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e e e e e e e e e e e good morning Household of Faith let's give the Lord a hand clap of Praise He's Worthy on this Lord's day amen amen young people are back in school the parents are rejoicing they've got some uh quiet time in the home if they're at home but again they don't stay at school they don't spend the night at school they have to come home don't they for those who are not in college and Beyond well we praise God and thank God for this Lord's day we want to uh certainly give thanks to him as uh we prepare to celebrate Labor Day on tomorrow and uh we thank praise God uh for the ability uh to Labor uh to earn resources so that we indeed can provide for our daily need Paul said that man should what work so that you can have something to share with one another and at this day and time there's a struggle there are young people who don't care to work but if one does not work they do not get to eat and we're seeing what's happening that if they do not work they find other means to uh have access uh to resources sometimes that put us in Jeopardy but nonetheless we still we going to thank God for the ability the power for us uh to work and to acquire the things that he would have us to have our praise and worship text comes from Psalm 147 this morning the text reads praise the Lord how good it is to sing praises to our God how pleasant and fitting to pray PR him he heals the Brokenhearted and binds up their wounds he determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name great is our Lord and mighty in power his understanding has no limit Praise Him the Lord sustains The Humble but he cast The Wicked to the ground sing to the Lord Lord with grateful praise make music to our guard on the heart he covers the sky with clouds he supplies the Earth with rain and makes grass grow on the Hills he provides food for the cattle and for the young Ravens when they call his pleasure is not in the strength of the horse nor his Delight in the legs of the warrior the Lord Delight in those who fear Him who put their hope in his unfailing love brothers and sisters let us extol the Lord Let Us Praise the god of our Zion bless His holy name Eternal God we come before you this morning and we acknowledge that praise truly is due you we pray your blessings upon our time of worship we pray your anointing upon the instruments of the voices of our singers and we're grateful father for the instrument of the drum to help keep beat but in spite of our musician being out today we bring him before you and pray that you'll touch his body but I pray that Lord even though he is out there's still that desire in our hearts to render you our full our best praise that we can offer you so we pray for your anointing right now upon these Services glorify yourself in and through all of us as we come before you we do thank you for truly you give us the power to get wealth the power to work and to earn the resources we need to provide for ourselves we pray that you'll continue to bless us to be good stewards and what you entrust to us we thank you for being called out of Darkness into your Marvelous Light we thank you that the times are dark but those who know you we walk in the light even in the midst of Earthly darkness and so we thank you you certainly provide a light for our our Pathways and because of that our feet will not be moved we continue to ask your blessings upon uh the nation as we find ourselves in the midst of another election but we would say to you that you are our God we put our faith we put our hope in you and in you alone your will be done and we can't tell you how to govern but we know that you are the Supreme governor and you will do those things that will honor and glorify you and so we present certainly all these things to you and know that you will glorify yourself you will edify us build us up and supply all of our needs according to your riches in glory in Christ Jesus bless now this time help us to praise you for you are worthy to be praised bless this time now we ask in jesus' name and in his name alone get glory to yourself amen M Pastor you can come on and join us please we have a mic for you amen glory to God will you stand with us please as we bless his name I can see we already in gear for a awesome moment of Praise amen we just got we sometimes you have to take it old school when it was the foot clapping the foot stomping and the Clapping of hand you know just voices it doesn't hurt to just give him your voice this morning amen so join in with us as we bless his name I just want to praise you that should be your testimony amen you should just want to praise him for all the good and wonderful things that he does for us amen he is a good god he's a wonderful father it should make us just want to praise him just automatically Want To Praise Him amen glory to God join in with us I just want to praise you forever and ever and ever for all you done for [Music] me blessings and glory and honor they all belong to you thank you Jesus for blessing [Music] me I just want to praise you forever [Music] and ever and ever for all you done for [Music] me blessings and glory and honor they all belong to you thank you Jesus for bless in me I just want to bless you forever and ever and ever for all you've done for [Music] me blessings and glory and honor they are all belongs to you thank you Jesus for bless me I just want to thank you forever and ever and ever for all you done for me blessings and glory and honor they all belong to you thank you Jesus for blessing me blessings and glory and honor they all belongs to you blessings and glory and honor they all belongs to you blessings and glory and honor they all belongs to you thank you Jesus for [Music] bless amen thank you Jesus for blessing me amen he truly is a that kind of God that bless us in spite of Amen we haven't been the best but yet and still does great things for us and to us amen oh give thanks and I give him thanks I may not have been the best this week but I thank God for right now giving me an opportunity to just pray praise His name I have to deal with some fiery Little People sometime it pulled me out of myself but I thank God for his Blessing amen oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good amen join in with us oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good for he is worthy wory for he is good yes he is good for he is worthy worthy for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good for he is worthy worthy for he is good yes he is good for he is worthy worthy for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good yes he is good for he is worthy worthy for he is good yes he is good for he is worthy worthy for he is good yes he is good for he is good yes he is good for he is good yes he is good for he is good yes he is good amen glory to God for he is good yes he is good you may be seated in The Wonderful Name of Jesus amen amen there we go good morning to everyone as we continue on in the name of the Lord we ask you to review the back of the book bulletin for our weekly events we remind you of our 24-hour prayer on Tuesdays every Tuesday and also our Wednesday night prayer call and bible study we remind you also that the co numbers are uh continually going up and so we're just asking you to be very careful also we're reminding you that you have any respiratory symptoms like a cold or cough or runny nose that you wear masks to the services or that you uh remain at home and watch the services online we do uh also remind you a way to give you can give by cash app at with the dollar sign hfc Ministries or by PayPal through our website in person with the back of in the back of the uh Sanctuary the basket is there and also by mail we say happy birthday to those celebrating in September Christen mckenny September the 10th Janet deeso September 18th viian Herby September 19th and Ron Marshall September 21st amen and we say happy anniversary to those celebrating in uh September Ron and Kamika Marshall September 3rd and that should be seven years instead of six and we will get that corrected and also Crystal and James Williams I believe that's five years is that correct all right five years years on September 29th and we do just uh want us let Miss Baskin know we remember that you are going to be celebrating 70 years this year so we do uh love you and we just remember uh brother James and we keep you in our prayers and we just thank God for The Godly example that you all have been all these years amen amen that completes our announcements and we'll now turn it over to our pastor Sister Lisa for ministering the announcements praise God praise God praise God we so excited to say don't cheat them out of their anniversary years you heard what uh Pastor neighbors uh said last Sunday say five we get you 64 so y'all are well on your way you you're at 5 and then run at Kamika or at s so they're on their way to 64 praise God there's something to be excited about it's good for us to be in the house of the Lord on this Lord's day we are indeed grateful to him as the summer comes to an end I guess um tomorrow we celebrating the last summer vacation opportunity and if you have the opportunity to seize that moment I'll take advantage of it but as you come and go make certain that you're mindful as Sister Lisa shared that the co numbers are indeed increasing and um let's be mindful of that we was talking to one of our sisters during the week and she had informed us that she had Co but praise be to God and it's not one of my blood sisters but a member of the body of Christ that I call her name you a Noah um but let's just be mindful going back and forth to the doctor's office going to work out uh certainly no matter where you go be on uh guard keep your mask with you and when you need to put it on it's okay amen amen amen let us love one another I love you I want you to love me but I don't want what you got amen amen so uh God indeed is good let's just be in prayer for one another one thing I've learned in life that we are quick uh to judge and I guess during the week I had to deal with the Lord uh you know on a particular issue and the Lord is just good and what I came out of the experience in in um I guess realizing was this that God does what he wants to do and we just have to yield to him and what I'm learning I've got to stop judging because I don't know what God is doing in anybody's life you know but he does and so and he surprises us he'll knock our socks off when it comes to really Fring what was going on and we just have to uh go back to God and say Lord I Repent uh have mercy on me you God and it's to you that your servant stands a fall and so again let us be mindful of that uh because we know we live at a time where that we are dealing with significant division among indonation and that is uh true for the body of Christ but the Ser say how good it is for the people of God to dwell together in a spirit of unity and so let us allow the spirit to fill us that we might bring glory to God by walking in love with one another at this time we're going to invite the young people to come so that we can dismiss them to children church amen amen young people comeing to children's church amen amen amen if you're fifth grade and under you can come but if you don't pass the fifth grade y'all got to sit in here and listen to Pastor amen amen but let him come let him come and experience it come on come on come on experience come on you you may be able to help them teach them something down there we want you to get exposed come on big man come on don't be shy amen look at there look at there look at there look at there God is good isn't he yeah give thanks all right I'll hurry up let us pray father we love you we praise you and we thank you for this Lord's day thank you for this time of Celebration this time of celebrating our children Lord by ministering to them from your word thank you for the hearts that you have given our teachers to love our young people bless now their time we commend them to your care anoint uh then we pray and we ask this in Christ's name amen amen amen and we've got some high schoolers stepping up and wanting to be a part of that and uh that's exciting that is exciting amen amen God is good ex me it's always good to have a fall back plan when technology won't work amen amen amen I get there yall pray say help them Lord they he heard your prayer he heard your prayer amen amen but this morning I'm going to certainly share with you from God's word and again a message that I am going to repeat there are some messages that uh I repeat um probably every two or three years because they're very important very significant one of the messages has to do with Matthew 6:33 reminding us to always seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things what will be added to us and so today we are going to consider another message from the word of God turn with me to the Gospel of John chapter 6 Gospel of John chapter 6en John chapter 6 beginning at the 22nd verse the next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples but that they had gone away alone then some boats from tiberious landed near the plates where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there they got into the boats and went to capernum in search of Jesus when they found him on the other side of the lake they asked him whereby when did you get here Jesus answered verely very truly I tell you you are looking for me not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the Loaves and had your feeld do not work for the food that spoils but for food that endures to eternal life which the son of man will give of you for on him God the father has placed his seal of the the word of the Living God father we do praise you we bless you and we thank you for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ thank you for who he is to us he's savior but not only is he savior but he's supplier he is also sustainer glory be to you thank you for loving us bless us now encourage our hearts help us to remember that we are greatly beloved of you and we thank you for this in Jesus name amen I want to U speak to you from the portion why Seek You Jesus you all are present here today but why have you come to worship today why why Seek You Jesus and I will submit to you that this is an essential question that must be pondered Often by all who would seek Jesus why do I seek the Lord a lot is in our lives but what's the true reason that we are seeking the Lord the answer to this question reveals the depth of one's spiritual understanding it's about the spirit and not necessarily about the flesh or the natural things that we contend with many have knowledge of spiritual truth but lack spiritual understanding knowledge is one thing but understanding is all together different that's why Paul would pray that the Lord would give us a spirit of wisdom and understanding so that we may what know him better why Seek You Jesus why do you pray to him why do you read his word why do you worship Him and why do you serve him ponder that question ask yourself why do I seek Jesus these verses contain an I am of Christ where he declares himself to be the bread of life one of the many I AMS but he wanted the people to know that he was the bread of life and he is speaking of a different bread than we generally tend to go to the grocery store and purchase it's a spiritual bread uh that he is making reference to this discourse follows the Epic event of feeding the 5000 the miracle reminds us that Jesus is able to stretch any resources we may have to meet our needs no matter how Frugal your resources are he's able to stretch them so that our needs will be met we we we get a little anxious at time but when we learn to trust the Lord the Lord knows how to multiply that which we do have so learn how to put things in the Master's hands afterwards they attempted to make him King having blessed them having provided daily food they wanted a king somebody to look out for them to provide their daily substenance but Christ did not come to just provide them with physical bread there was a spiritual bread that they needed and we need that today we need the spiritual bread so that when our physical bread is running a little short we don't have to fear we know the Lord will provide by and by and I and there are those of us who are among us today who know the Lord has done that when it appeared our bread our money was running low we still made it through why because the Lord saw us through during those times yes they attempted to make him king after rejecting their attempt Jesus Departed the area walking on water to meet his disciples on the lake what an event walking on water he was letting us know that there are uh really the laws that we are subject to but there is no law that he is not subject to he who what made all laws established all laws is above them my brothers and sisters able to walk on water to his disciples and while he was walking they thought it was the ghost but he said do not be afraid it is I I am the Lord your God who is coming to you and and you know the story when Peter saw that Peter said Lord let me come to you Peter was a Peter was always wanting to try out something new and I said to you don't be scared to trust the Lord to try the things that you believe he would want you to experience Peter stepped out of the boat beginning began to what walk on water and as the storm be became boisterous he became afraid and began to sink but as long as his eyes was on the master he was able to walk on water and and and it's like that for us that when we're going through different things in our lives and the Lord say uh come to me and and we step out in faith and begin to come to him but it appears things are getting a little worse and we take our eyes off of him and when we do that we begin to sink uh in our anxiety in our troubles forgetting that who it was who asked us to trust him and to come to him but as Peter begin to sink Peter said Lord save me and even when when you have missed the mark and fail to trust him still know that there's a way out all you have to do is say Lord save me when you say that you're acknowledging Lord I have failed you I didn't trust you but I still believe that you can save me and the Lord reached out to Peter now from the text it doesn't say that the Lord reached down and picked Peter up and put him back in the boat how did he get back in the boat he had to do what he had to walk on water again once the Lord reached out and tou he had the capacity to walk on water to get back to the boat so kind of look at that and see uh how the Lord can impact your life that when you have missed tomorrow stay encouraged when we begin to look at it we wonder Lord we're about to drown in this situation but the Lord want us to know as long as he is with you you will not drown just reach out your hand and he will take your hand and he will bring you out of that situation amen so you ought to be praising him right now because he's done that he's done that for all of us and he's truly worthy to be prayed now I'm not supposed to be uh preaching about Peter walking on the water amen uh but still we need to be encouraged by that after joining them in the boat they crossed over to uh Janessa the next day the people came seeking him seeking Jesus is a good thing it is the thing that God commands and Mankind needs most of all we are to be seeking the Lord we're in trouble today we're in trouble today because we have not been seeking the Lord the way we should have and all of us can attest to that and agree Lord we have fallen short we we we try we we're committed to it we desire to do it but again but so many things tend to distract us and compete with us seeking the Lord but again pray ask God to help help you to seek him to be faithful to be consistent in seeking him and it doesn't have to be that I I I got to seek Him for 30 minutes at a time just walking just living life every day Lord as I move right here I'm seeking you I'm Desiring you I I know my mind May Wonder but but my desire is you above all things God knows our hearts he knows our hearts and then and if we are sincere he will still come to us he still with Grace Us Praise His Name seek means to search him out when things get bad and you can't call M and dad you can't call your neighbor who you going to call not Ghostbuster but you going to call Jesus amen you need to know who to call you in trouble out here who are you going to call you better call Jesus he does hear and anwers prayer we are told in scripture to seek the Lord while he Mak be found call on him while he is near Isaiah 556 we just finished going through that particular chapter in 2 Chronicles 7:14 the prophet wrote seek the Lord while he may be found that's going back to Isaiah but in uh 2 Chronicles he says if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray and seek my face see you got to humble yourself it's a little embarrassing when you have messed up uh and you don't want anybody to know but guess what you can't hide it from the Lord because he already knows where you are he already knows that you have missed the mark and so we just have to Humble ourselves and go to him and say Lord forgive me like a child we have to go to him and know that when we go to him he certainly will forgive us he will assist us and bless us and then the Hebrew writer would say God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him we have to make that our business we have to be faithful that we are seeking the Lord I wish we could seek Him 24/7 but in our spirit we can but we still need to make a commitment on on a daily basis that we're spending some time with the Lord we're spending some time seeking the Lord I I I I I I I'm excited about what God is doing because again for me personally and I'm supposed to be pastor and preacher but I still have responsibilities in life and I look forward when I have the time to just be able to come apart to sit in my favorite seat and just hang out with the Lord It's a blessing it's a joy it's a great delight and what happens is when I sit in his presence when I come apart he gives me peace and he lets me know everything is going to be all right because at the end of the day who has it God has it all God has it all and and and I'm going to preach a sermon on this coming up and it has to do with the fact that God is always at work I say he is always at work you I can't be all at work all the time but God is at work all the time he neither sleeps nor Slumbers or we wish we had that kind of power ability but he doesn't we don't he said he gives us what his rest he gives us rest brother so that while we're sleeping he's keeping the city while we are struggling he helps us build the house we have to learn to rely on the power of God seeking Jesus is a good thing but why do you seek him I told the story about uh Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression how he came up with the New Deal and one of the most important programs of the new deal was Social Security and right now we're praising and thanking God for Social Security if you haven't retired yet you better pray that Social Security will be around Hallelujah for those of us who have retired and we uh uh go to the mailbox we don't go to the mailbox anymore we just check our bank account we have direct deposit praise be to God don't have to worry about somebody coming to my mailbox and take him a check out young folk y'all need to be uh mindful that Social Security may not be available to you and so now you need to be seeking the Lord and he needs to be giving you wisdom and a spirit of stewardship and discipline so that you can provide for your retirement but those of us who are retired oh man we're praising God Social Security was established to provide supplemental income for retirees disabled persons widows and orphans what a deal the people in our story saw Jesus as a new deal as well and he is a new deal amen if you know you ought to be praising him they saw him as one who was able to address their hardships and therefore they sought him when you know where to seek help you need to make certain that you seek him they came seeking social security security for daily living Jesus however was not offering Social Security he was offering something much better much needed and that was spiritual security we need spiritual security because we have to understand this social security has its place its place is temporal it only satisfies the natural spiritual security occupies a loftier grander nobler place in our lives its place is eternal it satisfies both the soul and the flesh Social Security does not necessarily INSP imply spiritual security however spiritual security always and in all instances implies uh social or spiritual security David had it right and on last Sunday Pastor nebor said it well he's 84 he said I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging bread you see when you have spiritual security you also have social security amen it may not be that of the new deal but Jesus want to know he has his own New Deal and if you learn to seek him uh your needs will be met every month I say every month as long as it says what seed time and harvest your needs will be met praise be to God I say your knees Mets not your WS amen we've got a lot of WS wants uh but his focus is not on our wants his focus is on our needs and we need to get that figured out what's more important my wants or my needs and we live at a time where people take care of their wants and then can meet their needs and we need to reverse that order because when I know I got my knes SM I may not get what I want but it's good to go home knowing that there's some f food in the pantry something to drink in the refrigerator uh praise be to God I got lights I got air condition I'm rejoicing over there I'm celebrating that I may not have the finest car in the world but when I go home I'm praising God I don't live in my car I use it to get from point A to point B but I do stay in my house I do live at home with glor and it's a joy to be able to know that when I get home everything is going to be all right amen I'm going to have what I need uh to make that house a home all by the power of God and him alone the gospel message of today has the overtones of Social Security more so than spiritual security we want to hear from the poor pit that God is going to provide our daily bread but I mentioned to you earlier Matthew uh 6:33 said put him first and he will provide he will supply those things that we need he Delights in blessing us I like to tell the story I like peanut butter and jelly it's one thing to have some peanut butter oh but it's a blessing to put a little jelly on it makes it sweeter doesn't it oh I can sit down and I can enjoy I get a peanut butter jelly sandwich during the week now I'm not just saying that Glory I tell you I eat my peanut butter and jelly because for nothing that's will suffice I've got something that will sustain me praise be to God the simple things we have to learn to appreciate the simple things in life they bless us the world have us running at all of these other things but to just have our daily bread Supply is a gift from God is a blessing from God because there are a lot of people who do not have their daily need Supply we see them out here we know some we've been in that situ sitation before but our needs were not meant but when the Lord brought us out we committed that we're going to do the right thing and we start off well but we have to understand the flesh we have to understand the Temptation they're great out here they're great but the more the Lord matures you the more he sanctifies us then the more we have the discipline to put things in proper order in proper order major shift has taken place in Christian Theology and Christian thinking whereby the focus has Chang from man serving God to God serving man and the question comes to mind Lord we used it used to be Lord what would you have me to do has been replaced with Lord this is what I would have you to do we have reversed order it's not about being like Saul on the Mas is rooll when the Lord certain me knocked him off his Beast his words with Lord what would you have me to do we're doing the opposite we're now going man we're bold Lord this is and we and people teach this go tell them what you want it's not necessarily about what I want it is Lord what do you want from me your son from me your daughter and if we get that right he will supply all of our needs according to his riches and Glory yes he will yes he will aw TOA writes in his essay man The Dwelling Place of God that popular Christianity has as one of its most effective talking points the idea that God exists to help people to get ahead in this world that's what about I want you to get ahead I'm concerned that you all your needs will be met no I'm concerned that you'll know the master I'm concerned that you will seek him on a daily basis and if you do that he will meet your needs he'll save us from ourselves amen I say he'll save us from ourselves there are times when we wish the Lord would have stepped in and helped us make better decisions amen I'm like when you make a decision and you get down the line you realize it wasn't the best decision and you say to yourself Lord where were you Lord why didn't you check me on that situation he said I he probably would say I was but you were insensitive to the spirit oh I've been hollering but you didn't hear but he really doesn't holler that's that what small still voice and you have to get where it's quiet so that you can hear him speak praise be to God let me push on Amen Jesus dispels this notion this idea in our text under consideration that it's not about getting a head in life we began with the pursuit of Jesus listen to verses 24 and 25 once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there they got into the boats and went to capernum in search of Jesus when they found him on the other side of the lake they asked Rabbi when did you get here when did you get here Lord we've been looking for you the people were willing to go to Great length to seek Jesus they found boats across the lake not knowing what the weather conditions would be when they arrived on the other side they searched until they found him when they found him it was a moment of great joy they were very complimentary Rabbi which means great one when did you get here they thought they were about to get another meal but he wasn't about giving them another meal but look at the length that they went through to seek Jesus do we not sometimes go through that those great length just trying to get stuff in this world rather than really being committed to the Lord rather than Desiring to be filled with his Spirit to live lives that are pleasing to him to be wise to be disciplined to be consistent in our daily walk we will move mountains to get this stuff and and I've seen where sometimes when we perhaps do not do our best with our resources and we began to ask others for some assistance and if they say no guess what you ain't my friend anymore I thought you were my brother I thought you were my sister but if you don't learn to say no y'all both will be in the same boat amen and if y'all both end up in the sa boat who's going to save you who's going to save you one old preacher Mt King Carter uh tells a story about uh he had a niece wanted some money he was saying she was always talking about she was waiting on her ship to come in and he asking when is your ship coming in and and again she misunderstood what was really the essence of being a Believer and Matt King Carter realized something he said now if I was in need there's no one in my family who could give me $500 and so I had to say this to you it is important to be a good Steward because these do come up and it has and they and they come up not because you have what misuse your resources it just happened but it's good to have something to to help somebody else through a difficult time it's a blessing to be able to be a blessing to somebody else and so when you live life you don't live life consuming everything on yourself man you want to have resources to be a blessing so when the Lord touch your heart when the Lord leads you by the spirit to help somebody else you're are able to help somebody else it's not always about us Paul said look not only on your own things but also on the things of others we have to be concerned about one another because the truth of the matter is is needs are going to come up and if everybody is spending everything they have then we're going to be in a world of hurt amen but if somebody's being spiritually minded praise be to God then praise God you may be blessed you may indeed be helped Jesus certainly in responding uh to their Pursuit answers their question Lord when did you get here speaks of his perceptiveness Jesus answered I tell you the truth you're looking for me and this is where the rber Misa Roe not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the Loaves and had your field we're not here worshiping today because we we we know Jesus to be the Son of God to know that Jesus indeed uh birth was incarnate it it was a miraculous birth evidencing that he was the son of God now we'll hear sometime because Lord we got some needs I got to go to church today and and and and and and and do some worshiping because they told me that when Praises go up blessings come down Hallelujah heav we bought into that and so we come oh we going to praise today so that by the time we out the blessings going to start flowing they going to be showed upon us that's not why we come we come to worship and praise him even if we have to live out today and our physical situation has even changed it may be a week down the road it may be a month down the road but what we want to get right we're not praising him for the things he can give us we're praising him because he's God and we just finish singing he's worthy he's worthy of Praise he's worthy of Praise well Pastor isn't it right for us to ask the Lord to help Supply our need yes it is but you have to first of all remember the process seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added we get it wrong we get it wrong and we want to get it right we want to get it right because the Lord want us to be good still he said I've been blessing you but if you learn to trust me if you learn to allow me to lead and guide you then I will what multiply the seed that has been sown I help you put it in the right places amen and that's what we want don't we we we want to be able to make solid decisions good decisions about the resources that would do the most good for us and he will do that only if we trust him seeking Jesus is a very serious matter it is important to seek Jesus on his terms who's God who's God Jesus is we're his what humble servants He Who is is omnition knows the true thoughts and intents of our hearts if our moment is the byproduct of error false Doctrine a lack of understanding the Lord will not permit us to continue in ignorance he will correct us on the spot see God wants us to worship Him from a position of truth from a position of knowledge and the Lord doesn't mind he's a good teacher I say he's a good teacher and and you've been in the classroom and sometimes the teacher has had to be a little hard on us because we can be hardheaded and sometime and we don't like it but you get down the road had a teacher that taught electronics and he and his son were good friend uh his son and I were good friends brother I gotta be out of that class one time I wasn't doing everything I needed to do and I was a little upset I said he knows what kind of gu I am what kind of work I do but the Lord would min Len to me later on and say you needed that because you needed to get your act together amen you can't continue to live on what you did in the past you have to be consistent when you're consistent God will honor that amen Len that right Vita went through college and didn't make a be that's bad there girl amen we're going to sit at her feet amen and learn I'm just messing I'm putting your business out here but you're all good you're you're good but again but the lesson had to be taught me I need to be consistent CU sometime things get to go good and we let our guard and we we we are right for f think about the Rich Young Ruler had good morals good theology good resources they sought him not because he taught them but because he fear them many followed Christ Lo and not because he is L if you're going to follow him follow him because he's L the highest motive for seeking Jesus is spiritual not Material James wrote in his epistle you want something but you don't get it you kill and cover but you cannot have what you want you quarrel and fight you do not uh have because you do not ask God when you ask you you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you get on your pleasures so we're asking but the Lord already know our heart and what we're going to do with it and then and and because he understand that he doesn't support he doesn't provide because our motives are what wrong and so we have to always be engaged in asking the Lord Lord help me to examine myself why do I want this that of the other the last thing we want to do is end up being subject to the lender because the bar will ultimately become what slave to the lender slave to the lender I may have told this story already but a young man was telling me that he applied for a job and when they uh checked his credit score they discovered that he didn't have any debt and and and and they would not hire the hir manager said well if you had some debt we probably would have hired you because we understand that as long as you were in debt you will you'll stay there and you'll work the job because you're not in debt you can leave anytime you want and I'm going tell you it's a good feeling to not be so dead latent to where you can't make a move that you got to stick it out even though you know it is not the Blessed situation so always make certain that if you walk with God he'll put you in a position of strength so if he needs to move you he can move you and you will not be bound to the lender praise be to God something to think about it it's easy for me to preach about it but certainly it is a task when some of us our wages are not what they should be and we just we're doing the best we can to make it but even with that if you trust the Lord he'll show you how to get more mileage out of what it is that you have the scripture say he will multiply the seed s and we all need our seed multiplied I believe everybody in here need their seed multiplied amen none of us are so rich that we don't need our seed multiply and God will do it amen so we all are in the same boat we all in the same boat the numbers are startling uh and they are they would say like 6% of working Americans live paycheck to paycheck that's a large percentage of the American working uh population and and and we all some of us are there some of us have been there but when you know Christ when you know Christ he he'll be with you economy may go sour but Christ's economy never is sour if you stick with him you still have your needs met praise be to God you have your needs met God praise the Lord certainly Jesus want us to understand understand that he needs to be the priority the last thought and I'm done do not work for food that spoils but for food that endures to eternal life which the son of man will give you on him God the father has placed his seal of approval oh what a word what a word Jesus pointed out that there are two types of food food for the body which is necessary but not the most important and there's food for the soul the spirit which is essential what the people needed was not food but life and life is a gift food only sustains life but Jesus gives eternal life he gives eternal life and that is what we need most of all when we have been saved Sanctified set apart life open opens up to us we are able to see behind the roots of people selling things we God allows us to see how the money changes work to ens snare us and he will teach us I can get 10,000 more miles out of my vehicle right now I don't need a newcomer Amen brother NE would laugh at me sometime cuz my be here cuz they last at least 15 years hey hey when I pay that note off I'm not ready to go get another note man I want some freedom from that note cuz those notes come around fast and they last a long time amen oh yeah I I've been there one vehicle K 26 years that's right 26 years praise God I be calculating you better learn to calculate as jeffro bod would say to Cipher he us talk about ciphering get to Cipher and figure this thing out God is good stop looking at other people Cardinal are very expensive on average now on 40 or $50,000 you're going to be paay almost ,000 a month for a vehicle it's asine it's crazy and the Lord will show you I don't need a brand new vehicle let somebody else depreciate it then I'll go in and get it and pay half for that amen so you got to know how to work the system and not allowed a system to work you that's a talk for another day amen let me finish up I got on a so Jesus said do not store for yourselves and I'm done Treasures on Earth where moth and rths Destroy and where thev break in and steal but store for yourselves Treasures in Heaven where moth and rths do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal for where your treasure is for where your treasure is what do you treasure look at what Jesus said there your heart will be also whatever you treasure your heart will be there your heart will be there and and and and I I I ask you to do this take time to your to do your own self assessment Amen to see where your heart really is to see what you really treasure amen nobody has to do it for do do do do it yourself and you'll be surprised you'll be surprised that our hearts are not where we think they are amen they truly not but again the Lord will help change us I say he'll help change us learn it early young people learn it early young people you don't have to fill your house up with with with uh furniture and stuff soon as you get it take your time I say take your time it's important when we first moved in we had a a bedroom suit we had a kitchen table and I had some old furniture to put in the den and if people came on we put some shears up at the window we didn't have curtains shears and and GL now we sit down and talk if anybody come in here don't like what we have let them donate let them donate here's a side of she what you want us to have but but if but until God provided we were not going to do that amen we were not going to do it guard your hearts pursuing riches and reputation about Jesus is unwise and unproductive his way is best his way is perfect his way lead to eternal life Jesus says in Jeremiah 29:13 bring them on you shall seek me and find me and you have searched for me with all your heart give the Lord a hand clap of Praise as we prepare to worship I I know I've been meddling today but medal don't they SE will you come SE will you come be a part of us can let us prepare now to Worship the Lord by celebrating his table we think about his table represents what he did for us we are Sons and Daughters of the most high God table this we will have a right to eternal life don't work reading the biblical account for I received from the Lord but I also passed on to you the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread when he had given things he broke it and said this is my body to you do this in remance of me in the same way after supper he took the cup this cup is the New Covenant in my blood do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me for whoever for whenever rather you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes praise God for his word y will let us bow our head please for a word of prayer we come this afternoon father remembering the life death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and after hearing the written account Master we pause to examine ourselves father and in doing so we just would ask you to forgive us of all our sins and our unrighteousness father and to make us worthy father to clean our hearts so that we will be able to eat from your table father now Master please bless the bread which represents Christ's body that was bruised and beaten and the blood that represents uh and his blood that was shed it for the remissions of our sins in Jesus Christ's name we do ask it all amen all the BL all the blood all BL [Music] know [Music] Jesus me Jesus told me the the blood my name that's something to Rejoice over this table represents the blood sign our now our names are what written down praise today pass over the lamb he took the bread LIF to Heaven blessed it broke it and said take eat this is my body given to you right now he took the cup blessing it represents the shedding of my blood for the remission of sin for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of drink the after supper son of him let me just say we praise God and thank God for his Spirit his Spirit has led us today we have worshiped and praised the Lord didn't have all the instruments but we had our drama with us lord said I've anointed him to set the time so that you can pour out of your hearts sing praise to me and use your vocal instruments it's good for us to use our vocal instrument why would not want the rocks to cry myste amen know y'all were laughing at my singing but guess what I'm going to sing inhow songong 100 said make a joy for Noise unto the Lord All Ye Lands God is a good god and we love him thank God for all of you for your faithfulness say to you keep seeking the Lord keep seeking the Lord keep having faith in him keep trusting him asking him help lead and guide you through the power of the holy spirit so that your Liv will bring glory honor praise you're going to have life challenges no amount of worship is going to change Jesus had them if Jesus had them why do we think we should be excused for PA would say that I may know him power of his resurrection the fellowship the fellowship I say The Fellowship of sharing in his what in his sufferings man we're going through guess what we're fellowshipping with the Lord and the Lord is just letting us know I'm right here with you I know you're pain I feel your pain and I will never leave you nor forsake you let us stand as we prepare to your final remarks and addiction enjoy your day off praise and thank God for employment continue to pray and ask God to help you be good stewards all of us can do a better job from the pull pit to the back door all of us in this together love one another thank God for your family thank God for family you need family the older we get the more we realize that we need one another sometimes our children think that they've got to help us in our old age but along the way we have to help them amen we we we need one another every step along the way learn to love one another let us stop judging one another loving one another there only one who judges right rightly that is the Lord I'm guilty know how to crawl back tail between my legs so to speak Lord forgive me miss that all together I won't try I won't try to be you again I just do what I'm let us pray father we love you we praise you certainly you are good say thank you thank you Christ his sacrificial death for I was s to bring you Glory thank you that we could celebrate your table today what an awesome salvation we do have let us not just praise you on Sunday but may we always have Praise on our lips giving thanks to you for all that we do you are an awesome God we thank you that you are with us life gets challenging at times and and that's the God's truth I wish we were so spiritual Lord that when something uh would come up we just like but you knew what you were do you knew that we would need you not sometime but all the time and it's good to be reminded that we need you each and every day and it's a good thing it's a Grace thing we say thank you thank you for this your people Blessed Be we cover us all thank you for your Darling Angels you have given charge over us to keeping us for the spirit of the Living God not only is around us but he is in us and his charge is to lead and guide us into all truth give us ears to hear eyes that see and a heart that understand and we will be eternally grateful to you bless the giving of your people now thank you for the ability you have given all of us to labor and earn that we might be able to have something to give we acknowledge your goodness and your grace receive now of benediction now unto you King Eternal Immortal invisible the only wise God the honor and Glory majesty and power now and forever amen amen amen man