle formation, except that they were led by a bunch of people praising. Hallelujah.

And that was God's direction in this situation. Sometimes God chooses to enable armies. And sometimes God says, you are not going to fight at all.

Because remember, God is not primarily interested in just rescuing us from problems. He's primarily looking for how he can be glorified. And so this story lives now thousands of years later in the word of God and probably also in the repeated annals of a verbal history passed down.

Do you remember that time when three armies came up against this group of people and they beat them without ever lifting a sword? How did they do that? What kind of trickery? How were they able to overcome them? Oh, they just sang. Amen. They just sang.

And the Bible says that God turned the people against themselves. There was a, you know, an agreement between them to fight. And there were ambushes set and they started fighting and they killed each other to a level that the Bible says there was no one left.

And Israel went in and just took all the spoil and went home. What do you think they were doing on the way home? If you can praise when the impending danger is still coming but you have God's promise and then you can praise when you're facing off against the enemy, you sure enough are going to be going home with praises after God has shown himself mighty. Our last one, John chapter 5. The only one in the New Testament.

Sorry, John chapter 11. I'm sure that some of you are sitting here and thinking of others. There are many others.

But these are the ones the Lord laid on my heart. John chapter 11. Story of Lazarus' death.

Jesus shows up a few days late, right on time, but a few days late. And when he shows up, we're in John chapter 11 from verse 20. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him.

But Mary sat still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died. But I know that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, he will give it to thee.

And there's these interactions. Jesus talks about the resurrection. And Martha states that she believes in the resurrection and she believes that he is the Christ.

So let's jump forward through there a few more verses. We get to verse 39. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone.

Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he hath been dead four days. This is going to be a great family embarrassment. People do show up late to funerals, but you don't ask to go in and see the decomposing body, Lord Jesus.

You're late. He's already dead. He's already been buried.

Jesus says, No, roll back the stone. I want the stone. I want the grave opened.

Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, Didn't I say to you that if you believe you would see the glory of God. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

And I know that thou hearest me always. But because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth.

And he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes. And his face was bound about with a napkin. And Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.

Again, I know this story is very familiar to us. Mary and Martha had reached out to Jesus. We're in a crisis.

Our brother is sick. We're in a greater crisis. Our brother is still sick.

He's getting weaker. Jesus, are you coming? Jesus, aren't you there for us? I thought you were our friends. We knew that you loved us.

We're reaching out. We need you. You're not coming.

And then Lazarus dies because God is not primarily interested in removing us from our problems and solving our problems. He is primarily focused on displaying his glory. And he already knew what was going to happen.

He already knew the way he was going to get glory. He already knew that people would believe on him because of this. And so Lazarus dies.

But remember that Lazarus family had to live through the death of Lazarus and the great disappointment that this miracle worker Jesus who was a close personal friend didn't show. Have you ever felt like that? If you're honest, you don't have to raise your hand. But if you're honest in your heart, I believe every one of us has experienced that at least once in our life.

And some of us have experienced it dozens of times where we reached out to someone, our Lord Jesus, who we know has miracle power. We believe that he has miracle power. We know that he loves us.

We believe that he loves us. But Lazarus still dies. Remember because we're looking at our problem and asking God to remove it and God's looking at his glory.

Herein lies the challenge in trusting his higher ways. And yet Martha still says, I still believe in you. My, you disappointed us.

I still believe in you. May God grant you and I faith like that, that even when our Lazarus dies, even when the situation that we were asking God, don't let it happen. Please stop this situation.

Please remove me. Don't let this challenge come. Don't let this problem come.

Don't let this happen in this person's life. And it happens. May God give you and I the faith, the trust in his higher ways that we can meet the Lord Jesus and say, if you had come earlier, my brother wouldn't have died.

But I still believe in you. Please, can you get that? What a word from Martha's mouth. Jesus, if you would have come, my brother would not have died.

But even though I'm sorely disappointed that my miracle working good friend, Jesus didn't show up when my brother was sick. I still believe in you that whatever you ask from the father will happen. That faith, that faith is beautiful.

And it's beautiful to the Lord Jesus. And more than that, it brings such glory to God. Everybody can believe him when he's doing miracles that work out well for us.

And he shows up on time according to our human reasoning. But to be able to meet the Lord Jesus after the miracle worker who loved your brother did not show up until your brother is dead and rotting in the grave. And to meet the Lord Jesus and say, I still believe in you.

I'm challenging us with that kind of trust and faith as we close. There's a lot of things I don't understand. A lot.

There are some Lazaruses that I prayed that they wouldn't die and they died. There are some times where I thought, wow, miraculously, we've gathered an army of 32,000. It's not enough.

But wow, I can't believe I'm in charge of an army of 32,000. And then God starts filtering them away. We often misunderstand his delays or unusual commands.

And we think it shows that he doesn't care. Sometimes our Lazarus dies. Sometimes our miracle army melts away in front of our eyes.

Sometimes God's command is to dig something that seems totally disconnected from the problem that we're bringing to him. Sometimes he asks us to stand still when doom seems to be chasing us. And sometimes he asks us just to worship while the armies mass in front of us.

During the period when we lost our little serenity, which is 10 years ago, this last March, a song became very special to our family, which says, if you cannot see his hand, trust his heart. Some of you know that song. It's a lovely song.

God's ways are not our own. And like a tapestry, he's weaving you and me that we can be more like him. If you do not understand, you can't figure out what he's doing, then trust his heart.

If you can meet Jesus on the path and welcome Jesus to your home after Lazarus dies and the second words out of your mouth are, I still believe in you and I believe in the resurrection and I believe that you are the Messiah. You have absolutely overcome and God is being glorified. Trust his higher ways.

I close with John chapter 13 and verse seven. I know I'm pulling this out of context, but it's so real and so true from the heart of God that I'm not in any way resting the scriptures. Jesus is washing his disciples' feet.

Jesus said, when Peter said, why are you washing my feet? Jesus answered and said to him, what I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. Trust his higher ways. All now mysterious shall be bright again.

I mean that for your life, for crises that you're facing that I don't know anything about. I mean that for our church and what we're facing here. I mean that in every different aspect and facet of your life.

I speak faith and trust in God into your heart this morning. I want to encourage you, trust his higher ways. He is looking for a way to display his glory.

It's not that he doesn't care. It's not that he's not coming. It may be that Lazarus dies, but he will still show.

It may be that his commands to you don't seem to make sense, but they're going to work. It may look like the very army that you miraculously gathered and are thanking God for is now filtering away in front of your eyes. Trust his higher ways.

Father, thank you for your word this morning. Father, I pray that you would just speak strength into your people this morning. Lord, I prophesy as a small pea prophet over your people this morning.

I pray faith and encouragement and strength into their hearts, Father, that they will be able to trust your higher ways. That when it seems like you're not coming through, they will recognize that you are looking for a way to glorify yourself in their lives. And Father, we often lift up Mary because she's the one who sat at Jesus' feet, but Martha's the one who meets him here and in this crisis moment says, I still believe in you.

Father, I pray that your people that are hurting this morning would be able to reach up with their hands and their hearts to you. You can do it right now while we're all eyes closed and praying. Father, I pray that your people that are walking through difficulties and discouragements and confusions and don't really understand what's going on.

I pray, Father, that they could reach up as Martha did with a heart of faith. Yes, a disappointed heart, a bit of a confused heart, but a heart of faith nonetheless that says to you, I still believe you're the Messiah. And I believe in the ultimate reality of the resurrection and the life hereafter.

And I believe still that whatever you pray will be answered. What a beautiful faith. Inspire our hearts this morning, Father, from your word.

Thank you for your people here. In Jesus' name, amen. God bless you.

Thank you.