Where Real Joy Is Found and Why Cynicism Cannot Sustain You

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Lasting joy, Hallelujah. And this is a message that actually

I was going to share on Wednesday night, and as

I got it ready, I just really felt impressed with

the Lord to share it today. So did some switching

and just as I prayed about it, felt like Lloyd said, no,

that's for Sunday. Now on Wednesday night, I want to

continue this. I think it's going to be a series

ensem one because there's all I can really do is

introduce it this morning. This is such a powerful psalm.

It's one of my favorite songs, one of my favorite

passages in the Bible, and there's so much truth in here.

We'll be able to kind of introduce it today and

outline it, but we'll get more in depth to it

and plumb the depths of it. And I think as

you hear it'll become one of your favorite passages and

one of your favorite psalms. So i'd encourage you to

come on Wednesday night, or get the CDs or listen

to it online, because there's just some tremendous revelation, knowledge

and truth in here. I want to first start out

by talking about or mentioning a word, cynicism. We're talking

about the secret of lasting joy. The opposite of that

could be termed citicism cynicism. Lloyd Ogilvie said it this way.

We'll have the quote on the screen. He said, Cynicism

is addictive. It begins with negativism, grows into a critical

attitude and becomes a settled personality trait. We all suffer

this debilitating, virulent poison to some degree. The opposite of

joy is not glumness, it's cynicism. You know, in these

times in which we live and all the things we're facing,

do you ever feel that trying to creep on you? Negativism,

a critical attitude, and God forbid it becoming a settled

personality trait? He says. We all suffer from it in

one degree or another. So we want to guard against that.

What issm cynicism? It's almost epidemic these days, it seems

it's current times we are in the definition of cynicism,

is this skepticism, pessimism, sarcasm, disbelief, doubt, mistrust, a scornful

or jaded negativity, a general distrust of others' motives. So

if you find yourself identifying with any of those, which

is easy to do in these times, I mean, I

talk to people and you can pick up cynicism. But

if you sense any that skepticism, pessimism, sarcasm, disbelief, doubt, mistrust, scornful,

jaded negativity, a general distrust of others and their motives,

then this message is for you today. We're going to

look at the secret of lasting joy and just the

cynicism seems rampant today almost everywhere you look. Along with it,

there's another thing that you can pick up is depression

and sadness and gloominess, hopelessness and misery, just the general

state of unhappiness in some people. And those things can

be deadly. The question is is there an antidote? Does

God provide a remedy? Should it surprise us that he does.

There is a remedy to cynicism, to depression, to these things,

and it works. So we're going to discover the day

the secret of lasting joy? Is there a three thousand

year old key embedded in the ancient scriptures. That is

the secret of lasting happiness, true blessing and continuing joy

and prosperity. It's been there for three thousand years. Many

have discovered it, many are unaware of it. A three

thousand year old secret, if you would, embedded in the

ancient scriptures, just waiting to be discovered. Henry Ward Beecher

said this, the cynic is one who never sees a

good quality in a man and never fails to see

a bad one. That defines a cynic pretty well. I

think I should put that quote up there. If you

got that, it should be up there. The cynic is

one who never sees a good quality in a man

and never fails to see a bad one. And then

Robert Lewis Stevenson said this, to lose joy is to

lose everything. To lose joy is to lose everything. So

let's look at the secret of lasting joy and blessedness.

And this three thousand year old key is right here

in Psalm one, familiar psalm to many. But you know,

sometimes we can be so familiar with things that we

don't really grasp the fullness of them. He starts out

by saying, blessed is the man or the woman. Blessed

is the man or the woman, and then he goes

on to describe the state of blessedness. He gives us

three negatives, two positives, one result in four characteristics or

lasting fruit. He says, the blessed person is one who

does not do three things, does do two things, and

he becomes something with someone with four amazing results. Let's

first look at this word blessed, blessed is the man blessed.

It's the Hebrew wordes share e s h e r,

and it means blessed, happy and favored, blessed happy, in favored.

I think everybody wants to be blessed, wants to be happy,

wants to be favored. Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old Testament

Works word says this word a shaer connotes the state

of prosperity or happiness that comes when it's superior. In

this case, it be Yahweh bestows his favor his blessing

on one, and that would be us. Blessed is the man.

Blessed is the man a Hebrew reads more, Oh, the

blessednesses or the happiness is It's a plural. Oh, the

blessedness is the happiness is of the man of the

woman who doesn't do these three things and does do

these two things, and he becomes or she becomes an

amazing testimony of what God can do in a person's life.

A share blessed or happy. Remember in Genesis. I've just

been reading in Genesis in my one year Bible. And Leah,

the one of the wives of Jacob, gave birth to

a child, and she said, I am happy for the

daughters will call me blessed. So she called his name Asher,

from the same word here escher Asher. She said, I'm happy,

I'm blessed. So she called her son's name Asher because

Asher means happy, it means blessed. It's interesting this word,

Hebrew word when you look at the etymology of it

and the words that it's the pictures that it comes from,

because Hebrew words also have a numerical value and a

pictorial value. If you would and this word share pictures.

A cord pulled tightly, A chord pulled tightly, straight or firm,

like a chord of a or a rope on a

tent that's pulled tightly to secure that tent. Hence this

from the Complete Word Study Dictionary. This will be on

the screen. Also, it defineses share this way as one

who is happy is one whose life is lived straightly

and firmly, holds to the truth, pulled a chord, pulled,

firm and straight, he says. The Sphere to God says,

the secret to happiness, blessedness, favor, prosperity is to live

our lives in a straight and firm way, holding to

the truth. And you'll be a share, You'll be blessed,

you'll be happy. It goes on to say blessed is

frequently connected to wisdom. We can see that in proverbs,

especially the more wisdom we get, the more blessed we

will become, and is used to describe not only a

person but a nation. A nation can be blessed. Blessed

is the nation whose God is the Lord. So people can,

individuals can be blessed, nations can be blessed. It's usual

to describe a person or nation who enjoys a relationship

with God. So in simplest form, to be blessed is

to enjoy a relationship with God. And you're blessed. Whether

we know it or not. We are blessed if we

enjoy a relationship with God. Now there's a lot of

aspects of blessing. Are A tory in his Topical textbook

lists forty three characteristics of the blessed from scripture. This

forty three different scripture passages that identify and define the blessed.

So there's a lot involved in that. But what the

writer of Psalms here says, which may theorize, was David.

What this psalm lets us know really covers a lot

of those forty three different things I looked at all,

and we're not going to go over them today, but

a lot of them are covered. And right here in

what Psalm one says, the word also means or speaks

of one who chooses to live a significant life. A

blessed person is one who chooses to live a significant life.

If we do that, we will be blessed. Now look

at the amplified the amplified Bible. For Psalm one starts out,

bess happy, fortunate, prosperous, and to be envied is the

man is the woman blessed? How many of us would

like to be blessed? Happy, fortunate, prosperous, and even envied

in a good sense. Well, that's what he's about to

tell us. In fact, that Hebrew reads blessed is that

man that woman who does not do three things, does

do two things. That's that embedded key in scripture. So

we look at three negatives, two positives, one result, and

four amazing outcomes. Now, why would God give us three negatives?

Because there are blessing blockers, there are joy stealers, and

we have to guard against those and fight against those.

And then the positives, there are blessing enhancers and joy

providers that we want to embrace. So let's look at him.

Let's go here, let's go on here. He says, blessed

is the man or that man who walks not in

the council of the ungodly, nor stands in the path

of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

So he says, the blessed person does not do three things.

He walks not, he stands not, and he sits not.

He does not walk, he does not sit stand, and

he does not sit. He does not walk in the

council of the ungodly, he does not stand in the

path of sinners, and he does not sit in the

seat of the scornful, so that the council of the ungodly,

the path of sinners, the seat of the scornful. That

can take many forms. And we are inundated with that

kind of information because of the proliferation of twenty four

to seven news in the Internet and all kinds like

the video we saw to start this. I mean, there's

a lot of scorn and mocking and different things out there,

especially against I heard on Christian radio yesterday they're talking

about the modern day war on Christianity. They said, there's

so many Christians being even killed around the world, they

can't even number them. It's a battle. But just even

in our own lives, we have to guard against walking

in the council of the ungodly, standing in the path

of sinners, or sitting in the seat of the scornful.

And notice this person that if we don't guard against that,

we start out walking, then all of a sudden you're standing,

then you're sitting. Goes from action to passivity to even worse,

go from walking to just standing to now just sitting.

Now here's the good news. We don't have to walk

in the council of the godly. We can walk in

the council of the Almighty. Hallelujah. We can walk in

the council of the Godly. We can go to the

Word of God and get the counsel of the Almighty.

We can be around Christians and believers and feed on

good Christian material and get the counsel of the godly. Hallelujah.

We don't have to stand in the way of sinners. Rather,

we can stand in the way of the righteous. We're

doing that today. That's why we need to be in church,

to be in the company of the righteous. You know,

somebody said, you can be a Christian without going to church,

but you're not going to be a strong Christian, a

successful Christian, a victorious Christian without going to church. We

need the body. We need to not stand in the

seat of the scornful or in the path of sinners.

We need to stand in the path of the righteous.

And then we don't have to sit in the seat

of the scornful. We can sit in the seat of

the respectful, the reverential, which is the opposite of scorn.

Respect and reverence. We need that today, a respect and

a reverence, and we as the people of God, that's

what should mark us that we heed the counsel of

the almighty, heed the counts of the godly. We walk

in the way of the righteous, and we sit in

the seat of the respectful and the reverential. We choose

to live a significant life. That's how one paraphrase of

this psalm is blessed is the one who chooses to

live a significant life. We on purpose choose to live

a significant life, not going to be content, to walk

in the council of being godly, to stand in the

path of sinners, to sit in the seat of the scornful.

Now you might say, well, pastor tim, you're describing my workplace.

I know it can be that. But we are to

be salt, we are to be light, and just because

others do doesn't mean we have to we that's our

mission field. Oftentimes our workplace for most people is their

mission field. So we need to stand out. We need

to be salt and light. We need to choose to

live a significant life. So the first thing the Psalmist

tells us is if we're going to be blessed, we

need to be separated from the world. Separated from the world.

Then he tells us, if we're going to be blessed.

We not only need to be separated from the world.

We need to be saturated with the word. Saturated with

the word Verse two. But his delight? Whose delight? The

blessed man, the blessed woman? Their delight is in the

law of the Lord, and in his law. He met

tates or she meditates day and night, saturated with the word,

and as a result they are blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,

and to be envied. Separated from the world, saturated with

the word produces blessing, happiness, prosperity, favor and blessing. It's

the word of the Lord. It is written, and it

can't be changed. So three things not to do. We

need to look at who are our mentors, Who are

we listening to? Who are we reading after? What kind

of books, kind of articles? What kind of programming are

we listening to? Who are our mentors? And we choose,

We make a decision. This is young people especially, This

is so important you choose good mentors. But it applies

to all ages. I was thinking of Coulton, though I

know he's not here today, but I was thinking, you know,

I would say he's blessed. You know, and he's in

church regularly. He's not here today. I know what's going on,

but anyway, he's okay. But I see on his Instagram

posts he posts things he's dreamed by Francis Chan and

following Tim Tebow and that he's following good mentors. And

that's so important that we follow good mentors because that's

what's going to produce fruit in our lives. That's what

we're going to that's what's going to shape us, old us.

So three things not to do because there are things

that are joy stealers and blessing blockers and you got

to fight against those. I mean, just sharing this message

this week, I had a joy stealer. I had to

fight against Well, how do you you know? Because the

devil comes to steal the seed, So how do you

fight against it by holding faster the truths or the

word of God. Sickness can be a joy stealer. People

can be joy stealers. Circumstances, situations, just looking at the news,

things going on to those can all be joy stealers.

And we got to guard ourselves and actually fight against them.

On the other hand, there are joy enhancers and blessing

providers and those are the things we need to go after,

such as saturing ourselves with a word. But then also

good mentors, choosing to listen to good music, read good articles,

have good godly friends. I mean, you can get around

some people that are just so negative and so pessimistic,

and they'll start to rub off on you after a while.

You can't not saying you can't be a friend to them,

but they're not the best people to be in close

relationship with and spend a lot of time with because

that's going to rub off. So three things not to do,

and then these two things to do. Number one, delight

in the law of the Lord, the blessed man, and

these are blessing bringers, if you would, these are joy providers.

Number one, delight in the law of the Lord. The

two positives. The blessed man, the blessed woman delights in

the law of the Lord. Think of that word delight.

We delight in a lot of things, but do we

delight in the law of the Lord. The blessed person

delights in the law of the Look. He or she

finds pleasure in reading, studying, and obeying God's word. The

blessed person finds pleasure in reading the word of God,

studying the word of God, and obeying the word of

I say obeying because in the Hebrew, the idea of

study implies obedience. The Hebrew concept is you haven't studied

if you haven't obeyed. People that just study and have

head knowledge but don't do it, they haven't studied. It

implies obedience. So the blessed person the person that has

pleasure in reading, studying, and obeying the word of the Lord,

God's word, and it can be such a joy, such

a pleasure. They delight in the Torah t o r

a H, the Torah of Yahweh. You've heard that word,

the Torah. The Jews still use it. But that's not

just speaking of the law as it's translated here. The

idea of the Torah speaks of the precepts, instructions, and

teachings of God. It's all of scripture, all of scripture.

It's not just the law. It's like, boy, you know,

if I just looked at the Law and Leviticus, I'm

supposed to delight in that. It's talking about all of scripture.

Delight in it, enjoy studying it, enjoy reading it, studying it,

obeying it. Meditating on it, and you'll be blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,

and envied. This has been around for thousands of years,

and thousands and possibly millions of people have put it

to practice, acted on it, and discovered it to be

the discovered it to be, so I, for one, can testify.

Many of you can testify. I have found this to

be true, to lead to the blessed life. As I

did not do these three things and did these two things,

I've discovered the blessed life, blessed, happy. I'm a happy,

happy man. Mellelujah, blessed, happy, fortunate, consider myself very fortunate,

very favored, Glory to God, prosperous, hallelujah. And I'll leave

the envy off because that sounds prideful there. But like

Jamie and I, a lot of people envous for a

good look. So but I'll leave it at that. Michelle

said he does the same thing Dad does. He stands

in the mirror and says he, I get better looking

every day. Some of us got and we can't get

rid of it, right, Jamie, you can't help ourselves. That's right.

One person describes it this way. For delight in the

law of the Lord, They said, his ultimate concern is

the will of God. His ultimate concern is the will

of God. What does it mean to delight in the

law of the Lord. For our ultimate concern to be

the will of God? That person is better if you

and I are ultimate concern is what is the will

of God in this? In my marriage and my family,

and my finances, and my job and my decisions I make,

and my spending and my viewing habits, all these things,

what is the will of God? That's my ultimate concern.

I'll be blessed, happy, fortunate, to be envy. Now blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,

to be envied. What does that spell joy? Joy? Blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous,

and to be envy spells joy. That's why I say

this is the secret to continual joy, delight in the

Law of the Lord. In the second positive second thing,

the blessed person does he or she meditates in it

day and night. To meditate in the Word of God

day and night. Now, to meditate in the Hebrew is

not just like modern day meditation. But it means to ponder,

to go over and over in your mind, to mutter,

to speak, the word of God. Lay in your bed

at night before you go to sleep, and meditate the

Word of God. Think about it throughout the day when

you face a decision, Think what would Jesus do? What

does the scripture say? When somebody tells you something, run

it through the filter. What saith the scriptures? Is that

in the scriptures? Is that what the Bible says? Because

a lot of people tell you things and may try

and make it sound like it's in the Bible, they

don't have a scripture for it. I mean I've asked

people before it really, well, what scripture is that? Well,

I don't know. It's in there somewhere. You can't go

by that. A lot of people say things that sound

scripture that aren't scripture. You know, there's a term and

a New Testament in the Greek pseudo logos. Logos is

the word of God. But there's a term about speaking

of a word in the New Testament pseudo logosi. It

looks like the word sounds like the word, it's not

the word. That's why we need to delight in it

and meditate in it so we know what the word

says and we will be blessed, happy fortune, prosperous and envied.

So we meditate in it day and night. Our ultimate

concern is the will of God. One paraphrase says this,

he makes his daily decisions in respect to the word

of God. The blessed man or blessed woman makes their

daily decisions in respect to the word of God. Does

this line up with scripture? I mean sometimes you hear

people say, well, I know what the Bible says, but no,

we can't do that. I know what the Bible says,

so that's what I need to do. Not well, the

Bible says that, but I'm going to do it anyway.

But I think this sometimes you talk to people, well,

brother Tim, I know the Bible says that, but this

is what I believe. What There is no second Bible.

So we delight in the law of the Lord. We

meditate in a day and night. We don't walk in

the councilors. Then God, we don't stand away since we

don't sit in the sea. It are scornful and we

will be blessed, happy, fortunate, envied. Now these three negatives

and two positives add up to one result. Says in

verse three, he shall be like a tree. He shall

be like a tree. She shall be like a tree.

It said, our lives will be like a tree, solid, stable,

fixed withstands the storms. And this is no ordinary tree,

as we're about to see. This is a tree that

has four amazing characteristics. But that is the result of

the three negatives, the two positives, the result or what

we become. Three things we don't do, two things we do.

And this is what we become, like a tree. And

here's the four amazing outcomes or fruit that results from

doing what we just read. Number one, we are planted.

Number two, we are fruit bearing, Number three we are

never dry, and number four we prosper whatever whatever. Yeah,

but the economy and yeah, this is going on word

whatever we prosper. I'd sure like that. Somebody says we

can have it. He just told us. How glory to God.

Three plus two still equals five. These three and two

equal these five results like a tree, planted, fruit bearing,

never dry, and prospering. Whatever. Now let's just go back

and look at those before we close. Four amazing outcomes

or fruit that results. Look at verse three. He shall

be like a tree. And now these four amazing outcomes

planted by the rivers of water. This is no ordinary tree.

This is a tree that's planted by the rivers of water.

Did you catch the plural there? It's not just a

river of water. You have a tree planted by a

river of water, it flourishes. But this is a tree

planted by rivers of water. It's feeding on all kinds

of sources. It's never dry, always flourishing, always prospering. Why

because it's planted by the rivers. Now, I believe primarily,

and there's probably other things, but I believe these rivers

would be symbolic for us of the Holy Spirit, because

he's oftentimes termed a river or water into scriptures and

the Word of God, the Word of God is like

is oftentimes symbolized by water. But the Word of God

in three aspects, the living Word, Jesus, intimacy, fellowship with him,

the written word, the scriptures, and the spoken word, taking

the word and speaking out of our mouths. Those are

rivers of living water. And we will be blessed, happy fortuns,

as envy as we feed on those things. And we

know that'll just be the result we'll have that Holy

Spirit will be planted by the rivers, the Holy Spirit,

the Living Word, the written word the spoken word. So

not only is this person separated from the world saturated

with the word, he's situated by the waters. Hallelujah. That's

to be us, separated from the world saturated with the word,

situated by the waters. Drought can come, bad times can come.

We just got rivers we're drawing on. You can't even

see him. Our roots are underground and we're just pulling

on those rivers. In hard times, bad times, rough times,

tough times, people say, how do you keep your joy?

How can you be happy? How can you still say

you're blessed? How come you're not on tranquilizers or downers?

How comes you're not all depressed and discouraged. I know

some of the things you've had to face. How can

you still keep your joy? Rivers? Rivers? I got rivers

I'm feeding on. You can't main, not, babe to see them.

My roots go down and I'm going into those rivers.

How do you get those roots tapping into those rivers?

Don't walk into council, then Godi. Don't stand in the

way of sinners, don't sit in the sea of the scornful,

Delight in the word of the Lord, Meditate in it.

Day and night, and you will be like a tree

planted by the rivers of water. Secondly, you'll be fruit bearing.

Notice verse thy that brings forth his fruit in its season.

You bring forth fruit. What do you think of when

you think of fruit? Well, hopefully Galatians five. The fruit

of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

self control. You're bringing that forth all the time. I mean,

wouldn't that be? Isn't that a blessed life? Isn't that

the Christian life to always be manifesting not just one

or two of the fruit, but all of the fruit

in its season. When that fruit is needed, you bring

it forth. Sometimes love is needed, sometimes joy is needed,

sometimes health, control is needed, sometimes gentleness is needed. You

bring forth fruit in its season because you're blessed. You're

delighting in the law of the Lord. You're meditating in

a day and night. You're not walking in the council

of the galley, you're not sitting in the seat of

the scornful, you're not standing in the way of sinners.

And as a result, you're bringing forth fruit in its season. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

self control, there's the fruits of righteousness. There's the fruit

of lost souls being saved. There's the fruit of holiness.

There's a lot of different fruit referred to in the scriptures. Thirdly,

the third amazing outcome of doing what we've talked about

not only planted, not only productive, but plentiful. Notice it

says your leef also shall not wither. Why do leaves wither?

They become dry? You don't go through that dryness. Relief

does not wither. You're tapping into the source at all times.

You are. You have that fresh sap if you would,

because you're not doing those three things. You're doing those

two things, and you're blessed, happy, fortune to be envied.

This is the secret of continual joy. So this person

is planted, productive, and plentiful, never dry. Talk to some

people who are always going through dry spells on this

another dry season, just going through a dry time. They

don't have to despite what's going on around us or

to us. We can stay on the mountaintop, we can

stay with God, we can stay by the rivers. And

then the fourth amazing outcome is prosperous, planted, productive, give plentiful, prosperous. Notice,

and whatever he does shall prosper. Whatever he does. It

doesn't just say he'll prosper. Whatever he does shall prosper.

How can that be? Because they're tapping into the wisdom

of God, the delighting in the word of God. They're

meditating in a day and night, and that wisdom is

coming forth. And whatever you do prospers financially, mentally, emotionally, physically,

health wise, family wise, relationship wise, just prospering. God's given

us the secret the keys. Whatever we do prospers. One

commentation read it this way. His life is productive and effective.

His life is productive and effective. The passion translation reads,

he brings things to a successful conclusion. He brings things

to a successful conclusion. Prosperity, success, victory. Prosperity in the

scriptures is not only finances, but it's prospering spirit, soul, body, finances,

and socially. Whatever he does prospers. Well, most of us

are thinking, yes, I want that that whatever I do prospers.

How do I get that? Walk not in the council

of in golly, don't stand in the way of sinners,

don't sit in the seat of the scornful. And that

could be people, It could be things you read, things

you listen to, thanks you meditate on, people you surround

yourself with. Don't do that. Instead, walk in the counsel

of the almighty, standing the way of the righteous, sit

in the seat of the respectful and the reverential, and

then delight find pleasure in the Word of God. It's

not a book just to be I gotta read my Bible.

I guess I should read it. I guess I act

to read. No delight in it. If that's not there,

ask God to help you delight in it and persevere.

And the more you stay with it, that delight will

come and manifest stronger and stronger. The more you read

it and the more you study it, the more delightful

it becomes. And you may go through some dry times

sometimes it's say I just don't feel like I'm getting

anything out of this, or there's just not nothing's happening.

Just hang in there, baby, because it's going to happen.

It'll come. It will oh come. And especially if you

just pray, say God, help me give me a hunger

for your word, give me a greater desire for your word.

Help me to delight in your word. In fact, let's

pray that right now, close your eyes and say this

with me. Father, I ask you to give me a

greater hunger, a greater desire, and a delight in your

word and for your word, and I receive it in

Jesus' name. Amen. And then that other aspect. Meditate in

it day and night. Train yourself to meditate in the

word day and night. Let it be your ultimate concern,

the will of God, and let it affect your daily decisions.

And then meditate in it. Think about it, ponder it,

hold on, think about it, ponder it, mutter it land

your bed at night, and go over it when you

face the decision. What would the scriptures say? What would

Jesus do? Apply these things we've talked about, and you

will be blessed, happy, fortunate, favored, and envied glory to God. Amen.

We'll continue this Wednesday night and we'll dig into it

even more. But there is so much good truth there. Now.

I saw a couple of hands. People were getting something.

I think they want to share a pastor of ust

I think did and the announce it. We'll go ahead

and open that. Go ahead. There's a proverb that says,

having just the right word for the right occasion perfect,

all right. And then.

I've looked at the rivers Eel River and Wabash River,

for example, and I see trees all along the banks.

Those are happened so trees, and those trees get what

water they can whenever the water is there, and sometimes

they're over flooded. But I see here that this tree

is planted. It has not happened so and we are

not happen So in God's plan, we are planted. And

those rivers of water are not simply a happen so

river like the Wabash or the Eel River. But these

are channels, irrigation channels. We have been purposely planted in

a place of His favor. We have been watered by

water that he brings to our place, by channels that

He's prepared. Everything is prepared for us to prosper by

his hand.

For sharing time.

Here, I just want to encourage anybody that's going through

a dry spell that I've been there, and just even

though you don't feel like it, just continue to enter

into God's presence and to ask him to help you,

like Pastor Tim was saying, and that time of refreshing

and that water will come, and that dryness will eventually

fade and pass away. So I just wanted to encourage

anyone that was out there.

Anybody else have something they wanted to share before they

go okay, and they're not a fan. They got to

get to a family gathering. So bless you guys, bring

us some food back.

Just as Pastor was sharing about what you know, thinking

about where we walk, sit, and stand, I felt like

the spirit said to me to the well, and this

is what Pastor brought out in the sermon. But we

can stand, we stand separate from the world, we sit

studying the word, and then we're walking in the water. Amen.

All right, anyone else Okay, Nikki gets to get up

and try and top those strings.

Come on, okay, then thank you for listening. We hope

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