Actually, I thought someone had—well, they said they thought they might have to have Anita come up and translate for me today.
I have been out of New York some time. I lived nineteen years in Florida, on the west coast in Charlotte County, near Sarasota and Fort Myers. I was part of a company down there for seventeen years, and then moved to North Carolina. It will be eight years this coming November.
I think they refer to me now as a halfback because I am halfway back to New York. But this is as far as I am going. I do not think I could go back to New York, nor do I think I could return to Florida. But if the cloud goes, I go, you know. It is just where He leads.
Heavenly Father, we are just so grateful to You once again for the gift of Your Son, the Lord Jesus—the fullness that He brings to our lives. We thank You that we are part of this wonderful family, and we have this elder Brother who is our Savior, who is our King. We are just so grateful to You today.
As we look into Your Word, there is only one thing on our hearts: that You would reveal Yourself to us, Lord Jesus, by Your Spirit; and that, in seeing You, we would be changed. This is the desire of our hearts—that we would see You. So come and show us Your face today, dear Lord, and change us. We ask this in Your precious name, Lord Jesus. Amen.
I hope the Lord does not mind if I move back here just a little bit. I want to sort of catch everybody’s eye, you know?
But the Lord, in His great love for us, really wants us to come to know Him. I mean, to really know Him. I think sometimes, after we have come to the Lord and have been in the Lord for some time, we forget that the Lord really wants us to discover Him—that He really wants to reveal Himself to us.
It is a desire and passion in His heart, maybe sometimes even more so than it is the desire or passion in our hearts. Sometimes, after we have been in the Lord for a period of time, we are just sort of going along the way.
But there is a passion in the heart of God that He wants to reveal Himself to us in a deeper and deeper way. It says in the fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel:
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
There is something in His heart. He really wants us to know Him—really know Him, really be intimate with Him. Again, in that fourteenth chapter, it says that if we have His word, He and His Father would come, and They desire to abide with us—to take up residence within us. It speaks of intimacy. It speaks of having more than just a casual relationship.
There is just something in His heart that He wants to do this, my dear brothers and sisters.
His love for us—you know, sometimes I have thought of it, and take this in the context in which I say it—He is like the foolish lover of our souls. Have you found that in your life? I have found it in my life, that He throws Himself upon me. He goes after me.
Right from the start, He was the One who was pursuing you and me in His love for us. Even when I was unfaithful, He, in this foolish love of His for us, continued to pursue me and woo me and draw me back to Him, as He has done, I am sure, in each one of your cases.
He is the foolish lover of our souls. Sometimes I have said to Him, “Lord, why do You love me the way You do? If I were You, I would have said, ‘Hit the road, Jack,’ a long time ago. I would not put up with me.” I do not know how He has done it.
He has done it because of His great love. In this wanting to reveal Himself to us, it is a revelation of His love, His care, His concern, and His faithfulness.
What a Lover we have. He is wanting to reveal Himself to us in a greater and greater way.
He desires to use every situation in our lives to accomplish this—every joy and every tragedy. He does not want anything to go to waste. He does not want anything to pass us by without, in some way, Him being in it; and that we would recognize that.
In recognizing Him in each and every situation of our lives, we might come to know Him in a deeper and deeper way. Are you aware of that?
Is the Spirit of God making me aware that, in each and every situation, whether it be joy or tragedy, God wants to reveal Himself to me and to you? Well, may the Spirit of God make us aware and make us sensitive to that. Because, on God’s part, there is nothing that He wants to waste—not one opportunity that He will pass by without somehow having us come to know Him in a deeper and more intimate way.
He wants us to know Him experientially. He does not want us to know Him just by memorization. He wants us to know Him experientially.
He wants to meet every one of our needs. Whatever need you are facing in your life today, He wants to meet that need. And He meets it in His fullness. In the fullness of Christ, our needs are met.
In John 1, these are passages with which we are very familiar, and some of them have already been read today. I was about to say, “Oh, well, hold it. I have that in what I am saying today.” But it was just God’s way, for me anyway, of confirming what was on my heart.
John 1:14 and 16 say:
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us
(and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father),
full of grace and truth.
For of his fulness we all received,
and grace for grace.
Colossians 1:19 says:
For it was the good pleasure of the Father
that in him should all the fulness dwell.
And Colossians 2:9-10 says:
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
and in him ye are made full.
This fullness spoken of in relationship to the Lord is more than merely quantitative. You know, the example given so often is a glass of water filled to the brim and even overflowing. We say the glass is full, and it is true.
But the fullness spoken of in Christ means that He fills all of creation. You might say every nook and cranny of His creation—God fills with Himself. There is no space that is absent from God. He is everywhere. He is the omnipresent God, everywhere all the time.
His fullness is really more than we can comprehend. We speak of Him filling the universe, but He fills even beyond the universe that we know. He fills all in all. That really is something more than we can get a handle on right now.
But His fullness is even more than quantitative; it is qualitative. Oh, in Him is the fullness of life. There is quality in this fullness, my dear brothers and sisters. There is nothing that can compare with Him. He is the incomparable Christ.
If we try to compare His glory to the brightness of the sun, the sun, in comparison, is like a dying ember. He is incomparable. If we want to compare the depth of the grace and love that we have in Christ to the deepest part of the seas, that is not even a comparison.
There is no comparing anything with Christ. Here is the incomparable One. He is incomparable in the way He loves you and me, and He wants us to come into an appreciation of that. He wants to reveal to us that His love is incomparable.
There is none who can match His love for you and me—neither father nor mother nor brother nor sister nor wife nor child. There is none who can compare with His love for us.
He knows the end from the beginning of your life and my life. He knows the end from the beginning of the history of all that which is going on around us. He fills it all, and He wants to fill you and me with the knowledge of His love for us.
It is full, and it is complete. In Him there is nothing lacking that you might need or I might need—nothing.
I have discovered, and I am discovering as the years go by, that God meets our needs, whatever they might be, in only one way. I do not care what need you are facing right now in your life. There is only one way God meets that need, and that is by a deeper revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any question that you might have in your life right now, or any question that you may have had—the whys of our lives—is answered in only one way. It is answered with a deeper revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4:19 is familiar Scripture:
And my God shall supply every need of yours
according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
All of your needs—physical, emotional, spiritual—they are all met in Christ Jesus.
About sixteen and a half months ago, my wife, Carol, passed away. She died of cancer. She had breast cancer. She is with the Lord now. Or, as the Lord said to me just recently, “She is just living someplace else.”
Some who have lost spouses or dear ones recently know what I am talking about. One day, after a year or so, I was sitting at the breakfast table, just weeping, and the Lord spoke, saying, “Oh, she is just living someplace else.” Oh, what a consolation.
But I remember the day Carol discovered the lump on her breast. We went to the doctor’s office the next day. She already had some premonition, but when we went and he finally said what he had to say to us, well, I just cannot tell you what that day was like. It was devastating.
We walked out of the office in tears, crying, sort of reading the death sentence in his words. We got home that night and went to bed, and she had to console me. She thought I was going to have a heart attack from the way I was crying in bed. It was terrible—terrible.
She battled that for six years. She was a wonderful saint of God, a real woman of faith and courage.
But the next day, when we got out of bed, we followed our little morning routine. We would go down and pray together, read Scripture together, read our devotional together, share a little bit, and then get on with our day.
This particular day, after that horrible night of tears and torment, we went downstairs. She sat in her chair, and I sat in my chair. I was beginning to look into the Word, and I noticed something so unusual. It was almost a little weird, if you can put it in that term.
I felt this peace—peace about me.
There was another Scripture with which we are all familiar, in Philippians:
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Over the years—and this is how gracious our Lord is; sometimes I am slow to learn—the Lord had been teaching Carol and me to come before Him with thankful hearts. We became people who were appreciative of the mercy and grace which He had shown us over the years in bringing us to Himself and keeping us to that very moment.
We were kept by the grace of God. We had difficulties in our marriage, but God kept us. We had difficulties in employment, but God kept us. God kept us. He showed us His faithfulness, and through that He gave us thankful and appreciative hearts for who He was. He was a God who saves, and He saves to the uttermost.
So we came with hearts that had been conditioned by the grace of God to be thankful people. That morning, I was sitting there and sensing this peace—this peace within, this peace that flows beyond understanding, this peace that cannot be explained.
All of a sudden, the Scripture came back to me:
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
This was my experience. I said to my wife, “Carol, it is terrible. I just feel so peaceful right now.” And she said to me, “I know.”
Like, what is going on? Why are we not crumbling under the pressure? Why are we not just swearing and tearing out our hair? We were not.
Because God meets every one of your needs and answers every why-question that you have in one way: by a deeper revelation of the Lord Jesus.
I had read about Him being the Prince of Peace, but I did not know Him. At that moment, I could say, as Job said:
I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear;
But now mine eye seeth thee.
Oh, my dear brothers and sisters, I had even shared about Him being the Prince of Peace. But that day, in my life and in my wife’s life, we knew Him as the Prince of Peace. Never again to know Him in a casual way, but to know Him specifically and uniquely as the Prince of Peace.
And that peace was not just for that moment. He remains for me today the Prince of Peace.
God wants to answer every one of your why-questions and every one of your needs in only one way: by a deeper revelation of the Lord Jesus. He reveals Himself out of His fullness.
When He meets our needs, He does not meet them in some paltry type of way. He is not stingy in meeting our needs. He gives us His best and His fullest because it is out of His fullness that we receive grace upon grace.
It is not that He just comes in some little way and says, “Well, there is you.” No, He comes in fully and completely, and our need is met in no other way. No one can meet it in a better way.
He meets us by a deeper revelation of who He is. Do you need peace? Then you need to know Him as the Prince of Peace.
He is the God of all consolation. He is the God of all comfort. He is the wellspring of the joy of His people. He is our bread and our drink. He is the very breath of our life—or should be.
He wants to introduce Himself and reveal Himself in every area of your life: through every need, through every joy, and through every tragedy. There is something in His heart that is wanting to make His way in and say, “Here I am. This is who I am.”
Sometimes, when we are praying about things in our lives, we say, “Oh Lord, I need peace. Oh Lord, You know what I am going through now. I need comfort, Lord.” Or, “Lord, You know the situation. I do not have two nickels to rub together. My bills are coming. I need Your provision, Lord.”
We pray as if we are talking about little heavenly commodities. “I need a little bit of this now.” It is like we are going through the grocery store, picking things up off the shelves. But that is not the way it is, my dear brothers and sisters.
Every one of our needs is met in Christ. Every one of our needs and every why is answered by a deeper revelation of Jesus Christ. If you are unpeaceful, it is not as if we can pray for peace as a heavenly commodity. Peace is a Person, and His name is the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you need comfort, it is not a heavenly commodity. He is the One who comforts our souls. He is the God of all consolation.
When we go to prayer and recognize these needs in our lives, they are there as an opportunity for the Lord to reveal Himself in His fullness toward us. That is the only way that you or I will be satisfied. That is the only way we will be fulfilled. It is the only way that the need will be met so that we will look nowhere else to have any need fulfilled.
Now, actually, I have said all of that just to get to what I want to talk about. It is not going to be much longer.
What I would like to share about is the testimony of the Lord Jesus.
Back in North Carolina, the brothers and sisters and I have been looking at the testimony of the Lord in the believer’s life individually, and the testimony of the Lord corporately.
Oftentimes, when we think of the testimony of the Lord, we think in those terms. Sometimes we neglect that the Lord Himself had a testimony.
When we think of the word testimony, most of us are familiar with the word. I am a cop, and sometimes when I go to court, I have to give testimony. Testimony is the attesting of a truth. It is sharing about something that you know to be factual.
Sometimes there are testimonial dinners, where one gets up and raves about a fellow—how wonderful he is, how good he is, and what a great job he has done. But it is telling facts about that particular person. It is revealing something true about that person for the sake of everyone else.
When we look at the Lord Jesus’ life and the testimony that He brought forth, I see two aspects of testimony within the Lord’s life. That is what I want to look at a little bit here.
There are two questions I want us to take home with us today and think about.
The first question is this: Are you willing to change?
I think sometimes we have to ask that question of ourselves periodically, because we have a tendency to get on a track. It takes dynamite laid across that track to get us off it. No matter where it is going, we get on this track and we are going.
There are all sorts of things that would like to get our attention and bring us in a different direction, but no, we are on this track. So are we willing to change? I think that is very important, brothers and sisters.
We have such a creative God that we serve. Are we willing to change and follow Him in whatever direction He might lead us? That is the first question. The second question will come.
When I think of the Lord’s testimony, there was such fullness to Jesus, such fullness of life. There was seen in Him such balance and harmony within the Lord’s life. It was just so beautiful.
There was no one like Him. He looked like everyone else in appearance, yet when He came into the presence of people, they recognized that He was, though so much like them, so different. There was balance, there was harmony, there was fullness of life.
So often what we see today, perhaps in our lives individually and corporately, is a lack of balance and a lack of harmony—things not really working together in such a way that we might proclaim Christ as He really is.
That is so much of what we see in Christianity today: such a poor demonstration, as it were, of the Lord Jesus. We speak about the Lord raising up a testimony for Himself that is true to His character, but we see so little of that, I think, in Christianity today.
Sometimes I have said to brothers and sisters, “Why would anyone want to be a Christian from what they see in the system of Christianity? Why would they want to?”
They look at it and say, “Why would I want to be so hypocritical? You say one thing; you live another thing. I see you in church on Sundays, but I also see you during the week—how you act on the job. You call yourself a Christian. Why would I want to be like you? At least I am not a hypocrite.”
Part of the reason is because the testimony is not true to the character of the Lord Jesus—not true to who He really is. We are portraying Him in a life that is really disparaging to Him. We call ourselves by His name, but we do not represent Him the way He really is.
We can look at our lives and at the corporate testimony, as we see it so often, and see such imbalance. People get on a track through tradition, through a certain type of teaching, or whatever it might be, and there is a slant to their lives. It is not really balanced.
You go to some places, and the gifts of the Spirit are operating. There are tongues, prophetic words, words of knowledge, discernments—all kinds of things going on. Wow, it is great. Yet, as we meet the people, there is a lack of character.
Is that not what was happening in the Corinthian church? Paul says, “You are lacking in no gift,” but you guys are a mess. Character, character.
Then you go to other places, and every once in a while you have to ring a bell and see if people are still awake. I mean, hello! They are there, singing the songs; everybody is sitting in the same seats; they are doing the same thing over and over again. We have the life—but where is the power? Where is that part of the testimony?
You go to some places where you have great teaching week after week after week until finally—and pardon the expression—we become spiritually constipated. You understand what I am saying? All this teaching—but what good is it if it is not being worked out in our lives in a real and living way? Then what good is it?
But when we look at the Lord Jesus—what balance, what harmony, what wholeness.
In John 1:1-4, we read:
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him;
and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.
John 1:14 says:
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us
(and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father),
full of grace and truth.
John 1:17-18 says:
For the law was given through Moses;
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time;
the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father,
he hath declared him.
Colossians 1:15-17 says:
Who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of all creation;
for in him were all things created,
in the heavens and upon the earth,
things visible and things invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things have been created through him, and unto him;
and he is before all things,
and in him all things consist.
These Scriptures speak of who Jesus is in His essence. This is just who He is—not merely what He does, what He did, or what He is doing. It is because of who He is.
When Christ came on the scene, He brought with Him, as it were, this atmosphere. He did not have to do anything. We read in the Scriptures that there were times when Jesus just showed up, and all of a sudden the demons said, “Jesus of Nazareth, what have You to do with us?”
He just showed up, and boom, things happened. Or He would be speaking or teaching, and people said, “We have never heard anyone speak like this. No one has ever spoken with such authority.”
It was just Jesus being who He was—the God of all creation. Everything is held together by Him. It is the essence of who He is. That is what those Scriptures are speaking of. This is part of the character of the Lord Jesus.
When He came on the scene, things happened because He was there. He brought an atmosphere of grace, mercy, love, and power. It was His almightiness that came wherever He was, in His humility.
But there is another part of the testimony. John 5:36 says:
But the witness which I have is greater than that of John;
for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish,
the very works that I do, bear witness of me,
that the Father hath sent me.
John 10:37-38 says:
If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works:
that ye may know and understand
that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.
In Luke 7:19-23, John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, “Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?”
At that very time, Jesus cured many people of diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind. It is as if Jesus said, “Okay, wait a second, guys.” Boom—the blind are seeing, the deaf are hearing; He is doing all these wonderful things.
Then Jesus said:
Go and tell John the things which ye have seen and heard;
the blind receive their sight,
the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed,
and the deaf hear,
the dead are raised up,
the poor have good tidings preached to them.
And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.
This was another aspect of the Lord’s testimony. Part of His testimony that He came from God the Father, that He was the Sent One, the Expected One, was seen in His very character and His very presence.
But He says, in effect, “Listen, if you cannot understand this, then believe the works that I do.” There was another part of the testimony, my dear brothers and sisters, that was filled with power. It was more than just His words. It was in demonstrations of power.
That was part of the witness and part of the testimony in the life of the Lord Jesus.
I think we have to ask ourselves this question: Do we have these two aspects of the testimony of the Lord Jesus in our lives, individually and corporately? Or have we settled for something less than that?
I am becoming more and more convinced that God is calling us as a people not to settle. Why should we not have this kind of testimony—a testimony that speaks of character and a testimony that speaks of power?
We need it as the church. There are gifts given to the church for the upbuilding of the body of Christ. Why are they not demonstrated? Why are they not being used? What are we afraid of? Are we afraid of letting the Holy Spirit really have His way among us?
The world needs it. The world is tired of insipid Christianity. The world is tired of looking upon a Christianity without potency, one that is really impotent.
The world needs to see power at work in the lives of believers individually and in our life corporately. They need to see these lavish expressions of the love of God—in healing, in prophetic words, in words of knowledge.
We need to see that this is the fullness, the roundness, and the wholeness of the testimony. As the Master is, so shall the servant be. What does that mean?
Are we interpreting it only in a way that is comfortable to us? Are we ready to change? Are we ready to move out of our comfort zone, as is so often said, and allow the Spirit of God to do something new, different, exciting, and vibrant—not for the sake of excitement or vibrancy, but for the sake of the testimony of the Lord?
We need something that clearly speaks of who He is. If we come to a place of settling for something comfortable for us, we have to ask ourselves the question: Are we willing to change? Are we willing to allow the Spirit of God to move through this assembly of believers right here and change us into something different and new?
Are we willing to do that? If we are not, let us be honest with the Lord and say, “We are not. Lord, change us.”
God is looking for hearts that are willing to go wherever He is wanting them to go. He is looking for people willing to say, “Yes, Lord, we want a testimony that is true to who You are, and we will not settle for anything less. Do whatever is necessary in my life and in the lives of the saints with whom I gather.”
Oh, dear brothers and sisters, I am convinced that God is calling us to this kind of outrageous demonstration of the life of God.
Now, I have very, very limited experience. There are other brothers who have much more experience than I and have been to far more places than I have been. But in my limited experience of the brothers and sisters whom I have met with over the years in different places, we have settled down.
I think the Spirit of God is wanting to stir us up and say, “Are you willing to change?”
The Lord keeps bringing me back to these questions as I look at men of God. I look at Peter, I look at Paul, and I look at some of these men of God. It seems to me that the question always comes up: Why not me? Why not us?
Why do we look at Paul and Peter and say, “Wow, that is so wonderful. Yes, the truth—oh yes, how wonderful”? But why not us? Paul was no different than you and me. I am more and more convinced of that. As far as being a man just like you and me, he was a man just like you and me.
So why can we not have the life that Paul experienced—and more? Why not more?
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 says:
And I, brethren, when I came unto you,
came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
For I determined not to know anything among you,
save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men,
but in the power of God.
Here Paul was talking to these believers. Granted, they were very carnal, as Paul spoke of them. Yet, as he came among them, he came with power.
There was the character of the Lord Jesus displayed in our brother Paul’s life, but there was also the other aspect of the testimony of the Lord Jesus: power—convincing power. Why not us? Why not you?
In Acts 3, Peter and John were going into the temple, and there was a lame beggar sitting at the gate. He had been there for years, his hands extended, wanting a coin to make his way through the day, just to get a little bread to eat. He was willing to settle for a coin.
As Peter and John were walking by and saw him, they cast their gaze upon him. The man caught Peter’s eye, thinking he was going to get another handout.
Sometimes I think that is what we expect from Jesus. We really do not expect Him to give out of His fullness to us, and so we settle for the trinkets, as it were.
That lame man sitting there would have been satisfied because that was what he had gotten all his life: just a cold coin in his hand, enough to get a piece of bread, enough to make it through the day. But God does not give that way. He wants to give out of His fullness to us.
Peter said:
Silver and gold have I none;
but what I have, that give I thee.
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.
He grabbed him by the hand, and the man started to walk. Do you think it might have changed his life a bit?
That is what the world needs. That is what the world needs. They need more than the trinkets of Christianity. They need more than just these little phrases that we give them: “Yes, I will pray for you. Be blessed,” and go.
They need more than just coming to a meeting and hearing some songs. No. The world has gotten so cold and so hard that I think that is why it says in the last days there is going to be a pouring out of the Spirit like has never been seen before, because we have become so hard and so callous.
Those who do not know Him, and even we who know Him, do not expect God to pour out lavishly upon us in Spirit. So we settle for so much less—the trinkets of Christianity.
God is saying that He wants to give us out of His fullness, that we might have a testimony true to the Lord Jesus. Once again, we could turn the world upside down, my dear brothers and sisters. Oh, we need to get hold of this sort of thing.
This, I feel, is how our testimony needs to be today: full, round, balanced, and harmonious. Would that not be wonderful? I think it would be wonderful. I know it would be. I know that is what God wants.
My other question is just that. The first question is: Are we willing to change?
That is something you are going to have to examine. You are going to have to do some real business with yourself, really being honest with yourself, honest with myself. Am I willing to change?
Because if we are not, then we will have what we have always had.
The other question is this: Should our testimony be like what we have seen in Paul’s life and in Peter’s life—more importantly, like what we see in the Lord Jesus’ life?
Every question is answered in the Lord Jesus. Every need is met in the Lord Jesus. It is by a deeper revelation of the Lord Jesus that your needs will be met and your questions will be answered.
As we take these questions home, I would encourage you to spend some time with those two questions during this week.
I think either we are not going to answer those questions because we do not want to hear the answers, or we are going to answer those questions and God will meet us, speak to our hearts, and give us direction.
So I entrust this into the Lord’s hands. I am so grateful to be among you, brothers and sisters. It has been about five years since I was here, because after Carol had been diagnosed, that first year we were not able to come to the conference for a number of years.
This year, my son Zinni and I came, and it was wonderful to see so many of the brothers and sisters from Richmond, as well as from Memphis, Dothan, and many other places. It was just so good for us.
I so appreciate you, brothers and sisters, and I appreciate the time that I have had with you today. Well, let us just look to the Lord for a moment here. And if anyone feels to pray—
I just want to thank You once again, Lord Jesus, for Your faithfulness. You are just so gracious to us, Lord. Again, I thank You for Your great love and Your keeping power that has kept us, as weak and feeble as we are.
You have kept us to this very moment by Your grace. I thank You for that.