1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,560 Morning. All right, open your Bibles. 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:09,920 We are still in Romans chapter 8 on another page. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,600 We've made it past the halfway line. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:19,480 We're heading to the tail end. I want to dive straight in and 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,720 read the portion from verse 24. The context, if we weren't here 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,640 last week, we spoke about that day. 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,400 Paul was talking about that day. He's saying there's comes a 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,680 moment where you breathe your lost and then you as a born 9 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,000 again believer, if you've surrendered your life to Christ, 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,800 then you get the privilege of seeing him face to face. 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,600 And verse 24 picking up on that comment, he says for in this 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,640 hope we were saved, but the hope that is seen is no hope at all. 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,400 Who hopes for what he already has? 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,280 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it 15 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,960 patiently. In the same way, the Spirit 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,600 helps us in our weakness. We don't know what we ought to 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:01,560 pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,000 that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,240 knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes 20 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,480 for the Saints in accordance with God's will. 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,120 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,840 who love him who've been called according to his purpose. 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,400 For those God fore knew, he also predestined to be conformed to 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,280 the likeness of his Son, that he might be the first born among 25 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,720 many brothers. And those he predestined he also 26 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,240 called. Those he called he also 27 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,800 justified. Those he justified He will also 28 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,320 glorify and then love this land. What then shall we say in 29 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:39,840 response to this? If God is for us, who can be 30 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:44,680 against us? It's lovely on paper. 31 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,760 Horrible in real life. I've never done this before, but 32 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,160 I want to give a they call it a trigger warning. 33 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,240 We're going to go to some dark places because the Bible says if 34 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,400 God is for us, who can be against us for the world and 35 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,200 your situation and the tears running down your cheeks might 36 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:20,160 say otherwise. I want to read an account going 37 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,480 to share some of my story. But I thought, yeah, we might 38 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,960 not get there, but I thought reading an account we could get 39 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,080 there. This is Tyler Stanton. 40 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,600 He wrote in his book an incident that he had that I want to lean 41 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,840 in on the back story to this. He's in the UK ministering and 42 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,600 I'm actually going to read from the book. 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:40,800 We'll have it up so you can follow. 44 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,160 So large. It's a couple pages worth, but 45 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,040 it says Kirsten. Now that's this is wife Kirsten 46 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,560 is the strongest and most independent person I know. 47 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,240 I could count on one hand the number of times she called me 48 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,120 consecutively. So when my phone buzzed with her 49 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,640 name for the second time, I feared something was wrong. 50 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,800 Tyler, the doctor just called. Kirsten sounded frantic. 51 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,920 There's something wrong with the baby's heart. 52 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,240 She's talking. She was pregnant with the baby 53 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,280 at the time. I flew halfway around the world 54 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,560 first thing the following morning, and within 24 hours we 55 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,720 were sitting together in the doctor's office as they 56 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,080 performed an ultrasound for more than an hour, not saying a word. 57 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,600 The silence was eerie, as if everyone else knew something, 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,720 something that would devastate us, but no one wanted to be the 59 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,720 one to have to say it out loud. Our youngest son was diagnosed 60 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,240 with a heart condition seven months out from the delivery 61 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,400 date. Not just any heart condition, 62 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,040 but the most severe heart condition a developing infants 63 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,240 can potentially survive. The tricky aspect of the 64 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,920 diagnosis is that it has to do with the way the heart filters 65 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,960 oxygen in the blood, meaning the infant develops healthily in the 66 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,440 womb, but at the moment of birth, moment that's supposed to 67 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,680 be joyful in a celebration. A clock starts ticking fast. 68 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,000 Survival is a coin flip. And even those children who do 69 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,240 survive, often seriously impaired, physically, 70 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,440 cognitively, or both. The doctor explained all this to 71 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,480 us, instructing us to prepare for the worst likely loss of 72 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,560 life within the first few days after birth. 73 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,960 I was in shock, not able to properly process the news. 74 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,120 Kirsten was composed with silence throughout the 75 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,600 appointment. I asked the questions, she just 76 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,400 sat there taking it in. We walked back through the 77 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,640 waiting room, scheduling the first of what sudden was 78 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,760 suddenly many necessary follow up appointments. 79 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,720 And when the elevator doors closed, at that very moment, the 80 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,400 two of us alone for the first time, Kirsten erupted in a whale 81 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:42,920 like I've never heard before or since she wept in agonizing 82 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,520 screams I'll never forget. I want to preach today to those 83 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,160 who know what it's like to whale. 84 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,120 Kirsten erupted in a whale like I've never heard before since 85 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,280 she wept in agonizing screams I'll never forget And didn't 86 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,960 stop for hours. When we got home, I relieved the 87 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,560 babysitter took our all the two boys to the playground in an 88 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,800 attempt to shield them from seeing their mother in such 89 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,600 grief. Kirsten never came out of our 90 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:17,160 bedroom that night. After dinner, I brushed the boys 91 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,040 little teeth, tucked them into bed, and then I had to face it. 92 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:26,240 I had to be alone with nothing to busy myself with, no one to 93 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,560 serve as a distraction from what I didn't know how to face. 94 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,520 I had to ask my wife's permission to share some 95 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,880 details, details we haven't shared publicly. 96 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:40,720 While we're talking about. It's in the car. 97 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,840 Suddenly realize, you know what, Actually, we don't have to go 98 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,600 far to come across whaling in our ranks. 99 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,800 Don't even have to go past the the front row. 100 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,080 The elders having faced kidney failure, weeks in ICU, brain 101 00:05:54,080 --> 00:06:01,240 tumors, miscarriages, losing a child at birth. 102 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,720 Our story, it was for those of you who've been around in three 103 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:11,080 CR for a while, my, my youngest went into kidney failure in 48 104 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,760 hours. It went from just a beautiful 105 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,200 bouncing little girl to near death. 106 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,920 And when it comes to whaling, what happened was she was in 107 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,320 such a bad state that they had to try and stabilize her because 108 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,240 they needed to take a biopsy. Because in that situation, some 109 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,720 medicine can help, but that same medicine can actually harm if 110 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,680 you don't quite know what's going on inside. 111 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,120 So after a few days, we were able to stabilize her. 112 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,280 The doctors weren't quite sure if the timing was right, but 113 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,760 they couldn't wait any longer. And so she had the biopsy and we 114 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,840 waited. And that horrible period where 115 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,320 you're waiting for that death sentence, you've seen the 116 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,360 evidence of what's going on inside, but you just don't know 117 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,920 how bad this is. And so it just so happened that 118 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,160 when the report came back, I was at home. 119 00:06:58,160 --> 00:06:59,920 I think I was prepping to preach that weekend. 120 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,360 My wife was with my daughter at the hospital, and she phoned me. 121 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,040 She said, hey, listen, apparently they've got through 122 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,440 the report. The doctor's going to see us in 123 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,160 a few minutes, if you can come. So I rushed through there and I 124 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,320 arrived and I walked in and my wife has nowhere to be found. 125 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,280 Because what had happened was instead of our doctor coming and 126 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,760 giving her the news, a guy that if I had to find and meets in 127 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,000 the dark alley that I'd end up burying his body. 128 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:34,320 Because the surgeon came out and saw my wife standing there all 129 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,120 alone, waiting for her husband to arrive, waiting for who knows 130 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,000 what news from the doctor. And he saw her and he just told 131 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 her everything without compassion, no bedside manner, 132 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,280 no kindness, just dumped on her. A lady not knowing anything of 133 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:55,640 the medical on goings on in in this situation, left her right 134 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,720 there essentially with the news, sorry for you, your daughter's 135 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:00,440 going to die. And he walked out. 136 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,200 She's standing all on her own in reception wailing. 137 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,040 And it seemed to be a little bit of a problem to the nursing 138 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,200 staff because they ushered her into a glorified broom closet 139 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,920 and closed the door and just let her meltdown on her own. 140 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,560 And I come about 10 minutes later and I walk into this. 141 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:27,200 What do you do in that moment? Where do you go in that moment 142 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:40,630 when you have nothing? Verse 26 says the Spirit helps 143 00:08:40,630 --> 00:08:46,190 us in our weakness. We do not know, we do not know, 144 00:08:46,230 --> 00:08:50,870 we do not know, we do not know. But the Spirit himself 145 00:08:50,910 --> 00:08:55,680 intercedes for us that groans that words cannot express. 146 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:00,280 And in the English it says helps, which is a very 147 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:06,080 two-dimensional flat helps. So it's a short little word. 148 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,800 The Greek is a very long word, senante lambano Mai, and it 149 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,480 means to take hold of and to surround with strength. 150 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:19,760 I don't know if you've shaken Bucky's hand as he comes into 151 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,480 church on a Sunday. You know, you shake his hand, 152 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,320 but he shakes your elbows like those hands are so big. 153 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,920 That's the kind of the picture. And surround you with my 154 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:35,040 strength. Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit 155 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,240 in three very interesting ways, three different ways. 156 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,920 He's telling the disciples there's wailing to come, but I'm 157 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,840 going to give you 1 who's a counselor and advocate and a 158 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,600 comforter. And if you're wailing this 159 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,160 morning, we might literally be stopping for the 1 today. 160 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,400 If you're wailing this morning, if you're online and you're 161 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,960 wailing this morning, maybe you couldn't come here because 162 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,040 you're in such a dark space. You couldn't be around Happy 163 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,800 clappy, and you're home watching. 164 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,080 I want to tell you about the counselor, the advocates, and 165 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,400 the comforter. Verse 26. 166 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,360 The Spirit helps us in our weakness. 167 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,320 This is Him as a counsellor. We do not know what we ought to 168 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,280 pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans 169 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,080 that words cannot express. Now look at this verse 27. 170 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,040 And he who searches our hearts, not the Holy Spirit, this is the 171 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:33,040 Father, knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit 172 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,800 intercedes for the Saints and according in accordance with 173 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,520 God's will. So you got, you got the Father, 174 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:38,960 you got the Spirit, and you got your heart. 175 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:44,240 It's this trifector as He comes around you, surrounds you with 176 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,040 the strength I need to come up with for Ed just a little bit. 177 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,360 So I want to show you, I don't know if you know the Action Man. 178 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,080 This is dating me, You know, while the girls were playing 179 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,560 with the Barbie dolls. You guys can pop that up. 180 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:01,720 I know, right? Yeah. 181 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,280 Modelled after Eugene, actually. Yeah. 182 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:09,120 This is what I grew up with. But there's something that 183 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,880 Action Man had a GQ photo shoot, so you can show the next 184 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,280 picture. Yeah, those deep, pensive eyes. 185 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,560 But what I want you to see is I want you to see the scar on his 186 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,120 face. You know, that that for me was 187 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,320 what what the Action Man represented. 188 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,560 You know, he's been to battle. He's come back. 189 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:28,200 He's got, you know, chicks dig. It's kind of a thing. 190 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:30,560 But what I discovered recently, because now they're bringing 191 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,720 this, apparently they're bringing Action Man back onto 192 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,640 the shelves, that that scar is trademarked. 193 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,000 It's what's unique about this doll that sold millions and 194 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,680 millions and millions around the world was that scar. 195 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,080 And I was reminded of this this week, prepping for today. 196 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:52,040 Because in the same way, your scar, whether it be internal or 197 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,520 external, whether it be spiritual or emotional or 198 00:11:54,520 --> 00:12:00,320 physical, your scar is the trademark of a Christian life. 199 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,520 It's like a sign of authenticity. 200 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,200 And not only is it the trademark and a sign of authenticity of 201 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,680 the Christian life, it's also the very place where God's power 202 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,680 longs to rest. I want to show you something 203 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:20,520 that I found that absolutely blew me away, that God leans 204 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,480 into your weakness and your wounds. 205 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,360 Look at 2 Corinthians 12 verse 9. 206 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,080 You've heard this one before. My grace is sufficient for you. 207 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,320 You've heard that one, right? I didn't really like that verse. 208 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,000 You know, it's almost like he's saying to Paul, hey, suck it up 209 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,520 buttercup. You know, you're on your own. 210 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,680 You've got my grace. What you whingeing about? 211 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,160 Put your big boy pants on. That's not what he's saying at 212 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,320 all, because take a look at the second-half of the verse. 213 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:49,120 My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in 214 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:50,960 your weakness. That Greek word they've 215 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:56,480 perfected means my power reaches its goal in your weakness. 216 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,480 If you want to know the fullness of the Holy Spirit, all that He 217 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,760 is, all that He wants to be, all that He presents himself to you 218 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,560 and I, you know where you'll find that in your weakness, in 219 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:16,200 the middle of your whaling. That's where you find the Holy 220 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:24,840 Spirit in his fullness. I had, we were leading youth 221 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,520 many years ago into a conference. 222 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,840 I had the most remarkable story. Youth leader was sharing a 223 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,240 tower. One of the guys in youth got 224 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,160 himself into a really bad space, did a couple things deeply, 225 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,440 deeply ashamed and struggling with guilt. 226 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,280 And he was saying how he got to the point where he didn't know 227 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,080 what to do. And he figured, actually, before 228 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,640 my parents find out what I've done before that guilt and shame 229 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,880 comes to light. He says, I'm going to end it 230 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,680 now. Snuck into his parents bedroom 231 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,920 in the middle of the night, stole his dad's gun and he's 232 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,120 sitting at his his desk in his bedroom with the gun on the 233 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:09,480 table trying to build up some resolve, genuinely thinking that 234 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,360 when his parents come and find him, they're going to go, oh, 235 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:13,600 wonderful. At least we've gotten rid of 236 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,840 that issue. There's one in the morning and 237 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,120 the phone rings and it's his youth leader and it's all to the 238 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:23,200 state. He says, I don't know why 239 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,720 answered actually picked it up thinking there's something wrong 240 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,200 with her Youth leaders like hey, are you OK? 241 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,720 He's like, no, no, I got are you OK? 242 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:31,880 The youth leader shares the story and says he was busy 243 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,680 playing Xbox, as all youth leaders do at 1:00 AM 244 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,800 ministering. And this one of the the kids, 245 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,800 this teenage boy, his name and face came to mind. 246 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,240 And as it did, he just found himself weeping. 247 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,080 So his mates looking at him like, what's going on? 248 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,840 Sorry, excuse himself, went out into the garden. 249 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,080 He's like, Lord, I don't know what's going on. 250 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,600 And he really felt just to phone this guy. 251 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,520 So he did. He picked up the phone and of 252 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:58,560 course, he asked the teenage boy. 253 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,240 He was sitting there with a gun on this table. 254 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:02,920 Are you all right? And the answer is, yeah, I'm 255 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,120 fine. So you're not fine. 256 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:09,400 But so go and grab your Bible. This is the council of the Holy 257 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,200 Spirit. So go grab your Bible. 258 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,720 Open up to Psalm 5 and read Psalm 5 to me or read some of 259 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,040 the lines that won't be on the screen. 260 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,560 Starts by saying, oh Lord, hear me as I pray, pay attention to 261 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,280 my groaning, listen to my cry for help. 262 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,320 And he stops in the right there. He says, God wants to listen to 263 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,680 your cry for help. He's not put off by your 264 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,240 groaning. And he reads on. 265 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,280 He says, because of your unfailing love, I can enter your 266 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,880 presence. And he stops in there and he 267 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,840 says, do you realize you can come to God not because you got 268 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,040 a squeaky clean track record or because you're part of youth or 269 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,600 because you've gone to church or because you're not behind on 270 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,000 your Bible reading plan? No, no, no. 271 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,200 You can go to God because of his unfailing love. 272 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,680 And he's saying to this teenage boy, do you realize that there's 273 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,720 nothing that can prevent you from getting there because his 274 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,920 love is unfailing, sitting there alone. 1:00 AM. 275 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,440 And then my favorite part of the Psalm 5, it says rescue me. 276 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,400 All my enemies will conquer me. Make your way plain for me to 277 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,640 follow on the new living translation. 278 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,160 It says give me direction to get through enemy lines. 279 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,360 I prayed that so many times prayed in the simmer. 280 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,000 Father, give us direction to get through enemy lines. 281 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:28,760 See the Spirit helps us in our weakness, helps Sanante lo bano 282 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,880 my surrounds you with his strength and he will show you 283 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,280 just the next step to take because he's our counselor. 284 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,200 We don't know, but he knows not only counselor, but also an 285 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,000 advocate. When you hear advocates, you 286 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,680 often think of the legal side. And that is true that there's 287 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,280 also a verb element to the Holy Spirit being an advocate. 288 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,680 It means to champion, to uphold, to support or to promote. 289 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,440 So let's look at those verses again just to see the fullness 290 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:05,960 of his fight for you. Verse 26. 291 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,960 The Spirit helps us in our weakness. 292 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,240 We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself 293 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:15,000 intercedes for us with groans and words cannot express that 294 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,480 intercedes means means to intervene. 295 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,400 You know, like you're having that bar fox with a really big 296 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,760 oak and your girlfriend steps in between. 297 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,520 OK, wrong crowd. But hypothetically speaking, if 298 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:31,560 you were, if you weren't from the bluff, you know, so like, 299 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,640 yeah, you had one too many. You're really stupid. 300 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,200 You don't realize you're about to die and you're mouthing off 301 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,320 of this big oak and the girlfriend intervenes. 302 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:40,480 That's that's the word. Yeah. 303 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:43,760 Shut up, stupid. Get out. 304 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:48,720 Go to the car. But the Spirit himself 305 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,480 intercedes. He intervenes with groans that 306 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,080 words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts 307 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,600 knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes 308 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,760 for the Saints in accordance with God's will. 309 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,520 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those 310 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,960 who love him have been called according to his purposes. 311 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,960 He advocates, He intervenes, He works, He fights. 312 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,440 He just says Let me at them, let me at the enemy. 313 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,080 He had kids, he intervenes, he works and he fights. 314 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,000 I don't know if you remember the story Raw shared a few years ago 315 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,080 about a mate of his pastor friend was travelling and as one 316 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,960 does, you often stay with with a lead couple when you're 317 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,200 ministering into the church. And and he had done this, this 318 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,240 guy who'll go unnamed and he's apparently he ate something 319 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:41,640 funny, didn't agree with him, gave him like the proper runs a 320 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,760 true story. And now you're in a strange 321 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,640 home. They've gone to bed. 322 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,520 And all the sudden. Oh, and he didn't, he didn't 323 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,920 make it in time. Yeah. 324 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,920 And then it just went from bad to worse because now you're in a 325 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,280 strange home and the strange smells. 326 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,320 And so he hatched the plan. Who knows why, what he was 327 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,560 thinking, but he went into the backyard and buried his 328 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,960 underwear. Yeah, he's like, because he 329 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,880 couldn't leave it in the room. He couldn't, you know, stick it 330 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,840 in your bag. So he went and he buried it in 331 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,520 the backyard. Was able to go to bed, sleep 332 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,680 peacefully until breakfast. Sitting at the breakfast table, 333 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,560 having a lovely breakfast with this couple and walks Fluffy. 334 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:37,640 Fluffy had smelled some wonderful smells and not only 335 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,080 decided to go looking but decided to bring the treasure he 336 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:45,360 has found right to the breakfast table and drop it at his masters 337 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,800 feet. And before this pastor could 338 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,160 feign ignorance, he looked down and he saw, oh those are the 339 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,520 jocks that his wife so lovingly stitched his name in bold. 340 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,480 See, the enemy loves to go digging in your past. 341 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:09,160 Drag it out and splash it down in front of everyone so everyone 342 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,480 can see. That's why your daughter's 343 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:16,000 struggling with kidney failure. That's why your 6 year old 344 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,280 drowned while you were having life group. 345 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,400 True story. Someone here this morning. 346 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,520 That's why you're going through this medical issue. 347 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,880 You can't ask God to heal your cancer. 348 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:33,040 You did this and that and that, but the Advocate intervenes 349 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:40,160 between you and the bully, and the Spirit himself intercedes. 350 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,920 Look at that first verse, 26. The spirit himself intercedes 351 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:49,000 for us with groans that words cannot express. 352 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,520 I don't know what you're going through, but he doesn't stand 353 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,920 there judging and criticizing you. 354 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,920 He groans. He aches, overwhelmed with 355 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,240 compassion for what you are going through. 356 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,360 He's our counselor, he's our advocate, and he's our comforter 357 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,720 who always says when it talks about comfort, the Fort has 358 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,280 come. And that's the picture here. 359 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:20,760 The Fort has come. I read recently, you know, if 360 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,840 you look at an old Atlas, if you go down to the various 361 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,800 southernmost points of Africa, the older the Atlas, the more 362 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,120 likely you'll find around the Cape that it says the Cape of 363 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:31,880 Storms. Yeah. 364 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,120 I didn't realize that That's what it was called. 365 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,000 For centuries, it was known as the Cape of Storms. 366 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,480 It was only changed when people made land, when they landed on 367 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,080 solid ground for the Cape Storms behind them. 368 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,640 They renamed it the Cape of Good Hope. 369 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,920 That's what happens when the Fort has come. 370 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,320 And that's what this verse is trying to say in verse 28. 371 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,680 We know that in all things God works for the good of those who 372 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,360 love Him, who have been called according to his purpose. 373 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:05,880 We know that in all things God works for the good. 374 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:13,800 God is good all the time. Life rubbish. 375 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,960 You don't think so? I don't think so. 376 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,600 God is good all the time. God is good when my daughter is 377 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,440 dying. God is good when he had the 378 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,720 ability to answer that prayer, but instead you had to endure a 379 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,960 miscarriage. God is good all the time. 380 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,960 At our absolute lowest. I hated that. 381 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,960 I couldn't handle that. I know what you're trying to 382 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,280 say. You're trying to say God is good 383 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,840 all the time. The problem is he's not 384 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,000 operating here. He's operating here. 385 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,560 That doesn't look good to me and on your mind you're thinking of 386 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,600 this, but actually right now you're telling me God is good 387 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,520 even here. And I had to confront some of my 388 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,120 friends and pull them aside and said listen, can I just ask you 389 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:15,040 to please stop all your nonsense or your rubbish mumbo jumbo? 390 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:16,640 You're the head and not the tail. 391 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,520 Don't speak the name of the disease. 392 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,600 You know God is going to heal her completely. 393 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,840 I said can you please stop because God hasn't spoken to me 394 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,000 yet. I don't know if I'm going to 395 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:33,600 lose my daughter or not. And if I do, because God is God, 396 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,080 if I lose my daughter, not only am I going to have to somehow 397 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,960 find the strength to stand, I'm going to have to do that while 398 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,040 caring for my family and for my children. 399 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,080 And now you're going to add on to that the fact that I'm 400 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:48,880 seriously worried that you're going to have a spiritual 401 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,040 meltdown and go into crisis because you said God is good and 402 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,800 now all of a sudden God has been that good. 403 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,120 What do we do with it? And I don't know if you're 404 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,880 there, but if you are, you know exactly what I'm talking about. 405 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,920 I was cornered by a lady at a coffee shop recently and she 406 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,040 asked me this. Is it OK for a Christian to 407 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:11,000 despise God? And I told her the story and I 408 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,160 took her through psalms. More than 60% of the psalms are 409 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,880 psalms of lament. So God, you don't look good to 410 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,400 me. Where are you because if you're 411 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,920 going in there, if you're there, if you're not even here because 412 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,400 you couldn't come and sit around people and saying God is God 413 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,920 bless you and you're at home. This is what I found and it's 414 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:37,480 right there in front of you. Put up verse 28, Romans 828. 415 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:43,560 This is what God showed me. And we know that in all things 416 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:53,400 God. But we know in all things God. 417 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:00,320 When you hit rock bottom, you know who you find God. 418 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,800 When it's falling apart and you've lost control and you 419 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:12,120 don't understand God, God is enough. 420 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,000 And it's not unique to me. The, the, the Jews found this, 421 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,640 you know, the Passover, that moment when they sacrificed the 422 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,600 lamb and put the blood of the lamb on the, on the doorposts as 423 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,720 slaves in Egypt. And the Angel of death came and 424 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,400 those who didn't put the blood on the doorposts lost their 425 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,600 first born and then God released them from Egypt and then into 426 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,240 the wilderness and eventually onto the, the promised land. 427 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:48,040 They are called to celebrate the Passover and while they're doing 428 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,120 this, in remembrance of being set free, they sing a song 429 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:55,480 called Dayanu. And dayanu the the Hebrew word 430 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:00,720 means it would have been enough. My language, God is enough. 431 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,120 Good God would have been enough. I'm going to read some of the 432 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,200 standards, like 15 stanzas. I've just copied and pasted a 433 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,040 few of them for you. This is the song that they sing. 434 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,040 If he had brought us out of Egypt and didn't judge our 435 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,600 enemies, Dayanu, it would have been enough. 436 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,360 Like wait, what if he brought us out of Egypt but didn't punish 437 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,160 those who kept us in slavery for 400 years? 438 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,480 That would have been enough. You know the understanding of 439 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,680 the mights and the goodness and kindness of God. 440 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,480 You have to have a hold off to say that. 441 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,120 It goes on to say if he had judged our enemies, if he had 442 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:40,160 judged them but hadn't split the sea for us, it would have been 443 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,200 enough. Now that blows my mind because 444 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,920 if you know the story that came out of Egypt and they were 445 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,320 followed by the Egyptian army and they were cornered the back 446 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,880 to the Red Sea, an army in front of them, the greatest army in 447 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,200 the world at that stage and his moms, dads and kids. 448 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,960 And they think that would have been enough. 449 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,480 I mean, I abandoned my faith if I don't get my healing or my 450 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,680 marriage doesn't get restored or I don't get that promotion. 451 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,000 But they are saying like just the fact that you would 452 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,800 condescend to our slavery and set us free would have been 453 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,080 enough. Because somehow they know in all 454 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:23,000 things God, if he had split the sea but not taken us through, 455 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,680 die Enu. If he had taken us through the 456 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,640 sea but not drowned our oppressors in it, Die Enu. 457 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,280 We know that in all things God, if he had delivered us from our 458 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,800 oppressors but not supplied our needs in the desert for 40 459 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,080 years, die Enu. And it's this shout, it's this 460 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,120 declaration. It's a reason why Job would say, 461 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,920 though you slay me yet will I love you. 462 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:52,560 How do you get there other than knowing in all things God, 463 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,400 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego about to be cast into the fire. 464 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,080 And the king says, just deny God and I'll set you free. 465 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,960 If you don't, I'll throw you into the fire. 466 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,320 And their words to him essentially was Diana. 467 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,480 He's powerful enough to rescue us, but if he doesn't die in it 468 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:18,640 would have been enough just to know in all things God. 469 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,440 Now, you might be seriously, seriously offended by that. 470 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,560 All I can say, if you are, you're not at a place of wailing 471 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,320 yet. Those who are wailing, just know 472 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:42,200 in that place God is enough. You will find him to be enough. 473 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:49,080 I have found him to be enough. Tyler and Kirsten have found him 474 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:55,160 to be enough. And He'll let no idol come 475 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:59,200 between you and him, whether it be your demand for that 476 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,640 promotion or your demand for the perfect bride or your demand for 477 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:12,440 healing until he is enough. I want to close with just a 478 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,560 moment of ministry. But to give you the backdrop, 479 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,840 back in 2010, I don't know if you've seen the movie Deepwater 480 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,600 Horizon. It's based on a true story where 481 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,520 an oil rig platform exploded and there was something like a 482 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,200 billion litres of oil all over the place. 483 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:34,400 We've got a photo of it from almost 30,000 feet up The that's 484 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,240 the oil spill. There's tiny little white dots 485 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,960 or ships trying to rescue that mess. 486 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,880 But I was reminded of this because there's one picture that 487 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,120 I want to show you that I think often represents us in this 488 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,920 moment when we're wailing. You can pop it up. 489 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,520 It's a one guy trying desperately to clean up the 490 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,680 mess. And if you're here this morning, 491 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,200 and that represents your heart right now, you see behind them 492 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,960 there's another wave of oil and another wave of oil. 493 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:11,240 And you know, it's like it's not going to stop. 494 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,440 There's no way out. You have lost control and you 495 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,320 are wailing. I want to pray for that heart 496 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,640 this morning. I'm not going to ask you to 497 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:24,240 stand. I'm not going to ask you to 498 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,520 raise a hand. But what I am going to do is I'm 499 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,320 going to ask you, would you open your heart to the God who is 500 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:40,160 enough, the God who comes, who wades into that mess, the God 501 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,680 who wants to rescue and redeem. But first of all, sometimes he 502 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,360 calms the storm. First of all, what he wants to 503 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,200 do is calm his child, wrap you in his arms. 504 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:56,520 So that's, that's you. I just want to pray the Psalm or 505 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,200 this portion of Scripture from Isaiah 61 that Rob read earlier 506 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,200 of us. The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord 507 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,720 is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good 508 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,240 news to the poor. Lord, you said that your Holy 509 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:20,040 Spirit anointed Jesus because He would come to proclaim good news 510 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,040 to the poor. We are poor and destitute. 511 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,040 Father, I pray for those who are wailing. 512 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,160 I pray, Lord God, that you would come and rescue. 513 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,600 He sent me to bind up the broken hearted. 514 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,640 Lord Jesus, would you do just that? 515 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,600 Would you bind up the broken hearted? 516 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,280 I think those sitting at home, their health not even allowing 517 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,240 them to get out of bed this morning, or those who come here 518 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,480 absolutely shattered from the news they've heard this week. 519 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,000 Lord, your word says that you would bind up the broken 520 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,040 hearted. You proclaim freedom for the 521 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,640 captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. 522 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,200 We will remember your name in the darkness. 523 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,920 You're faithful. You're our counselor, our 524 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:06,560 comfort. We pray and we proclaim the year 525 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:11,000 of the Lord's favor over your people that you would comfort 526 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,400 all who mourn. You provide for those who grieve 527 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,920 and bestow in them a crown of beauty instead of ashes. 528 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,680 Father, I know what it's like to face ashes. 529 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:30,600 And for those here this morning, I pray, Lord God, that you do as 530 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,920 you promised, that you'd bestow a crown of beauty instead of 531 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,280 ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning. 532 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,920 But we don't know how. We don't know how it's possible 533 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,080 that you could do this. But you say you anointed Jesus 534 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,800 to do just that. So Jesus, we call on you on 535 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,720 behalf of those who are wailing. It might just be 1 here this 536 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,880 morning. We know that you delight to stop 537 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,520 for the one. We know that your power is made 538 00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,840 perfect in our weakness and in our wounds, and I ask for that. 539 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,400 I ask Heavenly Father, that you'd show the fullness of your 540 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,360 fatherhood to your children. Would you come? 541 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,120 Would you rescue? Would you redeem? 542 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,800 Instead of the spirit of despair, give us the garment of 543 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,040 praise. We ask this in your mighty name 544 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,920 because we have no one else who can Jesus name? 545 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:29,480 Amen.