All right, I invite you to open your Bibles with me, please, to Hebrews chapter 11, Hebrews chapter 11. Sometimes I'll go on a trip around the world and I'll see God do something I find very encouraging that I think a church needs to hear about, and I'll come back and I'll share that thing. And it sometimes has an unusual response. I'll say this place had a ministry and they did this outreach and this thing happened. And now there were a hundred people saved or something like that happens. And sometimes people will say, oh, praise the Lord. But many times people will look discouraged. They'll look saddened by that. And they'll say, well, it never happens here. And when I hear that, I think, how did I just discourage those people? How did that happen? How did I come in and say, look what God did, and somebody got sad about it? And we need to have the right kind of response to God's inciting action. When he incites us to faith, we need to respond with joy. We need to respond with anticipation. We need to be people of hope, because hope makes not ashamed. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. God is at work in this world. One of my favorite passages. Jeremiah, where he says he is at work in this world that he loves. He delights to show judgment, loving kindness, and righteousness in the earth. He delights in this. God likes to do this. When we ask God to work, we're asking him to do something that he wants to do. We're joining him in the thing that he's told us he loves to do. Now, some of you, I don't remember too well if any of you were hunters, but I lived not long, when we lived here in Pennsylvania, we lived across the street from a very avid hunter. His poor wife was a hunting widow, as they say. He was gone all hunting season. And if I were to tell our neighbor, Eric, would you like to go hunting? The answer is yes. I don't have to twist his arm because he delights in this. So when we think about God working in this world, showing judgment, loving kindness and righteousness, we're asking him to do something that he delights to do. We're asking him to do this thing that we already know he wants to do. And as we think about what's going on in our lives, we need to realize that God is provoking us to believe him. He's putting out there the truth that we need to respond to in faith. Now, I want to, this evening, take a look at Jesus as the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Pastor, it's weak in some ways. That looks weird, Pastor. There you go. All right. All right. We'll do it like that. Okay. Better? All right. Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We're in Hebrews chapter 11 and 12. We're going to get several of these verses, and I want us to focus particularly on the account of Moses here in Hebrews chapter 11. But notice particularly what it starts with. This chapter opens with faith. is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it the elders obtained a good report. Now, speaking more generally of faith, look at verse six, but without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is. and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11 opens with this call to faith and then describes this in verse six. So we have clear in our mind as we read these various accounts of people that overcame by faith, that did things by faith, that we would understand that the underpinning thing without which we will not please God is a faith response. There is no way that we will ever please God unless our next response is a faith response. Unless we're hearing what he says, believing it so that our behavior is changed, and responding in faith. Let me say that again. We're hearing what he says, believing it so that our response is changed, our behavior is changed, and that is shown as we act then out in faith. How is this evidenced to us? Look at verse 23. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Esteeming the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect under the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who was invisible. Through faith, he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land, which the Egyptians, assaying or attempting to do, were drowned. Look down at chapter 12, verse 1. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which hath so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children. My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faith when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. This evening, I want us to consider Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. So that when Jesus writes, we respond, let's pray. Father, as we look into your word, we ask that you would give us understanding hearts. Lord, help our minds to be open to your truth and our hearts to be yielded to obedience to you. Lord, help us to be excited about the things that you are showing us. And Lord, in whatever way you give us, may we make use of our faculties for your glory as we respond in faith to what you write, to what you start. Lord, help us now. We ask it in Jesus' name, amen. I have a happy disposition, and I'm not really scared of many things. I'm scared of about three things. There's a nightmare that I won't tell you about. I'm afraid of getting old and losing my mind, which I can do nothing about, of course. And thirdly, I'm afraid of people following my example. In 2018, I was preaching at a missions conference in Northern Indiana, and missionary Charles Wesko with his wife, Stephanie, and their children were there. They were preparing to go to the Cameroon, had raised all their funds, and were getting ready to leave. It was their send-off mission conference from their home church, and I was the speaker. I remember distinctly being in the auditorium there with Charles and Stephanie, and Stephanie's father, who's pastor of the church there. And we were discussing their plans. He said, you know, there's been increasing violence in Cameroon. There's been some sects that have grown up that are fighting the government and fighting each other and there's been some difficulty. He says, we're thinking about whether or not we should leave now or we should wait. He said, we've raised all of our money and we're able to go, but I'm not sure if we should now. So I talked to him. Stephanie and Charles, I asked them some questions. I said, what's going on in the area where you will be? What are you hearing from the locals who are there? What are you thinking about? What do you feel like God would have you do? What's your inclination? What are you desiring to do? And he answered the questions. He said, well, the locals there are telling us that they're OK there. They have an understanding of what's going on. They feel like they know the situation, and they know what to do. And I'm thinking that I want to go. I'm able to go, and I feel like I want to go. And I said, then you should go. About a week later, they traveled to Cameroon, and after 12 days there, on October 30th, Charles was traveling in a car with his wife and missionary Ben Sinclair. They were targeted and attacked by fighters. Car was shot at, and Charles was killed. The other man, Ben Sinclair, was in the car. He was very, of course, troubled by all of this. I recently read his story. He was talking about the feelings of guilt that he had for asking co-workers to come to such a dangerous place. I think I resonate a little bit with him for being a missionary speaker who encourages people to go to places where they end up giving their lives. But that man, Ben Sinclair, came back to the States and told the story of Charles Wesco. And people were saved. More missionaries decided to go. And you know, our own Chris Sandron and his wife have gone to the same place, country of Cameroon. God's raising up people in the face of difficulty. Is that right to do? Is it right to send people there? And I think in all seriousness, as we understand the difficulty that Stephanie faces, that those children face, the pain that's happened because of all this, that in any event, when we look at these things, we say it is absolutely 100% worth it. That Charles says it's worth it. That He wants to go. That He wants us to go. He wants others to go. Why is it worth it? Why is it worth it to risk so much? When we look at Hebrews chapter 11, we find the answer. If we don't respond in faith, we cannot please God. If we don't hear what he does, then we are lost, and the world is lost, and there's no hope, no hope at all. You say, isn't the cost high? Yes, it cost the Lord Jesus his life. It cost his blood, the sinless one who had done nothing wrong, who had nothing to die for of his own account, nonetheless gave his life. Yes, it's worth it. I took my son John to the country of Lebanon. At that time, the economy had collapsed and there was some difficulty there. I asked Raymond, what do you think? Is it okay for him to come? 17 years old, going to go over, spend six months helping the missionary, learning from him, really getting mentored more than helping, I think is the honest way to put it. But Raymond was excited to have him. He said, yes, he can come over. You know, it's a little bit of a long story. We were blacklisted from Lebanon. I think many of you remember that. We had gone from here as missionaries to the country of Lebanon. We landed there after raising all of our support in only eight months. It was amazing to see how God brought it all in. We got there and got kicked out of the country. And after that, got kicked out two more times. John wanted to go spend his after high school trip overseas in Lebanon because we couldn't go there. He said, Dad, I'd like to go finish what you started. I thought that was really nice to hear him say that. And so we looked into it. I thought, I wonder if I can go with them now. So this is a crazy story. I don't know if I shared this with you before, but I'll share it now anyway. But I thought to myself, I wonder if I can go with John. I wonder if my visa problem is cleared up. It can't last forever, right? Government shouldn't hold a grudge this long. It's been 20 years. So maybe they'll let me back in. So I went to the US Embassy website, and I found their immigration attorneys locally. They recommended in Beirut. I've picked randomly from a list because I don't know anybody. I found the immigration attorney and wrote him an email. He said, yes, I can look into it for you. It turns out that this particular lawyer was part of the Hezbollah political party, right? This is what the U.S. Embassy recommended to me. He looked into it. He said, okay, I looked into your situation, and indeed, not only can you not enter the country, but your son can't enter the country, and nobody with the name Barfield can enter the country. Boy, do they know their families or what, huh? Saw us coming. I was shocked. I couldn't believe this. I said, can we fix this? He said, well, because I'm in the Hezbollah party, I actually know the director of the Eman-el-Am, the general security, the only person who can write, take your name off that list. He said, if you help us out, you do this gift, da-da-da-da, we can go and talk to the guy. I said, that's amazing. Sure enough, the guy went to the man. He said, your name's off the list. You can travel over. Nevertheless, as we flew over there, I took Josiah with me and John. We flew over there. And as we landed in Beirut, I'm thinking, I've been kicked out of here more times than I've been let in. This is going to be interesting. And we get to the person checking our passports. He opens my passport. And he's looking through it. And he goes, have you ever been to Lebanon before? I said, yes, a long time ago. He said, no. Welcome to Lebanon. I'm thinking, wow, praise the Lord. I can't believe I got in. So we went in there, and Josiah and John and I went with Raymond. It was wonderful to preach in Arabic again. It was wonderful to see old friends we hadn't seen in 20 years. And of course, Lebanon's a wonderful country. I highly recommend you go. Just time it right. But it was a blessing to be able to be there. I really, really loved it. And of course, Raymond and his family are precious folks. After spending a week in ministry and getting to see the country with my sons, it came time for Josiah and I to leave. And we had a meal at a restaurant. And as we were getting ready to go to the airport, it struck me what I was about to do. I was about to leave my son in Lebanon. And as Josiah and I were going to the car to get our things, I looked at him and I said, Josiah, should I do this? Should I send my son to Lebanon? He said, Dad, I thought that's why we came over here. Isn't that why we're here? I said, I know, but should I send my son to Lebanon? And Josiah said, God sent his son. And whenever I think of Charles or Hytham or any of the other friends I've had that have been shot and injured or hurt for the gospel, how can we not stop and think, yes, God sent his son. God sent his son. And we don't know how the story is going to go. But he started it. And we have the only right decision to make. The only right response is faith. And then he'll finish it. For Charles Wesko, he finished it on the 30th of October in 2018. And for us, it might be some other day. But if we don't respond in faith, then we miss the whole story. We miss it. We fall out of it. This whole Hebrews account, all of these people, these are the great cloud of witnesses. They believed God, and they suffered. They suffered greatly. But they're the people that win. That's how we win. We don't have a choice in the matter. The author of our story has arranged a plot line. And this is where it starts, believing that God exists and that he rewards those that diligently seek him. He withholds no good thing from those that walk uprightly." This is the authoring energy that God is, and He's a rewarder. That's the authoring energy. We believe that God has a good thing for us, that He's planned this thing, and because of that, we respond in faith. That's the starter's pistol that only believers respond to. Those that believe Him hear that pistol. God is and He'll reward me. God is and He has a plan. God is and He'll save me. Bang! And we respond in faith. If you don't respond in faith, you're just watching from the stands. It's the believers that hear that pistol and take off in faith. So we're here to consider Moses. We're here to consider how Moses started in faith. Verse 23 says, by faith, when Moses was born, he was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child. And, you know, this is amazing that Moses' faith journey didn't start with him. And I want to speak particularly to the teens and kids here tonight. You are the recipient of other people's faith. Other people have done things for you. And what you should do is not repudiate it, right? You shouldn't say, well, I don't like this. Why? Because that's a faith response. They're doing this because they heard God's pistol start. I'm going to reward you. I'm going to bless you. I'm going to do good things for you. And they're passing that on to you because it's a good thing. and you should embark on your own faith journey just like they did to help you. They heard that pistol, and they took off, and they prepared you in the way. Now you, you also hear the pistol, and you take off, and you go further than they ever did. That's what they want you to do. That's what your parents want you to do. His parents, Moses' parents, believed that God was bigger than Pharaoh. Was there risk? Was there cost? There was great risk. They could have lost their lives. It must have been very difficult to hide Moses in light of Pharaoh's command. But they believed that God had a plan, that God had given them, what's written here in the King James, as a proper child, a beautiful son, someone of promise and of hope. There's a reason for him. And so have your parents done. They believed God on your behalf, and you're the recipient of a good thing that you don't deserve. Thank God for it. And go forward in faith. Believe that God's doing something in your life because of what he's begun in your parents. But this is not just true for young people. I come here to a place where I've received so many blessings, it's hard to even come in without both crying and laughing and everything. God's given me so much here. God's given all of us so much here. And the right thing to do is to look at those that have passed on their faith to us, that have made these things by faith, and thank God for them, and then go out and launch out on our own in faith as well. We have many people on many levels who've responded in faith to God, and we are the recipient of that, and we need to continue that faith response. For Moses, as we saw here, he decided to reject Pharaoh's house. He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Moses begins his mission by identifying with something. He's looking at the plan of God and God's people who are suffering in slavery. He's looking at the plan of Pharaoh and the people of Egypt who are making them slaves, doing this to God's people. And he looks at that and he says, I'm going to leave this group and I'm going to go with this group. I'm going to leave the world side and go on God's side. And we need to have that same very clear distinction in our mind. There is a thing that God's doing, and I want to be a part of this, and a thing that the world's doing, and I don't want to be a part of that. As our kids have gotten older, they've asked difficult questions. Our kids ask difficult questions, Pastor. Sometimes it gets really tough to be a dad. I mean, holding hands with a 22-year-old and a nine-year-old, it's quite a stretch. But asking these questions, and how do you answer these questions? And sometimes, can I do this, Dad? Is this really permitted or is this not permitted? Is it OK to do this and not that? Why is this not permitted? We're in the Bible to say I can't do X or Y or whatever. And sometimes the answer is, it's not written out clearly, but there's God's side and there's the world's side. And could you possibly think of a universe where you could do this thing and it'd be okay? Maybe, but that's all what the bad people are doing. Don't do it. Is it okay to live in Egypt? Yeah, but not for Moses. It's okay to live in Egypt, but not if you're Moses. He has to pick God's side, right? That's what it is for us as well. Is it okay? It might be okay, but pick God's side. We have to identify with him if we're going to respond in faith. Every generation has to choose. have to make that faith response. And we have the benefit of those that have come before us. But really, we don't know how big our impact will be. Moses didn't know what his faith response would work, or that we'd still be saying his name and not his parents. At the time where he was a baby, he had no awareness of these things. And as he grew older, he doesn't know what the result is going to be. We don't know what the result of our faith will be. We don't know how big of an impact it will make. We don't know. That's the adventure of it. And we get to go out and see what God will make of it. We can have a more impactful life. Our faith can reach even more people than those that came before us. And that's great. We want that to happen. If you're looking at those that came before and think, I'd like to get to their level, don't do that. Go further. See how far God can take you. See what God can do. Moses left Egypt. His belief in his identification with God made him change locations. It made him have a different set of priorities. You can fear God, or you can fear the world. But those things are mutually exclusive. You're gonna please God, or you can please the world, but you're not gonna please both. Moses decided to leave Egypt. Moses kept the Passover. And this is interesting because when they were in Egypt, they were the underclass. They were the slaves. They were the ones who had no hope and no upward mobility. But then when that destroying angel comes and they respond in faith, they're the ones who survive. It might be that right now we're in a difficult position. You might find yourself at work or in your neighborhood or even in your ministry here in the church in difficult places. And that might persist for a time. But there might come that day where the angel comes over the door and suddenly the whole tables have turned. God does these things. It matters whether you believe him or not. The children of Israel believed God and put the blood on the door, and that meant that they didn't have anyone die in their house. It matters whether you believe God or not. Your faith decision will make a difference in your outcome. The text tells us that Moses led the people through the Red Sea. I remember going down to the Gulf of Aqaba when we lived in the country of Jordan. And we were there. And we were right there, not far from where the children of Israel passed over, if I follow the text correctly. And I remember thinking to myself, wow, that's amazing that they were able to go through that Sinai Peninsula, that they were able to come across the Red Sea. The Sinai Peninsula is one of the most inhospitable places I've ever seen. It's like magnified sandpaper. It's a tumbled mess of rock that looks like every step you take would cut your feet. It's a mess. And that's what they came through. They went through the impossible getting there, and then they're facing a sea. And here comes the army. And it's impossible. They're toast, except they're not. Because God does impossible things. The Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Jesus authored all of that for Moses, and Jesus finished all of that in Moses' life. So when we get to Hebrews chapter 12, and we're looking at verse 2, we're seeing that Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. We consider him that endured this contradiction of sinners against himself so that we're not weary when we're faced with difficulty after difficulty after difficulty. Jesus starts this story with the truth coming to us, as it was for Moses. It came to his parents. For us, it might come through a preacher or a book or something that we get from a friend. But we get to see that inciting thing, that the truth comes, and we get to respond in faith. Turn over to 2 Timothy, please, 2 Timothy chapter 1. Look at this chain of faith that Paul describes to Timothy, how his life has been altered by the faith of others, and then what he needs to do. 2 Timothy 1, starting in verse 5, 2 Timothy 1.5 says, When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also. Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me as prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us within holy calling. not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but now is made manifest by the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, whereunto I appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles, for the which cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed, For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. And he says to Timothy, hold fast. Hold fast. In 2010, we had a missionary in IPM, Daniel Araujo, whose son Igor expressed an interest in going as a missionary to India. He wanted to go from Peru to India. Have you all met Igor and Sarah Araujo? Igor was a young man, and he had watched his dad do church planning around Peru, and he'd been an active part in the ministry. We had a conference for IPM missionaries in Uruguay in 2010, and we were down at this conference center, and he came. He was a teenager at the time. And I remember him at that time still being in college, studying to be an architect, but he was very active in ministry. And after one of the sessions, he came to me and said the thing that I'm scared of. He said, Matthew, I've watched how God took you to the Middle East. I believe he wants me to do something similar. I'm going to be a missionary to India. And I remember thinking, uh-oh. How's that going to go for this guy? He's starting to be an architect. And then I thought, oh, no. The mission board wants him to take over his dad's work in the future. And all these things crowd my mind. But Junior went home and he started, or Igor I should say, we called him Junior at the time. He went home and started preparing. He actually went to Paraguay where there's a large population of people from India and learned a little bit about their culture and language and he was hoping to minister to them in their own country. So he went to the Indian consulate and he asked for a visa. And the consul looked at him, I don't know how he got that appointment with the consul, but he said this, I will never give you a visa for India. That's what the guy told him at the consulate. When Igor heard that, he thought that his dream to go be a church, a preacher, a missionary to India might never be fulfilled. Some years later, he's helping his dad in the ministry. We had another conference at IPM, this time in Guatemala. And Igor came up to that. And we had a lady at our home office in Hanover who was at the conference as well. And they were both there and single. They're no longer single. And now they have a couple of kids. Igor joins IPM and he's settling into married life in Arequipa, very busy, very productive in ministry, but he still had that desire to serve in India. One day I emailed him and I said, hey, Igor, I'm going to India. Want to go with me? He never told me that he had been denied a visa. He never told me that the consul said, I'll never give you one. I thought it'd be good if he wanted to go with me. to India. In fact, I didn't know that he had been to Paraguay to see Indians. I didn't know he even tried to join another mission board to go to India. I didn't know any of this. When he and I arrived in India, Igor got into the pulpit to preach, I'm translating for him from Spanish into English. So I'm standing there as the translator as he's preaching in Spanish. And he starts to tell his story. And I'm sitting there listening to him as he explains this whole thing. And I'm having a hard time translating because I'm blown away at how God had orchestrated all of this. how God had brought his whole plan together, how Igor's desire to preach in India was being fulfilled, even though he had to wait so many times for so long. He and I traveled to Mumbai. We went to Gujarat. We preached to Hindus. We preached in Muslim places. Many souls were saved through the ministry of Igor, the Peruvian missionary who got to serve in India. So we hear this in verse eight. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me as prisoner. Be a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel, according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. He's called us. He started that. That faith story with that call to Himself for salvation, to Himself for service, to Himself to see us go out and do something. He's calling us. And the only right next step is the step of faith. The only right next thing to do is to believe Him. and do what Moses did, do what these others listed in Hebrews 11 did, to believe the Lord and respond in faith to what you hear him calling you to do. Would you stand with me, please, before the Lord? Let's stand together. I ask you to consider his word tonight and testimony of those who've responded in faith to his call. As you listen to this text and you see what God did in Moses' life, it's very clear that it's not complicated what we're supposed to do. But as we take some time now to bow ourselves before the Lord and consider this message, With all the things that he's done, with that great cloud of witnesses that we see in Hebrews 11, with all the blessings of the faith of others that have come before us that we get to receive, the question is, are we responding in faith? Are we responding to what he's writing? He's writing that story, that first line of his truth comes in, and are we responding to it in faith, with changed behavior commensurate with what he said? You're called with a holy calling according to His purpose and grace. Are you obeying the call? Are you launching out the way that He wants you to? Are you taking steps of faith? It's a blessing that you're here, and I love our friendship and camaraderie. And all of that gets to grow richer and deeper when you and I respond in faith to what God's telling us to do next. Young person, will you take steps of faith? You've been given a lot by your folks and others who've invested in you. Would you have your own faith response to what he says? Everyone here, will you take that next step of faith and go further than you thought possible? Because you hear what he's saying and you're responding to the story that he's writing for you. There's no telling how big of an impact that will have. Tonight, as we have our time of invitation, I want to ask you, if you're here tonight and you say, I haven't been responding in faith to God's call. I've been trying to shield myself from it, protect myself from what he wants me to do, and try to keep my own plan, perhaps, or my own way. But tonight, I'm going to stop my self-defense and instead I'm going to respond in faith to the Lord. I'm going to let him write my story and every line he writes down I'm going to say yes to. I'm going to respond in faith to what he's showing me. Tonight I want to give us an opportunity to commit ourselves to commit ourselves to not staying where we are, but going further by faith in response to what Jesus is doing. Tonight, you'll say, that's me. I will respond in faith to the story Jesus is writing. I will not hold back. I will not defend myself or keep my own plan. I yield it over to him. I will respond in faith to what he's writing. If that's you, would you raise your hand? Amen. Others? Amen. Others? I'm not going to hold on to my own way. I want what he wants. Anyone else like that? We're gonna respond in faith to the author. Amen. Father in heaven, thank you for this text that we got to read tonight. Thank you for the stories of those that have gone before. Thank you for those who have given everything. Thank you for my brother Charles Wesko and his wife and the kids and Ben Sinclair and everyone there. Thank you, Lord, for what you did and are doing and will do. Lord, help everyone. that hears this account, that hears this truth from your word, to respond in faith, not in fear, but to see the great thing that you will do and the impact, to learn what that's gonna look like as we let you write our story. And with the attitude of belief, trust you, believing that you're a rewarder of those who diligently seek you, that you're going to do good things. Lord, show us that. unfolded for us, Lord, as we respond in faith now in Jesus' name. Amen.