Seeking the Lord's help for a
little while this morning and your very prayerful attention,
turn with me to the chapter we read, St Mark chapter 7, and
reading the last verse, verse 37. and were beyond measure astonished,
saying, He hath done all things well. He maketh both the deaf
to hear and the dumb to speak. This is the account of the man
who had an impediment in his speech, he was deaf, and his
friends brought him to Jesus, beseeching him to put his hand
upon him and to heal him. And so we have an evidence of
faith that these people, they brought him to Jesus believing
that he is the good physician and that none but Jesus can do
helpless sinners any good. And you and I, as we are witnesses, as we can
bear testimony to the good physician. He's a good physician of body. He's a good physician of mind. And most of all, he's a good
physician of souls. And so, as we have come to this
word, he hath done all things well. Our pastor, in speaking
with me earlier in the week, and of our dear sister-in-law,
Liz, he said, this poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and delivered
him. And that I, as I meditated upon
that, brought me to these precious words. He hath done all things
well. The worldling, the worldling
thinks hard of God, doesn't he? The worldling that I saw in the
newspaper yesterday of a celebrity that is suffering with her health,
and she says, I get angry at God. And that's how sad it is,
isn't it? The poor worldling has nobody
to go to that can do them any good. And when they do, they
have no one to seek that the blessing is commanded. But for
the people of God, we have a good God, don't we? We have one, we
bless God, don't we, for the skills of surgeons and the care
of nurses and so on and so forth. But it's all blessed, we seek,
don't we, the Lord's blessing, that He will command the blessing. And so it is right, isn't it,
for us to acknowledge He hath done, He hath done all things
well. You know, and it's sanctification,
isn't it? Some of you, some that are younger,
as well as those that are older, know what it is to have afflictions
of various sorts. But you know, by your walk and
conduct, they've been sanctified, they've been blessed. You think
of Fanny Crosby, just a few weeks old, and she had an infection
in her eyes, and the doctor, he applied a mustard poultice
to her eyes. And it left her blind for the
rest of her life. She lived to be 95 years old. And yet she saw it as a great
blessing. She wrote about 9,000 hymns and
poems. and the first one that she wrote
was when she was eight years old, and this is what she wrote.
Oh, what a happy child I am! Although I cannot see, I am resolved
that in this world contented I will be. And you know, and
that's a wonderful grace, isn't it? And it's Jesus. He has done
all things well that he blesses you with a contented spirit in
it all. That's sanctification. He sanctifies
your afflictions, whatever they may be. Afflictions, they cover
so many things, don't they? Body, mind, soul, circumstances. Oh, so many, many, many things. And you know, dear Fanny Crosby, I believe she was quite an old
lady, and someone said to her, oh, you must so wish that hadn't
happened to you so that you could see. Oh, no, no, no, she said. She said, for the first face
that I shall see will be the face of God, of Jesus, when I
reach heaven. Oh, what a blessed prospect.
All will be made well then, won't it, dear friends? Oh, and we'll
sing, won't it? Loudest of the crowd, I'll sing. My Jesus has done all things
well. And so one of the many, many
hymns that she sung, which is so precious, Someday the silver
cord will break. And I no more as now shall sing,
but oh the joy when I awake within the palace of the King, and I
shall see his face. And I shall see his face. Oh, that's, oh, that's saved
by grace, isn't it? And I shall see his face and
tell the story saved by grace. That's it, isn't it, dear friends?
It's all of his grace, all of his mercy. And so, as he sanctifies
the pathway, so he reveals more of his grace and leads his dear
people into the sufferings of Christ and to see more of his
grace at God's riches, at Christ's expense. Dear Samuel Medley,
he wrote the hymn based on our text number 410. Oh, for a heart prepared to sing
to God, my Saviour and my King, while with His saints I join
to tell, my Jesus has done all things well. You know, dear Samuel
Medley, he was in the world and he joined the Navy. and he was
wounded, sir, seriously wounded, in battle. But that led to him,
I don't know how he came into contact with this sermon, but
he came into contact with a sermon preached by Isaac Watts. And he read that sermon, he read
that sermon, and it was through that that he was converted, that
he was a sinner, he was a sinner, but he was saved by grace. And
he went on to be a preacher and to write between 200 and 300
hymns. One of the hymns that he wrote was in our hymns
for worship, number 74. I know that my Redeemer lives. What joy the blessed assurance
gives. He lives, he lives, who once
was dead. He lives, my everlasting head. How could he pen those words? How could Fanny Crosby be so
greatly blessed? Why, because her ears had been
unstopped. Hadn't they had gospel ears,
as our dear Deacon Tom sometimes prays, to favour us with those
gospel ears, gospel ears, unstopped, our tongues touched loose. Oh, and so it is with Jesus,
with all that he does, all that he does for poor sinners. We have that account, don't we,
of Zacchaeus in St. Luke chapter in Luke chapter
19 of him. And you remember, you younger
ones, you children, that he was a small man and he wanted to
see Jesus. And out of curiosity, he climbed
a tree, wasn't expecting to be noticed by Jesus. He just wanted
out of curiosity to see him. But Jesus, Jesus, he came to
the place and in verse five and Luke chapter 19, we read, he
looked up, he saw him and said unto him, Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus,
make haste and come down. for today. That's it, for today. Is that your longing desire today,
seeking soul, that you might hear the voice of God? Is it
your longing desire, those of you who may have been in the
way for a long time, but you have an urgent, pressing case? Oh, today! Today, might it be
today, that the Lord will be merciful, be gracious, will hear
my poor cries, this poor man cry, and he delivered him out
of all of his troubles. Jesus said to him in verse 9,
in verse 9 he said, this day, this day is salvation. Come to thy house. And then in verse 10 he says,
for the Son of Man. For the Son of Man is come to
seek and to save that which was lost. Well, this deaf and dumb
man that we have in our text, in verse 33 we read, and Jesus
took him aside. Jesus took him aside from the
multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and
he touched his tongue. Friends, the first step into
the liberty and the joy of his salvation is to get alone with
Jesus, to be favoured to be alone with Jesus. Oh, and we have, don't we, of
dear Moses in Exodus chapter three and of the burning bush. And we read in the third verse
and Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Why the bush is not burnt. Dear Moses, oh, he'd fled, hadn't
he? He'd fled. He had, oh, he'd spent,
it's often said, isn't it, that he spent his first 40 years in
the king's palace thinking he was a somebody. Then as he fled
because of his sin, he spent the next 40 years as a nobody. then as the Lord appeared to
him in the burning bush so he then spends the next 40 years
learning doing the Lord's will what he could do with a nobody
what he could do with a nobody And friends, he was on the fast
track, wasn't he? As it's been said in that 40
years that he was an outcast, that he was an outcast. He's
on the fast track to nowhere. But this day, today, this is
the day the Lord appears. The Lord appears in a most miraculous
way, a most unlooked for way. Oh, it's said of Henry Law. He said this, as God stooped
to reveal himself in that lowly desert shrub. So the Lord Jesus
stooped to take unto himself a body like our own. He is God's. And yet he stoops
to be man. He is man. and yet he continues
to be God forever. Withdraw the Godhead and his
blood cannot atone. Withdraw the manhood and no blood
remains. The union gives a Saviour able
and a Saviour meet. Look to the bush. It shows this
very union. The wood denotes the poor and
feeble produce of the earth. But it holds God as its inmate. As fire enveloped the bush, so
Christ was enveloped by sufferings in His life and death. As the fire could not destroy
the bush, so Christ was not destroyed by his sufferings. He conquered,
though he fell. He arose from the grave in triumph
over them all. Well, the Lord, as he spoke,
as we believe, don't we, that this was a pre-incarnate appearance
of Jesus. And he spoke, didn't he? He revealed
himself to Moses. Moses, who knew of the sufferings
of his people and doubtless, as he spent that 40 years as
an outcast, so burdened for his people in captivity, in bondage. But the Lord says from the burning
bush, I have surely I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt." Oh, is there something that's grieving you
this morning, friend? Is there something that, oh,
that vain regret that you have and that it's all lost, it's
all gone? Well, doubtless Moses for 40
years felt that, didn't he? He'd been schooled in the very
best of schools in Egypt, in the university of the palace. But friends, and now he's being
schooled in something much deeper, much greater, or surpasses all
education that could possibly be at the school of the burning
bush. school of the burning bush. Yes,
and as Christ suffered for his own dear people, and so poor
sinners as they suffer under the burden, the captivity of
sin, under the holy law of God. So it is I have surely seen the
affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard
their cry by reason of their taskmasters. For I know their
sorrows." Friend, he knows all about it. Whatever it is that
you're passing through, whatever it is that you think you're in
it alone, I know, I know their sorrows. And as that day came for Zacchaeus,
unlooked for for Zacchaeus, and he's a good God, isn't he? My
Jesus has done all things well. Oh, there are times, isn't it,
when a poor sinner, completely unlooked for, and the Lord delivers
him from going down into the pit, He blocks them. as a brand
from the burning and so it is as a poor sinner as we go on
don't we and there are things aren't that we come into completely
unlooked for some pleasant and some very very bitter but i know
i know their sorrows i know your sorrows And I am come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring
them up out of that land unto a good land and a large unto
a land flowing with milk and honey unto the place of the Canaanites
and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites
and the Jebusites. Now, therefore, Behold, the cry
of the children of Israel is come unto me. And I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress thee. And so he said in the sixth
verse, he's a covenant keeping God. Moreover, I am the God of
the Father. the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. You know, dear friends, when
the Lord has a favour towards you, you'll know that it's of
the Lord because there will be no pride. we read don't we that
moses hid his face he hid his face for he was afraid to look
upon god oh the preciousness this speaks to us doesn't it
at the greatness of the holiness of the holiness of god He is
to be reverenced. Very little reverence in many,
many, many so-called places of worship today. Bless the Lord
that as we come into this little house of God, week by week, we
desire, our one desire, isn't it, if we come in rightly, is
to hear what the Lord our God shall say. Oh, our ears can be
full of the din of this world, that even as we're here, we're
sitting under the sound of the Gospel, under the Gospel ministry,
our ears are stopped. It's until Jesus comes, until
He touches our ears. We shall not hear what the Lord
our God shall say, and so to be favoured to meet where the
people of God gather together, desiring as little Samuel. Speak, Lord. Is that how you've
come this morning, friend? Speak, Lord, for thy servant
heareth. Oh, this bush, it speaks of Christ's
vicarious sufferings and death. Oh, it speaks of a fountain,
a fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. Precious blood. Oh, precious
blood. He's in the crucible for poor,
hell-deserving sinners as their substitutes, as their substitutes. Oh, and it speaks of Him, it
speaks of Him, a precious Jesus, sustaining His people through
all the floods and fires that He calls His people to pass through. Oh, His church, His church, the
fire of the suffering church. There is that, isn't there? That
in this sad and solemn day, the fires, the threats, they threaten
even the existence of the church. But it'll never be so. It'll
never be so. The enemy will never give up.
The enemy is a subtle foe and he'll use sinner, he'll use saint
to bring about confusion in the house of God. Oh, and then there
are for us as individuals, aren't they? As we have our individual
pathway to walk. And the Lord knows what you brought
into the house of God this morning. Those fires of temptation, those
fires of affliction, those flames of difficulty, they often burn.
Don't they? Oh, they eat away, don't they? Address the enemy would have
it so that our ears be on, that our ears never be unstopped,
that our tongue never be loosed. And all the din, it'll all be
din. We should never hear the voice
of God shall never know his healing touch. You know, I was I was
preaching in Cambridge little while ago and I'd been preaching
about the woman that pressed through the crowd and touched
the hem of Jesus's garment and this dear young mother she said
to me she said oh that was so good she said I've been in such
a at such a desperate place and she said I was confiding in a
dear friend of mine and she said to me whatever you do just make
sure that you hang on even if it's just to the thread even
if it's just to the thread of his garment oh that's it isn't
it sometimes we're brought to wit's end corner aren't we we're
so so desperate But we come to this, don't we, as dear Jacob
did. Lord, I cannot let thee go, except
thou bless me. And so, and so this preciousness,
he opens, he opens the spiritual ear to hear. He opens the spiritual
tongue to pray, to proclaim, to speak, to speak well, even
to speak of what the Lord has done, to speak of my Jesus has
done all things well. You know, friends, it's solemn,
isn't it? Oh, for any of you here that this seems to be just
a fable. an idle tale you've come up to
the house of God out of habit perhaps and you know it's a most
solemn thing to be to die outside of Christ now I'm not in the
business of frightening people I pray that whatever that is
said that the Holy Spirit will apply it to some poor sinners
heart today you know Jesus told that that parable of him being
the true vine in Saint John chapter 15 and he said something really
solemn that those who are not his people that when they die
they'll just be cast out into the lake of fire and he says
if a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a as a branch and
is withered, and men gather them and cast them into the fire,
and they are burned. Solemn thing, friend, to die
outside of Christ, particularly solemn to have been in the means
of grace and the ears never to have been unstopped. to have
had that to to listen to the din that is going on that's outside
of christ oh the preciousness of being one with christ the
preciousness of him of him speaking of music to our ears how sweet
the name of jesus sounds being favoured with our spiritual tongue
to be loosed, to speak of Christ, because we are united to Him. As Jesus says in that chapter
15, John, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth
not fruit he taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit,
he purgeth it, that's it, he touches it, he touches the ear,
he touches the tongue, he touches the eyes, he speaks, he reveals
himself, he blesses, oh he favours with the bread of life. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except
ye abide in me, I am the vine. Ye are the branches. Are you a branch in the vine
this morning, friend? Is it your longing and desire
to be so? You press on. You cry. You cry. You shout. Be as that poor man. This poor man cried and the Lord
heard and delivered him out of all of his troubles to be able
to say, My Jesus has done all things well. Abide in me, and
I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except
it abide in the vine. No more can ye except ye abide
in me. I am the vine. I am the vine. Ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I
in him. The same bringeth forth much
fruit, for without me ye can do nothing. Well, in our text, in verse 33,
we read of Jesus, didn't we? You know, He'll deal with you
singularly, friends. With each one of His dear people,
He has a purpose of grace towards, and He'll deal with you as an
individual. and how he might deal with you
will probably be totally different to how he's dealt with your nearest
and your dearest and he took him aside he took
him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his
ears and he spit And he touched his tongue. He spit and he touched
his tongue. Friends, that was the balm, wasn't
it? Oh, that was the healing balm. Seems so strange, didn't it?
How strange. We say it can never be so. Oh,
his ways are not our ways, are they? My thoughts are not your
thoughts. My ways are not your ways. No, He's the Sovereign God. He does as He pleases with each
individual, with each poor sinner, with each of His children. Oh,
the psalmist, he says, in the 107th Psalm, he sent his words
and healed them and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, when the ear is opened. When the ear is opened, as we
have recorded for us in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 4, and
at verse 20, when Peter and John were threatened by the council
for preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ. Peter and John,
they answered in verse 19 of Acts 4, whether it be right in
the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge
ye. Judge ye. For we cannot but speak
the things which we have seen and heard. That's it, friends. That's experimentally, isn't
it? Experimentally applied. The Word. Oh, that effectual
calling. You hear what the Lord our God
says. Your ear unstopped, your tongue
loosed, your spiritual eyes opened. And so you declare plainly. You declare plainly. And that's
how it is. When a poor sinner comes to testify
of what the Lord has done for their soul, they speak of those
things that He has done for them. Oh, the enemy will tell you.
The enemy will tell you you'll be brought to confusion. Friend,
it's impossible, for he'll enable you, by the Holy Spirit, to speak
plainly. To speak plainly of those things
which you have handled, tasted and felt that Jesus is precious. He's precious. He saved you from
going down into the burning fire of hell. Oh, He's brought you
up out of the marry clay. Out of a horrible pit. Out of
the maury clay. He set your foot upon a rock. That's the Rock Christ Jesus. He's put a new song in your mouth. He took him aside from the multitude,
and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched
his tongue, and looking up to heaven, he sighed, he sighed,
and said unto him, Ifrator, that is, be opened. Oh, friends, He
looked up to heaven. He looked up to heaven. He sighed. Oh, this Jesus. He took on a
body like our own. A body as thou prepared me. Oh, He added. He added to His
deity. A human body. He lost none of
His deity. He is King. He is the Lord of
all. Oh, and yet precious, precious
as Isaiah tells us in that 53rd chapter of his sufferings, he
has borne our griefs. He has borne our griefs and carried
our sorrows. Oh, he sighed. He sighed. Looking up to heaven, he sighed. Blessed sigh. Oh, what a blessed
sigh that was. Oh, that reveals the secret,
the secret of the sacred suffering of His precious soul. touched with the feelings of
our infirmities. We sang, didn't we, earlier this
morning in that hymn, Jesus, shepherd of thy people, 349,
all thy chosen cost thee wounds and blood and smarts. Ephrata, Ephrata, looking up
to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephrata, that is, be
opened. Friend, he spake, and it was
done. Oh, as he cried on the cross,
it is finished. Finished. He'd finished that
work which he had been sent to do. Finished. It was that. That hell was no more the portion,
the destiny for his dear people. He finished. He made an atonement
for sin. He suffered. He bled. He died. Oh, there is forgiveness
with him that he may be feared. And so be thou opened, and the
tongue was loosed as the ears were unstopped. And the psalmist
says in Psalm 66 and in verse 16, come and hear, come and hear
all ye that fear God. And I will declare what he hath
done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth,
and he was extolled with my tongue. This is it, Ephrata. Open, be opened. And friends, and that's what
he'll do for you. And he'll continue, oh can we
not testify of it, however many years we've been in the way,
even with Fanny Crosby, from that time that she was eight
and wrote that hymn until she was 95. She could testify of
what the Lord had done for her soul, and what a friend He was,
a friend that sticketh closer than a brother, a brother born
for adversity. In that gallery of faith, in
Hebrews chapter 11, it's remarkable that we read in there, in verse
14 I believe it is, for they that say such things declare
plainly that they seek a country there we have it again they seek
plainly that they seek a country oh he has done all things well
the hymn writer in in our hymn 376 he says once a sinner near
despair sought thy mercy seat by prayer mercy heard and set
him free. Lord, that mercy came to me."
Oh, as Paul's speaking, writing to the church at Galatia, he
says, Christ has redeemed us. from the curse of the law. Dear Peter, as he writes his
first letter and he writes to them in the first chapter and
the 18th verse, for as much as ye know, that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation,
received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious
blood of Christ. As of a lamb without blemish
and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. oh friends his blood his blood
can cleanse the blackish soul one has said why was i made to
hear his voice and enter wilder's room while thousands make a wretched
choice and rather starve than come well now as we come to the
conclusion Jesus said you know of something very solemn he said
ye will not ye will not come to me that ye might have life
We read he came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name. Now which camp are you in this
morning, friend? He came unto his own, and his
own received him not. Or are you amongst those favoured
that as many as received him? To them gave he power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. May those things be an effectual
call, cause a real burden, a real exercise, a real concern, as
you realize that the fiery law, under the condemnation of the
law, the law cries death. but gospel sings of sweeter things. Let the sinner live and plead
this, dear friend, that you might become so burdened with your
sins, with the heinous nature of your sins as you come to understand
that, taking you down to the pit of hell, that you might become
so burdened that you'll plead this to be your, that you will
hear this call in St. Matthew chapter 11, Verse 28
comes. Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and
ye shall find rest for your soul. It's a totally different rest
to what the world can ever, ever offer. Oh, you'll have trouble, but
the best by far. In the world ye shall have tribulation,
but be of good cheer, listen to this, unstop your ears, be
of good cheer, aye. have overcome the world, for
my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Or may we be favoured as one of Gadsby's hymns 563. He says, into thy heart breaking
sorrows, may our souls be sweetly led. May we gaze upon the furrows
that within thy back were made and believing fellowship with
Jesus have. Another of our poets says grace,
grace shall be our lovely theme, free redemption, glorious scheme,
this will be the song above praise to jesus bleeding love oh friends
in heaven oh is it your longing desire like one of our hymn writers
quaintly puts it oh may I live to reach the place where he unveils
his lovely face and friends and our song will be in effect that
which Samuel Medley writes and just two verses from that hymn
410 based on our text he hath done all things well how sovereign
wonderful and free is all his love to sinful me he plucked
me as a brand from hell my Jesus has done all things well and
since my soul has known his love and this is it it gets better
and better doesn't it what mercies has he made me prove mercies,
which all my praise excel. My Jesus has done all things
well. Amen. Our closing hymn is hymn number
318. and maybe we could please be seated after the hymn and
we'll have a short time of prayer. The God of eternal love, how
fickle are our ways, and yet how oft did Israel prove thy
constancy and grace. Hymn number 318 to the tune number
20. Lord of eternal love, how fickle
our ways! And yet Thou art in Israel, bread,
Thy constancy and grace. They saw thy wonders wrought,
And then thy praise they sung. But soon thy works of path forgot,
And murmured with their tongue. with rivers flow. Now is the last of the full moon,
and their thoughts, yea, hearken
to their rhymes. What is uncountable to his thoughts, In his book, he saved them from
their foes. Oft he just died, but never more. ? Israel bless the Lord ? ? Who
loved their ancient race ? ? And Christians join the solemn word
? ? Amen to all the brave ? If I could ask our Brother Edwin
just to pray in our closing prayer, thank you. Our Lord God in heaven, our Father,
the only one to whom we can come in prayer, Lord we come in grateful
thanks in all things and especially at this appointed time to give
thanks for those mercies to our sister Liz and for answering
those prayers a week ago to raise her up from that bravely ill
place in the hospital bed with so much going wrong in her body
and so many treatments being applied and lord to give thanks
that those prayers have been answered and that she has been
blessed with an increase in health and yet Lord she is not out of
the woods as it were and we pray that she would make a full recovery
that thy name may be greatly honoured in this pathway in which
she is walking. Lord we pray also that as she
has been blessed in body that she may too be blessed in soul
and as she is being brought low that she may be brought very
close to thee and that she may know thee as her saviour. And so Lord we give thanks also
for those others who have been ill this week and yet have been
strengthened to come and worship with us this morning. Lord we
pray that as many of us are favoured with good health that we may
not take it for granted but that we may know it as a great blessing
and that we may look back on our lives and look around us
and count our blessings and give all the praise and honour unto
the Lord we pray that that word which brother David has preached
to us today may have you made a blessing to each one of us
and maybe as a seed sown and that in time it may flourish
and bring forth fruit and we ask all with the forgiveness
of our every sin in Jesus name amen. Dear Lord we Do thank thee, Lord,
for the ministry today. Lord, we thank thee, Lord, that
we are standing here, Lord, once again. Lord, in a different frame
of mind, Lord, for our dear sister Liz, Lord, last week, Lord, we
were pleading, Lord, for her life to be spared. And Lord,
now, Lord, we can give thanks, Lord, that through this week,
Lord, we have seen thy miraculous hand, Lord, working amongst her.
We do pray, Lord, that thou will continue, Lord, to strengthen
her. And Lord, most of all, Lord, we do pray, Lord, that thou will
loose her tongue. And Lord, that she could one
day, Lord, be standing before us and ministering to us her
testimony. We do pray, Lord, that they'll
continue, Lord, to work in her heart. We do also, Lord, pray
for her siblings, Lord. We know, Lord, who are unbelievers,
but we do pray, Lord, that through this event of Liz, Lord, that
they also may be quickened into life, Lord, that thou will be
with them, be with Crystal and David and the family. We do pray,
Lord, for us each, Lord, that we may have each been fed, Lord,
by thy word and, Lord, that we may go encouraged and, Lord,
that we may each know thee as the great physician in our own
lives. And now may the grace of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.