Dear heavenly Father,
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we just wanna thank
You for the Sabbath,
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for this Holy Sabbath
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and for
bringing us here together
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to worship and praise Your name,
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we just ask that You'll bless us
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during this time
and be with us, amen.
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Happy Sabbath, church.
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Aren't you glad
it is the Sabbath?
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Amen?
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Aren't you glad to be
in the house of the Lord?
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Amen.
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So you might be sitting next
to your family, your friends,
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maybe even a stranger.
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But today here
we are all family.
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So I'm just gonna say,
happy Sabbath church family,
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happy Sabbath.
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So I just invite
you to stand with us,
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as we sing praises to our God,
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as they sing,
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"Better is one
day in Your courts."
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How lovely is
Your dwelling place
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Oh Lord Almighty
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My soul longs for
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And even faints for You
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For here my heart is satisfied
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Within Your presence
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I sing beneath
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The shadow of Your wings
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Than thousands elsewhere
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One thing I ask and I would seek
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To see Your beauty
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To find You in the place
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Your glory dwells
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day in Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Let the glory of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the glory of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the praises of the King
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Rise among us
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Let it rise
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Let the songs of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the songs of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the joy of the King
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Rise among us
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Let it rise
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Sing ohh ohh ohh
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Let it rise
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Let the glory of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the glory of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the praises of the King
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Rise among us
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Let it rise
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Let the songs of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the songs of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the joy of the King
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Rise among us
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Let it rise
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Sing ohh ohh ohh
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Let it rise
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Sing ohh ohh ohh
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Let it rise
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Let the glory of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the glory of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the praise of the King
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Rise among us
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Let it rise
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Let the songs of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the songs of the Lord
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Rise among us
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Let the joy of the King
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Rise among us
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Let it rise
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Sing ohh ohh ohh
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Let it rise
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Sing ohh ohh ohh
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Let it rise
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Sing ohh ohh ohh
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Let it rise
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You may be seated.
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This is my desire
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To honor You
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Lord, with all my heart
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I worship You
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All I have within me
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I give You praise
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All that I adore
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Is in You
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Lord, I give You my heart
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I give You my soul
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I live for you alone
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Every breath that I take
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Every moment I'm awake
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Lord, have Your way in me
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This is my desire
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To honor You
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Lord, with all my heart
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I worship You
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All I have within me
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I give You praise
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All that I adore
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Is in You
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Lord, I give You my heart
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I give You my soul
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I live for You alone
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Every breath that I take
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Every moment I'm awake
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Lord, have Your way in me
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Lord, I give You my heart
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I give You my soul
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I live for You alone
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Every breath that I take
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Every moment I'm awake
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Lord, have Your way in me
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I wish that they
weren't standing here now
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for what I need to do.
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And that is, I need
to lead this congregation
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in taking a moment in worship
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and letting God
know how grateful we are
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for the lives and
ministries of two women pastors
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who have served
faithfully in our team,
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for both we're
saying farewell today.
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And so I'm gonna invite
Pastor Sharon and Pastor Sabine
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to come up with me.
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And Richard come
on up with Sharon and,
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Karen, come on up please.
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And I want all the pastors
here on our team right now.
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All of who are pastors,
I want you to com on up.
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Royce Snyman,
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where is our
ministry of director?
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Long time pastor of the pastors
in the Michigan Conference,
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he's been a great partner
in ministry all these years.
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Royce and I worked together.
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And Royce is here
on behalf of the NAD.
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I'm gonna ask
Pastor Ester to come on up,
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because NAD has
something special
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they like to do.
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And when a
person retires and so...
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And then, Royce,
I'm gonna ask you
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to have a prayer,
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we just move
right into that prayer
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for these two pastors
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as they answer God's call.
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While I stand here
today as the representative
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of the Michigan
Conference and Elder Micheff,
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our conference
president and his team,
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Elder Ringstaff and Elder Brook,
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and we want you to know
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how much we've
appreciated the ministry
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that both of you have
invested in this congregation
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and in this conference,
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and we wish you
all of God's blessing
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in this transition.
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Life is full of transitions,
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some of them come right
in the middle of our lives,
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we don't always choose them,
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but they come along the way and,
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Pastor Sabine,
you're gonna be making
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that transition down to Florida,
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and our prayers go with you
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that God will
bless you down there
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and your service
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certainly Pastor
Dwight has reminded you
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of how important you've
been as a part of this team.
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And we know that God
will bless you in the service
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that you do for Him down there.
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And thank you for
all that you've done
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to represent Jesus here
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to lead this congregation
in prayer and small groups,
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and God bless you down there.
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Pastor Sharon,
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you're in a
different kind of a transition
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than Pastor Sabine is.
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You're in a transition
that comes to us in our lives
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and it represents a milestone,
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an important
milestone in your life.
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And again, we
just want you to know
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how much we
appreciate the ministry
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that you've committed
to this congregation here.
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You and your husband
have served this congregation
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for a lot of years.
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And we're gonna miss you both.
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And we will be praying for you
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that God will take you in
an abundant way and use you.
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Now, we continue as servants,
because we're servants,
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that's what we signed up for
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when we did what
God asked us to do.
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As you make this transition,
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you're not retiring
from being a servant,
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just from being
a full time pastor
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on the staff.
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So God will bless
you as you serve Him.
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I wanna share this
Bible verse with you.
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And, Sabine, this
applies to you as well.
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I noticed that in the
New King James Version
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the section's title,
"Paul's valedictory."
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And I kinda wondered
what that word meant,
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so I looked it up
and it means farewell.
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So I thought, yeah,
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that certainly
does apply and he said,
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"For I am
already being poured out
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as a drink offering,
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and the time of my
departure is at hand.
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I fought the good fight,
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I have finished the race,
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I have kept the faith.
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Finally, there is laid up for me
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the crown of righteousness,
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which the Lord,
the righteous Judge,
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will give to me on that day,
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and not to me
only but also to all
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who have loved His appearing."
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He was coming to
the end of his life,
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you're not doing that.
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I just want to
make sure that's clear.
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But you are coming to
that major transition point
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in your ministry.
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And these words apply to you,
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you've been
faithful, you've done the work
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that God has given to you to do.
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But you will continue to do that
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in your new capacity.
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There's one voice though
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that you will always
want to be listening for.
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You've listened to
it up to this point
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and you will continue to,
and that's the voice of Jesus.
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In Matthew 25,
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he said to His
servants that were faithful,
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"Well done good
and faithful servant."
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And we say that to you today.
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Thank you so much
of what you've done.
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So on behalf of
Michigan Conference,
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thank you for your
service and your ministry.
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When Royce was saying how
much he was gonna miss you,
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I thought he was gonna say,
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"We're gonna miss
you at camp meeting."
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Cause camp pitch
is coming up shortly
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and you won't be there to help.
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You're gonna go help,
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I tell you she's not retiring,
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she's gonna keep helping.
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But both of you, Sabine,
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you're gonna be moving into
a specialized area of ministry.
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God bless you in that work and,
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Pastor Sharon, you know,
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on behalf of the
North American division
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and because we
got to pastor together
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in this congregation,
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it's just really been honor
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to see the fruits of
you as a female pastor,
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both of you.
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And so on behalf of
the North American division
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and your brothers and sisters
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who service pastors
around the world, I say,
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thank you so much
for being faithful
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to God's call in your life.
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In the time when
it's not always easy
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to say yes when
you've heard His voice
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but eventually you did say yes.
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And you have
served Him faithfully
00:17:08.89\00:17:10.26
for so many years.
00:17:10.29\00:17:11.66
And we have something
that we like to do from
00:17:11.69\00:17:14.03
the North American division
and Michigan Conference.
00:17:14.06\00:17:17.07
This is a pin that says
your 40 years of service
00:17:17.10\00:17:20.50
and we have a
medallion to give you
00:17:20.54\00:17:22.60
to also honor the
work and remembrance
00:17:22.64\00:17:25.07
of what you have done
00:17:25.11\00:17:26.44
in faithfully
serving God as a pastor.
00:17:26.47\00:17:28.88
Maybe you'll do
little better this time,
00:17:33.11\00:17:35.35
God bless you.
00:17:35.38\00:17:36.72
Let's have a
special prayer at this time
00:17:47.33\00:17:49.93
as these two
servants of the Lord
00:17:49.96\00:17:52.47
make this transition.
00:17:52.50\00:17:55.00
Father in heaven,
00:17:55.04\00:17:56.37
as we gather on this platform,
00:17:56.40\00:17:59.17
our hearts are filled
with sadness and also joy,
00:17:59.21\00:18:03.85
sadness at losing team members
00:18:03.88\00:18:06.08
that have been a
vital part of this work,
00:18:06.11\00:18:08.52
in this place and
in this conference.
00:18:08.55\00:18:11.25
Joy in knowing that
these servants of the Lord
00:18:11.29\00:18:13.86
will continue to serve You
00:18:13.89\00:18:15.82
and will be a blessing
whatever You lead them to do.
00:18:15.86\00:18:20.46
We know that Jesus
is coming again soon
00:18:20.50\00:18:23.10
and we just wanna be
faithful servants of Yours,
00:18:23.13\00:18:25.97
leading people to
Jesus so that when He comes,
00:18:26.00\00:18:29.10
He gets all the
people that He deserves
00:18:29.14\00:18:32.11
because of what
He did on the cross.
00:18:32.14\00:18:34.28
Bless these two servants
now in Jesus' name, amen.
00:18:34.31\00:18:38.71
Amen. Amen.
00:18:38.75\00:18:40.08
Thank you to all.
00:18:40.12\00:18:41.45
Good morning, boys and girls,
00:18:44.45\00:18:48.39
on this first Sabbath of June.
00:18:48.42\00:18:53.33
We get Memorial
Day so that means
00:18:53.36\00:18:54.70
that the first
Sabbath of summer really,
00:18:54.73\00:18:57.00
nice to see you,
I'm glad you're here.
00:18:57.03\00:18:59.57
You're looking
refreshed and ready to go.
00:18:59.60\00:19:02.37
And I am so
thankful for the story today
00:19:02.40\00:19:04.01
because I wrote my
three story scouts.
00:19:04.04\00:19:07.28
I said, hey guys,
five Sabbaths in June,
00:19:07.31\00:19:09.64
every children
story about birds,
00:19:09.68\00:19:12.38
fine birds stories.
00:19:12.41\00:19:14.45
And to them just like that,
00:19:14.48\00:19:15.88
Darius and Melky
found this story.
00:19:15.92\00:19:19.32
In fact the story came,
emailed to me, back there,
00:19:19.35\00:19:21.22
their emails are back to back.
00:19:21.26\00:19:23.56
So that must be the right story.
00:19:23.59\00:19:25.86
It's a story about
00:19:25.89\00:19:27.56
a wildlife
photographer named Ken Abby.
00:19:27.60\00:19:33.57
And it's a story about a fox.
00:19:33.60\00:19:36.27
We're gonna call her Mrs. Fox,
00:19:36.30\00:19:39.44
she could have been
Mr. Fox, we don't know,
00:19:39.47\00:19:42.84
but Mrs. Fox knew at the
end of the day, she said,
00:19:42.88\00:19:44.68
"Oh, I gotta take
supper home to my kids.
00:19:44.71\00:19:47.82
I have to have
something to eat."
00:19:47.85\00:19:49.22
And as she...
Oh, she got supper.
00:19:49.25\00:19:51.32
Yay! We have supper.
00:19:51.35\00:19:53.09
She's just prancing
through the tall prairie grass,
00:19:53.12\00:19:56.29
she's prancing, she's happy,
00:19:56.32\00:19:58.39
she's bringing supper
home when all of a sudden...
00:19:58.43\00:20:01.93
Now, I need to tell you
that this is a little video.
00:20:01.96\00:20:06.20
But I wanna let your
parents show it to you
00:20:06.23\00:20:08.54
so that they get in
trouble and not me, all right?
00:20:08.57\00:20:11.94
But it's very...
00:20:11.97\00:20:13.34
It's not that
bad, it's PG probably.
00:20:13.38\00:20:16.44
Anyway, as she...
00:20:16.48\00:20:18.55
As mother fox is
taking supper home,
00:20:18.58\00:20:21.48
obviously she
notices something happening.
00:20:21.52\00:20:25.19
I don't know,
maybe she saw a shadow
00:20:25.22\00:20:27.66
coming over her shoulder.
00:20:27.69\00:20:29.02
Whatever it was,
she turns around,
00:20:29.06\00:20:30.89
she sees whatever it
is and she starts running,
00:20:30.93\00:20:33.90
she starts
running, she has supper,
00:20:33.93\00:20:35.96
she's not gonna let
anybody take her supper.
00:20:36.00\00:20:37.97
But somebody's coming who says,
"That is my supper tonight."
00:20:38.00\00:20:43.00
And that somebody is coming down
00:20:43.04\00:20:44.74
lower and lower and lower,
00:20:44.77\00:20:46.11
and before you know it, boom!
00:20:46.14\00:20:49.24
A huge bald eagle.
00:20:49.28\00:20:53.15
A bald eagle way up
in the sky who said,
00:20:53.18\00:20:56.28
"Hmm, looks like
Mrs. Fox has got supper,
00:20:56.32\00:20:58.85
won't have to work hard
tonight for mine, here I come."
00:20:58.89\00:21:02.92
And when he grabbed on,
00:21:06.49\00:21:08.13
because he has
his fives talons...
00:21:08.16\00:21:10.17
When he grabbed
on to that supper,
00:21:10.20\00:21:16.47
you know what Mrs. Fox said?
00:21:16.50\00:21:18.57
She said, "You are
not taking my supper.
00:21:18.61\00:21:22.18
You are not taking
my supper, no way Jose.
00:21:22.21\00:21:25.88
I'm hanging on."
00:21:25.91\00:21:27.28
Well guess what this
big strong eagle did?
00:21:27.32\00:21:30.42
He said, "You're hanging on.
00:21:30.45\00:21:31.95
Let's watch this, here we go."
00:21:31.99\00:21:35.46
And that big bird with Mrs. Fox
00:21:35.49\00:21:39.96
still holding on to
her supper is holding on
00:21:40.00\00:21:42.90
to what he hopes
will be his supper
00:21:42.93\00:21:45.17
and Mrs. Fox now is
wiggling and squiggling,
00:21:45.20\00:21:47.64
and wiggling and squiggling,
00:21:47.67\00:21:49.00
and that bird is
trying to get up,
00:21:49.04\00:21:50.41
but Mrs. Fox is such a...
00:21:50.44\00:21:51.94
She's a bother.
00:21:51.97\00:21:53.88
As she keeps
wiggling and squiggling
00:21:53.91\00:21:55.91
and he gets higher and higher,
00:21:55.94\00:21:57.28
finally Mr. Eagle
says, "You know what lady?
00:21:57.31\00:22:00.12
You want that supper that bad?
00:22:00.15\00:22:02.02
You can have it."
00:22:02.05\00:22:05.39
And in the video you'll see,
00:22:05.42\00:22:07.19
Mrs. Fox gets up
and dusts herself off.
00:22:07.22\00:22:10.09
She says, "Still
got my supper, see you."
00:22:10.13\00:22:14.20
You wanna see a picture of it?
00:22:14.23\00:22:15.60
Here is this picture.
National Geographic got it.
00:22:15.63\00:22:21.04
Oh, wow!
00:22:21.07\00:22:23.74
Yeah.
00:22:23.77\00:22:25.11
You see Mrs. Fox, she
says, "I'm not letting go."
00:22:25.14\00:22:27.54
And Mr. Eagle
says, "Oh, yes you are."
00:22:27.58\00:22:29.64
But guess...
00:22:29.68\00:22:31.01
This really ought to
be a story about a fox,
00:22:31.05\00:22:32.71
because she never let go.
00:22:32.75\00:22:34.42
Don't you ever
quit. That's the message.
00:22:34.45\00:22:37.29
Oh, look at that!
00:22:37.32\00:22:40.09
Guess what?
00:22:40.12\00:22:41.46
Jesus says, "If
you'll trust Me..."
00:22:41.49\00:22:42.82
Listen to this,
"If you'll trust Me..."
00:22:42.86\00:22:45.56
And we can take a
picture off now, please?
00:22:45.59\00:22:47.26
"If you'll trust Me,
if you will trust Me,
00:22:47.30\00:22:53.20
I'm gonna make you
as strong as an eagle.
00:22:53.23\00:22:57.04
I'm gonna make you
soar like an eagle,
00:22:57.07\00:22:59.91
but you have to wait on
Me, you have to trust Me."
00:22:59.94\00:23:02.98
Oh!
00:23:03.01\00:23:04.35
I wanna be as strong
as an eagle, don't we?
00:23:04.38\00:23:05.71
How many want be
as strong as an eagle?
00:23:05.75\00:23:07.08
Oh, we all put our
hands up, of course.
00:23:07.12\00:23:08.45
But I want Jesus
to make me strong
00:23:08.48\00:23:11.75
by trusting Him.
00:23:11.79\00:23:14.32
How many want
Jesus to make us strong?
00:23:14.36\00:23:16.42
"Oh please, dear Jesus, please."
00:23:16.46\00:23:20.00
Who would like to pray?
00:23:20.03\00:23:22.50
And say, "Jesus, thank
You for making us strong."
00:23:22.53\00:23:25.77
And I saw your hand first.
00:23:25.80\00:23:27.27
Young man, yep,
that'd be you, come on up.
00:23:27.30\00:23:29.54
What's your name?
00:23:29.57\00:23:30.91
Hasia.
00:23:30.94\00:23:32.27
Hasia, well I
like that name, Hasia.
00:23:32.31\00:23:34.14
All right, let's close our eyes,
00:23:34.18\00:23:36.01
fold our hands
as Hasia thank Jesus
00:23:36.04\00:23:38.38
for making us strong.
00:23:38.41\00:23:40.38
Dear Jesus thank You
for this beautiful day.
00:23:40.42\00:23:43.28
And thank You for everybody
00:23:43.32\00:23:44.95
who's coming to this
church and bless in Jesus
00:23:44.99\00:23:47.89
as He made all of us,
all things for us, amen.
00:23:47.92\00:23:51.16
Amen.
00:23:51.19\00:23:52.53
Thank you Hasia,
a beautiful prayer.
00:23:52.56\00:23:53.90
You're gonna be
singing your hearts
00:23:53.93\00:23:55.26
as you go back to your seat.
00:23:55.30\00:23:56.63
Hey, thank you Jesus.
00:23:56.67\00:23:58.07
Thank you for making us strong.
00:23:58.10\00:24:01.14
Why should I feel
00:24:25.13\00:24:32.53
Discouraged
00:24:32.57\00:24:37.07
And why should the shadows come
00:24:37.11\00:24:43.95
Why should my heart
00:24:47.98\00:24:53.89
Feel lonely
00:24:53.92\00:24:59.09
And long for heaven and home
00:24:59.13\00:25:06.67
When Jesus is
00:25:10.17\00:25:16.18
My portion
00:25:16.21\00:25:20.58
My constant friend
00:25:20.62\00:25:26.19
Is He
00:25:26.22\00:25:30.29
His eye is on
00:25:30.33\00:25:35.76
The sparrow
00:25:35.80\00:25:40.97
And I know He watches me
00:25:41.00\00:25:47.48
I sing because
00:25:51.15\00:25:57.69
I'm happy
00:25:57.72\00:26:00.79
I sing because
00:26:00.82\00:26:06.26
I'm free
00:26:06.29\00:26:09.40
His eye is
00:26:11.27\00:26:15.24
On the sparrow
00:26:15.27\00:26:22.74
And I know
00:26:22.78\00:26:25.51
He watches over me
00:26:25.55\00:26:29.85
But let not your heart
00:26:33.05\00:26:38.89
Be troubled
00:26:38.93\00:26:43.60
He sends the words
00:26:43.63\00:26:47.50
I hear
00:26:47.54\00:26:52.47
And resting on
00:26:52.51\00:26:56.68
His goodness
00:26:56.71\00:27:00.22
I lose my doubts and fears
00:27:00.25\00:27:06.72
For by His mighty hand
00:27:08.99\00:27:13.53
He leaded
00:27:13.56\00:27:16.60
He knows
00:27:16.63\00:27:19.43
What steps I made it
00:27:19.47\00:27:25.04
His eye is on
00:27:25.07\00:27:29.84
The sparrow
00:27:29.88\00:27:34.05
And I know
00:27:34.08\00:27:36.38
He watches me
00:27:36.42\00:27:42.59
His eyes are on
00:27:42.62\00:27:46.66
Every sparrow
00:27:46.70\00:27:51.93
And I know
00:27:51.97\00:27:54.44
He watches me
00:27:54.47\00:27:59.77
I sing because I'm happy
00:28:02.11\00:28:09.68
I sing because I'm free
00:28:09.72\00:28:15.92
His eyes are on
00:28:19.26\00:28:22.90
Every little sparrow
00:28:22.93\00:28:27.40
And I know
00:28:27.44\00:28:30.01
He watches me
00:28:30.04\00:28:33.94
I sing because I'm happy
00:28:37.51\00:28:45.05
I sing because I'm free
00:28:45.09\00:28:51.89
His eyes are on
00:28:55.10\00:28:58.53
Every single sparrow
00:28:58.57\00:29:02.94
And I know He watches
00:29:07.51\00:29:13.52
I know He watches
00:29:13.55\00:29:18.25
I know He watches me
00:29:18.29\00:29:25.63
Amen and amen.
00:29:49.62\00:29:51.79
Yeah.
00:29:51.82\00:29:53.25
I'm so glad
when they said to me,
00:29:53.29\00:29:54.92
"Hey, let's go the
house of God today."
00:29:54.96\00:29:57.76
So we did, and God is here.
00:29:57.79\00:30:01.73
Desire of Ages says,
00:30:01.76\00:30:03.10
"There's not a sparrow
that ever falls to the ground
00:30:03.13\00:30:05.13
that the heavenly
Father doesn't mark that bird
00:30:05.17\00:30:07.44
that tumbles to its death."
00:30:07.47\00:30:09.70
His eyes are on every sparrow.
00:30:09.74\00:30:12.67
There are times
when I am having worship
00:30:12.71\00:30:14.41
and my heart is
just a tad heavy.
00:30:14.44\00:30:19.45
And I pull out my
tablet and YouTube up that song
00:30:19.48\00:30:24.35
and just listen to it,
just listen to the words.
00:30:24.39\00:30:27.79
You'll never hear it sung
finer than what we just heard.
00:30:27.82\00:30:30.83
Thank you, Margaret, Leslie.
00:30:30.86\00:30:34.63
Sorry to leave but
I'm gonna miss him.
00:30:34.66\00:30:38.10
Let's pray.
00:30:38.13\00:30:39.47
Oh, God, are You
really that way with birds?
00:30:39.50\00:30:44.61
Please.
00:30:44.64\00:30:46.64
If You care for that
little treetop songster,
00:30:46.68\00:30:51.91
imagine how You feel about us.
00:30:51.95\00:30:55.38
In Jesus' name make
it clear, we pray, amen.
00:30:55.42\00:31:00.12
Few days ago in Japan,
00:31:00.16\00:31:05.03
I had a most blessed experience.
00:31:05.06\00:31:07.20
Every single morning I got up.
00:31:07.23\00:31:08.60
And you get up early,
00:31:08.63\00:31:09.96
the sun comes up
before 4 o'clock,
00:31:10.00\00:31:12.90
4:45 so it's light.
00:31:12.93\00:31:15.20
I go out running
00:31:15.24\00:31:16.57
and as soon as I walk out
of that tiny little apartment
00:31:16.60\00:31:18.51
on the campus of
Saniku Gakuin College,
00:31:18.54\00:31:20.98
where I spent a week.
00:31:21.01\00:31:24.15
This little guy or
girl would begin to sing
00:31:24.18\00:31:27.82
at the top of his lungs.
00:31:27.85\00:31:30.62
I'm telling you,
I tried to find him,
00:31:30.65\00:31:33.12
I looked
everywhere, all day long,
00:31:33.15\00:31:36.26
I finally found
out what the bird is.
00:31:36.29\00:31:41.06
In fact, Karen did some googling
00:31:41.10\00:31:42.83
as we're Skyping back and forth
00:31:42.86\00:31:44.47
and she found out it's
the Japanese bush warbler,
00:31:44.50\00:31:49.70
they call it Uguisu.
00:31:49.74\00:31:52.71
It's the bird that
announces spring to Japan.
00:31:52.74\00:31:55.28
The greatest
poets have written poems
00:31:55.31\00:31:57.28
about the Uguisu.
00:31:57.31\00:31:59.18
It's a write up passage.
00:31:59.21\00:32:02.38
In fact, I wanna
show you picture,
00:32:02.42\00:32:03.75
I want you to
listen to this song.
00:32:03.79\00:32:05.12
We got it right
here, we got it right here.
00:32:05.15\00:32:06.49
You see the
picture on the screen,
00:32:06.52\00:32:07.86
there's that little Japanese,
and here he is singing.
00:32:07.89\00:32:12.36
He just builds his
head of steam and then phew.
00:32:20.60\00:32:25.77
And he'll get
his buddies answering
00:32:25.81\00:32:27.98
or her friends answering
00:32:28.01\00:32:29.34
and it's just
the hills are live.
00:32:29.38\00:32:32.31
They are live with the music
of the Japanese bush warbler.
00:32:32.35\00:32:36.15
Do you know what
that bush warbler
00:32:36.18\00:32:37.52
is singing right now?
00:32:37.55\00:32:39.02
I'll tell you what the
bush warbler is singing.
00:32:39.05\00:32:41.72
My dad, when he would
take us for walks in Japan,
00:32:41.76\00:32:44.76
we'd often ask this
question, birds, flowers...
00:32:44.79\00:32:47.50
Hey, kids, what do you
think the flowers are saying?
00:32:47.53\00:32:49.93
Hey, you hear those birds?
00:32:49.96\00:32:51.30
What do you think those birds
are singing right now kids?
00:32:51.33\00:32:52.97
And boy, we had to answer,
00:32:53.00\00:32:54.34
memorized every single time
and we'd say, "God is love."
00:32:54.37\00:32:58.37
My dad didn't
invent that by the way,
00:32:58.41\00:32:59.74
they're little
classic steps to Christ.
00:32:59.77\00:33:01.41
Take a look at
this on the screen."
00:33:01.44\00:33:04.35
God is love, is
written upon every opening bud,
00:33:04.38\00:33:08.08
upon every spire
of springing grass.
00:33:08.12\00:33:10.39
The lovely birds
making the air vocal
00:33:10.42\00:33:11.92
with their happy songs.
00:33:11.95\00:33:13.29
All testify to the
tender fatherly care of our God,
00:33:13.32\00:33:17.23
and to His desire to
make His children happy."
00:33:17.26\00:33:20.90
Ain't that beautiful?
00:33:20.93\00:33:22.46
God's message to you today
00:33:22.50\00:33:23.83
is I am love, I am
love, amazing grace.
00:33:23.87\00:33:26.37
Amazing,
00:33:26.40\00:33:27.90
how amazing His
grace we just say.
00:33:27.94\00:33:31.04
Wow.
00:33:31.07\00:33:32.71
That little songster.
00:33:32.74\00:33:36.04
I resolved, I said,
"Okay, we got to do birds."
00:33:36.08\00:33:40.42
Came back and found
out there are hundred,
00:33:40.45\00:33:42.45
I counted them a
hundred different passages
00:33:42.48\00:33:43.92
in the Bible that
speak about birds.
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God is a huge bird lover.
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So we're having a
little series now,
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if you got any
bird watching friends,
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tell them about the series.
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We are having a series called,
00:33:51.69\00:33:53.03
"Gone to the Birds -
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Lessons from the
Divine Ornithologist."
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Yup, that's it.
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And lesson number
one today, here we go.
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Open your Bible
please to Isaiah Chapter 40.
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Find Isaiah 40,
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we're two-thirds of the
way through the chapter,
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the prophet, the
gospel prophet, Isaiah.
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Two-thirds of the
way through the chapter,
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God interrupts, and
you have quotation marks.
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God says, "Okay prophet,
you've been talking for me,
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now, let me talk for myself."
00:34:16.28\00:34:17.79
I want you to pick it
up right there please.
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Oh, this is something else.
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Isaiah Chapter 40,
we'll pick it up in verse 25.
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Isaiah 40:25.
00:34:28.23\00:34:29.56
I'm in the New
International Version.
00:34:29.60\00:34:30.93
"To whom..."
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God speaking quotation marks,
00:34:32.33\00:34:33.67
"To whom will you compare me?
00:34:33.70\00:34:37.31
Or who is my equal?'
00:34:37.34\00:34:38.71
says the Holy One."
00:34:38.74\00:34:40.08
Holy One is Isaiah's
favorite name for God.
00:34:40.11\00:34:42.04
"Who's like me, come on tell me,
00:34:42.08\00:34:43.88
who's like Me."
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and then God sign it.
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So prophets, what prophet said,
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they put words to
God, words on God's lip
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and immediately
Isaiah starts speaking again.
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Yeah, folks, listen.
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Verse 26, "Lift up your
eyes, look to the heavens:
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Who created all these?
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He who brings
out. the starry host
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one by one and," listen to this,
00:34:59.19\00:35:00.93
"calls forth
each of them by name."
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That's who did it.
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"Because of His great
power and His mighty strength,
00:35:05.77\00:35:08.17
not one of those
stars today is missing."
00:35:08.20\00:35:12.41
So Isaiah is now
talking to the people,
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his readers, his listeners.
00:35:14.14\00:35:15.58
So, "Why do you
complain, Jacob?"
00:35:15.61\00:35:17.61
Why do you say,
00:35:17.65\00:35:18.98
Israel 'My way is
hidden from the Lord,
00:35:19.01\00:35:21.68
my cause is
disregarded by my God'?"
00:35:21.72\00:35:24.22
God doesn't care for
me, that's the truth.
00:35:24.25\00:35:26.25
Where is God when I need Him?
00:35:26.29\00:35:27.62
Why has He forsaken me?
00:35:27.66\00:35:29.29
Here I am all alone.
00:35:29.32\00:35:31.49
Why do you say that,
the prophet asked us.
00:35:31.53\00:35:35.86
"Here I am financially broken,
00:35:35.90\00:35:39.00
here I am physically weakened,
00:35:39.03\00:35:42.24
here I am maritally defeated,
00:35:42.27\00:35:45.74
here I am emotionally spent,
00:35:45.77\00:35:48.64
here I am
spiritually struggling,
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where is God when I need Him?"
00:35:50.91\00:35:54.05
I know someone
far away from here,
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sometimes it just
takes my breath away,
00:35:58.19\00:36:00.22
how quickly
whenever something goes wrong
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in his life, his
default response,
00:36:01.82\00:36:03.99
almost without exception,
00:36:04.03\00:36:05.49
is to emotionally began wailing,
00:36:05.53\00:36:07.70
"I'll get a text from him,
I'll get an email from him,
00:36:07.73\00:36:09.36
I'll get a phone call from him.
00:36:09.40\00:36:10.83
Why is God doing this to me?
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What has happed to Him?
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I have been so faithful to Him.
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Why? Why? Why?"
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I get miffed with
him until I realize.
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God had to say
this to me one day,
00:36:19.97\00:36:21.31
He said, "Dwight,
what's your problem.
00:36:21.34\00:36:22.68
That's how you sound to me."
00:36:22.71\00:36:26.82
Why? Why? Why?
00:36:26.85\00:36:28.18
Where are you God?
00:36:28.22\00:36:29.55
Why did you just sit there?
00:36:29.58\00:36:30.92
Why did I have
to go through that?
00:36:30.95\00:36:32.29
You could have done
something, you didn't.
00:36:32.32\00:36:33.66
The prophet speaks
again, "Are you serious?
00:36:37.39\00:36:40.06
You don't think
God can do something?
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Come again."
00:36:42.86\00:36:44.33
Read it with me,
verse 28, "Do you not know?
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Have you not heard that the Lord
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is the everlasting God,
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the Creator of
the ends of the earth.
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He will not grow tired or weary,
00:36:51.04\00:36:52.37
and his understanding
no one can fathom."
00:36:52.41\00:36:54.28
Guess what about our God?
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Verse 29, "He gives
strength to the weary
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and He increases
the power of the weak.
00:36:57.51\00:36:59.31
Even the youths grow tired..."
00:36:59.35\00:37:01.25
It's a campus where
you got a lot of young,
00:37:01.28\00:37:02.62
they've gone
for the summer, but,
00:37:02.65\00:37:03.99
"Even the youths
grow tired and weary,
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and young men,"
and I'd add and women,
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"stumble and fall."
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But here comes verse 31,
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"But those who
wait on the Lord..."
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The NIV says,
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"Those who hope in the
Lord will renew their strength."
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Read it out loud with me.
00:37:18.17\00:37:19.50
"They will soar like eagles."
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Oh I love that, "They
will soar like eagles,
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they will run
and not grow weary,
00:37:26.07\00:37:28.14
they will walk
and not be faint."
00:37:28.18\00:37:31.61
Do you know how an eagle flies?
00:37:31.65\00:37:33.38
Watch this. This
is how an eagle flies.
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This is his wing span,
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between 5.9 to
7.5 feet tip to tip.
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In Alaska they are
huskier, they are 8 feet.
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This is how an eagle flies,
00:37:42.52\00:37:44.93
straight, straight.
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Turkey vultures,
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and people sometimes confuse
turkey vultures with eagles,
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turkey vultures,
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and we have a
whole flock of them
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that live in the
trees of our neighborhood.
00:37:54.27\00:37:55.60
In the summer time they're
just circling high over head.
00:37:55.64\00:37:58.24
But turkey vultures,
00:37:58.27\00:37:59.61
their wings are
in a shallow V shape
00:37:59.64\00:38:01.88
called dihedral.
00:38:01.91\00:38:04.85
So their wings are up.
00:38:04.88\00:38:06.21
So if you see the
wings up like this,
00:38:06.25\00:38:08.98
that's a turkey
vulture, that's not an eagle.
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The eagle may sometimes have
the wings down just a little,
00:38:10.39\00:38:13.36
but straight across.
00:38:13.39\00:38:15.16
And by the way, do you
know how high they can soar?
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Get this, 10,000 feet.
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An eagle, 10000 feet.
00:38:21.30\00:38:24.37
I got really excited about that.
00:38:24.40\00:38:25.73
I said, "I wonder if
that's a world record."
00:38:25.77\00:38:27.10
And then one in the line said,
00:38:27.14\00:38:28.47
"Give me the
highest soaring birds."
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Are you kidding?
00:38:29.87\00:38:31.21
You know that, whack,
whack, that little mallard duck,
00:38:31.24\00:38:32.91
the little mallard
duck with iridescent
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blue and green head?
00:38:34.48\00:38:35.81
The mallard duck
flies at 21,000 feet.
00:38:35.84\00:38:39.81
Ha!
00:38:39.85\00:38:43.18
Let me give you another one.
00:38:43.22\00:38:44.55
Phew! You are not
gonna believe this.
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Rup...
00:38:46.76\00:38:48.09
I have to look this
up to get his name right,
00:38:48.12\00:38:49.46
Ruppell's griffon vulture
00:38:49.49\00:38:52.49
soars at 37,000 feet.
00:38:52.53\00:38:56.87
I flew back from
Japan in a Boeing 777
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and it said on a little map
in front of me, 37,000 feet.
00:38:59.17\00:39:02.74
Can you imagine,
opening your window shade
00:39:02.77\00:39:04.61
and there is
this vulture saying,
00:39:04.64\00:39:06.31
"What are you doing up here?"
00:39:06.34\00:39:09.41
37,000 feet.
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They have very well adapted...
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The Creator has
adapted their lungs
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so they can
survive at 37,000 feet.
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Anyway, I don't
wanna be a vulture,
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I don't wanna be a
duck, I wanna be an eagle.
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Come on, verse
31. Read it again.
00:39:20.46\00:39:21.96
"But they, who wait on the Lord,
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shall renew their strength.
00:39:23.66\00:39:24.99
They shall mount up
with wings as eagles,
00:39:25.03\00:39:26.86
they will run and not be weary,
00:39:26.90\00:39:28.30
they will walk
and not be faint."
00:39:28.33\00:39:29.93
That's how I wanna live.
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So the question to
be asked right now is,
00:39:31.33\00:39:32.87
"Yo, what does it
mean to wait on the Lord?"
00:39:32.90\00:39:36.30
Well, that's a good question.
00:39:36.34\00:39:37.81
Pastor Sabine,
00:39:37.84\00:39:39.17
we've been
farewelling her today.
00:39:39.21\00:39:40.94
And, Pastor Sharon,
don't miss that lunch
00:39:40.98\00:39:43.01
today at 1:30 downstairs.
00:39:43.04\00:39:44.38
Everybody's invited.
00:39:44.41\00:39:45.75
So Pastor Sabine,
00:39:45.78\00:39:47.12
because she has been in charge
00:39:47.15\00:39:48.48
of 7 am house of
prayer on Wednesdays.
00:39:48.52\00:39:51.35
We have a 7 pm.
I work on that one.
00:39:51.39\00:39:53.42
She's been working on that one.
00:39:53.46\00:39:54.79
So one morning she
taught us this song.
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It's from a mutual
friend of ours, Derek Morris.
00:39:57.46\00:39:59.09
She used to
pastor with Derek Morris,
00:39:59.13\00:40:00.90
Forest Lake Academy Church.
00:40:00.93\00:40:02.66
Derek is just a
superb script... and Bodil,
00:40:02.70\00:40:05.70
his wife is just a
superb scripture song composer.
00:40:05.73\00:40:11.47
He took Psalm
27, the last 2 verses
00:40:11.51\00:40:15.11
and he's written a tune to it.
00:40:15.14\00:40:16.64
The identical message...
00:40:16.68\00:40:18.01
We'll put it on
screen for you right now.
00:40:18.05\00:40:19.38
Psalm 27.
00:40:19.41\00:40:20.75
The identical
messages, Isaiah 40:31.
00:40:20.78\00:40:22.18
You'll see it.
00:40:22.22\00:40:23.55
Now I'm gonna sing this for you.
00:40:23.59\00:40:24.92
You're gonna sing it with
me because some of you know it.
00:40:24.95\00:40:27.02
The rest of you do like I did.
00:40:27.06\00:40:28.39
I went home to Karen,
00:40:28.42\00:40:29.76
I said, "Karen, you
got to listen to it."
00:40:29.79\00:40:31.13
We YouTubed it.
00:40:31.16\00:40:32.49
And there is Darryl
and Bodil singing the song.
00:40:32.53\00:40:33.86
You'll get it.
00:40:33.90\00:40:35.23
You'll get it
in a piece of cake.
00:40:35.26\00:40:36.60
Karen and I did it last night
just to make sure that's true.
00:40:36.63\00:40:37.97
All right, this is verse 13,
00:40:38.00\00:40:40.37
"I would have lost
heart, unless I had believed
00:40:40.40\00:40:44.77
that I would see the
goodness of the Lord..."
00:40:44.81\00:40:47.61
And he says, repeat it,
00:40:47.64\00:40:48.98
"I would have lost
heart, unless I had believed
00:40:49.01\00:40:53.01
that I would see
the goodness of the Lord
00:40:53.05\00:40:56.79
in the land of the living."
00:40:56.82\00:40:59.29
Now here's what it
means to wait, wait on Him.
00:40:59.32\00:41:02.52
"Wait on the Lord,
be of good courage,
00:41:02.56\00:41:06.49
and He will
strengthen your heart."
00:41:06.53\00:41:09.30
Repeat that again,
00:41:09.33\00:41:10.67
"Wait on the Lord,
be of good courage,
00:41:10.70\00:41:14.60
and He will
strengthen your heart.
00:41:14.64\00:41:18.44
Wait, I say, on the Lord!
00:41:18.47\00:41:22.24
Wait, I say, on the Lord."
00:41:22.28\00:41:26.41
In the middle of the day,
that song comes back to me.
00:41:26.45\00:41:28.65
In the middle of
the day, God says,
00:41:28.68\00:41:30.02
"Come on, Dwight,
what are we talking about?"
00:41:30.05\00:41:32.75
That's what it
means to wait on the Lord.
00:41:32.79\00:41:34.26
Yeah, but, Dwight, I
know that Isaiah 30's point,
00:41:34.29\00:41:37.16
Isaiah 40:31's point.
00:41:37.19\00:41:38.99
"They that wait upon the
Lord will renew their strength."
00:41:39.03\00:41:40.90
But come on, what does it
mean to wait upon the Lord?
00:41:40.93\00:41:45.93
Boy, you're pretty
persistent with this.
00:41:45.97\00:41:47.30
Let me just put a
one word answer for you.
00:41:47.34\00:41:48.77
This is what it means
to wait upon the Lord.
00:41:48.80\00:41:51.84
This is what it means.
00:41:51.87\00:41:53.31
Which part of the
W, the A, the I, the T
00:41:53.34\00:41:55.11
do you not understand?
00:41:55.14\00:41:56.88
It means wait, wait, wait.
00:41:56.91\00:42:02.18
Oh, mercy!
00:42:02.22\00:42:03.55
Someone once made the
quip, "Hurry is of the devil."
00:42:03.59\00:42:08.36
And then the
psychoanalyst came by and said,
00:42:08.39\00:42:12.09
"No, hurry is not of the
devil, hurry is the devil."
00:42:12.13\00:42:17.73
Yeah because the
devil majors in hurry.
00:42:17.77\00:42:19.10
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
00:42:19.13\00:42:20.47
Third millennials like you and I
00:42:20.50\00:42:21.84
are hurry, hurry, hurry,
00:42:21.87\00:42:23.41
hurry, hurry,
hurry, hubba, hubba, hubba.
00:42:23.44\00:42:25.11
Vamos, vamos, vamos.
00:42:25.14\00:42:26.47
Get going, move it,
move it, move it, move it.
00:42:26.51\00:42:28.11
We're always on the move.
00:42:28.14\00:42:30.48
Hurrying,
hurrying, and hurrying.
00:42:30.51\00:42:34.45
We are so strung out by the way,
00:42:34.48\00:42:35.82
as third millennials,
00:42:35.85\00:42:37.19
we are so strung out
that we need drugs to wake up.
00:42:37.22\00:42:39.25
Caffeine being
the major culprit.
00:42:39.29\00:42:41.76
And then we need drugs
just to survive the day,
00:42:41.79\00:42:43.76
caffeine being
the major culprit.
00:42:43.79\00:42:45.63
And then we need a drug to
put us back to sleep again.
00:42:45.66\00:42:48.96
Roseanne Barr,
you've ever heard about her?
00:42:49.00\00:42:51.40
Oh boy!
00:42:51.43\00:42:53.67
She made international
news just a few days ago
00:42:53.70\00:42:55.60
when she blamed her midnight
racist tweets on Ambien.
00:42:55.64\00:43:01.04
You got to blame something,
00:43:01.08\00:43:02.71
you got to blame
somebody, not me.
00:43:02.74\00:43:05.85
You're not thinking right.
00:43:05.88\00:43:07.38
You're hurrying too much.
00:43:07.42\00:43:09.18
Hurry, hurry, hurry.
00:43:09.22\00:43:11.12
And by the way,
when we drag in this
00:43:11.15\00:43:12.49
move it, move it, move it
00:43:12.52\00:43:13.86
spirit into God's
presence, dead on arrival.
00:43:13.89\00:43:16.02
The
relationship, dead on arrival.
00:43:16.06\00:43:18.33
I'm not doing anything in hurry.
00:43:18.36\00:43:19.86
I'm don't do anything in hurry.
00:43:19.89\00:43:21.36
Don't you tell me to do it fast.
00:43:21.40\00:43:24.07
Wait.
00:43:24.10\00:43:25.43
Wait. Wait on the Lord.
00:43:25.47\00:43:27.80
We treat God as if He's lucky
to have an appointment with us
00:43:27.84\00:43:30.21
sometime during this
day, "Aren't you lucky, God?"
00:43:30.24\00:43:34.61
Years ago, a writer
named Joyce Landorf,
00:43:34.64\00:43:38.01
wrote a book titled
"God's Waiting Room."
00:43:38.05\00:43:42.48
I don't know about you,
00:43:42.52\00:43:44.12
but that's the most
frustrating part for me
00:43:44.15\00:43:46.59
of going to the doctor
or going to the dentist,
00:43:46.62\00:43:48.86
having to sit in
that waiting room,
00:43:48.89\00:43:51.59
fumbling through
old people magazines or,
00:43:51.63\00:43:56.20
if you're lucky,
Sports Illustrated.
00:43:56.23\00:43:59.03
I hate that. Why?
00:43:59.07\00:44:00.97
Let's go. I'm here.
00:44:01.00\00:44:03.77
Jump to.
00:44:03.81\00:44:07.54
No. Could it be...
00:44:07.58\00:44:09.11
I'm asking you a
question. I'm thinking out loud.
00:44:09.14\00:44:11.25
Could it be that
God has waiting rooms
00:44:11.28\00:44:14.82
stuck in the middle of living
00:44:14.85\00:44:17.22
where suddenly everything
grinds down to a halt.
00:44:17.25\00:44:21.02
And you have no
choice but to wait.
00:44:21.06\00:44:25.29
Could it be?
00:44:25.33\00:44:27.03
He actually
specializes in waiting rooms.
00:44:27.06\00:44:31.83
"For they that
wait upon the Lord
00:44:31.87\00:44:34.54
shall renew their strength
00:44:34.57\00:44:36.71
and mount up
with wings as eagles."
00:44:36.74\00:44:39.21
Joyce Landorf by the way
re-wrote the familiar hymn.
00:44:39.24\00:44:41.64
I wannna sing
the hymn to you now,
00:44:41.68\00:44:43.08
the way she re-wrote it.
00:44:43.11\00:44:44.85
By the way, you have this
in your take home study guide.
00:44:44.88\00:44:47.35
Let me have my own way, Lord
00:44:47.38\00:44:51.52
Let me have my own way
00:44:51.55\00:44:55.29
You are the prodder
00:44:55.32\00:44:58.73
But don't you
forget I am the clay
00:44:58.76\00:45:04.57
Now mold me and make me
00:45:04.60\00:45:08.30
If it doesn't hurt
too much or cramp my style
00:45:08.34\00:45:13.34
While I am moving
00:45:13.38\00:45:16.58
Forging ahead
and motormouth still
00:45:16.61\00:45:23.02
Wait. Wait.
00:45:23.05\00:45:25.65
What part of the word
wait do we not understand?
00:45:25.69\00:45:31.99
This is why I got to
put the sin as waiting room
00:45:32.03\00:45:34.06
so that we won't have
my own way, Lord, to him.
00:45:34.10\00:45:37.67
Forty years for Moses
shepherding his bedraggled,
00:45:37.70\00:45:41.17
his father-in-law's bedraggled
an incorrigible sheep.
00:45:41.20\00:45:47.48
So much for leadership dreams.
00:45:47.51\00:45:49.81
Thirteen years for Joseph,
00:45:49.84\00:45:52.31
a slave with no hope, no future,
00:45:52.35\00:45:54.85
so much for freedom dreams.
00:45:54.88\00:45:59.15
Three years for Paul,
00:45:59.19\00:46:00.52
wandering around
in an Arabian desert.
00:46:00.56\00:46:02.62
So much for mission.
00:46:02.66\00:46:04.66
Thirty years for Jesus
00:46:04.69\00:46:07.26
in a backwater, no good village.
00:46:07.30\00:46:11.17
So much for Messiah.
00:46:11.20\00:46:13.57
Isn't that something?
00:46:13.60\00:46:15.30
Waiting rooms.
00:46:15.34\00:46:17.21
Apparently God
majors in waiting rooms,
00:46:17.24\00:46:20.21
some of you are in a
waiting room right now.
00:46:20.24\00:46:22.98
I know you.
00:46:23.01\00:46:24.61
Some of you have
been waiting for days,
00:46:24.65\00:46:27.55
some of you have
been waiting for months.
00:46:27.58\00:46:31.15
Some of you here I know
have been waiting for years.
00:46:31.19\00:46:35.72
When do I get out of this room?
00:46:35.76\00:46:38.23
When does He call my
name and it's my turn?
00:46:38.26\00:46:40.83
Not a word, it feels.
00:46:40.86\00:46:42.56
My trip to Japan ended up
00:46:46.33\00:46:47.67
being in that same
waiting room with you.
00:46:47.70\00:46:50.54
Mm-hm.
00:46:50.57\00:46:52.14
Because I always had
these great plans for God,
00:46:52.17\00:46:55.11
for God to come
through in a great way for me,
00:46:55.14\00:46:57.45
and it's that for me business,
00:46:57.48\00:46:58.81
it's my huge blind spot,
which is obvious to others.
00:46:58.85\00:47:02.75
Two realities,
I need to tell you
00:47:02.78\00:47:04.12
about two realities.
00:47:04.15\00:47:05.49
Reality number one,
00:47:05.52\00:47:06.86
and I got to tell you,
00:47:06.89\00:47:08.22
knowing that you were
praying for me over here,
00:47:08.26\00:47:09.99
every waking hour,
00:47:10.03\00:47:11.76
knowing that you were
praying for me over here,
00:47:11.79\00:47:14.63
for me, every waking hour,
00:47:14.66\00:47:16.00
it was just like an
uplift beneath my wings.
00:47:16.03\00:47:18.40
I could soar because I said,
00:47:18.43\00:47:20.30
"God, back at home,
they are praying for me."
00:47:20.34\00:47:24.54
God bless you for that.
00:47:24.57\00:47:25.91
You'll never know
till we got to eternity
00:47:25.94\00:47:27.84
what God has done
because you were praying.
00:47:27.88\00:47:30.65
Now just for me, the
whole country of Japan,
00:47:30.68\00:47:33.31
He'll tell us one day.
00:47:33.35\00:47:35.18
By the way, I wrote a
22-page journal, can I say,
00:47:35.22\00:47:37.69
man, these long entries, Dwight.
00:47:37.72\00:47:39.39
I wrote a 22-page
journal over there.
00:47:39.42\00:47:40.86
Every day, up, up,
uploaded it online.
00:47:40.89\00:47:44.89
And if you wanna
read the journal,
00:47:44.93\00:47:46.80
it's PMChurch.org/JapanJournal,
00:47:46.83\00:47:51.37
replete with
pictures, everything.
00:47:51.40\00:47:54.17
I did that so that I
don't have to come home
00:47:54.20\00:47:55.80
and give a big report now.
00:47:55.84\00:47:59.01
The reality number
one, you were praying.
00:47:59.04\00:48:01.58
Your intercessory praying
00:48:01.61\00:48:03.18
made all the
difference in the world for me.
00:48:03.21\00:48:05.35
Never sell yourself short
00:48:05.38\00:48:07.25
when you pray little all you.
00:48:07.28\00:48:10.89
When you pray, heavens,
00:48:10.92\00:48:16.16
"What's he asking for?
00:48:16.19\00:48:18.19
What's she praying for?"
00:48:18.23\00:48:21.40
So God gets the glory,
but you get the thanks.
00:48:21.43\00:48:23.73
Thank you.
00:48:23.77\00:48:25.10
But reality number two,
00:48:25.13\00:48:26.67
in my own praying in a
little apartment bedroom,
00:48:26.70\00:48:30.31
over there, I kept reminding,
00:48:30.34\00:48:31.74
"God, you get a lot
of people, dear people,
00:48:31.77\00:48:34.18
praying for the success of this
very short evangelistic series
00:48:34.21\00:48:36.44
on their college campus.
00:48:36.48\00:48:37.81
And by the way,
God, just to let you know
00:48:37.85\00:48:39.68
that time to do it would be now.
00:48:39.71\00:48:41.92
I have only a
few days, I'm here.
00:48:41.95\00:48:45.89
Now is the time.
00:48:45.92\00:48:47.42
You remember me, don't you?
00:48:47.46\00:48:48.82
The kid that was born in Japan,
come on, twice, supernaturally,
00:48:48.86\00:48:52.73
you saved my life.
00:48:52.76\00:48:54.10
I know what you
saved my life for.
00:48:54.13\00:48:55.46
It was for me coming
back to do this series.
00:48:55.50\00:48:58.33
So, God, let's go,
I'm running out of time."
00:48:58.37\00:49:02.60
Yeah.
00:49:02.64\00:49:03.97
No waiting room
proviso in my prayer strategy.
00:49:04.01\00:49:07.51
No, no, no, we fasted
and prayed over here, God.
00:49:07.54\00:49:09.91
You knew how long we fasted.
00:49:09.94\00:49:11.91
Come on, hurry, hurry,
hurry. I got to get it done.
00:49:11.95\00:49:14.65
I read in Christianity Today,
00:49:14.68\00:49:17.19
a blog written by a
writer named Jim Long,
00:49:17.22\00:49:19.65
who rather recently observed.
00:49:19.69\00:49:21.02
I will put it on the screen,
you can take this one home too.
00:49:21.06\00:49:23.29
"If the only way," he writes,
00:49:23.32\00:49:24.86
"If the only way
to develop patience
00:49:24.89\00:49:26.90
is to go
through some difficulty,
00:49:26.93\00:49:30.17
we'd probably
just as soon skip it."
00:49:30.20\00:49:32.27
True or false?
00:49:32.30\00:49:33.64
Of course I don't want it.
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.60
"Every day brings
some exasperation,
00:49:35.64\00:49:38.57
some need, small or great,
00:49:38.61\00:49:40.08
that forces us to
exercise patience."
00:49:40.11\00:49:42.11
And I put it in here,
00:49:42.14\00:49:43.48
"Or impatience
as the case may be.
00:49:43.51\00:49:45.45
We struggle with patience."
00:49:45.48\00:49:46.82
Now here comes the wisdom.
00:49:46.85\00:49:48.85
"We struggle with patience
00:49:48.88\00:49:50.32
because we don't like
the circumstances we face."
00:49:50.35\00:49:52.59
Now here's the line,
00:49:52.62\00:49:53.96
"Patience is difficult
00:49:53.99\00:49:55.32
because things
feel out of control."
00:49:55.36\00:49:58.86
And if you are a
control freak like me,
00:49:58.89\00:50:01.06
that drives you crazy.
00:50:01.10\00:50:04.00
Patience is about admitting.
00:50:04.03\00:50:08.77
"I'm out of control.
00:50:08.80\00:50:10.67
I can't do a blooming thing
about this now, not a thing."
00:50:10.71\00:50:15.71
You think about it.
That's why I'm impatient.
00:50:15.74\00:50:18.68
Maybe you're impatient too.
00:50:18.71\00:50:22.05
Out of control.
00:50:22.08\00:50:23.42
But I can't do a thing about it.
00:50:23.45\00:50:26.76
Every day, every night,
00:50:26.79\00:50:28.36
every day, every night in Japan,
00:50:28.39\00:50:29.72
"God, please now
this is your big hour.
00:50:29.76\00:50:31.09
Come on, let's go.
00:50:31.13\00:50:32.46
This is the day for
your great breakthrough.
00:50:32.49\00:50:33.83
You promised me,
00:50:33.86\00:50:35.20
'Call me upon Me
on the day of trouble
00:50:35.23\00:50:36.56
and I will deliver you
and you'll glorify Me.'
00:50:36.60\00:50:37.93
God, I promise I'll glorify You.
00:50:37.97\00:50:39.30
Just do it."
00:50:39.33\00:50:40.67
Then one day,
00:50:44.07\00:50:45.74
somewhere during that
week, further to the end,
00:50:45.77\00:50:49.38
and I never
mentioned this in the journal,
00:50:49.41\00:50:52.91
God came to me
with corrective council.
00:50:52.95\00:50:57.19
Don't you just love that?
00:50:57.22\00:50:59.02
Like, "You think I
need corrective counsel now?
00:50:59.05\00:51:02.32
I need You to do
something. Don't counsel me."
00:51:02.36\00:51:05.53
He came to me with
corrective counsel.
00:51:05.56\00:51:07.30
He did.
00:51:07.33\00:51:08.66
He said, "Hey, boy,
I know where you are,
00:51:08.70\00:51:12.47
I've been there long before you,
00:51:12.50\00:51:14.20
so don't give Me this,
'We got to act now' stuff,
00:51:14.24\00:51:17.77
all right?
00:51:17.81\00:51:19.41
I know your people are praying.
00:51:19.44\00:51:21.18
What do you think
I'm doing in Japan
00:51:21.21\00:51:22.54
what I'm doing right now?
00:51:22.58\00:51:23.91
You don't know about it.
But am I supposed to report?
00:51:23.95\00:51:25.28
Yes, sir. Am I
supposed to report to you?
00:51:25.31\00:51:26.65
No, I'm not.
00:51:26.68\00:51:29.68
Why don't you trust Me?
00:51:29.72\00:51:31.79
Maybe I know what I'm doing.
00:51:31.82\00:51:33.36
I didn't bring you over
here to write headlines,
00:51:33.39\00:51:34.99
I brought you over
here to preach the truth.
00:51:35.02\00:51:37.13
Are you doing it?" Yup.
00:51:37.16\00:51:39.49
"Be quite then, don't
need to talk about this.
00:51:39.53\00:51:43.87
You don't need to talk about it.
00:51:43.90\00:51:47.10
But may I remind you, Dwight,
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.47
just in case you
haven't thought about this,
00:51:48.50\00:51:51.77
the next generation of
spiritual leaders in Japan
00:51:51.81\00:51:54.34
are sitting right
there every single day."
00:51:54.38\00:51:56.41
There are only 20
theologies majors in Japan
00:51:56.44\00:51:58.25
and that calls only 20 of them,
00:51:58.28\00:51:59.61
they are all sitting
in evangelistic series,
00:51:59.65\00:52:01.35
they have never seen
an evangelistic series
00:52:01.38\00:52:03.62
because Japan long
ago quit doing them.
00:52:03.65\00:52:05.15
"That's the western
way. We don't do it."
00:52:05.19\00:52:07.32
And now they're
realizing, "We go to do it."
00:52:07.36\00:52:10.23
Dwight, you have 20 young
men and women sitting there,
00:52:10.26\00:52:15.60
listening, I need them,
00:52:15.63\00:52:19.90
I need the next wave.
00:52:19.93\00:52:23.51
Now you know why you're there?
00:52:23.54\00:52:26.57
Oh, by the way, Dwight,
00:52:26.61\00:52:29.01
70% of the student
body, you know this figure,
00:52:29.04\00:52:31.41
70% of the student
body is not-Christian.
00:52:31.45\00:52:34.68
Pagan, nothing, 70%.
00:52:34.72\00:52:37.75
Student body of 201,
70%, do the arithmetic, 140.
00:52:37.79\00:52:41.42
Dwight, did it occur to you
00:52:41.46\00:52:42.79
that there are 140
Japanese young adults sitting
00:52:42.82\00:52:46.33
by having to attend,
00:52:46.36\00:52:48.26
require chapel as it is
for week of prayer over here?
00:52:48.30\00:52:52.77
They have to sit
there every single morning
00:52:52.80\00:52:54.60
while you preach
my everlasting gospel.
00:52:54.64\00:52:56.94
Find Me a city in Japan
00:52:56.97\00:52:58.31
where a 140 people are
showing up morning or night
00:52:58.34\00:53:01.44
sitting there listening
to the everlasting gospel.
00:53:01.48\00:53:03.45
So don't give me
this little blubber about
00:53:03.48\00:53:05.95
this was just a little
glorifying week of prayer.
00:53:05.98\00:53:09.12
This is not a week of prayer.
00:53:09.15\00:53:11.69
This is My plan.
00:53:11.72\00:53:13.86
And it's My plan, not yours.
00:53:13.89\00:53:16.02
And it's My life
and it's not yours.
00:53:16.06\00:53:18.03
And headlines
belong to Me, not you.
00:53:18.06\00:53:19.53
So what are you worried about?
00:53:19.56\00:53:20.90
Wait on Me.
00:53:20.93\00:53:22.90
Wait on Me.
00:53:22.93\00:53:24.70
I'm preaching to myself now.
00:53:24.73\00:53:27.24
But a preacher has to do that.
00:53:27.27\00:53:29.37
Wait on Me.
00:53:29.40\00:53:30.74
Wait on Me.
00:53:34.74\00:53:36.91
Some of you are here in
the same thing right now.
00:53:36.95\00:53:39.31
Wait on Me.
00:53:39.35\00:53:40.68
Oh, wait on Me, please,
please, please, please, please.
00:53:40.72\00:53:43.05
You don't have to be
in control of your life.
00:53:43.08\00:53:44.45
No, no, no, no, no.
00:53:44.49\00:53:46.55
Don't take control now, no.
00:53:46.59\00:53:47.99
Wait on Me.
Don't act, wait on Me.
00:53:48.02\00:53:50.33
Hold it.
00:53:50.36\00:53:52.39
I know you're
battling for your health,
00:53:52.43\00:53:54.40
I know you're
battling for your life,
00:53:54.43\00:53:56.67
wait on Me, wait on Me.
00:53:56.70\00:53:59.33
I know you're struggling
just to get through school,
00:53:59.37\00:54:02.60
I know that, wait on Me.
00:54:02.64\00:54:04.37
Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:54:04.41\00:54:06.21
Wait on Me.
00:54:06.24\00:54:07.58
I know you're financial outlook
is terribly bleak right now,
00:54:07.61\00:54:10.95
don't worry, wait on Me.
00:54:10.98\00:54:14.65
Trust Me, trust Me.
00:54:14.68\00:54:17.89
I know your heart is broken
and your marriage is crumbling.
00:54:17.92\00:54:21.16
I know.
00:54:21.19\00:54:22.52
I'm sorry.
00:54:22.56\00:54:23.89
Wait on Me.
00:54:23.93\00:54:25.26
Don't.
00:54:25.29\00:54:26.93
Wait, wait.
00:54:26.96\00:54:29.53
You've lost the
dearest person on earth to you?
00:54:29.56\00:54:32.13
I know.
00:54:32.17\00:54:34.07
Me too.
00:54:34.10\00:54:36.34
Wait on Me.
00:54:36.37\00:54:38.61
Wait on Me.
00:54:38.64\00:54:41.51
Jesus' seven word credo,
"I will put my trust in Him."
00:54:41.54\00:54:47.12
Hebrews 2:13,
00:54:47.15\00:54:48.55
wait on Me.
00:54:48.58\00:54:52.69
Because I get the
last word, Dwight.
00:54:52.72\00:54:55.22
People, I get the last word.
00:54:55.26\00:54:58.36
You wait, I win.
00:54:58.39\00:55:02.33
And then guess what?
00:55:02.36\00:55:03.80
Because I win, you win.
00:55:03.83\00:55:06.20
You will win.
00:55:06.23\00:55:08.17
You wait,
00:55:08.20\00:55:11.57
I win,
00:55:11.61\00:55:14.11
you win.
00:55:14.14\00:55:16.21
Trust Me.
00:55:16.24\00:55:17.58
Before I said, Desire of Ages,
00:55:17.61\00:55:18.95
oh, this is something,
this last line here, look out,
00:55:18.98\00:55:22.48
"Christ rejoiced
that He could do more
00:55:22.52\00:55:24.42
for His followers than
they could ask or think..."
00:55:24.45\00:55:26.42
How true that is.
00:55:26.45\00:55:27.79
He's already
working your life, friend.
00:55:27.82\00:55:29.26
It feels like a waiting room.
00:55:29.29\00:55:30.63
It's no waiting on God's part.
00:55:30.66\00:55:31.99
He's scrambling
behind the scenes.
00:55:32.03\00:55:35.26
Keep reading.
00:55:35.30\00:55:36.63
"He knew the truth,
00:55:36.67\00:55:38.00
armed with the
omnipotence of the Holy Spirit,
00:55:38.03\00:55:40.54
would conquer in
the contest with evil."
00:55:40.57\00:55:43.07
God wins,
00:55:43.10\00:55:44.51
truth will out
falsehood, God wins.
00:55:44.54\00:55:48.51
Keep reading though.
00:55:48.54\00:55:49.88
Here comes the blockbuster,
00:55:49.91\00:55:51.38
"He knew that
00:55:51.41\00:55:52.75
the bloodstained
banner of the cross
00:55:52.78\00:55:54.22
would wave triumphantly
over His followers."
00:55:54.25\00:55:56.95
And now here it is,
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"He knew that the life
of His trusting disciples
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who wait on Him
would be like His,
00:56:00.96\00:56:03.99
a series of
uninterrupted victories,
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not seen to be such here,
00:56:09.80\00:56:11.57
but recognized as such
in the great hereafter."
00:56:11.60\00:56:15.27
Wow.
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Ever thought of your life
00:56:17.21\00:56:18.54
as a series of
uninterrupted victories?
00:56:18.57\00:56:20.14
No, you haven't.
00:56:20.18\00:56:21.51
Your family looks at
your life and they say,
00:56:21.54\00:56:22.88
"There are no
uninterrupted victories there."
00:56:22.91\00:56:24.25
Your friends look
at your life, they say,
00:56:24.28\00:56:25.61
"There's no
uninterrupted victories there."
00:56:25.65\00:56:26.98
You look at your
life and you say,
00:56:27.02\00:56:28.35
"There are no
uninterrupted victories here."
00:56:28.38\00:56:29.72
But if you're waiting on Him,
00:56:29.75\00:56:31.42
your life one day will be shown
to be one victory after another
00:56:31.45\00:56:35.92
after another after another
00:56:35.96\00:56:38.36
while you were in a waiting room
00:56:38.39\00:56:39.73
thinking nothing was happening.
00:56:39.76\00:56:41.10
Come on.
00:56:41.13\00:56:42.46
Come on is right.
00:56:42.50\00:56:45.23
Wait, W, A, I, T.
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Wait, just wait, trust Me.
00:56:49.54\00:56:53.58
You wait, you wait, you wait.
00:56:53.61\00:56:57.31
I win, you wait.
00:56:57.35\00:57:00.35
I win, then you win.
00:57:00.38\00:57:03.05
Amen.
00:57:03.08\00:57:04.42
Wait on Me.
00:57:04.45\00:57:05.95
Amen and amen.
00:57:05.99\00:57:11.26
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