1 Samuel 3 Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh

First Samuel chapter 3. Let's go there in our Bible

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study. First Samuel chapter 3.

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And as we arrived there, let's pray one more time and ask the

Holy Spirit to help us with his word.

Father again, we come before you.

Because you call your house a house of prayer.

And so we pray again. And Lord, we ask that your son,

Jesus Christ would be mightily, exalted, Lord.

He is our King and we bow before him in our hearts and our will

with our lives. We surrender to him afresh.

Lord, we desire to know more of you in this house load.

It is our deep longing to discover the glories of who you

are. We pray.

Lord that you would Polish every lofty thing that exalts itself

against the knowledge of God. We pray that you would replace

Lord, every single deceptive thing that has creeped into our

hearts, everything that would insult or would blaspheme the

name of God in our lives, Lord would be eradicated Lord.

Every false view of who he is, that would make us intimidated

or view, you wrongly Lord. We pray that you would come and

you would reign in our hearts instead.

We ask Lord that the anointed one according to Isaiah would

come and set the captive free Open the Eyes of the blind, open

the doors of those who are in prison Lord.

We long to see Liberation, we long to see you breathe Lord

life into this house into your people.

Lord that we may be revived. Will you not revive us again

that we may rejoice in you? Well, we know that one of the

evidences and symptoms of Revival is a rejoicing in God

and we pray that that would be the reality of tonight.

So Lord Icahn us God, quick and us that we made praise you and

adore. You and Obey.

You more importantly and we pray again that Jesus Christ would be

exalted whether people choose to surrender to him or not.

We pray that he would be exalted and Jesus name, we pray.

Amen. And amen.

We live in crazy times, guys. We live in crazy times and let

me make this charge to you. Okay.

Pay attention. You're going to hear a lot in

the next few weeks. Stick close to the word of God.

I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm restricting myself.

I'm trying to refrain of going a different direction in this

Bible study, but I'm going to stick close to this text as much

as possible. But let me just say this Stick

close to the word of God. Stick close to God and these

times. First Samuel chapter 3.

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In this short yet wonderful chapter, we will read of

Samuel's, call into the ministry of a prophet.

And it's quite amazing because this little boy that we've been

reading about who was an answer to a mother's prayer.

Will now be promoted to a prophet of God for the nation of

Israel. And it's quite interesting to

see how much the word of God gives us concerning God's

commissioning or his invitation, or is call of men and women

throughout history. What I mean is that you and I

see different snapshots of how God calls a certain man or woman

of God, and he Of let those details out.

But no, he invites us to examine those details and for many

reasons, There's no question that when you read a story like

this, when you read this, kind of a chapter, or how God calls,

Jeremiah, or Moses that it's Unique to that person, it's

Unique to that individual nonetheless in every single call

in the Bible. There are underlining, insights

and instructions and principles to how God calls all men.

Now, I'm going to tell you how you're going to be really bored

in this Bible. Study, you ready?

You want to know? You will be extremely bored if

you don't care if you serve God's purposes or not on your

life, extremely bored. But you will be excited to know

how God does call if you want to serve God.

And what's amazing here is that his methods are different

throughout history. He uses a burning bush.

In one instance, he used the profits voices in another.

He speaks from heaven and in this case, he's going to speak

audibly to young men and though the methods vary, listen, the

measurements are still the same. What I mean?

The requirements, the qualifications, the aspects of

God's calling on a man or a woman are the same throughout

though. His methods and his means are

different. Does that make sense?

And so in this Bible study, the main emphasis is going to be the

different aspects to how God calls a man and what he looks

for in a man. And it's a glorious Insight,

it's a glorious study. And so we read from verse 1 of

chapter 3, Now the boys, Samuel was ministering to the Lord in

the presence of Eli and the word of the Lord was rare.

In those days, there was no frequent vision.

You remember, what's happening up to this point, right?

Eli's sons are deep in Mischief, Eli himself was rebuked by a man

of God and the whole nation of Israel is extremely frustrated

with what's happening in the house of God yet.

Despite all that is happening. We are told again that this

young boy, Samuel is doing what ministering to the Lord is this.

The only time that this has been brought up.

No, look at chapter 2 again and look at verse 11.

And the boy was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli

the priest. Look at Verse 18, Samuel was

ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with linen.

Ephod coming into verse 21. Indeed, the Lord visited Hannah

and at the end of the verse it says and the boys single grew in

the presence of the Lord verse 26.

Now, the boys Samuel continue to grow both in stature and in

favor with the Lord and also with man.

And then we come to chapter 3 verse 1.

Now, the boys, Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the

presence of Eli whenever the Holy Spirit, especially in a

close tight, context repeats, something it means he really

wants to convey a message. You really wants something to be

drilled in our minds in our hearts.

And in this case, What's Happening Here is that he wants

us to see that again despite everything around Samuel that

could have discouraged them or cause them to not do what he was

doing. His devotion was not deterred.

His service to the Lord was not stifled.

It was not shaken. Didn't matter what was happening

around and whether it was good or bad, he was laser focused on

serving God. And this is how Samuel was found

when God called him. It was in this kind of posture,

serving the lord in whatever capacity, in which he was given,

whatever limitations he had, despite the failures of those

who would have caused anybody else.

Surely to go into a different direction.

Samuel is like, I'm going to serve God.

I'm going to minister to the Lord and it's also encouraging

to see that God calls Samuel while he was a boy.

Right now, the boy Samuel, that Hebrew word has a wide range for

different ages. Many believe he was 12 years

old, 12 years old when God is about to call him, I think about

how significant that is because that is not foreign to the rest

of the Bible. It is not a crazy concept to God

for him to recruit a young boy or a young girl to his service

and some of you in here. Can testify that even when you

were in pre-k, maybe, I don't know how young but some people

doing is five, six, seven, eight years old.

Can remember, sensing that God was going to use them in a

particular way. And it proves to be Be true when

they grow up. Now, why is that important for

us to understand? Because if God is willing to

make his calling clear to somebody as such at age, then

we, as the people of God should be encouraged to stir them up to

love. God at that age, right?

If God sees that they are able to understand something of his

voice and his gifting even as such a point of Their Lives.

Why do we don't think that they have no potential or grass with

the things of God? We should trust that they do and

we should encourage them and stir them as young as possible

to see the beauties of serving the lord and to and to make

their antennas ready for God to speak to them if he wants to

speak to them. Because God is able to recruit

somebody even in the womb. Who's the person that received a

call from God in the womb. Jeremiah, who else in the New

Testament? John, the Baptist knew how to

praise God in the womb. When Mary stepped in with Jesus

and her belly, John the Baptist and the presence of Jesus left

with joy. And so you and I should be able

to look at a young child and their innocence and their purity

and realized, this is a candidate for God's service now.

They are now when they understand more things.

No. Now in this moment, God can

speak and God can recruit and we should encourage them, like,

Samuels mom by putting on them speaking over them blessing them

training them to be used of God, that might not mean much to you.

Now, most people in here because you don't have children or maybe

you don't have young siblings, it will, when you Do so remember

that. Now, what do we see here?

And the word of the Lord was rare, in those days, there was

no frequent vision. This is a description of the

spiritual darkness that plagued the nation of Israel.

What's being said here is that essentially there was no

prophetic word, it was rare, it was like a blue moon.

It would come once in a while that you would have a voice of

guidance, a voice of reason, a voice that heard from God and in

spoke to the people of God to walk in a certain direction or

correct them from a certain way of life.

That was very, very rare. And secondary.

We can also say that it was rare for even God's leaders to open

God's word and to teach Faithfully because that was the

job of the Levites. Why is that important?

Because it's not God's desire. Not to speak.

The reason why Israel has stooped down to this point, you

ready? It's because Israel wanted them

to be there. You realize that?

And what sense God's word was rare first because the spiritual

leadership was incapable of receiving and then directing

those because of their own corruption.

There was no leaders, there was no vessels ready for the

Masters, use to speak on behalf of God because of their own

hypocrisy. As we read in chapter 2, And

secondary we see here that the people if this is the same crowd

that follows the Book of Judges, then we know full well that they

don't want God's word for themselves either.

And so, we see that the spiritual leadership is fault

and also the people's father, mainly that leadership and we

see it in verse 2, the converse to at that time, Eli.

Whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see was

lying down in his own place. That's his physical eyes.

He was an old man, he was partially blind but it also

speaks of his spiritual perception.

He could not see as God saw and therefore, he could not direct

as God wanted his people to be directed.

So, what's happening here? God is giving them what they

want as he often does and this is one of the worst forms of

God's judgment. You probably haven't heard of it

much, but it's described in the Book of Amos 8:11.

Amos 8:11

This might shock you as it did me.

But listen to this words here, in 811 of Amos behold, the days

are coming, God says declares the Lord God, when I who will do

it. When I got, when I will send a

famine on the land. Not a famine of bread, nor a

thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord, You know

what the prophet is saying. I want to tell you something

more catastrophic. More frightening than a drought,

that would cause a shortage of food and water and it's the

hearing of God's word. Can I ask you a question

tonight? This Friday night, bible study.

Do you cherish God's word that much?

Is God's word. So valuable to you that you see

a greater like Joe said than your daily food In God's eyes,

as we know from Deuteronomy, that man shall not live on bread

alone, but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

And in this case, in Israel's history saying, I am going to

initiate a judgment where it's going to be so rare for you to

hear my voice. You think to yourself?

How is that an act of judgment will think about God's word?

What does it provide salvation life wisdom Comfort?

Peace, Joy, Purity power and for God to refrain to Vale that from

the general public, that is an act of judgment.

But it's not, his primary will. It's a response to the will of

the people who say we don't want God's word, you don't want my

word. Then here's chaos instead and

welcome to America in 2021. And obviously, it's speaking of

the prophetic word. Primarily in many believe.

Amos 8:11 was fulfilled during the old before the New Testament

Amos 8:11

after the Old Testament. Meaning that 400-year period.

Where there is not one prophetic voice for the nation of Israel

until John the Baptist appeared on the scene.

And you wonder why there is such a frantic scene, finally a

prophet arise and he calls people to repentance and the

whole nation sweeps Into the Wilderness.

Why because for hundreds, for centuries there was in one voice

that would speak on behalf of God.

Prophetically and your Bibles testify to that the

intertestamental period where there is no voice and what

happens with that, look at verse 12.

This is what you'll have. God will allow it and when he

does it says they being the people shall Wander from sea to

Sea and from North to East, they shall run to and fro to seek the

word of the Lord. But they shall not find it.

There will be such a desperation, for some guidance,

for some clarity for some instruction and people will

travel all across the world just to hear from God.

And God would choose not to speak.

And that is true prophetically and though that was unique to

Israel and their Covenant, the principle of this judgment is

still applicable. Like it wasn't Samuels day, even

in our day because I believe we are under this judgment in the

West. You're saying what prophetically

know I'm speaking about the word of God.

I can't tell you the amount of people that I've talked to that

are desperate just to hear sound Biblical teaching.

And their local church. And I know people that are

willing to move States. And move houses and move to

different countries. Why to hear from God to hear

from God? And I believe there is a famine

of hearing the word of the Lord, not because God wants to refrain

and restrict his word from being shot on the people because the

people don't want to hear from God and goes fine.

But here's the thing with that, God is still merciful It's a

terrifying, judgment but God is extremely merciful and he will

never leave himself without witness to any generation.

Look at verse 3, the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel

was lying down in the temple of the Lord.

Where the Ark of God was look back at verse 1 and the word of

the Lord was rare. Does he say?

It was totally unavailable. No, he says he was just rare.

It was in frequent. It wasn't regular.

Like it could have been. It was a rare commodity, and

it's proven here even with the lamp of God in the house of God,

the lamp of God was the only instrument in the Tabernacle

that provided what light? And it was the job of the priest

to come and maintain the light to snippet to protect it.

So that it would continually burn night and day.

And what are we told you that the lamp of God was almost near

being extinguished but it wasn't.

We out it wasn't totally out but the moment it would go out.

The house of God would be in darkness, if the house of God is

in darkness, and the people of God will be in darkness.

And if the people of God are in darkness than the rest of the

nation will be in darkness. But here's the point that this

lap represented, it defined the, spiritual condition of the

leadership. There was a little light left

but it was near to going out. And just when the light was

about to go out, God now is about to call another man to

reignite it. God is faithful to raise up a

voice even when things look grim and dim.

And every generation. And as much as it seems like

there is little influence of heat and divine truth being lit

and maintained at the right time.

God will raise up somebody to burn for God.

He will. What does that mean?

For us it means that you can look out into this world and you

can see professing Christians passionate just about everything

else except God you can see people that are more into

politics than they are in to Divine truth.

You can see little to no voice in this generation.

Just call you here more than anything else that's compromised

and people buying into Political agendas and social ideas more

than truth and you can think like what's going to happen.

And here's what I'm going to tell you, God has somebody in

mind. And God has a few people in

mind. In fact, he will never leave

himself without witness in any generation and the darker things

look. The more hopeful we should be as

hopeless as it looks. We should be the most hopeful

because God never leaves himself without a witness.

Let me prove it to you. The darkest period that this

world will ever know is in the period of the tribulation as

defined in the Book of Revelation. 7 years of living

hell. If you think 2020 was 20/20 was

a playground Compared to what the tribulation period will look

like. And yet, still during that

tribulation period. God will raise up, 144,000,

evangelist to preach, the word of God and to see the greatest

Revival that this world has ever known.

He will always leave himself with a witness and every single

generation. So you think about the time

where Amos 11 811, was fulfilled, 400 years, right?

And then offer a sudden, listen to the description of John the

Baptist, according to the words of Jesus, John 535, he was a

burning and Shining lamp. He was a burning and Shining

lamp and you were willing to Rejoice for a while in his

light. That's just like a lot of people

today. By the way, God will raise up a

prophetic voice. God will raise up a voice that

preaches truth. And people get so excited about

it and that excitement only last for so long though, it's a scary

symptom of people that you can hear a voice just like John the

Baptist thundering and preaching everything that God wants to say

and people get hyped and excited and then the rejoicing The

rejoicing dims down after a bit. Be careful that doesn't happen

to you. Be careful that doesn't happen

to you. And so what happens here, God is

about to raise up a man, even as the light is growing dim.

And I'm sure had to do with Eli's blindness that he couldn't

really see anyway. So he didn't know how to manage

the lamp of the Lord, but it was speaking of his own condition

and his own relationship with God.

So what are we about to see Samuels?

Call in that kind of a spiritual background societal background.

The moral chaos and Anarchy. Here comes the invitation for a

profit to arise. And today tonight at this Bible

study, I present to you seventh different aspects to God's

calling in our lives. For those who want to be used of

God. Here are seven ingredients, not

exclusive but major ones to consider.

So here's Point. Number one, in our Bible study,

when God calls a man God's call Is inconvenient to the flesh

verse 4, then the Lord called Samuel.

And he said, here I am, Samuel said that and ran to Eli and

said, here I am for you called me.

But he said, I did not call lie down again, so he went and laid

down. Notice first year that the end

of verse 3, when God called Samuel, Samuel was lying down

for bed, he was trying to sleep and it was in that moment that

God chose to speak to him to get his attention to awaken him.

And what's interesting about that is we all know the

discomfort of being awoken from sleep.

It's not pleasant. It's not pleasant, is it?

I don't know anybody that enjoys that.

And here in Samuels case, the call of God came at An

Inconvenient time because when he does call, oftentimes it does

not line up with the desires of our flesh.

Sometimes the Lord calls somebody when they are in a

state of life, where everything is extremely well, in the

natural sense, you have everything going for you, you

have your plan for your life set out.

You have your Investments laid out, you have your relationship

established you have your education, all sorted,

everything is set in place and offer some of the Lord will come

and interrupt and say follow me. Or for others.

Maybe they're not as well-placed.

But they have their future set and the call of God invokes this

sense of uncertainty and nobody likes uncertainty.

And so there's an inconvenience to the invitation And if God

truly call somebody, oftentimes it will include both hurdles.

I'm in a really good place right now and I'm kind of scared of

where you might take me if I say yes to you. but the point is

this, Samuel was interrupted in his sleep and your flesh will

find reasons why not, to completely submit to the will of

God also. But you have to remember in that

moment, when God does call, if he does, call you in a certain

direction, you have to hold on to the promises that come with

the purpose. And realize that he'll take care

of you and that you're on the, you're on the path of a wild

Journey. If you say yes, it's

inconvenient. It's inconvenient.

There will be something that you have to give up.

There will be something that you have to reject.

There will be something that you have to turn away from and if

you're not willing to do that, I'm sorry, like Jesus said,

you're not worthy to be his disciple.

Number one, God's call is inconvenient to the flesh.

Samuel was awoken Samuel was Disturbed while he was sleeping.

But number two, God's call meets a heart that is eager to serve.

God's called meets a heart that is eager to serve when God,

spoke Samuel immediately said, here I am.

And ran to Eli notice that he ran to Eli.

He said here, I am, so I want you to imagine this Eli's laying

in his bed and he hears a voice Samuel.

And in his mind as a servant under Eli, who's partially blind

that needs assistance. He ran in that moment as she ran

out and he jumps out of his bed, and he runs he doesn't walk.

He doesn't crawl. He runs to Eli to assist them

and then he says again, here I am.

You called me, right? Here's the thing, he was

misunderstood, he didn't have the perception to understand

that it was God who was calling him, but we can still see the

character of the man even in his lack of understanding.

When he was told, and when he was called, you can sense, an

eagerness, you can sense an excitement, you can sense an

urgency to serve he was sacrificial.

He was prompt, he was respectful.

And the beauty about this is that he does it over and over

again. I mean he goes back to bed, he

hears his name again and he gets up and he goes back to Eli again

and again three times before he gets it, So this is speaking

about the man's attitude, the young boys attitude that even at

this point with menial tasks such as assisting a blind man, a

partially blind men life to make it a little easier.

He was still willing And surely God found somebody who is

willing to help a weak individual, to be able to handle

the power and authority to serve a weak Nation.

Because God will look at where you're at right now and what

you're doing right now and we'll consider the attitude.

And the eagerness and the sense of privilege before even

considering to promote you or me.

He saw something special in this boy.

We just helped an old man when you would call in the middle of

the night, maybe for a glass of water or maybe to grab an extra

sheet to make them warmer. You have a lot of people that

don't want to serve God until God gives them exactly what they

want from Ministry and that's not how it works.

It's not how it works. He finds Samuel if you wanted to

make him a profit right away, he would have made him a profit

right away. Like Jeremiah he could have made

Samuel young Prophet at a young age but instead know, he lets

him go to Eli's house and God's house and to train him in

humility and train him in the sense of serving at this

capacity, before he promotes him.

So wherever you are today, God will look at you and say, how

much are you willing to serve me as though?

This was the only thing I was going to give you anyway and

based on that attitude, based on that sense of honor and

privilege and efficiency God will consider the next step.

God's call comes to a heart. That is eager to serve thirdly,

God's call comes with merciful confirmation.

Look here. Verse 5 again.

And ran to Eli and said, here I am for you called me.

But he Eli said, I didn't call lie down again, so he went and

laid down and the Lord called again Samuel.

And Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, here, I am for you

called me. But he said, I did not call my

son lie down again. Now, Samuel did not yet know the

Lord and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to

him. And the Lord called Samuel.

Again, the third time and he arose and went to Eli and said,

here, I am for you called me then, Eli perceived that the

Lord was calling the boy. Three times.

Three times the Lord calls Samuels name and the boy, misses

it every single time. He thinks it's his boss.

He thinks it's Eli and his unwillingness to respond to the

Lord was not a reluctance or a desire to ignore God's call

knowing the cost. He just does not know God's

voice yet. And when God sees this boy who

doesn't have the capacity yet to understand that he is the one

speaking to him. He attempts over and over and

over again, to get his attention and was willing to do so until

he understood it was God speaking to him.

God's Mercy is wonderful because even when somebody knows, it's

God speaking them and they were willing to go the opposite

direction. He's still willing to give him a

chance, give me a proof of that of an individual in the Old

Testament. Jonah, Jonah literally goes the

opposite direction. Geographically says, you're

telling me to go there and he GPS.

Where is the exact opposite direction?

Because that's where I'm going. And God still gives the man a

second chance to perform his duty as a prophet.

That's how merciful he is. How much more for somebody who

doesn't understand that God is calling him and he wants to

serve God, but he doesn't know of God's.

The one directing him in this way.

So God when he really listen, I want to tell you something.

God is more excited for you to fulfill his will for your life

then you are God Longs you to know the joys and the privilege

of glorifying him more than you might anticipate is.

So here's God, trying to get the attention of this young boy.

He's not getting it. So what he's going to do he

doesn't give up on a so quickly. He doesn't play this strange

game where he's mysterious and if you can't crack the code then

you're not worthy to serve him know.

He's very realistic. God is extremely realistic.

And so there are people that are terrified terrified if they're

going to miss God's will for their lives.

A lot of people like that. And when people come up to me

with that concern, I applaud them and comfort them with the

fact that they have that concern. because when you

understand the nature of God and his desire for you to be used,

For his glory, you have no reason to fear.

You have no reason to fear because he'll make it clear.

Why fear your future wife feel like you're going to miss the

door, why I feel like you're going to miss a moment of God's

will for your life? Samuel, your could not perceive

it yet. And I see another principal who

was the one that preceded it for Samuel.

Eli. Eli was the one who had the

maturity and the experience and the relationship with God to

understand that after three times.

The boys hearing his name. The Lord is trying to call you

boy. Do you know how Eli received

confirmation or greater Clarity rather that God was speaking to

him? Through community. there was a

there was somebody else in his life that had the Experience

that had the knowledge that had an understanding that he did not

have that helped them understand that it was God speaking to him.

And as much as the Holy Spirit lives, in each of us the Holy

Spirit has also made it that you would be dependent on somebody

else to perceive something that you cannot perceive on your own.

We don't like that. And this individualistic

Society, how dare you? I have all the holy spirit in

me. I have the whole counsel of God.

I'll be just fine or really You will be fine, but you'll be even

better off, if you know how to be in partnership with other

people. I love this.

I love this Samuel, young boy, and God allows for Eli, another

man to turn his eyes and to help him realize this is God speaking

to you. And although we each need to

have our own personal walk with the Lord in that personal

Journey, God has ordained it for you to be humbled by knowing

you, you have blind spots. And so do I and it's a humbling

thing to ask somebody for prayer.

It's a humbling thing to ask somebody else for Council but

God will see that humility and he will honor it by providing

greater Clarity to whatever you need Clarity for.

And in this case he received guidance from another man and

you and I can know this that when we walk with others, who

are Spirit-filled, who actually love you, who care for you

because this must have been very humbling for Eli, you realize

that right? Eli is the high priest and Eli

realizes In This Moment, God is speaking to a kid and he's not

speaking to me. God is speaking to a little boy

and knowing what that man said to me in Chapter 2 about my

faith, I know I'm probably cut off with God, and he's not going

to speak to me, ever again, and he was what, Was he like Baba,

you're just hearing things boy, go to bed, I can't believe God's

calling him. No, he encouraged.

The boy, he encouraged the boy, what an example of older Saints.

Not being intimidated by younger men and women, but encouraging

them to fulfill the will of God in their lives.

Go. God is calling you and he gave

him instructions of how to receive from the Lord further

from that place, but look at your birth 7.

Now, Samuel did not yet know the Lord and the word of the Lord

had not yet been revealed to him.

I don't believe that this is saying that Samuel had no

personal knowledge of God. Meaning, he didn't have a

relationship with God. I don't think that's what it was

trying to be said, here. I believe what's being said here

more specifically is that Samuel was not in the place of maturity

to perceive the spoken word of God.

The revelation of God as a prophet would understand in

here. God, Samuel had not arrived

there yet. And so that's the understanding

here is that he he didn't have the ears yet.

He didn't have the experience that to know.

This is God speaking to me right here.

And right now nonetheless the possibility of somebody like

Samuel who all he knew was church, man.

That's all he knew. Like some of you in this place

as young as he can. Remember every meeting that the

temple could offer. He was there Wednesday night,

Friday night, Night, Sunday, morning, Sunday afternoon, till

the evening. He was there, he was there and

he served at the youngest age possible.

He was in the Sunday school. He became the youth leader.

He probably became the young adults leader at that point.

What am I trying to say that? Although, this is a specific

type of knowing of the Lord that he did?

Not know. There are those like Samuel who

grew up in the ministry, who grew up in the church, and let

me say they don't know the Lord. I'm just going to cut it

straight tonight. They don't know the Lord.

And I've personally encountered this, you ask people certain

people especially people that grew up in the church and you

ask them. Tell me your testimony and they

begin to tell you what they did for the lord.

Well, I went to Sunday school ever since I was a kid and I

served on the worship team and I didn't wanna And I did a

missions trip in Florida. And it's like that's not the

same as you knowing the Lord. You describing your activities

for Christ. Does not equal how you entered

into a relationship with him. And sometimes we convince

ourselves because I've busied myself like Sammy.

I've ministered to the Lord I've ministered.

Lord yeah. But do you know the Lord Do you

know the Lord? And not the work for the Lord.

Do you know him? And one way you'll know if you

know, the Lord is that you want to spend time with him, you

actually want to spend time with him, you actually want to get to

know him. This might shatter your

confidence, but I hope if it saves her soul tonight.

You actually want to spend time with God.

If you don't want to spend time with God, I question if you've

ever met him You want to actually open his word and read

it. You actually look at sin

differently. And if you do fall in cynic,

Grieves you in a way that you never known before you were

saved, what's encouraging though?

Is that Samuel was called while he was in the house of God,

because here's the opposite extreme.

You have people that grow up in the church and they think that

God will not use them because they don't have as colorful as a

past as others that grew up in a much more broken background.

But here's a beauty that Samuel was called in the house of God

for a mighty purpose and just because your background like

Samuel is pristine and clean and free from like Eli son's

description of life, God can still recruit you.

God has a vast array of recruiting different people with

different backgrounds for different purposes and

oftentimes God will find somebody who grew up in his word

that grew up under his word that grew up with the people of God,

to be a mighty voice for his glory.

I'll tell you this from personal experience, some of the hardest

people to preach these church people.

Like the youth conferences. Like, can these Dry Bones live?

Lord, those kind of services. I'm like, am I living in Ezekiel

37? Right now, you want me to preach

on this theme? I don't even know if these kids

are saved. You know, you ask questions and

Bible studying the one question that I often want to ask at

those conferences. Are you guys even alive?

Anyways, I don't know. Sorry, something just came out

of me there. Let's come back to the Bible

study. God's call.

Comes with merciful confirmation, merciful

confirmation. He will make himself known when

you really desire to serve him, which comes to the fourth Point.

God's call is known to a submissive spirit.

Look at verse 9. Therefore Eli said to Samuel go

lie down and if he calls you you shall say Speak Lord for your

servant. Here's so Samuel went and laid

down in his place. Now, Eli perhaps had this

experience where he heard from God as a high priest.

So he knew what to give Samuel has instruction and he said

Samuel. Listen, this is important.

And he picks himself up from his bed and he tries to wipe his

eyes because listen boy, is we need to understand if he calls

you again, if you hear his name again, make sure that this is

how you respond. Now, why would he say that

unless he knew something about it?

I want you to say Speak Lord, for your servant hears.

And Samuel says, in verse 10, and the Lord came and stood,

this is a physical manifestation of the Lord, that's not just

speaking audibly. The Lord.

Now appears in the room, you want to talk about making

yourself known He appears in the room calling his other times,

Samuel Samuel, you see, he's amplifying.

He's repeating. He's really wanting to get this

boy's attention and Samuel said speak for your servant.

Here's now this is this is really encouraging.

Remember God's call God's voice for your life.

Meets a person who has a submissive spirit and this is

the instruction. He didn't just say go and say

Speak. Lord.

It is a just just say Speak Lord because that's that's what you

have. A lot of people often wanting.

They want to know something of God's voice of an experience

with God of opening, the Bible and something to shooting right

into your life. That speaks to the moment that

you're in right now. People long for that and you

should long for that, because I'll tell you this, if you have

no desire for God to speak, like God Only Knows, God Only Knows

our hearts and we pull up into this place when we open our

Bibles, every single morning. If we even do that, God knows

our heart posture. Day.

And if we have no desire for God to speak, guess what?

He'll honor that desire. See, this is why you cannot

succumb. Make sure you check yourself

brother sister. Make sure you don't slip into

this trap where your satisfaction is you satisfying

what you're supposed to do as a Christian in your devotional

life, go deeper than that go deeper and saying Lord.

I long for you to speak when I come to your words speak to me,

don't let my joy be found in the fact that I just read I want to

know your voice and God will see that, but it goes beyond that

because you have people that are just crazy for Periences and

sensationalism and some thrill and some story they can share

with others. Listen, he could have said, when

you hear your name, say Speak, Lord, and I would have been

enough, but that's not what he said.

He said Speak Lord for what your servant.

Here's so the equation is this that if you want God to speak,

It's because you're ready to obey what he has to say.

You're ready to obey, whatever he reveals to you.

And oftentimes people want God to speak for much more different

reasons than for you to submit to his will for your life.

But this is what's necessary. I'm willing to do whatever you

tell me to do. I'm willing to go wherever you

tell me to go, I'm willing to give up whatever you want me to

give up. I'm willing to say whatever you

want me to say. And when that is the heart

posture, Of God's child. He readies himself to hear from

the Lord. they forget the second part she, when I come to hear a

sermon, What am I looking for? What am I looking for?

I can tell you this. You'd be Mason on how God will

speak when you're ready to hear from and you ask him to speak to

you from wherever it's being preached from.

You'll be amazed to know and sometimes it's for yourself.

It's sometimes it's for you to know for somebody else.

It's incredible. And I never want to be a person

that Waltz into the house of God.

And I don't even say Speak Lord. I'm just like, I hope this isn't

a long sermon so I can eat because I skipped breakfast

today. What is sad way of going to the

house of God. What a sad way of going to the

house of God. So, God won't speak.

If you don't want it to speak, you'll hear words, you'll hear a

sermon. You see somebody passion and get

veins in their neck but you won't hear God speak.

And God is specially won't speak.

If you're not ready to obey. Whatever is being revealed.

You have a lot of people that are hungry for knowledge but not

for the sake of 0 being obeying God in Greater ways in

Deuteronomy. 29:29 Look What the Lord says.

Deuteronomy 29:29

We're having this conversation with a few Brothers, on

Wednesday night, the secret things belong to the Lord, Our

God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our

children forever, but it doesn't stop there.

That we may do all the words of this law.

You have many people that spend their entire Christian

existence, trying to find out things that only God knows so

that they can when they feel like they have an answer debated

with other Christians, that's all there.

That's the thrill of their Christian Life.

Debating, the secret things of God.

And here's what the Bible says, whatever God has made known to

you. Whatever God has revealed to

you. Here's the purpose, it's been

revealed to you so that you can do.

What, what is this a obey? It obey it, the Revelation, no

matter how great the inside, no matter how I've never seen that

before. All of those things is for one

main purpose, that from it, you would draw something where you

can be more Sanctified in Christ, Or else we become?

Dangerous to our own Souls when we want to gather and we become

like the Dead Sea, all we do is get things in, but we have no

outlet and we become swampy and poisonous and our spiritual

life. So, even whatever God Reveals

His for the sake of me, walking and close to relationship with

him and representing him more well than I did before, when it

was revealed. But no, people want the secret

things. God, I want to know the

mysterious things for what to be, puffed up.

Let's just be honest to be puffed up.

But he says no I'm going to reveal whatever I reveal

whatever exposed to you is for one main purpose.

So that you would be more like my son.

And so God speaks here but only two per person who's ready to

obey. And here's the thing, out of all

the things that God could have said, this is point number five

of God's call, God's call will always come with a cost.

Always always always. It will always come with a cost,

the Lord manifest himself, and he tells Sam, you have something

that is going to come to pass in the land of Israel.

Verse 11, then the Lord said to Samuel behold, I'm about to do a

thing in Israel. at which the two ears of everyone who hears

it will tingle He goes, I'm about to say something to you.

Now, that when the rest of the people hear it, their ears are

actually going to vibrate. And that's, that's an important

phrase because you see it into other times in the Old

Testament, Second Kings, Jeremiah 19, and both times, God

says you're about to hear and you're about to say something

that will make the ears of the people tingle, and it always has

to do with severe judgment that he's going to rain down from

heaven. So what's about to be told here

is something that's going to shake the hearts of men when

they realize what God is about to do.

And why is he telling this? Why is he saying?

This is Samuel because Samuel supposed to Proclaim it.

And he goes on to say, on that day, I will fulfill against Eli

all that I have spoken concerning his house from

beginning to end and I declared to him that I'm about to punish

his house forever for the iniquity that he knew because

his sons were blaspheming God and he did not restrain them.

I mean I want you to realize here's a 12 year old boy.

And the first thing that God reveals to this boy, the very

core of this message is the Holiness of God.

The Holiness of God, Samuel I want you to realize right off

the bat who I am and my hatred for sin.

And I'm going to tell you this message because you're going to

Proclaim it to Eli. And I want you to realize of

what I am capable of doing, and here's what we all have to

choose in our own Hearts. You ready?

In second, Timothy 4, what is it say about those?

Who would want teachers that stray away from the word of God?

So that they would do what? Tickle their itching ears,

right? You and I have to make a

decision that we are willing to declare.

What will make not ears. Tickle but tingle Let me say

that one more time you and I have to determine in our hearts

that we are willing to relay the message that would make people's

ears. Tingle and not take Cole.

Because many people don't want people's ears to tingle because

tingle has to do with God's holiness, and his Justice, and

his wrath and his righteousness. But if you're going to serve

God, whether you're a preacher or not, you're going to be a

faithful servant, you have to be determined within yourself Lord.

If you're telling me to say something or live in a way that

would cause people to tingle, I'll do it.

And that's why many people can't serve God.

And this is a difficult thing that many people are not willing

to do, but it's a necessary price of being used by the Lord.

And here's what makes it so much more difficult for Eli or rather

for Samuel. He has to say to somebody that

he grew up with his whole life. I have to say it to Eli, who was

like a father figure. To me, this man took me under

his wing. We ate together, we played

together, he put me to bed. We had conversations, I served

him my whole life and now you're telling me that I have to speak

this word over him. And the answer is yes, because

Samuel is going to do what Eli refused to do with his own kids

and that's honor. God's holiness above the

feelings of other people. Samuel.

Here's the message that I'm giving to you.

I mean this is a 12 year old kid.

You have 40 year old men that won't even preach this.

You have a twelve-year-old by the God is entrusting to this

message. Why?

Because, you have grown men that are not willing to do.

So, and is day. So he's going to let a kid

prophesied judgment because men can't even judge themselves.

And what do we told? Look at Verse 18.

So Samuel told him being Eli everything and hid, nothing from

him. 12 years old. Yeah, guess what?

A 12 year old can understand the concept of God's holiness.

They can. But we again just like we'll be

doing many things underestimate, their capacity of understanding

certain things and we try to hide God's holiness from them.

Lest they be? Who knows what?

And so you want proof of that. Look at the common child's book

of Noah's Ark. It's like the happiest thing in

the world. Ask not what I read.

When I read Genesis, I don't read rainbow over the arc and

giraffes and elephants sticking their head of the windows.

There's Terror in that book. It's a picture of God's holiness

and his thundering righteousness and great Wrath.

So Samuel had nothing from Eli, but look how honest the Bible

is. Look at verse 15 Samuel lay

until morning. You know, he didn't sleep that

night. I got told him what he was

supposed to say, what was going to happen and the boy just laid

there all night. Because what when you want to be

used by God, don't be surprised if he puts his burden on you.

I'm not talking about the burden of legalistic limitation about

talking about the burden of unrealistic way of life.

I'm talking about the burden of his heart.

For sinners. And for his people, this young

boy could not even sleep, a wink that night and I don't blame him

because he knew what was going to happen to one of the closest

people in his life. But look, then he opened the

doors of the house of the Lord and Samuel was afraid to tell

the vision to Eli. Look how honest, the Bible is,

this boy was afraid, he goes to the house and who knows?

He was sweeping the floor knees. Like, I hope I don't bump into

Eli. I hope he doesn't ask me about

last night. I hope he doesn't tell me and

ask me that I don't want to have this kind of conversation with

Eli. Who knows?

What was running through the boys mind.

But here's what we learn in verse 18, despite his feelings.

He honored God, he crucified his emotions for the sake of obeying

God, and at times when, Serve God.

Guess what? You're not going to feel like it

sometimes. If you ask some preachers,

they'll be honest, sometimes they don't want to go up and

preach for different reasons. You have some people that serve

God in different ways they'll be honest and say there are some

days where I feel lazy, there are some days where I feel

afraid. There are some days where I feel

depressed, but guess what they do?

They crucify how they feel for the sake of serving and

glorifying God. And you and I have to learn how

to manage how we feel because you have a lot of Christians

that allow their emotions to determine their devotion.

You cannot go far. You cannot go far and God is

merciful. He is extremely patient with us.

I mean, you have the boy afraid here after the Lord.

I mean, how can you be afraid when the Lord stands in your

room and says, can you here's the message?

I mean I would feel like Superman.

I would feel invincible and like bring it on.

Bring on Baal and ashtaroth. I don't care.

I know he was still sincerely. and after wonderful,

manifestation of the revelation of Christ, And he goes, I don't

want to say it. And then he ends up saying it

anyway, because that's what it means.

To serve the Lord, you die to yourself, you die to yourself.

And he does. Now here's a great question for

discussion. So Samuel Verse, 18 told them

everything in hid, nothing from him and he being Eli said it is

the Lord. Let him do.

Let him do, what seems good to him.

Here's my question. What do you guys think about

that reaction? I actually want to hear from

you. If you're willing to answer, is

this a noble response? Is this a bad example as a

response? What do you think?

He says you're done. Okay, it seems a pathetic like

he's ignoring if that's the case and let it be.

That's his only response. That's the other answer that he

pretty much says it's done. There's no chance that because

he says here it's over, this judgment is sealed, there's no

chance of repentance. So what we're hearing here is

well. Okay, that's it, that's it.

Okay. So there's an element of

repentance there where he's not saying, well, no, how can this

be? This isn't fair and he just

accepts his fate. Yeah.

So he's saying whatever God would do, whatever is good to

him. I'll accept it.

So he's leaving it at the mercy of God.

These are great. Great answers.

Okay, you're on to something. Now, you're on to something

where you see different responses, from Men in different

places and God, responds differently.

Yeah. Mmm.

Right? So he's saying, if this is what

God wants, I have a different opinion, so let just let it be

okay. You guys are onto something.

So again, we're seeing another example of how God has declared

something that seems to be a sealed fate for people and he

was willing to reverse that based on the response of the

people. Go to 1st Kings.

I want you to see something. In chapter 21.

And let me say this is not a dogmatic thing.

Every answer that was given is where people stand on this

issue. Concerning Eli's response but I

want you to see something quite interesting.

In First Kings 21. What happens here?

Is that a Hab killed? A man for his Vineyard.

I mean, he was so Covetous, so ugly that he robbed the man of

his father's inheritance so that he can enjoy gardening.

And and to God, in God's eyes, this was the last straw.

This is like, you're done after all that you've done, I'm

sending my prophet and he's going to declare your faith and

he does and we see it here in verse 19.

So he tells Elijah to go to a Ab and this is what the instruction

is, and you shall say to him. Thus says, the Lord have you

killed and also taken possession, and you shall say to

him. Thus says the Lord and the place

where dogs licked up the blood of naboth shall dogs.

Lick your Her own blood talk about a sermon.

Talk about a sermon. You know how you're going to

die. Wild, dogs are going to lick up

the blood from the floor. After you are slaughtered, in a

way that you're not going to know.

Does that sound like a final fate?

Does that sound like it's a done deal?

Yes. There's no or or if he says,

that's it, you're going to be dog's food because of what

you've done. This is what's amazing.

I want you to see the response here, as you scroll down and

verse 25. They go back and forth and then

Elijah walks away and look how the Holy Spirit goes beyond to

describe. What kind of man Ahab was there

was none Who Sold himself to do, what was evil in the sight of

the Lord, like Ahab who Jezebel his wife incited.

He acted very abominably in going After idols as the

amorites had done, whom the Lord, cast out before the people

of Israel. It's like the Bible wants to say

this man is a Among the top Wicked people that Israel has

ever known before we read on. He wants to make sure that we

understand this person is vile despicable unspeakable.

Filth has come from his life as a king and as a leader for the

nation of Israel. And then what happens, verse 27

and when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put

sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and Lane sackcloth and

went about dejectedly and the word of the Lord came to Elijah

the tishbite. It's saying now before after it

said your dog food, you're done your blood, your blood is going

to be spilled on the floor, and they're going to drink it.

After saying that and walking away done deal, my hands are

clean. I've declared the word of the

Lord. Look, what happens.

In verse 29 or verse 28 and the word of the Lord came to Elijah.

The tishbite saying, have you seen how a Hab has humbled

himself before me? Because he has humbled himself

before me. I will not bring the disaster in

his days, but in his sons days, I will bring the disaster upon

his house. Wow.

The mercy of God. The grace of God.

You know, it's important to realize that Samuel speaking

this war to Eli was the second time, there was a man before

that in Chapter 2 that declared the same word of judgment.

But we don't see a response from Eli.

And then now God speaks to Samuel to speak to the man so

that it would really, really be driven into his skull and still

the responses. Well, if this is what he wants

and let it be, there was no sense of Brokenness.

No sense of fear, no sense of trembling just the reception of

what seemed to be a final fate. But then, I look at a man like

Ahab who the Bible goes beyond to say this man, is there are no

words to describe how evil he was, and because he tore his

robe. Humble himself.

God says, do you see this man? Elijah change the word that I've

declared over and let the Judgment come upon his sons.

I wonder if he'll I could have escaped judgment.

And it would have went on his sons instead of him as well.

Don't underestimate the mercy of God.

It's much deeper and greater than you can imagine.

So, The man receives it. And we come to the last two

points of God's call aspects of God's calls on a life.

Number 6, God's call. Should always keep us humble.

God's call should always keep us.

Humble. Look at verse 15 against Samuel

land till morning. Then he opened the doors of the

house of the Lord. Don't you love that?

I mean you just had God himself manifest in your room.

He stands there and he's about to call you to be a prophet and

you get up. Once you realize the Sun comes,

and you've reached the morning, you get up and what do you do,

you return to the task that you were given before you were

called as a prophet? And he opens the door for the

house of God, just like he did before and he was willing to

what not allow himself to be puffed up.

Not think that he was greater than anybody else.

Not think there is there. Anybody else in?

Israel's history. That was called at the age of 12

to be a prophet. No, he just goes about, like

nothing happened. Because he had a revelation even

at that point in his life that this is all by the grace and

mercy of God. And so God will tell me where to

go next, but until he does, I'm going to serve him at this point

in this way. And so he opens the house of

God. He came to church early and

unlocked the door and set the alarm up inside and wait for the

people to come in. That's what he had profit.

Yes, the man that's about to speak and call for the weather

to change. That's how much Authority the

man was going to get. He was still able to serve God

in this way. We have this dangerous thing in

our modern Church area, you know what?

It is celebrity Christianity. Celebrity Christianity.

You would be amazed to know. You'd be amazed to know how many

people will use Christian Ministry.

And I think, I think what it is especially in the worship world

is because to get into it in the secular world.

So they come into the church. That's just my opinion.

I'm sorry. They couldn't make it in the

real world. So they come into the Christian

world and they know they can dupe a bunch of people.

And so they come and they want to be treated like rock stars.

You'd be amazed to know the request that people make when

they come into a place to minister for a few days.

Like who are you? Brad Pitt.

Like who do you think you are? You're serving the lord.

Jesus Christ. We're not here to lay out a red

carpet for you so we can praise you because you can speak.

Well Samuel. Put a broom in his hand and

he'll sweep the floor. He'll open the house.

He'll take out the garbage. And that saw so people can look

look at me, I'm a man of God. I'm going to take out the

garbage and I hope that somebody's looking out the

window right now. So I'm going to go, that's not

humility. I'm sure everybody else was

asleep when he did this. And if you desire, not just to

know God's call for your life, but continue in God's call for

your life. You want to know the ingredient.

Humility is necessary for longevity humility.

Realize that no matter what God allows you to experience or uses

you to explore or touch, or whatever, remember where you

came from. And Samuel as a young boy, is

demonstrating this by his quiet service.

The call of God should always keep us humble.

And we come to the last Point. God's call will be recognized by

others. Verse 19.

And Samuel grew. And the Lord was with him and

let none of his words, fall to the ground, and all Israel from

Dan to Beersheba. Knew that Samuel was established

as a prophet of the Lord and the Lord appeared.

Again, Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel at

Shiloh by the word of the Lord. So after he delivers his message

to Eli, we fast-forward, he grows and snatcher in wisdom in

every way, especially in his relationship with the Lord.

And here's what I love every word that he spoke

prophetically. It never failed.

And then we're told Israel from Dan to Beersheba like from New

York to LA. Everyone knew this guy's the

real deal. This boy this man.

This young adult. He's a prophet.

Because when God really calls you and Gifts you and raises

you, and prepares you and launches you, you don't have to

convince others about it. You know, you don't have to go

around telling everybody what God is going to use you for and

how you have these gifts, and how this is the ministry.

And and you're trying to convince everybody else that God

really called. You have God called you, you

don't have to say a word, you know.

You don't have to say what do you have to convince anybody

actually oftentimes when people go around trying to convince

everybody who they are in God, it's probably likely that God

hasn't called them and they want the validation from others to

comfort them. Not that we can't go to others

and ask for prayer confirmation, what you feel, God is in your

heart, I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about those who toot their own horn.

Talking about those who Force doors to be open and so they

have awkward conversations to try to get into a place of

ministry. You don't need to do that.

You don't need to do that. Samuel didn't go around saying,

do you guys realize that at 12 years old?

God came into my room and went around telling everybody in

Israel. Everyone in Israel knew as he

just served God, when we're God called in the go, they begin to

realize and deem and identifying saying, this guy's the real

deal. This guy's the real deal and we

God calls a man, the scriptures tells us in the New Testament,

that there will be confirmation from the spiritual leadership of

that house, the people of God, who receive from that gifting

and then they'll be able to say this is from The Lord God's call

comes with confirmation from others.

And in verse 21, I Love How It Ends and the Lord appeared again

at Shiloh. God shows up in the place where

the house of God is supposed to be.

And how does he show up? Look at it says for the Lord

revealed himself to Samuel so God reveals himself to a man and

through that man he's able to reveal God to others, that's the

essence of every Ministry, whether you're a preacher,

anything else, the essence of your ministry, in mind, the

calling that God has placed in our lives is that God would do

something in us, and then threw us, people would be able to

taste something of God. And experience God through that

particular minister. At least an aspect of God.

And that's what this man does. He goes around?

And he is now in essence embodying.

He is carrying something of God, where people saying, God, has

visit us again through this man. And oftentimes it comes by way,

the way of the word of the Lord, the word of the Lord.

And so let me repeat these seven aspects of God's call in our

lives. It'll do us good to counsel our

own souls and Council others with it.

Number one, God's calls inconvenient to the flesh.

Samuel was sleeping or trying to sleep rather when God called him

and oftentimes God will interrupt our comfort to follow

him but secondly, we see that God's call meets a heart.

That is eager to serve thirdly, God's call comes with merciful

confirmation. Fourthly God's call is known to

a submissive Spirit. Speak Lord for your servant

hears. Fifth God's call will always

come with a cost. Six, God's call will always and

should always keep us humble. And lastly God's call will be

recognized by others. Let's pray together.

As brother Daniel open the service with the verse that we

unpacked among many Speak Lord for your servant.

Here's I encourage you to pray that tonight.

And guess what? It might not be as spectacular

as you being promoted to a new ministry, you know what I might

be? Hey, you're supposed to forgive

that person because you haven't forgave them yet.

Hey, I want you to serve in this way.

Hey I want you to move here and the Lord knows how to make that

clear to your not saying he's going to be an audible Voice or

him appearing in your room often times it comes when the word of

God is red or declared. But asked the Lord Lord, I want

to hear your voice because I want to make sure that every

part of my life is in a lion's with your will.

God Almighty. We thank you.

How your word is so alive. Lord, thank you for a room

filled with servants that want to hear your voice so that they

can obey you better. Lord help us believe that you're

a God, who speaks? Help us believe that you're a

God, who has a personal plan for each of Our Lives.

Help us believe that you're a God.

That wants us to be in your perfect will help us believe

that we have no reason to fear that.

As long as our hearts are eager to serve, you will not keep us

away or miss the plan that you have for us.

Lord, we ask that in this place, you would make us into a burning

and Shining lamp. And a day that is very dark

like, Samuels day. We pray that this house would

not experience a famine of your word, but that we would Feast,

Every Time We Come Together by Lord, protect us from being like

those, under the influence of John, the Baptist who only

Rejoice for a while in the light that they had.

Lord, we want to Rejoice, always always.

We want to be grateful, always to know that we're in a house

filled with people that love the word of God, that takes serious,

the call of God, And so Lord we ask with great hope in our

hearts that if you're going to find anybody to recruit in this

dire age, you would find a people here.

You would find a people here. Lord, we look out into the news,

into the blog's, into the podcast and we hear the

confusion and the cries of this generation.

But we are hopeful, we are hopeful because when the light

of the lamp of God grows dim You are quick to reignite it.

We want to be the very instrument you use for that

purpose Lord. In this place, maybe our daily

posture every single day. When we spent time with you

throughout our routine and our schedule is say Lord, Speak to

My Heart Lord. Is there something that I can

do? I need to do?

I want to be your servant. This is our desire tonight.

As a result of this chapter, we bless your Holy Name.

We honor you. We glorify you.

You are wonderful. You are Majestic.

You are alive. You are real for those.

You don't know that reality Lord.

We pray that they would be touched by your presence to

experience it. We glorify you in this place

tonight in Jesus mighty name we pray.

Amen. And amen.

Let's worship of living. God tonight the God, who speaks?

Oh, does he speak? He speaks, he speaks, let's

worship.