Oh! Hey There -Bro Nathanael Howell 7-28-2024

Purpose.

Amen, at y'all, thanks for being the presence of the

Lord this morning. Sure, I'm thinking of what I've already

felt this morning. I mean, I'm thankful we have a

God that's mindful of us. Amen, will talk to us.

Amen.

The Bible tells us of us some people, Amen, multiple Amen,

people throughout.

The Bible and tire nations.

Amen, would put their hope and trust in a God

that couldn't even talk.

To them in a graven image.

You remember, we know this morning we've got a God

that will speak to us.

Amen.

Even let me take a moment say, Amen, we just

definitely miss our pastor this morning.

Avan.

Their absence has definitely felt Amen. I looked up a

moment ago as well, and I realized I had a

coworker here this morning. It's abashing great to have you

this morning. Even that's a wonderful young man. A heart

work room and if I've ever seen one, and we

enjoyed working with Sebastian always, and man, they're to lend

a hand and help us, and man, y'll help us

this morning as we preach, and then we're gonna be

over in second King's where the Lord led me this morning.

Kind of for this morning's service. I'm second King's chapter

number six.

I'm gonna take a little bit of time this morning.

I felt like I needed to to build a foundation

before we get where we're going.

So I hope y'all will help us. Amen, help us,

and pray.

Amen, prayer matters, Prayer shageous things A man. Prayer can

turn an awful preacher like me even and to someone.

At least you get something out of the message.

Amen.

All right, Segi King's chapter number six. We're gonna start

around verse number eight here even eight nine, then what's

kept down and read thirteen and fourteen. Then the king

of Syria a ward against Israel, and took counsel with

his servants, singing in such and such.

A place shall be my camp. And the Man of

God sent.

Unto the King of Visuals, saying, beware that thou pass

not such a place, for thither the Syrians are come down.

And man now skipping down the verse number thirteen, and.

He said, go and spy where he is, that I

may send and fetch him. And it was told him saying,

behold he is indowthed. Therefore sent he thither horses and

chariots and great hosts.

And they came by night and compassed the city. Amen.

That'll be all our read And Amen, for now, if

you would stretch your hands toward Heaven, ask God to

help us.

Lord. We thank you for your word.

God.

We believe your word is still relevant today.

God.

It still speaks to us.

And talks to us and shows us God your heart, Lord,

and speaks to us and encourages us.

God, We thank you for your word.

Lord.

We asked that you would send a guard about in.

My mouth, and letting me not say anything, you would

not have to, thank God, Lord, but everything you would, Lord,

I asked that you would.

Touch some heart.

Lord.

That's why we're here this morning.

Amen, the individual with bind strength and help and encouragement.

God breathe on a coat bredth of God this.

Morning, Lord, working in this service the Lord, Glory in

your honor, we prayed, and man, and we'll give you

the glory, the honor and the praise in Jesus' name.

The man and the amen. All right now, just their starters.

Things, places and things intrigued me and always have. And

here we find the in our text we find the

prophet Elisha, who we know was almost if you would,

the prodigy of the great prophet, Elijah and Elisha. Here

Elijah has done, died and went on the glory. And

now Elisha carries the mantle.

Of the Man of God. And what we have was

we have the King.

Of Syria here, as we said, saw in verse number eight.

Here he is attacking, Amen, the children of Visual, the

King of Syria. Amen. And what we when we read

on down in verse number thirteen and fourteen, and we're

going to kind of get through what we skipped over here, Amen,

But here we see that the King of Israel is

looking for the Man of God because the Man of

God spoiled his plans. And me in verse number nine,

we saw God, Amen told Elijah, Elisha and.

Man where the King of Syria had set up his camp.

And Man, and when you when you live, Amen, among

or near a Man of God, there are times and man,

the Man of God tells you things.

You don't want to hear, that you.

Wish he didn't know, He didn't he didn't have an

awareness of. And then there's times and man, you just

down the right thankful Amen, that he knew something he

shouldn't have. And Elishah is such a man, a man

that he knew something he shouldn't have known. And and

in the end here the king of the King of

Syria begins to think he has a rat if you would,

in the in the middle of his camp when he

sits down and he says, tell me, now, Amen, who's

gonna who's signing with Israel? Who rapping me out? Who's

telling my plans? Who told the King of Israel? Amen,

I laid out a beautiful plan.

I set up my tents here, and we were gonna

ambush them. Amen.

But he never came by Amen. The Bible said that

the King of Israel saved himself there, not once or twice.

Amen.

So he saved himselves multiple times there. And so the

King of Syria he had a good plan.

Amen.

He definitely had a good plan. He had laid it

all out, and it would have worked.

But for God.

Now, I've seen the enemy Amen, in my life, but

in many others life, and man laid a beautiful plan Amen,

out to cause us grief and problems. And at the

end of the day, Amen, we can stand and say Amen.

If it hadn't been for God, Amen, I would have

felt prayed of that Now.

Just to give you a little context here, Amen, of Dothan.

The Bible says Elisha was was dwelling here at doth

and kind of amen his humble abode.

Now Dothan means too wells Amen. It's roughly at.

The sub it's about ten miles from some area where

the we'll find. The King of Issue was set up

later on the slopes there, or it was about a

fifteen acre slope up.

That they occupied.

And then there was seemingly what you could call aim

in a plateau, was about ten acres at the top. Amen,

this this area of Dothan, this mountain, if you would

rose about sixty meters high. Right now, they've already they

have discovered what they believed to be Amen, ancient Dothan.

I mean, I love that about the Bible. People love to.

Try to discredit it, Amen, and then they find things

out about it. Amen that there's no way Amen, two

people Amen would have known and been able to write this.

So I thank God for that. So they did find

ancient Dothan. Now the sixty meters for some of you, Amen,

that ain't very good with meters, that's about one hundred

and ninety six feet Amen, So about one hundred and

ninety six feet, which depending on how a house or

a skyscraper is built, that could be between fifteen and

nineteen stories tall. A man, that's a pretty good sized building.

That's a pretty good sized mountain there that Elisha.

Would have been living on, about the.

Size of what was a famous building the eighteen hundreds

known as the Insurance Building. If you need a mental

image after the message, and I know this is a

little different than I've ever done this, but this is

how I felt led a man, So if you need

a mental image, almost to the mountain of dothing and

kind of Amen. How tall it was in the eighteen hundreds,

about eighteen eighty five, they built a building called the

Insurance Building. It's known as the father of the skyscraper.

And man, it was ten stories tall, and then they

added twelve they added two more stories to it. A man, totally,

I believe it was somewhereund yeah, somewhere around one hundred

and eighty feet and mean, it's a knock wise as

tall as dough and Amen. But I need if I

can get a mental image sometimes.

That I can construct the picture. Amen.

So in my mind's eye, I can see that building,

and now I can kind of build a man in

the Mountain of Doth in there.

Amen.

And Elisha was Amen, I guess he was a wealthy prophet.

Then he lived on Scottscraper. Amen, any of all I

could live in a Scott's Scraper.

Amen. So let's get into the word of God.

Here we begin here in our text looking looking at

a piece of history. I mean, we believe the Word

of God is fact. Amen, It's it's not It's not

possible for God to lie. The Bible says, and what

he has given to us is truth.

Amen. Truth.

From from the first page Amen, to the last page.

You can find Amen, everything in there is truth, and

you can fact check that a man and find out

God is true a man and every man is a liar.

So here and then we look at a piece of history,

if you would preserved on these holy pages. Now, some

of these people had to have names that we've already

started learning about here, and some were just.

Seemingly alone for the ride.

Now, the king of Syria here, his name is Ben

hey Dad, Amen, of the king of Israel at this time,

and man, we know they had several kings with the

King of Israel of Israel at this time is Jehoram,

the son of none other than the notorious A Have Amen. Now,

King Asa had kind of started a problem Amen, for

Jehoram and for some of the kings of Israel when

he and he had paid Amen back around first King

chapter number fifteen, he pays the King of Assyria to

come in and begin to invade the land of Israel.

And no doubt we see here that the land of

Israel is still dealing with the side effects Amen, of

what their enemies called.

And sometimes in life we feel like, Amen.

We get stuck in Now, Amen, stuck we meant dealing

with the side effects Amen, of situations others put us

in a man, the adversary still here is at odds. Amen,

with the people of God. At first number eight we

see the King of Syria begins to devise a plan.

Amen. He starts a war and then again with Israel. Amen.

And he takes counsel, He gets his counsel together.

Amen, He decides where he's gonna set up and man

to kind of field his base. But the prophet living

down in Novan, a man get some top secret intelligence

from God, a man his sins words that jahor that

he better and be careful where he's going him.

In verse number nine we find that reference.

And when God uses the Man of God, and then

even in current Amen times and then we must be

careful even to give earnest heed to that which God

has warned us up. And then we find here a

king him and the Man of God seriously when he spoke,

and because of this he benefits Amen from the words

of God Amen in his situation.

And then God will talk to us all Amen. Sometimes

they man.

There are things that addressed the church, Amen, and then

there are things that address us as individual. And then

we must all have the good sense to know, Amen,

that it's for our benefit. I mean, if we could

trust God the way we should, and then we would

know and give God the benefit of the doubt and

know him.

And God is working things for our good. Amen.

So Amen, God, Amen has failed the king Jahrm out

of a vast situation.

And I've experienced this myself. Amen. To praise God when

God fails me out. Amen. Hell.

The Bible says, we have an adversary walking about, seeking.

Whom he made his devour, a man.

And brother Caleb singing about us being on a battlefield.

And then sometimes it's not something we see him and

it's just something that's there. We seem like life won't

take a good turn for us, And then sometimes we

feel like we're stuck in the same mundane thing and

man and all of this can be a man and

attack of the enemy. Amen. To give us a discontent

and if there with God it isn't can there's great day.

There's a bit of bit Amen to being content here. Amen.

So what I'm trying to tell you this morning is Amen,

I don't know what you're going through, Amen, but I

know the devil will attack you all individually.

Amen.

He attacks me as a person. I'm not above the

attack of the enemy. Mayben, he will attack you.

Amen. A good way a good boy is to do it, Amen,

in a way that you think it's someone else.

They mean to do it in a way that you

don't realize it's the enemy. Theymen to be called that

you can't identify the threat. A lot of times if

you will struggle, Amen, to languish. Shit, he am so here, Amen,

versus eleven through fourteen theyven. Let's read them just real

quiks that we don't miss this context here. Therefore the

heart of the King of Syria was sore troubled for

this thing. And he called his servants and said, under them,

will you not shoot me? Which of us? And it

is for the King of Israel. And one of his

servants said, none of my lord, old King, but a

life share the prophet that is in Israel. Tell them,

the King of Israel, the words that thou speakest.

In thy bedchamber.

And he said, go and spy where he is, and

I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, behold,

he is indoped.

And then get him down to where we've already read.

Therefore he sent here, and then said he thither horses

and cherriots and the great hosts.

And they came by night and compassed the city of Bath.

Amen. So the enemy's plan here is to leave no escape.

They mean to leave him in no way out for the.

Man of God. The trapping me up. And then we

see the motive.

Amen is dead or alive, just to seize the child

of God and remove Amen his freedom.

They then remove his voice. Amen. For God and man

can use a man of God to use a woman

with a voice. Amen.

Someone is willing to speak of and say aye, Amen,

praise God, hurt it from the Lord. The devil has

never liked they've been someone with a prayer life. The

devil has never liked someone when they've been a good

Bible reading program. And then the devil will attack a

man as the old saying, he is the weakest, sleep with.

The devil also will attack those in the strongest. And

then the Bible said to begin, they meant get the shepherd.

The sheep will scatter.

Amen. So here Amen, we see Amen that that here. Amen,

the king of Syria is a target. Amen.

That which is caused they'men the nation of Israel to it.

It's the odds prevailed.

They and so he here, and then he see him,

and he compasses him the mouth.

Amen.

He surrounds him, but gets seemingly trapped. Amen, where it

feels he has no escape. Now, I don't know where

you're all out this morning. All I can tell you, amen,

is what the men tapped me up.

They mean to walk this morning.

They been praying and studying and tigging man to get

the mind of God. Amen. And there are many things

in this life that will make us feel trapped. And

then it calls us to begin to feel a sense

of despair.

Amen.

The great somis we all know the beloved King David

and man he gave us a look into a little

bit more of this, and he sat in songs one,

O nine and first number three, and that they can

pass me about also with words of hatred.

Amen. So here, Amen, it's not just it's some guy,

just not.

Just in the physical we feel surrounded and trapped, and

then we feel as though we're hatched in, and then

we don't know how it can get better. We don't

know how we can get around it. We don't know

how we can get over it. We just feel like

we're trapped. They been living the same old life they

met a David said, they can bassed me about it.

They surrounded me with hateful words.

They man a.

True true Amen, the words Amen of a friend they

met willing quick, they mad a greedious wound and the

dingom I mean the king they met of Israel at

that time. David would say, Amana, I experienced painful words.

I experienced things Amen, that made me feel surround it,

that made me feel trapped. Put. The good news is

they been for the child of God. We're telling her

long and told.

We feeling that overwhelmed, though we feel seemingly to be

over Tarba. They've been talking the loy be with us.

We always walk beside us. We don't never reader or

forsake us. The Bible say, man even go with us.

Oh way at Taven would experienced things like this, and

we will see a liar Sinnana.

They been go through things too.

They confessed me about also with words of hatred. But

they didn't stop there, they said, and fought against me

without a cause. Then maybe this morning you don't know

where the struggle your red has come from. And man,

you just know you've been bombarded. And then I help

us Lord, Amen, I know, amen, this is a little different.

And then but all I can do is preach what

God has given me for you. And then there are

times we feel as though we are a mean handstand

on every side, and then by those that seek our demisemen.

But I just come to encourage you this morning that

God is with us. And when it gets overwhelmed in God,

the more meeting was recently.

Amen, God will be with us. Amen.

Now let's read verse number fifteen and kind of see

the reaction here, Amen of the servant of Elisha, the

Man of God. He said, And when the servant of

the Man of God was risen up and then risen

early and going forth, behold and hosts can pass the city.

And then both with horses and arias. And his servant

said unto him, Alast, my master, how shall we do?

And man, how shall we do? And then we see

the distraught which overtakes the servant.

Here.

Amen, he's up early and amen, to start his workday.

And men, some of us start pretty early.

Amen.

And then we get to work pretty early, and then

sometimes before daybreak. And then and here the servant of

the Man of God, he's rising up early. He goes

out maybe years the amen, the jingling of the horses bridle,

or here's amen, something one amen, playing.

With their sword. And when he says that's amen, that's

that's something I'm not used to. Amen, That's a sound

I'm not familiar with. Amen. So Amen.

Sometimes they been true to true to that, Amen, true

to that train of thought. Sometimes is that which, Amen,

we least expect or when we least expect it, they

could slip under our guards so easily.

Amen. Yes, we've been through life some of us, Amen, Amen,

older than others.

Amen, I still consider myself a whipper snapper Amen, a

young man.

Amen.

But as we age, we begin and then to the

villa Amen of resistance to things, And then we begin

to know more people. We say, well, I know that person,

Amen will say something hurtful.

If I let him in.

He remember, Sometimes just that person we didn't expect.

They've been that easily slides under.

The guard and so amen quickly wounds us and leaves

us hurting.

Here.

So the servant arises to do a man his dately Amen,

task him in probably the routine task. Amen, and suddenly

he's beset by something he wasn't expecting.

Amen.

And that that is what we've experienced through our lives.

They bet the devil knows how to catch us off guard.

And man, he knows how to use things against us.

They meant that when we would have never anticipated or

expect you and been of the servant of Amen, and

the man of God here, Amen, he's oh off guard.

And man, I don't really know the Amen, the servant here,

I mean, we don't get much detail about him.

We don't know how he lives.

But all we can see is his response, Amen, in

many times us, oh High and mighty, even people. And

then we loved to fault these kind of characters, and saying, man,

look how he responded. All he felt of fear, and

then he fell all he ran to the Man of

God said, what are we gonna do?

Amen?

But if we were to be a realist this morning,

I wonder, amen, and to put ourselves on that in

those shoes, if we And then again, this is history preserved.

This happened.

And then sometimes we get the packed from the word

of God and we read it like a book. But

this happened, and been in the servant of God really

awoke that morning while the dude was probably still on

the ground. Amen, And he looked out the window and

opened the door and realized he was in a bad fix.

And man, he was surrounded. He was in trouble. There

was no way out, and there was no way around it.

And then so we're a realist this morning, and say

he knew and then that they were after them, but

he stayed with a lie shame, and I can admire them.

Then, ayven, the man of God here is.

He's not trouble. But the servity man is taken with

a little bit of fear. I believe, Amen, and you

see him Man. His response to this, Amen, is to

go to the Man of God. That is a great response.

And then in times of trouble and testing, may man,

that's a great response when you begin to feel like

the devil is coming against.

You, and ben the dove. They been to the proper source.

And then many people run the things they meant to

just drown their sorrows for a time. They run the

things the man that doesn't give them peace of mind

when they awake in the morning, theymember there is a

God against the odds can.

Give you a say good to you and give you

peace of mind. Will overcome that we just come against you.

I know I look back.

For the Servant, and I don't know how bad it

looks for you this morning.

God.

Maybe it's family problems, maybe it's bill trouble.

I really don't know.

But I just come to tell you you have a

friend that's stipping closer, that a brother. He is walking

beside you, Amen, and he will be with you now.

The Servant he stands.

Here with Elisha and Man, even though he lacked the

faith to believe in an overcoming God for him, I man,

And I've seen people, I mean they've seen the workings

of God, especially hear at Bethel. They see the working

of God and man, and how he moved from brother

Philip in the cancer situation and the doctor still can't understand,

and then how the miraculous work took place.

And it's easy a man for me to stand.

Over here and then see a young man with a

head full of hero and believe in an overcoming God

for him. But then when I find myself in a fix, Amen,

it's easy for that doubt of the road cap tad

about this morning and then to settle in and begin

to try to strangle my faith. And then this morning,

if there's one thing I can encourage you, and then

you must believe in an overcoming God for you.

He is an individual.

God, And the Bible said he's not a respector of persons.

What he done for brother Philip, he would do for me.

They may if I have the same response. And man,

he's not a respector of persons, Amen, But he's a

respector of the response.

And you must know.

How, amen, you act, how to respond to God if

you expect to get him to move on your behalf Amen.

So maybe amen, you're asking this morning. Amen, as the

servant did, how shall we do?

Amen? House, that we.

Pay those bills and those pending expenses, and then how shall.

We fare or make out or come through this? Amen?

This seemingly was the cry of the servant. He said,

how shall we do?

Mayben? He saw the odds, he.

Saw what he was up agaists, and then in from

the show he said, how shall we do? And then

there's nothing wrong with the child of God. They've been

falling on their knees and said, Lord, how am I

gonna do this? So? How am I gonna make it

through this? Be an honest and gada and letting you.

Know you need his help. And man, it's just like

a child.

Coming to their father a time of me and saying,

I need some assistance.

God never expected you to go on along. God never

expecting you.

To do it by yourself. That's why he gave you

a promise. He do me with you, because they do

that color cod need him. And that's why I said

I'll be there Alla when they do that.

Be a time, and that you.

Needed him on your side, O God, first number sixty.

I know we're just walking through this kind of slowly

this morning, the Bible said, And he answered that Elijah's

speaking of the servant. After that servant has asked, how

shall we do? He said, and he answered, fear not were.

They that be with us, or more than they? And

en that be with them.

Now, if you note the word structure here is There

is other phrasings in the Bible that says for us

and men. But here he is saying with us, man,

I love that.

And then because God is with us, God is with us.

He walks beside you. And what you see here is

a glimpse of the omnipresent God.

Amen. The goverment is on your side and by your side. Amen.

When he said and.

He would go with you even been with us, he

meant just that he would go with us.

Amen.

There has never been a situation or in need that

has scared God away. Let me say that again. There

has never been a situation, Amen, in all the time

or in need that is scared God away. We never

find ourselves in a fix, amen, or our shady alley.

So to speaking, a situation and man that our best

friend has turned around and said, well, that one's kind

of yours. I'm not going that way.

I mean, I've seen some people, a man, they kind

of get sketched out, if you would, and then they

use the modern language somebody you may understand and.

Something may not.

And then they get sketched down. They start feeling the man,

I don't I don't know, I don't like this situation,

and they'll leave somebody with it. Amen, Jesus has never

left somebody. Amen, in the midst of their trial.

He has never left him.

They went in the midst of despair, he has never

left him in the missed the moment.

He's never left them in the midst of bond Witchell.

And then when they call him a god, he was

a god that was present time. He was a god

that was available for every individual. Amen.

He is a faithful command companion.

And when God is working in all kinds of ways

throughout the Bible.

And then we read of how I mean he simply

used the singers to discombit an army a man. We've

heard about how David had.

To lie in wait, Amen, a weight on the sound

of a golden in the tops of the mulberry trees.

And then we know of how one individual would blow

on a trumpet and shatter some pots and men him.

The army would flee.

And then there's other times and then God would just intervene, Amen,

and they would come upon a camp Amen, and they

were just they were gone, I mean, nobody was around

a man of this would happen even later on in

this chapter. If you keep on reading and have a

hankering too, you can buy. But God done just that

for them. And then, so I'm not telling you I

know how.

God's gonna move in your situation. I'm not saying I

know how He's gonna work it out for you. I'm

just telling you he is able to work it out

for you. Amen. He will not let you down or

fail you. That Praise God.

There there's a sister here that says our grandmother. I

believe it was something like this, that God will do

to trust. And then God will do to trust you

can trust him. So here the Bible tells us Amen, Amen,

about what's going on. And the Bible tells us in

another place, and then that the Bible that God camps

around his children.

Amen, and Praise God.

A situation has never separated a saint from the savior.

And then we know of people that have been up

against it.

Amen.

And genusis we find him and Joseph looking for his brethren,

and someone Amen points them him in a familiar direction

to our texas for it, and they tell him.

Amen, they went towards Dothan. Amen. Many believed this is

the same Dothan. Amen. And Joseph found.

Himself in a sticky situation. His brothers wasn't too fond

of him a man, and they threw him down in

a pit a man, and then they end up selling

him into slavery. Amen, been God, even through all of

those situations.

Amen.

At the dopting back then, Amen, intervening for Joseph. And

here at the Dothan now in this present time with

elisha Amen, the God that was God there is gone now.

Amen of the God for Elishah the end, A doting Amen,

is God here in Bethel.

Amen.

It cares for each and every one of you on

a personal level. And man, he don't care for me

more than he cares for you. And man, he ain't

concerned about me more.

Than he is about you.

Amen.

He ain't worried. Amen. In that way, God don't really worry.

But you know what I'm saying, Amen, He's not gonna

do for me something he won't do for you. Ever,

that God interpet for Joseph Theater, and God will intervew

for you. Now, aymen, all you gotta do is have

the faith to see them. The prophet would tell the servant, Amen,

sar not for they that be with us, or more

than they that be with the other.

I know somebody that looks bleaker, and it looks like

they do hell and been many with them.

I'm not saying the odds don't stack up in such

a way that you wonder how can I do this.

I'm not discrediting your situation or saying they're recalled from concernta.

Hey men, the when you activate daughter in.

A situation, they been all overcoming author become overcarer. Amen,

I said, when all overcoming a amen in a situation.

Bet daughter, they will certainly overcome.

It.

Was.

Yeah, sometimes is hard, Amen, to just really put yourself

out there and believe, and then sometimes the devil really

beats you up about it. I mean, just putting yourself

out there and trust in God in the situation.

Amen.

But something Amen, that the Amen that I begin to

think on it, I mean we must never lose our

vision and our faith in the invisible. And then even today,

just in modern times, and then we enjoy the fruits

of someone's faith.

In what was yet to be seen.

This morning, we enjoy ac and someone visible and an inventor, Amen.

Saw what no one else could see.

I mean, we enjoy these light fixtures and light bulbs, Amen,

because someone Amen saw something no one.

Else could see.

And this morning, I may just be someone that's up

here a proponent for God saying, Amen, God's there. You

just need to be able to see you. If that's

all I am. I'm just encouraging you.

I mean, I know.

Sometimes the situation starts looking bleak, but if you could

just hold that God in the end, Amen, that that

is an invisible waymen will become evident to you. Praise God.

I remember I remember a time, and did I want

to tie this in Iman. I remember a time when

I was dating my wife, Amen. The only time I

think she ever surprised me. I mean we were I

was upstairs and my mom and dad had been twelve

hours away, and they drove all night.

I mean I did find that strange.

Back then, Amen, my dad would drive up drive quite often.

But I mean I remember coming down the stairs and

then one Sunday morning ready for church, Amen, and around

at the corner and someone that was supposed to be

twelve hours.

Away, they man now physically sat right there, and I

remember that it was it was a shocking feeling.

I don't get shocked very often, Amen, And I remember that,

and I.

Think they even have it on video somewhere.

Amen. In my might, my response was something something along

the lines of, oh, hey, there right, and this is.

What the Lord, this is what the Lord put in

my heart.

If I can be honest with you, Amen, I feel

like someone could see God become a reality in their

life if they just have the faith to believe. Aymen.

And hearing this situation, God is present, Amen. And the

Man of God sees something other individuals don't see. Here Amen.

He sees something the servant can't see, and he tells

him fear not, Amen. But there's gonna be a revelation Amen.

That gives him the courage Amen to stand. And the

Bible said in verse number seventeen, Elisha prayed and said, Lord,

I pray to he opened his eyes that he may see.

And the Lord open the eyes of the young man,

and he saw and behold the melting was full of

horses and cherots of fire around the bay elias, round

about him, not just the mountain, Amen, but around the

very man of God, around the servant. And then they

were in close proximity. And then they wasn't just off

in the distance. I know him, and sometimes it feels

like and then God's hard to get a hold of.

Amen.

But hearing this situation, Amen, they were around him, andymen,

the forces of God are prevalent. They been more a

man than those that opposed him. And then we find

here no doubt there was probably a horse and a

chariot Amen for every horse and aryan the enemy had,

even because God's never been out gone. And here in

this situation that the young man that had doubts and

questions sis assurance. Aymen, the those Amen, and the man

of God said that were with them, even though.

He couldn't see they man the prist God. Amen. It

doesn't change the fact you can't see it this morning.

It doesn't change the fact that's hard to believe that

this morning I'm here.

To tell you and that God is with us. God

is with you.

He's allowed to you he's suiting you up, he's protecting you.

Up, and he's watched over you. That's a father, dollars,

son and daughter and man. He's been with you the

whole time, your times of town. He was there, your

time to be there, he was there.

And then when it seemed impossible, God was still there.

God's we have been with you in the thick heather.

The man, I praise God, you can prevail Hellyluljah.

Often though they.

Meant the prevailing forces of God will only be revealed. Now.

I want to stress this this morning. Through prayer and man.

There there are very many Christians that a man they

just give up and they lay down and they quit

taking things to God in prayer. I mean there's some

people that have prayed for things for two in three

and four years, and in God's.

Perfect timing, the prayer was answered. Amen.

But if you fail in man to pray, Amen, God

may never reveal the answer.

Amen. For your struggles. The man of God here he

began to pray, and the eyes a man of open,

the eyes.

Of faith were opened, Amen, that had been shut by

doubt and circumstances. When I'm trying to close this morning, Amen,

I'm almost done a man, So y'all can y'all can

get me to hush you man, get to.

The chicken house. Amen. But I want to talk to

you about this morning. Old hey there. I know that's odd, Amen.

And it was. It was I had to get my

head and been wrapped around it.

Amen.

But what I want to encourage you this morning is

if you could just see, if you could just see,

that would be your response in your situation and then

you would be startled.

Wait. God is with me, God is, he is prevalent,

he is Amen. Present. The forces of God were in

close proximity. Amen. To those that belonged to God. Amen.

Here Amen, God surrounded those and brother Jesse, if you

would come on around, someone can get a song ready

this morning. I mean I'm trying to bear my burden

to you this morning. I mean I'm not trying to

be too long or too short of and I want

to get the context of this across.

Amen.

And my burden delivered here Amen, God, even it was

in close proximity.

Amen to those that believed on him. Amen.

There's a story man, you can find him in of

a Union soldier that escaped captivity and they said he

wandered all night long, through the cold and amen, through

the through the rain, the sleet, and he.

Was trying to make it back to Union Lives.

And just about daybreak, as he crouched along through the

snow and man wearing down, Amen, about to give up,

they said, he stumbled back upon Amen what he thought

the beginning his lies.

Amen. He was quickly.

Apprehended Amen, at gunpoint, and they drugging me. Amen, down

to the commander's tent. Amen, And all too soon they

said his eyes were open. Amen, he was starred and realized.

Amen. There was Amen, friends beside me, Amen, and here

this morning. I know that world can be cruel out there. Amen.

Friends and family can mistreat you. Amen. They can abuse

you verbally and amen, make you feel low and like

a dog, even I've seen Amen.

Amen, the world and the devil can make people do

some cruel things that they never intended to do. Amember

this morning, you're among friends, you're among family, you're among

those Amen to love God like you do.

Amen, And I would encourage you. Amen.

There's nothing wrong with stopping this morning and saying, Lord,

I know you're with me.

Amen, let me see it clearly.

I know you're with me.

Let me have faith to believe, as that union told

her that had struggled through a dark winter.

Now, Amen, he was wore out, and maybe.

Your war out of your drain. You seemingly have given

everything you could give. Amen to this occasion, and you're

crying the Lord, I need help. If you're asking for

help from God this morning, he will supply your needs

according to his riches and glory him his horses and chariots.

Amen. He'll supply the other. Amen. If it's fine answers,

I've seen God supply them. Amen.

If it's healing and health, I see God supply and Amen.

So in your situation, I don't know.

I just know God can move. Amen on your behalf.

Psalm's twenty two and twelve said even amen, Prince God.

But they said Prince God and talks about the bulls

of a sham be setting someone. Amen, strong forces against

them and opposing them.

God is there.

If you would stand this morning, we're gonna make it

after Amen. Let me read salmstrating you a man. Keep

in mind this this is the beloved king David. He

fled Amen from Absalom, his son who would salt to

supersede the throne and take control of it. And this

was the man of God's prayer, my while running from

his own flesh and blood, while his own son sought

to kill him. Amen, the beloved Salmist would write these words, Lord,

how are they increased that trouble me?

Many are they even rise up against me? Many there

will be?

Would say of my soul, there is no help for

him and God, friend of the devil's been telling you

that lie there is help for you, and man, there

is help for you and God against overcoming and overwhelming gods.

And he went on to say, but thou, old Lord,

art a shield for me my glory and the lifter

up of my head. And then in verse four, let

me stress this to you again. I cried unto the

Lord with my amen, with my voice. Aye, Amen, do

you have a voice. Only you can reach God in

your situation. Sometimes, I mean, I come into the Lord

with my voice, and he heard me out of his

holy heel.

And man, God's gonna hear somebody this morning. I believe that.

And man, if you want to come making an offer, y'all,

come on, aymen. I feel like the Lord Amen is

encouraging someone even to hold on and don't lose hope.

The Bible said, Hello, I am with you, always, always

is without.

End until the end. But friend, prayer is the key

to open the eyes of faith. Amen.

You won't, amen, please him when you're dwelling in a

current state of fear. The Bible said, it.

Is impossible to please God without faith. Amen.

So we can find our faith this morning and encouragement

knowing this.

Amen. But even though you can't see them, God has

forces around you, and forces that are we If you

on your side, they will fight on your behalf. Amen,

when you invote the name of God. Amen. So this morning,

could you invote the name of God Savior. Amen.

The one that is Amen, walk byside all Christians throughout

time and.

Never fell on one of them. Amen.

If he won't fail you, I wouldn't to God someone,

Amen's eyes would be open. And then if he wouldn't see,

and then just how here he is. Amen, Praise God.

Let's pray this morning. Y'all go ahead and see him.

And God is with you, man, and you will see

all too soon.

He meant he is right by yourself.

I believe, said, we ain't all.

I believe God. So if the world say what they will.

I would see you trust him it's worst. Let's see

what game came, and I know all about him.

Names in the middles, in wood danger. I would change

the game, would never change everything.

Some place the trusts about, some search for.

In the.

Simple faith in the only one you can change my God.

The name is words, I say the candy when I

call upon his name, let.

The words he woday.

I would choose a sad him.

The name.

Some place to trust in the west of in some

search the lie in the dog. But I could child,

I have come with simple faith.

If the only one could change my I believe it's

thirty is true.

I've seen what his name holy, that this works a groping.

I could choose to your name.

Some saying the slave is the only thing that bad.

Some saving the thing we doe. But I am convinced

that eternity waits. So with every bread, I would chase

by the name of thirties. I've seen word.

Okay you when I go upon his name.

I believe God. Let this see what they will I

would choose has never failed. I believe. Some say this

life here is the only thing that bad.

Some say, then with that.

That I am an advancing by turn. Today he waits

so the grim taste.

That I believe on the name his word is true.

I've seen what he can do when I know upon

his name.

I believe.

It's it that's words, and on the type of chairs

to say

What I name, it's words