Raising Children for the Kingdom of Heaven

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tell anyone about this imagine the person who just received the healing that person was not able to keep it quiet and Bible says anywhere he would go he would tell everyone what Jesus has done for him I would like to say something you know if Jesus Christ he saved he healed you do not be quiet if Jesus Christ he delivered us from the leprosy of sin do not be quiet and I would like for us in this service today that we would glorify lord's name that our soul would worship him let's bow our head heads and we will pray together for [Music] foru [Music] for [Music] I'm greeting you everyone you can greet one another and say you made the right decision to be in the Lord's House [Music] today I come before you today and there one thing that I want to say thank you Lord thank you Lord for all you've given to [Music] me for all the blessings that I cannot see thank you Lord thank you Lord with a grateful heart with a song of Praise with out stretch I bless your name thank you Lord I Just Want to Thank You Lord thank you Lord I Just Want to Thank You Lord thank you [Music] Lord for all you've done in my [Music] life you took my darkness and gave me your thank you Lord thank you Lord you took my sin in my shame you took my sickness and heal all my paink you Lord thank you Lord with a grateful heart with a song of Praise without stret I bless your name thank you Lord I Just Want to Thank You Lord thank you Lord I just want to Thank You Lord thank you Lord I Just Want to Thank You Lord thank you Lord I Just Want to Thank You Lord thank you Lord Hallelujah Lord we thank you Lord foree for [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] for hold the [Music] [Music] for [Music] Hallelujah [Music] hallelu for [Music] [Music] Hallelujah the V me [Music] [Music] for love [Music] to for Hallelujah the Hallelujah [Music] for is [Music] hallelujah for it [Music] Hallelujah [Music] h for [Music] forch fore [Music] fore I me [Music] S de brothers and sisters praise be to our Lord you might have noticed here on the stage we have this wonderful bouquet of flowers maybe somebody might have gu Ted as to the reason why we have those flowers but I'm going to give you a little hint brother was pray and he said the following words praise be to our Lord that our children us here today and today we will be rejoicing with the wonderful family of brother sister Natalia PL with the fact that God has gifted him with another baby boy his name is z and church will be blessing and prayer for them and before I share a few uh ideas as to uh parenting and which we all need and maybe refresh our mind I remember I was at this service in American church and after the service the pastor invited me to go to the restaurant with him and he shared the story of his life and it says me and my friend when we uh finished our Bible College we went to the mid Florida and to start a church we believe that right after graduating our College we will open the church and God will be blessing us tremendously but it said for some reason when we started the church it did not grow and my friend turned to me and he said the following words and he says it looks nothing's going to come out of this I have family I have children I need to go back to work and you go and minister in church and they went separate ways and then Pastor he shares the continues his story and it says when I started to continue my work in church God has put on my heart to adopt an African-American girl we decided to adopt this wonderful girl and accept her into her family with our wife and he says I discovered one thing that what God how he blessed me and one Church came to one lady came to me after church and says Pastor I would like to gift you with a house and it says right after I I see how people started coming more to church and my adopted daughter I also have biological children on my own but when I grow older I told this adopted daughter that you will be the one looking after me because the type of relationship that I have with her is very very and this is how God blessed me I would like to share something and listen you know children they are gift from the Lord yes there's children that are wanted and unwanted children but children they are gift from the Lord and when God is sending children into into our homes there is a tremendous responsibility that lies on a parent every father and mother will give an account before the Lord for your children I would like to read the word of God and share a few Thoughts with [Music] you I'm going to read from the book of Timothy 1 Timothy 5:8 let's listen to this [Music] carefully anyone who does not provide for their relatives and especially for their own household has denied the faith and his worst that an unbeliever some people interpret this passage that it talks about earning money yes it's part of it but one of the biggest responsibility of the parents is to parents the children that God has gifted you I would like to leave with you three advices and for everyone here for the parents what really worked in my personal life and maybe some of the things that I was not able to accomplish one is listen to your parents is listen to your parents when they come to you with all kinds of different questions that the concerns they might have have listened to that you know I know and I can looking back in my life I realized I didn't listen to my they would come to me ask questions and I would always turn them away say I have no time for you I did not have patience or time to listen what they have to say and it was a big mistake that I not listen to my to my children you know one of the biggest tragedies that is being written in the word of God when it comes to Parenting it is the story of David and his household can you imagine coming to a point when the king of David he is running away from his sonal barefooted because because at one point he did not want to hear his concerns he did not invite famar into his uh his Palace David he allowed a lot of mistakes especially in his family and he paid a tremendous price for it be attentive to your children it doesn't matter how many times they come to you with the question everything they might have to share or speak to you listen to them carefully brother Arnold he shared a story with me that he was sitting on the couch with one of his uh um grandchildren and this grandchild would continue to speak into my ear and I would just turn him away because I was in the company of other uh people pastors and look what my uh uh grandson did he's speaking to me and I'm not reacting and he would grab me with his little hands for both of my cheeks I had a big beard he grabbed it and he turned my face towards and then he made it known that Grandpa listen to me I have something to share with you children's want to be heard what they and what what what they want to share the time comes when they you want them to share something with you but uh one time I was traveling to Haiti on a mission trip with my youngest son it was American you know I said they grew up in American School in this culture that we live in and I turned to my son with the following words for the first time you know I understand your struggling and the things that you might be going through in your life I know it's very difficult to be the age that you at and I just started to pour out my heart and he started to cry he did not expect this type of reaction because most of the time the way we communicated with instructions what to do and my advice is to to be attentive to your uh you know turn him closer to you and also that also comes with spending time time goes extremely fast they grow fast and they will leave your home and you will not be able to recuperate the time that you didn't spend today it's a simple time we just go and uh go to any basic place with them deta to children they remember that you know recently I was uh saw the the the interview about the Ben Carson he is a Nur surgeon he was one of the candidates for president his mom was very uneducated person his father left them and they lived very poorly and he said I was the the the um the worst student in the school and my mom found out that I'm very bad in school she took me in my brother she said in front of her and she said the following words and she said you know from now on you can only watch two hours of TV per week every week you'll be going to a library and you'll be grabbing a book and reading it and you will be telling me the summary what you read and you will be writing those in on the notepad and I told my mom what are you doing what are you talking about two hours week two books per week to but Mom said this with love you must do those things he did not know about this and she said at the end of the week our mom would listen to our report we gave her the notes that we written mom would take a pen and she would highlight certain things and she would knock her head and I didn't know that my mom she's not she didn't even know understand what's written there but what she did she paid a close attention to us and he became one of the famous n surgeons in America devote your time for your children it's very important and and one more advice that I would like to share with you because kids are growing teach your children to be responsible before the Lord May children not fear you but they fear God because sometimes it's opposite sometimes children they fear parents but they don't fear God and it's extremely important today when I was driving to church this thought came came to my mind there's a three stages in the way we parent our children you know first time we grab those in into in in our hands I would call it h hology but then when they grow up we use a uh beltology where we use the belt maybe to repr you know I'm one of the uh supporters of discipline not with the hand not with some kind of tool not with the broom St but on the soft spot in the back and this bology actually works but then you know when they grow up sometimes there's a moments where hology and beltology does no longer work but then comes neology when you get and then on your knees you start praying for the Lord's that's why God would give you wisdom is to to to teach your children for your child children to be children that it will be in church with you but most importantly to be in Lord's Kingdom it is the greatest gift or advice that I can nothing will give me joy the mission trips on the work that I do what will bring me joy is that when my oldest youngest son and my daughter and my grandchildren and their in-laws they would be all in the in the inhabitance because it's in last time that we live is a dangerous time we would have prayer for our children that our children would be blessed we will pray for this beautiful boy Z It's a Wonderful Name that he has like to invite the whole family please come here to the front let's stand up on our feet it's a great joy it's four wonderful beautiful children I would like to ask you to stretch your arms in their Direction I will take the little boy in my hands if he loves [Music] it [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] you might be surprised as to why parents are not praying because they said we believe in the prayer of the church we from the church have a little greetings for you but if family members relatives feel free to come and also bless them and greet them time let's greet them [Music] Hallelujah you may be seated but the family will greet their the children grandchildren I also would like to have a picture [Music] of you know it's great when the the generation they continue now we have a great announcement for everyone I would like to invite dear sister um mariaan she is the mother of a sister gal also she is the mother of brother Nick we would like to bless them today they are the gold fund of our church they made a decision to become the members of our church you know there's one generation we just prayed for now it's another one uh that that we see in front of us you know one of the responsibilities for me as a pastor when we are about to accept somebody as a member we call their pastors you don't know how big of a a blessing is for me when I speak with pastors when they give such a great uh feedback and uh report about they shared the best uh moments about them and I did call to your past and we received great report from them you know our church is standing on prayer and our generation is a generation of prayer and I wish for a church to have a strong Foundation at prayer we will be praying for you dear mothers dear brother dear [Music] sisters [Music] for [Music] God bless you you may be seated um just a few announcements today we are having a youth service at 6 PM invite everyone and you young people invite your friends and parents we also would like for you to encourage your children they would have this Fellowship together on Monday we have at 7:30 a prayer we continue to pray for Ukraine for Israel it's a day of fasting we would like for everyone to participate who is able on when Wednesday we have a me midweek service at 7:30 and then on Sundays we start a service at 11:00 a.m. but at 10:30 we have a prayer in the conference I would like to say a few words about this particular prayer you know when we come to church it feeds our souls and when it comes to any kind of feeding it requires preparation and it's very important that if you would like to have a blessing you would like to have a good service we need to prepare that in a conference room because we pray for the service we pray that God would bless every especially if you like maybe a teacher in Sunday school if you're part of the worship group or if you may be singing in a choir that it is a good time for you to get a 10:30 in a conference I invite and encourage everyone I would like to invite your sister Natalia she's going to sing We will have a collection for our church later we have a wonderful guest from the radio host of Emmanuel in Ukraine they'll be sharing a little bit about their Ministry and what they do and then we will have a second collection after them but this first one is going to be for a church open your hearts you know I heard this story one time and I maybe share this with you so there was a young man going to a conference and he had money in one pocket he had for donation for church and the second what he had donation to go to a restaurant and obviously the money that was for the restaurant was a little bit more than he was supposed to give to the church so when the offering plate came he pulled out the wrong pocket so he gave more than he wanted to give I don't know if it's a true story but let's so later he is praying because he was so disappointed he gave the wrong amount but then when I don't was it prayer or was it during the dream God appeared to him and it says don't don't worry I counted for you those let's say he had $20 in one pocket and 40 in another he gave $40 but God says don't worry I still counted them as 20 so that's a double disappointment even though he gave more but count God only counted 20 so what is the lesson for us it's not the amount that we give but it's the heart that you give it's the heart so may God open your heart and reward you for your ministry thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] should baby B Be [Music] fore [Music] for [Music] for spee fore [Music] fore that they known as a [Music] every spee [Music] foree be [Music] fore [Music] fore [Music] foree [Music] for [Music] foreign fore spe fore as [Music] the for te [Music] for [Music] am I want to introduce our guests that have come from Kev from Ukraine you know I've known their family for many years they have a wonderful Ministry in Ukraine called radio em thousands and thousands of people hear the gospel and in Ukraine where they when they shut off all the electricity you see that there was a big and you know a thought came to me to buy seven generators from Poland and you know they're very and you know I asked some of you and you guys helped financially and the generators went to their radio and manual um specific and through those generators they had their radio working 24 hours you know they'll tell a little bit more but first we'll watch a short video and then they'll explain a little bit more [Music] [Music] for [Music] much e for [Music] conf [Music] [Music] for for [Music] for for [Applause] [Music] praise be to Jesus Christ dear church I greet you all in the love of Our Savior Jesus Christ and a greeting from our small team and they were also giving thanks to for these generators and everyone who is involved in this and our station works every day but during these times for 30 six hours there was no electricity it's not just one day it's a long period of time and you know people lived at the at the station and they were waiting for these generators how long they would have to wait and then in the morning they would go out they would praise God and they would testify of all those things that our listeners needed to hear God gives the strength to continue this ministry for 19 years and it's a miracle from [Music] God and the because the radio it goes into the homes and like the Pastor said today we go into the church to to um bring good things to our our spirit but then when the radio is turned on at home and at home you hear the word of God [Music] but and your close ones maybe there're still not going to church but the word of God can touch their hearts there because the radio station is always speaking those are the big eight the big eight cities where the radio station is in but we're also able to reach 52 nations in all over Europe as well and you might ask why is it this way because every of you every one of you has a smartphone you know you need it for Fellowship you need it for your bank you have Wi-Fi and it works and how can you support us without any cost you can type in or.org and the light of God in your homes will be very great you know the Believers they're edified through sermons and people are encouraged through the prayers of many people can be praying in EAS in Ukraine and Germany and even you can be praying here and and we're unified with this prayer you know your children will know the Ukrainian language even though you're here in America and they're learning English but we also have kids programs you know the mothers well maybe you go to work and they'll be at home listening to the radio listening to God's word you know the listeners it's like we call them like our friends our friends that come to our stations to our homes and you know it's not just a running of programs preaching songs no it's a a radio station that's alive [Music] you know when people come to our stations they can testify of what God is doing in them even though there might be a war going on in our nation and you will hear those testimonies and you know you you can hear those testimonies because the Bible says they have overcome the evil one um with the word of their testimony and the blood of the lamb and it's a testimony for your life in this moment because God has prepared it you know our radio station isn't you know supported Maybe by confessions or some Churches no we we're supported by God and that that's why our listeners they help support us because they hear what the radio station is doing we're very thankful for every person that is praying for us and we believe you know we can only overcome by prayer it'll only come from God and that is the only way and you know right now in every every home everyone can visit our our station and be a big big part of of this family of radio Emmanuel and you know my husband already for 10 years as a volunteer he's T carrying this program of questions and answers about the Bible and you know he's going to add some things maybe I missed something but you know me like the director of the radio station I could talk for a very long time and you know our radio station is very musical so I think I'll sing a [Music] songas [Music] fore for [Music] [Music] fore [Music] for [Music] [Music] Fore SC [Music] for [Music] for [Music] [Music] for SC [Music] [Music] the Chan you know definitely we'll be blessing the radio station with finances as well we will be collecting for them you know when they were already leaving out of Kev the Russians were there you know everything was blocked off there was tanks everywhere everything was burning and they were leaving with their car to Western Ukraine to the Border there was thousands of cars there people were driving on the wrong side I mean there was chaos and somewhere they were standing at nighttime and one little girl came she knocked on the window you know and just a cup of of some oatmeal and an apple she was just walking around handing it out saying God loves you God loves you that is just a story of go where we're very grateful that our church is participating in different Ministries different Ministries and may God bless our church and she'll sing one more song and we'll collect for them and you know we really thank God that even when everything started a couple years ago that we never shut down even our computers were working there might not have been people there because we had to evacuate but you know we were still managing everything we were doing interview we were still sharing the word of God we never shut down and you know when people came out of the bunkers or they came out of other parts of Ukraine and they came back we started to have these live interviews with people and people were just you know so joyful and they were just tearing up because you know it's live you know they're just able to share what their life is like and you know many older people like to listen to us because they know that here on this Earth we're just Travelers passers by that this isn't where our home is and that's what I want to sing [Music] about [Music] [Music] [Music] foree fore [Music] [Music] speee [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] [Music] B [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] [Music] foree praise be to Jesus Christ God is merciful and graceful you know I'm already in charge for 10 years I'm serving you know of questions and answers according to the Bible you know before the War I was asked questions like when is the Thousand-Year Reign going to come when is the great sufferings what is what is is the sin of death and then the war started and then other questions came can you kill people can you kill your enemies can you curse them can you take arms how how do you kill whenever you're protecting or do you go on attack do we need to mobilize or no and different [Music] [Music] questions and you know I need to give some sort of answer because you know two times a week I come to the station and they call me live on air I need to give some sort of answer you know I can't just say I don't know thank you so much you know I don't know thank you for calling you know I have to answer somehow you know God put every one of us on our place you know I'll be preaching in the Russian language you know because the Bible that's how it's engraved in me you know when I was attempting to answer these questions the questions where there is no answer to them I was asking Lord what do I do in this situation what do I answer and Jesus says well all the answers you need are in the Bible and there's no other place you could look for them in Matthew chapter 4 verse 17 why did Jesus come why did Jesus Christ come on this Earth pour out his blood was crucified killed and then raised back to life for what reason in Matthew chap 4:1 17 Jesus began to preach saying repent for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near Matthew 4: 23 Jesus went through Galilee teaching he taught in their synagogues proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom Jesus taught about the kingdom of heaven Jesus didn't teach about the law and circumcision Jesus didn't teach how you need to you know bow down before God what you needed what clothes you needed to wear how you needed to serve God Jesus didn't teach how you need to live on Earth in the Book of Luke 12: 13 and 14 Jesus didn't come come for this reason you know to to be a judge for our our situation Jesus didn't teach about our morals all the morals are written in John 13 verse 38 8 where he says love others as I have loved you Jesus didn't teach about righteousness about being just or about democracy you know his teaching is almost against righteousness against justification against justification Matthew chapter 5 verse 38 Matthew chapter 5:38 you know this is not just by the law it's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth you know the law is just but this is not just you know this is not just you know this what he's talking about it is not just why did Jesus do it this way because Jesus had one goal just one to bring us the kingdom of heaven and that is why he came to bring the kingdom of heaven and all the teachings of Jesus Christ has one goal only the kingdom of heaven but this world it steals the Kingdom from us so everything that distracts you from the kingdom of heaven give it away you know if they hit you it does not matter just turn the other cheek you know if someone's taken something from you give it to them Jesus came to Deliver Us from this world in Galatians chapter 1: 3 and [Music] four what is that Grace in verse four that is what our Grace is in Jesus Christ came to this earth to take us away from this Earth in John chapter 16 verse [Music] 28 but Jesus is not coming by himself anymore he is taking us with him and John chapter 17 John chapter 14:3 that is the goal and the goal of every Christian to search for the Kingdom of Heaven not Earthly but a Heavenly Jesus didn't teach how we need to live on Earth but he would teach and preach about the kingdom of heaven and he would also tell us to not worry about these things Matthew chapter 6:31 so Jesus very clearly distinguishes the Believers and the unbelievers you know whoever cares about what they will eat what they will drink what they will wear those are unbelievers those are pagans you know the unbelievers they care about the Earthly but the Believers search for the Kingdom of Heaven Jesus would teach us to to deny everything that is Earthly because because he gave us the kingdom of God in Luke 12:32 you'll say how can I live like that the word of God do not be afraid for God has prepared for you a kingdom do not be afraid how how can I not worry what to eat what to drink what to wear about my home about my mortgage about my payment where I live do not be afraid before you even ask God knows that you have a need in that do not be afraid God has prepared for you a kingdom so sell all the things you own that's what my Bible says does it say that in your [Music] Bible Luke 12:33 Jesus taught us about the Kingdom of Heaven you know the whole gospel that's written the commentaries about finding the Kingdom of Heaven Matthew chap 13: 44- 46 Jesus tells us a parable the kingdom of heaven like a like a treasure hidden in a field when a man found it he hid it again then in joy in Joy he goes and he sold all that he had and bought that field so the fact is that if out of Joy we're not selling all of our possessions yet then maybe we still haven't found the Kingdom of Heaven verse 45 maybe we still haven't found the pearl of the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven because if we find the Kingdom of Heaven if we found the Kingdom of Heaven it happens automatically if you found it it's automatic you know the parable teaches and explains that if you found it that's what will happen if you need a put strength to to give away to sell all those things then maybe you haven't found it yet if you haven't don't have that joy to give it away then you still haven't found that treasure Matthew chapter 6 CH Matthew chapter 6: 19- 24 Jesus teaches further if we look down on the Earth then we will never see heaven but if we look up to heaven then we will shine you know one certain place translates this verse in this way yes you know it translates if you think that this Earthly things are light then how terrible is your darkness and Jesus says in the 24th verse no one can serve two masters either you will hate the one and love the other or you will be devoted to one and despise the other you cannot serve both God and money you cannot serve both a onetime Earth and Heaven if all of our attention is on Earthly things then we'll never pay attention to Heavenly things and Paul writes to us in Colossians chap 3: 2 and 3 you know our thoughts must be on Heaven that's why Jesus came he came here in his flesh he suffered a gruesome death to lift us into heaven first John 1 John Chapter 2 vers vers 15 everything that is in the world [Music] everything but what kind of will of God do we need to fulfill seek seek first the kingdom of heaven and his [Music] righteousness you cannot be at the same time your heart in the world and your heart in heaven if you found that in yourself that kingdom of heaven when God has baptized you in his holy spirit then we are drawn to heaven we are drawn to heaven we have this hunger and this thirst we're thirsty and so Matthew 10:7 Jesus sends out the disciples to go and preach that the Kingdom of Heaven has come near they didn't preach Deliverance they didn't preach you know forgiveness um the washing in the blood of Jesus they did not preach the Cru the resurrection because that had not yet come but our church is built on the teachings of the Apostles and the apostles Tau that the Kingdom of Heaven has come near just like [Music] Jesus the gospels aren't just for us to live good here on Earth in John chap 16 ver 33 Jesus [Music] says amen if we don't understand the gospel and why Jesus came if we don't hear why Jesus came then maybe we won't you know go do you know how the word sin is translated do you know how you translate the word sin is to not reach the target the sin is when you make a mistake and that's why you need Christ you know sin is to believe in Jesus just for this Earthly life First Corinthians chapter 15 verse 19 you know if only for this um life you have Jesus you're only having him for this life he didn't come for only this life but to take you out of this life to eternal life Jesus does not change the world Jesus changes you Jesus is the alternative to the world he didn't come to fix or change the world you cannot fix it it is cursed Jesus didn't come Jesus didn't come to fix the world he came to fix us Jesus came to show he came down to show us heaven so that we would be lifted up to heaven and our our mistake is that we say Jesus come down here on heaven and and we'll fix things here but Jesus came to take us to heaven in Philippians chap 3: 18 to20 chapter 3: 18 to 20 in Philippians for so Jesus came to give us the Kingdom of Heaven his mission his life his death his resurrection was to give us the Kingdom of Heaven John 3:16 Says so 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse2 Paul writes to us you know the fight of faith is to give everything away Earthly to receive the Heavenly Jesus said who does not give away his cross will not reach me that is the fight of Faith to to hold on to heaven you know this is what you were called to so we need to hold on to the eternal life and we need to make our good confession in the presence of many witnesses and verse 13 can you put both verses on at the same time or no it's very important or just open your Bibles you know hold on to eternal life and make good confessions just like Jesus did testifying before Pontius pilot what kind of confession did Jesus make before Pontius Pilate John chap 18 verse 36 pilate says what are you not answering me I can kill you or not kill you Jesus says my kingdom is not of this world we'll go back to First Timothy chapter 6 verse4 and Paul writes to Timothy to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ so are you fighting the good fight of faith and are you confessing before God and Jesus and before people and before pilot your pilot a problem came what must you say how must you say it my kingdom is not from here you know maybe a bad a strong sickness has come what must you say my kingdom is not of this world you know a need came uh sickness uh fear what must you say my kingdom is not of this world maybe somebody's caused you pain they were unfair with you what must you say my kingdom is not of this world they've taken your your shirt your top layer of clothing you say my kingdom is not from here this is why Jesus Jesus came so you would be in a different Kingdom not in the Earthly Kingdom and you wouldn't hold on to the Earthly Kingdom we are anyways all going to die did you know it's written that it is appointed for all men to die your life is eternity and you must come to Eternity here in this place in yourself for this reason you must keep this command without spot or blame that's how it's WR confess it to every PL problem to every sickness to every death confess it how Jesus did before Pilate nothing here is important the only importance thing is salvation on the earth there's nothing important only Salvation And if we are of Christ I've shown you the places in Scripture that show what Jesus would teach everything else everything else you know maybe we look at The Sermon on the Mount you know when we look at The Sermon on the Mount when you reach the kingdom of heaven then you can turn the other but before you get to that place you'll never be able to do that you'll never be able to force yourself to love anyone so let's search for the kingdom of heaven and remember what Jesus Paid the price for for what to forgive my sins but why to redeem me why why only for the kingdom and the death of Christ and the resurrection it's only for the kingdom amen amen let us stand and pray for for [Music] for for for [Music] amen I mean de Church uh we're going to have one more final prayer as we he today we have uh we have something to learn every time we come we're going to continue to pray for a youth that's going to be that are at camp we also pray for Ukraine and for Israel another request that commend she fell and BR gonna pray for fast recovery so if you have any needs we're going to pray as a family as a church for either a prayer or a praise report this is your moment I Praise You po thank God Zella thank thank you she's feeling better many thanks thank God Amen I praise report for his wife that she's already been with 55 years very good for test okay I praise your for yesterday that God blessed very good okay let us stand and we're going to pray the heavenly father we thank you we come as a family to before you we thank you for the words that were spoken today as a family as a church we come before you we want to give you thanks in order for the holy spirit that speaks to us to remind us who we are are what we have in you for the Salvation that we have through Jesus Christ we ask today to bring the news that was brought today for you both Ser Fe for fast recovery for for the test results for many many praise reports for yesterday's um family gathering we thank you as a church that we come together you heard every heart that spoke today you heard the people that spoke out that they have a praise report or have a need before you we know that we have a wonderful father that knows before we even open our lips that's able to hear but not just here but he's able to help we thank you and we come by the blood of Jesus we come through the through the cross before you and we bring all these needs we bring these praise reports to give you glory and ask for those who are uh seeking in help or seeking in healing we ask that your mercy be upon each individual we thank you for everything that you have done we ask you to bless each individually today the remaining of the day let it be For Your Glory we thank you in Jesus name we pray amen I could not see it before but I can see it now