8/7/2022 Psalm 23 on Prayer
Good morning.
Good to see you here. So,
Glad you're all that, you're able to make it little bit nicer, weather out there than, what have? I think it was last week and then moving it to 9:30. So just make things a little more comfortable and you're not trying to beat feet out of the door to an air conditioner somewhere. So we ready to get started.
Does anybody have any prayer requests, right off hand out here that I don't have here. Specific. Okay, so I'm sorry. Yeah, that was going to be, that's one of my list there. So, Danny's not here today right now because he had to take Ray to the hospital. She's having some inner ear issues or something and some balance issues and so, and then with that, I don't know if that's going to throw a wrench into the girls as plans to go to the coast. And so, I don't know. Anyway, remember Ray and the something gets resolved there. Also, I was speaking with Carolyn, please keep her in prayer. She's having to revisit some of these issues that she's been dealing with and have to go back to the other to the west side and deal with that, but there'd be some wisdom and some healing there. Front and Craig, will Frank is not here, particularly because she had to take Craig to a nurse practitioners, a doctor's appointment of some kind that just has it had to happen today apparently. So let's keep Craig Up. Lift Craig up and Franco, and then Jake's, Jake's mom, right? Mandy, Amanda's Mom. Oh yeah. You know, why? They don't let me do this on a regular basis. There's a good reason, there's a good reason. So anyway, okay, so man is coming, Amanda's mom is moving over here.
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oh, we're praying for just, okay, well, safe travels and stuff. They're okay. Well, God knows what's going on. Even if I don't, Then let's remember John and Janice. He's in Israel right now with Janice and so far from what I can tell having a really good time, he sent some pictures and stuff and I think he's pretty stoked right now and then I'm having and Laura, I did speak with art this week. Really some tough news there that is not really getting better, the growth has gotten larger, so hold them up in prayer. I know he was down here was when I saw them, but taking care of a few things around the church, and hold her up particular, and then hold our up to because he's having a tough time with dealing with this, then Craig in front of Bill and Mary. I see Mary to your house bill.
Oh good. That's good to hear that, he's doing pretty good. All right.
I guess that's good. Alright. And then Ernie and Judy, I'm not really sure if there's any change there, if anybody had him the info, but keep hold them up. And that's getting out of my eyesight. Ranging with glasses here, Deb and Eric mchatten clanahan.
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Okay. Okay. So Deb lost her job and Eric is Eric is unable to work and so and then they're in the process, there's an eviction on that. So just remember them and of course, world leaders,
I'm not even sure what even say about that except that God is in control, none of this a surprise. He's moving towards a point. He has a plan is moving towards a plan and that's what we find in the scriptures is supported in the scriptures. It's working out through the scriptures. So we're not to lose heart, but we are to pray and do what we are to do in the play store called and then all those that are in isolation, nasrallah's, not able to be with this. But then whoever's listening out there. We welcome you, it's your online. I know my sister, listen, sometimes and stuff. And so just the kind of a shout out there to Sean and so and I do know that they had been dealing with covid. They made a trip to the coast and they came back and so she ended up having to go in and gets the antibodies and her Jim her, my brother-in-law ended up getting it and so I don't really know all the ins and outs of all that but also them and I feel like I'm forgetting somebody that I really should be remembering.
Okay. Okay, Kimbra.
I'm so with that, we are doing Kim's today. Kathy's going to be leading with hymns for the next couple weeks.
Who Jake Jake's having some health issues. Just got a text on that. So so we all continue to remember Jake and Amanda and stuff but and Patty, they're going to be doing hymns. We've been looking to do some hymns here for a little bit and I'm sorry wasn't able to be here. I know she was yeah, erase things so so hopefully she can listen to it online or something. So if there's not anything else, let's stand and we'll get started.
Dear heavenly father, we just thank you for this opportunity. We thank you for every opportunity. Help us to recognize.
those things that you said before us, sometimes, it's even the hard things that it turns out in the end that we can thank you for the most, because in those hard times this when we seek you
And we gained growth, we just asked father that you would touch each person. He reached person listening Place your hand a piece on them. Place your hand of healing on them.
Your hand a comfort. Your hand of love. Father, we thank you for your love and the love of your son. The word. Who came to us. Who made himself?
Just a little less than the angels to become one of us.
That through his death and Resurrection, we find Hope. And that hope is that we come before you as we are. Now we ask that you would send your spirit would send your truth. We ask that you would guide us this coming week. By the way there. So so many Things even unspoken there was there are Hearts today.
This world is not an easy place to be.
we find ourselves sometimes just
on the top of an edge of a mountain of what I was talking about last week. But your grace is sufficient for us. We know the one that we are connected to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We just ask now father that you bless each one of these things and people that we had mentioned that we take the time, when they come to our minds, not to just brush it off and go. I'll take care of that later, but we take the time and then do it when you call us too. We just ask father that we learn to understand the power of Prayer. And the healing that comes in it the strength that comes through it and we just pray for your son soon. Return in Jesus name. Amen.
You can remain standing if you'd like at any point. If you get tired, feel free to sit. Our first song is definitely going to only be on the board and then the other two hands I have the numbers for those. So when we get to those, if you'd like to look them up, feel free to do that.
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And it's a gift to be able to to be here today and to fill in for Pastor John I definitely can't fill those shoes. So I'm going to try to do my own thing. I'm not going to try to be Pastor John, a pleasure, truly just to get things started though. I just want to thank you guys and also think that the worship team that was a beautiful music. I'm just to be able to praise. The Lord is such a blessing but to get things started to. If you can direct your eyes up here, I was talking with Pastor, John and Uncle. Kevin was talking about some pictures of Pastor. John was sending. He sent me a couple of them and I just wanted to show where he was at and if you guys can see that's a picture of a tomb there and Pastor John didn't say anything, but he is risen. So I think that's where Jesus was. It's a, a reminder of of that. Let's take a look at another one.
Here is a picture of the, I think it's a picture of the city there of, I think Jerusalem is where he is at
And this is the Western Wall where many of the Jews, really? A lot of people go to pray, so just a really big Monument there. And then this here is a picture of the Dome of the Rock that sits on the Temple Mount where King Solomon's Temple. I used to sit. So just some really cool pictures. It's need that Pastor John, is enjoying his time and having a good time over there.
Okay, so the message I wanted to share this morning has to do with prayer and what we're going to do is we're going to just look at a couple things on prayer and then also take a look at Psalm 23 and trying to glean some things from the Solomon in from David as well. So that the reason that I decided to do some 23 was I was going through Trying to go through a yearly. Bible plan, try to go through all the way through the Bible, and I've somehow I thought for sure, man, I would really get get it this year to try to make it all the way through, but the Bible is so rich that it's so hard for me to try to read so much and to go through so much information and just one year. So if you're thinking about doing that, if if you love it and if you've done it before, good for you. But for me, I just I had a big struggle with that. So I would recommend maybe two years or maybe the Bible in three years, just because it is such a rich book,
so I would just like to start by reading Psalm 23, if we could
You have it up there.
I could recite it for you. Okay, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in Green Pastures, he leads me. Beside Still Waters.
He restores my soul, he leads me in Paths of righteousness for his namesake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil and my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Thank you, God.
So, Psalm 23 is, is a beautiful song of David and it is, it is not only a, a song or is this a song is called? But it is also a prayer. So I look at this solemn and I think of of how beautiful it is in, in through it, the Bible names. David is a man after God's Own Heart because he sought the Lord and he was always praying. So, really, I, I myself, and I don't know if any of you have ever had it. But I had times I find myself struggling with prayer And I think, well, I, I, I love God. I want to spend time with God, but why is it so hard to get myself, to sit, down to calm down, and to get into a time of prayer, to really sick to be after God's Own Heart? How how, how, and why do I have this struggle? So did the message today, I guess the lord gave it to me. I think partly. Because I was struggling with that and often times we we try to learn more about the things that we want to learn about. So I wanted to just be reminded and I hope that this message reminds you that God wants us to seek him. God wants us to spend time with him, and he wants us to seek Him daily in our lives. And when we pray that we begin to pray, not only to ask God for things, but after prayer we leave, we leave the presence of God that time and prayer feeling energized, full of life, really reminded of God's love for us. So, let's start with some prayer, okay?
Dear God, thank you for your love. God, thank you for Jesus. Because without him, we would not be able to have anything else. Dear God. Thank you for everything you have done for us and that you continue to do for us. And God, I just pray that your spirit May. Open our eyes, your God open, our ears, open our hearts to understand the, the message your God that you have for us. And to truly dear God, learn to be like David. Do you got to learn to be content and satisfied being in your presence? You got to know and understand that we need nothing. Except you who grateful to the Lord in Jesus name. Amen.
Before we jump back into Psalm 23, I just wanted to take a look at some more General things about prayer. So why why do we pray? What's, what's the point of prayer? Ultimately. So let's take a look at 1st Peter 5:7. The simple verse. Yeah. And it says, we cast all of our anxieties on him because God cares for us, he cares for you. I'm in it is just a little snip. It the, the verse the passage continues on, but we're reminded to buy Peter to cast our cares on the Lord. Because why? Because God cares for us. God wants to hear a boy. He wants us to give all of our worries and cares to him. Why why does God want us to do that? Why, why would he worry about us? You know, we we are just his creation while we're not just his creation as we go on to the next verse, a classic 1, John 3:16, because God, so loved us that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him. Should not perish, but have eternal life. So God cares for us enough to give us his son and that is why we should go to him and prayer because he has cared for us and he seeks a relationship with us. Not only that but as we go on to the next verse is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is it anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the Elders of the church and let them pray over him. Anointing him with oil, in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save. The one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed, since he will be forgiven, Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed, the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed fervently that it might not rain in for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. So prayer is powerful prayer. Does amazing things for us? It is not only Brings us to the Lord but it truly, it heals us were able to feel the presence of God and it connects us with the Lord. And as we pray for other people, we show that the love of God to them as well. And finally, as we look at, Romans do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That by testing you, you may discern. What is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. So we need to be renewed, our minds need to be renewed. And how do we do that? That is with prayer that is by seeking God each and every day. So prayer renews us, it heals us and we need it. We we we cannot function without it because it is our Lifeline to God. Yeah, and now let's let's look at how how we should pray. Matthew 6:5 through 13. And when you pray, you must not be like the Hypocrites for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. but when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret and your father who sees in secret will reward you, And when you pray, do not keep up empty phrases as the Gentiles do for. They think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them for your father. Knows what you need even before you ask him. Pray then like this Our Father in heaven Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come and your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven, our debtors and lead us not into temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil. As we think about the words of Jesus, in the way that he, he taught us to pray.
We can use this, I guess it's temp. What? I, I like to think of this prayer, as not a a prayer that we are. That we need to pray for Batum. Word-for-word what a prayer. It is a template. We acknowledge the sovereignty of God, we bring before him or request, we give him praise. We seek his will. And ultimately, we seek for not only that Deliverance of our bodies because we are in this world. We need our bodies to be delivered every day, but we also seek for the Deliverance of our souls. So, that is how we should pray. As Jesus said, And when should we pray, we should be praying all the time. As Ephesians 6:18 says, we should be praying in the spirit at all times with prayer and supplication. We need to keep alerts with perseverance and making supplication for all the saints. Whenever we see a situation, whenever we see an opportunity, we need to go to God In Prayer. So when we should pray is all the time. Let's take a look at the next verse. The we should Rejoice always. We should pray without ceasing. We should give. Thanks in all circumstances. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. So it is it is not only a thing that we should do, but it is also a calling that God has for us to pray to seek him and to fully enjoy the gifts that he has for us. So we should pray because it brings us closer to God. We should pray because we need it in our spiritual bodies can't live without it. We should pray. As Jesus taught us to pray. Not just keeping up empty words that we should pray with love and with meaning, there's no point in just saying things to somebody, if we don't actually intend for them to do something, or if we don't actually intend for them, to understand what we're saying in the same way, we pray to God for him, to understand to have a conversation with us. And finally, we should pray all the time. Without ceasing. So as we move on from the more General sense of prayer will take a look at Psalm 23. And in this, it is a more specific example of Prayer. Does Psalm 23 is a beautiful song I believe it's my favorite. If if there are any other Psalms it is a Psalm of love, in a Psalm of of joy of the beautiful things that God does for us and truly it speaks of David heart for God. So David wrote this song. Not all songs that were written by David if you did not have kind of a fun fact I handful of them. We're not but most of them were in this one wise. Is believed that David wrote? This Charles Spurgeon wrote that. He believed David wrote this while he was a king but yet she still remembered his time as a as an adolescent, and maybe a young man, while he was a Shepherd. So, David, truly was remembering the times being a Shepherd. Even yet while he was a king, he didn't lose his humble heart as a shepherd. And as the Bible says, David was a man after God's Own Heart, and don't we want it all be like David, a man after God's Own Heart people. After God's Own Heart.
Because in God, we have everything. But here's a question, how can we be after God's Own Heart? If we don't seek after God's heart? How could we ever know anyone if we don't spend time with them? I I think it's it's such an important thing to be able to spend time the same time I spend time in the same way that I spend time with my wife, with a friend, to know them to build a relationship with them. We have to know God, we have to spend time with him and it is necessary. So let's take a look at Psalm 23 and let's let's really think about about it as we read it. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in Green Pastures, he leads me beside Still Waters. He restores my soul, he leads me in Paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil in my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Thank you, God, for that beautiful Psalm, father of of of joy that weekend seek you. Dear God in the same way this song is is beautiful and it's inspiring. Detroit it warms my heart is is I get to read a song like that. A song is a song. But it also it can be appraised. And it can also be a prayer on gotquestions.org is an excellent resource, they describe that the book of Psalms as songs of of David. But it also says that the Psalms our prayers containing the Riders, innermost questions and doubts, as well as their praises of Thanksgiving, their prayers that got put to song and it is a beautiful.
A beautiful amalgamation of beautiful songs and in prayers that we can draw from and be inspired to to Worship the Lord. And here's another question. Do we give God our innermost questions with faith? Do we tell him our doubts? Do we praise him for the things that he does and he dead. I sometimes I have believed that I have to come to God, and in a certain way that I have to figure out things before I come to God. But as I say that it, it seems almost counterintuitive. Why would I go to the problem? Solver.
To try to fix the problem that I have already tried to fix. Why not go to the problem solver before before I try to fix the problem, should not let the problem, solver fix my problem. Or I've also believe that I can't share what what all is in my mind because God could be offended at my thoughts will doesn't God, already know what we think even before we've already thought it. So, these are just some thoughts that I have had. But truly David gave God his innermost questions. Psalm 23 is more of a Psalm of Praise a prayer of Thanksgiving but there's so many other Psalms that speak about David's Raw.
Needy prayers that truly. He seemed like he was in a hole and he needed God to do something big or some thought that he had. That may not have been a good thought. He gave all those things to God, and in the same way, I think we should do the same. David gave God all of his thoughts, all of his desires. Because again, he knew that God already knew everything about him. So why should we hold anything back? So let's start at verse 1 of Psalm 23. Worse, one through three. The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. He makes me lie down in Green Pastures, he leads me beside Still Waters, he restores my soul, He leads me in Paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.
industry versus I chose to group them together, because I, I think they speak of David's acknowledgement of of God's sovereignty. David knew that nothing could be done without God, but she knew that everything was in God. He knew that his desires would be calm than God. His needs would be match in God, and then, his heart would be restored in God, much like Jesus starts his prayer in Matthew 6. Father, God, who art in heaven? Hallowed Be Your Name. David also acknowledges God's sovereignty.
She knew that without God he was nothing and that's what Jesus also calls us to acknowledge. That it is all about him, all about God, that our prayer should be in our life should be in. David does the same David goes on in the next verse to acknowledge also that even in darkness in sickness, he has already won the victory. He has already overcome the worst circumstance in verse for. It says, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Even in the darkest Valley, there is nothing that David needed to fear about no Predator too big no circumstance to great, no Ravine to Steve for him to get it shape. Since he was a Shepherd thinking about that Shepherd and Allergy in today. Truly no problem too big for us and no temptation too strong for us to overcome with the power of God. And David acknowledged that God truly was his source of Victory. Why, why? How how can? How could God give him? The victory? He says here. How can she rest in the arms of God? It says because you are with me. God is with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. God was with David and David knew it and God is with us today and we should also know it that when we put our strength in the Lord, he truly is able to fight those battles for us. Shepard's went when he speaks of a rod and a staff, we can think of two things, Shepherds used to carry in in David's time, a rod and a staff. The rod was used for protecting the Sheep against predators and the staff for correcting the sheep or bring them back on the trail. In the same way God has his strength is mighty strength, his staff or issues me his rod for protecting us but also, he has his staff, were his Shepherd's, crook to bring us back when we go astray. And in the same way we can rest easy, knowing when we put our trust in the Lord that he not only protects Us from Evil, but he also brings us back when we ourselves a stray from the path of righteousness.
As we go on 2 verse 5.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil in my cup overflows. again, I like to think of a Matthew 6 one more time, As Jesus calls, us, calls us to pray to the Lord to give us this day. Our daily bread in this song. It's almost as if Jesus had prayed give us today. Our daily bread. But then as a Paul says, God gives us beyond what we can ask her. Imagine it says that she prepares a table for us. He prepares a feast and even in the presence of our enemies. So I believe that God speaks for us to, to come humbly before him. And she will truly, when we spend time with him and when we Give him all of our desires. He seeks to lay those desires aside because he has something even better beyond what we could ask for Imagine. And I think that's what David acknowledges here. And just a quick note, when he talks about anointing your head with oil, David in this song, she understood that she was a guest in the table of the Lord. As he prayed this song, he understood that he was not only a gas, but he was an honored guest. He was he was a guest that was robbed back in ancient times. People used to anoint their guests with oil appear oil. That was infused with beautiful fragrances to not only make their guests, feel welcome, but also to make them feel special. in the same way, David says, God, anoints my head with oil and in response to this beautiful welcoming
Gift did this. This beautiful table at a step before. And he says, in my cup overflows, it is at response of of the beautiful things that God has done for him. And he says my cup overflows.
We must understand that we also are children of God and that we are guests of God in that beautiful table that he has set before us. We need to understand that he loves us richly and as we read before that, he gave his only son for us so that we can have everlasting life and praise him so that we can give all the glory and honor to the Lord.
and finally, as we look at verse 6, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. He says I shall dwell because he had Assurance of where he would well and truly. He does dwell in the house of his Lord forever and we can give God praise for this beautiful.
Prayer of of David. As he affirms his, his joy in his face, he realizes the goodness of God, and he acknowledges that, he no longer has to fear for his life, or for his soul, because he will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. There is no fear and David had no fear, not even of death. Because death has truly lost its sting, because of Jesus and we can be grateful for him. As we put our hope in our faith in God, and in the wonderful sacrifice that he gave us through Jesus. So, that we also can say I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. And truly it. The question to ask is, are we assure is David. That we will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. And that is a question that that we should all ask ourselves. And we can with faith, say, yes, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
So finally, as we continue on and we think about this song is Beautiful, Psalm of David. We we we see David and in David as a humble. A humble King. Truly had a, a a position of great power and honor, but yet we see his, his humility throughout it. We also see that he is mighty in faith and as Pastor John would say, David was sold out for him.
He not only displayed his faith, but he also didn't care about the way that people saw him because of his face. I think of, of the times when it talked about David dancing, in a way, that was undignifying, in the presence of God in the same way, we should seek to have a relationship with God and not even care about what other people think about us. When we are in God with our, our faith needs to be that of love. God of of extravagant love for our Lord. And King is David was Truly David Santa be in the presence of God always and that's what we also should do. He was zealous for God. And again, he didn't care what people thought of him. We can pattern Our Lives after David, and we can pattern our prayers after David's, as well. We can pray, simply, we can pray emotionally, we can pray raw, honest, and even child wide prayers. Because God already knows our thoughts. He already knows our desires and he knows in the same way as a parent knows what their child will ask for. He knows that much in advance. So we shouldn't keep back or our darkest parts from the Lord. He wants us to give those darkest parts so that he can give us the Joy from that Darkness so that he can take that away and remove us from those places. We are to fully lay down our lives before God, and we can come boldly Before the Throne of God in a respectful way, but boldly we can come In a way that we, we, we don't have to worry about what we are dealing with. We can go to him as our father and a somebody that loves us because he truly does love us. And he is a lover of our souls. Let's take a look at Hebrews 4:16.
Let us then with confidence with confidence, draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find Grace to help in the time of need with. We have a hard time receiving grace and mercy. If we don't come to the throne of God, we must come to the throne of God to receive this grace and help in our times of need So, let's be intentional in our prayers. They don't have to be boring. We can come before God and we can truly lay it all down at his feet. We can seek to
we can ask God to awaken our hearts and to truly help us do well in his president to enjoy that time. As we spend as we spend time praying with the Lord,
when we pray, we must also be thinking about the thought that we are praying, not only to Some being in the, in the universe we are praying to the most powerful being in the whole universe as we come to God. We can be assured and we can be comforted just like David that we have nothing to worry about and that God loves us and he seeks the best for us. And how he loves us. He loves us so much as we go back, think of John 3:16. He loves us so much that he would give us his only son, that whoever believes in him, should not perish or die. But have everlasting life. That is, how much God loves us. And when we think that God doesn't love us, all we have to do, is remember Jesus. The great love that. God showed us through Jesus. so because of that, we can pray to the Lord with joy because he has redeemed us and we should not we should not seek to be from God for too long. We should seek to always be with him at all times and to pray often to our Ward. So let's pray.
Dear God. We are grateful to you. Dear Lord. For the beautiful things that you give to us, father. The great promises that you have set before us. The great examples your God that you have given to us as, you know, our weaknesses and you know where flaws you Lord and God. Still you choose to love us, your God. You choose to remain by our side father. I pray that you may put a desire in our hearts to seek you. First always your God to seek your kingdom. First, always got a new say that you will add all the other things that we need when we do that. My Lord and I pray that you may give us a joy-con as we seek to spend time with you. God reawaken, our desires to spend time with, you got to open our eyes and our minds your God to see you. And to see the plans that you have for us, and I pray for each and everyone here today to God, that there may be a fire in their hearts to God. It is desired, your God. That is unquenchable in a thirst that continues on more and more everyday to seek. You, you got to know you and to love you that we can dance in your presence and that we can truly Rebel and enjoy the thought of being in your presence. I pray that your beautiful. I loved your God may be displayed throughout our day today and in all that we do and say that we give glory to you dear, Lord, in Jesus name, amen.
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Okay, I'm doing a lot of wing in today for those who are online that weren't able to listen to everything because I didn't understand some things about a lot of things. I don't understand in that technology. Danny, got here and got it going, so you ought to hear part of it. However, if you want to hear it, it is going to be the recording of it is going to be available. That part wasn't messed up by me. So anyway, yes, you can go back and do that. So first, I only know I think of one announcement and someone said that. It was Joseph's birthday.
Now, would somebody like to have the mic instead of me for starting this?
All right, quick. Things Danny took ready to the hospital? How is she doing?
Okay. So Lori and Susan her with Ray, they know that stuff. I don't so anyway, but she seems to be doing pretty good all in all Yeah, she should be okay so was there anything else that we need to mention?
Okay, so coffee next week, Kathy totally failed us.
Now now hey no, no, no. She she did awesome. I'm just okay. I'm just let you know. I'm going to give everybody a hard time and I and I can take it as well. So just make it good.
None of this week stuff on me. So if you stand, I'll be reading from Colossians 2, starting at verse 6. So then just as you received Christ, Jesus is Lord. Continue to live in him rooted and built up in hamstring. In the faith as you were taught and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it. That no one takes. You captive through Hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Have a great week and in the words of John your mission starts now. Thank you.