#Faithful God, Steadfast People

Before I get onto my what is my final talk next week, I have the

Steph and I have the privilege of saying some goodbyes and some

thank yous, but this is your last sermon.

You're going to get out on me. And so if I pause and get a bit

blubbery, I've had been crying every day, probably with

goodbye. We're in a season of goodbyes.

As you know, we're leaving this wonderful church as a senior

pastor, but we're also leaving this wonderful church as our

church family that we've been part of since 2012.

We're leaving family and friends as part of leaving this country.

So it definitely is a season of goodbyes.

So please bear with me if I don't see my top self.

You're very kind. But before I do share what I

believe the Lord wants me to share this morning, I just want

to once again revisit for you what the next three months are

going to look like. We have a slide on the screen

that if you've been around for any any while, you would have

seen this before. You can find this on the website

as well. By the way, there's AQR code if

you want to go to to our website.

But over the course of three months before our wonderful next

senior pastors, Chuck and Taron take up the leadership of this

church in January, we have an amazing team who are going to be

leading this church. Now, first of all, I want to say

we have our amazing trustees who is led by Tim Winfield, just

such a faithful gifted guy who's our chair.

We have the wonderful Bruce McKinnon, who I can see on the

front row here. Hello Bruce.

Another godly guy, just a wonderful friend, Andrea Taylor

Cummins as well. And I did say to you that I

would announce before I left who the the new trustee is.

We were on a process of finding a new trustee.

And can I just say we had some, just some amazing people that we

were able to spend time with in an interview.

But it was clear God was calling someone to this role.

And I'd like to announce to you that our new trustee is Gavin

Loftus. Yeah.

Now, if Gavin was here on the 9:30, he'll be here in the

11:30. I'll get him to stand up.

Gavin. You might.

The surname may sound familiar. He is married to Freya Loftus.

Gavin is just an amazing guy, a godly guy, tons of experience in

both the business world, but also in church leadership.

And Gavin. Freya have been involved in

church planting and church leadership as well.

And he brings us a wealth of experience and a passion for him

and a love for this church for you, you as Verso and for for

what God's calling us in this next season.

So I just want to quickly pray for Gav.

Lord, thank you for Gavin. Thank you that he put his hand

up to say yes to the call and we just pray a blessing upon him.

Would you bless him and equip him for this season?

You always equip those that you call.

Would you protect him and Freya and the kids?

We pray in your precious name, Amen.

So we have the wonderful trustees.

We have the wonderful executive team as well, we've got Jill,

Richard, Claire, Eduardo, and Jenna.

I'm not going to go into the detail of it, I've done it

before, but in white, you'll see what their current remits are.

And then in green is the extra responsibilities they're taking

on in this, in this period. It's worth saying that we still

have yet to replace the wonderful Trevor Ma, who I can

see here this morning. Bless you, Trevor.

He's one of our lay pastors now. He was on staff.

And so in the period where we look to to rehire, the wonderful

Mel is working with Richard Gathard.

Yeah. Mel heads up our pastoral

department. We also haven't replied,

replied, replied, replaced Edward yet.

And so the kids and youth team are being LED both by Jenna, who

overseas youth and Richard who overseas kids.

And then there's the rest of the detail there.

So I want all of that for you to know that A, we've thought about

this and B, we've gone through the detail and C, you're in safe

hands. OK.

So if you have any questions and during this period, you know,

you don't need to just say, right, who's in charge of that?

You can speak to any one of these wonderful people.

They're smiling there for a reason.

They're friendly people. So do grab them.

All right, before I transition into my talk, I'm going to sort

this out because you've probably seen me play with it a bit.

So give me a moment. Wonderful.

Because of course I don't need any more distractions today,

obviously. Good.

All right, be set. Not quite.

It was Mark's last Sunday. Oh, you know, it was fine other

than the fact he was fiddling with his microphone for like 10

minutes. I think we're done, Right?

OK, this is what we're going to do, guys.

So we're going to stand and I'm going to pray.

Can we stand? And then I'm going to get the

Bible out and then we're going to read God's Word this morning.

While we're standing. Let me pray.

Lord, thank you for this morning.

Thank you for the word that you have for us, a word that is

truth, a word that brings freedom, a word that is life.

And I pray this morning, Lord God, that we would be hearing

you loud and clear, that you would remove all the

distractions that may come our way, that we would lay down the

burdens that we may be carrying, Lord God, and that we would open

our heart to the good news that you have for each one of us.

And I pray you would give us expectation and faith that we

will leave this place different than when we came in, because

you are in the business of conforming us to the likeness of

Jesus Christ. And that which you have started,

that good work that you've started in each one of us, you

will bring to completion. And today is that day, I pray in

your precious name. Amen.

OK, we're going to stay standing.

Now you can get your Bibles out if you wish, or it's going to be

on the screen. And if you're online, welcome

again, it will be on your device.

So we're going to turn to Hebrews chapter 10, verse 23,

Hebrews 10:23

23, and it says this. Let us hold fast the confession

of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

I'm going to read that again. In fact, we're all going to read

it together. Let us hold fast the confession

of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Amen. You can be seated.

I don't know how you're feeling today.

I've had the pleasure and the privilege, Steph and I, of

speaking to many of you over the past few weeks and indeed since

we have announced, and I think it's fair to say that we all

carry mixed emotions. We can own that.

On the one hand, we can hold that emotion of sadness, of a

sense of a change of season. And I, certainly Steph and I,

even though we recognise the call of God to move on and we've

been obedient to that, we hold that sense of sadness in that,

but we can also hold that feeling of excitement for what

God's got next. It's OK to have both of those

feelings. It's OK to feel like that.

God's on the move. But I'm sad for a season that

may be moving on. And I certainly, we certainly

feel that way. If you were to ask me, how are

you feeling? I know fair at the start of the

service said careful not to ask them how they're feeling because

they might start blubbering. This is true.

But I'll share with you if you're interested.

You know, we, we do hold that sadness of moving on and leaving

what we love. We also have a heart of

gratitude for what God has done and will continue to do.

And we have much excitement for what God is going to do in you

and through you as a people, as he has called Chuck and Taryn to

lead this church and has called you guys to step into the next

chapter. And so we have these raft of

emotions. And the thing about having these

raft of emotions is sometimes in the midst of all that, we can

feel a bit uncertain, a bit wavery.

Oh, am I doing the right thing? Or maybe we did we really hear

from God. And maybe more broadly, maybe as

you start this new in September, schools go back, we go back to

quote normality and you know, you, you pick up the you look at

the news headlines and everything seems to be a bit

uncertain in the world. And it's it's tempting to say in

in these type of seasons, is there anything that is truly

steady? Is there anyone we can truly

rely on? And I think it's into that

question that that we read in Hebrews that speaks with clarity

and encouragement to us in this time, whether you're feeling it

or not, which is this, Let us hold fast the confession of our

hope without wavering for he who promised his faith.

And this verse, you see, is like an anchor in an uncertain world.

It's like the true North. As we try and navigate through

all the circumstances of life, it reminds us that our hope that

we have isn't some kind of vague optimism, some kind of wishful

thinking, nor is it pinned to circumstances or emotions.

This kind of hope is rooted in, and we are indeed secured in the

very character of God himself, the faithful one who has

promised and who will surely do it.

The faithful one who one who is the only constant.

And if I were to give you a part in words and I have that

opportunity, I guess next Sunday, but it would be this.

God is faithful. God is faithful.

You can trust and rely on him throughout whatever you go

through. And in fact, Freya brought the

lyrics to that song. I mean, Freya didn't realise I

was preaching on this message. And so indeed there is a theme

this morning of the faithfulness of God.

And so let us unpack this word together as we understand what

the writer to Hebrews is saying. You see, it says this, the

confession of our hope. Now I think the word confession

is an interesting 1, isn't it? Because in our modern language,

we often think about the word confession in a rather negative

way, which is, you know, confessing our sins, right?

Confessing the bad things we've done.

But you see, in the early church, the word confession

actually meant more around declaring our allegiance, our

trusts and our hope. It was confessing who we are

Allegiant aligned to, confessing who we put our trust in,

confessing who where our hope is in, and therefore, friends, to

confess our hope when we look at this word here is to make a

public declaration that our confidence, our future, our

salvation is bound up in the very person of Jesus Christ.

That is what the writer to the Hebrews is saying and he's

saying, listen, let your confession be of hope without

wavering in Christ. So how do we confess it today?

Am I suggesting that you will leave here and go to the Market

Square in Saint Albans and publicly declare your faith?

Well, if the Holy Spirit leads you, you should.

But I think that we need to unpack this a little bit more

before we say, well, that's not applicable today.

I'm going to do something else. Well, confessing is really about

refusing to compromise our identity in Christ, even when

culture pressures us to shift. Why?

Because what we do is our confession.

Are you following me? We confess with our decisions,

with our actions. That is how we confess our hope

and our trust. It's speaking out the hope we

have in conversations, maybe with someone about Alpha.

It's speaking out hope we have in the workplace or in our home.

Even when it's easier to stay silent.

You know, there are those moments, hey, when it's easier

just to say nothing and there's something the Holy Spirit in

your heart is just the heart's been.

You're like, yeah, I've just got to, I've just got to confess my

hope. You might not use that language,

but you want to say it's going to be OK.

Well, why is it going to be and why do you think it's going to

be OK? Well, let me tell you about God.

He is faithful. That is confessing our hope.

And it's about us making a decision to live in a particular

way that our choices declare this.

So how do we live in a way where we declare that our hope is not

in money? That's an interesting 1, isn't

it? How do we live in a way that we

declare that our hope is not in politics or reputation or other

people, but that our hope is injustice?

And this is the question that I think, you know, when you read

the Bible and it asks you questions, doesn't it?

You can't read this without it asking you a question.

The question is this, who are you confessing that your hope is

in? How does your life declare that

you are confessing a hope in Jesus?

I think that's a really good audit.

Like that's really healthy, isn't it?

Because as we're going to see, there's something very powerful

about aligning ourselves about confessing that our hope is in

Jesus. Does your life declare fear and

self-reliance or does it declare that Christ is your living hope?

And this is my prayer for myself, Steph and the kids, is

that the decisions we make, the decisions about what we do next

will tell a story to others that our hope is in Jesus.

That is our confession. You know, when back in October

when the Lord started prodding Steph and I to ask the question,

is it time to lay this down? And we engaged with the

discernment process, with the board and with other people we

trusted and godly men and women, we came to the decision that God

was saying, you need to lay it down because I've got someone

else next. And so my natural response was,

OK, great Lord, So what have you got for us next then?

Because once you tell me that, I'm happy to go.

Like that's the human response, isn't it?

Which is like I feel like I'm leaving something which I love

and is secure because I've never this as I said to you before, I

thought I was going to die a pastor or at least retire a

pastor. I didn't realize that I'd be

laying this down after seven years, but you see the challenge

there was what do you what is your confession, Mark?

Is it in Christ Jesus in his word or is it you're confessing

yourself reliance. And if you get anything from

what I've just shared now, my encouragement to you is do your

decisions reflect a confession of hope in Jesus Christ?

Because I suspect that if our lives completely did, we would

do way more for the Kingdom. And I say that not to put the

shame on you or the guilt on you.

It's not about that. It's to encourage you to say

God's got more for you, But it's about you saying I trust and

hope in him and my confession is in Christ.

Are you following me? Shall I carry on?

Good. OK.

Thank you for saying that. Then it says the writer, he said

the confession of hope. He uses this really interesting

phrase, which is this, Let us hold fast.

And hold fast means to grip tightly.

It means actually to cling to. It's the language of

perseverance. It's the language of exerting

energy. The assumption in that statement

is this life will shake you, Storms will come, doubts will

rise, and brothers and sisters, you will be tempted to let go.

Sometimes you're only human, and sometimes that shaking comes in

the form of suffering, maybe in a doctor's diagnosis.

Maybe you're here right now and you've been to the doctors this

week and all of a sudden your week has been shaken.

Your life feels uncertain. Maybe it's a financial loss.

Maybe all of a sudden you are entering a season and you've

looked at your bank balance and your outgoings and you realize

that you're in trouble. Maybe you are in the midst of a

fractured relationship that you are trying to mend.

And so these things in our lives come and they shake us.

And Jesus himself said, you know, you will have trials and

troubles. But the good news is this is

that in the midst of the storm we can hold on to Jesus Christ,

who is unshakeable and who is steady and who gives us his

peace, which surpasses all understanding, which will guard

our hearts and mind in Christ Jesus.

And what we are told here is to hold fast without wavering.

This doesn't mean that we will never struggle.

This doesn't mean we will never doubt.

It doesn't mean we will never wrestle.

Wavering will come. There have been seasons where

Steph and I have wavered. Lord, I don't know if we can do

this. Are you sure?

I remember when I first said yes to the call to be the senior

pastor of this most beautiful church.

And I spoke to the board and I gave them my yes.

And I recall for a few days afterwards, I, I had AI had I

had this dream, I've never shared this before, might as

well do it now. And in the dream I said, yes,

I'll be the senior pastor. And in the dream, I said it and

I panicked and I go, what have I done?

I can't be a senior pastor. This is.

And I was panicking and I woke up in a panic.

And then in that moment, you and Eli just woken up and reality

and dreams are a little bit fuzzy.

And I was like, that was only a dream.

I'm not going to be a senior pastor.

And then literally within 10 seconds, I'm like, wait a

minute, I'm going to be a senior pastor.

But what are you doing? And in that I've, I've never

been a pastor before. And in that moment, I held onto

the call to the words, to his scripture, to the, to the, to

the pictures, to the certainty that it was him who had called

me. And you know, maybe it's some

bit of advice for you if you if God's called you to something

and that might be your work, It might be a in your workplace.

It might be with your like, whatever.

You have a sense that God is wanting to walk in a particular

area and you have a wobble. Hold onto the core and say, Lord

God, you've called me to this. You are faithful and you will do

that which you have commanded me to do.

You will equip me like we have to gird up our loins to use that

phrase. And and you see what the writer

of the Hebrews is saying is that you are going to need to hold

fast on this confession, folks, because there's going to be

times where it's going to be really difficult.

I was thinking about this. Anyone done any rock climbing?

Some of you have, I can't say I've done proper an actual

mounting or anything, but you know, you get those indoor ones

which are kind of fun and you climb up and they, they, they,

they properly secure you, don't they?

So they put harness on you like thank goodness for that.

And they're right. Hold on to this right.

And you need to climb and you're climbing and you know, you're

like, well, I'm sure you're all perfectly brilliant at this, but

I'm like, oh, I can't hold on. And then there is this moment

where you let go of the rope and there's a split second you're

like, I'm going to fall. I'm totally dead.

And all of a sudden that thing that's secured, that rope kicks

in. You're like, and you're hanging

in there like, thank goodness for that.

And then you have a moment, an opportunity to regain your

composure and grab the rope again.

God, is that secure rope on you? You might let go, but He never

lets go of you. You might waver and there might

be a moment, but you see, by His grace, He holds you in that

place, waits patiently for when you can get back on and hold

that rope. That's that moment, that

confession of hope. So why can we hold fast?

I mean, I've told you to what a confession of hope is and the

difference between our confession of hope in Christ and

the world. I've I've talked about the

reality that we are called to hold fast.

And the reason we are called to hold fast is because of the

reality that it's difficult sometimes.

But what we read is, is this, it says for he who promised is

faithful, that is the ground beneath our feet.

That is the rope that is secured on our harness, irrespective of

whether we can hold on or not. And you see our I'm so grateful

to God that our hope doesn't rest on our emotions because,

boy, they rise and fall. I can tell you that it doesn't

rest our hope on circumstances because they do change

overnight. I'm labouring a point, aren't I?

It doesn't rest on our performance because we fail.

Yes, you are human. It rests on the character of God

and God is faithful. God is faithful.

Let us say it together. God is faithful.

I think we need to say it again with conviction.

God is faithful. What a great confession of

faith. Say it again.

God is faithful. You know, it says in two Timothy

213, if we are faithless, he remains faithful.

It's good though, isn't it? Hold on to that.

You know, if you fall and you let go of that ropes, that

metaphorical rope, sometimes the enemy will come and get, oh

look, you let go of the rope. Like quote this scripture.

This is what God says. He is faithful.

He is faithful. Now God is faithful friends and

his promises. Joshua 2145 says this, not one

word of all the good promises that the Lord has made has

failed and will come to pass. God is faithful.

The promises that he's spoken over you, the promises that you

read in his word for your life will come to pass because he is

faithful. God is not a man that should he

should lie as it says in the Scriptures.

What about Hebrews 13, five we're in Hebrews at the moment.

It says this. God says I will never leave you,

nor what I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

Even when we feel alone, His faithfulness doesn't waver.

Our hope is not grounded in probability, but in promise.

In a world of calculating probabilities, you can have

peace to know that God is faithful and His promises will

come to pass. But you see, the ultimate proof

of God's faithfulness, friends, is Jesus Himself. 2 Corinthians

120 says For all the promises of God find their yes in Him, all

the promises of God find their yes in him.

Every covenant, every prophecy, every hope is fulfilled in Jesus

Christ. At the cross.

God showed He would go to the furthest length to keep his

word. Didn't He?

Think about it that way. In the resurrection He showed

that nothing, not even death, can overturn his promises.

Think about it that way. When Jesus said on the cross it

is finished, He meant it. Jesus plus Jesus plus nothing,

He's done it all. He fulfilled the promises of God

on our behalf. You know, this isn't just

theology. This isn't just that was an

interesting preach. We were able to unpack Hebrews

Hebrews 10:23

chapter 10 verse 23 and we understand now what confession

means and we should maybe do that during the week that this

is not a theological treaties. This is not some lecture you're

coming to a university. This is deeply practical.

God's faithfulness touches every part of our life.

What about this? In Forgiveness 1 John 19 says if

we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive.

He is faithful and just to forgive your sins.

Now is He faithful and just to forgive the top the the bottom

10 minor sins but not the top ten?

No, He will is faithful to forgive all of our sins.

Whatever you have done, His blood covers it all.

His blood is sufficient for whatever you have done.

His forgiveness isn't fragile or conditional.

It's faithful. What about in the trials that

you face? You know it says in One

Corinthians 10/13 And by the way, you should be writing these

down because this is medicine for you.

You should be reading these out over your lives.

God is faithful and He will not let you be tempted beyond your

ability. He will provide the way of

escape that you may be able to endure it.

You know, when you're going through temptations, the

question or the prayer is, Lord, how can you give me the strength

to get out of this temptation? Show me the way.

And what about faithfulness in US growing in Him?

One Thessalonians 524 says he who calls you is faithful.

He will surely do it. Even when we feel stagnant.

God is steadily working. God is faithful.

As I end bring this plane to a God willing smooth landing,

please put up your trade tables and your seats up.

Your seatbelts are on in case there's a lot of bumps along the

way. Have you noticed this verse?

Can we get that verse back up again?

Verse Hebrews 10/23. Let me notice how this starts.

What are the 1st 2 words? Us.

Us. This isn't about a solo journey.

Holding fast isn't something we do together.

Holding fast isn't something we do on our own, something we do

together in community. That's his body.

You know, preached last week. Fantastic sermon on Hebrews.

In fact, the very next verse Hebrews 10/24.

And can I just say as well what a wonderful summer series series

it was. We have we are have such

anointed and blessed preachers in this house.

I'm just I just love seeing men and women of God just walk in

that gift and and just giving the word of God to his people

and Pritt looked at verse 24 that says this.

Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good

works, not neglecting to meet together, as some are in the

habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more as

you see the day drawing there. We hold fast better when we hold

fast together. We hold fast better when we hold

fast together. You have not been created to do

this thing, relationship with God on your own.

There is the vertical with God, and there is the horizontal in

fellowship with one another. What we have here is precious.

We have the privilege in this country to meet together, to

worship, to praise, to pray, to stir up one another in good

works, to serve one another, to pray for one another, to love

one another, to encourage one another.

We have that privilege to do it in this country, in public and

in open. Many of our brothers and sisters

around the world do not that as we are speaking now in this

public forum, there are those that are underground in fear of

our life. And that confession of hope

comes with the death penalty. And I am always struck, even

more so these past few months as we end this chapter and begin a

new one of the privilege it has been being with each other in

this place. You know, last week as we were

worshiping, I was over there and I got up.

And as I do sometimes I like to walk around the auditorium.

I'm I'm praying, partly praying for you all, but also I just

love seeing his people worship him.

It's a beautiful thing as I walk around there, Steph and I and

the kids used to sit over there and that's where you guys are.

Hello. When we first joined and I was

like, wow, 1213 years ago, we started started there and it

wasn't lost on me the reality that we're about to leave this

beautiful church and leave worshiping with you all.

It's a beautiful thing. Don't ever lose that that sense

of being together and worshiping him and encouraging one another

in him. Like these next three months are

not about taking a back seats and go, well, we'll engage

properly when the new senior pastors come.

Please don't do that. You are the church.

This is a season to press in. I want to be hearing stories of

how the church was overflowing every Sunday.

I want to be hearing about the good works that you guys are

doing with one another, the love that you're pouring out, the

fact that we've got more volunteers than we've ever had.

Those are the stories that I want to be hearing.

This is a season to hold fast together the confession of our

hope. Why?

Because God is faithful. Don't shrink back.

Press in and press on with the promises that God has for you

both individually and corporately, as well as this

church. God has not finished with this

church. The best is yet to come.

The best is yet to come. And I don't want you to miss out

on. I don't want you to miss out on

being here and being with one another.

And so I want to end with this question for you.

Where is your confession of hope lying at the moment?

Where are those areas that you need to confess your hope in

Christ? Maybe it is finance, maybe it is

relationships, maybe it is about calling in terms of job or

vocation. Maybe it's something else, but

when we hold fast our confession of hope in Christ, do you know

what happens? We receive His peace.

We receive His joy, and I don't want you missing out on that

opportunity. Friends, can we stand as I pray?

Invite Steph up, Don, if you've got any words that you want to

share for everyone. Right.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

I was actually reminded when Mark was Speaking of a word, a

similar word I had for the church a long, long time ago.

And I remember standing up here and giving it.

And I'm just reminded of this talk around faithfulness.

And the Lord is faithful to us, but he also caused us to be

faithful to him. And I love that picture of, you

know, if we fall, he's still got us.

But we also have a choice to cling on.

Don't mean pull ourselves back up.

And I was just reminded of a picture I had a long time ago of

the different Rd. signs. And the Lord just showed me

quite vividly the, you know, when you come across the road,

the road is closed sign. How many of us just keep driving

in hope that actually the road's not closed?

I've done that so many times and you're like, I've just spent 15

minutes. I have to go all the way back

again. And I thought the law was just

saying that some of us are on that journey.

You know, we ignore the signs, don't we?

Because we hope that we can just avoid what the Lord has.

And I just thought the Lord is saying this morning, don't

ignore the signs and that we're according fellowship with one

another, to be accountable, to confess to one another, but to

read and soak in his word so that we don't have that

frustration. There's always a way back, but

we lose time and quite often for many of us is a frustration that

we did not listen to the word or the the warning of the Lord.

You know, some of us, there is a no entry sign and we just can't

help but go that way. And then we, you know, come

across danger or EU turn, you know, no U-turn allowed.

And we, we do EU turn and we, you know, nearly get hit by

another car. You know, there's so many things

that we do when we drive that actually we do in our Christian

faith and on our journey. And I think the Lord is saying

this morning, I want you to listen closely to my voice.

I want you to soak in my word. And I want you to be strong

enough to say, Lord, I'm going to go the longer way because the

road says it's closed. And it might, you might think

it's going to add more time, but actually in the long run, it

won't. It would give you.

So Father, I thank you. I thank you, Jesus, that you are

after our hearts, Lord God, that you are calling us to be

faithful to you as well. And there are seasons when it's

hard to say no to that temptation, God.

But you call us as Christians to lean into you and ask you, Lord,

what are you saying to me in this situation, Lord?

So, Father, I thank you for this beautiful church.

I thank you, Lord, for all these precious people that heal our

God, that we walk this journey. We're the Lord Jesus.

And I thank you for the journey ahead.

I just see you all getting into your cars and the Lord's taking

you on a journey. And he's, he's sitting in the

passenger seat and he's saying, listen to my voice, leaning to

me and I will guide your path. So we thank you Jesus, we bless

your holy name. Thank you, Jesus.

Bless you, Steph. Thank.

You darling, as we as we end the service, I just want to read out

these words of knowledge. As you guys know, the prayer

team meet before the service and seek the Lord for words of

knowledge. That's one of the gifts of the

Spirit. It's the toolbox that the Holy

Spirit gives us to extend his Kingdom.

And if any of these words resonate with you, do get

prayer. My right, you're left with the

prayer team. And if you're online, you can

e-mail us prayer at Verso dot church.

It says here Psalm 13914I praise you because I am fearfully and

wonderfully made. Maybe you need to hear that this

morning. There's a man here with a

painful right foot. If that's you get prayer.

Someone with a problem with their big toe on their right

foot. A child with bad colic, someone

who has heart palpitations. A lady with a lump in her right

breast. Someone with chronic nausea.

A man recovering from a cycling accident, someone who's been

crying all last night. Bless you do get prayer and

someone who has bounced of abnormal heart rate, racing

heart. It says here if any of those

resonate with you get prayer or indeed if you need prayer for

anything else, do get prayer. The team would love to pray with

you. With that, I'm going to pray a

blessing over us and Lord bless you and keep you.

May His face shine upon you. Would His be gracious towards

you? Would His countenance be towards

you? And would you know his perfect

beautiful peace, which surpasses all understanding, which will

guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

And I bless you in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

And all these people said, Amen. God bless you Church.

See you next Sunday.