But God...

Thank you Danny and Kathy, what a blessing man, God is so good.

It's the one that we were made to worship, to know and love and

all our needs be met by. And I am praise God for that

reminder this morning. If you have your Bible, I hope

you do go and make your way to Genesis chapter 12, Genesis 12

Genesis 12 · chapter mention

as we continue in our series answering God's call.

If you remember, if you need some catching up, God said to

Abraham, go. And I Abraham went, right?

So he said, God said leave house, home, country and

kindred, go to the place. I'll show you.

I'm going to bless you so that you will be a blessing.

And he told Abraham, those who bless you I'm going to bless and

those who curse you, I'm going to curse.

God said go and Abram went. Then God shows up and appears to

Abraham and says, hey, Abraham, here's the land.

This is the land I'm going to give you.

Abraham builds an altar there. He calls on God's name and he

worships Abraham. It has made, I want you to think

about it like this. Abraham has made the greatest

decision of his life. He's answered God's call with a

yes and no doubt, not only what is what was it the greatest

decision of Abraham's life, but it was also no doubt the hardest

decision of Abraham's life to leave house, to leave home, to

leave country, to live, leave kindred your family to go to the

place. God says, hey, I'm going to show

you he doesn't know yet. God just says go.

Abraham goes, it's the greatest decision of his life, but it's

also been the hardest decision of his life.

But so far things are going great.

Things are about to change. You ready?

I want you to watch chapter 12, verse 10.

Now there was a famine in the land.

So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine

was severe in the land. In these days, people lived, how

we like to say it, close to the land.

Now, if you're not familiar with that saying, it needs some

explanation of what does that exactly mean?

What does it mean to live close to the land?

It means to live in such a way where there's no middle man

between the land and the food on your table.

You are the farmer. You are the harvester, you are

the rancher, you are the butcher.

You follow me. You're the grocery store shelf

stalker, you're the cook. There's nobody between you and

the land. You're living your life directly

dependent, close to the land. This is, of course, how life

used to be. This is still how life is for

many people around the world. This is exactly how life is for

Abraham, right? So by the way, too, there's no

freezers to store next year's food and there's no

refrigerators to store yesterday's leftovers.

Any tiny disruption in the food chain, food supply chain means

immediate potential disaster. This is exactly what is

happening here. Famine means no food.

Famine means no food. Why no food?

Probably because of no rain and no rain on that year's crops for

those years. That year's animals means no

food on your table. Immediate impact, even for the

tiniest disruption in the food supply chain.

All right, now you got to think when Abraham obeyed God and left

house and home and country and kindred, you got to think

Abraham had in his mind, God's going to take care of me.

God's got me right? God is.

Abram is trusting God, putting himself in God's hands, and

believing God is going to be good to him and provide for him.

And God can be trusted. All right, He's thinking, God's

got me. But right now Abram is hungry,

and it appears, at least in the moment, that he might have been

better off had he never left. Now it's amazing how many, how

many little hints of the future to come we get as Genesis begins

to unfold. I want you to Fast forward with

me just a little bit to the offspring of Abram leaving the

land of Egypt into the wilderness.

They get what? Hungry and they get thirsty.

They left against God's got them.

God's got their back, trust in God.

But then they encounter difficulty.

They get a little hungry and get a little thirsty.

And wondering, had they been, would have they have been better

off if they'd have never left, right?

I mean. So this is a little

foreshadowing of what's to come. Write this down in your notes #1

answering God's call does not eliminate all difficulty.

Answering God's call does not eliminate all difficulty.

In fact, I can guarantee you that if you answer God's call,

it will lead to times of difficulty.

They won't put this on TV because it doesn't sell.

I'm going to tell you what the Bible says.

I can guarantee you that if you say yes to God's call, it will

lead to times of difficulty. Why in the world would I say

that? Because the Bible says it.

James chapter one verse 2 through 4 is just one place

among many. I could turn you listen to this.

Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of a

variety of kinds, various kinds here, you know that the testing

of your faith produces steadfastness.

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be

perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

You see, as a Christian, hear me.

As a child of God, God's will for you and for me includes

various trials. Now you may be thinking, do

what? Why, I'm not sure.

I showed up this morning for the right reason, right?

Maybe I'm in the wrong place. Why would why would choosing to

answer God's call on my life, your life, lead to various

trials? All right, Because the reason

why is God grows our faith by testing it.

God grows our faith by testing our faith.

You see, faith works just like a muscle, and a muscle only grows

stronger when it is put under what strain?

When you put a muscle under load or under a strain, what you

actually do is you're producing under that load or that strain,

tiny microscopic tears in the fibers of your muscle.

Your muscles are literally being torn under the strain, under the

load, so that they can grow back stronger, so they can be more

perfect or complete. This is exactly how God grows

our faith. He puts it under strain.

He puts it under load, He puts it under various trial so that

the fibers of our faith are torn, if you will, weakened,

perhaps momentarily or temporarily, so that they can

grow back more complete, fuller, even stronger.

Faith. Don't miss this.

Faith is the most important muscle in the Christian life and

God has committed himself to strengthen yours.

Faith is the most important muscle in the Christian life and

God has committed Himself to strengthening yours.

In fact, God is actually promised in His Word to complete

what He started in you. Philippians chapter one verse 6,

the Bible says I am sure of this.

Paul says that he who began a good work in you is going to do

what he's going to bring it to completion at the day of Jesus

Christ what God started in you. That all started by faith.

God has said I am going to complete that project that I

started in you and in me. It's a guarantee.

And if you just want to kind of zoom up for a second and I can

give you some fancy words for this, these are words you

actually ought to know because this is what God is interested

in doing in your life. You see, the moment you were

saved, God did something called justification in your life.

He justified you. He legally declared you

righteous in his sight by covering you and washing you by

the blood of Jesus Christ. You say, Kyle, what in the world

does that mean, especially maybe if you're a new here or not a

Christian here. Jesus Christ came and lived a

sinless life and he died on the cross where he shed his blood as

a sinless sacrifice for us. And then he went to the grave

dead, and three days later, on the third day, defeated death,

walked out a lot, life to offer forgiveness and life.

So though we've sinned, we've done wrong.

We've dishonored God, fallen short of the glory of God.

Jesus in our place, did for us what we could not do, what we

failed to do, and actually shed his blood, because God says he

doesn't forgive without the shedding of blood.

There has to be some death. There has to be a death.

There had to be the death of the perfect one, Jesus, to pay for

the sins of the world. So this is what I mean when we

actually realize Jesus is the one and only way of salvation

and forgiveness in life and we trust him as Savior in a very

real way, in a spiritual way, the blood of Jesus washes us,

our souls clean. And now God that looks at you

and me washed clean, declares us righteous, covered by the blood

of Jesus, and we stand in a right relationship with him.

So God is first interested in you being justified.

Have you been justified? Have you been saved, brought

into a right relationship with God?

If you have the second part, God's got you in the process of

right now. It's not justification, but

sanctification. The sanctifies to make holy.

So God has you positionally righteous in his sight.

Now God wants to make you practically righteous.

You know the problem. You know my problem.

I've been declared righteous in God's sight.

You know what one of my problems is?

I continue to do unrighteous things.

I continue to talk in unrighteous ways.

All right, so God is now interested in Kyle Walker

practically becoming more righteous than in what he says,

does, thinks, and feels. I am perfectly right in God's

sight, in the right relationship.

But now I need to be practically actually further transformed in

my behavior, in my thinking, in my living.

I'm positionally righteous. Now God wants to make me

practically righteous because guess what?

One day God's going to do with me and you.

If you know Jesus, he's going to do what we call glorification.

That means He's going to make you perfectly righteous.

The day you see Jesus face to face, you got justification, you

got sanctification, you got glorification.

It's all about our faith being made complete.

Our character conformed to the image of Christ and God has

committed himself. What he started, He is going to

complete. Listen, you need to know what

I've just described is God's number one will for your life.

It is God's number one goal for your life.

It is God's number one plan for your life.

God said he would do it. He said he'd use difficulty in

trials to do it. So what do you do when you're in

the middle of God's will and difficulty comes?

The Bible says you count it all joy.

Easier said than done, right? But how can you count it all

joy? Because you can say look at God

doing what he promised he would do.

Look at God being faithful to his number one plan for my life.

Look at God completing what He started that He said he would

complete. Look at God preparing me for all

eternity. Look at God getting me ready to

see Jesus face to face. Look at God being faithful to

me. Now that's not how we think, is

it? But this is how the Bible

instructs us to think, because this is exactly how God is

operating in the lives of believers.

Answering God's call does not eliminate all difficulty.

All right? How many times, how many

conversations have I had with many of you, right?

And maybe you made a big decision and your whole life

turned around and you chose to follow Jesus.

And next thing you know, Pastor Kyle, Oh my goodness, this has

happened. This has happened, this has

happened, and this has happened. How often, right?

Just because we answer God's call doesn't mean life

automatically gets easier. Oftentimes it gets more

difficult before it gets before it gets easier.

Now listen to verses 11 through 16.

The Bible says this. When he was about to enter

Egypt, he said to Sarah, his wife, I know that you are a

beautiful, that you are a woman, beautiful in appearance.

Now guys, if you missed Valentine's Day yesterday, this

is your moment right here. You ready?

If you got your spouse, you ought to turn to your wife and

says you are a woman, beautiful in appearance.

All right, If you need to interrupt my sermon to do that,

you go right ahead. All right.

Abraham says, I know that you're a woman, beautiful in

appearance, and when the Egyptians, but just don't say

this, when the Egyptians see you, they will say this is his

wife, Then they'll kill me, but they will let you live.

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of

you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptian saw that the woman was

indeed very beautiful. And when the Princess of Pharaoh

saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh.

And the woman was taking into taken into Pharaoh's house.

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram.

And he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female

servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Abraham hears that the grocery stores are open in Egypt and the

shelves aren't empty. All right, so there they make a

move. Now we, we don't know.

People speculate well, was this move right?

Was this the right decision? The Bible just doesn't comment.

We don't know. But obviously he's leaving the

land God showed him he would give him and go into a different

land where there's food for the sake of their survival.

We don't exactly know if this was right or not.

What we do know though is we can see a pattern even here as well.

Fast forward again, there's so many flash forwards we could do

in Genesis. Flash forward to the offspring

of Abram that would come, the ultimate one to whom the

blessing would come to all the families of the earth.

His name starts with AJ is oh come on young, do better than

that. Y'all with me.

His name is Jesus. He would come through the line

of Abram all right. Where would his mom and daddy

flee to temporarily in Egypt? All right, now let's kind of go

back to our earlier lesson. Mary and Joseph are smack dab in

the middle of God's will. They're in Egypt because

answering God's call on their lives did not eliminate all

difficulty. They said yes, and life got

harder before it got easier, right?

This is all throughout the Bible.

OK, They were smack dab in the middle of God's will, but it

wasn't easy. Now, before entering Egypt,

Abraham has this specific fear come over him due to the beauty

of his wife. I want to make all kind of jokes

here, but I just feel like we should just keep moving.

Sarah was obviously a very attractive, physically

attractive lady, which, by the way, Sarah is 65 years old.

All right, so I'm going to keep moving.

Abraham was afraid. Abraham was afraid that Sarah

was so beautiful that an Egyptian is going to kill him to

claim his wife. All right, I mean, this is

pretty. Yeah, I'm just going to keep

going. Abraham and Sarah are

anticipating difficulty, but this time, y'all fear is driving

their thinking and not faith. Do you see that before they even

even encounter the problem in anticipation of what they think

they're going to run into fear becomes the dominating force and

it's driving their thinking that's driving their planning.

It's driving their decision making rather than than faith.

But I want you to remember, what all has God promised them?

Name, offspring, nation, land, blessing, protection.

Is any of that going to come about if they take Abram out to

get his wife? Is any of that possible if Abram

dies? No, no, it's not right.

So what sense does it make to be afraid unless you don't believe

the promises of God? Let me ask that one more time.

What sense does it make to be afraid unless you don't actually

believe the promises of God? But this, this is exactly what

fear does. You know what fear does?

It makes us stupid. I don't use that word lightly

from the pulpit, all right? But it just does, right?

It makes us lose our mind. It makes us live illogically.

It makes us live irrationally. It causes us to lose our fate

because you can't live by fear and fate at the same time.

You can't do it. It's one or the other.

All right. So Abrams in a jam and fear

which is leading to fear in the temporary lapse of his fate

because it's an either or thing. So what is Abrams fear driven

plan? Sarah, we're going to say you're

my sister, all right, instead of killing me, they're going to be

nice to me because you look so good.

All right, and the deal was Sarah actually was Abraham's

half sister. So this isn't a total lie.

The lie is not so much in what they're saying.

The lie is in what they're not saying, all right, And by what

they're not saying, the lie is actually in what they're

denying. So sure enough, it goes down

just like Abraham thought it would.

Everyone notices Sarah is gorgeous and the king could take

any woman he wanted in his domain and he never had enough.

So sure enough, he adds Sarah to his harem.

All right, so now one problem has led to another problem.

This is what fear driven living will get you.

You may get temporarily out of one jam, but just guess what?

It's going to lead you to a bigger one.

This is what happens when you make plans out of fear that get

you ahead of God. You get yourself between a rock

and a hard place that now Abraham's going to be unable to

solve on his own. All right, so now Abram and

Sarah, they're not hungry. Temporary relief.

But guess what? Now the problem is his wife's

living in another man's house. That's way worse, all right.

Abram, out of fear for his own hide, has now exposed his wife

to the possibility of adultery. All right.

And now he's endangered all the promises God made to him, all

the promises God made to him. Abram is put in jeopardy because

he started making decisions out of fear rather than fate in the

promises of God. So without wife, no offspring,

no name, no nation, no land, no blessing.

Fear solved one problem but just created a bigger one.

Yes, it gave them temporary protection, but watch this, it's

endangering God's best #2 write this down if you're taking

notes. Fear, Fear can forfeit the

blessings of God's call on your life.

Fear. Fear can forfeit so many of the

blessings of God's call on your life.

So Abram has said yes to God's call on his life.

Hallelujah. But now new difficulties have

come. Things have changed.

There are now new trials. There are now new dangers.

There's now new threats. And Abram, who said yes to God's

call, is now afraid. And when you and I are afraid,

we have a choice. Fear or faith.

The way I'd like to explain this.

Is the reality is choosing to follow Jesus.

Choosing to follow God is really not a one time 1 and done

decision in life. Now let me try to be very clear,

when you choose to follow Jesus and accept Jesus as your Savior

for salvation, which I pray that you've done, and if not, you can

actually do so right now because I explained earlier what Jesus

has done for you, living for you, dying for you, defeating

death for you so he could pay for your sin for you and offer

you life. You can actually call on Jesus

right now. Make the decision to say, Lord,

I know that's what I need. You're the only way.

Would you save me, forgive me and be my Lord.

All right, that's a one time decision because you don't get

saved multiple times. You don't get made alive more

than once. You don't get born again more

than once. OK, but once you choose to

follow Jesus, the reality is every single day you wake up,

you have a choice to make. You have a choice to make

whether or not you're going to follow Jesus as your King, as

your Lord, as your master. Quite honestly, every moment by

moment of the day you get to make this choice whether you're

going to die to yourself and what you want in life your way

or if you're going to say no. I got to remember I've been

bought with a price. I'm not my own.

The Holy Spirit lives within me, is claimed me, I belong to

Jesus. Then I'm going to walk by faith

instead of fear. So following Jesus really is a

day by day, moment by moment, not just once over and done

decision. All right, and it's fear or

faith, but it cannot be both. Can I just ask you some

questions? How many fear driven decisions

have you made? How many fear driven versus

faith driven plans have you put together for your future?

How is or is anything in your life right now being driven by

fear instead of faith? Abram is falling for fear

instead of choosing faith in his fear.

His fear is actually ironically threatening to take out all that

God has promised him. Isn't that ironic that it was

out of fear that Abram's trying to preserve his life, but his

fear is endangering everything God had promised him?

This is how illogical, irrational fear is.

This is what it does. All right, so Abram has lost his

wife. Now the question is, will

Abraham lose it all? Will his fear cause him to lose

it all? In other words, let's put it

like this. If God's promises are going to

be true now to Abram, God's going to have to intervene.

He's in a rock and a hard space. If, if the promises of God are

going to get back on the railroad tracks, God is going to

have to intervene. Abram has put himself in a

situation where he can do nothing.

Why don't you listen to the Word of God, verse 17 through 20?

But the Lord, but the Lord. But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh

and his house with great plagues because of Sarah, Abram's wife.

So Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done

to me? Why did you not tell me that she

was your wife? Why did you say she is my

sister? So that I took her from my wife.

Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go.

And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent

him away with his wife and all that he had.

Y'all answering God's call does not eliminate all difficulty and

fear can ruin so many of God's blessings of God's call on our

life. But now what we're going to see

here in Genesis 12 is this phrase, but the Lord, but the

Lord. Now, I, I don't mean to

insinuate anything other than just trying to say this clearly

without getting distraction, but when you read the word, but in

the Bible, it is a big deal. All right, a big deal.

I have heard it described like this whenever there's a butt God

or a butt the Lord. What you're looking at is a

shift from human weakness to divine power.

Right there you are changing over.

There's an intervention of divine power in the midst of

human weakness. These are big deals in the

Bible. Without the but gods of the

Bible, we would all be lost in our sin without hope and

separated from God. All right, praise God for all

the but gods of the Bible. Every one of them is a

manifestation of the grace and the kindness and mercy and the

power of God in the midst of our fear, our unfaithfulness or our

failure. And let me just tell you this.

You ought to track all the but gods in your life, not just the

Bible. You ought to track and keep up

with all the but gods in in your life.

And there are they are everywhere.

Can I just share a few of mine with you to kind of brag on God

from? I just thought about this this

week, Kyle, if you had to sit in and and list out the but gods in

your life, those moments when it would transition from human

weakness to divine power, what would those be?

The doctors. This is a story for another day.

I've mentioned it here and there, but the doctors told my

parents when I was born that I would not survive but God.

But God, when I was a nine year old boy, I was lost in my sin,

but God, All right. When we left Americus, GA, where

I was born, we left a church where, unbeknownst to us, the

pastor was in an adulterous relationship with the children's

choir director. We moved to a church in

Mississippi where the senior pastor sacrificially dedicated

himself to training up young preachers.

But God, y'all following with me.

Y'all don't sound excited. This is exciting to me.

I was headed down my own career path that I thought would serve

me best, that I would like best, but God, all right, I was

selfish and immature. I still struggle with that at

times, all right, but I especially was in high school.

There's no way things should have worked out between Lauren

and myself. But God, when a new president

came to Southwestern Seminary and wanted to bring his own

team, I was going to be without a job, all right.

But God, they said, Kyle, nobody will ever hire you.

You have no pastoral ministry experience.

But God, have you ever named the butt gods in your life?

They are everywhere. The shifts from human weakness

to divine power. Listen, without the but gods of

your life and mine in the Bible, we're without hope.

This is where God's faithfulness inserts himself on our behalf.

All right, it says, but the Lord, verse 17, afflicted

Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah,

Abraham's wife. Not one plague, ladies and

gentlemen, plagues. Can we do another little flash

forward for a moment? The Bible is crazy interesting,

right? We're going to get to these

again with Abraham's offspring. When God says, let my people go,

God's talking to Pharaoh again, God.

Pharaoh says, no, that's what God's going to do.

Human weakness to divine intervention.

But God in the form of 10 mighty plagues from Almighty God.

So the Pharaoh and all the Egyptians do.

There's a God in heaven who intervened, right?

So this is what God does here. Who knows what these plagues

were? Who knows how they find found

out? Maybe they started interviewing

and interrogating everybody and Sarah was the newest arrival.

It's got to be her. Who knows?

We don't know how it how they found out, but he did find out

that's because he had Abraham's wife in his house that these

plagues had come Pharaoh not because of I want you to watch

how this is so ironic things out of the Bible when you really

study look close, start jumping off the page.

Pharaoh out of fear of God does the right thing instead of the

fear of man when it was Abraham's not fear of God, but

fear of man that caused the very situation.

But it's a Pagan who actually out of fear of God, does what

he's supposed to do when Abraham didn't.

Amazing, right? Abram was in a bind.

But God and Pharaoh, out of fear of God gives Abram's wife back.

Third thing to write down is God's call on your life

ultimately depends on but God, if God's call on your life is

going to be a reality, guess what?

I'm going to fail at it at times and you are too and for it to

continue into remain. I guarantee you it's going to

depend on more than one, but God a shift from your weakness to

his divine power. Let me explain it like this

Romans chapter 3 verse 4 makes a little statement that I love it

Romans 3:4

says this. Let God be true though everyone

a liar. And what in the world does that

mean? Paul is explaining the situation

and answering this question. His question is this, does the

unfaithfulness of the Israelites who were entrusted with the

promises of God mean that God is unfaithful?

Did the unfaithfulness of God's people mean that God is

unfaithful? Paul says by no means, by no

means. He says let everyone be a liar.

God will still be true, right? God will still be faithful.

God will still be fulfilling His promises.

He cannot lie. He cannot be unfaithful.

He cannot break his promises. Friends, that is good news.

Aren't you glad God remains faithful despite our lapses in

unfaithfulness to Him? I want to make a statement here,

and I don't want you to miss it. You ready?

Fear and unfaithfulness can cause you and me to forfeit many

of the blessings of God, but they can never cause God to

break His promises to you. I'm going to say that one more

time. Fear and unfaithfulness can

cause you and me to forfeit many of the blessings of God if we

choose to walk in fear versus faith.

But those things can never 'cause God to break His promises

to you. Somebody here this morning needs

to hear that. You want to know why?

Because perhaps you've lived in fear and you might be living in

fear right now because you've lapsed into unfaithfulness.

Maybe you failed. Maybe you know, and you could

count the blessings in your life you forfeited because of walking

in fear versus fate. Maybe you assume you might as

well give up. Maybe you think you might as

well walk away. God can no longer use you want

you or desire or God's will be done in your life and you are

wrong. God is always true, no matter

every man, a liar or unfaithful. God is always faithful to His

promises. And what has God promised you?

To start in you. What he started in you.

To bring to what? To completion.

To never leave you nor forsake you.

That nothing could snatch you out of his hands.

That he that he's going to complete, that he's going to see

through, that He's going to be with you and never give up.

But God, y'all just to review for a second, answering God's

call on your life does not eliminate all difficulty.

So let me say this, if you're in that spot right now where you're

in various trials, what you need to hear and remember is this

storm too shall pass, OK? And your faith will be stronger

if you trust God. Don't run to fear the storm.

I guarantee you will pass. All right.

God's plan involves temporary trial for the sake of your long

term, forever perfection. All right, this storm is going

to pass. Second, fear can cause you to

forfeit many of God's blessings. All right, when you are afraid,

you've got to choose to believe the promises of God.

The only reason you would walk in fear is if you actually don't

believe the promises of God. You got to choose to believe.

You got to go back to God's word.

You've got to hold on as an anchor for your soul.

All right. And God's promises are true no

matter what your circumstances are.

And God's call on your life ultimately depends on but God

when you mess up and you will hear me when you mess up and you

will ask God for a but God say God, I've failed, I've walked in

fear, I've been unfaithful. But God, I need you now to shift

me from my human weakness to your divine power.

Without it, I won't make it. God, I need a but God final

thing in your notes, you can write these blanks in.

When you face difficulty in fear, walk by faith in the

faithfulness of God. When you face difficulty in

fear, walk by faith in the faithfulness of God.

John and praise team are going to come out and here's what I

want to invite you to do this morning.

You may be in the room and you've never taken that leap of

faith to trust Jesus as your Savior.

Would you do so today? Why wait?

Why wait? Today, the Bible says, is the

day of salvation. The promises of God are true.

Will you believe? Will you receive?

I'm going to stand right here so that if you need to step out and

speak to me, I'll wait to pray, to talk with you.

We'll have encouragers that'll be close.

Maybe you're in a storm this morning.

Maybe that storm's been going for a while and you want to come

and treat these steps like an altar before God, where you can

come, stand or kneel and say, God, I need help believing this

storm's going to pass. God, I need help believing that

these trials are actually for my good, because God, I don't

understand why, but God, I'm going to.

I'm going to believe that you're using these for my good.

Maybe you just want to come and kneel before the Lord.

Maybe maybe you're walking in fear and you want to say, God, I

want to give you this fear and I'm going to ask you to give me

faith. God, I don't want to forfeit

your blessings on my life. Or maybe you're to that point.

You say God, if I don't get a but God, I've got no hope and

you just want to come ask, come get on your knees.

Say God, would you intervene trade out my weakness for your

divine power? Father, I prayed that you would

give us a yes in our souls to you this morning in every way,

in Jesus name I pray, Amen. Would you stand with me, Church?