Amen. It is good to be back. And I hope everybody slept well last night. You're not sleeping in Sunday school. I hope not. And we'll do our part to keep everything lively and good as it should be. It's a privilege. It's totally a privilege to be here. Very grateful. We're gonna take our Bible and we're gonna turn to Psalms the book of Psalms And I want to thank the Lord for the Switzer's hospitality this past week and the Neves Hospitality this week and brother Hendricks Hospitality he and his dear wife. There's no D in that word. Okay, don't make the mistake I've made hint not Hendricks Hendricks, okay and I learned the painful way it's after I wrote part of the card and You know you go back and let me check the spelling on that. Oh, no, what did I do? Okay, you know, you're supposed to check that ahead in advance But the Lord knows and he's awful patient with Tony Hess. I'll say that much y'all be Be patient with my voice this morning and he's gives a sanction every time though, you know And just God is so so good. I And all you guys, it's just been a real joy to be here this week. And I hate to go because I love to be in the midst of God's people and a work that's going forward and that's an example to us. And we face, you know, not every work is going like your work is going, okay? This is an example. And we're trying to do the same thing you're doing here. We're trying to do up in the chimney. of Pennsylvania and so appreciate you guys prayers for us up there and we're basically we're really just not just rescuing a church from going to the about to close their doors, but We are we're restarting or restarting things and there's Sometimes you can start from scratch where it's sometimes it's easier to start from scratch you go in sometimes places and you there's several things to fix and so we've been I We've certainly been doing our best and the Lord's leading us and keeping our focus because it's um, it's my job To primarily fill the pulpit. All right to fill the pulpit We're working to fill the pews, but I work first off to fill the pulpit right here Okay at our church and it makes a difference in growing a church that people get fed and every time they come to church. The preacher stands in the pulpit and they look forward to what they're gonna get today. And we strive at that, really do. It's Missions Conference. It is Missions Conference. And maybe the last day of Missions Conference, but it's not over yet, folks, okay? So don't close your Bible yet, all right? It's Missions Conference. And we've been challenged this week to surrender, to giving, to going, to praying, And we've been clear, I hope, to communicate that yes, it is rewarding to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. It is so worth it to give to missions. And I'm preaching to the choir, you guys are givers, okay? We have not tried to convince anyone, though, this week, that it's always easy. It's always easy. And you're making your faith promise commitments this morning, I believe, or this afternoon. And that commitment will be challenged. It will be challenged. It's the way it happens. And so it's not always easy. And so for this task, there is something that we need. for being consistent, for going, for giving, for consistently praying, for surrender. There's something we need, and we're gonna talk about that this morning. If you don't have it, some folks will quit. If we don't have it, some folks are gonna get puffed up with pride. If we don't have it, some folks in the midst of this mission's endeavor and following the Great Commission are going to lose their joy. And so, a little bit of my testimony, just a brief part of my testimony before we start this morning, and I'm very mindful of the time, but we have plenty of time this morning, actually. Famous last words for preachers, right? But a little bit of my testimony, I'll be transparent with you. It was very challenging for me to step in to the American pastorate. Okay, very challenging being a missionary in the foreign field for so long I tell the folks over there and I tell the folks here actually, you know, I am Paula Vena ruski Okay, I'm about half a Russian person. I've been it's been a third of my life with the Russians and They they you know, you work with the people you've got to understand their culture and I never went there to convert them to my culture and and not to fight with them on all those things, they had an influence on us. And so all that time in Russia, and my very first pastorate was overseas, it influences you. And I come back and I realize handling two churches, because I couldn't give up my church overseas, as I'm not a hireling, and we don't have a national pastor. So I told my church when I came up in Wattsburg, I said, hey, you don't want a guy that would just say, I'm done, sorry, I'm leaving, that would just leave his work over there. You don't want that kind of guy. And so I have to maintain both ministries. I also realized early on that was gonna be six to seven times of preaching every week. Six to seven times of preaching, okay? And in the beginning, You know, that was okay, I got a lot of mess, I got a lot of resources with time. But then, it wasn't too long after I said, Lord, keeping up this discipline of six and seven times preaching a week, I need you, I need you. And I told the church, God is stretching me, God is stretching me. So one day in my devotions, early on actually, God brought me to Psalm 84. Is that where your Bible is this morning? Psalm 84. And he taught me something here, I'm just gonna share it with you this morning. Psalm 84, let's begin reading in verse one. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Boy, I hope that's your testimony this morning. Yea, the sparrow hath found a house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young. Even thine altar, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house. they will be still praising thee. And verse five is a key text this morning. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the ways of them. Let's pray together as we get started. Father in heaven, I'm grateful for Mount Zion Baptist Church. Father, I'm grateful today for your word. It is a lamp unto our feet. And may these truths that we're gonna share this morning be just what your people need in their life for the challenges ahead of giving and going and consistently praying for missions. Father, I pray you'll raise us up. preachers and missionaries and faithful layman raise us up deacons father raise us up more church planters and Continue to use this conference this day father For your goal for your glory and to that end we thank you for what you're going to do Lord. We thank you in advance We ask it on Jesus precious name Amen. Amen. The first word there in our text verse 5 is what look at it and Blessed, blessed, okay? Blessed in today's dictionary carries the idea of endowed with divine favor and protection. That's what you get in a modern dictionary if you ask Siri on your phone about it. That might be what you get, okay? It also has been defined in modern dictionaries as holy, as consecrated. But this word right here in a Bible dictionary, you're gonna find the Hebrew, Word used right here and 45 other times it means Well, I got three phrases for you what it means. Okay, it means maybe you can get this pay attention I don't want to go over your head. All right, here we go. It means happy. All right, it means How happy I mean, it means all capital letters. Oh So happy. All right. Did you get that wasn't too complicated for anybody was it? Okay, it's simple but it's something we're missing. I don't know anybody that doesn't want to be happy. And praise the Lord, the good book here, God's word, God's holy Bible, it tells us how to be happy. It tells us about the blessed life. Let's turn back to Psalm chapter one. Psalm chapter one, please. Excuse me. Psalm chapter one. One preacher told me was the explanation of all the rest of the Psalms. Okay Tells us how to be happy Also gives us gives us the the blueprint for the blessed life And I want to look I want to look by way of introduction about three facts about the blessed man Let's read together Psalm chapter 1 verse 1 through 3. I Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall, not maybe, not probably, not once in a while, not most of the time, shall prosper. Oh, wow. Wow. What a guarantee God's given us here in this passage. Can you believe that? Look at that. Okay, whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. And so while we have the introduction, I want to mention to you today the companions that the blessed man shuns. Verse one says there, blesses the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." Okay? God makes a clear division, a clear division between the righteous and the unrighteous. Between, as we used to say down in West Virginia, the saints and the ain'ts, okay? Those who are on the left and those who are on the right and the blessed man avoids the sensual wisdom of the world. He avoids the sinful ways of the world and he avoids the devil's scornful words. Okay. And I tell you what, one thing the Lord's taught me in being majored in youth ministry in college, and I've led a youth group or two, and it's the same for the entire church, but it seems to start in the young people for some reason. I learned the dangers of allowing a scorner or a scoffer into the church. And you know, that's a person God does not give a lot of hope for in the Bible. He doesn't say, oh, the scorner and scoffer, you better pull him off and have some special discipleship with him. Is that what the Bible says it does not it does not you'd think you'd say that does not God says cast out the scorner and strife and reproach shall cease It's that they're that detrimental in a youth group in a classroom in a church in a family Oh, we have some folks. We have some folks back home. I'll tell you and it bothers me. We worked hard we worked hard over the years our church overseas and here of ridding ourselves of any of that scoffer, scorner spirit. It's ugly pride and it comes out of hell and it's very damaging to the spirit in your church. damaging. But the wise man, the blessed man right here, he avoids those things. He avoids it. All right? The blessed man, what else do we know about him? He is, we see here in verse 2, the communion that the blessed man seeks, the communion. The Bible says there that, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Well you know that's all the time you've got. Be nice to do more, but that's the best you can do right there. Day and night, he is meditating in the word of God. God's word gives this blessed man his inspiration, his information, and it influences his attitudes. I wonder what influences us the most today. I wonder what influences you. I know this is Sunday school, and I'm getting a little preachy, okay? There's preachers that teach, and there's teachers that preach, and I can't figure out which one I am yet, okay? But it just kind of starts in my toes sometimes. There's so much liberty here in this church. Friday night I had a 20, 25 minute message, which is kind of rare for Tony Hess, but you guys are so easy to preach to, I bet I went 35 minutes. I may have used all my time, brother, I may have, but it's so easy to preach here. You guys are such a blessing. Let me ask you, though, what is the major influence in your life? What's the major influence? Is it Fox News or the Word of God? Is it Facebook or God's blessed book? What's our major influence? Maybe it's our friends, maybe it's our social media. Oh, be careful, your friends. You are right now or you soon shall be what your friends are, what your friends are. And so I gave you this quote. on Friday, not because I planned on it, but it was actually in the text, it was in both my messages, and so a little, as the Russians say, I already had Russian church this morning at seven, so a little pofterenie maruchenie, okay, and the Russians say it, they say repetition is the mother of learning, okay, pofterenie maruchenie, and so a little review's good for us. There are three kinds of people in the world, those who are afraid, Those who don't know enough to be afraid. And what did I tell you on Friday? Those who know their Bible. Those who know their Bible. Amen. I hope you get that. Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God. Amen, that's some guiding words for us, okay? Continuing, by way of introduction, we're still in introduction, okay? It's a house with a big front porch, okay? And so here we are. Blessed is the man, the third quality here is the character of that blessed man shows. The character that he shows the Bible says and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water Okay, a tree the tree. This is this tree here this blessed man. He's like this tree and it shows the vitality and It shows the life that comes, his life that is, shows the life that comes from the river of revival. I mean, his roots are into, close to the bank, close to that river of revival, all right? He's established, he's firmly established. We see his stability, we see his fertility, all right? He's bearing fruit, his life is bearing fruit. What kind of life is our? Our testimony and our your church is bearing fruit, but you individually Individually ask yourself. What kind of fruit are you showing in your life? Okay, we're all about something. Okay, let's make it We're all about Jesus all about God's will all about souls wrap our life about Around the eternal values the things that never die and last forever the Word of God and the souls of men Okay, eternal principles anything alive by the way folks Has a spiritual appetite Anything alive has an appetite, and if you're spiritually alive, you have a spiritual appetite, and you'll be drawn to eternal things. You'll be drawn to the word of God, okay? And so he's rooted, he's rooted. Friend, let me ask you, isn't that the life that you want? Is that the life you want? Right here, Psalm chapter one, verse three, and he should be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. Do you want that? You've gotta want it. If you're gonna meditate day and night, you've got to want it, okay? And so, ask yourself, are we putting this into practice, these secrets of the blessed man? To know him is to love him. To love him is to trust him. And to trust him is to obey him. To obey Him, let's go, it goes on further. To obey Him is to be blessed by Him. My preacher used to always say that. I love that, okay? And so, we're in Psalm 84. We were in Psalm 1 there. Let's go back to Psalm 84. And this blessed man, that very first word, I wanted to define a little bit who he is, okay? But it says the blessed man, What do we know about him? What kind of guy is he? It says in verse 5 there, blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. I'm talking about God's strength. That's what we need in our life if we're going to follow up on our commitment that we are making today about world evangelism. If you're gonna follow up on it, you've got to have God's strength. Strength in your finances, strength in your soul, strength in your family, determination to be surrendered and continue on. Sometimes it's easy to make whimsical decisions, okay? But we have to back it up with character and and I know again I feel like I'm preaching to the choir because you guys are all about it and you are serious about World evangelism. What does it mean to find your strength in? God, okay number one Okay, now now we're in the house. Okay now we're in the house. This is the message. All right number one the symptoms of needing his strength And I brought up this point because we sit in church sometimes and we listen to a lot of preaching and we need a lot of preaching, we need a lot of teaching, okay? But sometimes we sit in church And there comes a difference in reality between what we're studying in the Word of God and what we're hearing on a regular basis and the way we consistently live. It's like there's one standard here or sometimes there's one standard here and a different standard at home. The symptoms. Needing his strength. I want us to look at the last verse in Chapter 84. Okay, Psalm chapter 84 verse 12. Okay, Oh Lord of hosts Blessed there it is again is the man Excuse me that trusteth in him. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Okay, so let's do a little survey. Okay, let's do a little quiz and let's pretend I'm passing out to you some slips of paper. Okay, and you're going to write on one side of this piece of paper, you're going to write down Here we have it. You're gonna write down on one side how you score one to 10 on trusting the Lord. Are you trusting the Lord today? And you're gonna score yourself. Well, I'm doing pretty good. I try to trust the Lord. Maybe I'm not a spiritual giant. I'm not a pastor and blah, blah, blah. I'm gonna do it okay. I'm gonna write it down. You give yourself a seven or you give yourself an eight. Then you flip the sheet over. All right, let's answer the other question. The next question is this, okay? How happy are you right now? And then score yourself. Think about it. I wish you could see what the preacher sees and what the choir sees every Sunday. They're happy aren't they brother? I mean these folks are bubbling over with joy. I mean they got it. I Wish listen, I've preached all across this country and I could wish I could I could look out from the pulpit and Sunday after Sunday and week after week and month after month and year after year look out over God's people and say who knows a group of happy people That is not what we see, though, is it, Brother Jerry? It's not what we, we see some. Oh, that's a little, those are our, you know, you find me staring at you, I found me a happy spot, okay? I'm staring, I was like, oh, that's an encouraging person. Oh, that's my amen section over there. They're encouraging, okay? What's wrong with us? Where's our happiness, our joy? Now, I know happiness, the difference between happiness and joy. We ought to have a little bit of it when we come into church. We ought to have a little bit. Church didn't meet this morning at six o'clock in the morning. You had time to get in your Bible this morning. You had time to make things right with the Lord. You had time to come to church. There's no big pressure. And I know life is hectic and it's difficult. And the Lord, I've been making one of my theme verses as Philippians chapter four, four. where it says rejoice in the Lord all way and again I say rejoice. And I'm always asking Tony Hess' heart, okay, is there anything keeping you from rejoicing in the Lord, Tony Hess, right now? Anything, what is it? Okay, what is it that's making you still in that rejoicing, that joy? Okay, well turn over to the next page in your devotion and start a list, Philippians 4, 6 and 7. Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And so there's your list. What is it still in the joy? Well, we got to write it down. We got to write it down. We got to confess to the Lord, okay? And something's going on in church. Something's going on in our hearts, in our families, in our homes. Oh, Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. So if I'm trusting in him then automatically there's got to be that Happiness that blessed. Oh so happy Something's wrong. We need God's strength. We might be trying it in our own strength You might be because that's probably your human nature, just like it's my human nature. I will, Tony Hess will try to do, to live the Christian life in his own strength, in his own power, by my own wits and smarts. I'll try it every time, and the Lord just stops me. He stops me and said, don't even try it. You're gonna mess it up. You're gonna mess it up. I can't be the kind of Mr. Moosh or husband that my wife needs. Moosh is Russian for husband. I can't be like I ought to be. I can't be the pastor, the preacher, the Christian. I ought to be in my own strength. And you can't either. And so there's the symptoms. There's the symptoms. I don't know about you, but for the road ahead, well, I say, I really do know about you. For the road ahead, I need God's strength. We all need God's strength because we're not called to sit and soak and sour We're called to redeem the time. We're called to shine the light into the darkness, to pierce the darkness, to make a difference in this lost and dying world. That's what we're called to do, and we need God's strength to do it. So that's the symptoms of the need. Number two is the source. The source of our strength. Obviously, everybody knows the answer to that question. We know the answer, okay? We've got all the information we need right here between our ears. Sometimes it hasn't seeped down into the heart though. The source of our strength is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. What does it mean? What's it mean in my daily life? Nehemiah chapter eight, verse 10. Great verse, such an encouraging verse. Hope you got it marked in your Bible. Nehemiah chapter eight, verse 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength. That's why, that's why Philippians 4.4 is on my target every day. I say every day, I'm not perfect, okay? I try to make it every day. to rejoice in the Lord. That's my goal. When I wake up, you know you ever heard two birds, one stone? Philippians 4.4 is like a thousand Christian birds, okay, or a thousand Christian goals and one stone. Because you know what, if you get this right, if you get your heart in tune with God and you're rejoicing in the Lord all the way, It solves so many other problems. It's good for your marriage. It's good for your witness. Who likes to be around Mr. Grumpy Pants, okay? Nobody does. Nobody does. So it's good in so many ways. We've gotta have it. God wants to strengthen you and I, both for service and for suffering. You know what? Jerusalem, the Bible talks about always going up to Jerusalem, okay? You go up to Jerusalem, but the mountains of Jerusalem, okay, even when they're coming from the north, they're coming south, they go up to Jerusalem, okay, because it's elevation, all right, you understand that in your Bible reading. But on this side of Jerusalem, you got a valley, and this side, you got, well, you know, worse than Death Valley, you got the Dead Sea, okay, it goes way down, drops under sea level, okay? But it's no different for every mountain and every hill. Both sides of the mountain has a valley. And so God's gonna strengthen us. He wants to strengthen us for those valleys, for those sufferings. It reminds me of David when he stood before Goliath in 1 Samuel 17. I wanna read you two verses from 1 Samuel 17, verse 45 and 46. Then said David unto the Philistine, thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear, with a shield. excuse me, and with the shield. But I come unto thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand, and I will smite thee and take thine head upon Take thy head from thee, and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day into the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the fields of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Now there's a young man who's drawing his strength from the Lord. He knew where his strength was. He's the example for us. David, a man after God's own heart. And so the point here begs this question, from where are you trying to draw your strength every day? We start up in the morning. We get our coffee going. And anything wrong with coffee, okay. I've learned appreciation for dark roast this week. dark roast. Never had dark roast in my whole life, okay? I go for that wimpy coffee, okay? I tell my mom, she says, how much creamer? I say, think of, think of really light khaki pants, okay? Maybe the grain of the field, okay? I like about that much sugar and that much milk and then that much coffee, okay? But this week, it was dark roast. I'm telling you, it was dark roast. Uh, but you know, we get up and we do that. We got the dear lady that I know and she runs around and she's got a tough life, but she runs around with a monster drink all the time. And I'm like, how do you drink those things? Okay. Uh, where are we? What do we, what are we depending on? Are we depending on the Lord for our strength or depending on a friendship? Depending on so many other things we try to draw our strength from honestly You can't be the kind of parent. I'll repeat you can't be the kind of spouse. You can't be the kind of witness We can't be the kind of missionary. He can't be the kind of pastor. We cannot be what we ought to be without God's Spirit Giving us the strength and the peace and Boy, I'd be a mess if it wasn't God's peace. Your pastor knows exactly what I'm talking about. You know, it's one thing, it's hard enough in this world, but you know what, he carries so many of your burdens. How would we make it without the peace of God? and the power of God. Can anybody say amen right there? And so, the source of our strength, the source of our strength number three. the strategy of our strength, the strategy, okay? And this takes us all back to our good old Bible time days, okay, when we travel neighborhood Bible time. Our boss always taught us you need to have your D-D-D-R-F-O-H-K-A-S-T-J-C, okay, your daily direct dedication renewal for one hour, keep it sweet till Jesus comes, okay, that's what we learned, D-D-D-R-F-O-H, anyway, a long thing. And I never forgot it, I mean, how many years ago, that was 100 years ago, and I still remember it, okay? Some things boss taught us very well, okay? I can still juggle by the way. It's kind of interesting. Oh, so But the strategy of our strength is your DFC. That's another abbreviation for your daily Fellowship with Christ your daily fellowship with Christ. Do you have a daily quiet time with Jesus? I'm sure your preachers taught you about how to do that how to have an effective quiet time. I We've gotta have it. Again, it will strengthen us both for service and for suffering. It'll strengthen us. Isaiah chapter 40, classic verse. Probably many of y'all have this verse memorized. Isaiah 40, 31. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. That's a promise God gives. That's a promise. And I tell you, there's hardly a Sunday doesn't go by when I wake up in the morning, I hear that alarm clock and I say, Lord, it's Russian church in just a little bit. Help us get going. Help us get going. Okay. And he reminds me they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Okay. And I'm not saying you don't need a decent and a normal amount of rest. We do. But we need to depend on the Lord because there's times in service as brother brother Hendricks and I talked this week okay being tired is sometimes just part of serving Jesus Christ and we can't just serve him whenever it's convenient and whenever we feel good I'm here this week aren't I I haven't felt good one day okay but just say Lord I'm waiting on you I'm waiting on you. Your strength is perfect. I can't do it. You're gonna turn in some faith promise commitments this week. I mean, today, you're gonna do it. And some of you have said, eh, I wanna do it later on, okay. God made God set the right number on your heart to continue to get the gospel to all these nations. But there's gonna, I guarantee you, there's gonna be some tests to that commitment. There's gonna be some tests that's gonna come. And they say, we've gotta apply this right here. Lord, we're trusting in you that you will give this through us, that you'll help us to be faithful. The pastor listed off all these ministries that your church has. Oh, what a blessing! What a blessing. And you say, you know what, I wanna step up and do that. But you're gonna need God's strength to be consistent at it. You gotta have God's strength. In the Cascade Mountain Range, Washington, on May the 18th of 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded with what was probably the most visible show of the power of nature that the modern world has ever seen. At 8.32 a.m., the explosion ripped off 1,300 feet off the top of the mountain with a force of 10 million tons of TNT, of dynamite, or roughly the equivalent of 500 Hiroshimas. Yeah. Sixty people were killed, most by the blast, of 300 degree heat that traveled at some 200 miles per hour. Some were killed as far as 16 miles away. Is that over in Corrieville? Is that beyond Corrieville? How far away is 16? Think about it. It's a ways out there. The blast also leveled 150 miles per hour. foot Douglas firs as far as 17 miles away, a total of 3.2 billion, with a B, billion board feet of lumber were destroyed, enough to build 200,000 three-bedroom homes. That was St. Helens. That's pretty powerful, right? That sounds pretty powerful to me. But what power is available to you? Jesus said, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. And what did he say next? Go ye therefore. Go ye therefore. Take the gospel. Take it everywhere. Don't be afraid. Don't think you're not gonna have enough strength. I'm gonna go with you, he said. what power is available to us as Christians. And yet sometimes the churches are just limping around with the gospel, having a struggle just to get the gospel across the street. Not every church is like your church, giving to missions. Like this church gives to missions. We need to know. We need to know that the power is all in Christ. Everything we need. My father owns the cattle on a thousand heels. And he owns the heels. He owns it all. What power's available to us. And so, Psalm chapter 84, verse five. I hope God writes this on your heart today, okay? Psalm chapter 84, verse five. Blessed. Oh, so happy. Write it in there, okay? Blessed, oh, so happy, is the man whose strength is in thee. And all God's people said, amen. Let's pray together. Father in heaven, thank you for your word. Father, I'm asking you today, I'm asking to help someone out here who's hearing my voice and came to Sunday school this morning that's struggling with giving beyond their power. We're talking to someone today that you're speaking to them about getting involved or maybe further involved in the Great Commission, in their church, in some ministry you're calling them to. Maybe about becoming a consistent witness or one that hands out tracts. And Lord, they're struggling. You know the hearts, Lord, they're struggling. Can I do this? And I pray, Father, today that this verse right here in Psalm chapter 84 would give us the power and the strength and the wisdom and the understanding. Lord, that we would rest our faith as David did on you. Oh God in heaven, please do this, Lord. Please do this now. I trust you to take this first. Change our lives, Lord. And may we just continually keep coming back. As the tests come, as the challenges come, as we go through those valleys, Lord, help us just keep coming back. And may Psalm 84, verse five, change all of us, Lord. Get the glory. We thank you for what you're gonna do. We need you. And we're so grateful that you give us, you make us available all power, Lord, all power. Thank you. Blessed be your holy name. We ask it all in Jesus' precious name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us by way of the internet today. We're so glad that you were able to be with us and we pray that the service was a blessing to your heart. Even though the sermon is over, our service is not over. 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