Good morning. Alright, we're
going to be in Mark 6. Mark chapter 6, verses 47 to
56. It's through the end of the chapter. Now this passage reveals to us
the wisdom of Christ our Lord in teaching His disciples a very
important lesson, which we all do well to learn, that without
me, ye can do nothing without Christ we can do nothing now
the ways of our Lord are very much infinitely higher than our
ways his thoughts are higher than our thoughts and he would
say later on following the event that we're going to be looking
at here following what we're going to see in our passage as
it's recorded in John he said later it is written in the prophets
and they shall be all taught of God Every man, therefore,
that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. And this passage that we're looking
at here reveals our Lord's ability to do just that, that the chief
shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, he's able to draw all his sheep.
He's able to bring them to himself. Now, as the Lord grows us in
his grace, he's careful to make us know that everything we have
him everything we are in him is by his grace and his merit
not our merit we haven't earned this we haven't provoked or moved
God to do anything for us but God in mercy and in grace and
compassion he does what he does for us because it's according
to his own goodwill and pleasure so while with them the Lord was
very much mindful that he was only with them for a a brief
time in the flesh and that he had much to do to prepare them
for this work that he was going to send them to do. When you
stop and think about what these men were being called to do and
the labor that they were going to be doing and the sacrifices
they were going to be making, but especially to minister to
the flock of God and how much God loves his sheep and how much
he cares for them and he's going to raise up men who are men and
and and to be tender kind and gentle and and loving to these
sheep which could be a bit difficult and and We know what the Lord
has to work with I know what the Lord has to work with and
me and it ain't much and we know what we are in ourselves and
how patient and kind the Lord is with us. And he said, later
on, he said, I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now. And because of that, because
there was so much to say to us, the Lord, you can be sure that
the Lord used every opportunity, whether in word or in deed, to
teach us what we have need of learning by Him. And all these
things are for our benefit, as we'll see here in this passage,
Paul wrote to Timothy all scripture is given by inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for
instruction and righteousness That the man of God may be perfect
Thoroughly furnished unto all good works. So that's what we
have here today brethren and all the Lord's people are but
earthen vessels and we have this precious treasure, this gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ contained, understood in these earthen vessels. And so we understand the glorious
gospel of our God in the face of Jesus Christ. And so you can
be sure that men in religion get puffed up. When they think
that they know something, when we think that we understand something
as we ought to understand it, men get puffed up, even servants
of God. And they can get to thinking
that they're something when they're really nothing. But the Lord
knows how to keep his own, and he knows how to teach them a
lesson in humility. He knows how to bring them to
see what we are, as well as showing them, as we'll see as well, that
in him, in Christ, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
All right, but our title is A Lesson in Humility. Now, before I get
started, There may be some here that just do not believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ. And we're gonna look at an affliction,
a trial that these men are put through. And there's unbelievers,
they go through trials and afflictions as well, and yet they refuse
to believe the Christ that God has sent to save his people.
And the scriptures tell us that it's a fearful thing to fall
into the hands the living God. So I would say consider what
you're hearing this morning. Consider it. Pray. Beg that God
would have mercy upon your soul, that he would bring to light
what he's saying to you, that he would show you and convince
you that Christ is that which is most needful for us. Otherwise, we may find that God
is contrary to us, that he's against us, as he says in Ezekiel,
for everyone of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, so whether you're part of Israel or sojourning
among them, which separated himself from me, and setteth up his idols
in his heart, and put it the stumbling block of his iniquity
before his face, They're stubborn. They don't want to hear the truth.
So they keep that which was tripping them up right before their eyes
because they just don't want to hear that God is in Christ
and that He is salvation. That He's been provided to do
this work of salvation. And they come One day they come
to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me. I the Lord will
answer him by myself and I will set my face against that man
and will make him a sign in a proverb and I will cut him off in the
midst of my people and ye shall know that I am the Lord. It is
that those who remain that are the Lord's people they'll know
what God has done that he's cut that one off. So. You who don't
believe, listen closely, because Christ is a merciful, kind, compassionate
Savior willing to receive all that come to Him, seeking forgiveness
and seeking to know Him. He'll reveal Himself to that
person who seeks to know Him. He's kind and a gentle Savior. So don't be indifferent, but
try to listen and try to hear what the Lord is speaking to
His people. this morning. So to you who do believe, let
me just say a word as we begin that we shall experience trials
and various afflictions and sorrows and troubles to varying degrees,
right? Many here are going through various
trials and afflictions to various degrees, but take comfort because
the Lord means it for your good it's for your good it's for our
good he's growing us through these things and so he says in
like he says in mark six fifty be of good cheer it is I be not
afraid it's me it's the Lord that's doing this for his people
alright so That's what we'll be looking at now. Reasons for
good cheer. So because we see the Lord, how
the Lord is working all things for good, we can be glad. We
understand that the Lord is working everything for our good. So we
can be glad in the trials that we're going through, in the afflictions
that we go through, understanding that the Lord's teaching us something,
that we should seek him to understand and know what he's doing. It
says in verse 45, Mark 6, 45, in straight way, we see that
Christ constrained his disciples to get into the ship and to go
to the other side before unto Bethsaida while he sent away
the people. So the Lord knew exactly what
he was doing when he told them get in the ship and go across
the sea. He knew exactly what he was doing
and what they were going into. He was preparing to send them
a lesson. He was going to teach them something
very valuable, something very needful for them to understand. It's for their good. And all
that the Lord taught these men, it ended up, it worked out for
our good to this day because, as I noted before, They're going
to be ministering to the sheep of God to the flock of God and
they wrote these letters and these these epistles they wrote
the Gospels and it's all based on what the Lord revealed to
them and showed them and how he dealt with them and communicated. the truth of God to their hearts
so that they labor they lay down their lives they sacrifice much
for the furtherance of the kingdom of God for the furtherance of
the gospel for our benefit to this day that we have this word
many lay down their lives and shed their own blood for that
so that's what the Lord's doing he's preparing them because he's
going to the father and they have need of learning these things
so We see first how in Providence the Lord deals with his people.
The Lord teaches his people through Providence. So the Lord constrained
his disciples to get into the ship and to go to the other side. So in Providence, as we'll see,
the Lord prepared a wind to blow contrary to them, a mighty wind,
a scary wind, a wind that they were very nervous about, that
they were going to perish in this storm that they were in.
And he knew exactly what he was doing, and he was sending it
for their good. Although it was contrary to them,
it was for their good. And so the first thing we ask
is, do I believe God? With the trials and the things
that I'm experiencing and going through now, do I trust the Lord?
Do I believe Him that He's doing this for my good? Is it really
for my good? Is there some benefit in this
thing? Do I believe him through it?
And the scriptures say, yes, that he does everything for our
good. As he says in Romans 8, 28, we
know that all things work together for good. them that love God
to them who are the called according to his purpose we know that he
does these things it's for it's it's for our calling he draws
us out to himself and it's for our keeping he's going to preserve
us he's not going to let us fall away and just go off into this
world of darkness now if you notice here it's when they were
troubled that the Lord spoke to them it's when they became
troubled and when they they understood the danger that they were in
that's when the Lord spoke gently to them and so the Lord uses
Providence to get our attention and Providence does get our attention
doesn't it when things go wrong our attention is gone and we
then begin to seek the Lord it says there in fifty and fifty
one mark six fifty and fifty one for they all saw him walking
on the water, and they were troubled. And immediately he talked with
them, and saith unto them, be of good cheer, it is I, be not
afraid. And it was here where then he
went up with them into the ship, and immediately the wind ceased,
and the Lord drew near." The things that we see here is that
when things are contrary to us and when things are going wrong,
we think, we do think oftentimes, why don't things just go the
way I want them to go? I know how they should go. I
think it should work out this way. And if it would just work
out this way, everything would be fine. I'd be calm. Everything
would be working out all right. And we can get very frustrated
and upset by these things. But we know the Lord's shown
us several times, at least, if not many times, how our, the
way we would do things, are not the way the Lord does things,
and that he does things in a very wise way, and it is for our good. It's not just to keep us comfortable
and happy in this life, but rather it does turn things upside down,
and it does make life very difficult, but it delivers us from self,
and the love of self, and the comfort that we have in our own
ways it's to teach us to trust him and the thing is that don't
you find that when you are troubled when life is going wrong that's
when you do call out upon the Lord that's when you are drawn
to the Lord and you see your need of him and you see how far
you've gotten away from the Lord so to speak the way you know
when everything's going well we Have we forget about the Lord? My prayers are very different
when everything's going my way than when everything isn't going
my way. It's the Lord knows how to do
that. So he has his way and he has
his way for a reason and it's that, you know, we see the depths
the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, to say
how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his
counselor, or who hath first given to him, and it shall be
recompensed unto him again. For of him, and through him,
and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. Now the next thing that we notice
here is the Lord's care for his people. We read that when he
saw his disciples, or we read that he saw his disciples, and
John's gospel tells us that they were out about twenty-five 30
furlongs and that's about an eighth of a one furlong is about
an eighth of a mile so eight furlongs Is a mile so that puts
it at about three to four miles out That's how far they were
from the shore, and it says that the Lord saw them It's possible
because it was only a wind it wasn't rain or anything like
that, and he was on a mountain top So it's possible, but it's
more likely that in his omniscience. He he saw them in this spirit
He understood what they were going through because he's the
one who constrained them to get in the ship, and he's the one
who sent the contrary wind against them. It says in Mark 6, 47,
And when even was come the evening, the ship was in the midst of
the sea, and he alone on the land. And he saw them toiling
and rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them. And about
the fourth watch of the night, he cometh unto them walking upon
the sea, and would have passed by them. But when they saw him
walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried
out. So these disciples, they're pretty
weary. They're quite spent. I mean, they'd gotten in the
ship around 6 p.m. probably, and now it's 3 a.m.
in the morning. They've been battling this wave,
and all they are is about three or four miles out off the shore,
so all this time. And they didn't recognize them.
And they're not even thinking about the Lord very much. They're
just focused on what they're going through and how difficult
this is as they're getting across the ocean. And to their perspective,
it seemed as though he would just pass them by, and they're
afraid. But the lesson of Cheer for Us,
there's several things that we can see just in this little piece
here. Though they weren't necessarily
thinking of the Lord, though they weren't thinking much of
Him, the Lord was thinking of them. And so whether or not we're
thinking of the Lord and whether our thoughts grow cold of Him,
the comfort that we have in seeing this is that the Lord is mindful
of us. He is very much aware of our
struggle and our toil and our labor in Him. It says, He saw
them toiling and rowing, for the wind was contrary. unto them
and we see how in scripture for example when you look at Hagar
in Genesis 16 Verse 13, we see that it wasn't until she was
driven out from, she was the handmaid of Sarah, it wasn't
until she was driven out from Sarah and Abraham that that's
when she learned of the Lord God. That's when she began to
understand or see or know something about God who created us and
the God who loves us and is kind to us, brethren, who sent the
son to shed his blood for us. And it says that she called the
name of the Lord that spake unto her, thou God seest me. And so we see how the Lord in
his wisdom, he allows us to be driven away many times to go
off into that wilderness and to be put in these these difficult
trials because that's when we come to know him as the God that
see us that's when we see and understand Lord you do see me
you know what I'm going through and you see my need Lord have
mercy upon me show yourself kind to me and and he shows himself
not as a hard an angry God, but as the God that sees us. And so sometimes we might think,
why doesn't he just, you know, why doesn't he intervene sooner?
Why do things have to spin out of control and get to the point
that they get to so often and life becomes so hard and difficult
for me? Why does he wait so long to reveal
himself to me? But if we're honest, we know
that because then we never, Think of them when everything's going
well we don't consider the God who sees us. We don't fall upon
our knees and start crying out to him for mercy. You get the
thinking that we've got this down pretty well and things are
going pretty good for me now. And so we forget about the Lord
we do grow cold and indifferent. So our thoughts of the Lord are
very light when things are you know if we think of them at all
they're quite light. and what we think of the Lord
when everything's going well. So it's the reason why the Lord
doesn't just step in before things spin out of control because naturally
our hearts tend to hardness. We get very hard and indifferent
to the things of God. That's how mine is. I would imagine
that that's how we all are because it's throughout the scriptures
we see that we grow hard and indifferent to the things of
the Lord. When we struggle and when we're
toiling, that's where we find that the Spirit, the Lord sends
His Spirit, dwells with us and that's where He helps our infirmities
and He helps us to pray and to call upon Him and that we might
know Him. That's why everything doesn't
just work out so well. He's bringing us, He's blessing
us to see and to know Him and how He is toward His people. it says in Romans 8 26 and 27
likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not
what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered and he
that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit
because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the
will of God so instead of Blaming God and getting angry with God
when things aren't going our way and thinking, He's just passing
me by. He doesn't even see me. He's
not even considering me. Remember the Lord's doing this
for a purpose. Christ wasn't going to pass them by in that
ship. He was coming right for them. But it does appear to our
perspective sometimes that God is indifferent to our cries and
indifferent to our needs and what is paining us and causing
us pain. It's to draw us out. It's to
teach us. And He's doing the work. He's
teaching us to pray, not according to our will, not according to
how we would have things go, but to be yielded to the Lord
to say, Lord, not as I will, but as thou will. I will be done. Do what is necessary, Lord. Peter
wrote of this saying, Be clothed with humility, for God resisteth
the proud and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves,
therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you
in due time, casting all your care upon him, for he careth
for you. The next reason for our cheer,
for our gladness and joy to consider these things is that we see the
Lord's omnipotence in this. We see his almighty power in
what he's doing, that he's God and he can do all things. It
says in Mark 6, 48, that he cometh unto them walking upon the sea. And verse 51, and he went up
Unto them into the ship and the wind ceased and they were so
amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered So that we see this
we see that this is a supernatural work that that Christ has done
in coming to his people It says in Matthew 19 26 Jesus beheld
them and said unto them with men. This is impossible, but
with God all things are possible and so we see here a this omnipotent
power, this display of power over nature, over the wind, over
the waves, over the laws of physics. He has this power that he's able
to do. He has power over nature. And that's where we see and we
understand the Lord has power over natural things. And that's
all we are by nature is natural things. This one who is almighty
over the wind and the waves has power over us who come forth
corrupt and in sin and in darkness. He has power over this so that
We see how the Lord is able to conquer our enmity. He's able
to conquer our hard, stubborn, adamant hearts that are set against
him by nature. He conquers that. He brings us
to see. He shines light upon us. breaking
in upon the darkness to show us our need of Christ, that we
can't save ourselves, that we are corrupt sinners, that we
are broken, that we are sick, that we are dead and dying and
worthy and deserving of hell, that he's just to send us to
hell. And what could we say against
him? Because we know that he's just. He showed us that in our
hearts. And yet he does it in mercy.
He shows us our ruin that we cannot save ourselves. He's bringing
us to see that there's nothing I can do to justify myself before
holy God. But he reveals to us that I've
provided the way of salvation. I don't want you to save yourself.
I don't want you to try and save yourself. You've seen it. You've
seen that you can. Look to my son, the Lord Jesus
Christ, whom I've sent. Because he is the righteousness
of my people. In him I receive all that come
to me seeking mercy and forgiveness. He shed his blood which is more
precious than gold or silver that to pay for the sins of the
people that the Lord laid on him the sin and the iniquity,
the burden, the sickness, the shame of his people upon Christ. And Christ Took that to the father
as a sacrifice and laid down his life to pay off that sin
debt that righteousness that we owe God Christ He is our righteousness
and and God accepted his sacrifice that in Christ. We are accepted
of him And He shows us that. He breaks that in to show us
that. He shows us that He's the one
who gave us life. It wasn't something we did to
earn a favor with God that we came into knowing this more and
more. But it was Him, when we were enemies of God, when we
hated God and resisted God and refused God, He did this work
for us. In mercy, in grace, in kindness,
in compassion, in spite of what we are, in spite of our rebellion,
He showed us mercy and kindness through the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so that seeing this and understand that he melts our hard hearts. He melts our hard hearts that
we are broken before God and confess, Lord, you've done this. in kindness and mercy for me
an unworthy sinner not deserving of your kindness at all so it's
the Lord who does that it's not just in the beginning of salvation
that he melts our hard hearts it's throughout our walk that
he melts our hard hearts and that's what we see look at Mark
6 52 for they considered not the miracle of the loaves for
their heart was hardened that's something that they have to learn
their heart was hardened Now recall for a minute, what was
the reaction of the disciples after the Lord fed the 5,000?
Anyone know? Anyone have a verse that says
that they were amazed and so amazed and wondered at what the
Lord had done? No, there's no verse that says
anything. All it says in there is that
all did eat and were filled. Oh hum, just another day at the
office with the man. Everything's just going on, he's
just providing things. Nothing to worry about, nothing
to see, hear. commonplace stuff now and You think about what
was going on even before the feeding of the 5,000 it says
in Mark 6 verse 7 He called unto him the 12 and began to send
them forth by two and two and gave them power over unclean
spirits I'll give verse 13 and they cast out many devils and
anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them These guys
are something now. They've got some power themselves
They can do the things that the Lord can do now, right? So when
they see what the Lord's doing, it's not that big of a deal.
I mean, He's just doing what He does. We see there that our coldness
and our indifference, it's an evil thing, and it's very present
with us. We have that propensity. These
are the disciples of Christ, and they didn't even consider
what the Lord had done, and they had hard hearts. And if you look
over, hold your place there in Mark 6, but go over to John 6.
John 6 and verse 24. John 6, 24, it says, when the
people therefore saw that Jesus was not there on the other side
where he had been, neither his disciples, they also took shipping
and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus. And when they had
found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him,
Rabbi, when camest thou hither? So this is the other side now.
This is from John's perspective. This is the other side now where
they are after he fed the 5,000. Now, what do we know about chapter
6? It's a pretty important chapter.
We go there and we quote a lot of scriptures from there because
that's Christ speaking to the Jews. There are some very spiritual
things that were said there and it says in John 6, 66, when Christ got done speaking
to these, it says that from that time many of his disciples went
back and walked with him no more. That's the kind of hard heartedness
that that that the people were feeling at this time that they
became hard and indifferent to the things of Christ. They didn't
like what he was saying and so they just went their own way
and walked with him no more. And our Lord said in John 6 26
and 27 he answered them and said verily verily I say unto you
you seek me not because you saw the miracles but because you
did eat of the loaves and were filled labor not for the meat
which perisheth But for that meat which endureth unto everlasting
life, which the Son of Man shall give unto you, for him hath God
the Father sealed." And so the disciples, just like these other
Jews there, they were guilty of having a hard heart as well. And they were in great danger.
As it says there, they considered not the miracle of the loaves,
for their heart was hardened. But our Lord in great mercy and
care for these disciples. He sent them into the ship to
show them this to bring it to their mind because Mark recorded
he said for our hearts were hard. He caught he understood that
he made sure we understood that our hearts were hard so. The
Lord showed them this miracle that they would see their continued
need of Him. That when He was not with them,
they were going nowhere. Nowhere fast. They were in great
trouble and they need Him every hour. Turn over to John 15. John
15 and go to verse 5. John 15 5 Our Lord said, 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. You can't even have a good day
unless the Lord wills it. If a man abide not in me, he
is cast forth as a branch, and is withered. And men gather them,
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Is that
what we desire for ourselves? When we say, ah, Lord, why is
things so hard? Why is everything bringing me
back to see that I need you every hour? Do we want to be a withered
up branch that's cast forth and thrown into the fire? Or would
we much prefer rather that the Lord deal with us and show us
our need of him and keep us humble and soft and pliable and listening
to him and seeking the Lord? He said, if ye abide in me, And
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will. All right,
we'll stop saying, Lord, all right, if you're the Lord, give
me a nice car, then I'll believe you. No, you're not going to
get it. That's of the flesh. You just want to consume that
upon the lusts of your flesh. That's why you don't have it.
That's why God isn't revealing that to you. But when he softens
you and makes you to see and confess that I may know him and
the power of his resurrection. and the fellowship of his sufferings,
and be made conformable unto his death. He teaches us, he
makes that our prayer. And he says, you who pray that
to me, I'll answer that prayer, because I've given you that prayer.
That's praying according to the will of God. You're not just
looking to consume things upon your lusts, as James says. Ask what you will and it shall
be done unto you because our will conforms to his will right?
He's conforming us to christ so that that becomes our desire
that the will of god be done On earth, even as it's done in
heaven lord. I want to see your kingdom established Let it begin
right here in this wicked hard heart break me lord that that
I might be your servant and know you and and glorify Your name
herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit. So
shall you be my disciples as the father hath loved me. So
have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. So do you see brethren the Lord's
doing all these things he's bringing us into these trials to bring
us low that we might be conformed to Christ our Savior. We might
be conformed to his death and willingly Gladly lay down our
lives and to see his kingdom grow and establish So that's
what he's teaching these disciples. They had made it only three or
four miles and And the only reason why they made it that far is
so that it was clear that this was a miracle a supernatural
miracle He wasn't just walking out on a sandbar out to them
for three or four miles this was a work of the Lord a supernatural
powerful work and That that that they had witnessed and so as
soon as he gets there the wind ceases and john tells us that
They willingly received them into the ship and immediately
the ship was on the land on the other side where they were going
So as soon as christ came they saw and understood Apart from
christ. We're nothing. We had great trouble
great difficulty He humbled them and as soon as christ came and
was with them The wind blew on their backs and they just got
to shore right away and everything was fine. It's because their
heart was hardened. The Lord I these disciples they
weren't bitter about what happened they understood what the Lord
had done and they were very thankful what the Lord had done how he
had broken them and brought them to see their need of him because
when all those others went away and the Lord said will you also
go away. Their reply their answer was
Lord to whom shall we go. Now has the words of eternal
life and we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the
son of the living God. Lord didn't do that. Maybe they
would have thought I got power now I can go and heal and make
a good living for myself. I'll just go do that too. And
then they would have found out that they had nothing in the
shame of course but but the Lord broke them so that they were
willing to stand with Christ even when everybody else was
leaving and abandoning the Lord. So the psalmist records the tender
care of the Lord for us in Psalm 78, 38, and 39. I'll read it.
He says, but he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity
and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his
anger away and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered
that they were but flesh, the wind that passeth away and cometh
not again. All right, so this is a lesson
in humility and it displays the Lord's omnipotence to work repentance
even in our hard hearts, right? And so we see also now that Christ
is the way to God, right? And so when a person learns these
truths, when the Lord teaches us in the heart, we're excited
and we want others who are broken and cold dead and in need of
his grace and mercy we want them to know him as well and that's
what we see in Mark 6 54 through 56 It says, And when they were come
out of the ship, straightway they knew him, and ran through
the whole region round about, they ran through the whole region
round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were
sick, where they heard he was. And whithersoever he entered
into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in
the streets, and besought him that they might touch, if it
were, but the border of his garment. And as many as touched him were
made whole. If Christ has revealed your need
of Him to you, and if He's forgiven you of your sins, and if He's
healed you of your sicknesses and your diseases, your sin sickness,
and He's shown you that He is the fit Savior, able to do all
this perfectly through providence in His presence, He's the God
that sees you in His power, He melts our hard hearts, and He
has pity upon us even though we don't Deserve it if he's shown
you if you believe that this is the Christ the son of the
living God Then like these go and tell others Invite them to
come and hear where Christ is honored and preached and glorified
among his people where he receives all the praise and the glory
and where he heals your broken heart and forgives you of your
sin and you see how he melts your heart then invite them and
bring them here that they might strengthened as our brother read
in Daniel 10 19 Lord speak thou has strengthened me when the
Lord strengthens his people then we're willing and ready to hear
what the Lord says. I pray the Lord, you pray too,
that the Lord would do that, that he'd stir us up to bring
others here and that others would come, because I know we've invited
people and not many come, but pray that the Lord does bring
them here and that they will hear and that they will stay
and be healed and fed by the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's pray.
Our gracious Lord, we thank you, Lord, and we see like these men
here, that we are nothing without you, Lord. And we're thankful
for the work that you've done here. As our brother prayed this
morning that, Lord, it's been dry here for a long time. I believe
it, I'm sure of it, Lord, it's dry. And Father, you've been
pleased to establish a work here where Christ is glorified and
honored and exalted before the eyes and the hearts of your people.
And Lord, we, we confess that we're nothing without you. We
see how we've invited people. We've told people that we're
here and no one comes. But Lord, you see, you're the
God that see us. Father, would you please have
mercy upon this dark land would you send forth your light and
break it in upon the hearts that you would cause those causes
to invite people and cause those that are invited to to come and
give them your spirit and ears to hear and eyes to see in a
heart to believe what is spoken concerning your son lord that
you would have mercy upon this people here we pray this in jesus
name our lord and savior amen All right.