All right, brother, before we
get started, I wanted to let you know that if anybody tries
to email me, my email is my outlook. I don't know what's wrong with
it. And I spent till 1 o'clock today with Microsoft support
controlling my computer, and we still didn't get it fixed. I won't be responding to you.
So if you send an email, that's why. And I have a bulletin ready,
but I don't know if I'll be able to send it. So anyway, there's
some things, though, I want to say to you. And we'll wait till
after the service. I had written an email to you.
That's when I discovered it was broke. So I'll just tell you
when the service is over. So if you just hang around a
little bit, just a few needs and things we could help some
brethren with. Isaiah chapter 41, Isaiah 41 You know, God's church, his children
have faced the same troubles in every age, in every age. Since the fall, sin's not getting
better and man's not getting better. And every generation
thinks it's the end because we see the things God says about
how it will be. It's this way in every generation,
and every generation thinks it's the worst it's ever been. But
there's just really nothing new. And I was thinking about the
troubles we faced when I first came here concerning the economy.
And here we are again. And it's just the same troubles
over and over and over. But here's the good news. Our
God's the same God, and he does not change. And everything that
comes to pass, he's ruling it. and working it out for His people.
So, our text was God's answer to Israel in that day, in their
day of trouble. It's still His answer to God's
weak, fearful children in our day. This is God Himself speaking,
speaking of His love to those He's chosen and called and made
to behold Christ. And if we believe God, if we
truly believe the Lord Jesus Christ, if He's given us a heart
to want to believe Him and serve Him for the cause of Christ and
to see His people called out and kept and grown and our own
selves, then this is God's Word to us. This is His Word to us.
This is command and His promise. Verse 10, Isaiah 41, 10. Fear
thou not. for I am with thee. Be not dismayed,
for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea,
I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand
of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and confounded, they shall be
as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou
shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended
with thee. They that war against thee shall
be as nothing, and as a thing of naught. For I, the Lord thy
God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, I
will help thee. My subject is Precious Promises
for Weak Worms. Precious Promises for Weak Worms. And this is God's command and
His promise to every sinner saved by His grace. If we know ourselves
to be weak worms, and we know that we're utterly dependent
on our God to save us, here's His word to us, verse 14. Fear
not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will help thee. saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel. Now let's start out up here in
verse 10, and let's get this first command and this first
promise our God gives us. He says in verse 10, Fear thou
not, I am with thee. Fear thou not, I am with thee.
Now over and over in scripture, We find the Lord commanding his
children, fear thou not. We find it repeatedly. God is
frequently speaking as a father, just like a father would to his
child, when we're fearful, when we're troubled, and he says to
us, fear thou not, fear thou not. And each time, the reason
He gives is who God is and what God is to us, what He's doing
for us. That's the reason He gives for
us not to fear. He doesn't just say, now don't
you fear. He says, fear thou not, and He
tells us who He is and what He is to us, and that's all the
reason for us not to fear. Look there in verse 10, fear
thou not, for I am with thee. Abraham is called the father
of the faithful. And when our Lord called Abraham,
called him out from his father's house, and he went out not knowing
where he was going, he just believed the Lord and he followed the
Lord. And Abraham faced a lot of mighty kings and a lot of
mighty enemies. He really did, but this is what
the Lord told him. The word of the Lord came unto
Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield and
thy exceeding great reward. He had helped destroy a heathen
king and some others to help Lot, and so he's going to have
some enemies. He's going to have some enemies,
and he had a lot of enemies all around him. But God said to him,
Abraham, fear not. I am thy shield. I am thy shield. I'm your protection. I'm your
refuge. I'm your protector. And Abraham had left all. He
left everything. He left everything. He left his
father's house. He left the life he knew. He
left the land he'd grown up in, the people he knew, and his possessions,
and he went out. as a stranger and a pilgrim in
this earth. And when that heathen king tried
to offer Abraham the spoils and enrich him, he turned him down.
But the Lord said to him, He said, Abraham, I am thy exceeding
great reward. I'm your shield and I'm your
reward. God promised Abraham himself. He promised him himself. He didn't
say, I will recompense you. He didn't say, I will provide
for you, though he would. He said to him, I am thy recompense. I am your reward. Is there anything
anybody, any believers ever given up in this world that God Himself
is not far, just Himself. Is He not far more enriched you
by you knowing Him than anything in this world you could give
up? He didn't say, Abraham, I'm thy reward. He didn't say, I'm
thy great reward. He said, I am thy exceeding great
reward. God Himself. Has Christ redeemed
His people? Yes, He has. Has the blood of
our Lord Jesus made us perfectly righteous in Him, the righteousness
of God in Him? Yes, yes it has. Has God blotted
out all the sins of His people, beginning and the end, so that
He remembers them no more? Yes, He has. And we're thankful
for that work of our Redeemer and what He's accomplished, God
our Father and His Son, and for revealing it to us through the
Spirit. We're thankful. We're very thankful for it. But
it's far more than that. It's God himself. It's Christ
himself. He is our shield. And he is our
exceeding great reward. You hear men talking about wanting
rewards in heaven. You hear men talking about expecting
God to give them something in heaven. That speaks volumes as
to what men really think of Christ himself. What more could he give
you? What better reward could you
have than Christ himself? Now, over and over, we hear God
give this command to his child based on this same promise. Fear
thou not, I am with thee, I am thy shield, I am thy exceeding
great reward. He said to Isaac, fear not, for
I am with thee. He said that in Genesis 26, 24.
He said to Jacob, I am God, the God of thy fathers, fear not
to go down into Egypt. He calls his children by name. calls us by name, calls us personally. And he speaks this word to us
and he makes this promise to us personally. And I do pray
he would speak to us personally tonight in our heart in power
and reveal to us, fear thou not, I am with thee. I am with thee. God is with his children without
fail. He's with His children without
fail. It's by His own grace that He's with us. It's by His grace. It's not due to anything in us.
He was with us in covenant mercy before the world was made. He
chose us because He was with us. Christ agreed to redeem us
because He was with us. He came forth in the fullness
of time and took part of our flesh to go to the cross and
redeem us because He was with us. You want to see if He's with
us? Look to the cross. He came and revealed it to us
through the preaching of the Word, didn't leave us just out
in the wilderness, sent the Gospel to us, drew us unto the sound
of the Word, spoke into our hearts, made us hear the Gospel. Why
did He do this? Because He's with us. He's with
His people. And He didn't do that to forsake
us. He sent His Spirit and He says
to you now in your heart, fear thou not, I am with thee. Listen
to this, this is what he said to the children of Israel. The
same words he's speaking to the children of Israel here, the
same words he's speaking to the children of Israel sitting right
here tonight. This is what he said, Deuteronomy 31.6, he said,
Be strong and of a good courage. Fear not, nor be afraid of them,
speaking of the enemy, for the Lord thy God He it is that doth
go with thee. He will not fail thee, nor forsake
thee. He said, and the Lord, he it
is that doth go before thee. He goes with you, and he goes
before you. And he said, and he will be with
thee. He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee. Fear not,
neither be dismayed. So any child of God that's fearful,
any child of God that's fearful, hear this command of our Lord.
He says, fear thou not. And when he speaks it and he
speaks it in the heart, that's when our fears are settled. And
the way he settles them is he makes us know, I am with thee. I am with thee. Look at this
second word. We know fear breaks us down. Fear breaks us down. It just
breaks you down. Are you broken down? Are you
weak because of fear? God says in verse 10, be not
dismayed. Verse 10, be not dismayed. Dismayed
means broken. It means to be weak due to fear. Be not dismayed. I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea,
I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of my righteousness. God knows his children are weak,
doesn't he? He wouldn't be saying this to us if he didn't already
know this about us. He knows it. He knows we're weak. He knows our hearts fail us.
He knows that we see troubles and we see the things about. He knows we have fightings within,
we have fightings without. He knows that we fall, he knows
we sorrow over those things, and he knows We're weak, and
He knows what His children are. He knows our frame. He remembers
we're dust. He knows our spirit's willing.
He gave us the spirit that's willing. But He knows the flesh
is weak. He knows this. Our Lord Jesus,
though, partook of it. He partook of our weak flesh.
Without sin, He came here and He was touched with the feeling
of our infirmities. He Himself hungered and thirsted
and He experienced all the weakness of our sinful flesh. When He
said the flesh is weak, He was speaking by experience. Yet He
never sinned. He never could sin. He would
not sin. He's God. But He knows it. And not only that, He's touched
with our infirmities when you have your weaknesses and your
troubles and your fears. He's touched even now with it.
But He's able to succor. He's able to comfort. He's able
to give us consolation and make it effectual in our hearts so
that we know all is in His hand and all is well. All is well. That's why He never tells us
to trust ourselves. He tells us to trust Him. He
never tells us, trust yourself. He says, trust Him. Cast your
care on Him. And what a promise. Be not dismayed,
I am thy God. Now let me ask you, how did God
become thy God? How did He become thy God? Did
you first love Him or did He first love you? Did you first choose Him or did
He first choose you? Did He choose you by free grace,
absolutely irrelevant to anything in you, anything done by you,
anything you'd ever do? And did He call you by that same
sovereign grace, or did He choose you because of something in you,
and you had a part in making yourself come to Him? It's altogether
the difference between free grace and works. The answer to that
question is the difference between will worship and worshiping God. The answer to that question is
the difference between whether God is thy God or we're our own
God. Now which one is it? Every child of God will say,
it was all of grace. Thank God it was all of grace. all of God's grace. Well, brethren,
because that's the case, you can look back up here now to
verse 8. Look there at verse 8. He says, Thou Israel, thou
art my servant, Jacob whom I've chosen, the seed of Abraham my
friend. That's who you are, child of
God. Jacob and ourselves, Israel in Christ, by faith in Christ,
by God giving you faith to believe, you are children of Abraham.
And look what he said, Thou whom I have taken from the ends of
the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said
unto thee, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and not cast
thee away. And because that's the case,
because Scripture says here in this love, not that we love God,
but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the mercy seat,
to be the propitiation for our sin. Because he said, blessed
is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto
thee, that he may dwell in thy courts, not just stay a little
while, not just frequent a little while, dwell in the Lord's house,
in his church, in his kingdom, with him forever and ever and
ever. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell
forever in the house of the Lord. We'll be satisfied with the goodness
of the Lord. Because He did all this by His
grace, and because He did all this by His grace, He won't forsake
us. Now, here's two extremes. I mean
two vastly, vastly different extremes right here. Here's our
utter weakness, you and me, just utterly weak, dismayed, broken
down in fear. Here's the power of the great
I Am, our God and our Savior. Two opposite extremes. And we
suit each other perfectly because we are weak and need God to save
us. And because God has purposed
to make his glory known and his power known to us in his salvation
by saving us in spite of our utter weakness. We suit each
other. God is going to bring all the
glory to Himself by saving His people and do it by making us
see He did it all so that those He saves are absolutely, utterly,
weakness. Fit each other. We fit each other. But the truth is most are not
weak enough for God to save them. That's the truth. Most in this
world are not weak enough for God to save them. They talk about
their weakness and, you know, they're just so fearful they're
such a sinner that God won't save them. That's not the problem.
That's not the problem. They're not weak enough for God
to save them. We never are until God shows us we are the sinner. Not just that we've done a few
bad things. Not just that we've thought a few things or done
a few things. No, we are the sinner. Come short
of the glory of God. We've got to find out what that
is. We are the sinner. Eat, sleep, breathe, sin. When we're sleeping, we're sinning. God has to bring us down to the
very dust of our depravity, to our utter helplessness to see
that all we are is sin. It's thinking ourselves strong.
It's not our weakness. It's thinking ourselves strong.
It's not our weakness. It's thinking ourselves strong
that is our hindrance and our stumbling block all the time. Why does God rule things the
way he does? To bring you into a place where
you are utterly helpless to do anything about it. To show you
he's not. He never has been. You've always
been helpless. He never has been. Never has
been. But it's only the weak that God
saves. The weaker the better. The weaker
you are, the weaker you see yourself, the more you're going to see
He's all your salvation. That's how He's going to manifest His
glory. That's how He's going to make us behold Christ as all
our strength. He giveth power. Look back there
at Isaiah 40 and look at verse 29. He giveth power to the faint. That's all He wants. That's all
He wants. To them that have no might, He
increases strength. That's all He wants. He has to
make us see that. We're so helpless to even see
that we're helpless, that he has to show us we're helpless.
See, show us we have no mind. You know, we can hear this, and
we hear this priest, and we hear it declared, and we say amen. Let somebody tell you to you
personally. Let somebody say something to
you personally that really cut you. We'll see how proud we are,
how strong we are. We'll fix that. And the Lord
has to just keep showing us. Keep showing us again. Surely
shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength. In the Lord. Nowhere else. That's what He's showing us,
brethren. That's what He's teaching us. He's showing us our weakness
and He's showing us His strength. And exactly, that's exactly what
He showed the Apostle Paul. And what did He say? He said,
when I am weak, then I am strong. We got this thing, we got this
thing, we got it wrong. You know, we
see God put his hand on his people and we see him give them a disease,
we see him take a loved one, we see him chasing, however it
is. What's he doing? Showing us the
greatest thing he could ever show us. That we're absolutely
weak. and that he is our strength.
That's a blessing. That's a great blessing. You
want God to bless you? You pray, Lord, please, please
bless us. That's the greatest blessing
we could give us. And what happens when that happens? Oh, we start
pining, Lord, what you doing to me? You asked me to bless
you. I'm blessing you. I'm showing
you, showing you what you are and showing you who I am. Great
blessing. Great blessing. Look how he addresses
those he saves there in verse 14. Verse 14, he says, Fear not
thou worm, Jacob. It would have been enough for
God to call his elect Jacob. But he calls us thou worm, Jacob. Sunday we were going out to the
cars and Brother Rob sold in Job and I noticed him fiddling
with something in the parking lot. I looked down there and
it was an earthworm. Little slimy, helpless earthworm. And Rob was just, he could turn
that little earthworm wherever he wanted to turn him. That earthworm
had no strength whatsoever. Just an earthworm. But the word here is maggot. It's maggot. One that came from
death, born from death, one that feeds on death, one that loves
death. A maggot. It'd have been bad
enough to call us a slimy earthworm. God said, maggot. Now, maggot
Jacob. But our sinless substitute absolutely
took the place of his chosen worms. He came to where we are,
and when He went to that cross, and He took the sin of His people,
and God poured out the curse on Him, and God forsook Him.
That's the curse. He forsook Him on that cross,
and our Lord is suffering everything that you and me and all His people
deserve to suffer. He's suffering it on the cross.
And he cried out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And he justified God, he vindicated God, and he did so declaring,
here's why, thou art holy, and I am a worm and no man. How dare anybody say that about
the sinless Lord Jesus? How dare we not say it? Because
that's how real he took the place of his people. That's how real,
that's what it took to satisfy divine justice. An exact substitution,
an absolute substitution. Him absolutely taking the place
of His people. And that's what Christ did on
the cross. So, when God calls you, thou
worm Jacob, our Lord Jesus who redeemed us knows what it is
to be the worm. That's how come He's able to
comfort us in all our worminess. And so this is what he promises
us. Be not dismayed, I am thy God. Who's your God, believer? Who is he? Verse 14, he says,
Fear not, thou worm, Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help
thee, saith the Lord, the Sovereign over heaven and earth. and thy
Redeemer. The same One who created all
things, the same One who upholds all things, the same One who's
ruling everything and bringing everything to pass, came here
and took our flesh and went to the cross and redeemed us from
all iniquity. The Holy One of Israel. That means your Holy One. The Holy One of you. That's who
He is. He's the God of His people, the
Redeemer of His people, the Holy One of His people. Not only are
you His purchased possession, redeemed by His blood, He is
your possession. He's thy God. I am thy God and
thy Redeemer. I'm the Holy One of Israel. I'm yours, He's saying. What does thy God and thy Redeemer
and thy Holy One promise you? What does He promise you? Look
at verse 10. I will strengthen thee, yea,
I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand
of my righteousness. This is how He does it. If He's
speaking this word into your heart right now, And you're being
comforted and strengthened and upheld. It's by His Word because
this is how He does it. It's His promises He's given
and He'll have us preach and declare that He speaks in the
heart of His people and makes us hear it affectionately and
know He's your God. And this is how He strengthens
you and this is how He makes you fear not. And no maybes here
in this promise. No maybes. Just I will, I will,
I will. Most of you know this, we sing
How Firm a Foundation. Do you know that the second verse
is verse 10? That's where it came from. Here's
how we sing it. Fear not, I am with thee, O be
not dismayed, for I am thy God, I will still give thee aid. I'll
strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, upheld by
my gracious, omnipotent hand. Comes straight from verse 10.
And the third verse comes from Isaiah 43, one through four or
five. You go through the rivers, they
won't overflow you. You go through the fire, it won't
burn you. I'm just purging your draws. Showing you who I am. So here's the third thing. Are
you fearful of enemies? Every elect child of God, are
you fearful of enemies? Trust every enemy to God. He says in verse 11, Behold,
all they that were sensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded.
They shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall
perish. Thou shalt seek them and shall not find them. Even
them that contended with thee, they that war against thee, shall
be as nothing and as a thing of naught. For I, the Lord thy
God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear not, I
will help thee. Be sure to get this, brethren.
The enemy It's not our brethren. You know, back when Brother Henry
had the first conference back in the 50s, and there just was
no, you couldn't find people in this country that believed
Sovereign Grace. They were few and far between. It wasn't like
it is today. And they had five preachers at
that conference that had a lot of differences, but they had
this one thing in common. the gospel of Christ and Him
crucified. They knew Christ was all. And because it was so rare
to have somebody that preached the gospel, they were willing
to lay aside their differences to have the gospel. And when
things are good, and everything's going well, and God's blessed
His church, we don't have any enemies. We just have a bad habit
of making them. within our own ranks. Your brethren
are not your enemy. Your brethren are not your enemy.
I know we have disagreements and I know sometimes we say things
we shouldn't say and what have you. Your brethren are not your
enemies. They're not. God will correct
and keep his saints, but never ever think one for whom Christ
died is the enemy. They're not. Sometimes even those
who appear to be the enemies, who are, as far as in their unregenerate
state, who are the enemies, just like Solitarfuses, God shows
actually He everlastingly loved them and brings them to join
with us. What I'm saying to you is, trust
your enemies to God. Trust all your enemies to God.
Now the devil and his seed and the prepubescent world and wickedness,
foul, God-hating people that would separate us from God, they're
the enemy. God may have some people among
us. But as far as we can tell, that's the enemy. He knows, though. He knows the devil's desire.
He knows we live in a hostile world. Christ knows that the
devil's desire is to separate us from the love of God in Christ.
And the way he's going to do that is try to divide and conquer. We live in a day where that is
the way of man, far and wide, divide and conquer. And we need,
in this day and time, we need to seek for peace. We need to
seek for peace. If I had my way, there'd be peace. I can't help it. But we need
to seek for peace. You can only do that within the
bounds that are set for you, but you do it within those bounds. And if God opens those bounds,
you pursue it with all your heart. But we need to seek peace. And when you can't do anything
to speak a word to one another, pray for one another and wait
on the Lord. But he's going to protect his
people from those that are the true enemy. No enemy can do anything
but what God permits. He can't do a thing. And the
Lord will not permit him to separate his people from the love of God
in Christ. He won't do that. Christ crushed the serpent's
head on the cross. He destroyed every enemy his
people have, sin, death, and hell. And the last enemy he's
going to destroy for you and me is our sinful flesh when it
goes back to the dust. The enemy we need to be most
concerned about is the one we look at in the mirror. But God's not going to let any
enemy separate you from Him. He's just not going to. He promises
His saints will never be ashamed or confounded for trusting Him.
But He promises those that are incensed against His people shall
be. That's what he said there. They'll be confounded. They'll
be ashamed. He promises every enemy of his
people shall be as nothing and as a thing of naught. If God
be for us, who can be against us? We don't ever want to go
up against God's people. Ever. The enemy accounts us as
sheep for the slaughter. But God says, no, you're not.
You are more than conquerors through Christ that loved us.
That's his word. Now to you who are weak and you're
fearful and you're dismayed and you're broken over fear, hear
this all again now. Hear what God said. Do you feel
alone? He says, I am with thee. God's our refuge. He's our strength,
a very present help in trouble. He's with His church. So we won't
fear though the earth be removed and the mountains be cast into
the sea. He said, I'm with you. Does it appear to you you don't
have any possessions in this earth? You know, we get this
bad idea of thinking, well, I'm going to follow the Lord and
I'm going to give to His cause. I'm going to do all these things
for the Lord. And then the Lord just takes from you and takes
from you and takes from you. And you end up thinking, well,
I did. I did. I was trying to do this for you,
Lord, and now here I am poor. He's our possession. He's our
possession. God's our refuge and He's our
possession. And He says, I'm thy God. I'm thy God. He's your inheritance
and you're His. Are you dismayed? Are you cast
down? Are you broken? Are you weak? Are you fearful?
Let the devil breathe his fire all he wants to. God says, I'll
strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. And he
will. He will. The Lord will give strength
unto his people. The Lord will bless his people
with peace. Are you falling? Do you feel
like you just can't hold up? He promises, Yea, I'll uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Christ already
went to the cross and upheld his people. He's the right hand
of God. He upheld us with his righteousness
at Calvary's cross. He will uphold thee with his
right hand of righteousness and keep you. Keep you. Do enemies
make you fearful? Listen to Zephaniah 2.8. God
said, I've heard the reproach of Moab, the revilings of the
children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people and
magnified themselves against them. I've heard it. That's enough. God's heard it. God promises
they that strive with thee shall perish, they shall be as nothing
and they shall be as a thing of naught. Listen to what he
said. Look at Isaiah 51 verse 12. Isaiah 51, 12. I, even I, am
he that comforteth you. Who art thou that thou shouldest
be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the Son of Man which
shall be made as grass? And forgettest the Lord thy Maker
that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations
of the earth. Be still, he said, and know that
I am God. I'll be exalted among the heathen.
I'll be exalted in the earth. Leave the enemy to the Lord. Leave them to the Lord. So whatever
you do, look back now to Isaiah 8. Here it is, right here. See,
when we're fearful of anything and anybody in this world, we're
glorifying that thing and that person. We're saying they're
more powerful than God. We're fearful they can do much
more harm than God. And that's dishonoring to the
Lord. So the Lord says this to us. Fear not. I am thy God. Now listen to what he says. Isaiah
8, 13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts Himself. See Him set apart. See Him as
who He is. See Him high and above all. And
let Him be your fear. Reverence Him. Trust Him. And
let Him be your dread. You don't want to offend Him.
And he shall be for a sanctuary. That's God's promise to us, brethren.
Does that cheer your heart? Does that make you glad? Does
that make you happy? Anybody? It does me. It does me. Amen. Father, thank you for this word.
Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your grace. Thank
you for your precious promises. Thank you for keeping us ever
mindful that we are worms. We need to be saved. We need
to be kept. We need to be instructed. Lord,
make good on your word. Make good on your word. We trust you to save us from
ourselves and from from our sin, from every enemy,
we look into you, Lord. Keep us in peace, keep our hearts
set on you, keep us fearful of none but you, who are the one
and only one to fear. Keep us knowing that's not a
legal fear, but a reverence and a desire to please you and honor
you. Lord, we ask you to be with our
brethren, with Brother Cyril, and help him to recuperate and
be with Lenore as she tries to help him and nurse him. And Lord,
we pray for our brethren who are suffering in sickness, and
Brother Dee and his family. We pray, Lord, for Brother Larry,
Chris, and that you help them. Be with our brethren who have
lost loved ones, Sister Shelby and Sister Doris and other ones
who are alone. Lord, we pray you would keep
them and keep them not being fearful. Keep them looking to
you. Keep them knowing that you're
always with your people, always providing, and that you never
fail. Thankful Lord, you are our God,
our helper and our provider. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen.