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00:00:02 today's passage is taken from Psalms 23 a Psalm of David the Lord is my shepherd I like nothing he makes me lie down in Green Pastures he leads me beside Quiet Waters he refreshes my soul he guides me along the right path for his name's sake even though I walk through the darkest Valley I will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup overflows surely your goodness and love will follow me
00:00:41 all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever This is the word of God just a quick announcement as you know we sit on historic times and uh very uncertain days uh so I spoke to Gideon and Peter just to make a short announcement as you know right now we have a hung government uh announcement was made by The Stand by pikatan just now that they've taken letters from uh the estana I just want to say one thing um on behalf of leadership a Biblical hope as scripture teaches us is not
00:01:38 dependent of circumstances that's that's one thing as Christians we need to understand hope in the Bible is waiting on the Promises of God so as we as we uh navigate very uncertain times in our country and perhaps all of us have certain hopes and those hopes may not be met we do not know it is I think God's will for us to trust in him and wait on his promises whatever the waters are ahead whatever the year is going to be perhaps as again say it is time the Lord is testing our faith as he did with the
00:02:20 Israelites as they went from one government to another government to another government and then Jesus came so I just like to just do a short prayer for us that we do not get discouraged we do not get anything we learn to wait on the Promises of God that we are the people of the God and the leadership is always here for whatever we can do and we navigate this together let us pray Lord the results of the election are in your hands there are results which are uncertain and for the first time perhaps
00:02:55 in our history we have a hung government and so a lot of us look forward with fear and certainty and some with disappointment and bitterness we do not know uh but we remember the word haran hope is in you Lord hope for better Malaysia but we wait on your promises and we as a church pledge no allegiance to any political party teach us to honor the government that comes into Power teach us to trust in you and whatever this country goes forward teach us to honor the government The Authority in place and to honor you for
00:03:35 you have put a government over us teach us to people who are strong who are resilient who have joy even though times may be uncertain and we say this in Jesus name amen good morning church I'm Joes one of the pastors here in F C I'm here to preach on Psalm 23 um the next few weeks you will see uh John preaching on Psalm 32 and then we enter into Advent with our other preachers today we're looking at Psalm 30 23 let's pray again can we pray again Lord would you help us today many are here with troubled Minds not just about
00:04:39 the election but things that are happening in our own lives Lord as we come before your word we are practicing what it means to sit under submission to submit to your word but your word is not just do this and don't do that your word offers comfort for us your word offers hope for us so Lord as gathered People Help Us fix our eyes fix our hearts fix our ears let us be attentive to you that we don't wait for news to comfort us but Lord we wait for we hear from you your good news and we uh we find comfort with find
00:05:30 contentment we find our confidence in your word in Jesus name I pray amen let's go um different preachers interpret the psalm differently um preachers who preach the whole Psalm focusing on God as the shepherd uh there are some who split into three parts God and Shepherd as guide and as host as you can see I will I chose to preach as God as Shepherd and host but however it is interpreted there's no diminishing who God is who God is to King David and who God is to those who trust him in this Psalm David is paying tribute to God and
00:06:20 he's inviting us to glory in God the beginning of the psalm starts with the Lord the end of the psalm starts with the Lord and in the middle there a phrase right in the middle you are with me the psalm is all about who God is and what he has done and what he does and as a result we have contentment Comfort confidence so with God David has contentment over anxiety Comfort over fear confidence over dist trust do you like these things do you like confidence comfort and contentment lean in and listen there is
00:07:12 good news here the Lord is my shepherd it's common in the in the ancient times for for the king to be called as shepherd He is ruling he is leading he's in charge over his people and in the Bible God also speaks of himself as Shepherd to his people the Sheep what is unique about uh Psalm 23 is David is saying the Lord is my shepherd my personal Shepherd and the only other person who has done it before David is Jacob in Genesis 48 and 49 when he was blessing his children and so just now the psalm we
00:08:04 read Psalm 46 the god of Jacob is my shepherd it is good to have a king and subject relationship with God that is proper and that is right we affirm that and the Psalms affirm that but David in this particular song he invites us to see that there can be a greater intimacy with God there can be a more intimate more dependent relationship with God it's a relationship of Like a Shepherd and sheep a sheep is completely dependant on his Shepherd you put a sheep in the wild you just gave nature a snack sheep are notoriously dependent
00:08:56 they they they cannot survive without a Shepherd a sheep sheep they they don't know how to look for food they don't know to find water holes that the Sheep um if they if they find grass here they'll eat all the grass that they can see and then they stay there they don't know where else to go and look for food and the the Sheep dies without the shepherd they need someone to guide them and lead them to area clear water and Good Grounds and David is saying that's why God does for me he leads me he gives me
00:09:33 rest he gives me everything I need that's why David say I shall not want I have everything I need I am contented so these two things David is saying I'm utterly dependent on God and in God I am contented I am contented can Malaysians say that can Malaysians say I am contented I feel like we we mostly say just enough is not good enough right the Chinese when they when they celebrate Chinese New Year they don't say Chinese New Year they say they say uh congratulate you on being rich right it's like Pro Proclaim
00:10:29 claiming Victory and wealth over you uh they say every year you have extra just enough is not enough we must have extra and in a way I I can understand because uh we we come from uh our our grandparents our parents they they went through War uh some some here went through May 13 you live through these times where there's scarcity where where apply right is it's hard to get where people face hunger and you know there's there's this worry right you you live through really tough times and and you're like you know
00:11:13 it's not enough you need to accumulate as much as you can so that you can have safety you you you learn that you cannot count on anybody you have to be independent you have to take care of yourself uh I know of a friend when they buy uh rice right they buy so much that go worms one worms growing and it's okay for them it's not important what is most important is that we have enough to survive in case whatever happened and we teach our children to do the same right we teach them to study hard and get the highest paying job
00:11:54 possible the jobs we say right is is must be higher paying one stable one the accountant the lawyer the the doctor the accountant and the accountant and the accountant everybody needs accountant no no this kind of follow your dreams nonsense you follow your dreams no you study you get a degree you start you work hard end of story why because we are not under a Shepherd we are under a shadow of a uh something is chasing us we we're worried if David's god promise US just enough we say no thank you we cannot
00:12:42 settle for just enough we need to hustle we need to need to gain and we need to earn and congratulations you did it KL ranks third in the most overworked city in the world we beat Singapore whoa finally we catch up to something who's the kiasu one now what's the result the result is we are more stressed than before you can see the chart there those who are 16 to 24 they say that uh 59% of them say that they are more stressful this year than the previous year and every generation says the same thing we are more
00:13:32 stressful this year than last year so let me ask you how is getting more working for you how is hustling and working hard working for you how is it we are overworked our families are neglected we are stressed we are sleep deprived which leads to many things uh dementia cancer we are inflicting wounds on ourselves because we feel that enough is not enough we need a Shepherd to restore our soul uh this this design I make myself I cannot cannot find a a picture like that uh but it's it's called a kip
00:14:30 uh uh when a a sheep eats too much or when the wool is too heavy or when it m steps it falls and there is a possibility where it turns over completely like this and it cannot stand on its own it cannot recover its position and uh what happens is poisonous gas builds up in it body and if left unattended the Sheep dies because of it he cannot flip over on its own under the hot sun within a few hours the Sheep dies doesn't it sound like us we overindulge in work we collect collect collect collect collect we neglect our spiritual health
00:15:28 we neglect our physical health slowly slowly will cause harm to ourselves and David is inviting us today come into the Sheep full come and and have this Shepherd who will take care of you just enough but it's all that you need learn to depend on him let him restore your soul I'm talking about money I'm talking about money Hebrews 13 verse5 keep your life free from the love of money and be content with what you have for he has said I'll will never leave you nor forsake you this is great book uh highly
00:16:04 recommend it's easy to read if I recommend means it's easy to read okay in this book this person uh outlines uh uh an article from the USA Today the title is religion may be a miracle drug the piece begins if one could conceive of a single Elixir to improve the physical and mental health of millions of Americans at no personal cost what value would our society place on it and the article outlines physical health benefits that correlate religious participation and for most Americans religious participation means going to
00:16:46 church okay reducing mortality by 20 to 30% over 15E period research suggests that those who regularly attend services are more optimistic have lower rates of depression five times less likely to commit suicide have a greater purpose in life less likely to divorce and are more self-control another atheist social psychologist observes surveys have long shown that religious Believers in the United States are happier healthier long lived and more generous to charity and to each other than our cirular people
00:17:28 there is something about living under the authority of God committing to following the Shepherd in community that has mental emotional and physical benefits the law of the Lord is perfect refreshing the soul Jesus say the words that have spoken to you our spirit and our life there's something about gathering together with believer hearing God's word and with the power of the Holy Spirit trying to follow in the footsteps of Jesus together with a community there is a healing that takes place in our
00:18:13 body follow the shepherd and find contentment don't work until you're so sick and then you use the money to pay for medical bills or the psychologist in God David finds contentment in God David finds Comfort now the comfort that we're hoping for is different than what David describes we're hoping for a holiday by the beach uh getting a nice massage By the Waters or snuggling in bed with Netflix but the comfort that David is talking about is comfort in the midst of trouble in the midst of difficulty it is
00:19:01 a greater more powerful comfort that transcends circumstances it is a more necessary Comfort isn't it wouldn't you say all of us need some comfort today a powerful Comfort because life is hard some people Imagine David writing this uh when he was a young Shepherd because of all this Shepherd uh imaginary um some people imagine that he was writing in his old age but most likely David is writing this Psalm in the Valley of the shadow of death when there's evil and when enemies surround there two hints to this first uh the
00:19:49 first three verses David is reflecting on past experience and he writes about what God does who he is based on his past experience in the last verse he writes about the future I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever here he writes about the present uh in the in the beginning verses he talk about he leads me right goodness and mercy will follow me in the last verse but here in the middle he says you are with me in other parts he's talking about God but here he's talking directly to God in the dark Valley for David life
00:20:36 was hard uh King Saul tried to kill him many times the Philistines pursued him his best friend died his his child died his favorite son rebelled against him uh his family life is a mess David had to flee for his life and we have many enemies means in our life also right don't we we have physical Illman mental illness accidents flood tragedies evil men and death we all face death our final enemy life on Earth is hard and when we hear David say the phrase I will fear no evil the reaction we feel is I I wish that there
00:21:29 was no evil to begin with I wish evil didn't exist in the first place so that I wouldn't even have to fear I wouldn't have to think about whether I should fear this evil or not we wish to live in a world where evil doesn't exist another easy book to read uh this book uh he goes through comprehensively you know about why evil and suffering exists uh Through the Bible explains as clearly as he can but he reached a point where he say he acknowledges that the Bible doesn't give a satisfactory answer
00:22:12 to the question of evil and suffering there's this aching in our hearts that's like why God why and he acknowledges this writer he acknowledges that God doesn't fully answer the question God doesn't fully answer the question and the reason is so he writes the final truth is that evil does not make sense sense is a part of our rationality that in itself is part of God's good creation and God's image in us so evil can have no sense because sense itself is a good thing evil has no proper place within creation
00:22:56 it has no V validity no truth no Integrity evil does not intrinsically belong to the creation as God originally made it nor will it belong to the creation as God ultimately redeems it evil is not there to be understood but resisted and ultimately expelled in in layman terms it's like this if you confront God and say God you make all these complaints and God why why why why does evil happen and God's answer is I know right it it shouldn't it shouldn't happen I agree with you evil shouldn't be there in in the darkest Valley as as a
00:23:41 pastor I know when when when someone is going through deep dark pain I I don't sit down with them and give a lecture of theology about you know you know this why happened but I just sit down with them and I'm I'm sorry for what's happening and I'm just there as a listening year right a a crying shoulder and that's what God ultimately offers to his people he doesn't provide us uh answers about why things are happening but he provides everything that we need to walk through it and first and foremost as
00:24:20 David outlines God provides his presence in the darkest Valley God Prov invit himself you are with me the greatest blessing that God can give to us is his presence you know why Heaven Is Awesome Heaven is awesome because God is there you know why people avoid hell because hell is the absence of God the the greatest blessing God can give us is his presence uh Moses and the Israel when they were when they they messed up they they made a a golden calf right and worshiped and and Moses came down the
00:25:07 mountain was angry them punish them and then God says you know what I I'll fulfill my promise I'll give you the promised land I help defeat all your enemies give you the land flowing milk and honey Prosperity safety but God says I won't go with you for you are stiff neck people if I go with you I cannot tah you and I will consume you and what did the people respond okay can G I don't need you if you give me all the money and all the security know okay I don't need you some of us might react that way the
00:25:49 Israelites as foolish as they were they responded with sackcloth and Ashes they mourned because they understood good that it doesn't matter what I have if I don't have God Moses say is if your presence will not go with me do not bring us up from here for how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight I and your people how shall I know that I have found favor in the sight of God it is not based on our material possession it's not based on our health it's not based on the circumstances we are put in
00:26:33 it's based on whether God is with us the presence of pain does not signify the absence of God no the opposite is true in the darkest Valley God is with you there's this story about uh a mother in the hospital and she just recently gave birth to her baby and and she was she was dying the doctor says that she was going to go and and she she was so desperate you know and she keep telling the doctor please let me bring my child along with me she was she was so stressed and so anxious and and she was out of her mind
00:27:20 that she was hoping that the child can go along with her for what for Comfort I don't want to go through this alone and the doctor was trying to explain to her uh the best that the doctor can do the doctor said the path that you are going is is there's only room for one but then another doctor step in and say no you're wrong the path that you're going there's room for two you and Jesus in the darkest Valley Jesus is there with us the Lord is near to the Brokenhearted and Saves The Crush in spirit many are
00:28:05 the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers them out of them all through the valley the trustworthy Shepherd stays with the Sheep Your Rod and your staff they comfort me how does the rod brings Comfort the rod is used for defense against predators God is saying I'm here I'll I will fight for you I will deal with the evils and the forces of evil one day I'll deal with them completely they will be removed completely every Injustice every evil deed every pain that you have to deal with I will punish
00:28:45 accordingly there will be a place where evil exists no more because of my rod with my rod I will make it happen that's why the rod brings comfort the staff the staff is used to pick up the sheep and to lead the Sheep onto the right path God is saying in the darkest Valley I will guide you I'll will guide you through you are walking through the valley of the shadow that it's not your final destination I'm leading you I'm guiding you in your right steps and uh there's this preacher who who who say um it's interesting that
00:29:27 David didn't say say Your Rod and your staff they embolden me it says they comfort me um sheep don't need courage to fight it's not like you know uh when when they hear Predators coming the wolf coming and then the shepherd says get ready to fight then the rod and the staff and then the Sheep is like oh I'm Ready the Sheep doesn't fight the Sheep doesn't need courage to fight they only need enough courage to trust the shepherd the the the shepherd leads them to the dark Valley the valley is where
00:30:08 the water is where the the grass is and the Sheep only need enough courage to keep eating keep trusting the shepherd because the shepherd fights for them and it's amazing that David says that because he fought Lions David fought Lions David fought bears David fought 10,000 men that's what they sing but here David is like a sheep because he knows that there are evils and there are troubles that life brings to us that we cannot fight it is out of our control is out of our hands we cannot do anything except
00:30:51 to trust and David says with your rod and your staff is enough your presence is with me in the valley God is with us as a trustworthy Shepherd and in the valley God is with us as a powerful friend in verse 5 David describes God as a powerful friend who welcomes him into his home and by extension under his protection the table signifies a victory Feast it's like your enemy is approaching but you are celebrating as though you have already won the battle that's the great assurance that David feels in the valley God has given
00:31:39 him a sense of hope a sense of Victory a sense of Peace even before the battle begins so from anxiety David feels comfort and that rises in him Joy because Victory is guaranteed the anointing of oil signifies that David feels that God has treated him not only as a refugee of War but a an a guest of high honor anointing all on the head signifies that this person is a VIP in my house the overflowing cup it signifies attention and Care the generosity of the po uh this this is Major Jeff strucker uh he he was portrayed in this famous
00:32:41 movie called blackhaw down and uh he was telling this story you can check it on YouTube it's right there Liberty University um he was on a rescue mission there was a mission that supposed to be done uh supposed to be a 30 minute job there was some error the the enemies found out shots are fired he was sent to rescue people and he his in his hanvey one person died on on the way and when they reach back the base right uh blood was all over the hve and then and then the the officer in charge say you need
00:33:22 to go back you need to save more people but before you go please please wash away the blood because if if people come in and sit in your humy and they see blood they'll get trauma for life so please wash away the blood and his base there's no running water so he take sponge and he take cloth and he goes Parks somewhere and he he washes it and as he washes it it starts to have a lot of fear you know and and he he was have that certainty I'm going to die I'm going to die my men are going to die because the literally
00:33:56 hundreds and thousands of bullets are flying and he's just completely sure that he's going to die and he was gripped with fear as he was washing the blood but then suddenly he he was reminded of something he read a few days ago he read about how Jesus was in The Garden of Gethsemane and and he prayed he prayed not my will but yours be done that Jesus was in the darkest Valley and he was he was gripped with fear he knew what was going to happen he say not my will but yours be done and immediately he this this major
00:34:38 he he had a great sense of Peace he knew that he knew that uh if he die he go home to be with with God if he don't die he go home to be his wife and child either way he win and suddenly a pieace after the whole mission the next day soldiers were lining up in front of his room he was like there's something different about you yesterday that I don't have there's some calm about you that you have that I don't have why and the next 24 hours he was sharing the gospel the good news of Jesus and how Jesus brought him peace in
00:35:22 such a terrible time that's a picture of what it means to have a table in the presence of my enemy there is a pool of resources in front of us to survive the dark Valley the promises of God the presence of the Holy Spirit his comfort his counsel the peace of God that surpasses all understanding The Fellowship of the Saints the Assurance of Victory those are the resources those are the things on the table that spread out before us Christian in our dark Valley that's why David could say I will fear no evil in
00:36:04 this dark Valley I find Comfort God does not promise we won't face difficulties in life he promised he will deal with it completely someday but now he promised I am with you and when you're when I'm with you you have everything you need to walk through this Valley so there's contentment in God there's comfort in God and now confidence so David looks back right and by the time he right and he's reflecting on the faithfulness of God over his life then God's give him rest refreshment restoration there's guidance and even in
00:36:56 this moment he send God's provision of Courage of comfort of protection there's hope there's peace there's even joy and and this overwhelming sense of blessing all around has David saying God is so kind to me God is so generous to me surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life there are enemies pursuing David right now but he says goodness and mercy will pursue me all the days of my life surely God will be loyal to me God surely God will be continuously generously kind and gracious towards me
00:37:47 and his last statement is I I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever I'm not just a guest here this this host is well coming me is loving me is giving me everything I need I don't feel like a guest here I feel like a child here I feel like a son here I'm I'm staying here forever that's how much this host loves me that's how much this host welcomes me I will have his presence provision protection forever how can I get that confidence that David had how can I get it I don't have the experiences that David had you
00:38:32 know in war when he was fleeing Absalon people just randomly drop him food is I I don't face that in I'm going through dark valleys now I don't sense god with me I want that contentment I want that Comfort I want that confidence that David has but I don't I want to experience God as my trustworthy Shepherd my powerful friend how do I get this Shepherd how do I get him so that I can feel contentment comfort and confident what did David do to get God as his trustworthy Shepherd and Powerful friend what did David do in the
00:39:21 psalm it says David did nothing absolutely nothing the psalm doesn't mention anything David does except receiving and responding I will not be in want I will not fear I will dwell in the house of the Lord there's nothing that David is doing actively in this relationship it's not a two-way transaction in this relationship with God no it's all Grace the psalm is all about what God does for David there's nothing David could have done any way to earn God's love and loyalty God graciously generously gave
00:40:06 to David and through David's Psalm God is inviting us he's telling us I'm giving God I'm welcoming you into my house all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one of us to his own way all of us were destined to walk through life alone all of us were destined for loneliness for lack for hustle none of us deserved God's love and provision because we keep refusing his leading we keep pushing him away but God being rich in Mercy he saw us like sheep without a shepherd He had compassion on us and he generously gave
00:41:05 again you know that verse for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son whoever believes in him will not perish you will not die in this Valley you will not die out of hunger you will have everlasting life whoever believes in the Sun what must I believe about Jesus what what must I believe about the son you must believe that Jesus is the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep the Ben can come Jesus the Good Shepherd comes and we know that in his life he hosts Feast when uh he called Matthew the tax
00:42:07 collector right he he held a fist when there was another tax collector on on the on the tree right says come down let's have a feast Jesus uh hosts feast in his life he's a good shepherd he's a friend at Host one night Jesus hosted a Passover feast for his seemingly closest friends we say clo seemingly closest because in that party one of them was about to betray him one of them is about to deny him the rest of them is going to abandon him in his darkest time and in that Feast nobody washed jesus' feet nobody
00:42:59 welcome him as guest of honor but he stooped down and washed all of their feet he even gave special honor to the one who is about to betray him he gave him special honor and then he broke bread he said this is my body broken for you and shed with them he took the cup and shed with them and this is the blood of the Covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sin God through Christ was making a covenant with us if you would believe if would trust in the blood Jesus was talking about what he
00:43:51 was going to do on the cross on the cross Jesus drank the Cup of Wrath the wrath of God upon punishment of sin sins that we committed the punishment that we deserve it fell upon Him Jesus drank the cup that's supposed to be for us so that he can serve us the cup of his blood for the Forgiveness of our sin Jesus faced death defeat the death by rising from the dead so that when we go to the valley it's just a shadow of death we are only walking under his shadow because Jesus ate with his enemies we now can have a feast of
00:44:40 Victory and celebration in the midst of our enemies if you're are unbeliever here today if you're watching on YouTube you are walking in the Valley of the shadow of death because the wages of sin is death and if you're walking through the the the valley right now without Jesus death will come and consume you the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus there's nothing you can do to earn his favor Jesus has paid it all you only need to receive you only need to admit that you
00:45:32 are a sheep that have gone astray you need to believe what the Good Shepherd has done for you and you need to follow [Music] him Believers today you don't feel the presence of God you're in the dark Valley you don't sense god with you you don't have that contentment that Comfort their confidence hear the voice of the shepherd today you are not alone I have not abandon you I am with you I will never leave you nor forsake you if you're facing sickness lifethreatening sickness and death is looming over you it is it is
00:46:21 unimaginable pain it is tough you feel like you're all alone and death feels big and huge and it is but remember that its effect has been greatly diminished your final enemy death his powers have waned in fact because of Jesus the great host death is just an usher at the door to welcome you into the house of the Lord how can can you be sure that you can trust this Shepherd through Dark Times Paul's answer is is this way Romans 8:32 he who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all how will he
00:47:10 not also with him graciously give us all things and one day you will walk out the Valley of the shadow of death for the lamb is in the midst of the throne will be their Shepherd and he will guide them to Springs of Living Water and God will wipe every tear from their eyes uh two groups of people here also there's a group here you're listening to this Psalm listening sermon and you're like yes I know him I know this Shepherd I know this God he has been with me he is with me and you're rejoicing and
00:47:57 later when we sing great is your faithfulness you're going to sing really loud because you believe you trust but I ask you also that you pray over people who feel like God is not there with them that they don't know the shepherd they don't experience him I I ask that you pray you pray for these people who feel lonely and Abandoned and I ask that you pray that the holy spirit will lead lead you later after service even when you're singing to to go to someone to pray with them to hear their story to be a crying shoulder
00:48:34 with them that you be the presence of God for them today let's stand and let's sing [Music] Great Is Thy Faithfulness oh God my father there is no shadow of turning with thee thou changest not thy Compass they fail not as thou has been thou forever will be great is thy faithfulness Great Is Thy Faithfulness morning by morning new mercies I see all I have needed th has [Music] provided Great Is Thy Faithfulness Lord unto me [Music] and win and spring time and harvest sun moon and stars in their hes join with all
00:50:48 nature in many for witness to thy great faithfulness mercy and [Music] love oh great is thy faithfulness Great Is Thy [Music] Faithfulness morning by morning you mercies I see [Music] all I have needed thy head and proide great is thy faithfulness Lord un [Music] me paron for s and the PE and endure th on give presence to cheer and to God strength for today and BR home for tomorrow blessings all M with thousands [Music] beside Great Is Thy Faithfulness Great Is Thy Faithfulness morning by morning new
00:52:49 mercies I see all I have need that thy hand provided Great Is Thy Faithfulness Lord un me oh great is thy faithfulness great is faithfulness morning my morning new mercies I see all I am needed done and and proide great is thy faithfulness Great Is Thy Faithfulness great is thy faithfulness Lord unto [Music] me after the benediction if you want to seek prayer you can come to the front and uh the the leaders the pastors the elders will be here to pray with you later if you go to the fellowship ship tables and I pray that the spirit
00:54:30 will lead you to have these conversations we just share about things that if you trust this person you can share about things that going on in your life I ask that you be a listening year your comforting uh presence for one another now may the God of Peace who brought again from the dead our lord Jesus the great Shepherd of the Sheep by the blood of the Eternal Covenant equip you with everything good that you may do his will working in us that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever
00:55:15 amen after a moment of silence meditation you can sit down after a moment of silence and quiet you may leave the hall services it's over
