Participants: Ruthie Jacobsen (Host), Pr. Roy Rugless
Series Code: IAA
Program Code: IAA000393
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00:01 Are you experiencing hard times?
00:03 Do you know anyone who is? Our country is experiencing 00:09 problems that we have never seen before in our lifetime. 00:12 But I'd like to have you meet a guest and I would like 00:17 to have you hear a story from Indian Creek, 00:19 Tennessee that will bring you great hope. 00:22 We will be right back. 00:47 Welcome to Issues and Answers. 00:51 Before we go back to Indian Creek, 00:54 before we talk about the hard times. 00:56 I would like to have us look at something that can 00:59 give us hope. There is light at the end of the tunnel 01:03 because of who we know. It's not who you are, 01:08 but whose you are, who do you belong to. 01:13 And here is a wonderful promise. The New King James 01:16 version in chapter 18 of the Book of Psalms. 01:22 The Lord promises for you will light my lamp, 01:26 do you have a lamp that is burning a little bit low. 01:29 Do you need little bit light? Here's where to go for it. 01:33 You will light my lamp; the Lord my God will enlighten 01:36 my darkness. For by you, I can run against the troupe. 01:41 By my God I can leap over a wall. Are you facing a wall? 01:47 He says I'll give you strength to leap over that wall. 01:52 And then in Verse 32, it says it is God who arms you 01:56 with you strength and makes your way perfect, 02:00 and then he says he will make you feet like the feet 02:02 of deer. So yes, we are in difficult times, 02:08 but we have a God who is so great and who knows 02:12 the end from the beginning, and he says I'll walk with you 02:17 I'll light your lamp, I'll make your path clear. 02:20 What a wonderful, wonderful God. I have a special guest 02:24 with me today and I am anxious for you 02:26 to meet him. Pastor Roy Rugless from. 02:31 Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee. 02:33 Yes mam. Okay, and Roy you are pastor, 02:38 and you also are a prayer leader for. 02:43 South Central Conference. How many states is that? 02:45 Five states. Ah, tell us where they are? 02:48 At Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, 02:53 and Northwest part of Florida, and I also pastor 02:57 in Athens, Alabama. So, I have two jobs Ruthie. 03:00 I know. I am a pastor full-time and I am a 03:03 full-time Director of prayer ministries, 03:06 which stretches me out. That's good for you, isn't it. 03:10 But it's good for the Lord, this is his work. 03:12 Absolutely. Yes. And doesn't he make your 03:14 work a joy? It's a pleasure, 03:17 anytime we do ministry, it's not a job. That's right. 03:22 It's, its, it's a joy. That's right, I can't think of 03:24 doing anything else except working for the Lord, 03:26 its joy so irrespective of all the pressures that come 03:31 knowing that you are in the will of God, 03:33 and doing what God would have you to do. 03:35 He lifts your burden. He does. And that gets back to some 03:39 of what you would talking about in terms of what 03:41 people should do in difficult times. 03:45 Do you anybody that's having a hard time right now? 03:48 I had a visitor come to my church. 03:50 She is not a member for my church, 03:52 but we have prayer meeting and people around my 03:55 community know about prayer. 03:57 She came to my church. I want to stop you 04:00 though because that I get excited about that. 04:03 Okay. When I hear that people who are not 04:06 members of your church, here that this is a place to come 04:10 for prayer, and for help, and for hope. 04:14 That's what it's all about. Yes, yes. 04:16 So, I just have to stop and say praise the Lord. 04:18 Oh yeah. Because of what he is doing, 04:21 he is meeting his people there, and he is showing 04:25 people who don't know him. This is a place 04:27 to come for help. Prayer is the key. 04:32 I think Ruthie that, well, let me back up. 04:37 We are so materialistic here in United States. 04:40 We are, we are. We have and part of the reason 04:45 we are in the trouble that we are in is that we always 04:47 want more than what we need. We become very 04:51 materialistic; we become very credit dependent, 04:55 we become dependent upon goods. 04:58 And you know Roy, the sad thing of it is, 05:00 we try to keep up with the Joneses, and then we 05:03 discover that Joneses aren't going anywhere. 05:05 Yes, yes, yes. And that is sad. 05:07 Yes, yes, yes. So we become dependent upon things, 05:13 and we now are placed in a position where we no longer 05:15 are able to get those things, and we overextended 05:19 ourselves. Sometimes, Ruthie the Lord allows things 05:22 to happen to get our attention. That's right. 05:25 He doesn't necessarily do these things, 05:27 but he allows us to go our own ways into. 05:30 He can use that. And I think that's what he is doing 05:33 in these economic times right now. 05:35 I think that he is using this or has allowed that to 05:38 happen to get our attention, so that we can depend 05:42 more upon him. And then, then we can see what we 05:45 really need, not what we want, but for we the things 05:50 that we want on a human level materialistic 05:53 things on this planet are never going to satisfy. 05:57 No, no, no. But what he has is the real deal. 06:01 Yeah, so that's why sometimes he has to take 06:04 away those things to bring our attention to who has 06:07 provided those things for us, and who will continue 06:10 to provide for us. Let me just back up just little bit. 06:14 When you go back to the Book of Genesis, 06:17 and I've always ask myself the question. Why do we have 06:22 to have food? God could have made us like automatons 06:27 or robots in a human form, so that we would not have 06:31 to eat all the time. We have to eat to refresh ourselves, 06:34 and the thing that came to my mind Ruthie was the Lord 06:38 made us that way, so that we would be dependent 06:41 upon him for our provision. Yes, he could have made us 06:44 and we could gone on our way and we would never 06:46 have had to have food to eat or water to drink, 06:49 and things to sustain us. But he has allowed those 06:52 things to come into play, so that we would be 06:56 dependent upon him. I like that, and you know 06:59 with the children of Israel in the desert for 40 years 07:04 he provided Manah every single day. Yes, yes. 07:09 It didn't fall on the Sabbath, but he fed them every 07:13 single day for 40 years. And they realized where 07:16 it came from. That's right. 07:17 This was a miracle. That's right. 07:19 This was a miracle. So, here is my point. 07:22 God made us dependent. When we become 07:25 materialistic, we become independent. 07:28 It is not to say that we should not have things 07:31 because God wants us to have things. 07:33 God says I worship of all things that you would 07:35 prosper and be health. He wants us to have things. 07:37 Sure. But he wants us to recognize from where 07:39 these things come, and so the problem is Ruthie 07:45 that we have become so independent because 07:48 we have these things that we no longer need God. 07:51 But I have a question for you. Yes mam. 07:53 Are we independent or do we just think we 07:57 are independent? We think we are independent. 08:00 See that's phony. Yes. We are not really 08:03 independent? Yes. We have to depend on him 08:05 for every breath we take. Yes, yes. 08:08 So, we are just fooling ourselves, we are just, 08:12 you know, living in something that is totally phony. 08:15 Yes, yes. We are totally dependent on him 08:18 for everything. Let me take it a step further. 08:20 The Bible says in Deuteronomy, it is God 08:24 that gives power to get wealth. Many times Ruthie, 08:28 we think that okay I got this job on my own based 08:32 on my intellect, based on my achievements, 08:35 I got this job on my own. Alright, 08:37 you got on your own. I'll take away the job 08:39 from you. Now, where are you, 08:43 who provides you a job? Right. 08:45 Now, folks who are jobless now have to look up. 08:49 That's right. Do you see what I'm saying. 08:50 Sure. Those independent individuals now 08:52 become dependent. That's right and that 08:56 is a beautiful truth. And I believe the Lord even 09:01 though he doesn't always take these things 09:04 from us, he can use every situation 09:07 to get our attention. Yes. But Roy I want you to 09:10 take you because I promise before the show 09:13 started. I wanna take you to an experience, 09:18 I wasn't there. So, I want to hear this from 09:21 your lips, I have heard it from others who were 09:22 there, but God did something very out of the ordinary. 09:27 He did something very unusual for a group of pastors, 09:32 who were meeting together at Indian Creek 09:36 in Tennessee. Right. And yes we are 09:38 experiencing hard times. Yes, we are coming to a 09:42 place where we really, really need God, 09:45 but I believe the Lord is saying. Alright, 09:48 if you are seeking me in earnest, I have the 09:52 Holy Spirit in great measure that I want to give 09:56 you for peace and hope and power and ministry. 10:01 Tell us what happened there. Okay. 10:02 I love this because I want to hear this from you because 10:06 you were one of the leaders who God was 10:09 using to bring all of this about. 10:10 Before I do that though I want to finish our 10:14 train afar relative to difficult times. 10:17 Oh, did I interrupt you. Well no, no. 10:20 Go ahead. I didn't wanna leave the people 10:22 out there hanging. Okay. I want to finish my train 10:24 of thought relative to the need for us to become 10:27 dependent. Oh good, okay. And that's why, that's why 10:30 the Lord has allowed some of these material things 10:34 to come away, so that we would look to him. Amen. 10:37 The bottom line Ruthie is This God wants to save us. 10:43 The only way that he can save us is that we have 10:46 to see our need of being saved. That's right. 10:48 So many times these materialistic things get in 10:51 the way of our vision and our view of God. 10:54 That's right. And our need for him. 10:56 That's right. We get so consumed with what we have 10:59 and what we are that we forget from where it comes, 11:03 so therefore the God. So, we look inward instead 11:05 of upward. Exactly, so what God has to do? 11:08 He has to sometimes allow these things to be removed 11:12 and so we are in a position where people have no jobs, 11:15 people who have no homes, people who have 11:18 a difficult time relative to having food to eat. 11:22 That's right. So, so where do we go. 11:24 God says okay, now I want you to direct your attention 11:26 toward me and more important than anything else. 11:30 Once we begin to see that we need God then he can put 11:34 us in a saving relationship with himself and these. 11:37 That comes first. That comes first, 11:38 and then Ruthie the overflow, the outflow of that 11:42 is now we begin to reach out others 11:45 with the same Gospel of hey look God wants to save us, 11:49 we need him. And so now he has us in a position, 11:52 where we have no other choice but to look up. 11:55 So, we have a job to do. Because he has such a big 11:58 plan and as long as we are looking in a wrong direction, 12:02 we will never find it. Right, right. 12:04 And he has the real happiness, the real joy. 12:07 Yes. And he wants us to experience that. 12:11 Yes, so the ultimate objective of God is for him 12:17 to provide all the homeless with a home. 12:20 Ah that's good. We are homeless. 12:23 That's right. The reason I say that is that 12:25 we are pilgrims on this earth, nothing belongs to us. 12:27 All this is going to be burnt up. I just have 12:30 to stop a bit. Yes ma'm. I want to say to our viewing 12:33 audience, don't you like that thought. 12:36 We are all homeless, we are all homeless, 12:39 we are pilgrims on this dark planet. 12:42 And it's a little tiny speck in space 12:45 but God has such a big plan and he wants to give us 12:50 so much more. Pastor Roy, I am so glad 12:54 you said that, because I think that alone 12:58 is such a wonderful thing for us to focus on, to hold 13:01 on to. It's a big truth, huge truth. Thank you now. 13:06 So, so he wants to give us a home with him. 13:11 Yes. His desire is that we be with him, 13:13 John 14 Verses 1, 2, 3 says 'I want you to be with me.' 13:18 Yeah. We have a responsibility first for ourselves 13:22 to make sure that we are in right relationship with him, 13:24 so we could be with him and also tell others about 13:28 the great plan that he has for others to be with him, 13:32 that takes power, that takes something beyond us. 13:36 First of all if we plan to be with God, 13:38 we have to be like God. Therefore, we need a power 13:40 outside of ourselves that will come within us 13:43 and transform us into his image. 13:45 We will never be able to accomplish that on our own. 13:48 That's where the Holy Spirit comes in. 13:49 Amen and he knows that. Yes, yes. He knows that. 13:52 So, we need the Holy Spirit individually to transform us, 13:56 to change us, to be like him, so that we can be 13:59 with him, that's number one. 14:00 And you know the promises for the Holy Spirit 14:03 are so real. He says ask, ask for the Holy Spirit. 14:09 Yes, yes. Because I want to give you more. 14:10 Yes, yes. You can't do that. Yes, yes, and then at the 14:15 same time that we are asking for the Holy Spirit 14:18 to help us to be like him and to transform us. 14:21 We also need the Holy Spirit to go and tell others. 14:24 That's right. You know it's hard to go and tell others 14:27 without power, you need some power, 14:30 and so God's plan now is for his people to have power 14:34 for transformation within ourselves and for 14:37 transformation throughout the world. 14:40 I keep interrupting you. That's alright. 14:42 But you are just getting me all excited here. 14:44 That's alright. Well, I like what our friend Sam 14:46 Telemach says about that. Sam is my friend 14:51 from the Caribbean, and he says it's like a triangle. 14:57 God is at the top, you are here, and here is at the 15:02 other apex of the base of the triangle is someone else 15:08 that you are praying for, and wanting to reach 15:10 for God. But the Holy Spirit is already working 15:13 over there because you are praying. 15:15 So it takes all three, it takes the Holy Spirit, 15:20 but you are wanting to join the Lord, 15:22 he is already working. Yes, yes. 15:24 And you need the Holy Spirit to make that triangle 15:28 complete, you need the power. 15:29 You need the power. Of the Holy Spirit, 15:31 but he is working. He is working over there. 15:33 But he wants to work even more, 15:35 he has promised to work even more. 15:37 I believe that. If you go back to the Book of Acts, 15:40 you start with Chapter 2 and onward you begin 15:42 to see that God's plan in terms of his wanting 15:45 to be with us has been expanded. Yeah. 15:48 After the day of Pentecost five thousand, 15:51 three thousand met at a day, five thousand. One day. 15:54 One day. That's right. You see how great God is, 15:56 you see how much he wants to love, 15:58 and Ruthie he wants to do the same thing today. 16:00 Now, now. Yes. I believe that. But the problem 16:03 is that we have not been accessing the power, 16:08 can I just be very honest with you. We have a, 16:12 we have a limited perspective of what church is. 16:17 Now, you know getting back to your original question 16:20 about how we deal with difficult times, 16:23 the church has been set up as a citadel for refuge. 16:28 That's right. What has happened is that we have 16:32 taken the church for ourselves. We come in, 16:36 get what we need, go back out and keep it to 16:38 ourselves. It's not suppose to be that way. 16:40 Oh! Right, we're supposed to go ahead. 16:42 No, that you are absolutely right on target with that. 16:46 People it's so easy to just to come to church 16:49 for a blessing. If I like what the pastor is saying 16:53 today, then I agree with him, and I like what 16:56 he is wearing, and people smile at me, then this is 16:59 the good day, and I can go home happy and blessed. 17:02 It's all about me, it isn't. That's right. It isn't. 17:06 That's right. It's we don't come, 17:07 yes the Lord wants to bless us, 17:10 but he wants us to, he wants to change us, 17:13 so we can be useful, it's all about him. 17:15 But on top of that Ruthie, he wants the whole world 17:18 to be changed. That's right. 17:19 He wants the whole world to be changed and so 17:21 therefore the church has a special mission, 17:25 not only to come in to be changed but also to go out 17:29 and be agents of change to others. That's right. 17:31 And we've missed it, we have been all inclusive. 17:36 Preach it, preach it. You are right on target. 17:38 We've been all inclusive. That's right. 17:40 We've not been doing what God wants us to do. 17:43 So, now God is saying look, I am getting ready to 17:47 come, I still have a job for you to do. 17:49 I could call angels to do it if I wanted to, 17:52 but I want you to do it. So, therefore you are 17:55 now missing what the ingredient is for us first 17:58 of all to be changed and also to be an agent of change 18:02 to others. And the ingredient that we are missing 18:05 is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We need the 18:08 Holy Spirit, no we don't need money, 18:11 no we don't need food, no we don't need a house. 18:14 What we need is more of Jesus and when we have 18:17 Jesus in more in our lives and along with Jesus 18:21 comes the Holy Spirit, the Lord will do for us exceedingly 18:25 abundantly more than we can ever ask or think, 18:29 and more than anything else, he wants us saved. 18:32 He says look it, look it, look it. That's right. 18:34 When you come with me, you don't have 18:36 to worry about the house; I've already built 18:38 the house for you. When you come with me, 18:41 you don't have to worry about a grocery bill 18:44 or anything, I've got food prepared for you 18:46 that you known that of. That's right. 18:47 When you come to me, you don't have to worry 18:49 about going to the hospital or be involved in a 18:52 funeral tree because I am going to wipe away all tears, 18:56 no more death, no more pain, no more sorrow, 18:58 just come with me. That's right. 19:01 That's the message he wants us to give. 19:02 I got it all, I got it all. That's it, and I want you 19:05 to tell others. Yes. You don't have to worry 19:07 about the as above stuff that's going on right now. 19:10 That's right. He doesn't want us to be satisfied 19:12 with that we see. Exactly. 19:15 He wants us to walk by faith. Yes. 19:17 And then going back to this in the Psalms, 19:20 it is God who arms you with strength, 19:23 we don't have to depend on our own strength, 19:25 we don't have it, we don't have. Yes. 19:27 Without him we can do nothing. Yes. 19:29 But Roy I get so excited about this, 19:32 but I promise our audience that we would tell 19:35 them that. I am going there. 19:36 Indian Creek. I am going there, I am going there. 19:39 Therefore, the church needs the baptism 19:42 of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We need the baptism of 19:44 the Holy Spirit, however, the church follows 19:47 the leader. That's right. 19:48 So, in order for the church to really receive 19:51 it the leader has to have the vision. 19:53 That's right. So, the Lord impressed me, 19:54 my President wanted me to do a large prayer project. 19:58 And the Lord impressed me, I said Mr. President 20:00 in order for this thing to be successful we need 20:02 to bring all of our pastors on board. 20:04 That's right. They need to have the experience 20:07 of the baptism, Ruthie I wanna tell you, 20:09 we had a, we had a pastors prayer summit the first 20:12 time in the history of our conference we got. 20:15 Involving all five states. Yes. How many pastors were 20:19 there? We had approximately hundred pastors. 20:21 Wonderful. Hundred pastors. 20:24 My President Elder Benjamin Brown, 20:27 he courageously put aside his agenda, 20:29 now it wasn't easy for him because he is an 20:31 administrator and he had all these things on his 20:34 agenda that he want to accomplish. 20:35 When the pastors see the President there, 20:39 they say well this is important. Yes. 20:41 I better get myself there. Yes. 20:44 And really the leadership sets the pace. 20:47 It does, and that's my point. If in fact the church 20:51 is supposed to do what God has commissioned us 20:53 to do its starts with the leader. That's right. 20:55 So, the Lord blessed us Ruthie to get all of the 20:57 leaders together and I'm gonna tell you, 21:01 we read about Pentecost in Chapter 2 of Acts. 21:04 Now, you know, now you know. 21:06 The Holy Spirit came. The same God. 21:11 We talked about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 21:14 We pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and God 21:18 came down like we never experienced him before, 21:23 he broke hearts, the pastors become transparent, 21:28 we confess one to another, we forgave one 21:30 and another. We prayed, and we pleaded, we cried, 21:33 we agonized and the Holy Spirit fell like 21:37 we've never ever experienced it before. 21:40 Oh! Ruthie I can't even describe it. 21:42 I can't even describe it. But he was there; 21:44 the Lord was there with you to bring hope 21:47 and healing power. Yes, yes. 21:49 And when your pastors left, they were totally changed. 21:53 Let me tell you something, I've had pastors come 21:57 to me and say, I've been transformed. 22:00 Amen. I've been touched. Amen. 22:01 But it doesn't stop there; I'm gonna go back 22:03 to the local church now. Since that experience now 22:06 that we got all of our pastors on board, 22:09 this thing now has reverberated throughout the 22:12 conference, and pastors are now preaching prayer. 22:17 Now, let me tell you, I just had an experience just 22:19 this past Sabbath, the Riverside 22:22 Seventh-Day Adventist Church. 22:23 Where is that located? In Nashville, Tennessee. 22:25 That's right. Pastor Furman Fordham. 22:28 Yes. Watch this talking about the church, 22:30 talking about hope. Yes, yes. 22:32 He preached a sermon, and getting ready to give 22:37 a better diction he made an altar call, 22:39 and there was appropriate person who is not a member 22:42 of this church, who came forward. 22:45 And then after he came forward, he asked if he 22:50 could give a testimony, this was unusual. 22:54 He asked if he could give a testimony. 22:55 So the pastor because he was not a member of the church 22:57 said okay go ahead and give your testimony. 23:02 He gave a testimony. Then somebody else got up, 23:04 now this they have been in church all day. 23:08 Somebody else got up said Pastor I feel impressed, 23:11 I want to give a testimony, he gave the testimony 23:13 about somebody who had, who had problems 23:15 with their brain, he is getting ready to have brain 23:17 surgery, who stood up and said the Lord had told me 23:20 you are gonna be healed. Somebody else got a Pastor, 23:23 and now the Pastor is standing up there ready 23:25 to give the benediction, ready to close. 23:28 And the Lord is saying no you are not ready. 23:30 Ruthie. I want to do more. This happened last week, 23:33 the Holy Spirit just came in that place. 23:35 Folks were jumping up, I got the testimony, 23:38 people were talking about how their marriages were 23:40 on the rocks, and how they need to pray and how 23:43 would God had done. People were talking about 23:45 emotional damage that has been done. 23:47 They were given testimonies, praising. 23:49 People were talking about how they have been healed. 23:53 The Holy Spirit took over the church service, 23:56 Ruthie let me tell you something, I know 23:57 we got to go, but let me tell you this. 24:00 He never said the benediction until 7 o'clock that night. 24:06 Seven o'clock. He told the people. 24:09 The Lord had some works to do first. 24:11 He told the people, he says I know it's time for us 24:14 to leave, and those of you who have to leave, 24:17 leave, nobody left. Nobody. He had about five hundred 24:20 folks there, nobody left. After two, three more hours 24:23 he says well you know it's time to go, 24:28 but he did not stop the meeting, he said may be 24:29 about hundred left, there was about four hundred 24:30 people left, and he said the people were hungry, 24:35 they were tired, they were just there praising, 24:39 it was very evident that the Holy Spirit was there, 24:43 and he had a work to do. Power, power. 24:45 And he was breaking hearts people were weeping 24:47 and crying, and praying. So, is this already started. 24:53 Yes. And what I am trying to say. 24:54 God is working. What I am trying to say is that if 24:57 we can get all of our churches in that same mode 25:01 knowing that the church is a citadel of power? 25:04 God is ready. That whatever you need, it is there. 25:08 All we got to do is pray for it and God will show up 25:12 and provide for whatever you need. 25:16 Amen, and you know it goes back your friend Kelly 25:19 and I were talking about this. It goes back to the time 25:23 of Solomon when God says if my people who are 25:27 called by my name will humble themselves and pray, 25:32 and a little lady told us this long time ago and I think 25:37 its in the Book of Early Writings. She said the 25:41 testimony time, the time of testimony. Powerful. 25:45 Is a precious time for our church. Powerful. 25:47 And so we need to go back to scripture, 25:50 we need to go back to our needs and realize 25:53 what God has in store for us. 25:55 Revelation Chapter 12 Verse 11 says, 25:58 'And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, 26:01 and by the. Word of their testimony'. 26:03 Powerful. The word of our testimony. 26:06 Praising God. That's right, that's right. 26:08 Its praising let me tell you. Allow him to do it all. 26:11 You asked the question about how to get in difficult 26:14 times when the people came to church not focused 26:17 on their issues or their problems, 26:19 but there focus was on God and what he could do. 26:22 He praised too. They started praising him. 26:24 Yes, yes. What you do in difficult times, 26:27 don't worry about it, praise him. 26:29 That's right. Give him praise, give him glory, 26:32 sing and testify about the goodness of God. 26:35 The Bible says that God inhabits praise. 26:37 That's the answer, that's the answer. 26:40 Ruthie, Ruthie when they started giving testimonies 26:42 about God's power and its miracle working in their lives 26:45 they started praising him and singing songs of praise 26:48 and give it. God couldn't help but come down. 26:51 That's right. He loves that kind of meeting, 26:54 he loves his children. And people would touch. 26:56 Worshipping, that's true. People were healed. 27:00 That's right, that's right. Emotionally. 27:02 That's right. And physically, oh it was tremendous. 27:05 And it's the same God. He is the same yesterday, 27:08 today and forever. Well, I hope that you are as 27:13 energized and as excited and is filled with hope 27:17 as we are here today because God has a plan 27:22 and he has a purpose. He wants us to look to him 27:25 in the difficult times and to realize 27:28 I will arm you with strength, why, 27:31 because I have something for you to do. 27:34 And he loves as Pastor Roy said he loves to hear 27:37 the praises of his people. So, I have a question 27:40 for you. Are you going through a difficult time, 27:43 that's when God wants to hear you sing. Yes. 27:47 That's when God wants to hear you praise him, 27:49 and worship him, and pray for others. Yes. 27:52 So, thank you so much for joining us today. 27:56 It's a privilege for us to come into your home 27:59 and worship with you. We just look forward to 28:03 meeting with you again next time, 28:05 but until then remember God is faithful 28:08 even in the hard times. Amen. God bless. Amen. |
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