Five Senses Under the Yoke of Christ
February 27, 2022 · 2:27:59 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
Set in the first days of the war in Ukraine, the service opens by urging believers not to be deceived or alarmed by the news. Jesus foretold wars and turmoil long ago, yet God remains on His throne and fully in control, and He never lays on us a weight heavier than we can carry.
The main message comes from the parable of the great supper in Luke 14, fixing on the man who excused himself to go and test his five yoke of oxen. From this the preacher draws an analogy: God has given each of us five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch - and like oxen in a yoke they come in pairs and can pull our lives toward good or toward evil. We are responsible for what our eyes watch, what our ears absorb, the atmosphere we give off, the words our tongue speaks, and the good our hands do.
The answer to a world that wearies our senses is Christ's invitation in Matthew 11: come to Him, take His yoke, and find rest. A young visitor adds testimonies from Bible school - a brother who received the gift of tongues and a long gospel conversation with a Jewish man - showing that even mustard-seed faith moves mountains. The gathering closes by pouring out its heart in prayer for Ukraine.
Key Points
- Do not be deceived or terrified by frightening news; Jesus foretold these things and God is still on the throne.
- God never gives a burden heavier than we can bear, and over time He makes the load lighter.
- Our five senses are like five yoke of oxen - given by God and able to serve either good or evil.
- Guard your eyes and ears, for what we feed on through media and music shapes our spirit.
- Be a pleasing aroma of Christ, creating an atmosphere at home and church that draws others in.
- Use your tongue and hands to encourage and to do good, especially to the household of faith.
- Trade the world's heavy yoke for the yoke of Christ, whose burden is light, and let even small faith move mountains.
Devotional
Pause today and ask what your senses have been feeding your soul. The eyes that scroll endless news, the ears that soak up every rumor, the tongue quick to wound - each can pull you toward darkness or toward light. Bring them all back under the gentle yoke of Christ, who promises rest to the weary. When your sight, your hearing, and your words are fixed on Him, even a mustard seed of faith becomes enough to move mountains.
God never gives us more than we can carry, and in time He makes the load lighter.
Your five senses are like five yoke of oxen - they can pull you toward good or toward evil.
Take up the yoke of Christ; His burden is light and His rest is for the weary.
Transcript
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what's happening in ukraine what's happening in russia and you're worried but i bring you good news we know the one miss who knows who knows the end from the beginning and today i want to share a word when she was sitting on the mouth of olives and the apostles asked him the disciples to ask him about the end of time and this is what jesus answered first of all he says watch out that no one deceives you for many will come in my name um in my name um they will deceive many ib you will hear words of divorce and see that you are not alarmed his word says your slovak do not be deceived and do not worry inept he has everything under control we might have self control let us pray divide the promoting sin heavenly father as we come before you this morning we thank you that you have given us another day we thank you that you have given us a breath into our lungs we thank you that we woke up on a warm bed on a blue skies we thank you for the country that we live that still you know has freedom that we can come to you in worship lord and today we come with a humble heart before you and we ask you that you would fill us up with your hope that you would feel us with your with your will that we will fulfill it well that we don't look into the world and worried what's happening but we would rely on you your word gave all us the promises to not be deceived there will be people who will try to deceive us do not look into there do not worry because you have everything under control lord and i ask you for everybody that is here today you know what type of a heart that they came with any kind of burden any kind of sadness any kind of worry we bring it to you to the cross you are our father you are our healer you are a redeemer and we rely on you lord and during just during this service speak to our minds speak to our heart speak to your soul that we would be changed that our spirit would be united with you in jesus name we pray amen if you want to look to another word we're going to 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hear the word that's going on it's interesting that paul my brother just touched on the same type of verse i was gonna talk about as well and what we hear is not something new we that jesus already pre-told this and we need to remember that so we're going to keep your career in our prayers okay you know [Music] and my sermon comes from luke chapter 14 verse 16 through 19. i'm going to read in english and then i'll let us read in in russian uh it says luke luke luke 14 verse 16 tonight then he said to him a certain man gave a great supper and invited many and sent his servants at suppertime to say those that were invited come for the things are ready now but they all with one accord began to make excuses the first one said to him i have bought a piece of ground and i must go and see it i ask you that you have me excuse and another said i have bought the five yoke of oxen and i'm going to test them i ask [Music] so today i would like to focus on verse uh chapter 14 verse uh verse 19. um and it states a very interesting thing that stood out for me and i wanted to use that today it talks about five yokes of oxen when we hear yoke it's not something pleasant or seems something difficult or hard and next slide this talks about what does a yoke mean for those uh for younger generations that probably never seen a yoke or seen what it is is a wooden beam normally used between two pair of oxen [Music] and enables him to pull a large weight so while i was pondering on this topic i was like how can we apply this into our lives and looking through it i the one thing that i was able to associate the five oxygen in our life would be our uh five senses and we're going to look at that then create an analogy so this analogy i'd like to apply to us as we know god gave us five senses or hearing and unique things about these five senses they all come in pairs when they see it like a yoke of oxen we have two ears we have two eyes we have two nostrils so god give us these five senses that we use every day and i like to look at these five senses and how we could apply that to our walk in our spiritual life these five senses we use every day and it could be used for good and emotional crosstalk they chose and it could be used for bad emotion um first sense i would like to talk about is our site as we know today we live in a world that's very visual we have social media news uh videos video tick tock facebook and the list goes on the reason social media tick tock facebook you see issues and especially during this time that we what's going on in the world yeah also believe i think we need to be more diligent in what we accept what we let our eyes see not just the news but also the videos we watched the things that we see the things that we look at and again scripture teaches us what our focus should be on uh the lamp of the body is the eyes if therefore the eye is good your whole body will be full of light but if your eye is bad your body will be full of darkness if they're for the light there is there is your darkness and how great is the darkness it's our responsibility it's to control what we see because again there's a lot of information especially today and right now when i was when i was preparing for my sermon i had to actually turn off all contacts from social media news or anything because it does affect our spiritual well-being because this information doesn't bring anything good to us it only brings uh sorrow or discouragement information correct so again we it's a reminder how we use our eyes and what are we using them for uh psalm 141 says that but my eyes are upon you oh god the lord in you i take refuge [Music] in again it could be good it's a reminder to us it's up to us to control um another one a good one these days is music what type of music we listen to what do we use to build our life and peace will come out of it but if we feed our soul or our hearing with negative things negative news it will also reflect that in our lives that the faith comes from hearing um and the hearing word of god i think during this time that we are i think it's a reminder again for us to focus more on what the lord has to say through god has given us many pleasant things around us that we should be focusing on word of god the scripture these are the things that should be mainly focused in our lives and god has called to these things that build us up not to destroy proverbs 21 13 says whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out call out and not be answered also god calls us to do good from what we hear scripture teaches us we should be able to do good for even those who are maybe in poor or going through a hard time uh it's a sense of smell as we talked about uh interesting analogy is how or what type of aroma do we create around ourselves are we pleasant to be around that we've associated with are just pleasant people they're good and you like to be part of their part of their family or their friendship corinthians 2 verse 15 says an interesting thing corinthians 2 15 for we are aroma of christ to god among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing how are we as an aroma to one another or to people at work or at church do we are pleasant interested i'm reading a book right now by george david and it's called in my father's house and he teaches fathers how to be a good example even i grew up without a father so i try to learn because i do want to be a good father to teach those examples to my children and he talks about an atmosphere creating an atmosphere at home even an atmosphere where children will run back into atmosphere i think that atmosphere also has to be a church tacos atmosphere because if we have that pleasant aroma that the people of this world that are perishing will be drawn to that problem hands again you could do good or you could do evil you could help you could not help we could build and destroy and as previously we talked about we could pull children to us so we could push them away same thing applies to church we could pull people in they play a big role in our physical life because we use them daily galatians 6 10 says she's destined for it therefore if we have an opportunity let us do good to all especially to those who in the household of faith is but also the scripture tells us we should just do good tools to do good to us as well not to do good just to those that only do good for us because we like the people in the world how good do we do those to our to make fun of us or that bring pain to our lives again something to think about proverbs 3 27 talks about it do not withhold good from the deserve from the deserving when it is within your power to act again the scripture reminds us to be good to do good that's what we are called to do it says christ showed us by his life christos how we in our life and in this mouth a very strong muscle lives and it could create uh it could start fires as we know the scripture teaches us [Music] and again as important during this time during the events that are going out how careful we should be to control this tongue this muscle in our mouth physically we could um what do we indulge it with the uh the drinks the food it could be good and it could be bad uh same thing with the drink it could be instruction let no corrupt word process out of your mouth but what is good for necessary identification that it may impart grace to the hearers focuses on one big aspect in children's lives the power of encouragement um to help those who are in need and may god help us to do and be the encouragement that each one of us needs again during this time on certain times that we live we could be the encouragement to one another to love each other to to show encouragement to one another may that kind of puts it into perspective is john 1 john 2 16. it says for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the father but is of the world when we take these five senses and use these five senses play a crucial role in our lives again as we heard it physically and spiritually we need to be on guard and what we and how we use them today and the thing is the bible always leaves us with a solution so for for the solution let's look at matthew 11 28 verses it says come to me although you have labor and have heavily latin and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for i am a gentle lovely in heart and you will find rest for your soul for my yoke is easy and my burden is light political weeks ago but also about uh oxen and how a uh when they when an old ox and then a new ox and they're put together the burden that we have as christian is not easy amen i mean may god bless you let us pray let's pray dear heavenly father we thank you for this time that we have we thank you for the scripture that we have we thank you for your love thank you for your guidance that you've given us we thank you for the scripture that we have that we can turn to you we thank you that you speak to us and during this uh troublesome time we have you we have that we could come to you to pray to listen to what the word of god speaks to us let us mind let us uh our five senses that you've given us to be used for your glory for your um for your kingdom everything that we do let our eyes see the holiness and in you let us hear hear the goodness the aroma that we provide around us let it be pleasant so more people could see you in our life we thank you jesus let us tongue praise you let us let our tongue bring blessings not cursing let the encouragement come from ours from our hearts to our wives or our children let us build that strong family in you jesus we thank you for the word we thank you for the family that we have in christ we thank you for this church that we have we ask you to bless it we ask you to bless the remainder of the service let your word speak to us open our minds to really receive what is good to the holy spirit we thank you we call upon your spirit to bring that joy and that peace and there's hard time again jesus we ask you to be merciful we thank you again we come and we ask you that you fill our hearts our minds with the peace of christ that surpasses all understanding again we thank you for this time that we have together as a church i ask you to bless each member give that peace in their hearts no matter what they're going through today whatever discouragement whatever they might be feeling inside let the peace of christ come and overfill their hearts to give them that light the burden it doesn't have to be difficult but through you jesus we know that your burden and your yoke is light again we come and ask you in jesus name we pray amen youth and kids you now have no excuses when mom and dad ask what did brother peter preach about you will all remember what number did uh brother peter use the most in his sermon that was your dad i want somebody else to be here because it was your dad today in the evening at six o'clock we will be having youth service monday prayer at 7 30. i would like to invite everybody brothers and sisters it will be a special prayer a continuance of prayers in which we will begin today for ukraine in order for god to send his peace therefore if you have this weight in your heart for this situation we ask you to come and pray wednesday at 7 30 we have uh service in the middle of the week now how do you seem a reminder that next sunday or every sunday we have a prayer at 10 30 in the conference room we invite everybody but especially those that are serving in ministry or in the service and at 11 o'clock we will have our usual service as always [Music] i'd also like to remind us that may 21st we will be having a girls conference [Music] and i i hope that you already marked this in your calendar today you can come to our sister natalia so where you would be able to scan a qr code and register for the event also we are continuing registration from for teen camp 11 people from our church have already registered therefore if anyone else wants to please register [Music] we talked about having a couple seminar on march 12th our guest speakers will be igor and donna therefore we invite all of you and in the in the hallway there is also a codes qr code you can scan to register [Music] next week we will be having many services and i want you to remember uh sporman so march 6th we will be having communion and i'd like to remind us that we will be having a second gathering love offering um yes lugina on this sunday for the ministry of purlin and therefore prepare maybe an extra check for this ministry six o'clock uh next sunday march 6th even in the evening at six o'clock we will be having an english and of course in the morning service we will be having a guest name mentioned he is the son of the bishop in the place of odessa in ukraine we will be having uh collections for different kinds of needs uh for ukraine uh so therefore be prepared you know and ready to give uh for for those needs of course i would like to share a thought from myself and from brothers [Music] just as in every conflict the lord tells us to be careful in our fellowship in our discussions especially when we are here at our church services or maybe in the parking lot [Music] to not bring up discussions in which are of hate speech or maybe putting people down and this is the word of god and whether we like it or not and our calling is something greater and it's the new jerusalem in heaven there and also the word of god calls us to love and forgiveness people were gathering and sharing information of how you can help and uh gathering together and you could hear many different things there alayama and we are thankful that uh brothers from our church such as brother peter but john with ericosta in orlando some of our ministers and some of you from church we're also here in saint peters we were not just present there microphone we had we we had the microphone mr collude and we thank god that he gives us this opportunity we don't know what awaits us further we don't know how the situation will develop in the future but we will continue to pray for them and later in the service pastor nicholas will lead us in a prayer for ukraine i would like to invite the choir to sing and during this time we will be doing our church offerings for our church but i said as well as i mentioned uh to prepare yourself for other offerings and for needs such as ukraine may god bless you [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me is [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] what [Music] [Applause] uh [Applause] [Music] please [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] me [Applause] me [Music] [Applause] is [Music] the lord gives us children so that we can train them up and uh in the future we will be giving them our faith in and so they would also with this faith lead services and and uh serve the world and we could teach them as children at home and but the lord is the one that brings the increase and therefore we will pray for them let us stand i mean praise god brothers and sisters you know me and my sister are able to return for a short period of time to visit you guys and honestly it's been such a blessing just going to this bible school and being in jacksonville you know it's it's changed my life truly so much and i have a word for you guys i would like to share with you before i do that i want to just share a few testimonies what god has been doing in my and how you guys have been blessing me as well you know in uh in this bible school we a lot of the students spend a lot of time together and so like about like the second or third weekend a few of us were doing a fast uh voy is not and you know it's not always easy fasting there you see because you you're in school you have to stay in the school building for the nine hours that you're learning and you know everyone just kind of stays in the building but they have a special room for those that are fasting you don't have to but those that are fasting usually like to go up there because lunch is about like 40 minutes 15 minutes so you have a good amount of time to pray today probably so there was me and three other brothers up there praying and as we were praying i just felt it on my heart that we need to pray for somebody's need but i knew one brother had something on his heart that we should pray for him and so i just said out loud i called them together i'm like hey guys i feel like somebody has a need that we need to pray for yep and i'm like i believe that god will answer this need and one brother who's about 23 24 years old you know he comes out and he says i actually have a need were praying for about 15 minutes and he said the whole time i was praying for god to bless me with the gift of speaking in tongues [Music] you know he said that's what he was fasting he's been truly desiring it for a while and so we start praying for him you know it's me and two other bible students praying for him we've never prayed for something like this before munich so we didn't know what to do we just laid hands on him and started praying [Music] and as we started praying the holy spirit started failing us and we just started getting words to tell him you know words of wisdom that was truly from god uh slava mudra secretary uh and then he received this he wanted to stop paul sheid and praise god right there and then there he received the gift of speaking in tongues you know through three bible school students that are very young you know they're not ministers or anything like that but they're just all together seeking god is and i believe that it's not just through our prayers but through your guys's prayers too and i'd like to share one more example of what happened to me actually me and my sister you know i saw that you guys went out to the ukrainian and st petersburg and orlando and that you guys were sharing the gospel uh uh you mean the festival yeah and you um were sharing god with people if we uh deleted me and i'm so glad that our church does that yeah because it has truly changed i believe it truly changes people uh we had a group of missionaries come and teach us how to evangelize properly and they wouldn't just teach us that whole week from monday through friday every every night at 6 00 p.m we would go out and evangelize for two hours in jacksonville whether it's downtown at the beach at the mall but there was about a hundred people every night would go out to evangelize and you know they were teaching us and they had these kind of tracks on the back there's actually a message and so what it's supposed to be is you fold it in half it looks like a hundred dollar bill you either hand it to someone or leave it somewhere and then somebody will come up and pick it up thinking they found free money but then they look on the back and they're disappointed on the back basically says i'll summarize it it it it presents them a problem that they have every person in this world has the uh challenge and the problem is that we are not perfect but god is perfect and he created heaven and everything that is in heaven needs to be perfect and holy as well but we can't enter heaven because we are not perfect and we are not holy nominee you know some people might be prideful and say oh no i'm good i do all good things i'm i can enter heaven but it explains that if you have lied one time if you have stolen something that was not yours even though it might have been worthless you're breaking one of the laws and as soon as you break one of the laws you are imperfect but there's good news and the good news is that through jesus [Music] through jesus christ we can enter heaven he was this living sacrifice that died for us [Music] and these tracks we spent the entire week passing them out and on the second day i went with one of my roommates we were kind of in a group passing them out uh you know they were hundred dollar bills and we would come up and pass them to people and start conversations with them and he wanted to but every time he came up to someone he was scared to speak um so what would happen is we would be walking down the sidewalk and he's like okay i'm going to speak to this person okay he's like they need the gospel right now and then as we're walking you see him just start kind of walking slower he's getting a little more afraid tonight so i started coming up to people making conversations and like asking him to share some stuff his testimony and then the next day we go do the same thing but i'm not in his group anymore and so i was thinking i'm like man he's going to be struggling again and so at the end of the day when we all get home he comes up to me he's like david um he's like i just went evangelizing with your sister and he said she's exactly like you i'm not touched i'm like how uh and he's like because i'm scared to talk to everyone he's like i know they need the gospel but he's like you and her you guys just walk up to every single person and start talking uh he's like you guys aren't even scared you just know exactly what to say i encourage you the next time one of the leaders or the pastors you know has this opportunity to go out yeah so now i'd like to get to my message i would like to talk about faith this faith that can move mountains i would like to ask you brothers and sisters when is the last time you moved the mountain in your life if we believe that god is truly a living god [Music] if we believe that he hears every single one of our prayers yes then why don't we see more miracles in our lives and i would like to open a passage it's matthew chapter 17 verse 20 and here the disciples come up to jesus and it says so jesus said to them because of your unbelief or in different translations it says little faith for assuredly i say to you if you have faith as a mustard seed you will say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible to you however this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting is and in verse 21 we see it says it does not go out except by prayer and fasting how often do we remember prayer but forget about fasting if we truly have a need yes spend more time in prayer [Music] but here like you might still be asking okay but what is faith it doesn't say what faith is it just says you need to have it as a mustard seed no if you look it up the literal definition is complete trust in something or someone uh but the bible says in hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 of bibliography now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen we have faith in god it's something that we do not see but we still know he is alive [Music] we have faith in our prayers you know sometimes we might be praying and we don't see god hearing these prayers but we still have this faith so we need to have this complete faith this complete faith with no doubts as small as a mustard seed it just has to be complete no no there's nobody you know there's this quote michael todd said it said prayer should be our first response how often is prayer our last resort in our lives you know everything's going good in our lives and we might thank god that he just blesses us but then whenever something starts heading downhill whenever we start having some problems we try to fix our problems by ourselves and only then when all else fails when we hit rock bottom whenever we have a need even though it may be small even though we may think it's incident it's significant to god he doesn't care we don't want to waste his time with us brothers and sisters in prayer and fasting to build your faith and now i wanted to open up to a story lazarus has just died [Music] and it says and from verse starting verse 20 and down now martha as soon as she heard that jesus was coming went and met him but mary was sitting in the house now martha said to jesus lord if you have been here my brother would not have died but even now i know that whatever you ask of god god will give you jesus said to her your brother will rise again martha said to him i know he will rise again in the resurrection as the last day jesus said to her i am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die he shall live and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die do you believe this and she said to him yes lord i believe that you are christ son of god who is to come into the world here jesus is testing her faith and it looks as if she passes she says yes i have faith that you are lord examiner know she comes to jesus first and she says if you have been here my brother would not have died you know she has this faith if jesus was here he could have performed a miracle jesus but then when her faith is put to the test when she has to do these works to show her faith later in verse 38 it says then jesus again groaning in himself came to the tomb it was a cave and a stone lay against it and jesus said take away the stone martha the sister of him who was dead said to him lord by this time there's a stench for he has been dead four days here we see that as soon as her faith is tested uh as soon as jesus says to take away the stones as soon as jesus wants to perform a work and he tells them to put in work he wants them to do a work to prove their faith she said lord it's better not to do this let's just move on but as we continue reading jesus said to her did i not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of god then they took away the stone from that place where the dead man was lying and jesus lifted up his eyes and said father i thank you that you have always heard me and i know that you always hear me and because of the people who are standing by i said this and that they may believe that you sent me now when he had said these things he heard he cried with the loud voice lazarus come forth and he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with the cloth jesus said to them lose him and let him go you know how often are we like martha chaston [Music] you know when we're standing in prayer because we say these words lord i believe that jesus you are alive and if only you had helped me sooner i would not be in this place and help them but we're like martha we say lord it already stinks we don't want to reopen that no it was a partner i was just saying those words but do i truly believe them in my heart do we truly have this true faith do we stand on god's word and ask him with true belief in our hearts yes you know in john 14 verse 12 it says most assuredly i say to you this is jesus speaking he who believes in me the works that i do he will also and greater works than these he will do because i go to my father and whatever you ask in my name that i will do that the father may be glorified in the son if you ask anything in my name i will do it amen brothers and sisters who truly believes that you could do greater works than jesus jesus name has power stand firm on his name you know but if we just if we just say it with our words you know because in james chapter 2 verse 17 it says thus also faith by itself if it does not have works is dead you know this stone that was guarding the tomb it was not easy to move it was a big process and sometimes we have this stone in our lives that is a big process to get out of the way you just as we were in jacksonville about two weeks ago jacksonville every monday we do an outreach we are separated into six groups and two groups go into a prayer room and pray they pray for the rest of the groups there's two groups that go to go to children that are in very low income areas and preach the gospel to them [Music] there's one group that goes to a homeless shelter and and they kind of evangelize to them and they just share with them and then one group goes evangelizing and you know on that specific monday my group was going evangelizing and this was already after our evangelism weekly but then as soon as we get to our meeting our prayer right before we leave our leader tells us hey i'm sick i won't be able to come with you guys and that kind of put all our spirits down but we're like hey it's okay we know how to do this we can do it ourselves but then as we get to this mall where we're at [Music] like it's okay we can still go and we'll be able to talk to people more one-on-one and so i was we were going out it was me and two other girls and we keep coming up to every person hey can i see our message with you and they walk by no i got to go somewhere i'm busy we walked up to 5 10 fifteen people we're like man what's going on we understand people are going to reject it but not even one guy we keep going 20 25 30 people and not even one person and we stop and we say guys something's going on first we're thinking where our minds were like man it's too cold outside everyone's in a rush somewhere but then we're like hey guys let's just pray [Music] you know we didn't try to find a better spot where there might be more people we continued where we were mobility and you know the next two people we came up to isla they still rejected us and about three people later i walk up to a jewish man and as soon as we start talking to him we can we can feel that he's jewish [Music] you know i shared with him for about five minutes who jesus was what he did what is the gospel is and then you know for the next 25 minutes he started me asking me questions what is christianity what is the you know i was talking with the girls after and they said they could sense this genuine curiosity and they said the whole time in their spirits they were just praying for him that god would work on him you know he was on a break and as we were talking to him we were talking with him so long that his boss actually came outside and had to take him back to work on faith could be something as so small as sharing the gospel with someone and you know we might be like god just send us one person that's that might be we might think that's how small our faith is but you know even in this whenever one soul is hit saved all of heaven rejoices in jesus name we will do greater works and you know as i would like to wrap up i would like us to pray [Music] so the first of all we would stand in faith in prayer and fasting so that we would have this complete faith even though it might be as small as a mustard seed [Music] you know this true faith that this true faith that we believe in god's word is and in the end god would move these mountains in our lives so that we weren't afraid of these problems but the problems would be afraid of us so that the devil was afraid of us of what we can do according to god's will and let's just pray for us to have this true hallelujah jesus we thank you and glorify you god jesus you are so good lord we thank you lord that you came down for us jesus for all that you did for us jesus you came down on this earth lord and you died for us lord but there is power in this god jesus there is power in the cross lord and your blood lord that you poured out for us god and we just ask right now lord that we would receive it lord and so that we would apply it in our lives lord so we would have this true faith god this faith that can move mountains lord so that any problem lord it would not it would not affect us god but we would just turn to you right away lord in prayer and fasting lord god every little problem we have lord no matter how small lord god we would just give it to you lord no matter how big it is lord we would give it to you we would give all of our problems to you put them in your hands jesus and in your name lord we would stand on this lord and so that we had this true faith god this true faith as a mustard seed lord this true faith lord so that our lives would show it our works would show it lord so that this true faith would be moving in our lives god so that you would be moving in our lives god and whenever people would see us they would know that we are christians god that they wouldn't think of us as hypocrites lord but they would see that you are alive in our lives you are moving in our lives and we would have this true faith god so that lord we would just give all we have to you and we would just be this living sacrifice to you lord we pray that you bless all of us in jesus name amen you know with the brothers we had a meeting and discussing we were thinking and about the situation in the world and to have a special prayer [Music] [Music] let's come to this with this type of mindset uh in him in all times oh people pour out your hearts to him for god is our refuge a prayer i cry out loud oh lord lift up my voice to the lord of mercy is the little period i poured out my complaints before him before him i tell my problems you know it is a prayer that we would voice our prayer to the lord you know many people have been calling with tears with all the worries that they have yes you know and i understand what can i do what can paul do what can we all do but the word of god tells us that we should complain before him with our troubles [Music] for i am in this desperate need rescue me from those who pursue me for they are stronger too strong for me david was worried he saw the people that were persecuting him and he david was saying to the lord this is faith [Music] and david was teaching us and showing us with my voice i cried out to him that our hearts would be on this tune for our name [Music] for these couple of days when we were traveling with my wife from cleveland ohio we heard this news when we were driving it is but it's important that we as a church of god p his people that we poured out hit our hearts i mean 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