All right, welcome to our midweek Bible study. It's 5 p.m. here on Thursday night, Hawaii time.

We started doing these earlier for the benefit of those of you that are on the mainland because of the time difference.

So for the foreseeable future, we are going to have our midweek service live streamed here on

YouTube at 5 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time. Really looking forward to what the Lord has for us tonight,

what the Lord has put on my heart to share with you tonight. I want to talk with you tonight about not becoming weary and losing

heart at a time when everything seems so dire and so hopeless and there just doesn't seem that there's any end in sight, even with the talk of

opening back up the economy here in America, as we were told today. Here we are in the midst of an unprecedented global crisis,

the likes of which we've never seen before, but God is allowing it as only he can and using it in ways that we could have never imagined. However,

and this is what I want to talk about tonight. The problem is with each passing day, this crisis is taking a toll on people, is taking a toll emotionally, physically, mentally,

and for some even spiritually.

I want to begin with a passage of Scripture that God has used in my life over the years

during some very difficult and dark times.

And for me, it's been a lifeline, as it were.

And it's in Psalm 27.

It's a Psalm of David. It's really one of my favorite Psalms. And it's the

last two verses in the Psalm, Psalm 27, verses 13 and 14. And clearly, David is experiencing a situation with what is coming against him.

And it is so stressful.

It is so difficult.

And he's coming to this place where he's just, I mean, the bottom has fallen out.

And he's just about to give up hope and listen to

what he says in Psalm 27, starting in verse 13. He says, I would have lost heart. I came so close

unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land

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