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Don't you feel the presence of the Lord? There is such a focus from the people of God. I know you know, it's been a time in the last several weeks or even month of the church seeking the Lord, praying for the Lord's will, and just wanting wanting what the Lord wants for this church.

And um I'm so happy to hear that there was I think 47 people showed up. All of you took time on a Monday night to come out because you care about the future of this this church. And I'm just grateful that folks are engaged and locked in.

We're not going to be a great church if people don't care about their church. Just not. So uh several years ago uh right about initially when I got here, Brother Lee was um in the hospital and he was uh laid up with his back.

Forgive me, you may be seated. He was laid up with his back and uh was just kind of on a bunch of pain meds and um we had a long conversation. I had he just was kind of you know giving me the old up and down, trying to interview me and get to know me and you know, see what my intentions were and all the stuff that you know many of you have probably tried to do in the last couple of years or I hope um hope at some point in time get to do which is just get to know us.

But he was kind of going through this and he he just finally stopped and just said, "You know, are you are you called to be here?" Remember that conversation? And um I know what he wanted me to say. He wanted me to say "Yes, I'm called to be here." Um and I told him I said, "But really um I'm I would not be here if I didn't think this was the direction that the Lord wanted for our family.

That's the whole reason why we're here. We don't want to do anything just for our own liking or our own flesh. I said, "But I I you know, I I believe that the church calls.

That it's the responsibility of the church uh to call their their pastor, to call their leader. And that that comes uh through the vote. Through you all coming together, praying, seeking the Lord and saying, "We're all going to agree that this is going to be a decision that we're going to make and we're going to we're going to vote on it and we're going to live with that decision." So on Monday night it was my understanding that it was about a 60% vote, which is uh 60% for yes and around 40% plus minus a little bit for no's.

Um so it wasn't a a unanimous vote, but it was a call from the body. And our family, our answer to the call is yes, that we want to be here with this church. We believe in this church.

And um we believe Yeah, thank thanks for doing You don't have to do that, please. Please don't please don't Then people have to stay seated if they don't want it. Just you know, thank thank you for your kindness.

I mean for that. But I I um I I don't it doesn't bother me that there were any no's because I feel like it's an attack against me or it hurts me. There's a lot of people and a lot of reasons that people can say no, but I I just want to be really clear about this.

I I don't know who said no. And secondarily, I don't know why they said no. Uh so there there can be a multitude of reasons.

I can't be taller. If if you said no because I'm not tall enough, I got nothing for you. I can't do it.

If you said no because you don't trust us, I want to earn your trust. If you said no because you're just not quite sure and there just wasn't enough time, whatever that reason might be, I care deeply about everybody in this room and I don't care less who said yes or who said no. I'm just telling you that sincerely.

I mean that in my bones. I'm just glad you came out and did your job. You prayed, you fasted, you cared about the future of your church, and you engaged in that and I'm grateful for it.

And um I'm going to do my best to serve this church through uh preaching, teaching, discipling, and uh hopefully empowering people to do their to do their uh use their giftings for the further furtherance of God's kingdom. So, thank you to the church body. I'll do my best and of course, thank you to Pastor Jan and uh his bringing us in.

We're grateful for that and just grateful for this church body. How about some uh teaching of the Bible? We okay with that now?

We got that over with and um maybe before we do that we can just greet one another and shake somebody's hand and just tell them that you're glad that they're here cuz I want to shake some of your hands. Appreciate that. >> We love you, Pastor Murray.

>> I love you. >> Amen. >> Love you.

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>> Amen. So, folks are returning to their seats and uh So, we're going to just continue to study uh the book of Acts. Up to this point, we went through Acts chapter 1.

We talked about the mission of the church, how the church is really uh directed by Jesus to take this gospel to the whole world. So, this is not just for us as a specific group of people. It's not just for the people within these walls.

Uh our mission is for all of Rock Hill. Our mission is for surrounding communities where all of our church family is from. And of course, even as we think about our responsibility as given towards missions, our responsibility is to the entire world.

So, that's our that's our our goal is to, of course, fulfill that mission, and we get that mission from Acts chapter 1. God also told them how that mission was going to be fueled. How are we going to fuel the mission that Christ wants us to fulfill, which is taking this gospel to the whole world?

Well, we're going to be fueled by the Spirit. It's going to be the Spirit that does the work. Uh we will burn out.

We cannot do it on our own. We don't have enough power, and all it will be is humanism. It'll just be humans trying to solve human problems without the Spirit.

But, by the power of the Spirit, we're already seeing in Acts chapter 2 how the church can begin to multiply. So, you can start with 120 that were there waiting on the day of Pentecost, 120 turned into 3,000 uh after the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. So, the Spirit is what makes the difference, and we immediately see that.

Of course, our message is there in Acts chapter 2. How do we respond to this gospel? Of course, we preach the message of Christ, his death, burial, and resurrection.

And our call, or our response to that message, is to repent, turn towards Jesus Christ, put our faith in Jesus Christ, to be baptized in his saving name, and of course, he will fill us with his Spirit. So, we can now be a part of that mission. So, now we are approaching from Acts chapter 2 the next phase of the mission, which is a continuation of the ministry of Jesus.

So, all the church is doing is a continuation of the ministry of Jesus, which is to preach his words that he has spoken, and to do his acts, or deeds is is a uh what you might call them, but acts, the Acts of the Apostles. So, we begin to see in Acts chapter C chapter 3, the the early church both preaching and doing deeds like Jesus did. So, we see that in Acts chapter 3, which we're going to read verses 1 through 12.

I'll read you this text. We won't read the whole chapter. We're just focusing on this first kind of segment.

And it says this, "Now, Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour." Now, they're going to the temple because Peter and John, even though he stood up on the day of Pentecost, and he said it's for you and your children and all that are afar off, in other words, by afar off, he was prophetically speaking about the Gentiles, everyone in the whole entire world, even though that was his message, it hadn't sunk in to Peter yet. So, they're going to the temple first because they're just reaching Jews. Why Where is the temple?

The temple's not a church. The temple is for Jewish people to come together and worship. Now, even Paul, as we'll learn later, still went to the temple because the idea was I'm going to start with people that are at least a little warmer to the message of Christ.

That's not exactly what's going on with Peter and John here. They don't even know that this is for the Gentiles yet. So, they go to the temple.

Now, they're at the temple being the ninth hour. And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid at the gate of the temple, which is called beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple, who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, "Look on us." And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

Then Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood and walked and entered into the temple walking and leaping and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God and they knew not what was who it was that or who knew not that it was he that would sat at the alms at the gate beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. In other words, they knew, forgive me, I clunked through that. They knew this was the guy that sat at the gate.

That's the point. And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John and all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's porch greatly wondering. And when Peter saw it he answered unto the people, "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this and why look ye so earnestly on us as through by our own power or holiness we had made this man walk." So, I want to talk about that what's it's called a pericope.

It's just a portion of scripture. It's what it's a fancy word that they use to talk about a portion of scripture that's kind of packaged together uh as a story. So, I want to talk about this specific uh portion of Acts chapter 3.

The second half of it is Peter's sermon. Uh we're not going to get into Peter's sermon. We just went through one of Peter's sermons.

There's a lot of sermons and if we just go through every single one of them, it'll start to feel redundant. But, this story is interesting and it tells us a lot about the way the early church viewed their mission and the way they viewed themselves. So, Peter and John, isn't that a strange parent strange pairing?

Peter and John. That doesn't make much sense from the Gospels. It's Peter and Andrew and James and John.

Isn't it? Peter and Andrew and James and John. But now here we have Peter and John.

Calvary the new birth the experience that they had in Christ brought these men into closer fellowship with one another. By their nature their temperament they weren't very much alike at all. Peter was a doer.

You know, he was one that as soon as it was time to do something he was ready to do it. John was a dreamer. His head was kind of up in the clouds.

Peter was more of a micro thinker. Let me think real think about this and I'm not really thinking about the big picture the ramifications of anything that I'll do. I'm just going to do it.

John's thinking about the big picture. He's dreaming. He's thinking holistically.

Peter was a motivator. Motivating people. John was a mystic.

Read his Gospel. It sounds nothing like the others. Nothing.

He was the one that saw things in Revelation that people have never seen. Ever seen the things that John saw. Peter had his feet on the rock.

John had his head in the clouds. Remember Peter would would when Christ was giving uh Peter kind of his directives and said someday somebody's going to take you and lead you to a place that you don't want to go. And he was telling Peter of his death, you know, he's going to somebody's going to take you to be crucified.

Remember what Peter said? What about John? What's going to happen to John?

You know, he just has this kind of a little bit of bristliness, this anchor inside of him, and just always trying to keep score. But when Peter was on the boat and Jesus was resurrected, and he kind of came back, and they were out on the boat, and he showed up on the shore, and they didn't know who he was, and he told them "Cast your nets on the other side." And they're just all kind of there, this you know, still, you know, post-Christ death, burial, and resurrection, but Christ has not yet ascended, and they don't really know what they're doing yet, and they're just kind of like waiting. So, they just said "Well, let's just do what we know to do.

Let's just go fishing." And Peter says "Come and throw the nets." Peter didn't recognize who it was. John did. He whispered to Peter, "It is the Lord." Peter didn't see him.

Didn't know. It was John who had his head in the bosom of Jesus whenever they were trying to figure out who who exactly is going to be the one that betrays him. And Peter leans over to John and says "Who is it?" And John was the one that whispered directly to the Lord.

They're they're just they're very, very different. And by nature, I suspect they would probably get on each other's nerves. But now they are walking together.

Isn't that the power of the gospel? Very different people. Very different approaches to life.

Very different ways of thinking. But now they're walking together. Philip says it like this, "Before they had been mutual disciples of Jesus, now they were members of a common body." "Before they knew friendship, but now they had something deeper than friendship.

They had fellowship." I love that. Because there's something so special about the relationship that brothers and sisters in Christ have with one another. It's deeper than any other relationship in the world.

It's an eternal relationship. Every other relationship down here is temporary. But our relationships with one another is eternal.

We're going to be together forever. Forever. There's no other relationship like that.

No other relationship. And it's in this story of the lame man that we see the continued focus on the mission of the church. And we also get a glimpse as to what the church has to offer.

So we fast forward here to the temple. The Jewish people had three major foundations to their faith. They had the Torah or the word.

They had the responsibility to worship. And they also had their responsibility to do good deeds or give alms. So at the gate of the temple would be beggars hoping that some good Jewish people were going to fill fulfill their obligation, do their duty, give alms.

And such was this man that we read about, this lame man at the gate. He was a man who was lame from the time he was born. That means he's never been able to walk.

Never been able to walk. He was carried to the place that he was. No wheelchairs or ramps.

And he was placed there and his life was completely at the mercy of other people. Mercy of the people who would lay them there and the mercy of the people who would give him alms. And the place that he would lay was laid, this gate of beautiful, was one of the most beautiful places to be laid, hence the name, the gate of beautiful.

According to Josephus, who's a Jewish historian, the gate was 75 ft high and 60 ft wide. Uh you contractors, how how wide is this sanctuary? Come on, I know you know.

100 wide? 100 wide, so the gate's here. Here wide.

That's how big the gate is. And it's covered in Corinthian bronze. And the Corinthian bronze rivaled real silver and real gold.

It was an unbelievably beautiful spot. And in this opportune moment the lame man spots some customers. Peter and John.

So, he cries out the beggar's cry and Peter says, "Look at us." I don't know what that says about them, but something tell tells me it says they didn't look like they came from money. "LOOK AT US." "CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE NOT THE RICH TYPE? We don't have any silver or gold, but we've got something." See, the first thing that we can see is what the church doesn't offer.

Peter's first words must have dashed his hopes. "Silver and gold have I none." Turned his pockets inside out. "Sorry.

No coins. If I had one, however small, I would have given it to your outstretched hand." Peter would have done that, I'm certain. But he didn't have anything.

And that probably would have been all there was to the interaction. The man just wants money, and money is what he receives. But he did not need money.

What he really really needed was a miracle. And Peter could not provide money, but he could he could be used by God to provide a miracle. See how different it is from the church today?

This man needs the power of God. Man wants money. There's a desire to give people what they want.

But God gives us what we need. Not what we want. There's an old commentator called Cornelius of Lapide.

And he tells of how Thomas Aquinas once called on Pope Innocent the Second while he was counting a large sum of money. "You see, Thomas," says to the Pope, "or you see, Thomas," said the Pope to Thomas, "the church can no longer say silver and gold have I none." "True, true, Holy Father," said Thomas, "and neither can she now say arise and walk." See what the the church has to offer is healing, not money. Our church, we're we're not loaded with money.

I think everybody's fully aware with that. We're not a rich church. We're not going to be able to compete with Elevation or Fertic and all those other things.

What we have to offer is spiritual healing in the lives of people that come in and out of our doors. That's what we have to offer. We have the joy of the Holy Ghost, the ability for people to come in and have their lives drastically changed and turned around because of the power of God.

The man was lame from birth. Think about what it this meant to his parents. Just think about that for a minute.

They looked upon their little baby and they saw that his legs weren't right. Man, can you imagine that feeling? Of hopelessness.

I wish I could solve this one problem for this child that I love and who most parent would give anything that they could for their child and they look and they can do nothing about his legs. The defect would become increasingly evident as the months passed. Couldn't stand.

He never learned to walk. Think about what that meant for this little boy as a child. He couldn't play the games that his friends were playing.

There's no tag for him. No, I don't know if they played baseball. I've not studied ancient sports, but I imagine they figured out how to throw a ball back and forth.

Probably could do very little of that. He's carried everywhere as Luke points out. There's never been a day in this man's life when he had not been a burden to somebody else.

And we're in America where lift ourself up by our bootstraps, we're independent, live our lives on our own. This man has to feel like he's a burden to others. Whether or not that's true or not, that's what his feeling would have been.

Would not walk, he could not work. All he could do was beg, sit there, and hope that his plight would provoke pity from others. So, for this man, for this man to be able to walk represented joy unspeakable.

It represented a complete change in everything. The kind of change that's pointing us towards the change that we have in Christ when we cannot walk without him. This story isn't about a healing of his his legs so he could walk.

It's It's pointing us towards what Christ does inside of us. We are the lame beggars without him. We can do nothing apart from him.

And the joy that we can receive from him is what we have to offer the world. The joy of having a transformed or a changed life. The joy to be able to walk in the spirit.

The joy to be able to live with the Lord. The joy to feel some sort of independence in your walk with the Lord. Peter reaches down and he picks him up as he tells him, "You rise and be be Arise and walk.

Be healed." But he doesn't stand up on his own. It's Peter that has to reach down and pick this man up because the healing happened in his body before he realized what the Lord had already done. How many people have you seen come into the church?

Come in, receive the Holy Ghost, have their lives transformed, changed, but there's never that walk. Because they never understood the power that was really available to them because nobody picked them up. The church The The church's responsibility is not to funnel people in and funnel them out so we can just come in get come in here as quickly as possible so we can have people in the altar and we can say that we have converts.

If they walk right back out the door and go to hell, what good was it? The church's responsibility is to work with people, pick people up, continue to work with them and continue to teach and disciple people until they They actually walk in the miracle that's actually already happened for them. Arise and walk, but but I I I don't even know that he can walk.

Here, let me pick you up first. And as he picks him up, he realizes, "Oh, there's actually strength in my ankles." But the body of Christ the body of Christ has a responsibility to step in and do what they cannot yet do on their own. I will forever be grateful to all of the people all of the people in the church that nurtured me when I came to the Lord and I had no idea the walk that was available to me.

They taught me. They taught me. They picked me up.

As a 9-year-old or 11-year-old kid, they picked me up and they brought me to church. They taught me how to pray. They taught me how to walk right with the Lord.

They taught me how to study the word. They taught me how to fast and seek God's will for my life. I didn't know any of those things.

So, we don't just preach conversions. We preach discipleship. Cuz people need to be able to walk.

And I'm convinced there are people all over this town. There are people in our families that that they they actually they have real faith. But they're not walking.

They have real faith. Saving faith. But they're not yet walking in the power that God has for them because no one no one has discipled them.

Discipleship has to be a primary responsibility of the church. And let this be a place that shows people that that if your legs are working right you need to walk. And here's how you walk.

There's a new walk. A new way. A new path.

A new power. And in that power there is great great wonder in what the Lord can do. The folks at the temple could not believe what they were seeing.

What was noticeably absent at the gate? Who's not here anymore? I used to to walk um if I worked in uh Charleston, West Virginia um down on like one of their little downtown buildings.

And West Virginia's decimated by drugs. And there's a lot of people they don't have resources. There's a lot of people that have lost their minds and they're just homeless.

And there's probably seven or eight of them that you just knew who they were. You recognize them every time you saw them. There was one guy that just walked around he carried a samurai sword all the time.

And we just called him samurai. He had like a just a nickname we knew him. Like these homeless people were like mainstays all over town.

And if one just suddenly disappeared you would notice. People looked at the gate of beautiful and they noticed that there was a man that used to be there and he was a mainstay and now he's gone. Where's the man at the gate?

He's gone. Two guys who claim to follow Jesus healed him. Really?

Yep. That's amazing. Yep.

That's what happened. That's what should be happening within our churches. Seeking the Lord seeking revival preaching the gospel and watching the Lord change people's lives.

I hope we never lose the wonder of that. I hope we never we you know miracles are are are a really cool thing and if the Lord wanted to do a miracle he he did miracles in scripture to prove his power not to make our lives more comfortable. If the Lord wants to do miracles, great.

But there is no greater miracle than seeing somebody walk through those doors who is a wretched sinner to come and have their life completely turned around and changed. And that's what we have the privilege of being stewards of. That's our privilege.

And God still does it today. He still does the unthinkable and he still gives hope to the hopeless. He's a Everyone knows he's a and now he's healed by the two disciples.

Now, what will we do with these disciples? See, at this point moment in the church, the church is incredibly fragile. It's not big.

It's not like it is today where all of the books have been spread all over the world. The Bible's everywhere, read in all languages. And there's just enough floating around.

There won't even the New Testament wasn't even assembled at this point. It's incredibly fragile. And in this moment, the disciples right here in this moment after this man's been healed and there's been this great miracle, they have the opportunity to take credit for the miracle.

They had the opportunity to take credit for it. And this, of course, would have been a catastrophic mistake. Instead, their response was simple.

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look you so earnestly on us as though by our own power or holiness we made this man to walk?" They refused, refused to let any of it become about them. It was always for the glory of God.

The apostles understood where the source of power was before God did the work. But they also understood the source of the power after God did the work. It's one thing to seek God.

God, we need a miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle. We we we just want it and we know we are powerless for it. But man, after that miracle comes, or after God does something in our lives, it is so tempting to make it about us.

And nothing, nothing will torpedo the future of a church like that. God's church is always going to be safe. You're never going to stop it.

Upon this rock I'll build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. We're not stopping the church. But but nothing will torpedo a church faster than needing credit and starting to think that we are the source of power.

We can't handle that kind of pressure. Even when we want it for a moment, we just can't handle it. People jockeying for credit will divide God's people.

Churches have been split because people cared about who was getting the credit for what happened. People have burnt out under the endless pressure of trying to produce something that cannot be produced without God's power. I've I've felt the tension at times in my preaching or in my ministry.

I felt that tension of feeling like I need to create something. Like I got to make something happen. It's a crushing weight.

And it will crush anybody who tries to carry it. You can't do it. And whatever you produce, you can dupe some people or you can fool some people into believing in you.

But producing confidence in a man is a dangerous thing because man will eventually let us down. This isn't some exercise or conversation to make us all want to be mediocre. But let's be honest about the limitations of men.

I love Spurgeon's quote, "Even the best of men are still just men at best." The power in our churches doesn't come from the great man or great woman, it comes from God. That's the way it should be. I mean, there was Adam, the first man, a blame shifter, who can't resist peer pressure.

That's Adam. There's Cain, the firstborn human being, the firstborn human being that we know of, murdered his brother. He's a murderer.

There's Noah, finally a righteous man, the kind of righteous man who God would actually preserve, who also got drunk and naked, and humiliated himself in front of his kids. There's Abraham, the great Abraham, the forefather of three faiths, not just Christianity, not just uh Judaism, Islam. Three All of the three major religions come from Abraham.

All of them. Oh, yeah, Abraham is like, "Here, take my wife. I'm afraid you'll kill me." Sarah, the who the Jewish people believe is the most gorgeous woman that ever lived, aside from Eve.

She let her husband sleep with another woman, and then she hated that woman for it. There's Lot who had a serious problem with trying to choose the wrong company all the time. There's Jacob who you know, where he's a hero he he wrestled with God, you know, he came and fought for the Lord's presence.

He was a pathological liar. There's Rachel who wrote the book on love at first sight. She was a kleptomaniac.

Moses, the most humble man that ever lived. Yeah, you lift up the hood, he had a serious anger problem. Miriam, the great songwriter.

You know, there's one. We finally got one. No, she was a jealous jealous woman, and she had a greed for power.

Well, what about Samson? You know, that's a great story. I don't even have to tell you that story, you know.

Saul, the first king who stood head and shoulders above everyone else. The first king had manic bursts of anger, episodes of deep depression, and traces of paranoia. He committed suicide.

There's David, the friend of God, the great father of faith aside from Abraham, I would say David's right up there. Yeah, he was an adulterer and a murderer. He couldn't preach in our pulpit.

He wouldn't be allowed to preach here. Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, was probably the world's greatest sex addict with a thousand sex partners. The world doesn't need more of us.

Doesn't need to be you you to be bigger and better. And it doesn't mean me to be bigger and better. The world needs Jesus.

That's what the world needs. Sir, we must see Jesus. I love those words.

When they showed up in Bethesda, "Sir, we must see Jesus." That's who we need to see. We don't have enough money to save the world. If this place, if we talked about our politics, trust me, we would all be fighting before we exited this building.

We don't need our political commentary. We don't need slick programs. We need Jesus.

He must increase, so I must decrease. That's what our world needs. And uh want to be like that New Testament church, don't you?

Not offering silver and gold, but being a group of people who understand the power that we do have and what we really have to offer. We can't have mission creep or get lost on trying to do a thousand other things that we're not going to be good at. The thing that we're going to be good at is offering people Jesus.

That's it. Getting in the presence of the Lord, teaching people. People don't know how to seek God.

They have no idea. I came to the Lord and I had had learned about faith. I had to have people that got me in a room and prayed, and I just listened to people pray.

That's how I learned how to pray. Yep, but Jimmy's waving his hand back there saying the same thing. Prob- Pray from this church, right?

Yeah, this is a church that knows all about that. Church that knows about it. We can't get away from that, can't we?

That's what we we have to do. It's a It's a great privilege to to be a part of that, a part of that mission. And in 250 million years, those are the things that we'll be celebrating.

It's all of those things that we did when we showed people Jesus. Can't lose sight of it, can we? Amen.

Let's pray and ask the Lord. Thank y'all so much for coming. Love you all so much, and ask the Lord to help us.

God, thank you for this body of believers. Privilege to be together. And all the blessings that you give us every single day, Lord.

Help us as a body to embrace your mission and your plan, to do things the way that you'd have us to do them, Lord, to seek your face, and to to not try to reinvent the wheel, Lord, uh but to continue to understand that we're offering people you. We're offering healing, spiritual healing, spiritual transformation in you. Help us not only to to speak the word, but help us to pick people up, to carry them until they learn to walk, to show them how to walk.

Let this be a place that that happens. And Lord, most of all, help none of us to care about the credit for us, Lord. All glory goes to you.

You deserve all glory and all power, and you are the source of all power, Lord. The only meaningful things that are going to happen in eternity and in this life, Lord, the only meaningful things are going to happen all because of you. We need you every day, Lord, and help us help us to live and walk in that humility and in that understanding.

Bless our brothers and sisters tonight, Lord. Protect them, keep them safe, and bless them, Lord. Every day bless them.

Bless them with the joy of the Holy Ghost. Bless them with life and life more abundantly. Lord, bless them in their jobs and their workplaces.

Bless them financially if that's good for them, Lord. Bless them with their health if that's what your will is, Lord. In every single way, Lord, I pray for blessings on my brothers and sisters.

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you so much.

God bless. You're dismissed.