Summary
Pastor Safrit walks through Psalm 28, emphasizing the tangible attributes of God as a rock, strength, and refuge. He highlights the psalmist's progression from worship to lament, ultimately leading to thankfulness for God's salvation and protection. The sermon encourages believers to recognize their need for God in every aspect of life, reflecting on how worship can reveal personal shortcomings and lead to a deeper relationship with Him.
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One thing I do love about congregational singing is hearing you guys lift your voice. And if you have a child that wants to be dismissed at Children's Church, that is available for you as well. We're going to be in Psalms chapter 28 this morning. Psalms 28, if you want to turn there.
We're, of course, going through our summers in the psalm, and I want to thank Stephen for preaching last week. I was able to listen to part of it.
I plan on listening to the rest of it this week, and I know he did a fantastic job on Psalms 19. And so Psalms 28 is where we'll be at today. Today, one of the things, by way of introduction,
specifically in this psalm, but in a lot of psalms, is the psalmist writes in a way that is very tangible in the Scriptures.
And so I'll put it like this. When we think of God, a lot of times we think of God in an abstract form, right? My God is awesome.
Okay, you can't really put definitive things to the word awesome. But when we go through the psalms, and specifically this one, what I love by reading through them is seeing how the psalmist describes God. He says, he's my rock.
As you're walking down the road or walking in your driveway, you could see a rock, and you could pick it up, and you could say, man, this is a strong attribute. It's something tangible.
It's what God is. He's a rock. He says that he's my strong tower. He's my strength. He's my song.
And we go through this, and we see that God is described throughout the psalms as something very memorable,
something very meaningful, and something that the Jewish people would be able to tangibly grab onto and say, that is what my God is.
And so as we read through these psalms over the next couple of weeks, I want you to remember that and maybe read back through here and see some things that maybe I don't talk about because I've only got 30 minutes or so to discuss eight or nine verses.
And so as we've turned your place there, we'll begin our reading in Psalms chapter 28. Since you just stood, you can remain seated. The Bible says, It says, Verse 6.
Lord, I pray that you'll have your blessings upon your scripture that is read. Lord, give me the wisdom and strength as I preach this morning, and I pray, God, that you would help me as I deliver your word faithfully and according to what you have for us.
Introduction with a Story
And it's in your name we pray. Amen. I'm going to start by a way of introduction. I came across the story of a man who had a two-story house. And on the first day he was there, he heard a knocking at the front door. He opened the front door, and there was Jesus standing there.
It's a fake story, but go with me. He invited him in to come into his house, and he said, Jesus, I've got a room on the very top of my floor. It's one of my nicest rooms.
I want you to live here and stay in this room, and I'm going to give you that room. The man was sleeping that night, and he heard a pounding at the door. He opened the door, and he cracked the door.
And when he opened the door, the devil barged in. They had a terrible fight.
He tried to resist the devil and his temptations. He was yelling out for help all the time, and eventually he managed to throw the devil out. In the morning he said to Jesus, why didn't you help me last night? Could you not hear me calling for help?
And Jesus said, the problem is you only gave me one small room out of this massive house. And the man said, oh, I see your point.
You can have the entire top floor, and I'll take the bottom floor. And that night he heard a pounding at the door, and again he opened the door, and again it was the devil. And he barged in, and he had another terrible fight.
And he tried to resist the devil and the temptations, and he yelled out for help. And eventually he managed to throw the devil out.
In the morning he said again to Jesus, why did you not help me last night?
Could you not hear me calling for help? And Jesus said, the problem is that I have the top floor, but you still have the bottom floor to yourself. And the man realized at that moment, I see what you mean. The whole house is yours.
And that night the man was asleep, and there was a pounding at the door. And that day Jesus went to the door and opened it.
And while he stood in the doorway, the devil looked at him and bowed his head and said, I'm sorry, I think I've knocked on the wrong door. You see, we have to understand that it doesn't matter how big the dog is in the fight.
It matters how big the fight is in the dog.
And when we understand who Jesus is, and we understand what he has done for us, and we understand what Jesus is saying through this psalm, through David, through his writing, we understand that there is a refuge for those
Identity as Children of God
who call themselves the sons and daughters of God. And there's a state that this puts us in.
There is a state of mindset that this puts us in when we understand who we are and whose we are.
And this is written all throughout the scripture of Paul and Peter when they understood who they were and what God had called them to do, where they were, why they were so bold, why they were so, had the ability to step forward and say the things and do the things they did.
And so today as we explore this psalm and these couple of verses, we're going to look at the four states that the psalmist puts himself in as he looks through these couple of verses. The first one is the state of worship.
We see in verses one and two, it says that, Lord, I call unto you my rock.
Do not be a deaf ear if you remain silent with me. I'm going to go down to the pit. And we see that he begins to reflect on what God has done for him.
And as for us, we begin to bring to mind the place of worship and adoration of, as I said earlier, the awesomeness of what God has done in our life. It begins to bring us to a place where we reflect on the blessings of what God is and who God is.
It's one of our core values here at the church is glorifying God.
And this is a way where we begin to glorify God, where we begin to take a step back and we say, God, what have you done for me? What have you blessed me with this week?
You see, I don't know about you, but every day this week, I didn't sit on my bedside and I didn't say, God, I don't know what I'm going to have to eat tomorrow.
God, I don't know what foods you're going to provide me with. My wife does a meal plan and she goes shopping and there's food in the fridge and there's food in the pantry. And that's not something that I have to think about.
But I know that people all across the world sit on the side of their bed before they go to bed and they say, God, there's nothing in this house to eat. I need you to help me.
And yet we take that for granted, that small thing of worship for granted to where God has provided for us massively. And we take it for granted.
That's just one illustration of a way that we can worship God, a way that we can thank God for what he's done. And we begin to look here in these just couple of verses. And we see that David mentions three times where he had a time of worship.
God as Our Rock
And notice what they are. Notice they're not abstract. They're concrete.
He says the very first one, you are my rock. This is the security that Christ brings to us.
This is the security that when our trust is in Christ, when we lay our head down, we know that no matter what's going to happen, we have the peace of Christ in our life. He is our rock.
It's not going to be shaken. It's not going to be moved. Because Christ is there in us and through us and we can trust in him. He is our security.
He is our thing that when we, maybe we feel secure for me, for my wife specifically, she cannot go and lay down in bed if the back door or the front door is not locked. Do I have any ladies in here like that? Okay. Or maybe some men.
I'm not going to say that, ladies. Okay. That is their source of security. And we'll lay there and we'll just get in bed and she'll say, James, did we lock the door? I don't know.
I'm in bed. I'm ready to go to sleep. But she'll lay there and then eventually me or her will have to get up and go check the door to make sure it's locked because she will not be able to sleep if it's not locked. That's her sense of security.
Some may be an alarm system. Some may be just the basic state of maybe having security. And this is where David begins to say, Lord, you are my rock.
And he begins to say, God, you're so much my rock that don't turn a deaf ear to me. He says, God, I'm going to pray to you. I'm going to come to you.
And don't not respond. I love how he says here, if you remain silent to me, I'm going to begin to spiral out of control and I'm going to go down to the pit. Which leads us to number two. This is our safety.
The safety that we begin to look here of what Christ brings to us. You see, he begins to compare life without God and life without salvation. Think back with me for a moment.
Recall the time where your life was without Christ and what that felt like. It may have been as a young child.
It may have been as a teenager or a young adult or just an adult in life where you did not have Christ in your life. And you began to wander and you began to see the depravity of life.
And God began to convict your soul of what you've done and the sin that's in your life.
And then salvation was brought to you. See, this is what David was reflecting in his mind.
God, if you're not here and if you're not my rock, then I'm going to be going down to the pit. I'm going to go down to the way that I was before.
I'm going to go down to the way that I was without you in my life. Before I was anointed to be king, that's what I'm going to go down to. And he even begins to look at the spiraling that began to happen in his life.
Because he begins to remember the hopelessness that was without Christ. The hopelessness that was without Jesus and God in his life.
And he says, at this time, I've got to give you the praise. I've got to give you the glory for the security, for the safety. But then he begins to say, but not only that, you are also my supplication.
Attitude of Submission in Prayer
Verse 2 continues on and says, listen to the sound of my pleading. You see, he begins to beg for his needs to be met. This is an attitude of submission.
This is an attitude of saying, there's nothing that I can do in and of myself. And I'm only going to trust in you. I'm only going to come to you, God, because you are the one. You are my pleading.
You are the one that is going to offer the things that I need. And then he gives this one really statement here that's sort of thrown in. And we don't even understand the supremacy of what it's saying here. But he says here, my hands are lifted up toward the holy sanctuary.
You see, it would have been abnormal for a Jewish person to raise their hands in prayer. You see, when we sing, sometimes we'll raise our hand and we'll praise God through a lifted hand.
Or maybe as we're praying over someone, we'll extend their head toward and lay a hand on them. This would have been abnormal for a Jewish person to do.
And so for him to say, my hands are lifted high, he was literally saying, there is nothing that I can do. And I'm praising everything in you, God. And he's saying here, my supplications are coming to you.
Everything that I have is going to be lifted and pleaded toward you because I'm crying to you for help.
You see, this is the first part of our attitude when we begin to know who God is and what God has done in our life. And the salvation that he brings to us is a state of worship.
It is a state of saying, God, look at who you are and look at what you've done in my life. But then he sort of makes a turn here and he begins to go into the state of lament.
In verses 3 through 5. He says, there's judgment of the Lord.
And there's judgment among the people. He said, don't drag me away with the wicked. Don't allow me to go down where the evil people are.
You see, he realized that he had done evil in his life. He realized through this state of worship and through understanding what he was doing, that there was wickedness in his heart. And this is what worship does. Worship is a massive microscope on our life.
A massive magnifying our life that begins to reveal all the impurities in our life.
And as David began to worship, David began to see he was also like the wicked.
You see, he knew that God was just. He knew that God was a holy God and that God was going to take care of his enemies. Look, he said, with the evildoers who speak friendly words to their neighbors or even to myself, but yet they repay them with what evildones have done.
He says, repay them. But then he says in verse 5, because they do not consider what the Lord has done with their hands. He begins to realize here, God, you've done justice and you're right and I've done wrong.
Am I going to get the same punishment that they got? And he begins this moment of inward lamenting because he understands that, am I even safe?
Is the Lord going to punish me? Is the Lord going to punish me for the evil that I've done? I've went after Saul in vengeance and I know I didn't kill him, but I cut off part of his robe and I shouldn't have done that. And I touched the Lord's anointed.
And he begins to beg God again for safety and wisdom. And he begins to lament for his actions and he begins to seek the Lord to do just. You see, we have all seen the judgments of those who work iniquity.
I would far say that it would not be a person in here that has seen the judgment of the Lord upon someone's life. I have seen it in my life.
I have seen where someone who was a believer, who was a Christian, who began to walk in sin. And I can give you specific illustrations.
One that's coming to my mind right now is my best friend whose name is Ben. And he was the best man at my wedding.
He was a youth pastor and was serving in Concord and began to fall into the pride of the eyes. And he began to fall into the pride of sin. And he did some things that he shouldn't have done with a young teenage girl in his youth group.
And now he is spending 15 years in jail because of the actions that he did. It broke me.
It broke my heart. It broke everything within me. This was the guy that I was accountable to. This is the guy that I went to. I called him daily.
And yet, the judgment of what he was done was on his life. And I began to examine my life and say, what are my actions? What are my deeds?
And just as David went to the Lord and begged the Lord and lamented before the Lord, I began to think this is my life. And I want to pray to the Lord and say, God, not allow this to ever happen to me. But what else have I done wrong?
What else have I done? I need to come and lament and get down before my hands and knees and say, God, I need you to work in my life. Because this is what worship does. It brings us to a state of lament.
Parental Love and Discipline
We'll bring this back around. Think of a child. In honor of Father's Day, think of a child that's done wrong. I can remember as a kid, you know, when we would come home from church on Sunday specifically.
I've shared this before, maybe one time here, I don't know. And then there was five of us. So it was rowdy in the car.
You can imagine with five kids, it can get a little rambunctious. It can get a little loud. With one or two in a car, it can get rambunctious and loud. But with five, it's like on steroids.
And so we're coming home and we're arguing and we're bickering back and forth. And my dad would say, quiet down back there. Dad, you been there? Quiet down back there. Let me drive. Let me be good.
He'll say it another couple times. And then he would raise his voice and say, when we get home, all of you are getting tore up.
And you could hear a pin drop on a carpet floor is how quiet it was in that van. The whole way home, thinking, man, I'm number four.
Is he going to start with the youngest and go to the oldest? Am I going to be number two to get spankings? Or am I going to be number four? I'm contemplating all this in my mind.
And so I learned at a young age, I could go and I could ask my dad for forgiveness and say, Dad, I know I did wrong. Or I also learned that if I went straight to my room and acted like I was asleep or fell asleep, my dad wouldn't wake me up.
And so more times than not, I would act like I was asleep or fall asleep so that I wouldn't get those spankings. But as a child, you realize you did wrong and you come and you ask for that forgiveness and you begin to plead with your mom and dad, I've done wrong.
I'm sorry. I knew I shouldn't have done this. And there's this moment of brokenness in our life. And you see that as a parent.
And you begin to embrace them and you begin to show mercy and grace. And this is what David was doing. He was coming before God. He was saying, God, I've done wrong. I've sinned before you. I've sinned before my family. And I need you to work in my life.
And that's what he says here because they do not consider what they've done. I am considering it and I'm coming to you.
And I'm lamenting because I don't want to be dragged away with the wicked and the evildoers.
And as we begin to follow this progression, not only does it lead us into a worship and a lament, but now it brings us into a state of thankfulness. Verses 6 and 7, it says, Blessed be the Lord, for he heard the sound of my pleading.
Turning Back to God
Right? Now he goes from this worship to, God, there's punishment and maybe punishment. I don't know what's going to happen. But now he turns into,
God, you've heard me. God, you've heard what I've done. And this only happens when we go through this stage of worship to lament and understand what we've done wrong, confess what we've done wrong, and come before the Lord. And it turns us into a place of thanksgiving.
Look at the change of David's heart, the change of his voice. He goes from, you're going to tear them down and you're not going to rebuild them, to an immediate turn and an immediate change of, Blessed be the Lord, for he's heard my pleading.
Oh, this is a thought of, even in the pain and even in the trials, when we don't know what's going on, we can turn our praise to the Lord.
We can turn our strength back to the Lord and we can say, God, you are there for me. And how often do we not get to this point? Oftentimes we just stay in the worship.
Because it's good to worship the Lord. It's good to praise God. But oftentimes it's leading away from that worship and it's leading into that confession and lamenting.
Because when we get through that, then we get to this point where we get to see the thankfulness. We get to see the goodness and the greatness of who our God is and what he's going to do for those he loves. You see, the first thing it brings is it brings strength.
Look at it in verse 7. The Lord is my strength.
He begins by looking at the strength that he sees in God. And we can reflect on this and see the strength that we have in Christ.
Think of maybe it was a recent time where you lost a loved one. Maybe there was a death or a tragic accident that happened. And we begin to look at the strength that God provided during that time of loss, during that time of hurt,
during that time of need in our life. And we begin to see the only way that I could get through that moment is by having Christ in my life. And this is what Christ is, through David is saying through Christ here, is we have trials and we have pain.
But even in those pain, even in those trials, you've got to think where David was at. David was being chased by Saul. He was living cave to cave.
He was trying to find refuge. He was trying to find safety. And everywhere he went, people were coming against him. And yet in that moment,
Praise in Times of Pain
he said, I can't help but praise God right now.
I can't help but lift my voice in thankfulness for what he's done for me and what he is continually doing for me.
You see, even in the pain, and even in the trials, he could not help but praise the Lord for the strength that he had to go one more day, to go one more mile, to go one more moment in life to where he said, God, you're there for me and you've strengthened me.
But not only that, we begin to see here, he says, the Lord is my strength and the Lord is my shield. You see, this is the simple protection in our lives.
Think of a time maybe the Lord has spared you in your life, or maybe your family's life.
You see, for us, it was this past week, we drove to Indianapolis, Indiana, and we were up there for the convention, and I'll give an update to the church at a later date about that.
But we drove 1,200 miles in our vehicle. My little Jeep, it's a five-speed Jeep, and I had to drive the whole way because Allison can't drive a five-speed.
And so eight and a half hours there, about 10 hours on the way back because we took a stop at a detour. But during those 18 hours of driving and 1,200 miles, the Lord protected and shielded our family.
Before we left North Carolina and before we left Indiana, we stopped and we had a moment of prayer where we prayed and we asked God to protect our family. We understand that there's crazy people on the road that sometimes can be me.
We understand that there can be difficulties as you travel in a vehicle for that long. And so we go to the Lord and we say, God, I need your shielding, I need your protection in my life.
Because this is what we're commanded here. We're asking here to say, God, you're my shield, and I can't do this without you. You see, David in the same way is reflecting on the goodness of God and his protection. I almost imagine here David reflecting back.
He may not have been, but I'm almost thinking like he's thinking back to when he was standing before Goliath. He's standing before this giant, and he doesn't fully understand how God's going to protect him.
He's got five stones and a sling, and he sort of puts all the trust in God and says, God, I'm going to trust you in this situation. And he begins to see the protection of God in that moment there.
And he begins to see, you know, God protecting me with the lion. He protected me with the bear. He protected me with the other things as I was a shepherd.
He's protecting me now. God, you've anointed me to be king, and I need you to protect me now. It's this progression of seeing God, understanding the Lord in our life, and trusting in what he's done and what he's going to do in our life. And then he continues on.
He says, I'm going to trust you. You've helped me. And then he says, my heart celebrates.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to give thanks to you with my song.
Thankfulness does not just with our words and not just with our actions, but it's also with our voices lifting high to what Jesus has done for us.
I can't tell you how many times I've been riding down the road, and a song will come on the car, and my heart will be so blessed that I legitimately have to pull over to the side of the
road because I'm overwhelmed with the goodness of what God's done in my life. Even this morning, we got to the church, and Allison sent me a song, and it was a new song by Brandon Lake. And in my office, I'm just listening to it. I'm like, man, this is such a powerful song.
Because the songs we listen to, whether it be an old hymn like we sang today, whether it be a new worship song, whatever it may be, it doesn't matter. It can bless our heart. And it's amazing how quickly our attitude can change
and put us in this state of thankfulness by just simply listening to a song that someone has written, and it blesses our heart.
And so often, me and Allison will sort of have a song as we go through our life. A couple years ago, eight years ago, almost nine years ago, we moved back to North Carolina.
And there was a song by Casting Crowns. It was called Just Be Held. We didn't know what we were going to do. We stepped out of ministry, trusting the Lord.
We really thought that within just a couple of months, we would be in a church. And we sat there in my mom's dining room table. We began to pray, and the song came on. That was Casting Crowns Just Be Held. And I looked at Allison.
She looked at me, and she said, that's what we need right now. We just need the Lord to hold us.
We don't need to force things. We don't need to try to make the things that we wanted. We just need to step back and say, God, when it's your time, we'll trust in you. Little did I know it would be two years that I would go into another ministry.
But during that time, I don't know how many times I put that song on on the way to work, on the way home, when we were out and about, because we were just trusting the Lord to hold us. That's what a song will do.
You see, church, the last thing I want us to do is be like one of the lepers in Luke chapter 17. Luke chapter 17 talks about Jesus, and he does this miraculous miracle where 10 lepers come to him, and they're in the forest, and they say, stay away from us. We're sick.
We can't be around people. And Jesus just ignores them. And in a moment, he walks up to them, and he says, I know you're sick, but I am the great physician. And I have come to deliver those who have been hurt and afflicted, and I am coming to you to offer you healing.
And he heals all 10 of them. And they all run away. They run away and praise to go to the priest so they can go back and see their family. And yet there was one who, in that moment of running away, came back and said, God,
Jesus, I can't leave without telling you thank you. I can't leave without coming back and giving praise to you and giving praise to God because I was once lost. I was once in sin. I was once in hurt and affliction. But now I am made whole because of you.
And that is what being thankful does because the Lord deserves all the glory, all the honor, all the praise in our life. And I don't want us to be a thankless generation, a thankless generation like Jesus said that 90% of us are, and only 10% of us come back and offer thanks.
Thanksgiving and Strength
This is what thanksgiving does. It encourages us. It gives us strength. It shields us, and it gives us its own. But also it brings us into a state of salvation, which is where we'll conclude our message. David concludes this request with the protection of his people. He says this. He says, God, this is your prized possession.
This is the apple of your eye, your people, the Jewish nation.
And he said, our salvation is only in you, and we need your salvation. You see, the goodness of God and his pardon of our sin is what brings us to the state where we can even be talking about this. Because without Christ in our salvation,
none of the else things here matter. It doesn't matter about our worship. It doesn't matter about our lament or our thanksgiving because it all begins in Christ. It's all because of what Christ has done for us.
It's his strength. It's nothing that we can do in and of ourselves. It is the salvation that Christ brings. And he begins to say, bless your possessions. He says here, these are your people. These are your possessions. You are our shepherd.
You are the one that's going to lead us as he continues on here. He just wrote in Psalm 23,
who leads us by still waters. You are that shepherd. You are that one who just shepherds us. And he says, you're the one that's going to carry us forever. Our salvation, church, this should get us so excited where we can't even control ourselves. Our salvation is not reliant on us.
Our salvation is fully reliant on Christ and what he did on Calvary. And when we begin to fully imagine that and fully comprehend what that means, it doesn't matter how much I come to church.
It doesn't matter how much I pray. It doesn't matter how much I give. Even though all those things are important, Christ says it all relies on him.
And when we get to this point where we say, God, I'm going to fully trust in you. I'm going to fully put my salvation, my strength, everything that I've done into you. It begins to put us in this state where David is at. You see, David is being hunted for his life.
And in the moment of being hunted for his life, he says, the Lord is my strength. The Lord is my salvation. The Lord is my stronghold. Save your people.
Shepherd your people. Because it's only what Christ can do in this moment. It's not what we can do, but it's what Christ can do in our lives. As Terry comes, I'm going to conclude with a final story.
Trusting God in Silence
It says, as I was thinking about this, when God is silent, we can trust him. Has there ever been a moment where you went to call someone and you sort of went to voicemail? And you were wondering if they were okay or what was going? Sometimes in our life, God can be silent.
And even in those moments, we can trust him. When we can't see what he's doing, it doesn't mean he's not working in our lives. You see, we must know that he knows our needs.
He hears our prayers. He sees us in distress. And he keeps his promises that he has given. We looked at this morning about the promises of Isaac and Jacob and Abraham in the Old Testament.
And we saw that God protected and God kept every single one of those promises. Even today, 4,500 years later, God is still keeping that promise on Israel.
And if God's going to keep that promise and he's promised to seal us and secure us in salvation until the day of deliverance, then we can also trust that promise as well. You see, in the ancient world, a prosperous city would build walls around their city.
They would build a makeshift way to protect them from the outside forces or outside evil.
But they would also build what was called strongholds. These strongholds were towers that were built at strategic locations around the city. And these towers were extra fortified. They were immensely fortified and they were built inside the walls.
These strongholds were so strong that some said that it only could be handled by just a couple of men controlling the stronghold. And they would be able to keep out full armies of people that were coming against them. The walls may have came down, but the strongholds stood.
And they would sometimes be able to fortify the city with those strongholds. And they said that these strongholds, until they were taken, the battle was not over.
The battle would continue to go on as long as someone was there in these strongholds holding the city together. You see, from the moment a person is born, the enemy is seeking to build strongholds in our lives.
He's wanting to build the stronghold of lying or lust or the pride of eyes or the pride of life. And the devil and the enemy wants to come in and wants to put a stronghold in our life. And Christ says, no, no, I'm coming to deliver you from those strongholds.
Because it doesn't matter what the devil has in our life. It needs to be torn down and rebuilt with a new stronghold. A new stronghold, as David says here, a stronghold of salvation for his anointed.
Evaluating Strongholds in Life
And as we begin to evaluate our life and we begin to look and see what is the strongholds in our life. Are they the strongholds of scripture? Are they the stronghold of worship and lament and thankfulness and salvation? Or are they some other man-made stronghold?
It could be that we are still struck in the stronghold of not knowing Christ as our personal savior. And we need to trust him today. It could be the stronghold of a sin or a temptation that's in our life that we fully haven't given over to God. But as David says,
God, you're my strength. And I need you to be the stronghold of my life, the stronghold of salvation, the stronghold of salvation for his anointed. Because I am your people. I am your possession. I am your sheep. And I need you to carry me in every way of my life.
And so as we begin to think of our life, where are we at this morning?
Is it that we just need to come and ask God to deliver us from sin? Or is it that God, we need to ask you to deliver me from an affliction that's in my life? Whatever it may need be in your life, the altars are open. Let's pray.
Lord, we love you. We thank you for what you've done. God, I thank you for this psalm. How much it's affected me this week.
How you've reminded me of your goodness. How you've reminded me of your strength so often. So God, I pray that you'll help us this morning. Help us to draw closer to you so that you will work in our life. We love you. In your name we pray. Amen.
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