Would you pray with me?

Father, we take up now a theme, a reality that is so raw and so real for many that I tremble to think of the presumption of just talking for an hour about it.

Whom have we in heaven but you and on earth there is nothing that we desire besides you.

Our flesh and our heart may fail, but you are the strength of our Christ Jesus, my Lord.

Father come, work the miracles

that we long for in this room and there are two. One is healing and we believe in it and I

pray for it that some would date their deliverance from disease or a broken marriage or a wayward child

or a depression from this night.

And Lord, for others who are to suffer longer the miracle of though he slay me yet will I hope in him. So these double miracles we ask for, I can't make them happen, but the Holy Spirit can, so I invite him to come. Would you help me to be faithful to your word, to be true to what it says?

And let there be a spirit about this time together that is in accordance with the truth

and the weight of the truth. I thank you Lord Jesus for the words. Blessed are you when men

persecute you and revile you and say all kinds of evil against you

falsely on my account rejoice in that day and be glad for great is your

reward in heaven, not here.

For so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

So Lord, come and give us the assurance of heaven and help us to know that this slight momentary affliction that lasts only 80 years

or 90 is not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed and is

working for us a weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Build these convictions down to the roots of our being I

pray through Christ. Amen. Thank you so much for being here. It's a great

fearful. Thank you so much for being here. It's a great, fearful honor to me

that you would come to hear about these things

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