Lean not on your own understanding. We read, and they buried Joash with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. Now turn to 2 Chronicles 25, and we'll pick up the story there. I want to just read the first two verses. Amaziah was 25 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoiadin of Jerusalem, and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart. This message is entitled, Lean Not on Your Own Understanding, and I dedicate it to every single last one of us. I don't believe there's anything in all the world that tends to trip us up faster than leaning on our own logic, our own understanding, our own thinking Chris, you mentioned this morning that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities. Principalities and powers are trying to help us think, you've got it. You've got it. Everything will be okay. Just do what you normally do. The Bible says, don't listen to the Lord. Don't lean on your own understanding. Let's ask the Lord for his help as we preach this message. Use your word today in an uncanny way. Lord, there's no way any pastor or anyone can know what your Holy Spirit knows that's going on in our, in each and every heart. Lord, there's no way that I can know what's going on in one other heart. And sometimes we don't even know completely what's going on in our own heart. But you know. You know us inside and out. And Lordy, in our wrestling and in our doubts, please come to us today and teach us through your anointed word. For Jesus' sake we pray. Amen. Outside of John 3.16, perhaps the most widely known two verses in all of Scripture are Proverbs 3, 5, and 6, which declare trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths, or He will make your paths straight. Learning to trust in the Lord and not leaning on ourselves and what we think is at the heart of learning to listen to God's voice. It will be two weeks this coming Tuesday. Two weeks ago, Pastor Will gave a devotional to us and it was very meaningful to me. He read from Charles Stanley's book, How to Listen to God. And I don't know how many of you are involved in the men's group over here at McDonald's, six o'clock on Thursday morning, but as he read from chapter four, I just took copious notes. I know a number of you men meet there on Thursday mornings and you're learning volumes about this important subject about how to listen to God. But chapter four is entitled, Identifying the Voice of God. And as I took copious notes, I was very interested because I want to always know how to identify the voice of God. There are so many voices out there. And the scripture tells us in John chapter 10, verse four, that since we are God's sheep, his sheep know his voice. and they will not follow the voice of a stranger. The scripture tells us that. Our problem over and over is not that we doubt God's desire to communicate with us, or we don't think He isn't communicating, but we're too easily stumped as to how to identify His voice. People often say, well, when I listen to God, how do I know if it's God speaking or some other voice or the voice of a stranger? Is it God or is it Satan? Is it my flesh? Is it my conscience playing games with me? As I prepared this message, I thought of Charles Stanley's book and how it applies to this message that I'm about to preach to you today. King Amaziah became the king one year before Elisha the prophet died. That's why we're discussing him, is because one year of his kingship overlapped. These are the days of Elijah and Elisha. He reigned in Judah for 29 years and in his first year a man of God came to him, you heard Pastor Larry read it, because he had hired mercenary troops, Ephraimites, Israelites, to come and help him defeat the Edomites or the Esauites of Mount Seir. The man of God in 2 Chronicles 25, 7 told Amaziah, let your Israeli troops go home because the Lord is not with them. Well, Amaziah wisely, one time in his life, listened to the prophet and the voice of God. This prophet, doubtless, was one of the sons of the prophets that was a student of Elisha and probably also of Elijah. Obeying the voice of this man of God, Amaziah then sent those Israeli troops home. They were mad as hops. And you'll find out later as we look at the scripture what a costly thing it was to have hired them in the first place because they killed 3,000. Judahites and they did awful things to Judah. It was a terrible thing. Yet after winning against the Edomites with his 300,000 that he was, as David did, doing a crazy thing, having a census and finding out how many men he had. Do I have strength enough? He wasn't trusting in the Lord. What does he do? He takes the Edomite gods that did not deliver them from him, It's a crazy thing that he does and brings them home and starts worshipping the Edomite gods. And so another prophet comes, another of these sons of the prophets. 2 Chronicles 25.15 says, Therefore the Lord was angry with Amaziah, and sent to him a prophet, one of the sons of the prophets Ahasuerus. A man of God, no doubt mentored by Elisha, and he says, why have you sought the gods of a people whose gods did not deliver their own people from your hand? But Amaziah wouldn't listen, so the prophet told Amaziah, God has determined to destroy you. He's determined to destroy you. Over and over, Amaziah leaned on his own understanding, and he did not fully follow God. Now as I read about Amaziah, I kept thinking about this chapter that Pastor Will read to us. It kept coming up over and over and I am going to share a few things about that chapter before I preach this message. Knowing the voice of God and getting it right and then getting it wrong is something that Peter did. How many of you remember just before Jesus went to the cross, before he went up to Jerusalem, he was north of the Sea of Galilee, he was at Caesarea Philippi. And Jesus asked his disciples, who do men say that I am? And they said, oh, some say John the Baptist or Jeremiah or one of the prophets. But then he said, but who do you say that I am? And Peter, being the spokesman, he said, you are the Christ. You're the son of the living God. And Jesus answered Peter and said, you got it right, Peter. Blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah, or son of Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. You didn't think this up. This wasn't your thought. But my Father who is in heaven gave you this thought. But just moments later, Jesus said, now that you've got it right and you know who I am, I'm the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Just moments later, five verses later, from Matthew 16.16 to Matthew 16.21, He told them, now the Son of Man must go up to Jerusalem. and suffer many things, and be killed, and then be raised from the dead on the third day. And Peter, with obvious good intentions, trying to be just as wise as he was when he said, you're the Christ, the Son of the living God, took Jesus aside, and he said to Him, this will never happen to you. This will never happen to you. Well, Jesus looked straight at him and he said, get behind me, Satan. You're a hindrance to me, for you're not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man. One moment, Peter was hearing clearly the voice of God, and one moment later, he was hearing the voice of Satan operating in one way, on the words of the Father, operating moments later on the words of Satan. What a dilemma, and that's the dilemma that you and I face, Peter's dilemma. We listen to voices. Which voices do we follow? We want to know about family matters, or relational matters, or financial matters, or vocational matters. How do we truly obey the voice of God and do the right things? How can we be sure we're hearing the voice of God? Now John 10 verse 4 says, we know the voice of our shepherd. How do we know if it is his voice or a conflicting voice or our flesh or someone playing games with us? In this chapter that Pastor Will read, Charles Stanley gave the best list I've ever heard, and that's why I'm going to give it to you. It's 10 ways you can know if it's God's voice, and there are 10 C's. They all start with C, and so I hope you can get them down and take notes on them, because I believe if you do so before I preach this message, you'll learn how to begin to discern the voice of God. First of all, God's voice has consistency with the Word of God. Consistency with the Word of God. In other words, let's say you hear a condemning voice in your conscience. You know what the Word of God says. It says in Romans 8.1, there's therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. That's not the voice of God. Secondly, God's voice conflicts with human wisdom. It conflicts with human wisdom. So that means God's voice conflicts with your thoughts and my thoughts. The scripture says in Isaiah 55, 8 and 9, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. You say, well, how does that work? Well, Matthew 5, 39, Jesus said, if a person strikes you on one cheek, then just do the natural thing you would think about, right? No, he says, turn the other cheek. That clashes with human wisdom. That conflicts with human wisdom. Number three, it clashes with fleshly nature. If the voice is telling you to gratify your flesh, that's not God. God doesn't tell you to gratify your flesh. That's the world, the flesh, and the devil speaking. That's 1 John 2, 15 to 17. Number four, God's word challenges our faith. If what you are getting, the message you're getting isn't a challenge to your faith, watch out. Remember God's call for Abraham to sacrifice his own son. Remember when Jesus was teaching about this bread is my body broken for you and this cup is my blood, the blood of the new covenant. All the other apostles and disciples that were with Jesus except the 12th, They left him and no longer followed him. And Jesus turned to Peter and he said, will you also go away? And Peter said, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. So Peter and the 12 disciples, they were challenged to stay. But if that voice isn't challenging your faith, watch out. That's the easy way. Number five, God's voice calls for courage. When the voice calls for a difficult surrender to God on our part or on another's part, know that God calls for acts of courage. Joshua 1, 1 to 9, when Moses' position was given to Joshua over and over in that passage, he says, be strong and of good courage. Be strong and of good courage. It calls for courage. Number six, God's voice considers the effects on other people. Will what God is asking me to do help someone else? Will it disciple? Will it train? Will it teach another person? Will it help them grow in their faith? Will it be used of God in their lives? God speaks when he's calling us to help others. Matthew 25, 35, he says, I was a stranger and you took me in. Well, when did we ever see you a stranger? Inasmuch as you've done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, you've done it unto me. God is calling us to do things that will affect other people. Number seven, God's voice calls for patience. God doesn't want us to rush into decisions. He that believes will not make haste. Psalm 27, 13, and 14 tells us to wait on the Lord. It took Abraham and Sarah 25 years to finally follow the voice of the Lord because of the whole Hagar matter, leaning on their own understanding, messing things up. God's voice considers consequences. Colossians 3.5 says, For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. Satan tells us, Don't worry about the consequences. Everything is going to be okay. No, consider the consequences. One of the best things I ever heard is, where will you be 20 minutes after you do what you're about to do? Where will you be? Consider the consequences. Number nine. God's voice comes with godly counsel to help us grow. Proverbs 13.10 says, with those who take advice is wisdom. Obey God fully. God only wants us to mature in Him and never hinder our growth. Amaziah didn't want to fully grow. And number 10, and then we'll preach this message. God's voice comes with final peace. God's voice comes with final peace. It may not be immediate tranquility because often we obey God for just a short time, do it a little while. but I don't feel good about it. I don't feel good about it, and we quit. We don't finish the course. We'll never have God's peace disobeying him, but when we continue to obey the voice of God, his word says in Psalm 119 and 165, great peace have those who love your word or your law, and nothing causes them to stumble. Now I want us to go to our text, and I want to share with you five ways that Amaziah acted listening or not listening to God, and to one extent or another, he leaned on his own understanding. These five leanings on his own understanding deeply affected his ultimate standing with the Lord and kept him from finishing well. He made a good start, but that was the end of it. Five ways he leaned on his own understanding that we can also do. Leaning on her own understanding means doing some right things, but not with a whole heart. How many millions of American Christians do some right things, but not with their whole heart? Verse 2 of 2 Chronicles 25 states, and he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart. That means Amaziah was not a man of serious devotion He didn't have a deep zeal to obey the Lord. He started out pretty good. But much like his father, who was under the tutelage of the high priest Jehoiada, what he did was with an indifferent spirit. He became lukewarm and much like that Laodicean church that we hear about and the Lord says, if you're lukewarm, if you do some right things but not with your whole heart, If you're neither cold nor hot, I'm gonna spew you out of my mouth. In 2 Kings 14, three and four, we read the Amaziah story from Jeremiah's perspective. And he says, and Amaziah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not like David his father. He did all things as Joash his father had done, but the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. Jeremiah is telling us that this was no David II, Amaziah. He was not a repentant man. He didn't have a willing heart to confess sin. It's good to see he started off well, like his daddy did. But in 2 Kings 14.3, it says, he followed his father too closely. Like father, like son. Both Father Joash and Son Amaziah, in later years, turned away from the Lord, faced God's wrath. Both of them died by an assassin. their own people. What a tragic and pitiful life story to make an excellent beginning but to later abandon God. Now I want you to look at Amaziah a little bit closer now and notice how he followed Joash. He was anointed as king not at seven but at 25. He was king for 29 years until he was 54 years old and as soon as the royal power was firmly his, Amaziah killed his servants 2 Chronicles 25, 3 and 4, who had struck down the king, his father, that's Shimeiath the Ammonite and Jehoshabad the Moabite, he killed them both, but he did not put their children to death. According to what's written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commands, fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin. That's a kind of mercy that shows measured justice. That's one time and one time only that Amaziah acted in that way, so he did some right. Give him credit. He only killed Shimeath and the Ammonite, Jehozabath the Moabite, not their children, because they killed his dad, King Joash, on his deathbed as a wounded man, but that measured justice. It's not going to play out. It's not going to be his high-flying flag of his full life. What does he later do with 10,000 Edomites? Takes them up on a rock and throws 10,000 of them, 10,000 of them to one of the most hideous deaths to the rocks below. This beginning was a notable start. He did do some right things. Gave him credit for a good start. But a bad finish. God cared about Amaziah or he would not have sent him two different men of God, two different prophets who came and spoke to him to instruct him and to warn him. These men of God were sons of the prophets just like Elijah and Elisha. They doubtless trained this man. We read that Amaziah's mother's name, it's interesting the chronicler tells us often about the mother. She was a godly woman. Her name was Jehoadun of Jerusalem. Her name means the Lord is pleased and delighted. Amaziah's name means the Lord is strong. But he missed the fullness of his name. He started out pretty good, but he mixed good and evil. And when you mix good and evil, it's like putting a drop of strychnine in a gallon of milk. It's no longer milk. Now it's pure poison. There's a record of goodness mixed with that germ of evil. Mixed together, both Jeremiah and Ezra said it well. Amaziah did right in the sight of the Lord and both said, yet not with a whole or a perfect heart, or not with a Davidic repentant spirit or heart. So first of all, what do we learn? Leaning on our own understanding means doing some good things, some right things, but not with a whole heart. Number two, leaning on our own understanding means doing some godly things, but still allowing idols in our life. Notice verses 14 and 15. after Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites. He praised the Lord and worshipped him the rest of his life. No, it doesn't say that. It says, After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the defeated men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshipped them, making offerings to them. Therefore the Lord was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet who said to him, Why have you sought the gods of a people who didn't deliver their own people from your hand? Wow. 2 Kings 14.4 states, but the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. Here's a man that does a few godly things, but he allows idols in his life. God gave Amaziah the courage to defeat the Edomites with his own people only, without the mercenaries. That was God's will. But bringing back their idols, that's absolutely unfathomable. Andrew Bonar said it very wisely, let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle. It was after the victory that he did this awful thing. By taking those Edomite idols, was he believing he was going to paralyze the Edomites further and prevent more wars? No, he knew the law of Moses. He knew the law of God. He knew the great Shema. Every Jew, if they didn't know anything else, knew Deuteronomy 6-4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one. That's right. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. Amaziah knew that. He knew Jehovah God was the only true living God. Yahweh was the Lord. Worshipping idols was a flagrant violation of the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20, three to six, was something every Jew had to memorize. He would have known it. He knew when he picked up those idols and brought them back. He knew. It was on his conscience. He knew the Ten Commandments. There we hear, you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God. visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me. And so Joram passed it down to Joash, who now passes it down to Amaziah, who finally in the end, though Uzziah was a good king, passed it on to Uzziah. In the end of his life, He was escorted out of the temple because he worshipped himself. He was going to be one of the priests. He was going to go into the temple as a priest. And as he did, 80 men of God came and tried to stop Amaziah's son. What did he do? He went right on. And when he went right on, he instantly became a leper. And he was buried a leper. Don't play with God's law. So, leaning on our own understanding means doing some right things, but not with a whole heart. It means doing some godly things, but still allowing idols in our life. Number three, leaning on our own understanding means acting first without consulting God's word or His Spirit's voice. We read in verses five and six. Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin." He's doing exactly what David did. He's numbering the people and thousands were killed because of David's sin. That's what Amaziah is doing. He mustered those 20 years old and upward and found that they were 300,000 choice men fit for war, able to handle spear and shield. But he wasn't satisfied with them because he wasn't trusting in God. So he hired also 100,000 mercenaries, mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver. Emmazi, without consulting God, decided to attack Edom and regain territory that had been lost in past wars. We preached about it back in 2 Kings 8, 20 to 22, where it says, in those days, Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own. Then Joram passed over to Isaiah with his chariots, and he rose by night. He and his chariot commander struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home. So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. So what is Amaziah doing? He's going to take back the Edomites. They'll pay tribute to him again. Libna revolted at the same time. It was a fine idea, but he went about it in a wrong way. He leaned on his own understanding. He didn't listen to the Lord. He didn't ask the Lord. He did what God severely punished Judah for. When David took a census, 2 Samuel 24, Amaziah found he had 300,000 men, but he couldn't trust in that number. He even wanted more. He wanted 100,000 mercenaries from the northern kingdom of Israel. men who were so far from God, the prophet told him. David said in Psalm 20, verse 7 and 8, some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. I want you to know that I have nothing against God making America great, but I'm telling you, if you trust in your country for your future, you are trusting in vain. There is one God, there is one God who will save us, and He'll only make us great if we put Him first. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. We lean on our own understanding when we act without consulting the Lord. So we've talked about doing some right things, but not with our whole heart. Doing some godly things, but allowing idols in our life. We've talked about acting first without consulting God's word in His Spirit's voice. Number four, leaning on our own understanding means not counting the cost of hearing God too late to fully obey Him. We notice verses seven to nine. So the man of God came up, to King Amaziah, and he said, O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel, but with all these Ephraimites. Remember, Hosea said they were a nation of people that were like a pancake half-baked. How many of you like pancakes, that you get them done on one side, and then you just put syrup on them? No, no, turn it over. It's not done yet. He says, the Lord's not with Israel. They're half-baked with all these Ephraimites. But go, act, be strong in the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down. This is a crazy passage because Amaziah says to the man of God, he's thinking about the money he's lost. He says, well, what shall we do about the hundred talents that I've given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, the Lord is able to give you much more than this. And if you hear nothing else than that in the whole message, camp on it, put it on your refrigerator. The Lord is able to give you much more than anything when you lean on your own understanding. Wow. God knew the hired soldiers would only bring defeat for Amaziah. Notice the disrespect Amaziah showed the man of God. He argued with him about God's will. Well, what are we going to do with all this money? He said, well, how much money was it? It was only 100 talents of silver. You know how much that is, just so you'll be aware of it? That was four tons of silver that he gave. to the king of Israel to give him 100,000 mercenaries. What are we going to do about that 100,000, that 100 talents of silver for the 100,000 Israeli mercenaries? What are we going to do about that? And the Lord is saying, I'm able to give you much more than this. Four tons of silver, silver and gold is going to pass away. Put your treasure where moth and rust will not corrupt. Matthew 6.33 says, Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added. If we would only seek the Lord before we rush into disobedience, we could avoid so much. Now notice verses 10 to 13. It's kind of a sharp, it's kind of a sharp thing to listen to what happens here. Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him. from Ephraim to go home again. He did a right thing. But they became very angry. Why? Because he acted without consulting the Lord, number three. And now he is obeying but too late to stop what's going to happen. But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down the 10,000 men of Seir. Don't you know God gave him victory? He did a right thing. And then the men of Judah captured another 100,000 alive and took them as if they were going to make them prisoners, but brought them up to the top of a rock and they were all dashed to pieces. He did a wrong thing, a terrible thing, unmerciful. But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Bethorah and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil. Notice that when he finally obeyed, it was too late to prevent this awful slaughter of his own people. What a loss, because Amaziah counted the cost too late. Millions will one day wake up in hell. because they counted the cost too late. Millions of Christians will wake up with nothing but leaves to give the master because they counted the cost too late. Rather than having gold, silver, and precious stone to present to the Lord, they'll have nothing but wood, hay, and stubble to be burned up. There's an old hymn called, Have You Counted the Cost? If your soul should be lost, Though you gain the whole world for your own, even now it may be that the line you have crossed, have you counted? Have you counted the cost? So leaning on our own understanding means not counting the cost of hearing God, and we hear him too late to fully obey him. Last and not least, Leaning on our own understanding means mocking and challenging God's spokesman who is warning us. If you'll go to verse 16, the Lord was angry with Amaziah, verse 15, and said to him, this prophet that said, why have you sought the gods of a people who will not deliver their own people from your hand? But as he was speaking, the king said to him, have we made you a royal counselor? Can you believe he spoke that way to a prophet of God? Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop. And now why is he saying stop? Because he remembers full well why his daddy was killed. His daddy was killed by the Ammonite and the Moabite who took it up. They took umbrage with what he did to the high priest's son, Zechariah. Because when he came and told Joash to quit, to quit worshiping idols. He said, stone him, and they stoned him right in the temple. What is he saying? Stop. Why should you be struck down? What he is saying is, why should you be struck down just like my daddy struck down Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada? Wow. Amaziah knew all too well what was about to happen. And so under the king's command, rather than stone this man, he just mocked him. Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop. Why should you be struck down? The king was threatening the prophet. If he continued to speak, he would be Zachariah II. So the prophet stopped, almost. But he got out a last word. He told Amaziah, God will destroy you. God will destroy you. I know that God is determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel. I want to tell you in closing, it is dangerous, so dangerous to mock or disparage one of God's servants, one of his prophets, one of his spokesmen who is warning you And when you disparage that man of God, you're walking on thin ice with God. God sends people to us to warn us, and if we reject their warnings and we get our own way, God may well say, I know that I must, if you're a believer, take your life early. I must take you home early. because you have denied the warning. You haven't listened to my counsel. Now in closing, we told you how to listen to God with 10 C's. We told you leaning on our own understanding means doing some right things, but not with our whole heart. It means doing some godly things, but still allowing idols in our life. Acting first without consulting God's word or his spirit's voice. It means not counting the cost of hearing God too late to fully obey Him, and it means mocking and challenging God's spokesman who is warning us. I received this warning today to me. Now what I'm asking is will you receive it? It was given to me, and now I'm giving it to you. Or would you in your own heart say who made You, my counselor. God did. God did. We're in our 44th year of doing what God called us to do when he brought us here, and that is to be a shepherd, just like Pastor Larry, Pastor Will, Pastor Kevin, Pastor James, Pastor Zakao, Pastor Saul. That's who did it. It wasn't us. But when we share God's word, who made us your counselor? God did. And now I'm saying, please receive the word of the Lord. It's dangerous to mock the word of the Lord. I believe all of us are believers. Pastor Larry, would you just pray for us as a church that will receive this warning and learn from it for God's sake and for his glory. powerful warning to my heart and to all of our hearts. Sometimes we try to disparage the word of God through the messenger. But father, you will hold us accountable for everything we hear that is based upon your word in spite of who the messengers are. And this morning we have heard and have seen, our pastor has brought to us such insightful applications of how, though we would never want to be like Amaziah, partial obedience will put us in that very place. Help us to see this morning anew, Lord, in our lives, my life, and all of our lives, that partial obedience is actually nothing less than disobedience. So Father, bring us into complete obedience and compliance with every part of the word of God as the Holy Spirit applies it to our lives. We do not want to be partial obeyers. Help us, our Father, to be completely, totally, fully, constantly yielded to your Holy Spirit, we pray in Jesus' name, amen.