Alright brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to Romans 15. Romans chapter 15. I've been wanting to preach from this
for quite a while and finally, I believe the Lord will give
me the liberty to preach it, I intend to preach it now. Now
in chapters 14 and 15, the Apostle Paul exhorted you and I as God's
saints to receive our weak brethren, to receive those that are weak
in the faith. And he exhorted us to do this
without doubting and without disputing with them. He exhorted
us to follow after things which make for peace with one another,
with our brethren, especially our weak brethren. He exhorted
us to follow after things wherewith we may edify one another, to
bear their infirmities, just to bear with one another, especially
a weak brother, a brother who is overcome with infirmities,
or doesn't understand liberty in Christ, what have you, we're
to bear with a weak brother. We're to please our brethren
rather than ourselves. Try to help them rather than
ourselves, especially a weak brother. And then in our text
now, Paul declares the only way that you and I are going to be
able to do this, the only one way that we'll be able to do
what God has exhorted us to do in these chapters 14 and 15. And he says here, Romans 15,
13, Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of
the Holy Ghost. Now Paul has not changed the
subject here. He's still dealing with the same
subject. In fact, in the next verse, he's going to talk about
having confidence that Roman brethren were filled with all
goodness and knowledge so that they could admonish one another
in these things. So he hasn't changed the subject
here. He's telling us the only way
that you and I are going to be able to do these things that
he's exhorted us to do is if the God of hope fill us with
joy and peace and believe in Christ and trust in Christ so
that our hope in Christ will be in Christ that he will be
the one who will teach and correct and make to stand our weak brethren. And this will be through the
power of the Holy Spirit that will be filled with this peace
and joy and hope. I've titled this, We Must Be
Filled. Now, it's very simple. I'm just
going to take the three parts here from this verse. Look, first
of all, what does Paul pray God fill us with? He says, now the
God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. And then why do we need those
things? Why do we need to be filled with
that? That you may abound in hope. And then thirdly, how does
God fill us with these things? He says, through the power of
the Holy Ghost. Now, if we would trust our brethren
to Christ, if we would be patient with one another and bear with
one another and try to edify one another, if we would not
use, exercise our liberty in front of a weak brother, but
we would try to edify them and trust them to Christ. The only
way we're going to be able to do that is if we have what Paul
prayed for here. He said, now the God of hope
fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Now that's a beautiful
name for our God, the God of hope. He's the God of hope. Back up in verse 5, he called
him the God of patience and consolation. In verse 33, he calls him the
God of peace. Now this is God's name because
these are the things God fills his people with. He fills us
with hope and patience and consolation and peace. God must do the filling. He must do the filling. He must
fill us with these things. Now, concerning back in Exodus,
concerning those that just had physical gifts, God filled them. He said in Exodus 28 3, God said,
Thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have
filled with the spirit of wisdom. And here's what he was talking
about. Them hath he filled with the wisdom of heart to work all
manner of work, the engraver and the cunning workman, the
embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen, the
weaver, even of them that do any work of those that devise
cunning work. Those abilities to engrave and
to embroider and to do all those physical things, God filled them
with the wisdom to do that. So if it takes God giving those
kinds of gifts, then we know when it comes to spiritual gifts,
God is going to have to fill us with hope and patience and
consolation and peace. God's going to have to fill us
with those things. We can't fill ourselves, nor can we fill one
another. God has to do it. Now, he asked
here for joy and peace. Joy and peace are two of the
three things that the kingdom of God's made of. You look back
up at Romans 14 in verse 17. He says the kingdom of God's
not meat and drink. It's that kingdom of God's not
about the external. It's not about what you eat or
drink or do or don't do externally. That's not salvation. That's
not the kingdom of God. But righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Ghost. And do you remember why Paul
made that statement? He made that statement because
if we have these things, if we're filled with joy and peace and
righteousness in heart, in Christ, by the Holy Ghost, then we will
be able to not exercise our liberty. We'll be able to restrain ourselves
from exercising our liberty so as not to hurt our brethren.
Go back up there and read Romans 14 and look at verse 15. He says,
if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, if you're eating or
drinking or putting something in your mouth that's causing
your brother trouble, then you're not walking charitably, not being
loving. Destroy not him with thy meat.
You have liberty to eat these things, but don't destroy your
brother. That's somebody for whom Christ died. He says, let
not then your good be evil spoken of. It's good that you have this
liberty, but don't let men speak evil of it. Now watch what he
says, for the kingdom of God's not meat and drink, but righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. He that in these things
serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men. Let
us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and
things wherewith one may edify one another. So that's why Paul
is saying we need to be filled with joy and peace in believing. If we have joy and peace, we'll
be able to not try to force one another to walk as we think they
ought to walk. We'll be able to trust them to
Christ if we have this joy and peace and believe in Christ.
Now, true joy and true peace is of God. It's not of man, and
it's not something you're going to find in carnal things. We're
not talking about carnal joy and temporal peace. Solomon said,
even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that
mirth is heaviness. You look at the world around
us right now. A few months ago, men that had great peace and
great joy in worldly things and temporal things, they don't have
that peace and joy right now. It's gone, and they have fear
right now, and sorrow, and just don't know what's gonna happen.
Everything that this world gives concerning joy and peace, it's
never gonna last. John said, it's gonna perish
with the lust thereof. Everything in this world's coming
to an end. And if you meet God outside of Christ, and all you've
ever pursued is the joy and peace of this world, then you have
to stand before the all-consuming God without Christ. Then you'll
face true heaviness. true heaviness, the heaviness
of an all-consuming God. But the joy that we're talking
about here is the joy God gives, and that's satisfying joy. That's
satisfying joy. It comes from Christ, and it
comes from what he's accomplished for us. The psalmist said, my
soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth
shall praise thee with joyful lips. When I remember thee upon
my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches. When it comes
to the night time and you're laying there in your bed and
you're thinking on Christ and thinking about what he's done,
what he's accomplished for you, there's where you have real joy
and you're satisfied. Satisfying joy. Every unregenerate
sinner in this world is seeking joy and peace in the things of
this world and in the things they do with their own hand,
by their own hand. We have broken God's law, so
we can't find joy and peace in trying to keep God's law. It
would be good if we could keep it, but we can't keep it. And
so we can't find joy and peace there. We can't find joy and
peace in external observances of religion. Not the joy and
peace Paul's talking about. Religion, if it's true religion,
it's of God. It's given to us through the
blood of Christ, through the Holy Spirit. It's from a heart
made new by God. But we still then, we don't joy
and find peace just in the external observances. Those are just means
by which we worship Christ. There's where our joy and our
peace is. Multitudes are seeking joy and peace right now in the
desires of the flesh and of the mind. They're ambitious for this
world, ambitious for things that they get in this world, and they're
never content. They never have true joy, never
have true peace because they're never content. It takes God teaching
us in our heart that Christ is all our salvation. And when he
does that, then Christ will be our only desire. Our only desire
will be Christ. That's the only way we're going
to cease lusting after the things of this world. That's the only
way we'll cease trying to be ambitious for this world and
be content with such things as God has given us. Contentment
is in knowing we have all in Christ. And that's when you desire
Christ and you don't have the desire you had in your flesh
for this world. Now, good works are good. Don't
misunderstand me. Good works are good and it's
good to Assembled together, it's good to observe ordinances. It's
good to enjoy the things of this life that God gives. But joy
and peace are not in those things themselves. That's not where
our joy and our peace is. God fills his child with joy
through his word. Through his word. Not just the
mere reading of the word. That's not where our joy and
peace is. It's in Christ who's revealed through this word. Our
Lord said, search the scriptures for in them you think you have
eternal life. Some people just like to read the word. And I
think by reading the word they have life. Christ said, they
are they which testify of me. That's who the word teaches us
of, teaches us of Christ. This word, through this word,
the way we're gonna be given joy and peace is God teaches
us that when Christ came to this earth, when he came into this
world, When he took flesh, like unto his brethren, in the likeness
of God's elect, he took our place. He became us. He really took
our place. So that he lived as our head
and representative, and we were in him and did what he did. You
think, this is how truly God looked only to Christ when he
walked this earth. Who did God look to as the head
and representative in the garden? look to Adam. You say well there
was nobody else in existence at that time. Nobody was doing
anything at that time. So God only looked to Adam. That's
how real God only looked to Christ when he walked this earth too.
Like there was nobody else but just Christ. That's how real
he took the place of his people. That's what this word teaches
us. This word teaches us that Christ honored the law on behalf
of his people. He gave the law everything it
it demanded, even death, and thereby he honored the law. In
God's elect, each of us who were chosen by God, we have a substitute,
brethren, who bore, in our room instead, who bore the very wrath
of God for us, so that he really did satisfy justice. He really
did satisfy justice. He died in place of his guilty
people. And when he died at the hand
of divine justice, we died in him. So our old man of sin has
been crucified. Justice has been poured out.
Judgment has been settled. The wages of sin is death and
we have died in Christ. That's what the word teaches.
That's where true joy and peace is. This word teaches us that
when Christ arose from the dead, we arose in Christ to newness
of life. We entered into Heaven's glory
with Christ, together with Him. We entered into the holiest of
holies together with Christ. And when Christ sat down, we
sat down together with Christ at God's right hand. And there's
where our life is hid right now, at God's right hand in Christ
the Lord. And so the Spirit of God makes
His child eat this word. He makes us live upon this word
by faith. Well, like Jeremiah, he said
in Jeremiah 15, 16, thy words were found, and I did eat them,
and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart,
for I'm called by thy name, O God, O Lord God of hosts. That's where
the joy is and the rejoicing is, the peace is. God makes you
eat this word, he makes you You eat to have life. You eat
bread to have life. He makes you eat this word just
like common bread. And when you do, he gives you
life by it. And the rejoicing is you find
out I'm wearing his name. I'm his child. I'm his son. That's
the rejoicing of our heart. That's joy and peace. Our joy
and our peace is knowing that what Christ accomplished for
his people, we accomplished in him. We really did accomplish
what he accomplished. That's true joy and peace. Free
from the law, oh happy condition. There's our joy and our peace.
We're free from the law. That's a happy condition. Jesus
hath bled and there's remission. Cursed by the law, bruised by
the fall, Christ hath redeemed us once for all. Turn over to
John 14. This is what our Lord Jesus was
talking about. that he was giving to his people.
Right here in John 14 verse 27. He was on his way to the cross
to accomplish all this and he says right here in John 14 verse
27. Peace I leave with you. We're
talking about God giving us joy and peace in believing. Christ
says peace I leave with you. My peace. We're not talking about
the peace of the Lord. My peace. Give unto you, it's
free. He paid everything in order to
give this gift to us freely. My peace, I give unto you. Now listen carefully, not as
the world giveth, give I unto you. So he says to us, let not
your heart be troubled. We don't have anything to be
troubled about. We got the joy and peace of Christ,
our full, complete salvation, our acceptance with God. Let
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Christ gives
us his joy and his peace one way. Paul said he prayed that
God would fill you with joy and peace in believing. If you look
at 1 Peter 1, here it is, 1 Peter 1 verse 8. Whom, he just spoke of Jesus
Christ, he says, whom, having not seen, ye love. You love him. Don't you? You
love Christ. We don't love him as we ought,
we don't love him as we want to, but we do love him. We haven't
seen him, not with physical eyes, but we love him. In whom, though
now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable. Full of glory, receiving right
now, We receive right now through faith the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls. That's our rejoicing. That's
our peace in believing on Christ. And so Paul doesn't ask for dreams
and visions and some great experience for these brethren at Rome. He
asked God to give them faith in Christ. And that's how God's
gonna fill us with joy and peace. It's in believing on Christ.
Now, when God gives faith in Christ, then Christ turns our
fears and our sorrows into joy and happiness and to peace. How
so? Because through faith, God imputes
to us perfect righteousness. We have the perfect righteousness
Christ worked out for us. That's our joy. That's our peace. We have, through believing on
Christ, we have perfect holiness. Christ is our perfect holiness
with God. Believing on Christ, we find
we have perfect acceptance with God in the beloved. Now that's
joy, that's peace. We find that Christ really paid
all the debt we owe so that we owe nothing else to the law of
God, nothing to the justice of God. Through faith, we can sing,
it's well with my soul. That's why Christ said, don't
be afraid, don't let your heart be troubled, it's well with my
soul. If it's well with your soul,
It don't much matter what happens with these bodies in this world. Not much. That's why God says
in the word, whatever comes to pass against you, whatever God
brings to pass in your life, they never hurt God's people.
Never hurt you. Even if you was burned at the
stake, it hasn't hurt you because everything's well with your soul.
And that's what matters. That's what matters. And so Isaiah
61, if you want to turn there, I'm going to read this quickly.
But Isaiah 61, here it is. This is our joy. This is our
peace right here. Isaiah 61, verse 10. I will greatly
rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my
God. For he hath clothed me with the
garments of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe
of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. And then Paul
says in Romans 5, he says, therefore, Romans chapter 5, he says, therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand and we rejoice, we have joy in hope
of the glory of God. Now here's the point of Paul
praying for this. If we're filled with all joy
and peace in believing, if we're filled with this joy and this
peace in believing on Christ, then knowing that God did all
the filling, knowing God did it all, knowing Christ did everything
to give us this joy and peace, then we can trust one another
to Christ, can't we? If you have this joy and peace
in believing on Christ, through faith in Christ, then you can
joyfully, peacefully trust your weak brother to Christ to make
him stand and know that he's able. And he will, because you
know what God did for you. Now secondly, it's because of
the reason that Paul prays that we be filled with joy and peace.
It's this reason right here. Here's the reason he prayed for
that. And this is what we need. He says, verse 13, that ye may
abound in hope. When I have the joy and peace
of what Christ has already accomplished for me, I have this peace and
joy of knowing what he's already accomplished on my behalf. that
I have a good hope of what he shall accomplish for me. I have
a good hope of what he shall accomplish, and not only for
me, but for who else? For my weak brother. For my weak
brother. Our hope for the future is in
believing that God has purposed our end from the beginning. You
believe that? You believe God's purposed your
end from the beginning? He said in Jeremiah 29 11, I
know the thoughts I think towards you, saith the Lord. thoughts
of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end, there's
where you have hope. God's already determined my end
and he remembers what my end shall be. He's purposed it. Our
hope is in our covenant keeping God. Not only does God purpose
what he'll do for me and promise what he'll do for me, God never
ceases to keep his covenant promise. Psalmist said, thou art my hope,
O Lord God. When we see, O Lord God, Lord
God, that's the covenant keeping God. You're my hope, my covenant
keeping God. We hope in the Lord because of
this. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there's
mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption. Now think about that. This is our hope. We hope in
the Lord because with the Lord there is mercy, and with the
Lord there's plenteous redemption. Our hope in the Lord is that
God never ceases to shower His children in mercy. His mercies
are new every morning. Now, if I have this hope in God
that His mercies are new every morning, that He will not cease
to shower mercies on His children, if I have this hope in me, then
I'm going to be able to trust my weak brother to Christ. Because
I have hope God's going to shower him in mercy. in God is that his redemption
is plenteous redemption. That means he redeemed all his
elect. That's plenteous redemption.
He redeemed all his elect, a number no man can number, including
my weak brother. If I have this hope in his plenteous
redemption, I know he redeemed my weak brother. He's bought.
He's Christ. Christ poured out his blood for
him. I'll hope in God concerning him. He redeemed his elect from
all sin. That's plenteous redemption.
He redeemed us from all sin. That means whatever sin I detect
in a brother or sister, God redeemed them from it. Christ redeemed
them from it. He purchased them. He put away
their sin forever. Can I not hope in God to turn
that brother from his sin? If God loved him from everlasting
so much that he sent his son and redeemed him from all his
sin, and I have this hope in God that his redemption's plenteous. Can I not hope in God for my
brother? He redeems us from the law. He
redeemed us from his curse, from his condemnation, and my weak
brother's included in that redemption. So if I abound in hope, if I'm
abounding in this hope of God's plenteous redemption, I can hope
in God to deliver him. You see why Paul's asking this?
See why he's praying, God, fill us with peace and joy and believing
that we might abound in hope? Where? Hoping God toward our
brethren, for one another. Now since all this, is in Christ,
and he's the anchor of our soul. Scripture says, which hope we
have is an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which
hope entereth into that within the veil, where the forerunner
is for us entered. Jesus made a high priest after
the order of Melchizedek. If my soul's anchored in hope
in God, and my hope is Christ, who's entered into the holiest
of holies, then rather than trying to pull out the whip of the law,
And rather than trying to force my brother to do what he ought,
can I not go to Christ, my hope, and abound in hope that Christ
will make him stand? Then I'll be happy. Then there'll
be some happiness between me and my brother. How do you know
that? Because it said, blessed is the
man that trusts in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is. In every
way you can think of of being happy, including the relationship
between me and my brother, I'm going to be happy because I'm
trusting in the Lord and I'm hoping in the Lord concerning
my brother. Are you saying, preacher, we
ought never admonish one another? No, we're going to talk about
that in the next verse, in another sermon. But I'm saying, first
of all, If we have this joy and peace in believing, we trust
Christ. We have hope abounding in Christ,
we trust Him to Christ. And what are we hoping for? What's
our hope? Paul said we hope for the glory
of God. We have the hope of the glory
of God. What does that mean? You ever take a phrase like that
and just look at it? The hope of the glory of God. One day, soon, we're gonna see
God We'll see our Redeemer in all His glory. That's the hope of the glory
of God. We're going to see Him. Right
now we see the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus by faith.
Our hope is one day we're going to see the glory of God in the
face of our Redeemer face to face. Job said, I know that my
Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon
the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself.
Mine eyes shall behold, not another, though my reins be consumed in
me. Paul said, now we see through a glass darkly, and we do, and
we need to remember that about one another. I was talking to
a brother this week, we was talking about and how we look back sometimes
on pastors in the past, and you just see how far they missed
it on a certain doctrine. And he said, you reckon people
are gonna look back on us in 200 years down the road and say,
boy, they missed it. I said, yeah, you better believe they
will. We see through a glass darkly. But then we're gonna
see face to face. Then, he says, I know in part
now, then I'm gonna know even as also I am known. We're gonna
see him as he is. And that's the hope. He said,
and every man that hath this hope in him shall purify himself
even as he's pure. We have this hope. We're gonna
see him as he is. Not like they saw him when he
walked this earth. We're gonna see him like they
saw him on the Mount of Transfiguration. We're gonna see him in all his
glory, and it's gonna be such a sight to see that we're gonna
be transformed into the exact image that he is. So that's what
we're hoping for. You hope for that? Who's going
to bring you there? God's going to bring you there.
Christ's going to bring you there. So then if I have a weak brother
right here sitting in a pew in Ewing, New Jersey, and I'm getting
sideways with him over something, I believe I could hope in God
that God will make all grace abound toward him to teach him
and correct him and instruct him and grow him just like he
needs to be grown, don't you? Now lastly, through whom are
we filled? Who does all this? Verse 13,
through the power of the Holy Ghost. How did we start out? How did we come to know any of
this? Peter said, according as his
divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto
life and godliness through the knowledge of him that called
us to glory and virtue. I'm going to tell you something
I've never been more certain of than I am right now. I've never
been more certain that everything that you and I have as believers,
we have through the power of the Holy Ghost. I've never been
more certain of that. Because when God makes you to
know how totally weak you are, As much as he makes us see our
weakness, he still hasn't made us see how totally weak we are. Even when you're just to the
point of seeing you can't do one thing. God still hasn't made
you see just how weak you really are. You still have the confidence
and the presumption that you're going to be able to take that
next breath. You can't even do that. That's how weak we really
are. You get what I'm saying? He does make you see you're weak. When he makes you see you're
so weak that you can't believe on Christ. You can't pick up
his word and read his word. You can't comfort your brethren.
You can't find a word for your brethren. You can't do anything
for your own self, much less for your brethren. And yet God does it for you,
in you, with you, in spite of you. That's when you find out
everything you have is through the power of the Holy Ghost.
You don't have anything, it's of yourself. You and I can't
do anything of ourselves. I wish we understood that more.
We can't do anything. But that makes you certain that
everything is of the power of the Holy Ghost. That's when you
realize it's just like the Lord told Zerubbabel. He said, it's
not by your might and it's not by your power. It's by my spirit,
said the Lord of Hosts. Now, God made Paul say, my grace
is sufficient for thee. That's who's writing this right
here. He's praying, I pray God fill you with the joy and peace
of believing that you might abound in hope, that you might abound
in hope in God and trust one another to God. Now the man who
wrote this was taken up into the third heaven and then to
make sure that he didn't get lift up pride, God gave him a
thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to beat him black and
blue. And he prayed God remove it and
God wouldn't remove it. You ever prayed God remove something
from you that God just won't remove from you? and it troubles
you, and it burdens you, and you want to be free from it,
and God won't remove it. That's what he did to Paul. And
he told Paul, taught Paul through that, my grace is sufficient
for you. My grace. It's in your weakness
that my strength is made known. And Paul said, therefore, I'm
going to rather glory. I'm going to glory. I'm going
to take pleasure in my infirmities, my weaknesses, These things that
make me see how totally weak I am, because when I see how
weak I am, that's when I see how strong God is, and I see
that all my strength is in Him. Now Paul had been made to see
that, and Paul wrote this to us. He said, you're going to
need God to fill you. If you're going to do these things
I'm telling you, you're going to need God to fill you with joy in Christ,
and peace in Christ, through faith in Christ. He's going to
have to give you the joy, the peace, and the faith. And by
doing that, he'll make you abound in hope, in hope in God. And here's what he's telling
us. He's telling us so that you remember and you realize and
understand that we have this treasure in earthen vessels.
You know the gospel, and I know the gospel, but we have this
in earthen vessels. We have this treasure in clay
pots that cannot do anything. Why? so that the excellency of
the power may be of God and not of us. See, if I could fix you,
when I see a problem in you, if I could fix you, you know
who would glory in that? I would. And if you could fix me, you'd
glory in it. God's made it so that we can't
fix each other. So it doesn't do any good for
us to reject each other and doubt each other. It doesn't do any
good for us to dispute and whisper and question whether one's a
believer or another believer. What ought we to do? Do everything
for one another's edification. Do everything for one another's
good. You got liberty to do this or that. If you have faith to
do it and it doesn't hurt your conscience to do it, then do
it, but do it to yourself. You don't have to do it in front
of your weak brother. And the only way you're going to do any
of this, Paul said, is if God fills you with the joy and peace
of trusting Christ who did it for you. So that you're bound
in hope in God who did this for you. Then you'll trust God. Then you'll trust God. Then you'll
do what he said back up in Romans 14, 4. Who are you that judge
another man's servant? To his own master he standeth
or falleth, yea, he shall be holding up, for God is able to
make him stand. What's going to convince me of
that? What's going to make me trust my brother to the Lord?
What's going to make me suffer long and be kind? What's going to make me bear
all things and believe all things and hope all things and endure
all things for a weak brother? that God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope through
the power of the Holy Ghost. That ought to be our prayer for
one another, and that ought to be the power through whom we
wait on Christ and trust Christ to work in his people. I pray
God will bless it. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
Father, thank you for this word. Thank you for your mercy. Thank
you for dealing with us as weak dust. For teaching us and doing
it in such a kind way. For coming down to our level.
Teaching us things we can understand. For being patient with us. Lord,
destroy that self-righteous man in us. Fill us with peace and
joy in Christ. Fill us with hope so that we
look to You and rest in You and have peace and joy between each
other and hope in God toward one another. That will make for
peace. That will make for joy. Lord,
be with Your people everywhere. Be with our leaders in this nation. Be with the leaders in this state. Make them to do your will and
do it for the provision of your people. Lord, thank you that
you rule in all things for our good and your glory. In Christ's
name, amen.