Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon Pray To Be The Light by David McGee Page

This is a machine transcript of the sermon. It won't be completely accurate of what's said in the sermon.

What is our song. The weirdest thing about God being able, and that he is a friend. What a friend we have in Jesus. The message that I have today. The first John chapter three, and it's the the and not the entire chapter with CFR would get with it, but it's about how that we need to recognize basically who we are and are couple of thoughts wanted one night this week was don't pray, don't try away the darkness pray to be the light don't focus on the darkness fits around us and the difficulties around this focus on being the light focus on being what is good and right and in lovely. Another good report, the virtues of of the spirit that we want to think on these things because this is what we want to bring from our life. This is what we want to find in our spirit, and it is the spirit of God being alive in us that challenges us continuing through to Braun yelled at the sound. We say things about them make me what you want me to be what goals do you have in your life. What goals do you have set before you and you know college degrees in education and all the things that we we have in our life. We have all these things are before us what we want to become in him. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up and so when these things in front of us and were on were constantly becoming something were costly, becoming someone. And so, God is in front of us is he's not preoccupied. God does not hold our past against us. He holds our future in front of us. God does not hold our past against us. He holds our future in front of us and we find that with EV. The whole concept of forgiveness only got to do this, the whole concept of forgiveness is that we dispose of our past failures. Our past mistakes that we not allow the past failures of our life to interfere with our present decisions and our future life, and so with that perspective of how God wants to take us make us bring us somewhere in our life. He wants us to change. We have to change the nature with the change things in our life that were cutting Houston. We have to change things that are our ordinary that are our peculiar ways of doing things. The goblets are continuing to enhance those things continue to challenge them less like sometimes whenever darkness comes in with a darkness when problems come. It challenges us either to to see that there are there is another perspective. Besides our own and that God wants to change us in some way as we are learning to deal with different events in life while we learn and how we learn to deal with things as a resident six-year-old changes whenever were twelve -year-old what we learned five years old to handle things differs at seventeen months. What we learned at seventeen thousand work at twenty one and owners also, when do we just kind of dig our heels in and say on the ever-changing again, this is the final me that I will ever be both happy and not the more we fight ourselves to stay this rigid person, the less the less we allow ourselves to be taught. The less we allow ourselves to be led and we find ourselves isolated not the one who has to be isolated. There are no Christian islands. There are no islands that are solely relegated for Christian. Jesus takes us into the darkness of the world to be the light. Jesus takes us into the darkness of life so that we can be the light to the world around us and you see as week as we progress in our education as we progress in our understanding of things. As we progress and how they were going to develop and change them enter in and relate to other people. God is in the relation business. God is in the relation ship business if we could call the business he's in this relationship over. He wants to be a relationship with us, so that in his relationship with us. We learn how to be in relationship with others. I think the destructive character of the church in and it's because of the destructive characteristic of the church came when people thought they had it, you know, I am. I am religious, like Pharisees and Sadducees. I've got my rules in place and you have to measure up to my rules to be as good as I am in nowhere did Jesus ever do that nowhere did he ever say that your economy ever went face-to-face is aware and in battle of individuals. It was with the Pharisees and the Sadducees, challenging them to be into that they were nothing but Whited sepulcher 's, well, if you were whited sepulcher, you couldn't get any worse off than that of Whited sepulcher is in the Jewish culture Hebrew that you painted tombs, white, because you didn't want to touch them. It was it was considered unclean to touch to where someone was buried, and rightfully so. Thirty came in the bacteria and all that stuff going on inside you want to be have your kids and people plan around that the two. While here, Jesus called them why did sequiturs fill the dead men's bones. They were the very thing that they were professing they were living the things that they were challenging falling everybody else down for they were living Jesus, challenges and change and growth move, so it is in this passage. What marvelous love the father has extended to us. If you if we just can't say this if we could just for a moment pot find that quiet place in our spirits, in our minds. That's focused on God, and that in that quiet place. Open our hearts to be receptive of God 's divine love, meaning that he loves you for who you are not which is done. He doesn't hold anything back because of what you done or did he is his love, then just pours into our life, because he loves us. The marvelous love the father has extended to us the marvelous love that God has extended to us. We are creatures preparing our hearts and our minds. He is preparing us for tomorrow what God is at work with in our lives is preparation. Preparation for Watford tomorrow wanted to just fourth-grade what you preparing our kids for a UK for fifth grade, and you prepare them for life. She's preparing them to the huge thing in some announcement enough, the competent prepared for the test while in our life with God. It's more than just ending up dead and standing for God and punishment. Now, the good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to hell now. So that's all God 's interested in preparing you for eternal judgment. Now God 's preparation for us is that he wants us to live in the fullness of our relationship with him. The life is about a relationship of your never relationship in life, you're pretty lonely and you have chosen to isolate yourself you have chosen to allow life to separate you from other people, and God that his choice is that good. Not that you be separated from other people, but to be in relationship with other people that we separate ourselves from Santa. The reason God wants us to separate ourselves from sin. Sin is destructive sin destroys the good that God has that one guy was to bring out in our life. The things that are wrong with us in the failures of our life separate us from God, and separate us from other people. When people find themselves in isolation. That's when the finds no hope, and they find themselves sinking in a deep hole in which they don't feel there's any way out. God never created a whole. God doesn't want us to live in the back Q you want to us to be separated somewhere, you know that he is totally absent from the lives of other people you look at the life of Jesus. He didn't go in hiding the synagogue it within the house of centers it with the people who were considered outcasts of the society he went where the religious people said he shouldn't go. And God is coming to the those people use coming to loss is coming to all of us in what he tried to do some marvelous love that the father has extended to us that he is allowed to God wants to bestow this blessing upon our lives because we are his children and in that blessing to be pistols upon our life is not only to challenge our hearts and melt our hearts and mold our spirits, but it's also to touch the above, the life around us the fruit of the life around us in the Sunday school lesson. It spoke about how that when the children of Israel were to live their life before God. It would produce a fruitfulness in their land that their land would be able to grow crops because of their relationship with God, and this was in direct contrast to the Canaanites who would offer their children as sacrifices to the God of the harvest, so that they would have a good harvest and then the big Commandments overstating don't do that don't accept the false religions of the Canaanites and don't keep the culture of the Egyptians change it the Commandments of God were given to protect and to provide and so God 's laws come into our heart to protect us we can be programmed are protecting ourselves from evil and from destruction because there is there is this piece of God, and nurses love of God that is run my life. I don't need to fight for my life. I need to allow God to live my life that do allow God to live through my life. What marvelous love the father has extended to us. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love is not placating sin. It is allowing us to look beyond the faults of people and look beyond our own faults and recognize the value that we have in the value that other people have that era. There are things of value all around us. As things of value inside of us. We haven't begun to tap this download of God that allows us to see those things of value. If the love of God that allows us to value the little things that mean so much in our lives. God tells us who we are we. We call it. Just look at it where called children of God. That's who we really are. We are called children of God. That's who we really are. Who are you I am a child of God. What makes you a child of God. He does see I am a child of God. I am a a a a his child, and as his child. I have entitlements entitlements, I'm entitled to be loved. I'm him will be forgiven. I am entitled to allow the blessing of God flow into my life. I think because I belong to God he created this place in his Avenue blessing flows into my life into our life, our self-worth is based on who he says we are. He says I am his child. Therefore, as his child. I have I'm joint heirs with Christ. That was the inheritance of Jesus Christ becomes my inheritance, estate, so that's it. We really are, but that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously that the world does not take seriously the church does not take seriously the Commandments in only laugh at them as if they are make believe what rules they you may you believe in a make believe God you believe in make-believe worlds you believe in people who can raise the dead to raise himself from the dead, you believe in his words that he created the universe. He believes all the things they don't take us seriously. The challenges for us to take ourselves seriously as God takes us as a story illustration about the formalities as an illustration for monkeys were placed in a pin large pin hole in the middle and bananas a thought to whether the monkeys do. The ball what happens when I get up, we dump water on your allow them to get the bananas certificate, partly if we dump water on and off for then learned that you don't go up the pole because cooked fully good water dumped on you like to forget those bananas is not that they're off-limits not go there. So when they do they take one monkey out, bring in another month or the other three do would let the fourth one like that. What Paul because the new one. There was brought in, never got wet, going up the pole. The other three kept him from going up with and what they do, took out one of the original. Now there are only two that it endows with water to the never been doused with water, but they kept that wasn't going up the pull and eventually they exchanged all the monkeys that had been doused with water. They exchange it for other ones, and then they added their lines into the group and no one in the group had ever been doused with water going up the pole and no one in that group would go up the pole begin know why, which can't what's pull his sheet in our life, we look at sometimes our faith from a discrediting position from a worldly position that almost like me, you need, God can help me God can forgive me in and out and a society. Our society has made gone out to be something that he is not, and we allow sometimes those thoughts. The filter over into us. They have no basis in our experience, and no basis in the Scripture, but we still believe them. We still act on them as if they were real and God is telling us what the truth is, and that he is allowing his love to connect your hearts alive to take us to lead us down this path and the path that we are on our life is falling together, not falling apart. Our life is coming together. What about that doesn't matter about what about that God is in charge, and God will see me through, and God will take these things that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called to his divine purpose all things work together for good. So the puzzles on our life in the pieces of my life are fitting together. What do we do my life is falling apart sky is falling to tell everybody, the world of falling ill on the Internet, there is somebody had to think United States will be gone in another gear and know how the guitar will fail but were the worst is yet to come. But you know what our society and our world are headed towards the end of time that is going to come, but where does it say that God 's people are to be in fear of life of death of events of problems. Nowhere he gives us peace in the midst of the storm. When Jesus is asleep in the boat with the disciples crossing the sea, and they are afraid of the boat is going to sink. Jesus is laying about. This is a boat that has the cabin and no ill motor in the back and all that. This is an open vote L fishing boat that Jesus is there, sleeping in the back of the boat seems at peace in the midst of the storm and the disciples are afraid that the boat is not a saint, and so when they do they will wake up Jesus in town. Don't you care that we perish. And that's the same mentality that the world brings into this relationship with his non- relationship of existence, and they are saying .uk world is falling apart. Don't you care about disasters don't you care about these things. Everything is an opportunity. Everything is an opportunity to see the hand of God working lives because we don't hold to the sky is falling we know that God is at work. God is helping us. God will give me strength as my day is social my strength be in whatever difficulty, I find myself in the love of God, the relationship with God is my anchor in anchor will hold the ship in place that doesn't mean the seas are going to call there are troubled seas, but that that's not the problem were anchored in the anchor of our life is eternal, the anchor of our life is based on God 's love for us and God keeping his word that God will honor what he is said to us, and so as we enter into this relationship as we enter into this place or we allow God to flood filter into our hearts and minds. It enables us to take our next step when did God ever tell us we have to blindly step. He never did the steps of the righteous man ordered by the Lord that God will shine the light upon our path. He is a light to our path never does the endeavor in all of the Scriptures of the callous death. The walk in darkness, we awesome. We always walk in hope. So we take our next step, knowing that we are safe in the step because that's all I need to know is unsafe when I'm on the path about in the storm. Some of us had on the on an e-mail that they were so glad for the rumble strips along the side of the road in the concrete because the storm was so severe they couldn't see where they were going, but they could tell when they were going off the edge of the road as they could feel the bumps on the rumble strips and how that battles rumble strips I'm on the road, even when they couldn't see. And so we know what our spirit God is keeping us on the road, you know, I can't see all the things were going around. We know that God is in charge in God 's work and he will see me through. God will take me to where he wants me to be because he has a purpose for my life and my life is off course because God is with me, he will never leave you nor forsake me, he will not abandon me so what is got up to this second part of the verses, but that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously because it has no idea of who he is and what he's up to. So what is got up to was brought up to what impossibility does he want to do things. One possibility gelatin possible for a bumblebee to fly is not coming in and rescue are too smarter just kidding it impossible for bumblebee to what fly why Martin, the body is too big. Its masses too big for its wingspan is impossible for a bumblebee to fly nobody told the public that no one explained that to the bumblebee. So when someone is explained to you that you can fly that you can't achieve this and you can't do this because and it will list the talents and the lack of the education or the lack of enabled lists all the things that could be presented to you. Besides, you can achieve this, but in your heart you know that this is where God wants me to go so we can start going in that there knowing God will see us through. So what is got up to while the friends that exactly who we are children of God, and that's only the beginning. Who knows how we'll end up easy. We are in the process of becoming. We are in the process of becoming an endless process of becoming God is at work changing my darkness to light, giving me hope for. I felt I was hopeless that giving the direction when I thought there were there was no direction in the snowstorm and in the small that it whenever I find myself walking through the valley of death. The shadow of death, the Valley of transition from one place to another one I found find myself walking through the valley of transition. God is with me to be my rod and staff my protection. My guide and see what is got up to what we don't know where were going to end up way down. Now, where were going to end up, but we know, I know this, we are safe as we take our next step. Exactly what I need to be because God is with me as I take my next step. Now I don't know where I'm going to end up, but I know that I'm going to get there by the grace of God abundant mercy of God and that God is going to do a work in me that he wants to accomplish and what he wants to accomplish in my life will have an effect on eternity. So who knows where we'll end up what we know is this, that when Christ is openly revealed. We will see him, and in seeing him we will become like him. When Christ is openly revealed. We will see him and we will become like him. Christ is openly revealed the revelation that comes to us in the Scriptures is a revealing of Jesus, and as we hear his word as we open our hearts to his spirit. We he is revealing himself to us if we know the character of God what is God like while he loves he forgives he plans our future. He doesn't want us to be separated from him. He wants to take us to places that he has put inside of our hearts to get there. He wants to do things in our life above more than we can ever ask or imagine. So let's think about his character. Let's think about what God is up to. He is up to this. He's up the loving us caring for us and taking us where we knows where that will be. He does so let's take our next step. Allow God to run openly revealed himself to us and then and then amen, I stand at the dull pray away the darkness pray to be the light. God does not hold our path against us. He holds our future in front of us. So let us allow God to stir our hearts and leaders in the future father, thank you for your blessings. Thank you for your word. Thank you for the day we have the opportunity we have the hear your word and to be challenged by your spirit to continue to grow on from here. We ask your blessing guidance upon each family upon each one of them. Lord, as in the Old Testament when there they lived a holy life, the Lord of the land became fertile and produced a crop harvest. So Lord. Let our lives produce the crops. The harvest of your spirit. We pray in Jesus name amen. Unless you go home and be one Pray To Be The Light What is our song. The weirdest thing about God being able, and that he is a friend. What a friend we have in Jesus. The message that I have today. The first John chapter three, and it's the the and not the entire chapter with CFR would get with it, but it's about how that we need to recognize basically who we are and are couple of thoughts wanted one night this week was don't pray, don't try away the darkness pray to be the light don't focus on the darkness fits around us and the difficulties around this focus on being the light focus on being what is good and right and in lovely. Another good report, the virtues of of the spirit that we want to think on these things because this is what we want to bring from our life. This is what we want to find in our spirit, and it is the spirit of God being alive in us that challenges us continuing through to Braun yelled at the sound. We say things about them make me what you want me to be what goals do you have in your life. What goals do you have set before you and you know college degrees in education and all the things that we we have in our life. We have all these things are before us what we want to become in him. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up and so when these things in front of us and were on were constantly becoming something were costly, becoming someone. And so, God is in front of us is he's not preoccupied. God does not hold our past against us. He holds our future in front of us. God does not hold our past against us. He holds our future in front of us and we find that with EV. The whole concept of forgiveness only got to do this, the whole concept of forgiveness is that we dispose of our past failures. Our past mistakes that we not allow the past failures of our life to interfere with our present decisions and our future life, and so with that perspective of how God wants to take us make us bring us somewhere in our life. He wants us to change. We have to change the nature with the change things in our life that were cutting Houston. We have to change things that are our ordinary that are our peculiar ways of doing things. The goblets are continuing to enhance those things continue to challenge them less like sometimes whenever darkness comes in with a darkness when problems come. It challenges us either to to see that there are there is another perspective. Besides our own and that God wants to change us in some way as we are learning to deal with different events in life while we learn and how we learn to deal with things as a resident six-year-old changes whenever were twelve -year-old what we learned five years old to handle things differs at seventeen months. What we learned at seventeen thousand work at twenty one and owners also, when do we just kind of dig our heels in and say on the ever-changing again, this is the final me that I will ever be both happy and not the more we fight ourselves to stay this rigid person, the less the less we allow ourselves to be taught. The less we allow ourselves to be led and we find ourselves isolated not the one who has to be isolated. There are no Christian islands. There are no islands that are solely relegated for Christian. Jesus takes us into the darkness of the world to be the light. Jesus takes us into the darkness of life so that we can be the light to the world around us and you see as week as we progress in our education as we progress in our understanding of things. As we progress and how they were going to develop and change them enter in and relate to other people. God is in the relation business. God is in the relation ship business if we could call the business he's in this relationship over. He wants to be a relationship with us, so that in his relationship with us. We learn how to be in relationship with others. I think the destructive character of the church in and it's because of the destructive characteristic of the church came when people thought they had it, you know, I am. I am religious, like Pharisees and Sadducees. I've got my rules in place and you have to measure up to my rules to be as good as I am in nowhere did Jesus ever do that nowhere did he ever say that your economy ever went face-to-face is aware and in battle of individuals. It was with the Pharisees and the Sadducees, challenging them to be into that they were nothing but Whited sepulcher 's, well, if you were whited sepulcher, you couldn't get any worse off than that of Whited sepulcher is in the Jewish culture Hebrew that you painted tombs, white, because you didn't want to touch them. It was it was considered unclean to touch to where someone was buried, and rightfully so. Thirty came in the bacteria and all that stuff going on inside you want to be have your kids and people plan around that the two. While here, Jesus called them why did sequiturs fill the dead men's bones. They were the very thing that they were professing they were living the things that they were challenging falling everybody else down for they were living Jesus, challenges and change and growth move, so it is in this passage. What marvelous love the father has extended to us. If you if we just can't say this if we could just for a moment pot find that quiet place in our spirits, in our minds. That's focused on God, and that in that quiet place. Open our hearts to be receptive of God 's divine love, meaning that he loves you for who you are not which is done. He doesn't hold anything back because of what you done or did he is his love, then just pours into our life, because he loves us. The marvelous love the father has extended to us the marvelous love that God has extended to us. We are creatures preparing our hearts and our minds. He is preparing us for tomorrow what God is at work with in our lives is preparation. Preparation for Watford tomorrow wanted to just fourth-grade what you preparing our kids for a UK for fifth grade, and you prepare them for life. She's preparing them to the huge thing in some announcement enough, the competent prepared for the test while in our life with God. It's more than just ending up dead and standing for God and punishment. Now, the good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to hell now. So that's all God 's interested in preparing you for eternal judgment. Now God 's preparation for us is that he wants us to live in the fullness of our relationship with him. The life is about a relationship of your never relationship in life, you're pretty lonely and you have chosen to isolate yourself you have chosen to allow life to separate you from other people, and God that his choice is that good. Not that you be separated from other people, but to be in relationship with other people that we separate ourselves from Santa. The reason God wants us to separate ourselves from sin. Sin is destructive sin destroys the good that God has that one guy was to bring out in our life. The things that are wrong with us in the failures of our life separate us from God, and separate us from other people. When people find themselves in isolation. That's when the finds no hope, and they find themselves sinking in a deep hole in which they don't feel there's any way out. God never created a whole. God doesn't want us to live in the back Q you want to us to be separated somewhere, you know that he is totally absent from the lives of other people you look at the life of Jesus. He didn't go in hiding the synagogue it within the house of centers it with the people who were considered outcasts of the society he went where the religious people said he shouldn't go. And God is coming to the those people use coming to loss is coming to all of us in what he tried to do some marvelous love that the father has extended to us that he is allowed to God wants to bestow this blessing upon our lives because we are his children and in that blessing to be pistols upon our life is not only to challenge our hearts and melt our hearts and mold our spirits, but it's also to touch the above, the life around us the fruit of the life around us in the Sunday school lesson. It spoke about how that when the children of Israel were to live their life before God. It would produce a fruitfulness in their land that their land would be able to grow crops because of their relationship with God, and this was in direct contrast to the Canaanites who would offer their children as sacrifices to the God of the harvest, so that they would have a good harvest and then the big Commandments overstating don't do that don't accept the false religions of the Canaanites and don't keep the culture of the Egyptians change it the Commandments of God were given to protect and to provide and so God 's laws come into our heart to protect us we can be programmed are protecting ourselves from evil and from destruction because there is there is this piece of God, and nurses love of God that is run my life. I don't need to fight for my life. I need to allow God to live my life that do allow God to live through my life. What marvelous love the father has extended to us. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love is not placating sin. It is allowing us to look beyond the faults of people and look beyond our own faults and recognize the value that we have in the value that other people have that era. There are things of value all around us. As things of value inside of us. We haven't begun to tap this download of God that allows us to see those things of value. If the love of God that allows us to value the little things that mean so much in our lives. God tells us who we are we. We call it. Just look at it where called children of God. That's who we really are. We are called children of God. That's who we really are. Who are you I am a child of God. What makes you a child of God. He does see I am a child of God. I am a a a a his child, and as his child. I have entitlements entitlements, I'm entitled to be loved. I'm him will be forgiven. I am entitled to allow the blessing of God flow into my life. I think because I belong to God he created this place in his Avenue blessing flows into my life into our life, our self-worth is based on who he says we are. He says I am his child. Therefore, as his child. I have I'm joint heirs with Christ. That was the inheritance of Jesus Christ becomes my inheritance, estate, so that's it. We really are, but that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously that the world does not take seriously the church does not take seriously the Commandments in only laugh at them as if they are make believe what rules they you may you believe in a make believe God you believe in make-believe worlds you believe in people who can raise the dead to raise himself from the dead, you believe in his words that he created the universe. He believes all the things they don't take us seriously. The challenges for us to take ourselves seriously as God takes us as a story illustration about the formalities as an illustration for monkeys were placed in a pin large pin hole in the middle and bananas a thought to whether the monkeys do. The ball what happens when I get up, we dump water on your allow them to get the bananas certificate, partly if we dump water on and off for then learned that you don't go up the pole because cooked fully good water dumped on you like to forget those bananas is not that they're off-limits not go there. So when they do they take one monkey out, bring in another month or the other three do would let the fourth one like that. What Paul because the new one. There was brought in, never got wet, going up the pole. The other three kept him from going up with and what they do, took out one of the original. Now there are only two that it endows with water to the never been doused with water, but they kept that wasn't going up the pull and eventually they exchanged all the monkeys that had been doused with water. They exchange it for other ones, and then they added their lines into the group and no one in the group had ever been doused with water going up the pole and no one in that group would go up the pole begin know why, which can't what's pull his sheet in our life, we look at sometimes our faith from a discrediting position from a worldly position that almost like me, you need, God can help me God can forgive me in and out and a society. Our society has made gone out to be something that he is not, and we allow sometimes those thoughts. The filter over into us. They have no basis in our experience, and no basis in the Scripture, but we still believe them. We still act on them as if they were real and God is telling us what the truth is, and that he is allowing his love to connect your hearts alive to take us to lead us down this path and the path that we are on our life is falling together, not falling apart. Our life is coming together. What about that doesn't matter about what about that God is in charge, and God will see me through, and God will take these things that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called to his divine purpose all things work together for good. So the puzzles on our life in the pieces of my life are fitting together. What do we do my life is falling apart sky is falling to tell everybody, the world of falling ill on the Internet, there is somebody had to think United States will be gone in another gear and know how the guitar will fail but were the worst is yet to come. But you know what our society and our world are headed towards the end of time that is going to come, but where does it say that God 's people are to be in fear of life of death of events of problems. Nowhere he gives us peace in the midst of the storm. When Jesus is asleep in the boat with the disciples crossing the sea, and they are afraid of the boat is going to sink. Jesus is laying about. This is a boat that has the cabin and no ill motor in the back and all that. This is an open vote L fishing boat that Jesus is there, sleeping in the back of the boat seems at peace in the midst of the storm and the disciples are afraid that the boat is not a saint, and so when they do they will wake up Jesus in town. Don't you care that we perish. And that's the same mentality that the world brings into this relationship with his non- relationship of existence, and they are saying .uk world is falling apart. Don't you care about disasters don't you care about these things. Everything is an opportunity. Everything is an opportunity to see the hand of God working lives because we don't hold to the sky is falling we know that God is at work. God is helping us. God will give me strength as my day is social my strength be in whatever difficulty, I find myself in the love of God, the relationship with God is my anchor in anchor will hold the ship in place that doesn't mean the seas are going to call there are troubled seas, but that that's not the problem were anchored in the anchor of our life is eternal, the anchor of our life is based on God 's love for us and God keeping his word that God will honor what he is said to us, and so as we enter into this relationship as we enter into this place or we allow God to flood filter into our hearts and minds. It enables us to take our next step when did God ever tell us we have to blindly step. He never did the steps of the righteous man ordered by the Lord that God will shine the light upon our path. He is a light to our path never does the endeavor in all of the Scriptures of the callous death. The walk in darkness, we awesome. We always walk in hope. So we take our next step, knowing that we are safe in the step because that's all I need to know is unsafe when I'm on the path about in the storm. Some of us had on the on an e-mail that they were so glad for the rumble strips along the side of the road in the concrete because the storm was so severe they couldn't see where they were going, but they could tell when they were going off the edge of the road as they could feel the bumps on the rumble strips and how that battles rumble strips I'm on the road, even when they couldn't see. And so we know what our spirit God is keeping us on the road, you know, I can't see all the things were going around. We know that God is in charge in God 's work and he will see me through. God will take me to where he wants me to be because he has a purpose for my life and my life is off course because God is with me, he will never leave you nor forsake me, he will not abandon me so what is got up to this second part of the verses, but that's also why the world doesn't recognize us or take us seriously because it has no idea of who he is and what he's up to. So what is got up to was brought up to what impossibility does he want to do things. One possibility gelatin possible for a bumblebee to fly is not coming in and rescue are too smarter just kidding it impossible for bumblebee to what fly why Martin, the body is too big. Its masses too big for its wingspan is impossible for a bumblebee to fly nobody told the public that no one explained that to the bumblebee. So when someone is explained to you that you can fly that you can't achieve this and you can't do this because and it will list the talents and the lack of the education or the lack of enabled lists all the things that could be presented to you. Besides, you can achieve this, but in your heart you know that this is where God wants me to go so we can start going in that there knowing God will see us through. So what is got up to while the friends that exactly who we are children of God, and that's only the beginning. Who knows how we'll end up easy. We are in the process of becoming. We are in the process of becoming an endless process of becoming God is at work changing my darkness to light, giving me hope for. I felt I was hopeless that giving the direction when I thought there were there was no direction in the snowstorm and in the small that it whenever I find myself walking through the valley of death. The shadow of death, the Valley of transition from one place to another one I found find myself walking through the valley of transition. God is with me to be my rod and staff my protection. My guide and see what is got up to what we don't know where were going to end up way down. Now, where were going to end up, but we know, I know this, we are safe as we take our next step. Exactly what I need to be because God is with me as I take my next step. Now I don't know where I'm going to end up, but I know that I'm going to get there by the grace of God abundant mercy of God and that God is going to do a work in me that he wants to accomplish and what he wants to accomplish in my life will have an effect on eternity. So who knows where we'll end up what we know is this, that when Christ is openly revealed. We will see him, and in seeing him we will become like him. When Christ is openly revealed. We will see him and we will become like him. Christ is openly revealed the revelation that comes to us in the Scriptures is a revealing of Jesus, and as we hear his word as we open our hearts to his spirit. We he is revealing himself to us if we know the character of God what is God like while he loves he forgives he plans our future. He doesn't want us to be separated from him. He wants to take us to places that he has put inside of our hearts to get there. He wants to do things in our life above more than we can ever ask or imagine. So let's think about his character. Let's think about what God is up to. He is up to this. He's up the loving us caring for us and taking us where we knows where that will be. He does so let's take our next step. Allow God to run openly revealed himself to us and then and then amen, I stand at the dull pray away the darkness pray to be the light. God does not hold our path against us. He holds our future in front of us. So let us allow God to stir our hearts and leaders in the future father, thank you for your blessings. Thank you for your word. Thank you for the day we have the opportunity we have the hear your word and to be challenged by your spirit to continue to grow on from here. We ask your blessing guidance upon each family upon each one of them. Lord, as in the Old Testament when there they lived a holy life, the Lord of the land became fertile and produced a crop harvest. So Lord. Let our lives produce the crops. The harvest of your spirit. We pray in Jesus name amen. Unless you go home and be one Pray To Be The Light