Participants: Greg & Jill Morikone (Host), C. A. & Irma Murray, Mollie Steenson
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW016018A
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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:08 Mending broken people 00:13 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, family and friends, happy Sabbath. 01:10 Welcome to 3ABN Today Worship. 01:13 We're so glad that you can join us. 01:15 I know we've had a good week here at 3ABN. 01:18 We always look forward, don't we to the Sabbath. 01:21 And what a blessing to receive the Sabbath rest and blessing 01:23 that God has promised. 01:25 And we thank you for joining us. 01:26 It's a blessing to join together 01:27 somehow through these television airwaves, 01:29 radio airwaves. 01:30 It's neat to be able to join you, 01:32 and we can have family worship together. 01:33 I know I'm always blessed. Amen. 01:36 What a privilege to come into your home 01:37 and to share this hour. 01:39 To share this time as we open up the Sabbath. 01:41 Spend it with each other as family and with Jesus, 01:44 but not only are Greg and I here as family 01:47 and with viewer's family, we have our 3ABN part of our, 01:51 a small part of our 3ABN family here around the table. 01:55 On my left here is Sister Irma Murray 01:57 and her husband Pastor CA Murray. 01:59 And we love both of you. 02:01 You're a man and a woman of God 02:03 who just have given your life to the service of Jesus 02:06 and it's a joy to have you here. 02:07 Good to be here. Good to be here. 02:09 And you guys are wonderful team 02:10 together ministering for the Lord. 02:12 How long have you been at 3ABN Pastor? 02:14 Eleven years. Wow. 02:15 It's amazing and you wear many hats, 02:18 but you do all of them well. 02:19 We all do. 02:21 Very true. You too wear many hats. 02:24 We all do a little bit of everything. 02:26 Amen, amen, that's wonderful. 02:28 And who else do we have with us? 02:29 And we have on this side our boss we could say. 02:32 But she is our sister in Christ, 02:34 Sister Mollie Steenson. 02:35 I'm not the boss, I just tell people I'm bossy, 02:39 and they just don't know the difference. 02:40 That's okay. 02:41 And it's a joy to be here. 02:43 Thank you so much for inviting me 02:46 and letting me be a part of this family worship. 02:48 Amen. 02:49 Now you've been a part of 3ABN for many years, 02:51 you and your husband Pastor Hal. 02:53 How many years? 02:54 I'm going on my 21st year. 02:56 So that makes me older than dirt and... 02:59 No, it doesn't. 03:01 There's a few that have been here older than 03:04 or longer than me, but I'm one of the... 03:07 the one's with longest tenure at this point. 03:08 Yeah. 03:10 You know, yeah, I appreciate you 03:11 and of course your Husband Pastor Hall 03:13 can't join us today, 03:14 but you know we appreciate both of you very much 03:15 and you two also are a wonderful team 03:17 for the cause of God. 03:19 And it's neat, you know, 'cause I mean just like yours, 03:21 Pastor CA, I can enter your office at any time. 03:23 Yours too Mollie, 03:24 and you always have a word from the Lord to share, 03:26 and that blesses me more than you guys will ever know. 03:29 Because, you know, us young people need people 03:32 that are in our lives as mentors 03:34 and as people that can share the word of God, 03:35 give us counsel. 03:37 So thank you so much 03:38 for those many times that you shared 03:40 with Jill and myself. 03:41 Amen. 03:43 You are both a blessing, aren't they CA? 03:44 They really are, and I'm so glad 03:46 that you said us young people need mentors, 03:48 not us young people need old people. 03:50 So I appreciate that you know. I'm off the hook. 03:54 You are indeed a blessing and you guys been such a joy 03:56 to your work and to your lives. 03:58 So you are an inspiration to us also. 04:00 That's true. 04:01 Well, it's definitely a family here at 3ABN. 04:03 Oh, yes for sure. 04:04 It is, and that's the beautiful thing 04:05 is being part of a family and sharing that. 04:07 And speaking of that, 04:08 our first song tonight is Family of God. 04:12 We're all part of the family of God here at 3ABN 04:14 and we really feel that, and you at home are part, 04:18 whether you're having family worship joining us 04:19 or by yourself. 04:21 Whether you're joining with your family, 04:23 whatever you're doing. 04:24 Whether you're in prison watching and you're saying, 04:26 I want to be part of the Family of God. 04:28 Let's sing that song together Family of God, 04:30 and we have Summer Boyd on the piano. 04:32 That's right. 04:40 Okay, here we go. 04:42 I'm so glad 04:44 I'm a part of the family of God 04:49 I've been washed in the fountain 04:53 Cleansed by His blood! 04:57 Joint heirs with Jesus as we travel this sod 05:04 For I'm part of the family, 05:08 the family of God 05:11 You will notice we say 05:14 brother and sister 'round here 05:19 It's because we're a family 05:23 And these folks are so near 05:26 When one has a heartache, 05:31 we all share the tears 05:34 And rejoice in each victory in this family so dear 05:41 This is to the chorus. 05:42 I'm so glad 05:44 I'm a part of the family of God 05:50 I've been washed in the fountain 05:54 Cleansed by His blood! 05:58 Joint heirs with Jesus as we travel this sod 06:05 For I'm part of the family 06:09 the family of God 06:14 We sure hope that you're joining us 06:15 on that wonderful song, family of God, 06:17 you know it's neat isn't it? 06:18 It says here joint heirs with Jesus 06:21 as we travel this sod. 06:22 When I think of the sod, I think of this old earth. 06:25 You know, we're in this together 06:27 but the earth is not our home, is it? 06:29 This old earth, 06:30 we look forward to heaven and then 06:31 when this earth will be made new. 06:33 So what a blessing to be able to join with Jesus 06:35 as we travel this earth together 06:38 as a family of God. 06:39 What's our other song we gonna sing? 06:41 Pass me not O gentle Savior. 06:43 I think this is one of my favorite songs. 06:51 Pass me not O gentle Savior 06:57 Hear my humble cry 07:03 While on others Thou art calling 07:08 Do not pass me by 07:14 Savior, Savior 07:19 hear my humble cry 07:24 While on others Thou art calling 07:30 Do not pass me by 07:35 Trusting only in Thy merit 07:41 Would I seek Thy face 07:46 Heal my wounded, broken spirit 07:52 Save me by Thy grace 07:57 Savior, Savior, 08:02 hear my humble cry 08:07 While on others Thou art calling 08:13 Do not pass me by 08:19 Thou the spring of all my comfort 08:24 More than life for me 08:30 Whom have I on earth beside Thee? 08:36 Whom in Heaven but Thee? 08:41 Savior, Savior 08:47 hear my humble cry 08:52 While on others Thou art calling 08:57 Do not pass me by 09:03 Amen. 09:04 Pastor, do you want to open a prayer for us 09:05 as we are starting our worship here together? 09:08 Gracious Father, how we praise You and thank You 09:10 for another day of life, health, and strength. 09:14 Yes. 09:15 We thank the Father for the Sabbath hours 09:18 for the sacred time 09:19 that You've given us to spend with You. 09:20 Amen. 09:22 For the call that we have to turn off 09:24 the cares of the world and open up our hearts 09:27 and our minds to the things of God. 09:28 Yes. 09:30 And Father, whether this program 09:31 is being aired on a Friday evening or a Sabbath, 09:34 for those who are moving into the Sabbath hours 09:39 and for those who may be entering 09:40 the untried hours of a brand new week. 09:43 We pray dear Father that Your grace, Your strength, 09:45 Your presence and Your power would be with us, 09:48 that You'd encourage us that You will fortify us 09:51 against the wiles of the enemy. 09:52 That You will give us victory in our lives 09:54 and that You'd accept now Lord this worship. 09:58 Take our worship Lord and in exchange give us Jesus. 10:01 Amen 10:02 So that we may get a glimpse of that day 10:05 that is soon to come, 10:06 when we will see you faith to bless at face. 10:08 Amen. 10:10 So now, Father, take us mentally into Your presence. 10:13 And we thank You Father for this time 10:16 and for Christ in His name we pray, amen. 10:19 Amen. Amen. 10:22 We hope that you have your Bibles out that as well. 10:25 If not better grab them 10:27 because we're gonna have a little Bible study. 10:28 What's our topic on tonight? 10:29 Patience... 10:31 I know I need patience. 10:32 And just the word patience it seems... 10:35 Yeah, this is a topic for me you all. 10:37 I mean, I don't know if you need that 10:38 or for on the table if you all experience that, 10:41 but I know that this is an area 10:43 that God is working in my life on. 10:45 Working to develop that patience. 10:48 So as we start our discussion tonight, what is patience? 10:52 If I would ask for definition of patience. 10:55 What is patience? 10:56 Anyone want to jump in? 10:59 You know we see patience as a noun, 11:03 it is some thing. 11:04 But the Bible really kind of uses 11:06 patience more as a verb, 11:08 you know than a pure noun. 11:11 It, it... 11:12 Patience is something that we seek 11:15 but it does a work in us, 11:16 it refines us, it is the... 11:19 it's not just sort of sitting by 11:21 and just holding on. 11:23 The Bible kind of sees it as an aggressive thing, 11:25 kind of an endurance kind of thing, 11:27 a holding on or conquering the situation. 11:31 Not just kind of hunkering down under the situation, 11:33 but mastering the situation. 11:36 So it's the ability to posses yourself in times 11:40 when everything is going crazy, you know. 11:42 That's true. 11:43 To stay, keep your feet on the ground, 11:44 everybody's flying around, 11:46 you are kind of level and kind of sound 11:47 and kind of holding on to Jesus. 11:49 I really think it is a God given attribute 11:52 to stay focused 11:53 when everything is kind of going haywire. 11:55 And, you know, when you do that, 11:57 you're kind of having to put down 11:59 maybe your natural inclinations. 12:00 You're making yourself second and I'm thinking about... 12:02 That's true. 12:04 The law of the universe which is self sacrificing love. 12:06 Yes. 12:07 And there are times I feel like 12:10 when I'm called upon to exercise patience 12:13 when that isn't what I want to do. 12:15 Can you all relate with this? 12:16 What you really want to do is tell somebody 12:18 have to carry the cabbage. 12:20 You all tell me, I could use Mollie it seems. 12:22 Yes, absolutely. 12:23 And but really quite you have to do is say, 12:25 oh, no, Lord, You work through me in this situation, 12:28 let me yield my natural inclinations to you 12:33 and ask oh, God for You to work through me, 12:36 speak through me 12:37 and that's develop our creating a patience within us 12:40 that's under the hand of Almighty God. 12:43 You spoke about developing patience. 12:45 I think patience is through endure discomfort 12:48 without complaint. 12:50 It's not just enduring, 12:51 it's not just 'cause we can endure something 12:53 that might be pleasant, 12:55 but it's something that's uncomfortable, 12:57 it's something that rubs us the wrong way. 12:59 And I love what you said because I think 13:03 how God wants us to, 13:05 how He wants to work His patience in us. 13:08 We have to get out of ourselves and you mentioned that, 13:11 get out of ourselves, get out of our own skin 13:14 and like okay my co-worker really bugs me. 13:16 Or my husband's doing something that's irritating me 13:20 or I have to wait in line at the grocery store again, 13:22 right? 13:23 All of that stuff, but what am I focused on? 13:25 Myself. 13:26 It's inward focus instead of that pushing that outward. 13:30 Okay, so then we're talking, 13:32 it sounds like little bit patience with each other, 13:34 is that right? 13:35 Do we need patience with God? 13:37 Absolutely. You said absolutely. 13:40 Why do you say that, Irma? 13:41 Because I find all the time 13:44 that when I'm trying to master patience on my own, 13:49 it usually doesn't work. 13:52 You know, you can do it for a little while, 13:53 but then it doesn't. 13:55 But when I, I think about all the counsels 13:59 that we find in our Bible. 14:00 You know the Apostle Paul counseling Titus 14:04 and counseling us. 14:08 For us nowadays is to call upon the Lord 14:12 to the Lord keep my mind on you, 14:17 and let me wait for you to bring about 14:23 what I want to accomplish. 14:26 You know, have any of you ever kind of lost patience with God? 14:31 Yes. 14:32 You know, God, I've been praying 14:34 about this now for ten years and this still hasn't happened. 14:37 When are you going to...? 14:38 Yeah, do something. 14:39 To do something? When are you going to do this? 14:41 And, you know, what God is doing 14:43 when we are losing our patience with Him? 14:45 Developing patience in us. 14:46 Yeah. 14:48 It's amazing how that works. Yes. 14:49 And helping us to trust on Him and to call up on Him 14:52 which a lot of times we forget. 14:54 And God is so patient with us, you know in 1 Timothy 6, 15:00 Paul tells to be pursue patience, 15:02 you know, go after it, because it is an elusive thing, 15:05 it is not a natural to some, 15:06 you got to really go after and get 15:08 because it's not natural to you. 15:10 You know it's not natural to any of us. 15:11 You know I've got a little reading here 15:13 from 4 Volume of Testimonies. 15:17 I think this is interesting, The Lord frequently, 15:22 frequently... 15:23 Yeah, that's often. 15:25 Places us in difficult position. 15:27 The Lord frequently places us in difficult positions 15:31 to simulate us to greater exertion. 15:34 In this providence special, 15:37 in this providence provides special annoyances. 15:41 This is God providing special annoyances. 15:44 He provides them? 15:45 It sometimes occur to test our patience and faith. 15:49 God gives us lessons of trust. 15:51 He would teach us where to look for help and strength 15:55 in time of need. 15:57 Highlight, God allows special annoyances. 16:02 God provides. 16:03 Did she said provides? 16:04 provides special annoyances. 16:06 So sometimes when you're in a thick of it, 16:08 you're saying, Lord, get me out. 16:10 And Lord is saying, no, I put you in there. 16:13 Yes. That's right, yeah. 16:14 I put you in there so that we can work on some stuff 16:17 because and if you say, well, she pushes my buttons, 16:20 that means you just have buttons, 16:21 that need to get taken care of, you know. 16:24 Yes, you're admitting you got buttons, we all do. 16:26 That really aggravates me, 16:27 well, then there is something within you 16:29 that God needs to work on 16:30 because to deal with that aggravation that's within you. 16:34 May be part of that refining fire, 16:36 perfecting of our character. 16:37 Don't start talking about the refining fire, Greg. 16:39 I'm already refined all the time. 16:42 It hurts sometimes. 16:43 We go through those furnaces of affliction so often 16:46 You know, it's intersecting 'cause in society today 16:48 talking about patience, you know, 16:50 everything it seems like instant. 16:51 Now they're talking about some companies 16:53 are trying to do same day shipping. 16:54 Where you order and you get it the same day 16:56 depending on what city you live in, 16:57 and what else do we have that's instant, 16:59 I mean fast food restaurants, you get your food quick. 17:00 Yeah. 17:02 Supposed to be anyway. 17:03 To get the answer to any question, 17:04 what do you do? 17:06 Google it. 17:07 And you got the answer. That's right. 17:09 Yeah, I mean on mobile device. 17:10 We can do it on our cell phones. 17:12 We have what they call a VOD Video-On- Demand. 17:15 I mean you can download it when you want it, 17:16 what time you want it. 17:18 I mean society is like I want it right now. 17:20 Instant gratification. 17:21 You can just go into your phone now 17:22 and ask a question, then you get it right away. 17:25 Siri. 17:26 She knows so much. 17:29 So is the society patience with each other 17:32 with anything is, I don't know going down hill? 17:34 May be that's part of the devil's plan. 17:36 You know, because if God provides 17:38 these annoyances, 17:39 God gives us these to work in our character, 17:42 what you've just read pastor. 17:43 Maybe Satan says I know that those things 17:45 are gonna work to develop Christ likeness in you. 17:48 So I'm gonna give you all these instant stuff 17:51 so that you won't develop that patience. 17:53 Yeah, the one thing that is not instant 17:55 is a Christ like character. 17:57 You don't get in a jar and you can't get it in a shot. 17:59 You got to work that out, you know. 18:01 That's true. 18:02 That's a daily process. Very much so. 18:04 I think in James, 18:05 it goes along with what you were reading in that 4T. 18:08 Let's look at James Chapter 1, 18:10 and what page was that on in 4T, 18:12 did you write down the page? 18:14 116. 18:15 116. Okay. 18:16 4 Volume Testimonies, page 116. 18:18 Yeah, that's a great quote. That is. 18:20 I got to write that down and put it up 18:21 on my desk that word. 18:24 And could use it too. 18:26 James, what was it again? 18:27 James Chapter 1 and it kind of goes along 18:29 with what you were reading. 18:32 James 1:2. 18:36 You want to read that, Irma, 2 through 5 maybe. 18:39 Okay. 18:41 "My brethren, count it all joy 18:43 when ye fall into divers temptations, 18:47 Knowing this, 18:48 that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 18:52 But let patience have her perfect work, 18:55 that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 19:02 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, 19:07 that giveth to all men liberally, 19:09 and upbraideth not 19:13 and it shall be given him." 19:17 I'm sorry about that word, 19:18 that's a little hard for me to spell to upbraideth. 19:22 Upbraideth, that's a tongue twister. 19:23 Yes. 19:25 But, you know, lust look at that first scripture 19:27 that we read first, count it all joy, what? 19:31 And, you know, in my translation, 19:34 "Count it all joy when you fall into various trials." 19:37 Count it joy, that's the hard thing to do. 19:39 Yes. 19:41 When you're in a midst of a trail say, oh, yeah, 19:43 I'm supposed to count this as joy, 19:45 that's, you know, he's asking a hard thing of us 19:48 but look at the reason for it. 19:49 Yes. 19:51 Because what is it that worketh patience? 19:53 What does it say here? 19:54 What is it that works patience in these trials? 19:57 Another translation I think is the King James says, 20:00 "Tribulation worketh patience." 20:02 I just, I don't even like that word tribulation. 20:04 No. That's right. 20:06 But I like the word patience, I want that worked within me, 20:09 but what brings that patience about is 20:13 going through these difficult situations. 20:16 Boy, yeah, absolutely. 20:17 I like how it says like patience 20:18 have its perfect work 20:21 'cause you think that's allowing God to work in us 20:24 in the midst of it. 20:25 You know so many times I want to fight it 20:27 or as you mentioned I think pastor, 20:29 I want to jump out of it. 20:30 I want to say, okay, remove me from this situation God. 20:34 It's too painful, it's, you know, 20:37 or I don't like to rub with this person, 20:39 so I'm gonna not associate with them at church. 20:41 Some people do that. 20:42 They say, well, if I come into church this way, 20:45 I'm gonna go around that way. 20:46 I don't want to deal with that, but it says, 20:49 let patience have its perfect work. 20:51 So allow God, stay in the trial, you know, 20:54 allow God to work that in our life. 20:57 You know, Hal preached a sermon years ago. 21:00 He probably preached it few times 21:02 because don't good sermon you preach over and over, 21:05 don't you, pastor? 21:07 Indeed we do. 21:08 Yes, you do. 21:10 He was liking to being around people that rub, you know, 21:13 God, he says, God puts us in situations. 21:15 He's the one that does that where there is rub, 21:19 because we are diamonds in the rough 21:21 and why do you say that you know, 21:23 it's that rubbing that makes our diamonds 21:26 come forth shining. 21:28 And he says it's like being around 21:29 a one hump camel. 21:31 And, you know, what will camels do? 21:32 They spit at you, you know they... 21:34 And so you're around somebody that's really causing you 21:38 irritation and difficulties and so you say 21:40 I'm just not going to be in this situation anymore, 21:43 so you remove yourself from that situation. 21:45 Now who put you in that situation to start with? 21:47 Remember that? 21:49 It was God that puts you in those situations, why? 21:51 For the perfecting of your character. 21:53 To get all the roughness that draws out of your life, 22:00 let say. 22:01 So what does God do? 22:02 He put you with a two hump camel, 22:05 that was the name of his sermon, 22:09 The Two Hump Camel. 22:10 And so what the message was allow God 22:15 to do His perfect work within you, 22:17 because if you remove yourself, 22:19 you're just gonna find yourself in a worse situation. 22:22 God will protect us. 22:23 He loves us so much 22:24 that He's committed to complete that thing 22:27 which we have committed under Him. 22:29 And He'll do it. 22:30 Yeah, He's committed exercising the patience 22:32 with us that many times we will not exercise with Him. 22:35 If you look back over our lives and you see, 22:37 sometimes the reason we're still in the hole 22:39 is 'cause we like being in that hole. 22:41 And Lord is like, I'm waiting for you to, 22:42 you know, I got the rope here. 22:43 I can get you out anytime you want, but you got to say, 22:46 Lord, drop that rope down. 22:48 And until that time you'll be down there in that hole 22:49 'cause you like down there in the dark. 22:51 You know, men like darkness because their deeds are evil. 22:53 So you got to walk to and if you want to, 22:55 God certainly provides the ability in 22:57 what you need to exercise patience, yeah. 22:59 Amen. 23:01 I think that one of the wonderful things 23:03 is that, you know, 23:05 our nature is that when we are rubbing 23:09 with each other or with problems 23:12 or frustrations that come our way 23:14 is we tend to stay there 23:18 because the feeling is uncomfortable 23:21 and the prayer in going to God is so important 23:28 because it helps you to come back and understand. 23:33 And yes, it is... 23:35 you do need patience to wait 23:37 because the Lord will give you and continue. 23:40 Sometimes the enemy is also want to keep you there 23:45 because that way you'd forget that there is a God 23:48 that has extended His hand to you to help you, 23:53 but that rubbing, 23:58 you know, when we finally said, 24:00 you know, I'll give to the Lord completely, 24:02 Lord, and then he just make an effort 24:05 sometimes we have to make an effort. 24:06 Yes, we do. 24:07 To be with the Lord, 24:09 and the results are just so wonderful, 24:11 peace and understanding comes 24:15 and feelings that you could not muster before. 24:19 God will give them to you. 24:20 Amen. 24:22 You have some thing you're going to share? 24:24 Oh, yeah, I was. 24:26 I was looking this up on my cell here. 24:28 We were talking about instant. 24:30 But before I say that, that's powerful, Irma, 24:33 because I think God wants to work in our lives 24:37 and we might be in the midst of the trail 24:38 or the midst of a difficult situation 24:41 and He says, I can help you with this. 24:43 Give it to me just what you said, I love that. 24:47 Surrender, give it to God and allow Him to work His love, 24:50 His joy, His peace, His patience. 24:52 Patience is after all one of the fruits of the spirit. 24:57 One of the fruits He wants to work in our life. 24:59 Now this is not actually from the Bible, 25:01 this is from the Philosopher Seneca and it says, 25:04 Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth, 25:09 not work but movement 25:11 and their own weight exhausts them. 25:13 Prosperity unbruised cannot endure a single blow, 25:17 but a man who has been 25:18 at constant feud with misfortunes 25:21 acquires a skin calloused by suffering. 25:24 He yields to know evil and even if he stumble, 25:28 he carries the fight on upon his knee." 25:31 And I love that because life is about learning much... 25:34 Yes. Yes. 25:35 You know we're in, we're fighting the good fight 25:37 and as we're in the midst of it, 25:39 patience is not just rolling over and playing dead. 25:42 It's getting up on our knees, it's developing those calluses. 25:45 It's working in the midst of it. 25:47 Very true. 25:49 You know, the definition when I went to the dictionary, 25:50 looking up the definition of patience. 25:53 It says the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, 25:59 or suffering without getting angry or upset. 26:04 Have you ever heard about the saint statement, 26:07 the patience of who, Job? 26:11 Have you heard that said before the patience of Job? 26:13 Yes. 26:14 Now he had an easy life, didn't he? 26:17 The man... 26:19 Compare to what? Nuclear thing or what. 26:21 It may be. 26:22 That's true, Mollie, after that's a good, that's true. 26:26 You know because what the man went through was tremendous. 26:29 You are talking about the trials 26:31 and I mean everyone turned against him 26:33 including even his wife said curse God and die. 26:36 Lost his children. Pardon? 26:38 Lost his children. Lost his children, absolutely. 26:40 Yeah, his, I mean all his belongings, you know, 26:43 at that point I know in my heart 26:44 it would be like why God, I don't understand this, 26:47 I've been faithful to you... 26:48 Yeah. What happened here? 26:50 Seems like my whole world is turned upside down. 26:53 You know, it's interesting because all of us, 26:54 you could call that a storm in his life. 26:56 I mean all of us, I mean none of us are new to that. 26:58 All of us have some type of tragedy, 27:00 storm things going on in our lives. 27:02 So that patience that Job had was what? 27:04 Patience with the people around him 27:06 or with God or both? 27:08 What do you all think? Both. 27:09 Yeah. Both. 27:10 Absolutely. Yeah. 27:12 It's both. 27:13 You know, taking that Job example, 27:15 patience comes among other things 27:17 when you keep your eye focused on 27:19 God and on the prize. 27:20 Absolutely. 27:22 Now you can endure these things 27:23 because you know I'm hidden somewhere, 27:24 you know, so I'm not gonna get distracted by... 27:27 You know, I heard a cute little story years ago. 27:30 A little boy had a little saying in Sabbath school 27:33 and you just trust in God, three words, trust in God. 27:36 But, you know, your first time you're gonna be at big church 27:38 in front of all those adults and he was just nervous. 27:40 So he had a little piece of paper, 27:41 you know, so in the back of a car 27:43 and they are on their way to church 27:44 and parents are driving. 27:45 He's like trust in God, trust in God, 27:47 trust in God, trust in God, 27:48 and so it was kind of a warm Sabbath day 27:51 and the dad rolled down the window, 27:53 wind blew at him, took the piece of paper 27:55 and just blew it out of the window. 27:57 And little boy said, "Daddy, daddy stop the car, 27:59 my trust in God just flew out of the window." 28:03 And it's knockout, but it's like that you know... 28:05 It is. Now that's fast. 28:06 A little wind comes into our life 28:08 and our trust in God flies out the window, you know. 28:10 Very true. 28:12 So one of the things about patience is 28:14 it's a consequence for one of the better term 28:17 of keeping my eye focused on Christ. 28:19 Amen. 28:21 I know that in the world we shall have tribulations, 28:24 you know, that's a given. 28:26 That's right. 28:27 But John 16:33 didn't stop there, 28:29 it says but be of good cheer. I have overcome. 28:31 Because I have overcome the world. 28:32 So as long as you hold on to that, 28:34 you know, tape my friends are not having a bad day, you know. 28:40 I go to church and this week they say, 28:43 hey, how you doing, Mollie? How you doing Irma? 28:46 Next week they don't want to talk you know. 28:48 So I don't get all crazy because I'm focused, you know, 28:52 or one day you go to work and somebody says, 28:54 how you doing ugly? 28:56 And I just play it, you know. Sure. 28:58 But some days it's funny and some days it ain't, 29:02 you know it's like you said it yesterday we had a laugh. 29:04 But I ain't in mood for that today. 29:06 And the day that you're not in the mood for it, 29:07 that's the day you get it. 29:09 Yeah. Yeah. 29:10 But do you blow off and you know, 29:11 I'm gonna go and tell, I'm gonna go and tell her, 29:13 you know I'm not taking that. 29:14 That's right. 29:15 You know, no, you do take it because you're focused. 29:17 You know, I'm a Christian, I'm gonna hold on and keep on 29:19 focused on Jesus on the good days and the bad, 29:23 and that's what patience is, it's, 29:25 and the only way to know you got it is to get it tested. 29:28 Yes. 29:30 There's no other way to get it, you got to get it tested. 29:32 And as you get it tested, then it will develop. 29:34 So... 29:36 I remember this sometimes that I have. 29:38 A times goes and there is not trials, 29:41 there is nothing happening and I start getting worried, 29:44 I says, Lord, I said there's nothing happening, 29:48 I said why is everything so quiet? 29:52 'Cause, you know, you read sometimes and, 29:54 you know, the Lord if he gets tired off 29:57 of you know dealing with you and you don't learn. 30:00 You know He'll remove Himself 30:02 and then leave you going alone. 30:04 So I said, Lord, where are you? 30:08 You know things and, but sometimes we... 30:10 then we get a big trail and the trail comes 30:13 and what happens? 30:14 Our patience goes out of the window too. 30:17 He said, oh, you ask for it and now... 30:21 your patience is gone. 30:23 This is, it's human, you know, as the humans 30:27 that we need so much, you know from the Lord. 30:31 I see you've something you want to share, Mollie. 30:33 Well, I was just looking at Isaiah 40:31. 30:39 Now we... 30:40 Let's turn their actually, just everyone turn there, 30:42 Isaiah what was that? 30:43 It's 40:31. I like what it says. 30:44 Isaiah 40... 30:46 Now we're accounted changing gears all the waiting 30:49 and patience go hand in hand, do they not? 30:51 They do, Mollie. Yes, they do. 30:52 They do. 30:54 We've been talking even a lot about waiting like the times 30:57 when you're impatient with God. 30:58 What are you in the pattern of, 31:01 you're in that waiting process 31:03 and that waiting part time in your life, 31:07 but they that do what? 31:09 "Wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, 31:13 they shall mount up with wings as eagles, 31:15 they shall run, and not be weary, 31:17 and they shall walk, and not faint." 31:19 Now there's a song that is based on this scripture 31:22 and it says teach me Lord, teach me Lord to wait. 31:26 Well, that waiting process, they that wait upon the Lord 31:30 and looking at that, that verb wait and I think somebody just, 31:35 I think CA I believe it was you that kind of touched 31:38 on this a little earlier. 31:40 When we are in that waiting process, 31:41 when we're in that time between praying 31:45 and trusting God for something 31:47 and the time that it comes to pass, 31:49 thinking of Joseph, isn't he a good example. 31:53 Yes, he is. 31:54 He went from the promise to the pit to Potiphar's house, 31:59 to the prison, to the palace, 32:01 to the fulfillment of the promise, 32:03 the six peas in Joseph's life, 32:06 was there a waiting process between this promise 32:10 and the fulfillment of, what a waiting process 32:13 that young man went through, 32:15 but during that time you think of waiting, 32:18 and I think it was you that said just earlier, 32:20 it's not a passive time, 32:22 it's not a time when you're just ho-hum waiting 32:25 with Joseph, boy, was we acting? 32:28 Yes, he was. 32:30 In every phase of the situation, 32:32 so when you're waiting on the Lord. 32:34 I wrote down a few things about waiting. 32:37 Waiting on God reminds us that God's in control. 32:40 Amen. 32:41 Because have you ever say it... 32:43 Have you ever said, well, if I was God, 32:46 here's what I would do. 32:48 Y'all better be glad, I'm not God. 32:50 Okay. Absolutely. 32:52 Waiting reminds us 32:54 that we are not in charge 32:56 and we don't need to be in charge. 32:58 It reminds us that we are not God. 33:01 God is God. Amen. 33:03 And so just like Joseph in every phase of that waiting, 33:07 he was very active, he was doing something. 33:11 Like the farmer in the spring he plants his seed, 33:15 then what does he do all summer long? 33:17 He waters, he hoes, he works the ground, 33:19 he doesn't just sit back and wait 33:22 and go in his house and relax. 33:24 And then there's this time when all I can do is trust God. 33:28 Either the rains are gonna come or they're not. 33:30 The sun's not gonna get so hot, it' gonna dry. 33:33 He's in a waiting process but he's worked diligently 33:37 and he continues to work diligently, 33:39 but what is he waiting for? 33:41 The harvest. 33:42 And he said that while we are waiting for 33:44 is that harvest. 33:46 Amen. Amen. 33:47 I like that because I think patience 33:49 is toward other people, 33:52 okay, and that's may be what we'll call 33:53 longsuffering patience with people. 33:55 But patience is also toward God in the sense of waiting. 33:59 I think every time when we are waiting on God, 34:02 we don't wait in passivity, like he mentioned I like that. 34:06 Because we all have times when we are waiting. 34:09 Maybe we ask God for a spouse 34:11 or for your child to come back to God 34:13 and they've left the church. 34:15 Or maybe it's asking God, I don't know, you know, 34:19 there's any number of things. 34:20 Heal my spouse of his cancer or someone that I love and, 34:25 you know, they are struggling. 34:26 And, God, I want to deliver them from that. 34:28 You know there's times when we wait. 34:30 God should I take this job or should I not? 34:32 Should I move forward and go over here or should I not? 34:35 What should I be doing? 34:36 And in the midst of that waiting time, 34:38 what are we supposed to do with that waiting time? 34:41 We don't just sit back and relax 34:44 but there's something, 34:46 I mean what are we supposed to do in the midst of that, 34:48 because I know we have friends at home who are saying, 34:50 I'm waiting right now. 34:51 I've been waiting for years on God, 34:54 and I'm not getting an answer. 34:56 How do we know when do we step forward like the... 34:59 They did remember when they crossed the Jordan, 35:01 and they put their feet in the water 35:03 and then the waters parted 35:06 or how do they know when I'm supposed to wait 35:08 and let God tell me like, 35:10 how do you know when to wait and when to step forward? 35:15 You know, we have a lady, we have a lady here at 3ABN. 35:20 Her name's Jennifer 35:21 and she was waiting for the Lord 35:25 to speak to her heart 35:27 when it was time for her to get engaged. 35:29 Now she had a... 35:30 She has an amazing fiancé at this time 35:33 but she had been patiently waiting 35:37 for quite some time 35:38 for the Lord to impress upon her heart 35:40 that now's the time to take the next step. 35:43 And what happened was she was in the situation 35:46 where somebody was just talking to somebody else 35:48 totally about something 35:50 that they had no idea would impress upon her anything 35:54 and she got her answer. 35:56 And what was being said in that conversation it was, 35:58 she said it was as thou, the Lord was speaking to me, 36:01 saying, now is the time. 36:04 And so she did wait but she waited expectantly, 36:08 she waited listening, she waited looking, 36:12 she waited spending time in God's presence 36:15 and in His word, and then the Lord gave her 36:17 what she was looking for. 36:18 That's the kind of waiting that the Bible addresses, 36:21 it's not a passive waiting, 36:23 it's a waiting that claims of promises of God... 36:25 Actively, yeah. 36:27 That's active waiting, 36:28 that is listening for the voice of God 36:30 that is expecting a response from God. 36:32 Yes. Yes. 36:33 And in and in anticipation of that response, 36:36 it is claiming the promises of God. 36:39 So you know when we look at Revelation 14:12, 36:41 "Here is the patience of the saints." 36:43 You know that classic text. 36:45 And in the Adventist church and of course, well, 36:48 I don't remember in Greek. 36:50 Hypomon or something, that's close to it. 36:57 Its aggressive endurance. 37:00 You know the Greek says aggressive endurance 37:04 so again we come... 37:06 It's not a noun, it's more of a verb. 37:07 Say that. 37:09 It's an aggressive endurance 37:10 and of course the Adventist church, 37:11 the early fathers for the first, 37:13 maybe 20 years of our church's existence, 37:14 every piece of literature that we put out 37:17 had that text somewhere on it, 37:18 you know use it at the masthead, 37:19 "here are patience of the saints" 37:21 'cause they realize that as a people in this world, 37:24 we're not just kind of sitting and waiting, 37:25 we are aggressively doing the work of God 37:27 while we're expecting the... 37:29 while we are in expectation of the coming of the Lord. 37:32 So I think we've all touched on this 37:34 that is not just kind of sit back 37:35 and fold your arms and getting through it, 37:37 it's an aggressive warfare fighting to claim 37:41 the promises of God 37:43 and then acting on those promises. 37:44 Yeah. Amen. 37:46 You know, 'cause I think of what happened to Abraham. 37:48 You know, God had given him a promise, 37:50 wasn't that he was gonna have a son and they were going, 37:54 he's going to be a father of many nations 37:56 and he didn't have a son. 37:58 He didn't have a son and I don't know, 38:00 I mean lots of years went by. 38:01 He waited, didn't he? Yeah. 38:03 Well, he actually tried to help God little bit... 38:04 With? 38:06 Made a mess of everything. 38:07 And that's where I think there's sometimes, 38:09 I mean I'm human, 38:10 Abraham was human too so I mean, 38:11 that's where you get to the point like, okay. 38:13 Yeah. 38:14 That I'm kind of old here. 38:15 Yeah. 38:17 I got to do something about this. 38:18 So he gets involved with Hagar You're right. 38:19 And what a mess that has turned down, 38:21 I mean even on down to now. 38:24 So there is a point where we used to be aggressive 38:28 you know and I don't know, I'm trying to find, 38:31 I guess that line 38:33 of where we find that line of where we... 38:34 I don't want to say help God 'cause there is, 38:36 you've mentioned Joseph. 38:37 He was very diligent and what he was doing, 38:40 but yet we can help God like Abraham 38:43 and what a terrible mess, 38:45 because that was not the direction 38:46 that God wanted Abraham to take. 38:48 So do you think that Abraham...? 38:49 Pardon me. I'm sorry 38:50 No, go ahead. 38:52 Do you think that Abraham sought God when his wife, 38:56 when Sarah came to him and said, hey, Abraham, 38:59 here's a way for you to have a child. 39:01 Remember it, you all recall it, was her idea to do? 39:04 Now that is horrendous but that was her idea. 39:09 Do you think that Abraham have said, Sarah, 39:11 let me really seek God about this. 39:13 You know what I think it appealed to Abraham, 39:16 do you think it might have appealed to him like yeah, 39:18 Sarah I think that's great idea. 39:20 So if he didn't diligently seek God 39:25 and he moved under his own... 39:28 Human nature. 39:29 Human nature, then see the mess he got us into. 39:32 Absolutely. 39:33 That's the key. I agree with that. 39:35 Yeah, he is diligently seeking God. 39:37 That's the big difference just what you said there 39:39 because if he would have, 39:41 of course God would have said no. 39:42 No. This is not the direction. 39:44 Do you not know the mess? 39:46 That's the difference I think diligently seeking God 39:48 or stepping out of God's will 'cause he obviously 39:50 stepped outside of God's will with Hagar. 39:52 Absolutely. 39:53 Thinking, okay, I'm gonna do something in my own strength, 39:56 my own decision, my own whatever, 39:58 where Joseph was in God's will as a slave, 40:02 right in Potiphar's house 40:03 because he could not physically say, 40:06 well, I'm gonna go be a free man. 40:08 I'm gonna go back to my daddy. 40:09 He could not do that 'cause he was sold. 40:12 He was a slave in Potiphar's house so he said, 40:14 this is where God has planted me 40:16 and then I need to serve God right here. 40:19 Be active, be diligent, where God has planted me. 40:23 I love that in Jeremiah 29:11. 40:26 I know the plans I have for you since the Lord plans 40:28 to prosper and not to harm you, 40:29 to give you future and the hope. 40:31 And if you read that whole section, 40:32 it was Counsel to the Jews who were in Babylon. 40:36 In Babylon, yeah. 40:38 And it says in another place just a little earlier, 40:40 plant gardens and reap the food of them 40:42 and basically settled down and serve God. 40:46 I wrote in the margin of my Bible, 40:47 serve God where you're planted. 40:51 And so I think even in the waiting time, 40:52 we might be waiting and say, God, 40:54 I don't see the fulfillment of the promise 40:56 You've given to me, 40:57 but we can still serve God 40:59 in the midst of it instead of saying, 41:00 I'm gonna sit in my easy chair... 41:01 Yeah. 41:03 I'm gonna do my own thing 41:04 while I'm waiting for the promise to appear. 41:06 We're busy doing what God tells us to do today. 41:09 And it might not be the fulfillment 41:10 of the promise yet, 41:12 but we just actively work out in that. 41:13 Yeah. Yeah. 41:14 It's always been counsel 41:17 that when you are in a situation 41:20 that you're waiting for good results. 41:24 Or like when you have an illness, 41:27 you don't sit, you pray, 41:29 you ask God for to return your health. 41:31 Yeah. 41:33 If we sit back and just thinking about what we have, 41:37 how we feel, what we're going to do. 41:41 We lose our patience, we lose our energy, 41:44 even physical sometimes. 41:48 If we just wait, now the Lord will... 41:53 If we get active so I want to, it is so much easy to, 41:57 you know, you can, we have example of Cheryl. 42:02 Yes. That's true. 42:04 She's going through so much it's in her health, 42:06 but yet she's doing what she can. 42:08 Keeping busy while she's going to the treatment 42:12 and when she's waiting and I'm sure 42:14 I want God to return her health. 42:17 And I think that is what he's taking about being aggressive, 42:23 you know, may be the word aggressive sounds like you 42:26 really, you know, fighting something, 42:29 but it's just waiting on the Lord, 42:31 you know, you just get busy and you wait on the Lord. 42:34 Yeah, absolutely because I think 42:36 that's where you don't just sit back 42:37 and don't do anything. 42:38 The key is like Mollie was saying 42:40 is that Abraham seek the Lord in this? 42:41 No, he did not. 42:43 But like you're talking treatment for an illness. 42:45 You know, you mentioned for Cheryl with cancer. 42:47 You know that's where you know, 42:48 I know that she sought the Lord. 42:50 You know, which direction should I go. 42:51 Should I take natural, 42:53 should I mix natural with chemo, 42:54 you know, there are so many different things 42:55 that can be done... 42:57 So you know, you know that someone is seeking the Lord, 42:58 and then God is sharing with them 43:00 what's best for them, 43:01 and that's the key 'cause I think it's interesting 43:03 what happened to Abraham once Isaac was born, 43:06 and then God told him to take him up 43:08 and sacrifice him that's what God asked him to do. 43:11 You know, it's interesting, Greg, 43:13 in the life of Abraham in particular. 43:15 May be the Lord brought Abraham through so many things 43:19 because Abraham did have a tendency 43:21 to kind of burger king it. 43:22 You know, he kind of wanted it his way. 43:24 There were times when he showed great faith... 43:26 Oh, yes. 43:28 There're other times when he kind of shaved 43:29 the edges a little bit, 43:30 you know, when the king look out 43:32 and when he saw him playing with his wife and he lied. 43:33 You know, the guy's gonna kill me, 43:35 so he takes in his own hand, 43:36 he tries to shave it a little bit. 43:38 He does. 43:39 And I'm sure when his wife says, 43:41 hey, here's a young cute girl, help God out a little bit. 43:46 He's like, it's not a bad idea, kind of good thing. 43:50 So there were times in his life when he tried to shave 43:52 the edges just a little bit and to burger king it, 43:55 you know, he wanted to have it in his own way. 43:56 And I think that's the big thing 43:58 when you're waiting on the Lord. 43:59 The tension between claiming the promises and holding on 44:03 and then kind of inventing your own promises 44:05 you know and kind of doing it that way. 44:07 And it's a line that Abraham had to walk 44:09 many times in his life. 44:11 And sometimes he did it well, 44:13 other times he didn't do so good. 44:15 And so we have that in our own lives too, 44:16 Lord, you're taking me to something here, 44:20 so I'm going to patiently endure 44:23 claiming those promises that you have set for us... 44:24 Yes. 44:26 Because I know that your promises 44:27 are gonna come through. 44:28 My little trying to massage a situation is not gonna, 44:32 that's not true patience. 44:33 That's really trying to get out from under and not wait 44:35 and do it in your own strength. 44:37 Amen. 44:38 I like Psalm 27:14, it says wait on the Lord. 44:42 We know the Psalm. 44:43 "Be of good courage, 44:44 and he shall strengthen your heart 44:47 wait I say, on the Lord." 44:48 And that wait in the Hebrew means eager expectation. 44:52 Wait on the Lord in eager expectation 44:54 of what he's gonna do. 44:55 Be of good courage 44:57 and he shall strengthen you heart. 44:58 So what I like about that Psalm is the progression of thought. 45:01 It doesn't say God strengthens your heart 45:03 so that you can wait on God. 45:06 It says the waiting starts. 45:07 We wait in eager expectation 45:09 even if we don't see the answer, 45:11 On those promises I love what you said, 45:13 claiming those promises, trusting in Him, 45:16 then He strengthens our heart. 45:19 The strengthening comes as we by faith, 45:22 it's really faith. 45:23 Reaching out and claiming those promises 45:25 and waiting on God in eager expectations 45:28 and then He strengthens us. 45:29 Yeah, that same word in the Greek 45:31 in a New Testament is translated anticipation. 45:34 The wait... 45:36 Eager anticipation. 45:37 That you're expecting, so that you're anticipating 45:40 when're you anticipating it, you know, it's coming, 45:42 you got this confidence, it's like okay, 45:46 I know the Christmas present in under the tree 45:48 'cause I saw it last night. 45:49 I just got to get through tonight for the morning, 45:51 so I can get that. 45:53 I know it's there, I saw it. 45:54 I know it's there, you know, so I'm anticipating 45:56 because I know it's there and that's what faith would do. 45:59 You know the answers there. 46:00 You know God is gonna deliver you. 46:02 You just, I just got to hold on here 46:03 and get through this thing 46:05 'cause I know God's got something on the back. 46:06 Yes. Yeah. 46:07 You know, talking about being patience to God. 46:11 And I find that it's actually easier 46:16 in to be patience with other people 46:19 in circumstances 46:22 but because God said, what you ask in Jesus name, 46:27 I will give to you. 46:30 So you ask God, you know, in Jesus name, I ask you, 46:35 you know for whatever it is, 46:37 your health or even just for your own character, 46:42 and it seems that nothing happens, 46:45 it seems like a trials and things going away 46:49 and it's easy to forget that as you were saying, 46:54 Mollie, that those are trials 46:56 that the Lord has put in there to help you 46:58 get what you ask for and so because God said, 47:05 He will give to you, you're expecting, 47:09 and you're expecting that is gonna be like God want. 47:12 You know, something that I had been praying 47:15 and trusting God for, 47:17 for Jeremy is 34 I think, 47:21 so I'm gonna say for 32 years. 47:24 I've been trusting God for that young man's salvation. 47:27 He is a mighty man of God in the making... 47:30 In the making. Yeah. 47:32 And so I prayed, I'm trusting God 47:35 and I'm in that waiting process, 47:37 but in the meantime in that waiting process, 47:39 I'm speaking and proclaiming over him. 47:42 He is a disciple tot of the Lord. 47:44 Great is his peace and undisturbed composure. 47:47 No weapon formed against him or prosper. 47:49 I speak over him what the word of God says. 47:52 Now, he is one of the most loving kind human beings. 47:58 He just has not made that final commitment, 48:00 and I hope he is watching this program 48:01 'cause he know his momma loves him, 48:03 and in no way am I 48:05 in anyways bringing harm or damage to him. 48:08 But I just know 48:09 that I'm eagerly anticipating the day 48:13 when he is in the kingdom of God 48:16 and that's what I'm trusting God for 48:18 is for him to come into that right relationship with Him. 48:22 Amen. Amen, that's for sure. 48:23 I think that's the key, you know, that is the key. 48:27 I was thinking of what you were saying Irma 48:28 with praying and asking God. 48:31 He says whatever you ask in my name, 48:32 I will give you or delight yourself, 48:34 Psalm 37 in the Lord 48:36 and He will give you the desires of your heart. 48:39 And I believe that all of God's promises are yes, 48:41 in the name in Christ Jesus 48:43 and all of the request made for spiritual blessing 48:48 God gives I believe immediately. 48:50 Sometimes the physical 48:53 might not always be answered right now, 48:55 but we may not, God always answers. 48:58 Just sometimes the answer is not, 49:00 maybe what our heart desires. 49:02 I know with Greg and I and we've been open 49:04 about our struggles with infertility. 49:07 Now this was years ago 49:09 and I remember claiming that promise, 49:11 delight yourself in the Lord, 49:12 and he will give you the desires of my, your heart. 49:15 And then God said, what if I change your desires. 49:18 Right. 49:20 I'm still giving you the desires of your heart, 49:22 but God worked in my heart to change 49:24 and He actually removed that desire for kids. 49:27 And so then now it was like God says, 49:29 I said no 'cause I called you to ministry, 49:33 but my desire changed. 49:34 And so, I think that's what as we surrender to God, 49:37 sometimes we say, 49:38 God I want this over here and He says in my perfect plan, 49:42 in my perfect will. 49:43 I have a different plant. 49:45 I have a different something a greater good. 49:49 I'm working out that you don't see right now. 49:52 Now in the case of Jeremy, 49:54 it's God's will that no one should perish 49:56 but that all should come to repentance. 49:58 So we have the word of God to stand on that in that case. 50:00 I'm thinking there might be 50:02 multiple hundreds of parents out there 50:06 that are trusting God for their children. 50:07 Amen. 50:09 And I just want to encourage you, 50:10 continue to stand on God's word, 50:13 call those things that be not as though they were. 50:16 Your children are mighty men and women of God in the making. 50:21 God is setting up circumstances and situations 50:24 to bring them to that place, but you in your waiting time, 50:28 don't let it be a passive waiting but and... 50:31 that you used the word aggressive, 50:32 assertive, go for it. 50:34 Don't go for the bronze, 50:36 don't leave and go for the silver, 50:38 let's go for the gold. 50:39 We're mighty men and women of God 50:41 holding on to those promises that He has given us. 50:43 Absolutely. 50:45 You know, we look forward to Christ's soon return too, 50:47 that's another thing you know with patient 50:49 or eager anticipation, right, 50:51 we look forward to Christ's soon return, 50:53 you know and he says that behold, 50:54 I come quickly... 50:56 We were talking about this here earlier 50:57 I believe it was... 50:58 And how long ago did he say that? 51:00 Well, hundreds and hundreds of years ago 51:01 but we know that he is coming, 51:03 you know, our life is just a vapor. 51:05 So we don't know when our life will end. 51:07 I mean you don't know when your life will end. 51:08 The key is to be faithful to Jesus Christ 51:11 and to have that patience and to be doing diligently 51:13 what God has called us to do right now this very day, 51:17 whatever that is like Mollie was mentioning, don't give up, 51:19 don't grow weary. 51:21 You're praying for family members, 51:22 I know Jill and I have family members 51:24 that we pray for daily... 51:25 Yes. Yes. 51:27 That God will save them and yeah... 51:28 Grandchildren for us. 51:29 Amen. 51:31 Grandchildren for our sisters and brothers 51:34 that have children also and grandchildren, 51:36 Absolutely. 51:38 You know the thing about the Lord is 51:39 it allows us to believe that we are not subject 51:43 to nor slaves of the reality that we see... 51:45 That's right. 51:46 Just because... 51:48 He's not walking with God now, so what? 51:51 God has, God has got a calling, you know. 51:54 There's something God will use in his testimony. 51:55 Precisely. Yes. 51:57 So you're not, you look at your life, now, 51:58 this is a mess, this is not what I want, 52:00 but that's not the reality of the situation 52:03 because God rearranged the situation. 52:04 He calls that thing that was not as though what it is... 52:07 So claim that, so you're not a slave 52:09 to what you see going on right now. 52:11 So you can have patience, you can endure aggressively 52:14 because this ain't it, this is not the answer, 52:17 this is not the end. 52:18 This is a phase and God is gonna move it from here 52:21 to here to here, and I will overcome, 52:23 I will be an overcomer. 52:24 Amen. 52:26 Because God has said that I'm gonna overcome it. 52:27 Amen. So I can claim that. 52:28 And He gives you patience also, 52:31 so that you can perform another things 52:33 that you can pray for other things 52:35 that you can study and then 52:37 you can be encouraging even others 52:40 like Mollie is encouraging... 52:41 Absolutely. Amen. 52:43 For others. 52:44 Our time is fast slipping away for family worship. 52:46 We want to have some time of prayer 52:47 of course 'cause worship, you know, 52:48 we like to sing some songs, study the Bible. 52:51 We also want to talk to God in prayer. 52:53 So we like to do, 52:54 we call kind of popcorn style prayer, 52:55 just little short little prayers. 52:57 And so, Mollie, would you like to start, 52:58 and you know, mention those 52:59 like you mentioned the families that have loved ones 53:01 that don't follow the Lord. 53:02 Yeah, that's kind of what's on my heart. 53:04 Amen Let's pray for them. 53:05 Holy Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus and, 53:07 Lord, we praise You 53:09 and we thank You for Your grace 53:11 and Your mercy and Your goodness 53:13 that's extended to every one of us. 53:15 And I thank You Father that Your word does declare 53:18 that You are able to keep that thing 53:20 which is committed on to You against that day. 53:22 And, Father, right now we commit our children 53:25 and our grandchildren, those Lord, 53:27 that we've been holding on to, 53:29 holding on to Your hand and holding on to their hands, 53:32 standing in that places and intercessor for them, 53:35 Father, that we've been holding on to. 53:37 We commend them into Your hands and we thank You Father 53:40 that You are able to complete this. 53:42 And to bring them into that place with You 53:44 that You would them be so, Father, we ask You that 53:47 You would go to the north, east, south and west 53:50 all over this whole world, 53:52 Father, and touch the needs of those, 53:54 draw them into You Father, 53:55 set up those circumstances and situations 53:58 that will put our children, our grandchildren 54:00 and our loved ones in that place, 54:03 where they will come to You and Jesus now. 54:04 Thank you. Thank you. 54:06 Amen. Thank you, Lord. 54:07 Gracious Father, may be some one out there, 54:09 even now many people 54:11 who are in situations that they want to be released from. 54:14 They're working next to somebody 54:16 who doesn't basically like them and they don't get along, 54:18 or may be working on a job that they don't like. 54:21 Lord, would You help them to know and understand 54:23 that many times You placed them in that situation 54:26 for their own growth and growing, 54:28 Lord, and before they ask for release, 54:31 would You have them ask to learn the lessons 54:34 that You've put them in there to learn. 54:36 And once having learned their lessons, 54:38 then change the situation, 54:39 Lord, but help us not to be so anxious to get out 54:42 from under the press of faith 54:44 that we lose the lessons of faith. 54:46 Yes. Yes. 54:48 And we don't grow where we should grow. 54:49 Oh, Father, gives us patience to endure... 54:52 Thank you. Thank you. 54:53 And to find joy 54:55 even in the tough situations of life. 54:56 And we thank You, Lord, for trials great and small, 54:59 because they make us more like Jesus. 55:01 Thank you, Jesus. 55:03 Heavenly Father, we thank You so much 55:05 for the guidelines that You give us 55:08 to have a Godly character. 55:10 And we thank You for the power 55:12 that You've offered to us to overcome. 55:15 And we ask now, 55:16 Lord, that You'll continue working in our hearts 55:19 and give us your desire for our lives 55:22 and for being mission to and testimony to others. 55:28 And give us Your mind, 55:31 give us Your Spirit that Lord for only 55:34 You can gives those to us, 55:35 and we ask them in the name of Jesus, amen. 55:39 Father, I come into an agreement 55:41 with my brothers and sisters 55:42 and those of our brothers and sisters at home. 55:44 Lord, we come before you right now, 55:47 and we want to come in eager expectation, 55:50 for what You have promised, and we know Your word says 55:52 that it is not Your will that any should perish 55:54 but that all should come to repentance. 55:57 And so, we just pray for those who are lifting up sons 56:00 or daughters or spouses or parents or neighbors 56:04 or those in the community or those that they meet. 56:07 Father, there're many, many people lost 56:09 and dying alone without You. 56:11 And we claim their souls for Your kingdom just now. 56:14 And we ask that as we eagerly wait 56:17 in anticipation of what You're going to do, 56:20 that You would show us each day 56:22 what You desire us to do. 56:24 How we can reach out 56:25 and be the hands and feet of Jesus, 56:27 and we thank You in Jesus' name. 56:30 Father in heaven, what a blessing 56:32 it is to call upon You at any time. 56:35 Thank You that You're with us here 56:37 during this worship time here 56:39 as we're opening the Sabbath hours. 56:41 Lord, it's a real privilege that You... 56:45 You somehow hear all of these prayers 56:47 that I know are being sent up to you 56:49 right now around the world, 56:51 and You hear each one, You care for each one, 56:54 You want to answer each one... 56:55 Thank you, Jesus. According to Your will. 56:56 I just pray for the trust and the faith in you 56:59 that we will hang on to you this Christian life 57:03 referred to as a race, 57:05 and, Father, may we run it with patience, 57:07 Father, trust in You in all circumstances 57:10 and in Jesus' name we pray. 57:12 Amen. Amen. 57:14 Our time is almost gone, thank you. 57:17 Thank you, CA and Irma and Mollie Steenson. 57:19 It's a blessing to share, absolutely. 57:23 Thank you for joining us for family worship 57:25 as you do every Friday night. 57:26 Know that we love you, that we are praying for you 57:28 that we pray that God will work His patience, 57:31 not only in our lives here 57:33 but in your life at home as well. 57:35 Bye-bye. Happy Sabbath. |
Revised 2016-06-09