When you feel like giving up - Edmund Chan

Summary

In this inspiring sermon by Edmund Chan at Caboolture Baptist Church, the focus is on maintaining faith and finding strength when life becomes challenging. Through the story of a top pilot and Psalm 77, Chan encourages believers to trust in God despite trials. He shares personal stories of health struggles and emphasizes the importance of remembering God's past deeds. The sermon highlights three principles: bringing God's goodness into perspective, applying God's power to our lives, and understanding the purpose of His plan. Ultimately, the message is that we belong to God, not because of our deeds, but because of His everlasting love.

Highlights

• Edmund Chan uses the analogy of a skilled pilot to stress the need for clear vision in life's journey. ✈️
• Psalm 77 is discussed as a guide for seeking God during dark times. 📖
• Personal stories of health struggles highlight God's sustaining power and goodness. 🏥
• The sermon stresses the power of testimony in building faith within the community. 🎤
• Chan promotes a perspective of small problems when seen through the lens of a great God. 🔍

Key Takeaways

• Bring God's goodness into your perspective to see His faithfulness and compassion. 🌟
• Remember God's past deeds to draw strength during challenging times. 💪
• Trust in God's plan and embrace the mystery of His ways. 🌈
• Prayer is the key to experiencing God's mighty works. 🙏
• Our belonging to God is not about our goodness but His love. ❤️

Overview

Edmund Chan begins his sermon with an illustrative story about a top gun pilot, relating it to the need for a clear spiritual direction in life. He speaks about the disappointments and tests of faith that believers face, urging them to hold onto the persona of God during trials.

Chan delves into Psalm 77, depicting it as a spiritual compass during times of doubt and depression. He recounts personal anecdotes where despite severe health issues, his faith in God was unshaken, teaching the congregation about God's unending goodness and greatness.

The sermon concludes with the assurance that our journey with God isn't about our own merits but His profound love and ultimate purpose in our lives. Chan inspires his listeners to embrace faith not through fear or rule but by falling in love with the grace and magnanimity of Jesus.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction The chapter titled 'Introduction' begins with a warm greeting and sets an enthusiastic tone. The narrator shares a favored story about a Top Gun pilot who excelled in his class, achieving the top position. Filled with pride, he invites his girlfriend to witness his flying prowess at the Airfield. This story is intended to be instructive, possibly to illustrate themes of achievement, pride, and passion.
• 01:00 - 03:00: Story of a Top Gun Pilot A Top Gun pilot showcases his aerial acrobatics skills by executing a vertical climb in an F-16, piercing through clouds before diving the aircraft towards the ground. Just before impact, he skillfully pulls up, performing a triple somersault and various twists and turns in the sky. The breathtaking display concludes with a flawless landing, as the pilot exits the plane with pride.
• 03:00 - 05:00: Challenges and Seeking Guidance The chapter titled 'Challenges and Seeking Guidance' explores themes around dealing with challenges and the importance of seeking guidance for improvement. There is a depiction of a supportive relationship, as one character comforts another, encouraging them that they'll succeed in their endeavors next time. The chapter emphasizes the significance of understanding one's goals and being aware of what to look for in life and ministry, underscoring the ease of discussing discipleship but hinting at the complexities involved.
• 05:00 - 08:30: The Spiritual Journey and Psalm 77 The chapter explores the spiritual journey using the context of Psalm 77, focusing on how individuals can maintain their faith and perseverance during challenging times. The chapter references insights from a spiritual director named Esser, emphasizing the importance of having a spiritual compass during life's metaphorical storms.
• 08:30 - 15:00: Discovering God's Goodness In the chapter titled 'Discovering God's Goodness', the focus is on seeking God during difficult times. It references Psalm 77, highlighting the author's intention to cry aloud to God with the faith that He will hear. The chapter emphasizes the importance of turning to the Lord in times of trouble and includes a prayer asking for God's guidance in truly seeking Him during such times, concluding with gratitude in Jesus' name.
• 15:00 - 22:00: Dealing with Illness and God's Plan The chapter discusses dealing with illness and the role of faith and belief in God's plan during challenging times. The psalmist expresses that seeking the Lord in days of trouble is not in vain and implies that faith can help navigate expectations when faced with difficulties.
• 22:00 - 33:00: The Power of Prayer and God's Might This chapter explores the experience of seeking God during times of trouble. It highlights the struggle of feeling discomfort and unrest even while reaching out to God in prayer. The author expresses a paradox where thinking of God does not bring immediate comfort but instead, evokes moaning and a sinking spirit instead of refreshment and enlightenment. This suggests a deeper introspective conflict during spiritual reflection.
• 33:00 - 41:00: Testimonies and Faith This chapter delves into the struggles of deep depression and the inability to find relief, as illustrated through personal testimony. The speaker is overwhelmed by sadness and confusion to the point of being unable to open their eyes or speak. The chapter raises a question regarding the emotional turmoil experienced and the search for faith amid such trials.
• 41:00 - 53:00: Celebrating God's Glory and Love The chapter explores the theme of perseverance and seeking spiritual guidance in difficult times. It references the need for self-reflection and remembering one's faith to overcome despair. The transformation from a state of resignation to finding direction and hope through spiritual contemplation is emphasized. The chapter questions what one might learn through such introspection and connection with divine love and glory.

When you feel like giving up - Edmund Chan Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 good morning good morning such a joy being with you I will begin with a retelling of one of my favorite stories because it's highly instructive it's a story of a Top Gun pilot graduated number one in his cohort I was so proud of it he told his girlfriend you must come to the Airfield and watch me fly
• 00:30 - 01:00 you jump into an F-16 dug in on a vertical climb up punched through the clouds and he took this message and craft and implemented towards the ground just before it hit the ground he pulled up again and then did a triple somersault row twists and turns in the sky it was a fantastic display of aerial acrobatics then they came to a perfect Landing walked out of his airplane proudly
• 01:00 - 01:30 walked away with his girlfriend his girlfriend ran to him hugged him and consulted and said all right to all it's all right the next time you will be able to fly straight see if you know what to be looking for in life and Ministry we need to know what to be looking for it's easy to talk about discipleshooting
• 01:30 - 02:00 bright sunny days but when the storm clouds come when the days are dark or uncertain it's another story The persevere in joyful disciplesh this morning I will share with you from a spiritual director whose name is Esser and he wrote a song that gives to us a spiritual compass what do we do when we feel like giving up what do we do when the storm clouds
• 02:00 - 02:30 come and this is found in Psalm 77 let me begin with verse one the reason I cry aloud to God I love to God and he will hear me verse two in the day of my trouble I seek the Lord let's pause and pray and ask the daughter bless this time God teach us in the days of our trouble to truly Seek You we thank you in Jesus magnificent name
• 02:30 - 03:00 amen in the day of my problem but here's the thing the psalmist continues to say the days of my trouble I see the Lord and it didn't work it didn't help it wasn't vain in other words a circumvented an entire expectation
• 03:00 - 03:30 look at how you put it say let's continue verse during the day of my trouble I see the Lord in the night my hand is stretch out without wearing my soul refuses to be comforted verse three when I remember God I have moan when I meditate my spirit thinks now I thought he would say when I remember God my soul was refreshed or when I meditate I was enlightened no I moan and my spirit was was my spirit
• 03:30 - 04:00 of things and then he says in verse 4 you hold my eyes open I'm so troubled I cannot speak now I hope you recognize this is a statement of deep dark depression I can't even open my eyes I can't even speak I'm lost I'm confused I'm saddened and depressed now here's the question
• 04:00 - 04:30 what do you do when you are such a state and you feel like giving up for six days I say let me remember my song in the night let me meditate in my heart then my spirit meet a diligent search then comes the turning point in the Sun a pivotal change and anything we find a spiritual compass for the way forward and so we ask ourselves what did asset learn when he made that religion search
• 04:30 - 05:00 there are three things he has learned that are foundational principles for us in our pilgrimage when things are uncertain in our pilgrimage when difficulties come in the pilgrimage when we feel like giving up here's the first principle as Sir learn to bring the personhood of God into his perspective he said I mean a diligent search and then he gives five questions in three
• 05:00 - 05:30 verses and some say that these are questions of doubt I humbling back to defer this our rhetorical questions that expresses faith let's see what the questions are verse 7 will the law spurn forever and never again be favorable it's not an expression of doubt it's a rhetorical question the answer is obviously not God would not spoon forever verse 8 as it's the first love forever
• 05:30 - 06:00 sees of course not are his promises at an end for all times of course not and verse 9 has God forgotten to be gracious of course not as he and his anger shut up his compassion of course not our God is not like that you know what the southeast is doing in asking this question he was re-anchoring
• 06:00 - 06:30 afresh on the personhood of God who God is and he wrote the personhood of God into his perspective and he saw the goodness of God our God is not like that this is who God is faithful gracious compassionate the whole Theology of the personhood of God into this very perspective the goodness of God was rediscovered now why is this
• 06:30 - 07:00 important it's exceedingly important because in our times of Trials and dark days we often lose sight of the goodness of God in our different and trials that can take in to marginalize our our perspective from the goodness of God we are distracted and deceived
• 07:00 - 07:30 we have a narrowed panel vision our perspective is not Broad and inspiring a perspective is narrowing terrifying because we lose sight of the goodness of God the goodness of God is a central piece of anger in difficult and challenging things Satan knows that did you do you realize that in Genesis chapter 3
• 07:30 - 08:00 in the Temptation Of The Garden of Eden and the Fourth Man the core Temptation the chief Battleground was on this theological Foundation the goodness of God when Satan come to whisper as God said it was tested testing the word of God but the challenge was based upon the goodness of God when Satan says no that's not it I tell you the reason why
• 08:00 - 08:30 God said don't eat of the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil because he knows on the day you eat of it you shall be like God God is holding out on you God is not good enough the entire challenge was upon the goodness of God but when we are anchored about the goodness of God the joy of the Lord the
• 08:30 - 09:00 confidence in God is secured in our life about two years ago and was diagnosed with cancer and the doctors and the cleaning uh the government Hospital asked do you have any question after giving her the diagnosis she's nice they don't I don't have any questions the two or three doctors they were there were surprised they say we've never had
• 09:00 - 09:30 a patient who had no questions when when we delivered the diagnosis you have cancer no it's okay I don't have any questions I wish I have a video recorder to record at a family dining table when we broke the news to our two girls they are doubt girls now today they are 29 27 years old so they were in their mid-20s there was confident laughter at the dining table even in the wake of this big bad news
• 09:30 - 10:00 because there was a secure anchor in the goodness of God I'm thankful to say that and went for her surgery and she's recovered since because of the goodness of God suppose she didn't recover it is still the goodness of God because and God has redeemed her to change her life and we know we are going to heaven
• 10:00 - 10:30 because God has redeemed Us in the goodness of God when our eyes upon the cross of Jesus the love of God we see his great love and the goodness of God last me I had this terrible toothachness so I went to the dentist and took out the dental implant
• 10:30 - 11:00 and then then they say you know if there's any other complications come back to see me two days later the pain was still there so I went back to the dentist and the dentist said there must be a secondary source of infection so she broke around and say there's a loose molar here it's a non-functional model because there's no upper tooth to bite against so she took it out she said in 14 hours and the pain is still there or whatever
• 11:00 - 11:30 complications come back the pain was still there after 48 hours but I couldn't go back to see her I was not recovered and so in the isolation world alone with that pain it was miserable and then after coffee I had I was again hospitalized for hyponatremia loss of sodium or low sodium and it was one problem after another finally I had to
• 11:30 - 12:00 see her the pain was bad it was still there I went to see her and and she said maybe it's not an organic pain it could be neuralgia an idiopathic pain is a nerve pain so so send me to check up I have an MRI just to check concerning the nerve issue and the MRI found I can bring tumor there is a 1.2 CM Metro energyware in the biblical regime
• 12:00 - 12:30 and so that was last year and we did a series of tests and the neurosurgeon says well here's the thing you can still function and the good news I can still travel and minister why don't we wait for a year so this November in two months time I'm going for my MRI again to check on the rate of growth and then decide whether surgery is necessary or any other cause I mean any other records
• 12:30 - 13:00 but again I wish I have a video recorder to show you the the conversation around the dining room when I broke news the news to my two girls again you know Oh Daddy is diagnosed with brain tumor and the game there was laughter again it was like Daddy you use your brain too much that's why there was confidence and laughter at the dining table not because it wasn't a serious illness but because of the
• 13:00 - 13:30 goodness of God where we know that our father watches over us when we are thankful and I'm thankful that is not answerless it's benign it doesn't affect the hormonal function of the series of blood tests the digestion the respiratory functions are not affected uh when I was told it doesn't affect the eyesight because it's not pressing on the optic nerve and I could travel in register it
• 13:30 - 14:00 was like whoa the goodness of God and the wonderful thing about his goodness now is something that I don't want to do I say please I'm sorry I can't do it I have brain tumor the goodness of God when we put the goodness of God into our perspective we can give thanks regardless of the situation because God is good and so anchor upon the goodness of God
• 14:00 - 14:30 When Trials come when difficulties come because listen we all have a passing and fleeting life on planet Earth all of us one day our life will be gone but in this slide we have a tremendous opportunity to testify to the goodness of God regardless of the circumstances of life because we are not the only one facing those circumstances when you talk about cancer and tumor
• 14:30 - 15:00 there are so many others who have that problem or retrenchment or financial difficulties or relational difficulties or family difficulties of any other difficulty in life is not unique to us but what is unique to us we have a tremendous opportunity to testify to the goodness of God in spite of our circumstances we got to bring the personhood of God into our perspective that we might
• 15:00 - 15:30 celebrate the goodness of God God knows what is about and he gives us the strength and the grace to testify to his goodness that's the first principle the second principle is the spiritual Compass to our pilgrimage we must learn to bring the power of God into apply it and that's what the psalmist did he says now I will remember verse 11. I will remember the Deeds of the Lord yes I
• 15:30 - 16:00 will remember your wonders of all if you if you wonder how can I anchor upon the goodness of God in such time because my spiritual father dark spots of The Navigators he has passed away sins but but I can still remember his counsel in my life and one of the beautiful principles that they form a stable compass for my pilgrimage he said to me Edmund keep a
• 16:00 - 16:30 track record of God's track record in your life keep the track record of God's track record in your life remember the needs of God almighty because in difficult and dark days we have to learn to bring the power of God into our plight by remembering the testimony of the wonders of his grace goodness and Power
• 16:30 - 17:00 and so he says now in verse 12 I will ponder all your work and meditate on your Mighty deep Mighty days look at this the first is the Theology of the goodness of God the second is the Theology of the greatness of God I meditate on your Mighty Deeds invested in your way O Lord Is Holy what God is great like our God the greatness
• 17:00 - 17:30 of God verse 14 you are The God Who works wonders and have made known your might among the people the power of God into his blood the greatness of God one of the early days where in in my own pilgrimage where I learned of the greatness of God was many many years ago this was in the mid 80s and then I went by in college
• 17:30 - 18:00 We join an omk operation mobilization I was one of the group leaders leading a group of young people in in prayer and evangelism in our small groups in the Old Camp in the afternoon we will go out for evangelism we will distribute literature and look for opportunity to share the gospel in our testimony so I was leading this group of young people it was in surrepan Malaysia during the monsoon season
• 18:00 - 18:30 in that part of the world in Malaysia in December there are thunderstorms when it rained in pours and so you mentioned a group of young people going on for evangelism there are no apartments that give shelter it's open air if there's thunderstorm it was as it were compromised in higher Evangelistic effort the young people went over Crossing At
• 18:30 - 19:00 Large field and the Lord spoke to me son stay here to pray so I send the young people out for evangelism and said I'll be here praying for us I stood in the open field to pray I thought it was maybe like 15 minutes of prayer but you know how sometimes in prayer one can be so caught up in prayer that time passes and and it seems as if it's a short moment I thought it was like maybe 15 minutes but the young people have
• 19:00 - 19:30 already gone now do the evangelism and they're witnessing and they're coming back and the first one was come come when you come back tap me on the shoulder and say Edmond look up look at me I looked up at a shock of my life for the first time I see there was a line that crossed the heavens behind me were all the dark rain clouds in front of people all the white clouds where the young people were doing evangelism and in the place of prayer
• 19:30 - 20:00 was the dividing line between light and darkness that's the greatness and the glory of God you see you've got to understand this about prayer when we work we were when we pray God words that's why prayer is the key in a Christian pilgrimage and discipleship prayer is the key to the life and vitality of the church
• 20:00 - 20:30 prayer is the key to bring God's redempted people together to fulfill his Redemptive work because in the dependence of God above prayer when we stand by faith in prayer God works his mighty words we see the might of God we meditate on his mighty deeds and he says he will make known his might among the people one of the things I encourage the church to do I serve as a senior pastor for 25
• 20:30 - 21:00 years before I transit in leadership over the last 12 years and one of things I encourage the congregation to do is to share their testimonies because testimonies will fail we are a redeemed Community God doesn't play favorites he comes to bless us with his goodness and his greatness and it is a wonderful thing when the people of God rise up to me things
• 21:00 - 21:30 and to give praise unto His Name by their testimonies of what God has done for us so I encourage you as a people of God in your church service in your cell group if your discipleship group testify to the goodness and the greatness of God because testimonies build faith walk in that discipleship walk in the
• 21:30 - 22:00 granddaughter of their faith that love and their power because God is good and God is great don't walk complaining don't want defeated don't want this courage yes there will be things to discourage us there will be difficulties that will challenge us but when you anchor upon God everything else changes let me give you a very simple formula
• 22:00 - 22:30 the formula reads like this be God small problems small God big problems again big God small problems small God big problems your view of God will determine your approach to the problems if our God is small in our perspective our problem seems large and insurmountable but the reverse is true
• 22:30 - 23:00 when we understand God is God and we catch a glimpse of the glory the greatness the goodness of God everything else changes anger your perspective upon God enter your pilgrimage upon God is goodness and his greatness is principle number three things that help him in the time he felt like giving up in his deep dark
• 23:00 - 23:30 depression the first was learning to bring the personhood of God into our perspective that we might see the goodness of God the second is learning to bring the power of God into our plight that we might ReDiscover the greatness of God and here's the third we must learn to bring the purpose of God into our pilgrimage the purpose of God in our pilgrimage that we might ReDiscover
• 23:30 - 24:00 the glory of God how does the zombies put this well we talk about celebrating God's goodness and the personhood of God and the greatness of God and then he made a profound statement in verse 19. in verse 19 he says your way was through the sea your paths through the Great Waters get your Footprints were unseen damn it your Footprints were unseen
• 24:00 - 24:30 theologians call this the divine divineness God isn't it your Footprints are unseen it's a celebration of the Divine mystery of God you see in theology they are primarily two categories of theology there's cosmetic Theology and hypomatic theology put it in simple terms catalpatic theology is Western theology
• 24:30 - 25:00 that celebrates what we know about God so he starts with the Divine attributes the communicable attributes the incommunical attributes these are the propositional theological statements of what we know about God theology but there's another School of Theology or branch of theology that celebrates the mystery of God what we don't know about God
• 25:00 - 25:30 and that's hypomatic theology he is mysterious his ways are Beyond understanding his ways are wise and infinite and glorious we celebrate the Wonder and the Mystery of this is what the Salvation does he celebrates the mystery of God by going back to an Old Testament picture of God's power the Deliverance at the Red Sea in the Old Testament
• 25:30 - 26:00 whenever the Old Testament prophets of poiers want to declare to the the power of God very often they happen back to the imagery of the Deliverance of Moses and the Red Sea and now he used the same imagery of Deliverance of the Egyptian bondage and he says as you pass through the Red Sea as the waters are divided we see that the footprints of God they
• 26:00 - 26:30 are invisible they are unseen the Divine hiddenness the Divine mystery but this is the principle we must capture the Theology of divine weirdness is celebrated on the full canvas of divine faithfulness but in simple terms while God's Footprints are unseen his faithfulness is evident
• 26:30 - 27:00 and his faithfulness is glorious and so now they celebrate as it were of the the glory of God that he brings forth his mighty Deliverance he answers and he provides and hearing must be true of our pilgrimage and discipleship the goodness of God the greatness of his mind and the glory of the mystery and the provision of God almighty listen it
• 27:00 - 27:30 provides for you because he loves you he provides for you because it calls you he provides for you because it is God who is faithful [Music] the profession of God is a great testimony of the glory and majesty and faithfulness of the Almighty more important than the abundance the material that we should provides
• 27:30 - 28:00 we enter actually in his love and we celebrate his calling and we stand confident of his redemption in Christ Jesus our lord you see at the end of the day is a simple gospel but a profound one that the church proclaims in the name of Jesus the Bible tells us all of us are silly comes short on the glory of God everyone but the Bible says God rather so much he
• 28:00 - 28:30 sent his son to die on the cross for our sins that believing in Jesus alone for our Salvation we are saved by the goodness of God the power and greatness of God and the glory and Majesty of the one who redeems us in Christ Jesus by his sacrifice on the cross and by that sacrifice he comes to us Embraces us and say you are mine I have loved you with an everlasting love
• 28:30 - 29:00 so when we feel like giving up we realized we have a God who doesn't give up on us we have a God who holds us past them in and say I love you and when we receive the love of God and embrace and understand his love we are Anchored In His glory we are angered in his greatness we are anchored in his goodness I work close with a testimony from
• 29:00 - 29:30 Timothy Jones in this book Proof he told the story of adopting an eight-year-old daughter and this eight-year-old girl came and he didn't expect to find her so challenging I mean all he wanted to do was to give the family a great vacation and take his adopted daughter along with his other daughter to to Disney World
• 29:30 - 30:00 I mean any child would want to go to Disney World he never realized that bring a child to Disney World would be such a pain this was his story in the book Proof he said your daughter was looked after pre-adopted by a family and the family somehow could not receive her precocious nature and and so very often they will bring
• 30:00 - 30:30 their own children on vacation and on one occasion at least brought the kids to Disney World their own children their biological children but left her as a doctor girl to another family to look after and so this little girl was thinking she did something wrong she was excluded from this vacation she has seen pictures of the Magic Kingdom but as to entering the gates of the
• 30:30 - 31:00 Magic Kingdom and being there she was never good enough So eventually that family dissolved that arrangement of that adoption and Timothy Jones and his wife adopted her into the family and announced to the family we are going to Disney World unbeknownst to him this little girl eight-year-old girl started being very naughty she was still she would lie she would she would comment her elder sister as you were and
• 31:00 - 31:30 cast himself and uh and her behavior was headed back to worse when the Disney World vacation came closer Timothy Jones didn't know what to do they know what's up so-called a little girl to her and said your behavior is unacceptable and while he was chasing her she started to cry I know what you're going to do you are not bringing me to Disney World
• 31:30 - 32:00 are you and instruct him she felt she wasn't good enough that's why she was acting up that's why her behavior was like this so he said to her listen are we going to Disney World as a family she nodded are you a part of the family with tears coming down her eyes she nodded I think Joe said therefore we are doing this as a family you are part of the
• 32:00 - 32:30 family we are not leaving you behind on the first day that they were in Disney World wonderful day for the first time she entered the Magic Kingdom and joined herself every night bedtime came she had showered she was in the pajamas she hot her teddy bear she was happy and contented as happy and Tim Jones came and answer how is
• 32:30 - 33:00 Disney World she closed her eyes half a teddy bear be closer then she opened her eyes and with her baby smile she says I finally got to go to Disney World not because I'm good but because I'm Yours not because I'm good but because I'm Yours
• 33:00 - 33:30 that's the story of the Gospel no matter how challenging the times are no matter how difficult the days are no matter how uncertain the future is we anchor in the goodness of God the greatness of God the glory of God because we belong to him we are yours it's not because we are good it's because we are yo yo that's the discipleship
• 33:30 - 34:00 discipleship is not a regimental Journey have you done this have you done that the checklist the discipline no no no no the secondary discipleship is falling in love with Jesus again because in him it is not a story of how good we are it's a story of the goodness the greenness and the glory of God because we belong to him would you bow in me pray oh Heavenly Father we thank you
• 34:00 - 34:30 that we get to go into the Kingdom of Heaven not because we are good but because we are yours and we became Yours by faith believing that you sent your son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins that believing in him we might have life eternal I'm just wondering if there's any one of us here as we close our eyes about our heads is there any one of us here who haven't made that decision in
• 34:30 - 35:00 our life to open the heart to Jesus and say Lord Jesus Come into my life one day I shall be in your Magic Kingdom the kingdom of God the wonderful glorious Kingdom not because I'm good but because I'm yours and this day I want to be yours I want to receive You by faith you might be thinking how do I do that you do that by simple prayer and that praise simply sorry thank you
• 35:00 - 35:30 please oh Lord I'm sorry I'm a sinner thank you for sending Jesus to die on the cross for my sin please come into my life and save me if this is your sinful prayer in your heart you have not prayed this ever before but today this is the opportunity for you to hear the good news of God's faithfulness and you are saying For the First Time Lord sorry I'm a sinner thank you for sending Jesus on the cross for
• 35:30 - 36:00 my sins please come into my life Lord Jesus if this is the first time you're responding to God then you might come in that living relationship with God I want to pray for you if you come to a place for the first time to say Lord I want you into my life forgive my sins come Lord Jesus would you raise up your hand I want to pray for you anyone in anyone yes God sees your hand anyone else
• 36:00 - 36:30 anyone else for the majority of us who are Christians I want to encourage you into A discipleship and a pilgrimage when you truly celebrate the goodness of God capture the sense of the greatness of God and celebrate the glory of God as he walks with you to all the seasons
• 36:30 - 37:00 of life in the subs and downs if you are saying Lord I welcome you into my life I want to walk with you afresh I want to know your presence even in uncertain days or in difficult days draw me near that I might celebrate the goodness greatness and glory of God in my life if this is your desire this is your prayer I want to pray for you
• 37:00 - 37:30 would you raise up your hand let me pray for you anyone here yes anyone else and the father I pray for each one who stands upon them we desire you to walk afresh into our life that we might walk with a deep and profound sense your goodness your greatness Your Glory thank you for this in Jesus wonderful name amen God bless you thank you