Well, good evening once again. Praise the Lord. We are able to gather in such a way. We are so grateful, so thankful, and blessed to be able to be together tonight.
My charge, basically, is to try to convey in some way the burden concerning what we would like to share at this conference this year. So, let us have a word of prayer.
Lord, as we come to You tonight, what really counts, what really matters, is what is on Your heart. And, Lord, we want to enter into that. We want to be a part of sharing Your heart, Lord, and being responsible and carrying out Your will.
So, Lord, we ask for special grace tonight. We are tired, but, Lord, You are the One who can quicken our bodies through the work of the Holy Spirit. That quickening work, Lord—quicken our spirits tonight. Lord, quicken our souls. Quicken our entire being, that we may be alive to the Holy Spirit. Lord, awaken us. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Well, brothers and sisters, I would like to start with a scripture out of Isaiah 21:11.
The burden of Dumah.
One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?
The watchman is calling out, “What of the night?” Now let us read Mark 6:45-51.
And straightway He constrained His disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before Him unto the other side to Bethsaida, while He Himself sendeth the multitude away.
And after He had taken leave of them, He departed into the mountain to pray.
And when even was come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and He alone on the land.
And seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them, about the fourth watch of the night He cometh unto them, walking on the sea; and He would have passed by them.
But they, when they saw Him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out:
For they all saw Him, and were troubled. But He straightway spake with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
And He went up unto them into the boat; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves.
As our brother said, the theme for this conference is the passing of the torch of the testimony. I believe, and I think we believe, this is the word of the hour in which we live.
This story that we see recorded is really a prophetic word of the hour in which we live. It was the fourth watch—the fourth watch of the night, the darkest part of the night before the sun was to break. The fourth watch is from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. It is the darkest hour before the sunrise, before the day dawns. Prophetic, I think, of the hour in which we live.
Is it not a dark night? Is it not getting darker, brothers and sisters? The book of Revelation shows us what lies ahead in the fourth watch. It is the darkest hour because of the resistance of the adversary to the Lord’s testimony on this earth.
There is great resistance, and the hour is dark. But praise the Lord, the day is about to dawn. The Lord is about to come, and that is what we look forward to.
But we find, for us, that the wind is contrary. Is it not? We find ourselves rowing against the wind. It is difficult to stand for the testimony of Jesus in this hour, for there is much resistance to His testimony, particularly His corporate testimony in the Body of Jesus Christ.
And we find that the disciples were rowing. With all of their might, they were rowing, and they were tired and exhausted—probably to the point of exhaustion and ready to give up. And then the Lord appeared.
Brothers and sisters, is this not true of the hour in which we live? Right before the Lord comes, we are tired. We have been sharing in the Lord’s testimony all these years, carrying that torch.
He has shown you, brothers and sisters, His eternal purpose. That purpose grabbed my heart many years ago. Has that purpose grabbed the heart of many here tonight? I am sure it has.
He gave us revelation of His heart counsels. He gave us revelation that we are not just individuals trying to share the testimony of Jesus, but that we are part of the Body of Christ to be a testimony of Jesus—not only a testimony, but the fullness of the testimony of Jesus—that the torch would burn brightly and be strong.
He has shown us His great desire to have a house to dwell in, to dwell in the midst of His people. That has been His heart. He has been showing us that all of these years.
He has desired His army. In Ephesians 6, the church is the warrior. He has desired this army, which would stand on this earth for His will to be done—stand in prayer, having done all, to stand.
And finally, brothers and sisters, has He not shown you His great desire for His bride? Oh, how He longs and yearns for His bride to be made ready, to be His companion throughout eternity, and to share in all that God has in store for those days which lie ahead.
He has captured you. He has captured many of you to serve Him and His purpose down through these years. But the hour is getting darker. The resistance is getting more intense.
There have been many battles through the years to maintain the testimony of Jesus, to carry that torch. It has been difficult. The wind has been contrary. And what are we going to do, brothers and sisters? What are we able to do?
We must keep on rowing. We must not stop rowing. Those disciples were rowing. They were weary and tired, and they rowed until the Lord showed up.
We need to keep on rowing until the Lord shows up. Look off unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher not only of your faith, but the Author and Finisher of His will and His purpose. We need to look off unto Him and not look at our tired condition.
Brothers and sisters, praise the Lord. We have the Victor. We have the Triumphant One. We have the King of Glory. That is Who is our encouragement, and we are encouraged to look off unto Him.
And, brothers and sisters, we must encourage one another in this hour. It says that we are not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but to come together and encourage one another, particularly as the day draws near.
Keep on rowing until the day dawns, until the Lord comes. I think that is our challenge. And this week, I hope we will be encouraged to keep on rowing.
The Lord encourages us. He said during these days, in the fourth watch, “Look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.” That is our encouragement, brothers and sisters.
I am glad we sang that song tonight: “The King Is Coming.” Indeed, He is. His return is imminent. We are in the fourth watch.
Now, I have to ask you this. It is certainly way past 3:00 a.m., the beginning of the fourth watch, which began when our Lord came to this earth the first time. In fact, I would dare say we are past the 4:00 mark, past the 5:00 mark. I think maybe we are approaching very close to the 6:00 hour—the 6:00 a.m. mark. Maybe 5:55. Maybe 5:59.
But, brothers and sisters, no matter how close it may be, He will not return until we are ready. That is the delay. That is the reason for these two thousand years of delay: His people are not ready.
He is looking for those who will stand fast with Him and whom He can look upon and say, “Yes, I need to come back. I am being drawn back.” He needs us to be ready.
Brothers and sisters, He is coming soon. I anticipate that He will come back in my lifetime. I am seventy-two, so that tells you that there are not many more years. But I can tell you, with all the sincerity of his heart, our brother Stephen, who is one hundred and one years old, is still looking for the Lord to return in his lifetime.
So we think it is very near. But we also know that He may be delayed even longer. We do not know. It is dependent on our response to be ready for Him.
For us older ones, I think we have to keep on rowing. But, brothers and sisters, if He does not return in our lifetime, it is important and necessary that the torch of testimony be passed on to the next generation.
And that is the burden for this conference. We have to keep on rowing. We cannot give up. But, brothers and sisters, it is important that the younger generations grab hold of those oars as well and start rowing.
And we are looking for that. That is the burden this year: for the younger generation to begin to row, to take up that torch of testimony.
Actually, this conference is not intended to teach us anything. It is intended that we might take up the Lord’s burden for this hour: that the Lord would raise up that next generation to carry on, and that we would not give up—that we would continue to be responsible to see that they do come along.
So that is our heart. I think it might be good if I could just give you a little history of this burden to help us get a better sense of what we think is on the Lord’s heart.
Actually, it began in September of last year, 2015. It began when our brother Stephen became very burdened about the younger generations. He shared three messages in Richmond that we entitled The Second Generation.
They were shared on the lives of Timothy, Titus, and Epaphras—Timothy, Titus, and Epaphras. You might recognize these young men. They were men that Paul brought along. Paul brought them to the Lord, and they were mentored by Paul.
Paul grew these young men up to take up that torch of testimony. They all had different temperaments. Timothy was a very timid young man. Titus, on the other hand, was very bold. Epaphras was a man of great compassion, always trying to encourage the saints, and a man of prayer.
They all had different temperaments, but what they had in common was that they had given their lives to the Lord and had given their lives to serve the Lord in their generation.
It was said of David that he served the Lord in his generation. Brothers and sisters, these young men were raised up to take up this torch of testimony.
This was the burden that came. This is the burden we began to pray about before the Lord as we gathered on Wednesday nights. We prayed consistently concerning this burden of the next generation.
At the same time, we were beginning to prepare for this conference and trying to see what the Lord wanted. Actually, at that time, we were not even sure we were to have another conference. You may think we take it for granted that we will, but we do not. And we were not sure—very unsure, as a matter of fact.
But as we continued to pray, we received two letters from younger brothers in other assemblies. They were very burdened about the hour in which we live and that we needed to be ready. They encouraged us that we should continue with a conference this year.
And it was from their encouragement that we said, “Well, Lord, maybe this is Your heart.” We began to sense that, yes, this is the Lord’s heart for another conference. He has something to say to His people.
And we began to ask the Lord, “Okay, Lord, we sense that You want us to continue this year. What is really on Your heart?”
Well, as we had been praying about this burden for the next generation, a young sister in the assembly in Richmond shared a thought with us that the Lord had given her. It really became the catalyst, I think, to confirm what was on the Lord’s heart. Let me read it to you.
It was sent to us in an email:
Ever since this topic came up of the young people and the baton, or the testimony, being passed to the next generation, I keep thinking back to the days when I ran track.
I was in the four-by-one-hundred relay for all four years in high school, and the thing that we practiced repeatedly was the baton handoff. In longer-distance runs, the handoff is not such a big deal. But in the four-by-one-hundred, it is pretty much the race. If the handoff is poor, the race is pretty much lost.
But for the handoff to be successful, the person receiving the baton has to reach full speed before the one passing the baton slows down. They basically both have to be running at full speed. Otherwise, something is lost. The transfer can still be made, but time has been lost in the race. Oftentimes, the transfer gets messy, or the baton gets dropped. And sometimes you run out of time and are disqualified because you can only make the handoff within a set distance on the track.
I guess the thing that struck me with all of this is: we need everyone, young or old, giver or receiver. We cannot slow down. The young ones may still be running to reach their peak speed, but as they run, they need the older ones to keep running at full speed and cheer them on as they come from behind: “Go, go, go, go,” until the time is just right.
They accelerate together, and the baton can be handed forward, and they can take off. We need everyone. We cannot do the handoff unless everyone is running at peak speed. May the Lord have His way in all of us in our midst.
And we prayed. We prayed. We took that up as a real word from the Lord about passing the torch of testimony.
We had a family meeting in Richmond concerning the Lord’s burden. During that meeting, another young sister had something to say that I think sealed it. Let me read what she said.
It has been amazing. Stephen, through his messages on Timothy, Titus, and Epaphras, and how Paul mentored them, showed us what is so deeply on the Lord’s heart. It has been amazing as we have been praying to the Lord about this. The Lord is bringing this burden to birth, and the Lord wants us to be faithful in bringing this burden to birth.
And I think that sealed it, brothers and sisters—this burden from the Lord. Then we actually met with representatives from the other assemblies that sponsor this conference, and we came away with one mind and one heart that this is indeed the burden of the Lord.
And so we wanted to share that. Do you know that I do think this is a burden for the hour in which we live? Those older ones are going to have to keep on rowing. The younger ones are going to have to take it up.
I thought tonight it might be helpful and encouraging, hopefully, if I shared a little bit of personal testimony. I well remember in my life when I took up the torch, and I thought it would be helpful to share with you tonight concerning this burden.
You know, the Lord touched my heart as a child. I was twelve years old, and He convicted me of sin. I was lying. I had been caught lying a number of times, and He convicted me.
My mother came to me and said—one of the wisest things she ever did—“Son, I am upset with you, but I am not your problem. You need to get straight with the Lord. Then you can get straight with me.”
You know, that really struck me. She left, and I got on my knees. I remember I was crying on my knees and asking the Lord for forgiveness. And the Lord met me right there at twelve years old. I knew it was the Lord. He forgave me.
Now, brothers and sisters, I was not brought up in the churches. I went to seventeen schools getting through high school, so we never went to church that much. But my mother was a Methodist, and she knew at twelve years old something needed to happen.
So she had encouraged me before the Lord. I did not even know I was saved, but I knew I had met the Lord. I knew He had forgiven me. I knew there was something different, even though I did not have the terminology to explain it.
But I went along until I was seventeen. At seventeen, the Lord brought a wonderful woman into my life. She was my future mother-in-law. I ended up marrying my high school sweetheart, and it was her mother.
I used to go to my wife’s house, and I would spend time sharing with her mother. She loved the Lord, and she would share the Lord with me. We enjoyed sharing the Lord together. She was such a living person in the Lord.
She showed me that I needed to be a disciple of the Lord. It was not enough just to be forgiven. I needed to be a disciple and to be baptized, and I was, unto her encouragement.
Then I went off to college. I got married and went to work for Lockheed Aircraft in Atlanta, Georgia, as an aerospace engineer. Life was great. I got my first job making $5,200 a year. I was on top of the world. I had a new car, an apartment, and a wife. You know, things were marvelous.
That was in 1965. In 1969, the bottom dropped out of the aerospace industry. Do you all know what happened in 1969? The first man on the moon. That is what happened.
Once they got that man on the moon, there was not a lot of engineering left. There were a lot of aerospace engineers involved. Lockheed Aircraft, the company I was with, was building the largest transport ever made at that time. Russia has since built a larger one, but I was involved in that.
I was flying on the test airplane, on the structural test airplane. Marvelous job—exciting job. But in 1969, we had done all the testing on it, and it ended.
Boeing Aircraft, another big aerospace provider, had just finished developing and testing the 727, which has been around a long time now. But at that time, it was brand new.
So all of a sudden, engineers—particularly aerospace engineers—were being laid off. Three thousand engineers were laid off from Lockheed in about a month’s time, and I was one of them.
You know, I expected to be there and live happily ever after. But the Lord had something different. He was about to change my life forever.
The way the Lord works is marvelous. Delta Airlines is based in Atlanta. I went there and interviewed a man for a job. He said, “Mr. Amon, if you want the job, you can have it.”
I was out of work. My wife was pregnant with our second child. I had just bought a new house, and I needed a job. But I said to the man, “You know, I would like to pray about this for three days.”
He looked at me a little strangely and said, “Okay.” I left. Nothing happened in those three days, so I called back and told him, “I would like to take the job.” He said, “I am sorry, but somebody else has taken that job.”
I said, “Okay, Lord, I prayed. What is going on?” But the Lord really encouraged me, and I felt very strongly in my heart that I needed to go back to Richmond, which was my wife’s hometown and also where my mother-in-law was, whom I loved dearly.
We got back there. My mother-in-law was fifty years old, and it is amazing to me: the Lord took her nine months after I got to Richmond. So I got to spend those nine months with her.
She had begun sharing The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee with me and had seen something about the church. She did not have it together yet, but she had gotten a glimpse of something marvelous, and she had been trying to share that with me—unsuccessfully at that time.
Her passing away, of course, deeply, deeply affected my life for a long time. But she is my spiritual mother, I always say. Anyway, what that did was give me a hunger for life.
My mother-in-law was full of the life of the Lord, and I saw that. I was hungry for what she had.
I was in the Baptist church at the time, teaching in Richmond. Eventually, I began teaching there as well. Boy, I was into the doctrines. I studied them quite a bit.
I never went to seminary—“cemetery,” as Dana called it—but the Lord was teaching me a lot, and I was really interested in this thing called union life.
But a marvelous thing happened. Kenny Pittman came into my life. There he is over there, the one who did the announcements. At the time, I was twenty-eight and Kenny was twenty. Kenny was a young man. We met at work.
Kenny was working in the summers for the city of Richmond, and that is where I had gotten a job. The first time I met Kenny, I talked to him a little bit about the Lord, and he was not very responsive. I finally asked him whether he believed in the Bible, and he said, “No. It is all just written by men.”
I said, “Okay.” The next summer, he showed up, and I was going over into his section one day. I saw him sharing the gospel with somebody.
I said, “Well, Lord, this is amazing for a man who does not believe in the Bible.” So I went up to him, and I do not think he remembered me. I said, “Young man, do you believe in the Bible?”
He said, “Every word.” I said, “Do you believe in the Bible?” He said, “Every word. Every word God-breathed. Everything is from God.”
I said, “Well, I believe that. I believe that.” It was an amazing time. I was naturally drawn to my brother.
He was saved in an Assemblies of God church. They believed in the gifts and all those things that we dared not touch in my fundamental Baptist background. We would not even look at the book of Acts. It scared us to death.
But Kenny was speaking in tongues and all these things. Yet I could see the Lord in my brother. So we would meet every day at lunch, and we would get together and have fellowship. It was marvelous fellowship together, just around the Lord.
One day, not very long after I met him, I shared with him the book The Normal Christian Life. He came back so excited one day. He said, “Jerry, it is Christ, isn’t it? It is all about Christ, isn’t it? The Christian life is Christ, isn’t it? Christ is the center, right? Christ is everything.”
I said, “Yes, brother.” He had seen the Lord in a new way. It altered his life. It altered my life because I had been pretty steeped in the doctrines but was lacking in the life.
As I saw my brother, my eyes were opened. I said, “Lord, You are far greater than I ever imagined. How immense You are. You are the center of everything. You are the center of God’s heart.”
Brothers and sisters, that revelation to Kenny was passed on to me through my younger brother, for which I am so grateful to the Lord. He had opened his eyes to see the immensity of Christ, and mine as well.
The Lord had joined us in a unique way in that special privilege of knowing and having revelation from the Lord together. I was deeply affected by that, and I think it altered Kenny’s life and mine forever.
As we continued to fellowship, we began to realize that God had some purpose—some sense of destiny, something He might be calling us to, something to do with this testimony.
I happened to hear, not too long after that, about a Chinese brother who was coming to Richmond once a month. I was curious, really curious. I said, “I wonder if this man happens to know Watchman Nee.”
Now, how many Chinese are there? Two billion? I do not know. But the odds were pretty slim, you know. Anyway, that was my curious mind. The Lord put it there. I could not resist.
I said, “Kenny, what do you think? Should we go and hear this man?” He said, “Sure. Let us go and hear him.”
Oh, brothers, we had marvelous times in those days. I remember before that happened, Kenny took me to some meeting where I walked into the house, and a man laid his hands on Kenny and me. He said, “I prophesy over you two young men: you will be walking together and serving the Lord together for the rest of your lives.”
It is true. I had not experienced anything like that, but it was prophetic. I am thankful to the Lord for that night.
But anyway, we went to hear Stephen for the first time. Now, this is very interesting because, as I told you, I was very doctrinally oriented and had not really ever looked into the book of Acts.
But the Lord had begun to put a question in my heart. It was kind of a strange question for most people: “What is the church? What is the church?” That was my question.
I looked at what I was involved in. We had the pastor, we had the deacons, and we had all the New Testament order there. But something did not seem to be right.
We were well organized, and we were greatly involved in sharing the gospel—which is all good—and supporting missionaries. But still I said, “Lord, what is it? What is Your church?”
Well, I went to hear Stephen. Guess what he shared on? The book of Acts, chapter 1—the birth of the church.
I was thinking, “The birth of the church? The church is born? Really? I thought the church was just these deacons all getting together and forming this organization so that we could share the gospel.” Really, that is the way I thought.
But I found out the church was born. It was birthed at Pentecost. It was real. It was alive. When our brother said that the church is a living organism, not an organization, that is when it clicked.
I said, “Lord, I see it: the living Body of Jesus Christ. I have missed it. Wow, how far we have fallen short of what Your church is.” It is a living thing, organic in nature. It is Christ.
I was amazed. That turned my life around. Kenny saw it that night too. Once again, we found our lives being altered, and we were together. What is the church? Oh, it was an amazing thing.
There was a group of sisters where Stephen would come and meet. There were, I think, five sisters and some others who would come whenever Stephen came down from the University of Richmond.
They would also meet on Sunday afternoons and worship together and pray. So we started going there on Sunday afternoon as well. We still went where we had been going, but it was amazing.
It was the first time I had ever worshiped the Lord corporately. I enjoyed it so much. Just like tonight—just worshiping the Lord. You know, after you do it for many years, you can kind of take it for granted. Do not. It is a precious thing.
It was just a marvelous time. I do not know how long it was—a few months after that—some other things happened in the little Baptist church I was in.
Actually, they caught one of the teachers smoking. You could not do that. That was one of the rules. They came around and said, “We want all the teachers to sign a covenant.”
You had to believe Jesus was the Son of God, that the Bible was the inspired Word of God—all the good stuff. They also required that you be premillennial, which I was at the time. But there were other things: you could not drink, smoke, dance, or go to movies.
So they brought this around to me. I had been listening to all this living stuff that the Lord was doing, and all of a sudden I saw this thing and said, “What is this?”
They said, “Well, Brother Jerry, all the teachers will be required to sign this. Do you have any problems with anything here?”
I said, “No. Well, I have gone to a movie a few times.” They said, “Well, was it a good movie?” I said, “Yeah, it was a good movie.” So they said, “All right, all right.” They let me pass on that one.
But they wanted me to sign. I said, “I cannot sign this.” Now, I had not planned this at all, but the Lord brought it to my heart: a Christian only has one covenant. It is a covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ, signed in His blood. That is the only covenant in which we can live.
I said, “We cannot have other covenants. I just cannot sign this thing.” So they said, “Well, okay, Jerry, can you teach one more Sunday?” I said, “Well, yeah, sure.” But they did find a substitute.
Then the Lord spoke very clearly to me through a sister in the Lord. She was not saying this to me directly. It just came up in one of our worship times, and it came out something like this: “When you are not certain as to what to do, follow the ark.”
“When you are not certain about what to do, follow the ark.” The Lord spoke to me. I needed to follow the ark. And so I did leave. I left the little church, and I started being there on Sunday. We continued to meet.
As we did, those older sisters began to pray. Of course, they had been sharing with Stephen as well. They thought it would be good to have a conference.
It was somewhere in the early seventies. We had two conferences at Roslyn, which were just for adults. It was a small conference center; it could hold about sixty people.
They had felt that it would be good to have a conference to begin to share on this revelation. It was really coming at the same time as the charismatic movement—this thing about the Body of Christ. But for them, it was God’s eternal purpose.
So we had that first conference. I believe Brother Flomke and Stephen spoke at that one. Then we continued to meet for another year. We were just growing in the Lord and learning more about the Body of Christ and how the Body functioned in life. It was an amazing time.
Stephen would come down and share, and sure enough, before he came the next month, something would happen among us that applied very directly to what he had shared. So it was just so living and real.
Then they decided to have the second conference. This time it was Stephen and Lance Lambert.
Stephen shared on spiritual responsibility. Now, I want you to get this. This is what he basically said in that message:
God’s purpose cannot be fulfilled unless He can raise up those who are spiritually responsible.
That message hit me like a ton of bricks. I had been enjoying all the new truth I was seeing. It was revelation. It was exciting. It was alive. It was real, and I was enjoying every bit of it.
But that day, the Lord showed me that I needed to be spiritually responsible for what He had shown me. Brothers and sisters, what an amazing time that was. It hit Kenny as well.
I remember, in the middle of that conference, I had actually been staying at my house. I was not staying at the conference. In the middle of the conference, when the Lord spoke that to me, I said, “Lord, I am not being responsible. All these sisters are doing all this.”
I went home, got all my gear, and stayed there. I said, “Lord, whatever You need for me to handle, I will take care of it.”
After that conference, three of us brothers got together. We determined before the Lord that we would meet once a week and pray that the Lord would raise up whatever He wanted to do in Richmond, and stand for His will in raising up a testimony in Richmond.
We went to Stephen about it, and Stephen shared some thoughts with us. Brothers and sisters, that is the day that I took up the torch of testimony.
I had heard about it. I had learned about it, been excited about it, and rejoiced in it. But that day, I took up the torch: spiritual responsibility.
By the Lord’s grace, we have been faithfully meeting once a week for forty-five years. It was by His grace, but it was because He captured us. You know, that was it. He captured us with His purpose, with His eternal purpose, with His heart that He had shown to us.
Finally, He had brought us to the place where we could take up the torch, take up our spiritual responsibility. To whom much is given, much is expected. Praise the Lord.
Well, brothers and sisters, that is the burden for this conference: that those of us who have been carrying this torch would continue to carry it. Brothers and sisters, keep on rowing. Just keep on rowing. Do not give up. Encourage one another in these days.
And for those others who have not yet seen, may the Lord give you revelation of what is on His heart. He wants you also to take up this torch. His call is to the next generation to take up the torch.
Brothers and sisters, as I started this time, I said it is the fourth watch, and times are difficult. But I am so thankful that those disciples rowed and kept on rowing until the Lord showed up.
At this conference, I am hoping there are many others, particularly the younger generations, who will grab hold of the oars and row with us. Lift up that torch. We really carry it together.
We talk about passing the torch, but we continue to carry it together until either the Lord comes or we pass away and are with the Lord, and others will carry it.
But may the Lord give us this real sense of burden for this conference, and may we really pray this week that the Lord will open our eyes, that the Lord will bring us into His burden, and that we will be able to execute His burden in all of our lives.
David served the Lord in his generation. May it be so of us.
Lord, we are thankful tonight that we are not just sharing more truth, but there is something deep in Your heart that You want to see executed on this earth. We want to stand with You tonight for Your will to be done.
Give us that spirit of wisdom and revelation, Lord, that opens our eyes. Lord, I remember the blind man. You came to him and said, “What would you want?” And the blind man said, “Lord, that I might see.”
May it be so, Lord, this week. And Lord Jesus, I pray that You will really bring us to the place where we take up that spiritual responsibility of carrying the testimony of Jesus. In Thy precious name. Amen.