Hey, this is Beth. What we live for at Living Proof is to serve people the word of God. We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the word is alive and active.

We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God is going to speak through it.

Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

Pray, somebody say praise his name.

Lord, we pray today that you would lift up such praises out of us?

We welcome you into our hearts and our minds.

We welcome you to get into our personal business.

We need you to, Lord.

We need you to, you to.

There would not be a place, Father, where we would shut you out or compartmentalize you,

Lord. We need your authority over all.

We need you sanctifying us through and through body, soul and spirit, God.

We are full of joy today, Father, and I'm so aware, God, this has been one of the most challenging

summers I've lived in a very long time so I am very aware

and there are numbers of people in this room right now that are in the midst of

extreme difficulty conflict perhaps if not just devastating loss.

So even though Father, I just have a rejoicing over my spirit right this moment, I also

know Father I can fellowship in the sufferings of difficult circumstances that surround many of us right now.

So Father, I pray, your word would speak to that.

I pray, God, that you would lift us to a higher place God that we could look down to you

bring us up into the strong tower God as we run into the place of safety behind your name and that our heads would be

lifted above our enemies God and we would we would know that we are yours and

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