1/4 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Maranatha Shabiba Conference 2019)

Let's play one more time as we enter into the word of God and

see what he has in store for us. Father.

Right now we choose to lift our hearts to you.

As we sang, You have given us new mercies this morning.

Lord, we ask that you would bless us with an intensification

with your presence. Lord, that you would take this

word, your word and drive it deep into our hearts Lord.

We pray that every man. Would disappear except Christ.

Jesus, Lord, that he would be seen.

Loved adored exalted and lifted High.

Take your word, Lord. As we heard yesterday.

And make it come. And manifest in our flesh in our

lives. Lord remove any confusion

distraction coming. And visit our hearts again.

We ask these things in Jesus name.

Amen. As we scale through the

scriptures, we realize that there are a number of titles

that God reveals to his people throughout the generations.

These various badges that God carries Reveal.

Something about both his attributes who he is and his

ability what he's able to do. These things are found in his

name alone. Nevermind in his actions.

And as his people, we find ourselves in prayer and worship

identifying and relating to God with various names.

Do we not? Holy an anointed one Redeemer.

Son of God, Son of Man, King of Kings, Lord of lords, healer,

great physician Prince of Peace. and we thank God for that

because we benefit from understanding who he is through

these names, his name reveals who he is, and yet They might

context. At least there is one title that

God gives of himself, that you don't really hear often.

It's not really said in prayer, sometimes maybe in songs, we may

be here it in Bible study, But it's a name of God nonetheless

and it's found in the book of Exodus chapter 3 verse 6.

Exodus 3:6

It's a title that God gives himself very early in the Bible

at a very crucial time in Redemptive history to a very

important figure, amongst God's roster of servants.

God says in Exodus 3 Verse 6 to Moses, And he said, I am the god

Exodus 3:6

of your father, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and

the god of Jacob and Moses. Hid his face for, he was afraid

to look at God. This is a reference that God

gives himself. This is a title that God of

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and God in his wisdom.

Amongst all the other things that he couldn't reveal himself

with he chooses to expose himself to reveal himself, To

Moses in this matter. I am the god of your father's

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And here's the question, why?

What is that name? Even mean, what significance

does that have? Well this morning I believe it

has three at least three significant Revelations, about

who God is. Number one, it reveals something

that we saying that God is a faithful God.

He's a promise keeping God. See when God chooses to reveal

himself this way to Moses, it was at a specific time.

Moses was going to be chosen to be a vessel to go and deliver

the people of Israel from Egypt and for hundreds of years that

people were what suffering under Affliction from an oppressor.

And it was at this moment that God chooses to use a man to

deliver as an extension of his grace.

And this is what he's saying to Moses.

I've made a promise. Many years ago.

To Abraham and I passed that promise down to Isaac.

And I passed that promise down to Jacob and my promise can be

summarized in this, I promise to make a people and I promise to

take that people to birth a nation and to bring them into a

land and to inhabit that land, that's what my promise is.

And though, I've said it many years ago, and though, it seems

like I've been silent. I've now come to manifest the

reality of my faithfulness. And that's why you look at verse

15 here, When God tells Moses again to go to the people with

this name in mind, he says, look, God also said to Moses say

this to the people. I'm not just saying this to you,

Moses. I'm not just telling you that I

am the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I'm telling you to go tell the entire nation that I am the god

of your father's, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and

the god of Jacob. He has sent me to you.

After 400 years. This is when God chooses to

reveal himself this way and this is how we understand what this

name means for us. When God Says something, he

means it. He is immutable.

He is unchanging. He's unwavering.

If God said it in his word, he has no intention nor does he

even have the ability because he's not a man that can lie to

change his mind on what he said. So every time I come to this

word, I can trust that what he said, he's going to keep who he

says he is. He is what he will do in the

future. He's gonna do now.

I thank God for that because just like the Israelites I can

be going through so much. And yet trust that he's the god

of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I said something before and I'm

going to make it happen. So guess what?

If Jesus said he's coming back, he's coming back.

If Jesus says that he's going to redeem us and bring us to a

place that he's preparing for us, he's going to bring us to

that place that he has prepared for us if he's gonna wipe out

everything else so that he can establish his kingdom, guess

what? He's going to do it.

Well, it seems like it's kind of quiet.

Seems like nothing's really happening based on that promise

like the Israelis hundreds of years.

Where's This Promise? Keeping God.

But just like Moses, he will show up.

And he will keep his word. That's true in a corporate

level. That's true for his program for

the universe and that's true for you.

And I as individuals God is a promise keeping God I can trust

in him, I can lean on him. I can take this word and know

that it is true forever but it doesn't just end there Jesus

quotes. This verse which reveals the

second point of what this title means about, God, I would

encourage you to turn to Matthew 24:32 and see what Jesus says

Matthew 24:32

here. The context is this you had a

group of liberal religious, people called the Sadducees.

They didn't like Miracles and Supernatural stuff and believe

that there is a resurrection and that were angels and Spirits

now. No, no.

That's All foolishness and so in an attempt to try to trick

Jesus, never a good idea by the way.

They approached him and they try to create the scenario.

To try to stump him in his understanding of the

Resurrection. And Jesus replies in Matthew 22

32. He says and as for the

resurrection of the Dead, have you not read?

He's tiny Sadducees. Have you not read?

What was said to you by God and he quotes Exodus 36.

I am the god of Abraham and the god of Isaac, and the god of

Jacob. He is not a god of the dead, but

of the living. Now, Jesus is a wise teacher,

and a wise, evangelist, the Sadducees did not believe in any

other books, except for the first five, books of the Bible.

Jesus could have quoted a lot of books, a lot of verses, from the

prophets to prove the resurrection, but he knew that

they did not hold to Daniel, They did not hold to Isaiah

only, the first five books. So, Jesus in his wisdom quotes

from Exodus and proves the resurrection from The Exodus.

but I love this, he says Have you not read?

What was said to you? Now if we can put up, Mark

Mark 12:26

12:26, this is the same story told in a different way with

different wording and see what Jesus says in Mark 12 26.

And it's very important because it tells us something about the

power of the word of God. He says, and as for the dead

being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the

passage about the Bush? How God spoke to him?

Saying the same thing. So in Matthew he says, listen

have you not read? What was said to you?

In Mark. He says, have you not read?

What was said to him? Now we read Exodus, we realized

that that Revelation that God gave was for Moses, it wasn't to

the Sadducees that such as didn't even come to existence

for hundreds. I mean hundreds of years but yet

Jesus says, have you not read? What was said to you?

You know what that tells me about the Bible.

You know what that tells me about the stories that we read,

you know, what it tells us about everything that's in Scripture

that even though he said it to another person, even though he

said, another time he had us in mind.

He had us in mind, he wants to speak to you.

And to me through Leviticus, he wants to speak to you to me, as

he spoke to Moses and spoke to Samuel, and spoke to Jeremiah.

He wants to speak to us when he speaks to them.

Everything in the word of God has intended for us as well.

It's not just a historical thing that we study Lord.

What are you saying to me? And so when he says, have you

not read? What was said to you, that God

is the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I'm not just saying that to Moses.

I'm saying it to Maranatha 2019 to every single person in this

place. So now I got to know what that

means and in the context here, Jesus quotes this title, to

prove something about God's power.

He says it reads the really carefully.

I am present tense the god of Abraham not.

I was I am right now. To say that Abraham, Isaac and

Jacob, their bodies might be dead, but their Spirits are

alive and they're with me. They're with me because I'm not

the god of the dead, I'm the god of the living, their bodies are

waiting to be resurrected, but they are with me right now.

because that is the reality of our existence that when we

escaped these bodies, we will be in the presence of God or in the

place where God is Not and he's saying this to prove the

resurrection, but this title means something for us that if

you raised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he's going to raise me.

That if they are in the presence of God when they gave their last

breath, I will be in the presence of God when I give my

last breath and you read in the Book of Matthew.

Even earlier, he talks about two, destinations for two groups

of people, and he says, people from the East and the west north

and south, they will come and they will be gathered.

And they will be in the Kingdom of Heaven doing what sitting at

a table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Imagine what that's going to be like part of Heaven is going to

be sitting down with these guys. Part of the experience of

glories that the Bible studies that we have.

And even the session right now we're going to be able to hear

about the faithfulness of God from Abraham's own lives.

We're going to be able to talk about the goodness of God from

Isaac's on mouth. We're going to hear about God's

perseverance and his patience with us through Jacob.

I'm not the god of the Dead on the god of the living.

And he quotes that title to say life is coming to you.

Life doesn't end here. Life's not finished here.

There's a place where you're going to come.

There's a place where I'm going to take you to, where you will

be in my presence forever. Lastly, I think this is very

important and this is the main point of the whole conference.

The whole conference is going to be centered around the god of

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But here's the last point, he is

the god who works in and through different people As glorious as

these truths are that, God is the promise, keeping God that

God is the resurrector. If there's still some other

component to this title, that is more relational than we think.

He is the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

And God chooses to identify himself with each of them.

You know, Abraham, Isaac. And Jacob could have taken up

three verses 44 versus pops. To say and Abraham begat, Isaac,

Isaac, begat, Jacob, and the seed passed down.

It could have just been a genealogy thing.

But you know what? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob take

up most of the Book of Genesis Why?

And what we see there is that God walks with them and got

talks with them and God leads them, and God promise, and God

disciplines, and God test them individually.

Because forgot to say, I'm the god of Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob, God is The God Who says, I'm personal.

I'm not just the God for Christians.

I'm not just a god of the Bible. I'm your God.

I'm your friend. I'm your protector.

I'm Your Leader. I'm your sanctifier.

And so, we understand something about the personality of God.

We understand something about the relationship that he longs

to have with us as individuals. And as much as these men have

something in common, they are very much different.

Think about Abraham. Abraham had a father named Tara

Abraham grew up in a place called earlier the Chaldeans.

And Abraham perhaps we didn't realize this was not a man that

was faithful to the Living. God, all his life.

He lived in a pagan land and Abraham who we call.

The father of Faith was actually a worshipper of false gods.

That is Not Mere opinion. That is not speculation here.

This verse when Joshua preaches to his people, look what he says

about Abraham and Joshua 24:2, just listen.

Joshua 24:2

It says in Joshua said to all the people thus says the Lord

the god of Israel long ago, your father's live, beyond the

Euphrates Tara, the father of Abraham, and of nahor, and they

served other gods. So we have this understand that

Abraham just pops on the scene and God calls him, because he

was faithful know when God found Abraham, when Abraham lived,

most of his life. It was actually and idolatry.

Living for and worshipping other deities.

Other than the true and living God.

And we understand from Genesis 12, that God calls this man,

clearly at the age of 75. He not only caused him but he

uses them in a mighty and glorious way.

And here's how we understand something about Abraham.

God, being the god of Abraham tells me this tells us this that

if you've lived most of your life, most of your existence for

yourself in your sin worshipping, even false god

including yourself God is able to redeem you, God is able to

renew you and God is able to empower you.

For the rest of your life. And God can flip the script no

matter how long you live to the human, I like Abraham.

You might have wasted your existence for the most part but

when I hear that God is the god of Abraham.

What I hear is that God is a God that can redeem anybody because

it's never too late and not just redeem that but have a plan for

them. For the rest of their lives.

God is the god of the one who can save you.

Even if you're dying in your body, Is that you?

You feel like you've wasted most of your teenage years.

Do you feel like you've wasted your high school years, you're

wasting your college Years? Do you feel like, now, you are

just Awakening to the reality. Oh yeah, life is beyond the gods

that I've created in my life. The things that I've pursued and

worshipped God tells us through this title that he could save,

you redeem, you renew, you restore, you and do things

through you that you never thought you can imagine.

If he did it for Abraham, you can do it for you.

But it's not just the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac.

And that's different because the god of Isaac concerning.

Isaac is much different than Abraham.

Isaac didn't grow up in a pagan land.

Isaac isn't one that we hear that was worshipping false gods.

Isaac was somebody that grew up in a household of faith Shirley

Isaac heard the stories from his father, Abraham.

From his mother, Sarah the faithfulness of God.

Surely Isaac. When he came to that epic scene

in Genesis 22, when he was willing to lay down his own

life, on the altar, realize the intervention of God and even

himself. Got a glimpse of a gospel when

God provided a substitute for his own life.

He heard it. He seen it.

He smelted. He was in that environment.

His whole life. Isaac in our context is the kid

that grew up in the Christian home.

He's the one since birth new about truth.

But he's also the god of Isaac, you realize that, right?

Because you read Isaac's life and you realize that Isaac

experiences something of the goodness of God that God still

calls Isaac even though Isaac was so familiar with God, that

Isaac didn't have this radical shift this, this transformation

that he lived for idols and he lived in a pagan land, God calls

him out of that land to an unknown.

And no Isaac, just grew up in it.

Yeah. God still says I'm going to

expose and reveal my goodness to you my Mercy, to you, my plans

for you and through you. I still have a plan for The

Isaacs. The Isaacs are not outside of my

ability and my willingness in my wanting to show myself strong to

them. He's the god of God of Isaac,

which tells me something. Listen.

If you probably majority of the place in this place, grew up in

a Christian home with faithful parents.

You might think that there is no plan, there might be no

testimony. There might be no ability to

relate to God. I mean, I've heard it over and

over again. I haven't experienced God's love

like that drug dealer. Did or that gang member did?

I haven't experienced the goodness of God, because I

didn't experience Darkness or I wasn't so filthy and sent to

know the Redemptive power of his blood and so they get bored.

And they just kind of cruise through life normally, but

brothers and sisters realize, he's also the god of Isaac.

And he shows himself to Isaac and he reveals himself to us.

He speaks to Isaac the same way, he spoke to Abraham, and Jacob.

So, you and I must never believe that.

Just because I might have grown up in the certain context that I

cannot know, God, the same way Abraham did, or Jacob did.

But he's also the god of Jacob. Jacob is interesting.

Because Jacob, like Isaac grew up in that Household of Faith.

He had believing parents. I mean, Isaac knew the goodness

of God. He had his wife in a miraculous

fashion. He seen God bless him abundantly

even right after he came out of backsliding, Genesis 26.

But Jacob was different than Isaac in this.

That we are introduced to him in a very negative light.

Then when Jacob steps on the scene with his brother, Esau,

both of them. Are incomplete rebellion and

contradiction to what their conviction should have.

Been. So how are we introduced to

Jacob? Well, he lives up to his name.

He's a trickster. He's a deceiver.

He's a liar, he's a manipulator. And he eventually has to leave

home because of his own sin and he's found in a Wilderness and

he's found really in a mess for a good portion of his life.

And Jacob speaks something about the one who grew up in a house

where he's heard the Bible stories.

He's went to Sunday school. He fell asleep in the youth

meetings. He was dragged to conferences.

And when he wanted to have his way, he would try to have his

way. It was all about the flash.

It was all about mine, the name. Jacob, as we're going to find

out this, not just mean deceiver.

It means he'll grab her. You know what Jacob was.

He was a grabber. I want this.

This is mine. I want that.

That is mine. I want Her.

She's Mine. I want the blessing.

It's mine. I grab.

I grab. I grab.

It's about me. It's not about giving it's not

about dying to self is not about extending though it's about how

much can I gather in for myself? That's Jacob.

And a lot of people in Christian households live just like that.

I want to live for me, never mind the glory of God. yet God,

Is the god of Jacobs. So as much as Jacob, try to do

it, his own way. You see God chasing after Jacob.

And as much as Jacob lived. To really bring shame to the

name. God says, you know, Jacob as

much as you think that you're going to do this your own way

and you think that you've messed up to a degree, where it's

unredeemable? I'm going to Seoul radically

shift you. I'm in a sobre que Jacob, I'm

going to so reveal myself to you that.

I will literally physically change the way you walk.

For the rest of his life, he would limp as a testimony of how

God can change Jacobs into Israel's.

And so, you have people. Unfortunately, Christian parents

that approach and say my son is not living.

According to how we taught him. My daughter is not living.

According to way, we've raised her up.

They're Grabbers, they're living for self.

They have their own Ambitions. They have their own Pursuits.

And yet, here's a message of hope.

He's the god of Jacobs. So what do we understand when

God says, I am the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, the

god of Jacob. This is what we understand.

Whether you've lived most of your life herself living in

idolatry living in sin. God can save you, change, you,

and use you, whether you grew up in a household of faith, you

don't have this radical story. And you feel as though you need

that to know God in a special way, he's the god of Isaac's and

he wants to speak to you and reveal himself to you just like

the Abraham. Or whether you're like Jacob.

You hear it, you know, it you understand it.

You just haven't had an encounter with God yet.

God is the god of Jacob, and he is so patient.

So loving so forgiving, and he is so jealous for his glory.

Do you know that he wants to use you in a way that it will

display his manifest love? It's amazing.

How God says, I am the god of Jacob even after his name is

changed to Israel, he still chooses to identify himself with

Jacob. As much as these men were

different. And that's the point of this

conference. We're going to explore in

different sessions, these men and how God dealt with them

differently. What principles they offer us

through their lives. God has a commentary about all

three men. It is astounding.

What he says about these three men in the New Testament It's

actually shattering how God actually comments on their

lives. This is one to really highlight

that's in Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11.

Verse 16. Now when you understand the

context you realize that he just finished speaking about Abraham,

Isaac and Jacob And he says this in verse 16.

He says, but as it is, they Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they

desire a better country. That is a Heavenly one.

Now, listen to what God says about them.

Please pay attention to this. Therefore, God is not ashamed to

be called their God. For, he has prepared for them a

city. God is not ashamed to be called

their God. now, I look at that verse and I say praise God but I

look at that verse also and I say, oh God, Because for God to

be able to say, I'm not ashamed to be called their God implies

that he can be ashamed to be called.

Someone's God. I don't want to be one where God

says, mmm. Yeah, he calls me Lord.

Yeah, he says I'm God. Oh, but Abraham all.

I miss God. I'm his Lord.

I'm his master. Well, what about him?

Yeah, I don't know how this works, really?

I'm trying to fit this into my own theology, but I understand

from The Book of Proverbs that even an Earthly father, if

you've read Proverbs carefully, there are many instructions

given for a son, not to bring shame to their father, for their

daughter. Not to bring reproach to her

mother. Here's the reality.

If we are all believers in this place, we are all children of

God. We are all adopted.

We Are All in the Family by the grace and the Lord of ours

saving sold. He is the one that can redeem us

and bring us to that place. Yes by his finished work but We

have to understand that even in an Earthly setting in a familiar

setting that children relate to their parents differently and

parents relate to their children differently.

So when it says about these three men that he's not ashamed

to be called their God, my question is why what did Abraham

Isaac? And Jacob have forgot to say,

I'm their God. And I will declare and he

declared it through his word. Was it because of their spotless

lies? Was it because of their

consistent faithfulness? Was it because of their absence

of failure? Because I read Abraham, Isaac

and Jacob. And guess what?

I see failure. Moments where they stepped out

of faith more than once. I mean you hear the audible

voice of God, the audible voice of God and your select.

Yeah. Hey God still says, I'm not a

shame. I mean, what was it, was it

their gifting was at their abilities.

What was it for God to say? My heart is stirred towards

these meant to say, I'm their God.

It's right there in the verse. It says here, but as it is, they

desire. So wasn't even necessarily about

what they did is about what they had in their hearts.

All this is powerful Listen to this God's Delight in his heart

listen God's Delight in his heart towards these men was

provoked by the desire in their hearts.

What move God's heart to the light in these men was when he

Zoom past through the failure. He Zoom pass through the moral

failure. He all these things, all these

mistakes, all these hiccups, he Zoom past all of that and he

looks into the hearts and he saw something in each of them, they

desire. What do they desire?

A better country? What they lived for.

What provoked them, the Throne of their affections.

Their Throne of their Ambitions with something Beyond this life.

It was nothing of this world, it was nothing that was found here

even when they were called to live in a place where they don't

even know really down deep inside.

They wanted something Beyond they wanted the Abode of God,

they wanted to be in his presence, they wanted to be

where he was, they wanted something that was otherworldly

and this move God's heart to say though.

You see these distractions and though you see the land, and

though you've been blessed with many flocks and let em all these

things. Peace with your enemies, you

still have a desire. Other than these things.

And so, I'm not ashamed to be called your God.

So for me to move into that favor for me to move into that

position with God, where he can look at me, says I'm not ashamed

to be called as God, in 2019 is all found and what I truly want

in this life. What do I want?

What's really in my desires? I mean, listen, if we just open

your heart even this morning and we look inside and see, what are

your Joys and what are your Pursuits and what really brings

Glee to you? What would it be?

Is it? Well this and that.

Well listen what's at stake? Here is the smile of God.

What's at stake? Here, is God being able to look

over you and be able to, I Love The Book of Job because Satan

doesn't introduce job to God. God introduces job to Satan,

just have you seen him? He's blessed, he's rich, but he

fears me. Yeah.

But because he loves the stuff that you give him touch his

stuff. Let me up the anti touch his

body. And watch.

And I think I mean you read in Isaiah even where Abraham is

referred to as a friend of God. All of that.

Is found in the central truth. Found in Hebrews 11 16, they

desired. A better country.

Because it speaks about their desire for him.

And that's why David was a man after God's heart.

He failed, he royally messed up, no pun intended.

He got, it can still identify him that way.

And then you look at Saul who messed up not to the degree that

David that in my opinion and God says, get rid of him.

Why? Desire.

Saul wanted position, David wanted presents.

It's all about desire. And as we walk in that desire

and we fall and we fail, there's no shame.

And my whole life, I've heard of understand and never be ashamed

of God. Don't ever be ashamed of the

Gospel, don't ever be ashamed of the truth of the scriptures, but

I have very rarely heard that concept of God.

Not being a shitting me. Oh, thank God.

That positionally in Christ. We Are All Sons and Daughters.

Thank God for that. But practically relationally

experientially Lord. Look into my heart.

Do you see what you want to see? Lord.

Look past my failures. Forgive me look past my

inconsistencies, look past my fault.

Look past, the thoughts that come in and crash sometimes

against this one thing I have Lord and see all of it through

this lens. I desire you about everything.

I desire a better country. I'm not bound to this world.

I'm, I'm a soldier and I live in tenza.

I'm not I'm not stuck here. Lord, I need you.

I want you. And God can look down and say I

found one, I'm not ashamed to call his God.

I want that more than anything. I want that commentary of my

life more than anything. Forget anything else?

Forget the praise of, man. Forget the titles.

Forget the forget it for God to say hi.

That desire that he has in his heart.

Moves my heart. This is one in whom I can say, I

miss God. I'm his Lord, I'm his master, we

should be able to unassuming Lisa, he's my God, he's my Lord,

he's my master, we should Proclaim that from the rooftops,

but for God, to save from heaven, Down on the Earth.

Say, that's my son. That's my daughter.

Look at the desire in her heart. Look at all the things that come

their way. Look at all the other Christians

distracted with money. And all this otherworldly stuff,

but him, I'm is God. Just going to end it there.

Because I think that's enough for us to be able to say, Lord

do something in me. When you and I hear that God is

the god of Abraham. Isaac.

And Jacob. What we hear is this, he's the

promise keeper. If he said it, he means it.

He is the resurrector the same way that they are right now in

the presence of God and their bodies are awaiting to be

glorified. So you and I have hope to

realize that when we pass from this life, to the next, we will

fellowship with these men. And we will be able to hear from

their own mouths. Over some dinner, how good God

is. But we also hear this, he is a

god that is relational and he works in each and every single

one of us and no matter where we come from.

No matter what. We've grown up in no matter

what, we've made his mistakes, God is still able to do

something in and through us. And ultimately, they all have

this. One thing in common though, they

were all unique. I'm not ashamed to be called

their God because they have a desire.

For my presence. My kingdom, my will That's what

God wants to be able to say about all of us.

I think God it's not about performance.

I thank God that he doesn't keep record of my wrong.

I thank God that his smile is not based necessarily.

On this or that, but he looks deep inside.

And he sees the desire. And that moves his heart.

Can we see him this morning and thank you for such a wonderful?

God, we are praying to, in a moment, the god of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob. Let's pray, just meditate on

these truths before we do so corporately.

Lord, we recognize you this morning as the god of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob. With thank you that your

personal. That you want to walk with each

of us. You want to talk to each of us.

You want to reveal yourself uniquely and individually Teach

of us. Lord, we pray that.

If there are any people in here, that might be any one of those,

they can relate to any one of those people that you would make

yourself known. Now they can see that, no matter

where I am right now, God is still willing to relate to me.

The father even now we pray for this corporate desire that you

would be able to save this place over each person.

I'm not ashamed. To be called their God.

Because they desire. Better country.

Lord, you call us to set our minds on the things above.

You call us to set our affections on you Above All

Things. So right now we pray that you

would do that work in each heart.

That every heart would be able to confidently display, the

desire for greater things in you.

And that would be the very thing that moves your heart towards

us. But we praise you, we worship

you invited this title that you've given to us.

In Jesus name, amen.