The ladies had their meeting yesterday and my wife was showing me the devotion that she was going to be sharing with the ladies and talking about how the people of Israel, they were very quick to forget what God had done for them. And we are very similar in that respect. Even on a Sunday, we could hear from the Lord and be challenged by the word of God. And then as soon as everything's finished with sung the last hymn, we start talking with each other, or someone mentions or reminds us of some responsibility that we have, or someone's got something to cook back at home, or someone's got to be somewhere, or there's some kind of struggle that comes along. And all of a sudden, everything that you were thinking about at that time just disappears. What did the pastor preach on Sunday morning? It was something about, I don't know what it was, but it was good. That's the kind of thing that we say. We just forget. We forget what God has done. And that was what the people of Israel did. And they forgot what God did in the battle. And then when they went a few years later, they said, we don't want God to be our king. We want a king, an earthly king, to fight our battles for us. Which was like, why would you settle for less? when you had the greatest king and you went and chose a weaker king to do your battles for you. And so quickly we can just forget what God has done and then move on into different things. And we saw this morning in Sunday school, God is telling the people of Israel that judgment is gonna come because they became complacent. They were comfortable where they were at and they thought they were right, but they weren't. And so the Lord had to try to get their attention. He had to send the locusts. He had to cause some kind of devastation to come into their life to get their attention, to wake them up so that they would serve him. And then all the hymns this morning about the Lord is my shepherd. He's leading me. He's guiding me. He's doing these things. And the message is going to be from Psalm 23 this morning. But we're looking at this psalm, why it was written and for what purpose it was written for. But we're not gonna go and read this straight away. We're going to turn first of all to 1 Samuel chapter 30. 1 Samuel chapter 30. And we're gonna read verses one to six. So 1 Samuel chapter 30 verses one to six. Also, on Wednesday night, we were talking about the spiritual warfare, and the spiritual warfare being that we tend to put God aside in our business, and we try to do the things throughout the week and throughout our life, trying to do them without God. We just forget about Him. We put Him aside. And we go about our business, and we just get frustrated. Things just get in the road. Things just stop us from being able to do what we want. And that spiritual battle, that frustration and the anger that comes from that is what the devil does. He tries to frustrate our purposes and frustrate the things we're going to do. And you feel like this all the time. You're on edge all the time. And if that's your life, you have to realise that that's a spiritual battle there. It's a spiritual battle. It's not meant to be like that. If you've handed those things over to the Lord, if you're saying, Lord, you be the Lord of my life and you rule and reign in my life and lead me and guide me and tell me where I need to go and what I need to do, then the frustration disappears. And so when we get frustrated, that's when we have to think, okay, why am I getting frustrated? What is so important to me that I'm willing to burn the whole world over? Right? I'm ready to just destroy everything around me. What's so important? What is that thing? And then say, okay, Lord, if that's what seems so important to me, I need to give that to you because I can't handle that. I can't handle that thing. And this is what Brother Michael was saying this morning in the Sunday school was that, you know, we need to judge ourselves and look to ourselves in our own hearts and search there and ask the Lord, Lord search my heart. And when we ask the Lord to search our hearts, we have to be ready for Him to reveal something to us. And usually those things are revealed to us when we get frustrated, when everything's not going the way that we would like it and we get angry or we get on edge and things like that. Why? Why is that happening? Because there's something in my heart that's not right. something in my heart that's not right. Something has to change in me so that I can be more like the Lord Jesus Christ. And so God reveals to us, he allows the devil to get in there and cause some trouble so that it reveals to us there's something still there in our hearts deep down that needs to be handed over to the Lord. And so that's what we're gonna be talking about, how to get victory. over the spiritual battle and the frustrations of life and the trials and tribulations. So in 1 Samuel chapter 30, we're going to read verses one to six. And it came to pass when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day that the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag and smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire and had taken the women captives that were therein. They slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away and went on their way. So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives. Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam, the Jezreelites, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal, the Carmelite. And David was greatly distressed, for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters. But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we do thank you. for your word and we thank you Lord for the life of David and the things that he went through and the things that he wrote in the Psalms as he went through different trials and tribulations and his response to that, trusting you. And so Lord, we pray that this morning you would help us to have a similar victory that David would have in his life. when we come to the difficulties and the temptations, and that we might have the victory over them. And we pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, so let's go to Psalm 23. And I want you to notice a few things here, but David, he encouraged himself in the Lord. He encouraged himself. How did he do that? You know, there was something, there was a discussion happening in his heart and mind. He was discussing something with himself. He was remembering something. He was contemplating something. He was considering the things which had happened in his life and he was able to encourage himself even in the deepest and darkest of places. where he's come back to Ziklag and his children, his wives, they've all been taken away. And he doesn't know to where, and he doesn't know by who, and he doesn't know what's going to happen to them. And he saw the people, they wept until they couldn't weep anymore. They had no more power to weep. That's a pretty deep, dark place. And yet David was able to get the victory. He was able to encourage himself. He was able to get himself up and say, come on, we've got to do something here. We need to seek the Lord. And we see this attitude in Psalm 23. And what the title of this message, for the kids that are taking notes, is Pause, Pray, and Proceed. This is the practice. Pause, pray and proceed. And that's what we have to do when we're getting into a situation where we're frustrated or we're stressed or we're in deep depression or despair for what's happening in our lives. We need to stop for a moment and think about what is happening. We're not focusing on the circumstances because that's only going to dig us deeper. That's not what we encourage ourselves in. We need to stop and consider and think about what God has already done. What has God done in your life until now? That's what you need to think about. When you're going through those difficulties, and when you're getting tempted, and when you're going through a trial, and when you're having some tribulation, and when you're really deep in a dark place, remember what God has done for you until now. All right, don't forget. We've been learning about that. Don't, forget's so easy. You need to remind yourself of what God has done for you. And that's what David does here in Psalm 23, in verses one to three. And first of all, he says in his mind, he's saying this to himself, the Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. Jehovah is my shepherd, the creator, the God that's for all things to be by the word of His mouth, the one who has saved me, the one who has delivered me, the one who has been with me all this time, the one who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all I could ask and think, the one who is almighty, all-knowing, the one who is all-loving, This is my, my shepherd. He says, well, if you remember the story of Daniel. And Daniel, there he's the king of a, he was under Nebuchadnezzar and now Nebuchadnezzar's son has taken over. And this guy, he was just, he was a terrible guy. He was a rich kid, brought up, he didn't care about anyone and he just wanted to live it up and drink and be merry and that's all he cared about. And so he was having a big party And he was celebrating, and for nothing, he wasn't celebrating anything in particular, just celebrating. And had all the people there, and he said, you know what, we should drink from the golden vessels that we took, that my father took from the house of God in Israel, in Jerusalem. Bring those up, and we'll drink from those. Well, they started drinking from those cups, and all of a sudden, this hand appears, just a hand. And it writes on the wall. And we've got this saying, right? The writing is on the wall. That's what it meant for this guy. This is where it comes from. The writing on the wall. And when Daniel translated that writing, it says, you've been weighed and you've been found wanting. Wanting. There's something missing. You've fallen short. You've fallen short of something. And this is what the Bible says in the book of Romans. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That means you've been weighed and you've been found wanting. And it doesn't matter who you are, you just stand before God means you'll be found wanting in that day when we stand in judgment before the Lord. You might think you're better than other people, but you're still short. You've fallen short. And this is what that word want means here in verse one. David says, the Lord is my shepherd. He makes it personal. He's not just the God of heaven and the God of all people, he's my shepherd. He leads me, he uses the imagery of the shepherd who looks after the sheep. He leads the sheep, he guides the sheep, he protects the sheep. And he says that in that respect, the Lord is my shepherd. And because the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be found wanting. I shall not be found wanting. I have forgiveness of sins, I have the Lord with me, and I'm not gonna fall short. And even though I'm going through the difficulty and the struggle and the trial and the tribulation there, the Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. I shall not want. I will have victory in this. I can have the victory over this because the Lord is my shepherd. He reminds himself that God is able. that God is able to sustain him and to supply his need through the trial, whatever it is that is coming up in his life. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside the still waters. And notice this is still the imagery of the shepherd with the sheep, he's bringing them there, he's satisfying his needs. He's feeding him, bringing those places of comfort on those beautiful pastures. He's able to not have to worry about the things of this world. He can just eat away and he knows that the shepherd is there protecting him. He doesn't need to worry. He's got the water that he needs. He's been led by the Lord to bring to those waters. And then we see in verse three, the couple to this, which is talking about what that means. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures is the same as saying he restoreth my soul. He made me, he's restored my soul. He says many times in the Psalms, soul, why art thou disquieted in me? You know, why are you frustrated? Why are you upset? Why are things like this? You know, he speaks to himself. Soul? I don't know if you've ever said that to yourself before. Soul, what are you doing? What are you sitting here weeping for? What are you sitting here, you know, wallowing in self-pity for? That's basically what David's saying here. He's saying, God restores my soul. He feeds me, he gives me what I need to be able to press on. He satisfies the soul. Maybe I'm lacking something, maybe I've got no food or I've got nothing, these things, but he restores my soul. He's interested in my soul. It's important to know that God is concerned with our souls. And there's another place in the Bible where he says, who careth for my soul? No man careth for my soul. I think that's the words. No man careth for my soul. And so we need someone to care for our soul. The Lord is my shepherd. He restores my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Notice, He maketh me and restoreth me. He leads me beside the still waters. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Now the Bible says, the blessed is he that thirsts after righteousness, for he shall be filled. He'll have exactly what he needs. He restores my soul, he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. This is David remembering what God has already done for him in the past. He's in the deepness of the trial, he remembers what God did. He doesn't say, oh, my trial, the circumstances, the things that are around me, what am I going to do? He's not doing that. To solve the problem, Within those circumstances, he doesn't focus on the circumstances. How am I going to solve the problem? Lord, help me to solve the problem. Help me to do what I need to do to make this right. He doesn't say that. He's saying the focus we should have when we're going through a trial is not the circumstances. The focus should be on God. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. That's what we're supposed to be looking at. It says we're surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses. We need to focus, look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. When we look to Jesus, the answer will come. And another thing about that is when we look to Jesus, sometimes the circumstances don't have to change. You could be going through a health problem where there may not be a lot of hope, physically speaking, but you can look to Jesus and he might not heal the body, but you don't need the body anymore, amen? Because the soul has been restored. The soul has been made well. And the body can fall apart and it can die, but guess where you're gonna be? With the Lord, amen? And so sometimes when we look, well not sometimes, when we look to Jesus, the circumstances don't matter anymore. Because he is our all in all. If we can hand those over to him, then he will look after it. We have to remember what he has done for us until now. So what has God done for you to this point? How have you survived until now? What has God done for you? What prayers has he answered for you? What problems has he gotten you out of before? Remember those things because that's going to help you to get through the one that you're going through now. Remember the Lord. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. And after having said in his mind and spoken to himself in his mind saying, why am I so discouraged at this point in time? The Lord is my shepherd. He restores my soul. He leads me in the path of righteousness. He's with me. He guides me. He protects me. He gives me what I need. Why am I like that? And then in verse four, he turns the conversation from talking to himself to talking to the Lord. And he says, yes, in our vernacular, yay. And so he's encouraged himself so much just remembering what God had done for him, that he just goes, yes, yes, this is it, this is the way out. Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll feel no evil. Why should I fear? Even when I'm walking through the valley of the shadow of death, I have nothing to fear because the Lord's with me. Amen? And so anything, when he's thought about and remembered what God did for him, he's going, yes! I don't have to fear. I don't have to be discouraged. I don't have to be down in the dumps. God is with me. And even if I was going through the worst thing that could possibly happen, then I don't have to fear because thou, Lord, art with me. You are with me. And thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. That staff, that rod, is a picture of correction. You know, where he might have to pull a sheep in line, or he might have to have a crook, you know, wear it around the neck and drag it around his, no, not that way, this way. I'm leading you in the paths of righteousness. You come this way. How can he do that? Well, you're walking on the way and you go, oh, I think I might go this way today. You know, and the shepherd says no, and something happens in your life where it's like getting the crook around your neck. And nothing works, nothing's going to work. And you get frustrated, and it's like this. And then you step and you think, why am I like this? What's so important to me? Why is this happening? Why am I being so upset about this problem? What is the problem? And we search our soul, and we search the things that's going on at that time, and we say, well, it's important to me because I want people to like me. And that person doesn't like me. And I'm really frustrated. Why does everyone have to like you? Where's that written? That everyone has to like you. And so you're gonna say, well, okay, so why do I have to be liked by everyone for? Because I think too highly of myself maybe? Because I'm proud? Because I think I am something? Lord, take that self and put it to death. And you know when we do that and we give it to the Lord, the frustration goes away. Because it doesn't matter anymore. You understand? And why am I getting frustrated when that person cut me off on the street? Because I shouldn't have to be cut off? Doesn't he know who I am? You have to give that to the Lord, amen? That's pride there. It should always go my way, That's pride. That's actually sin, the singular sin, sin within us that says, I am, and it has to be done my way. Right? So we have to give that to the Lord. We have to give it to the Lord and understand that frustration is God kind of putting that crook around our neck and saying, it's not going to work when you go that way. It's not going to work. You're going to be frustrated. Your soul's not going to be quiet. And then he says, come this way. When you give it over to the Lord, and you come that way, and go with him, and then the frustration departs. Thou, Lord, thou, preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. God's gonna give me the victory. Those people might be against me. Well, that's their right. If they wanna be against me, that's okay. There's nothing I can do about that. I can't change their heart. I can't change the way that they are. Lord, I give them over to you. I know that you're going to prepare, because I'm with you and I'm walking with you and you're with me, you're going to give me the victory. I don't need to be liked. It doesn't matter if those enemies are against me. You're going to give me the victory. You've prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies. They'll anoint my head with oil. My cup runneth over." And here was this, when he's excited in his mind about what God has done for him and he says, yes, I don't need to fear anything. I don't need to worry about anything. I don't need to be in the doldrums over this. My cup's running over. Just remembering what God, who God is and what he's done for me. And I'm all of a sudden encouraged. And when I get encouraged, In verse six it says, this is the exclamation that he makes and the decision that he makes in his life. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And he doesn't say good things. You understand that? He doesn't say good things will follow me all the days of my life. I'll always have good things. It'll always go my way. No, it says goodness. The goodness of God will always be with me. The mercy of God will always be with me all the days of my life because the Lord is my shepherd. And the decision that he makes, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. This is how we encourage ourselves. This is how we get the victory in the trial. We have to pause and consider who God is and what he's done for us. Then we have to pray, Lord. And notice he doesn't ask anything. He just talks to God at that point. He's not saying, Lord, deliver me from the problem. He doesn't say, Lord, get me out of this. He just says, Lord, I don't have to worry about it anymore. It's all gone away. It's so good. I'm just so excited about knowing you and knowing that you're with me that my cup, It's just running over. All of a sudden I'm encouraged. I can get over this, I can get through this. Lord, I will serve you all the days of my life. I'll be in the house of the Lord forever. If we go to 1 Samuel again, 1 Samuel 30. 1 Samuel 30. It says in verse 6, at the end of verse 6, it said, and David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. And David said to Abiathar the priest, in verse 7, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod, and Abiathar brought hither the ephod to David. And David inquired of the Lord, saying, shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. So David went, he and the 600 men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. But David pursued he and 400 men, for 200 men abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat. And they made him drink water, and gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him, for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water three days and three nights. And David sat under him. "'To whom belongest thou and whence art thou?' And he said, "'I am a young man of Egypt, servant to the Amalekites, "'and my master left me because three days ago I fell sick. "'We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherithites "'and upon the coast which belonged to Judah, "'and upon the south of Caleb, "'and he burned Ziklag with fire. "'And David said to him, "'Canst thou bring me down to this company?' "'And he said, "'Swear to me by God that "'They will neither kill me nor deliver me "'into the hands of my master, "'and I will bring thee down to this company.' "'And when he had brought him down, "'behold, they were brought upon all the earth, "'eating and drinking and dancing "'because of the great spoil that they had taken "'of the land of the Philistines "'and out of the land of Judah. "'And David smoked them from the twilight "'even unto the evening of the next day, "'and they escaped, not a man of them, "'save 400 young men, "'which rode upon camels and fled. And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor anything that they had taken to them. David recovered all. And David took all the flocks and the herds which they had drove before those other cattle and said, this is David's spoil. And so we see David, in encouraging himself in the Lord, was able then to go on and proceed with the Lord and to get the victory in his life, and to restore all the things which he had lost. And so we see this pattern where he's in this despair because of what has happened in his life, and he just thought, there's nothing I can do, what do I do? He encouraged himself in the Lord, and then he asked, after he encouraged himself in the Lord, then he asked, Lord, what do I do? He didn't make a decision when he was in the doldrums, he made a decision when he was on the high with the Lord, when he was up and encouraged in the Lord. And I don't know if you've ever heard, like I've been talking about being angry, being angry and frustrated. And those things which you, that frustrate you and make you upset, you know, why do they make you upset? Why do they make you upset? Well, I've heard people say, well, I have righteous anger against that person because of something that they did. Ever heard anyone say that? Righteous anger. There's no such thing. The wrath of man Worketh not the righteousness of God. That's what the Bible says. Worketh not the righteousness of God. So you can't say, I have righteous anger. Because you're not righteous. I'm not righteous in myself. You're not righteous in yourself. There's no righteous anger. You get angry because something didn't go the way you wanted it to go. Well, that person should do the right thing. Why does he have to do the right thing? Why does he have to do the right thing? Why are you the one that has to make him do the right thing? You can't leave that to the Lord. You have to get angry for his sake, that he's done the wrong thing. This is why the Lord teaches us to pray for our enemies, forgive, to do good to our enemies, that the Lord might be able to use that goodness to bring them to repentance. And so we have to be careful when we get into a situation and you might feel all justified. I'm so right that I can be angry here. I'm allowed to be angry because I'm right. No, no. That's not right. The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. It's never right to get angry. Never right to get frustrated. Okay, so why am I getting angry? Why am I getting frustrated? What is the thing that's making me that way? What is the situation that's causing me to be upset? I need to judge that situation. I need to say, what is it Lord? Why am I angry? Why am I reacting this way? What's so important to me? And then when we find out what it is, we have to say, Lord, it's yours. I need you to take this. I obviously can't handle it. I can't handle this thing. You might want to be in control. You know, people like to be in control of things. And if it doesn't go their way, they get upset. Maybe you can't handle being in control. Maybe you can't handle being in control. So if you can't handle it, Let it go. Don't be in control. Let it go. And so we need to look to the Lord, seek the Lord in those moments of temptation and trial and tribulation. When we're frustrated, when we're upset, when we're down in depression, we need to be thinking. Lord, you're with me. You're my shepherd. You have done great things for me. You've answered my prayers in the past. You've helped me to get through a lot of things in the past. I know that you can do it, and I don't need to worry about it anymore. Lord, you can do this. You can deliver me from this. You can give me the victory. I can be encouraged in the Lord. My cup can run over. Because I'm trusting in you. And then saying, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I'm going to do everything. Anything that God wants me to do, I'm going to do it. And then you can say, Lord, what is that thing? What have I got to do? Do I have to humble myself and maybe apologise myself? in this situation? Do I have to restore something to someone? Do I have to make peace with somebody? What do I have to do? Whatever you want me to do, Lord, I'll do it. And allow God to do that work in you. I think I've told this story before in the past, but we had a neighbor that complained about our dog. It was a long time ago. I'm talking about 20 years ago. Not now. Up here. And I got a letter from the council saying, if you don't control your dog or you don't stop your dog from making a lot of noise, you're going to get fined. Oh, boy, was I angry. I was so angry. I was sitting there cooking in the kitchen, and I'm sitting in the lounge, and I've got this piece of paper, and I'm just imagining this person's neck, you know? Just scrunching this piece of paper, and I'm thinking, I was going to the Bible college at the time, you know, so I was still young and I'm going to, I can't believe I knew who it was, you know, I just knew who it was. So I'm there on the lounge and I'm thinking to myself, what do I do, what do I do, you know, this kind of stuff. And then I realised it's not about me and what I want, it's about what the Lord wants and what should I do. And I came into the kitchen and I said, you know what I'm going to do? You know, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go over there and I'm going to apologise. So I went over there and I knocked on the door and the lady of the house answered the door and I said, did you guys complain about my dog? And she went, hang on a second, I'll just get my husband out the way. And her husband comes out and I said, did you complain about the dog? And he said, yeah, we did. And I said, look, I've just moved down here to Sydney from the country to go to Bible college and I want to go into the ministry and I'm not here to cause any problems and I don't want to try, you know, be, you know, be like a pain to anybody. I'm trying to do the right thing and I just want to say sorry for the dog. And we're going to try and quiet that up and, you know, get control over it and stuff like that. And they said, oh, okay. Would you like to come in for a cup of coffee? I was just going, what happened then? God just made it all right. But I was so angry. Why was I angry? Because it hit my pride. Someone complained about me. Someone complained, and not just complained about me, complained to the authorities. Don't you know who I am? You know, I'm called by the Lord to go in the ministry and stuff like that, you know, can't do this. And I had to get myself out of that by saying, well, what's going on here? Why am I so upset with this? And then when we sorted it out, it was all, It all got solved. Now, that doesn't mean that you could go in there and apologise and the person says, and so you should, now get lost. That could happen. But at least you can say, well, I did the right thing. Amen? I didn't grab him by the neck. I mean, that's always a good place to start. And so this is, the Lord wants us to encourage ourselves in the Lord. and to do the right thing. He's going to lead us to righteousness and you might be here this morning and maybe you've been been a little frustrated, a little tense about things and stuff like that, well then just come to the Lord and say, Lord, why am I like this? Why is this so important to me? Why am I willing to just burn everything that's around me and hurt the people around me for this thing? Why is this so important to me? And then just give that thing to God. Hand it over to him and say, I don't want it anymore. I can't handle it. I can't handle that thing. I need you to take it. and maybe God will change your perspective in your life. And so we need to pause, we need to pray, and then we proceed. Amen? Don't act in your anger. Stop. Think about it, pray to the Lord, and then proceed. Let's pray. Father in heaven, would you thank you, Lord, for your word. Would you thank you, Father, for the example of the King David and how he dealt with different trials and tribulations and the things that he said in his own heart and own mind. For, Lord, you called him a man after your own heart. And so then we find in the Psalms, your heart, the things which were going on in his mind and in his inner man. They're the things, Lord, that you want us to do and you want us to remember. And so we pray, Father, that even this morning, Lord, that when we leave this place, that even though the things may come into our life and try to distract us from doing Your will, Lord, we pray that You would help us to remember, to remember what You've done for us, to remember who You are, and to let You have the control, and to hand that over to You and to allow You to lead and to guide and to do What we cannot do and so father we ask so that you would That you would do your work in our heart and make us to be more like the Lord Jesus Christ That you might get the glory out of our lives. We pray in Jesus name. Amen