James Jones | The Righteous Shall Live By His Faith

Once again, I want to welcome everyone here this morning.

If you don't know, my name is James, one of the one of the

elders here. This morning I'm going to

endeavour to to give to you a message that entitled The

Righteous Shall Live by his faith.

We're going to be in the book of Habakkuk this morning.

Now the book of a back Habakkuk is actually one of my favorite

books in the Bible, and we'll kind of get into that as we move

along. A little book in the Old

Testament, only three chapters or text this morning is going to

be just 21 verses, all of chapter one.

And in the 1st 4 verses of chapter 2, we're going to bring

out some things from all three chapters, but that's going to be

our primary text. This morning Felt last week that

this message was teed up for me very well by Kyle's message of

faithfulness and trusting in God, because that's once again

what we're going to be dealing with this morning.

Habakkuk, there's not a lot known about him other than from

his book. It's believed that the book of

Habakkuk was, I mean, even that name, Habakkuk.

That's fun to say, man, That's just fun to say.

So Habakkuk was written somewhere between 6:40 and 6:15

BC. It was towards the end of the

Assyrian power that they were under.

Assyria would soon to be weakened in their power and this

was a prophecy that would be fulfilled at least two decades

after the book was written. It may have been three or four

decades after the book was written of how God was going to

raise up the nation of Babylon or the Chaldeans that they were

going to come and overtake Assyria.

Oh, and assert their power. And Assyria would be their power

would be no more. And Habakkuk is a prophet.

So this is a prophetic book. But Habakkuk is also a book of

poetry. Much of it is written and if you

look at the the structure of the book, of the sentences

structured in most of not all but most of the verses are

constructed either in what's referred to as couplets or

triplets. Either 2 verses to each, two

sentences to each verse or three sentences to each verse.

Now every verse doesn't apply to that.

Hebrew poetry is not like poetry that we know of as today.

But so Habakkuk is not only a book of prophecy, it is also a

book of poetry, which kind of once again is another reason why

I like, I like this book. I love the character character

of Habakkuk and what we can learn from him as we approach a

holy God. Amen.

So we find out, like I said, there's not a whole lot known

about Habakkuk other than his book.

It's believed that he even lived among the time of Daniel and

Ezekiel. There is.

There is also a in the Jewish Bible, there is a addition to

the book of Daniel called Bell and the Dragon that says that

Habakkuk was actually used by God to go feed Daniel while

Daniel was in the lion's den. Now that's not in our Bible, so

take it for what you want it, what it's worth.

But it was just a interesting side note that I picked up.

Even the many times I've studied this book, I've never come

across that reference before. But as we study this book this

morning, go over the scriptures, it's a real easy to read

Habakkuk story and think that Habakkuk was doubting God, that

Habakkuk was actually had no faith in some of the language

that he uses. Habakkuk is very has a very

accusatory tone that he uses with God.

He actually accuses God of some things in our in our text this

morning. But don't put Habakkuk into the

category of the unfaithful or the doubtful.

He's actually very faithful and he he we can find out through

the text this morning that he has not lost his faith in God.

The actual fact that he is praying to God shows his

faithfulness that he still believes in God.

In a book called Faith Among the Ruins, the Book of Habakkuk

written by Heath Thomas, he writes this.

The complaints in Habakkuk chapter one, verses 2 through 4,

assume that God will counteract violence in chaos precisely

because it is His creation that it has become disordered.

If the Prophet did not think that God was a caring Lord over

his creation, it is sensible to suggest that he would have given

up and that Habakkuk would never have voiced his prayer.

But the Prophet Prophet refuses to take this course.

Habakkuk recognizes that God fashioned this world with

justice and knows that the experience of some twisted form

or partiality that passes for justice is incompatible with

God's design and intention for his good world.

So therefore, you know, like I said, we want to look at this in

the scope of Habakkuk's faithfulness this morning.

Not as a man that has let faith, even in his time of frustration,

in the times that he didn't understand why this was going on

and God gave him a vision of the future overtaken by the

Chaldeans, he still didn't fully understand until God completely

showed him all the vision. So let's remember this morning

what it says in the book of Hebrews, chapter 4, verses 14

Hebrews 4:14–16

through 16. It says this Since then we have

a great High priest who has passed through the heavens,

Jesus, the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession.

Now why should we hold our confession, since we have a

great High priest whose name is Jesus?

He goes on and says, For we do not have a high priest who is

unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every

respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Let us then, with confidence draw near to the throne of

grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time

of need. And that's exactly what we found

out here in the book of a backup.

Now we're getting ready to to read our word, and I'm going to

ask you to stand here momentarily.

And just as a side note, if you were in Sunday school a few

weeks back we studied about after Jeremiah brought the 3rd

wave of the Jews back from Babylon.

Ezra brought the 2nd wave, Jeremiah brought the 3rd wave.

When he and Jeremiah comes back he still finds that there's many

that are still in idolatry against God and he comes back

and they they build this platform.

And Ezra the priest stands on the platform and he reads the

book of the law, and it says that all the all the people of

Israel, men, women, and all the those that could understand, so

all those that were of age that could understand God's word was

there. And he said as he, as he opened

the book of the of the law that the people stood and then went

on cue the people would say, Amen, Amen.

So when we asked you to stand for the reading of God's word is

not just on ceremony, it is actually an act of worship.

This is what the people of Israel was doing when Ezra

opened up the Book of the law to read.

So never assume that we ask you to stand for the reading of

God's word just because it's a piece of ceremony or just

something that we do. It's actually an extension of

our worship. Amen.

So this morning we're going to be reading Habakkuk, chapter

one, beginning with verse one to chapter 2, verse four.

And if you are able, I ask you to stand and when I'm done

reading, I will say this is the word of the Lord and I ask that

you respond, Thanks be to God. Habakkuk, chapter one, verse

one. The Oracle that Habakkuk the

prophet saw. Oh Lord, how long shall I cry

for help? And you will not hear or cry to

you violence and you will not save.

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at

wrong? Destruction and violence are

before me. Strife and contention arise, so

the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth, For

the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth

perverted, and the Lord answers. Habakkuk started in verse five.

Look among the nations and see Wander, and be astounded.

For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe

if told. For behold, I am raising up the

Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who March through the

breath of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

They are dreaded and fearsome. Their justice and dignity go

forth from themselves. Their horses are swifter than

leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves.

Their horsemen press proudly on their horsemen come from afar.

They fly like an eagle, swift to devour.

They all come for violence, all their faces forward.

They gather captives like sand at kings they scoff, and at

rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress,

for they pile up earth and take it.

Then they sweep by like the wind, and go on.

Guilty men whose own might is their God.

Then Habakkuk brings a second complaint to God.

Are you not from everlasting? O Lord, my God, my holy one, we

shall not die, O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgement,

and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

You who are of pure eyes than to see evil and cannot look at

wrong, Why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when

the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things

that have no ruler. He brings all of them up with

the hook, He drags them out with his net.

He gathers them in his dragnet. So he rejoices and is glad.

Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his

dragnet, for by them he lives in luxury and his food is rich.

Is he the end to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly

killing nations forever? Chapter 2, verse one, I will

take my stand and at my watch post and station myself on the

tower and look out to see what he will say to me and what our

answer concerning my complaint. Once again the Lord answers

Habakkuk, verse two, and the Lord answered me.

Write the vision. Make it plain on tablets, so he

may run. Who reads it?

For still the vision awaits its appointed time.

It hastens to the end. It will not lie.

If it seems slow, wait for it. It will surely come.

It will not delay. Behold, his soul is puffed up.

It is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by

his faith. This is the word of the Lord.

Let's pray this morning. Father God, I praise you.

I magnify you for your word. I thank you for truth.

I thank you that you are a God of justice.

You are a God of order. And, Father, we may not always

understand, but you are constantly making sense of the

chaos. Let us, Father, not lean upon

our own understanding, but lean upon you.

Help us to receive from your word.

This morning, Father, I ask that you will give me the words to

say that I can relay what you have given to me to those here.

Father, let us be able to understand your word this

morning. Amen.

You may be seated this morning. The big ideal for today's sermon

is this. Even in our frustrations over

our current situations, we can always put our faith in Jesus,

who is actively working in the background of our lives to bring

about good. Even in our frustrations over

our current situations, we can always put our faith in Jesus,

who is actively working in the background of our lives to bring

about good. Who's ever been frustrated over

a situation in your life? The rest of you that didn't

raise your hand? You're lying.

It's easy to be frustrated. It's easy to allow ourselves to.

And the reason why we get so frustrated is because we're

naturally selfish people as humans because of sin.

Our number one response or quit The quick response.

Whenever something happens we don't like or we have to wait

and we don't want to wait. It is because we are selfish

people and our instinct is to preserve our self and that's

because of sin. We are selfish people because of

sin, but we don't have to stay selfish people.

Amen. So what we see here today is

Habakkuk praying to God, and it's actually, I like the phrase

here we go again. There was a cadence in the

military that we would sing a lot.

Here we go again, same old stuff again, just the same day, over

and over. And what we find here in the

book of Habakkuk is exactly that, that we found out that

throughout the Old Testament we found the story of God's people

committing themselves to follow God's law.

But then God's people would turn their back on him.

They would serve other gods. They would commit spiritual

idolatry against God. God would bring judgment upon

his people. They would cry out for help.

God would come and deliver His people.

His people would then commit themselves to follow His laws

and follow His commandments. And then after a while, they

would turn their back on God. God would bring judgment, and

there, and the cycle would go on and on and on.

We found out throughout the Old Testament.

And here once again we see the we see God's people in this

situation. They were under the Assyrian

authority because of their sinfulness, because they had

turned their back on God. So once again, God was using one

of his chosen ones, Habakkuk, to show a a prophecy that was going

to happen. Like I said earlier, it was

since. At least two decades from the

time God spoke to a backer and gave him the vision of the

Chaldeans coming, and they would.

God was raising them up to punish Assyria.

But in the process, Assyria would be punished because they

had oppressed the Jewish people. But in the process, the

Chaldeans would wipe out their Syrians.

But they would still be over God's people.

So God's people would still be under other people's authority.

So through this all, Habakkuk just didn't understand.

In Psalm chapter 13, David declares, Oh Lord, how long, oh

Psalms 13 · chapter mention

Lord, will you forget me? Forever.

How long will you hide your face from me?

Goes on and says how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

There are absolutely times in our life that we we are

frustrated. We don't know why things are

happening. We don't know why we're in this

situation now here they were in this situation because of sin.

But just because we're going through a situation doesn't mean

it's sin. Lots of times.

It just means it's life. Amen.

And we have a smaller crowd this morning and I have a lot to say,

but the more feedback I get, the quicker I can go.

So if I don't get a lot of feedback, we may be here a

little longer. I'm just saying, so this morning

I want to direct your attention back to the book of Habakkuk,

Habakkuk. Now Habakkuk pleads for God's

intervention from the Assyrian captivity, and we found out in

chapter one, verse two, that he cries out.

How long shall I cry for help? And you will not hear, he says,

hear or cry out to you violence. And you will not say this word.

Violence means injustice, It means harsh treatment.

It references rude, wicked men. And this word he says, How long

will you not save this word? Save means to be liberated from

external evils. External evils.

So he's asking how long will you allow these rude, wicked, unjust

men to be over us and afflict us from their evils?

How long will you not save us from from these people?

Verse three tells them you make me see iniquity, which is

trouble or sorrow or idolatry or wickedness.

It says destruction and violence are before me.

Strife and contention arise. So your reference is that there

are disputes. We find out later on that there

is public hostilities. It's just people are at one

another. Kind of sounds for me or doesn't

it? Kind of sounds like the world we

live in. You were am in the home groups

that studied the. Yep.

That's it. I I I forgot the book of the

Bible now the book that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes.

Thank you. If you, if you were in the Home

group that was studied on the book of Ecclesiastes, you know

that that there's nothing to do under the sun, that history does

repeat itself. That's just not something that

someone made-up. History does repeat itself.

And we're seeing this here, we're seeing it in our lifetime.

So our backup actually accuses God of willfully ignoring what's

going on in the nation. He accuses God.

He's he's very accusatory in his communication into dialogue with

God and this is one of the reasons why I love the book of

Habakkuk. Habakkuk teaches that we can be

honest with God. We have a high priest that

understands us. He understands everything that

we go through. For he's tested just as we He is

tested in every aspect as we are, yet without seeing.

So we can be honest with God. Never think that you can't be

honest when you're when you're praying to God.

Never think you can't be honest. God welcomes that.

That's why he says come boldly before the throne of grace.

He was very honest. He was very raw emotionally in

his dialogue with God. And in Habakkuk's opinion, there

are four things that are happening be because in

Habakkuk's opinion, because God is is allowing these things to

go on. The first worst one is, is that

the Law of Moses is paralyzed. That's the first thing he says.

You're not answering my prayers. And because you're not answering

my prayers, these four things are happening in my this is in

Habakkuk's mind, Habakkuk's backup's opinion.

The Law of Moses is paralyzed. And this word paralyzed means to

be cold or to be ineffective or to be numb.

He tells basically he's telling God your people have turned away

from the law, and because the law is paralyzed, the heat of

your judgment, the people no longer feel.

And because they no longer feel the hot, the heat of your

judgment, they are numb to the extended effectiveness of your

law. And Habakkuk accuses God of

allowing this to happen. The second thing that he accuses

God is that justice never goes forth.

Justice never goes forth. Once again, it goes back.

You're not answering my prayers. And the law is paralyzed.

And because the law is paralyzed, justice never goes

forth. #3 tells them that the wicked surround the righteous.

This is in verse. In verse four he says so the law

is paralyzed and justice never goes forth.

For the wicked surround the righteous.

And this word surround gives the meaning of as an enemy surrounds

its foe. So he's declaring God and and

once again backups opinion. The law is paralyzed, never goes

forth. They're white, right?

They're wicked or is outnumbered by the righteous.

And #4, the fourth thing, in a back of his opinion, is because

the wickedness of more than the righteous, that what justice the

others go forth, that goes from, goes forth perverted.

Justice goes forth. Perverted And this word

perverted means crazy. You're confused or to be bent

out of shape. It also means to be.

Crooked or crooked justice? Which also sounds.

Like the world we live in today. So in a back to.

Mind, this is God. You're not answering my prayers.

And because you're not. Answering my prayers.

These are the things that are happening.

In a backpack like I. Said he was very honest with

God. He was very raw emotionally with

God. And it teaches.

Us, that we can be honest with God.

We can come to God with emotion. We can come to God with our with

our doubts and our our worries, our fears.

And we can trust that. God hears us.

Now the. Lord answers habakkuk here in

verse five of chapter one. And he tells them look.

Among the nation, and see Wander and be astounded.

For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe

if I told you so. The Lord answers and the first

thing he tells them is that I am doing a work.

See Habakkuk. Hebakkuk didn't didn't see this.

He didn't know what was, what was, what God had planned.

God wasn't. In heaven scratching his head,

saying, Oh my, the Syrians are over my people, what am I going

to do? God knew what he had in plan and

he was fixing to tell Habakkuk, because God was already working

out all the details of Israel's situation that once again bring

him, bring them close to him. And I want you.

To look at verse 6 here in chapter one, remember this is

this was written at least two decades before this prophecy was

fulfilled. But look at verse six

specifically, and I want you to see how God uses the present

tense in his response to a backer.

This isn't this, this isn't a I'm.

I'm going to look at the present tense here, he says, for behold,

I am raising up. The child ends.

I am as present tense, not that I will.

I am saying God's mind. This is our He.

This is already in place. That bitter and hasten hasty

nation, he says, says that they are dreaded and fearsome.

They are once again present tense.

Their horses are, he tells them in verse 7.

Excuse me, verse 8. Their horses are swifter than

leopards, more fierce than the evening evening wolves.

Their horsemen press on me, tells them there are more

fierce. Than the evening.

Wolves. These are all present tense

language that God is using with with Habakkuk.

So. Even though Habakkuk didn't

understand what was going on, God already had a plan.

God already had a plan in place, and in God's mind it was already

happening because the plan is happening.

The thing was, Habakkuk didn't see it.

And we don't see it. We don't always see it.

Because God doesn't. Always reveal every step, but

what we have to do, we're charged to do as individuals, as

believers. Is to trust.

God for the next step. I've said this before that God

is a connect the dot God. However many how?

How how many? Remember those those pages?

And you got in grade school that had nothing but dots on it,

either ABCD or 12345, and you would start at a, or you start

at one and you'd go to the next dot and go to the next dot and

go to the next dot. Or sooner, sooner or later, once

you got enough dots, lines to the dots, you understood, wow,

there's an elephant on my paper. Well, there's a line on my

paper, but when you first got your paper, all you saw was

dots. Well, see, that's us.

All we can see is dots. But the more that we allow and

trust God to go from one dot to the next dot to the next dot to

the next dot, we we we become. We begin to understand the full

picture that what God is is bringing about to pass.

But we have to trust God to take us from one dot to the next dot

to the next dot. And this is what he was telling

Habakkuk here in in this prophetic book.

The rest of God's response to him goes on, and Speaking of the

child, he ends once again in the present tense.

And let's pick let's pick chapter one back up in verse 12.

Now back at still. Didn't fully understand what was

going on and he he tells him in verse 12 he's speaking to God.

He says are you not from everlasting?

Oh Lord my God. This is not the verbiage being

used of someone that is doubting or not believing and not having

faith in here in God. This is someone that's he's

using verbiage that shows he does believe in God.

Are you not from everlasting? Oh Lord, my God, my holy one, we

should not die. See, He's, he's he hears about

the Chaldeans coming and wiping out people and he's like, wait,

wait a minute. You're not that's not going to

happen. We're your people.

He says, oh Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment and

you are rock have established them for reproof you who are

pure eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.

And once again he uses this word.

Why do you oddly look at traitors and remain silent when

the wicked swallow up the man more wicked than he?

He didn't understand Assyria was wicked and.

You're going to, You're going to.

Bring up a nation more wicked than them to take over them, but

we're still going to be in bondage.

He didn't understand it. Once again, he tells God that

he's oddly looking by. How many he's ever felt?

Like your prayers never go past the ceiling.

Amen. There were times in our.

Life that we may not feel godly, we not may not feel.

Like we are. God's chosen people.

There's times we may not. Feel like God is hearing our

prayers. But I want to encourage.

You this morning that God is absolutely hearing your prayers

and God is absolutely working in the background of your lives to

bring about good Amen. Now let's let's jump on into

chapter 2. Verse one Tobacco declares the

God that I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself

from the tower and look out to see what he will say to me and I

will answer concerning my complaint.

So Abaca says I'm going to stand, I'm going to listen, and

what does he say here? He says I will answer concerning

my complaint. So he's already waiting for God

to come with come with the next thing, and he's already planning

what he's going to complain to God about next.

I know. No one is.

Here has ever done that? You ever listen to?

Someone or hear or be in a conversation, all you're

thinking about is what you're going to say next.

OK, nevermind, OK. This is what a backup.

Was doing he he said, OK, I'm going to stand here and I'm

going to listen to what God says and then I'm going to come back

with my next comeback. And God.

Tells he begins to speak once again to Habakkuk in verse two

through four. He tells them to write the

vision. Tells them that the vision.

Awaits its appointed time, says it hastens God's vision.

Hastens to the end. It will not lie, he tells them.

If it seems slow, wait for it. Because it's going to happen.

There are times we pray and we seek God about something, and it

seems like it's just like. 20 minutes by.

Goes by and whatever we prayed God for, what happens or the

next day or the next week. Then there's times we pray and

we pray and we pray and we never see results about whatever we're

praying about. Never get.

Discouraged. Even though it's.

Harder to say than do I realize that never get discouraged when

it seems like you pray and God never answers that prayer.

Because we. Have to trust in the sovereignty

of God. We don't always understand why

we're going through the things we're going, or why we might

have a certain hardship, or why it seems like the same thing

happens over and over. Why do I struggle?

With this over and over, why can't I defeat this?

We have to trust. The process.

Amen. We have to trust that God has

taken us from one dot to the next dot to the next dot.

For God is higher. His ways are higher than ours.

We have to lean. Upon his understanding not our

own. Amen.

Once again, he tells. Them it will surely come, It

would not delay, and it will come at God's appointed time,

Paul. Wrote.

That at their appointed time God sent his Son Jesus.

And that's how God. Works in his appointed time, not

ours. When you look down in.

Chapter 2, verse four, it says Behold, his soul is puffed up.

It is not upright within him whose soul is puffed up.

He's still Speaking of the Chaldeans, but it says.

Remember when you. See the Word.

But it's so little to have so, so much of an impact when you

see the Word but in Scripture and it's pertaining to mankind

almost every single time. It's in a negative context.

But whenever you see the Word but and it refers to God, it's

100% always in the positive context.

And we see that once again here, he says.

But. The righteous shall.

Live by his faith, he's telling Habakkuk.

Through me, through faith in me, you can live that free.

And that's what I'm declaring to you this morning, man.

We have to trust that. God is.

Always. Always.

Working. To make good out of our current

situations. Book of Romans.

Romans 8:28

Chapter 8 Verse 28 says, and we know that that for those who

love God, all things work together for good.

Doesn't say all things are good, doesn't say all of our lives

experiences are good. It says all.

He's working together for good for those who are called

according to his purpose. So God can take the good times

and the bad times and the terrible times in our lives.

And ultimately. Make them for good.

But we have to trust. That we have to trust the

process. For it is in.

God's appointed time. See, God already had a.

Plan. For.

Habakkuk, The nation, his people.

God already has a plan for you and me.

He had all that. Planned out before God ever said

let there be light. And his.

Plan will never be thwarted. Amen.

And that plan is for us to become more and more like him

every day. And we do so by allowing God to

take us from one dot to the next dot to the next dot.

James Chapter One, verse 25 says this, but the one who looks into

the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being

no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in

his doing. 2nd Corinthians 317 through 18 declares, now the

Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there

is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face,

beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the

same image from 1° of glory to another, for this comes from the

Lord, who is the Spirit. Once again, it is a step by step

process. Jesus.

Understands our distresses and our frustrations.

Once again. Hebrews chapter 4, verse 14

Hebrews 4:14–16

through 16. Since then we have a great High

priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of

God. Let us hold fast to our

confession. For we do not have a high priest

who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in

every respect has been tempted as we are yet without sin.

Let us stand with confidence, confidence, draw near to the

throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace in

help. In time of need.

Jesus, always working in the background.

He's always. Working in the background.

He's working in the background. To bring us to salvation.

And then the more and more we look into His Word, the more and

more we persevere to bring us through the sanctification

process of the Holy Spirit to make us more and more like Him.

That is what God is. Doing for us?

Habakkuk. If you continue in in chapter 3

verse 16, Habakkuk says that when he first heard the vision,

when he first saw the Vision, that rottenness entered his

bones because of what was going to transpire.

Once the Chaldeans came and devastated the land.

Rottenness entered by bones yet? I will quietly.

Wait. For the day of.

Trouble Why? Because of backup wasn't a

unbelieving. Doubting prophet.

He was a prophet that absolutely believed in the God of the

universe. He put his faith and trust in

that God, and we can too. Amen.

Chapter 3, verse. 19 of a back It says that you make my feet

like the deers so I can go upon my high places.

This is a reference. To them being able to go up on

the cliffs, the narrow cliffs and and be able to walk and have

their balance and not fall on these high cliffs with just

barely something to stand on and God can do the same for us.

Amen. Where we have to stress the

process, Let's pray. This morning, Father, I ask that

you forgive us for our times of doubts.

I ask that you help us when we're.

Frustrated. Help us when we don't

understand, to always, always believe in you.

Father, help us. To understand and always

remember that you do have an appointed time for everything to

happen in our lives. And God?

I ask. That when we go through life.

Father help us to. Trust that process.

Help us to put our. Faith and our trust in you.

I ask. That help us to remember that we

can boldly come before you. That we do.

Not have to fear. Romans chapter 8, verse 15 says

Romans 8:15

we've been given us a spirit of fear but spirit of power.

Sorry, it says we have not. Been given a spirit of fear

again. That word again.

Father is so important, we don't have to fear you.

Adam and Eve feared. You, God.

Because they had. Transgressed you, but.

Father you have made. A way for us to once again be

close to you. Father I just.

Ask Help us to come before you boldly.

Help us to understand. That we can come before you.

And be honest. With our pain, we can be honest.

With our feelings because you. Understand our frustrations and

our feelings because you experienced everything that we

have or ever will. Yet without.

Sin. Thank you God that.

You are our High Priest. That we can come and we can.

Simply just be in your presence. Help us to trust.

The process this morning. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.