All right, y'all wanna pray? Okay, let's pray. Thank you, Jesus, for this time, for this day, for the opportunities we get to love on you and your people, get to serve you and our family, and we just praise you. We ask you to bless the seed that will be planted in these littles today in our lives and that you'll use it for your glory. In Jesus' name, amen. All right. Okay, okay. Look, won't y'all take the revelation that you brought with you today. We're gonna go back and look at Elijah. Take your word and let's go to 1 Kings chapter number 19. We'll probably look at a little bit in 18 and 19 today. We're looking at Elijah, the kids in the back. And I think what I'm gonna do is actually carry this over into tonight as well. We will look at, this idea of Elijah going from the mountaintops of Carmel down into the Valley of Despair and how that didn't just happen overnight. Even though the scriptures give us the picture that it did happen that quickly, but it didn't happen that quickly in the sense that Elijah had been drifting, he'd been drifting already. This was just a manifestation of that. Now, when we read about Elijah and what the kids are learning in the back, that even in our discouragement, God in his patience and his comfort will come with his comfort to us. He will comfort us in our despairs and our discouragement. So that's something for us to ponder and think on. How many of you ever been discouraged? Everybody in here has walked through a sense of discouragement. Sometimes discouragement will appear to come upon you out of nowhere, and you don't even know where it came from or why it got there, but the Bible gives us some great promises that God makes to us, that number one, that when you are in Christ, you're always in Christ Jesus. You can't never not be in Christ when you in Christ. You're in that forever. immerses you into Christ. The Bible refers to that as being baptized into Christ. When we're born again, we have been made a new creature and we're in Christ Jesus and as an eternal, forever work that God does. Well, Elijah, was a forever saved man, but he found himself in a sense of discouragement. And we see some great things that God did with him. God used him in a mighty way. We recognize how God fed him. Last week we talked about it. Who did God use to feed Elijah for a period of time in the wilderness? the ravens, the blackbirds. God brought him his provision, his meat and his bread twice a day when he was out there. But Elijah was isolated for a period of time. God sent him to that brook eventually because of the drought, because Elijah had to deal with the drought just like everybody else had to deal with the drought. But God took care of Elijah in that Now, when the brook dried up, he sent him to a woman. And that woman was in the process of the drought herself. He had sent her to Phoenicia. And when he sent her there, that's where Jezebel was from. That's where Jezebel's dad was a king over. and he goes to a woman there in Zarephath, and God blesses that woman with a word from the prophet, and God gave her, what, a provision of oil and wheat, and she was able to make bread during the drought, supernaturally. Well, eventually, there comes a point where God tells Elijah to go find Ahab, and tell Ahab to gather all the prophets together, and Ahab gathers them together. He says, bring them to Carmel. Mount Carmel, where was Mount Carmel? Mount Carmel was near Sidon in Phoenicia. Remember, they had 850 prophets there, 450 of Ahab's and 400 prophets of Jezebel. And he had a showdown there and God called fire down and we've seen this work that God did with them. And then this is what happens. This is what I wanna bring out to you today, is that he found himself down in this old valley of despair and discouragement, and he let his mind get enraptured with what somebody said to him. Somebody said something. And he couldn't help but focus in on what they said. And I believe there's a reason why. God was manifesting in his encouragement, in his comfort, In his comfort, he was letting Elijah know that he had begun to drift. And he'd begun to put focus in on himself. And when Elijah was under the Spirit of the Lord, Elijah did things that normal men couldn't do. He had power that the average person just didn't have. He had a word, number one, from God, which men don't have unless God speaks that word. Number two, he was able to see things in the heavens that men can't see unless God reveals it to them. And he was in that position to be able to do that. Now, watch what happens. All this took place. And at the close of chapter number 18, Elijah tells Ahab in verse number 41, he says, go up and eat and drink, and there is the sound of abundance of rain. Now remember, the whole issue was this drought that Elijah spoke about was now in that three and a half years, and God's fixing to make a change. God's fixing to bring rain. and he's gonna show Ahab this in verse 42. So Ahab went up to eat and drink and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. Then Elijah bowed down on the ground and he put his face between his knees. He just simply, that's a visual image. He got down like this and he bowed himself before the Lord and he prayed. And then he looked up and he told his servant to go out and look, and where Mount Carmel sits, it sits on the Mediterranean Sea. So being up on the top of that mountain, as he looked over the sea, he looked out there, and then Elijah, they did that how many times? The Bible tells us they did it seven different times. And eventually the servant looked, and when he looked out over the Mediterranean Sea, he said, I see a cloud forming about the size of a man's hand. So he then immediately turns to Ahab and this is what he says. Look in verse 44, then it came to pass the seventh time that he said, there is a cloud as small as a man's hand rising out of the sea. So he said, go up and say to Ahab, prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you. So we told Ahab, God's fixing a rain on you, you need to get off this mountain before it starts raining. So Ahab gets in his chariot and he takes off and Ahab heads for Jezreel. Now, once Ahab is off that mountain, what happens is God starts the rain. The rain clouds start coming and a downpour. Verse 45, now it happened in the meantime. That's just a way of saying that it came. Ahab was able to get off the mountain, but eventually the rains came within that day, and came in the black clouds and the wind, and there was a heavy rain, so Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel, okay? Now, Jezreel was about 31 miles from Mount Carmel. He is in a chariot. And the average speed of a chariot, when you're thinking about rain coming and you're wanting to get home before the rain, they're gonna max that chariot out trying to get him home. So he's gonna get to Jezero at a speed of around 15 to 20 miles an hour. A chariot could run up to 40 miles an hour, 30, 35, but we're gonna do it in a medium speed of about, say, 20 miles an hour. So he's gonna go 20 miles an hour for the next 31 miles. But notice what the Bible says that happened to Elijah. Verse 46. Then the hand of the Lord came upon who? Elijah. And what did Elijah do? He girded up his loins, that is he picked up his clothing, he got it all tight, where he could and Elijah took off and what does it say that Elijah did? He got out ahead and he beat Ahab to Jezreel. Now when you think about that, a 31 mile run. He outran a chariot being pulled by horses who is running away from a rainstorm that is coming, staying out in front of it, running at 20 mile an hour. When you think about that when it comes to, how long is a marathon? What's a marathon's distance? 26.2 miles, if I'm not mistaken. One of the fastest recorded marathons ever run were run just shy of two hours. And that was at an average speed, if I ain't mistaken, of about 13 miles an hour. That it took them that long to run 26 miles. The fastest recorded person to ever run in a short period distance has been recorded that we know of by record was clocked at running at 27 mile an hour. A guy by the name of Usain Bolt, most of y'all may have heard that name from an Olympic standpoint. He was clocked in that period of time at running at 27 mile an hour, but running at 27 mile an hour for 26 miles is a whole nother story. You see, but Elijah had what upon him? the Spirit of the Lord. So if we wanna really get technical with this, we could actually say that most likely the fastest marathon ever run and recorded is Elijah. At 31 miles, he made it to Jezreel before that chariot did at 20 mile an hour. So when you think about him running at 20, 25, possibly 30 miles an hour for 31 miles, that's never been recorded by man, and no man can do that. except when God puts the Spirit of the Lord upon a man, amen? Now, I want you to balance that with what God's fixing to do and show Elijah the difference when God's Spirit is upon him and when Elijah's going in his own strength. Watch what happens. Verse number one of chapter 19. And Elijah told Jezebel, excuse me, and Ahab told Jezebel when he got home all that Elijah had done. What did he tell him? He told him about what? Told him about the prophets in the sense that he told him what he did with the offering, that he wet down the offering with those 12 pots of water. He built him a trench around that. He told him all that. And then the scripture says, also, also, including everything that he did, he showed how he executed the prophets with the sword. He added that on to it. Now, nothing that he did impressed Jezebel. All Jezebel heard was is that she killed, he killed all my prophets, he killed all my dad's prophets, he killed all these prophets that belong to my family that's been prophesying to us, that's been giving us our insights and our hopes and all that we wanted, scratching our itchy ears, and this is what she says, Rusty, in verse number two. Then Jezebel got her messenger together and sent a messenger to Elijah saying, so let the gods do to me and more also if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. So what did she do? She put another, now this ain't the first time. Elijah's had a death sentence on him since he told Ahab that a drought was coming. Matter of fact, Ahab searched every nation that they could search looking for Elijah and couldn't find him because he wanted his head. He wanted to kill him. So this ain't the first time he's had a death threat on him. But this time though, it had a different effect on him. What kind of effect did it have? Notice what verse three says. And when he what? How does y'all's translations read? Mine says when he saw it. When he saw that. When he what? When he saw it. That is when he saw it, Karen, he couldn't see nothing else. The idea, this is why the Bible describes it this way to us. What did he see? What did he put his focus on? What he couldn't stop thinking about? What gripped his heart? That Jezebel had a bounty upon his head and she was not gonna let him live another day. and though God had done supernatural things with him, God has met needs in his life, God's blessed him supernaturally. He just ran the fastest marathon anybody's ever run before, and he's called fire down from heaven, and 850 opponents to the things of God had already come out against him, and God slew all them, they done killed all them, but one woman makes a threat on his life, and he cannot see nothing but the threat. He's no longer looking at the Lord. He's no longer recognizing God's provision and God's goodness and grace. He's overwhelmed with his thinking and his mind with what she just said and now it is replaying in his mind again and again. The spirit of the Lord ain't upon Elijah at this point. The Spirit of the Lord was on him when he ran, and the Spirit of the Lord was on him when he prophesied, and the Spirit of the Lord was on him when he called down fire, and the Spirit of the Lord's been on him, but now the Spirit of the Lord is not on him, and the man is gripped with fear, and he can't help but focus on the problem at hand, and he can't see the solution that he has in God. Now he's spiraling. And he goes from such a mountaintop experience to this problem down in the valley. Have you ever been like that? Boy, you're on a high one day and the next day you're just shot. Everything you hear is bad news. Everything you see is sour. Everything that life throws at you is a trouble, is a problem. When you never, I never, you never, we never, none of us ever get there by accident when that happens. This has been a process and this is what God's gonna do with Elijah. He's gonna show him that Elijah, you cannot, you cannot, do what you've done, you will not do what I called you to do unless I'm doing it in you and through you. You cannot do this by yourself. And Elijah got so self-centered on himself, now he's ready to throw in the towel and quit and God take him out of here. Watch what he does. When he saw it, he ran from there and he ran for his life. Now he's taking his life in his own hands, right? Isn't that what he's doing? He's taking control of the situation and because he's taking control of the situation, he's doing it in his weakness and not in his strength. He ran for his life, and he went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, which is in the southern part of Judah, and he then left his servant there. Now he's gonna isolate himself. The whole time his servant's been with him. Brother Billy, he's with him. He's got somebody with him. Now he's gonna leave his servant there, and where is he gonna go? The scripture says, verse four, he himself went about a day's journey into the wilderness, and he came and he sat under a broom tree. And this is what his prayer was. And he prayed that he might what? Man. I mean, here's a man calling on the nation of Israel to believe for life and now he's asking that he might die. And all this happened within a 24 hour period. He's discouraged. He's downcast. And he said, Lord, it's enough. I've had enough, is what he's saying. It's enough. When he says it's enough, it's not enough for you. It's not enough for Jezebel. It's not enough for anybody. He says, I had enough. I'm finished. I'm done. That's a discouraged spirit, isn't it? You've all said it before. Have you ever said, I ain't doing it no more? I'm done. It's enough. Well, this is where he's at. This is where he's at. Now, God in his chasing and love is gonna teach him something. This is the whole point. When God comforts us, remember, God's not gonna comfort him and pity him so that he'll pity himself. God's gonna have a solution for him, but you gotta keep in mind, he didn't get there overnight. This has been a process. Now, tonight, what we're gonna look at is what does that process look like in our life when we start drifting? The Bible gives us some warnings. The book of Hebrews gives us some warnings that we don't need to drift away from such a sure word from the Lord. And when you drift, you slowly drift. It's slow steps, just like growing in grace. You've heard me say before, growing in grace is what? Little by little. Victory by degrees. We take what? Short steps in slippery times where you don't go from this high to this low on a slippery slope without taking short steps in that direction before you ever get there. Growing in grace takes short steps, but finding yourself in discouragement took short steps of drifting to get to that place. Now God's not done with him, praise God. Aren't you glad God don't just cast us away when we get discouraged? That he comes to us and he helps us and he lifts us up, brings a word to us. But you gotta keep in mind that he's going to continue to reap some of the consequences of what he's been sowing in his thinking that's still going to manifest even when God comes with his encouragement to him he's still going to have some issues that he's got to deal with because he's been planting bad seed in his thinking before we ever got to that place. And that stuff's still gonna come out. So I gotta learn how to recognize these things that help me and to help other people around me so that I can be a blessing not only to the Lord, but the people that he brings in my life. Look what he says when he says that. He says in verse four again, and he prayed that the Lord, that he might die, and he said, it is enough. Now the Lord, now Lord, take my life for I am no better than my father's. Now he's shame filled. He's guilty that he's doing no different than what they did. Remember he was a prophet to try to help them. Now he's right to a place that I've had enough of this. And I'm no good, I'm sorry, I ain't worth anything. I'm no better than my fathers were. I thought I was better at one point. I thought I was different at one point. But you gotta keep in mind, what made Elijah different from everybody else? It was the Lord. It wasn't Elijah. Who was it? It was the Lord. But Elijah started thinking he was different himself than everybody else. And when he realized he wasn't better than anybody else, he then got to looking down on himself because he wasn't looking up unto the Lord. And all he wanted God to do was take him out. I've had enough of this. Now, he's gonna go a little bit further, verse number five. Then as he lay and slept under the broom tree, and these are all indicators of a depressed spirit, what do people do when they're depressed? They don't wanna be around people. They get away. What else do they wanna do? They don't want to eat no more. All they want to do is what? They just want to sleep. And if they can't sleep, they're going to go hit the bottle. If they can't hit the bottle, they're going to get a pill. If they can't get a pill, they're just trying to what? Numb the pain. And if you can't rest, you can't sleep, you can't get away from it, you've got to get something to get you out of it. And this is how people get in a lot of trouble over time with this same way of thinking of where he's at. And he goes and he finds himself in this position and then God in his comfort, what does he do? He sends an angel to him. And then God does this. Then he lay and slept under a broom tree and the angel touched him and told him to what? Arise and eat. So verse six, he looked and there by his head was a cake baked on coals and a jar of water. So he ate and he drank and what did he do? He went right back to sleep. Isn't that typical of your life when you found yourself in discouragement and downcast in spirit? All you wanna do is get away, all you wanna do is sleep. When you do eventually get up, you know you gotta nourish your body, so you eat something and you go what, right back? You go right back to sleep again, just trying to sleep it away, trying to get away from it all. This is all he's doing. He's in a bad spot, but he's in a bad spot because he took short steps to get there. Now God's gonna bring something to him and God's gonna show him, the man needed to eat, right? He needed somebody to come to him. He needed a friend in his life. He needed people around him to lift him up and encourage him, and this is what God's doing, but he the whole time is what? Fighting against it. He's going against it. Verse number seven, and the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and he touched him again, and he said, arise and eat, because the journey is too great for who? All journeys that God puts us on in life are too much for us without the Lord. Just remember that. Any assignment God gives you is too much if God ain't on you to get the assignment done. This is where we find ourself when we try to do it in our what? Our own strength. And it's easy, easy, easy to find ourself there. If we're not careful before we realize or even recognize it, we can drift farther and farther away from God's present and purpose by mistaking, here it is, by mistaking his patience with us for his permission to us. Elijah was a great servant, but he had mistaken God's patience with him as permission to operate in his own strength. Verse number eight says, so Elijah arose and he ate and drank and he went in the strength of that food, not the strength of? But of what? The food. For 40 days and 40 nights as far as Horb, the mountain of God. Now Rusty, Elijah, the day before or within some days, because we don't know how many days this is in this wilderness of depression he was in, but just a few days early in the spirit, in the strength of the Lord, he ran a 31 mile journey at about 20 plus mile an hour. for that whole time and outrun a chariot. This time, he's been given, he's taken off and he's going to the mountain of God, Horeb, and he's in Beersheba, a day's journey in the wilderness toward Horeb. You know how many days it would have taken him by foot to get to Mount Horeb? If he had a steady pace and walked for eight hours a day? and slept during the night and got up and went another eight hours the next day and then another eight hours the following day. And how many days it would have taken him to get to Mount Horeb? Four days. How long did it take him? 40 days and 40 nights. 40 days and 40 nights. I've learned through the years of just being around and my own life and with different others and just working with people. We, when we're downcast and depressed in spirit, are usually very unproductive in what we normally can do well. Meaning you miss things around you, you miss, you don't have the skill level that you do. Your attention span is on other things and you're focusing on stuff. You forget things, you misuse things, you misapply things. You ever find yourself there when you're just, you're just unproductive? And you just, in your mind you can't do anything and can't do anything right because you're in a fog of this depressed spirit. And that's exactly where Elijah is at. A four day journey turns into 40 days and 40 nights. Because he's down. That's all it is. If you took a map today and tracked out Beersheba, and it was just a day's journey even closer to Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai, where the law was given, where Moses was at, in that shorter period of time, it would take you in a four-day hike, you would get there within four days. But he wandered around for 40 days and 40 nights, just like when the children of Israel when they left out of Egypt and crossed the Red Sea and they had that brief journey from the Red Sea from near Mount Horeb to get to where they were going in the promised land and they would have made it in no short period of time because of their disbelief. How many years did they have to wander in that wilderness? For 40 years of a short journey because they just wouldn't look up unto the Lord. We're gonna look at some questions tonight that God comes to us and ask us, and what we need to ask ourself from time to time. I've got about five or six questions, maybe not that many, that we need to ask that we see in God's book where he asked people, like for an example, where he asked Adam. Remember when he came looking for Adam in the garden? And he said, Adam, where are you? Did God need to know where Adam was at? Did he know where Adam was at? Adam needed to know what? That's right. Watch what God asked Elijah, and he asked him twice, twice. Verse number nine. And when he went into the cave there at Horeb, he spent the night in that place, and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said, he said to him, what are you, what? Elijah, what are you doing here? That's a good question that we need to ask ourself from time to time. What are we doing here? Where am I? What am I doing here? Where am I going? And God asked these things to his people. What are you doing here? Now watch how Elijah does this. Pam, he rehearses what's been going on in his mind because God's gonna ask him again and he's gonna say the exact same thing that he already said to God. Watch, verse number 10. So he said, Elijah, I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts. For the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, tore down your altars and killed your prophets with the sword. And then he says this, this is where we get into the idea of what was going on in his heart. Elijah thought he was all by himself, but was he? He was not. But see in his mind, He done played it over so many times in his mind that he was the lone ranger out there and nobody was like him. And he was all alone in this. And it worked on him and it worked on him and it worked on him and it worked on him. And he says, I'm alone. I alone am left and they seek to take my life. But who protected Elijah's life? That's right. If Jezebel wanted Elijah dead and God gave her permission, Elijah wouldn't have never made it to Horeb. Right? When God be for you, who can be against you? But if God be against you, who in the world can be? for you, okay? Verse 11, then he said, God said, go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord and behold, the Lord passed by and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and it broke the rocks and the pieces before the Lord. But the Lord wasn't in that wind. And after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord wasn't in. The earthquake and after the earthquake, fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, there was a still small voice. So it was when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and he went out and he stood in the entrance of the cave. And then suddenly a voice came to him and notice what God says, what are you doing here, Elijah? What does Elijah then do? He rehearsed exactly what he said before. And he said, I have been very zealous for the Lord of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they seek to take my life. You see it, Keith? He's done worked this over in his mind so much, it's got him so consumed, that's the only answer he can give back to the Lord. He could have easily said, God, I'm running from Jezebel. He could have easily said, Lord, I've got my eyes off of you. But see, Elijah didn't see himself with his eyes off the Lord. Elijah saw himself as being right where he'd always been and that he was doing what God always gave him to do, but that the fact that he was not in position and he had taken his eyes off the Lord and he put his eyes on Jezebel and what she said, he still can't see it. He still can't see it. And all he can do is rehearse what he's been saying again and again. But God's not gonna leave him there, is he? Listen what God's gonna tell him and then we're gonna go and we'll come back tonight. Verse 15, then the Lord said to him, what was his message to him? Go. Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. He told him, sent him back a long way away. Karen, he was at Mount Horeb. You had a wilderness in between. You had Beersheba and Judah. Damascus was on the other side of Israel. So he had all of Israel to go through where God was sending him, on the clear, the other side, north of this land. And he says, when you go, this is what I want you to do. When you arrive there in Damascus, I want you to anoint Haziel, king over Syria. I also want you to anoint Jehu, the son of Nishmeh, the king over Israel, and Elisha, the son of Shaphat, of Abel, Mahola. You shall anoint as prophet, what? in your place. You see, Elijah was ready to turn it all over, wasn't he? He said, it's enough, I'm ready to give all this up. So God says, I still gotta work for you to do, but I also want you to find him who's gonna take your spot. Now this is what Elisha does. And we'll pick it up tonight and look at it. You know, the first thing he went and did? He went and found his replacement. Elijah never made it to the wilderness of Damascus. He didn't go anoint Hazael. Matter of fact, Elisha will eventually do that. He didn't go and anoint Jehu. Elisha, his replacement, will do that. You know the first thing he went to look for? He had enough. He was done. But you know, in God's comfort and compassion, God still came to him, still gave him an assignment to do, and you know what? God sent him to a new friend. Elisha was gonna start walking with him. Isn't it something how God'll do that? How God'll send people into your life to surround you? But this is what he does. He goes and finds Elisha, and when he finds him, the scripture gives us the picture. Let's play, this is his mantle. He had his mantle. He finds Elisha out there plowing in the field and he throws his mantle on him and he keeps walking. And he says, Elisha turns to him and says, can I go back and tell my mom and dad, my father and my mother that I'm leaving? And Elijah says, oh man, what have I done to you? Go back. Don't come after me. I've done ruin your life too. But Elisha, on the other hand, takes I haven't been using that either, it's fresh. Goes back and he makes a sacrifice. He takes that plow and he takes it and he makes a sacrifice, tells the people, and he goes and finds Elisha and goes and walks with him. And you know what? The next chapter, there's several other prophets show up and they deal with these other people and these other kings, but Elijah, who thought he was all by himself and there was no other prophets out there, he's not being used. And eventually he's gonna train Elisha and Elisha's gonna take over. But the point I'm making is he got to a place and it didn't happen overnight. Just like we've seen others around us in time, they get to this place where they're just so discouraged about life and events. But remember, you drifted there before you ever found yourself in despair. And we wanna learn how not to drift, amen? How to give our attention and our focus unto the Lord so we don't drift. Because drifting is possible. And when you drift, you don't realize you drift so far, and you're in this place like he was at, and then you let circumstances just keep working in your mind over and over again, and you rehearse it, you say the same things over and over again, but there's no life in it. And now you cast that bitterness on other people. And that's exactly what he did. Go back, and we'll look at it tonight. but how important it is to know that, hey, you can drift, you will find yourself in discouragement, but God still in his compassion sends comfort to us to bring us out and to bring people around us to keep using us for his glory, amen? And if God be for you, who in the world can be against you, amen? What shall we say to these things? God is for us. Let's keep walking with him and keep looking at him. Does God make a big deal about Elijah? Oh, he does. Does the New Testament make a big deal about Elijah? Yes, it does. So the point I'm making, even great men and women of God, used greatly by God, all still have the potential to slowly drift and find themselves in that place. But may God help us, amen? May help us, may help us. Father, we thank you, we bless you. Help us with this. We don't want to misplace these things in our journey, in our life. We want to look to you and ask you to bring us through so that your spirit, the spirit of the Lord will be on us, that we can walk with you and run with you and soar with you as we wait upon you. Promise when our eyes are fixed upon you, you will keep us in perfect peace because we trust you. And I pray that you help us recognize and realize when we might be slowly drifting in the wrong direction. So we're gonna praise you now and thank you for it, in Jesus' name, amen. And all God's people said, amen and amen. Y'all keep those folks that are traveling today, that'll be on the road, y'all remember them. Our list is long and it could be a lot longer. I know, I know it can be. And as Brother Shannon likes to point out, you might as well double it up because everybody on there has usually got somebody taking care of them and trying to help them. So they need our prayers as much as them, amen? So y'all keep lifting each other up. Appreciate everybody that helped out yesterday. Got a lot of stuff done in the back, got stuff moved and appreciate everybody that was here that helped out with that. And we just give God the glory for the buildings out there and everything we got, amen? All right, all right. Rusty, won't you pray for us, brother? Dear Father, thanks for the word and mission. Amen.