1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,080 We are one church. We love God, love people, love 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,800 his mission and love his church. Welcome to the One Church 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:16,600 Podcast. Hello, I'm Chris. 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,200 Thank you for tuning into this week's podcast. 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,720 Before we move on, Psalm 86, verse five says this. 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,680 You, Lord, are forgiving and good. 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,760 Abounding in love to all who call to you, so why not if 8 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,680 you're able? If it's appropriate, why not 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,960 take a moment and maybe even pause this podcast and allow God 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,280 to remind you of His forgiveness, His goodness, and 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,680 His abounding love to you? This week's message comes from 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,960 Philippa, recorded at one Church Oadby on Sunday the 6th of 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,280 August. We pray that you would hear God 14 00:00:53,280 --> 00:01:00,820 speaking to you as you listen. This morning we're continuing 15 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:05,340 our preaching series on the names of God, and last week we 16 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:08,740 looked at Jehova nisi, which the Lord is our banner. 17 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:13,300 This idea of lifting up the name of the Lord over all situations. 18 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:16,900 We can lift him up when we are weak, we can lift him up when we 19 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:19,340 are at war, and also when we worship. 20 00:01:19,340 --> 00:01:21,380 The Lord is our banner Jehova nisi. 21 00:01:21,940 --> 00:01:23,460 And today we're looking at a different name. 22 00:01:23,460 --> 00:01:27,260 But I love this morning already from the very beginning at the 23 00:01:27,260 --> 00:01:29,780 welcome to also the worship as well. 24 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:33,220 It was very much about lifting up the name of God. 25 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:37,420 It says in Psalm 34. Glorify the Lord let us exalt 26 00:01:37,420 --> 00:01:40,100 his name together. Psalm 138. 27 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:45,100 For you have exalted above all things your name and your word. 28 00:01:45,340 --> 00:01:47,940 And Philippians too tells us that the name of Jesus is the 29 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:51,860 name above all names. There is power when we declare. 30 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:55,860 God's name above all things. And today we're going to be 31 00:01:55,860 --> 00:02:00,740 looking at Jehovah Gyra. The Lord is our provider, but I 32 00:02:00,740 --> 00:02:04,300 just felt yesterday that God just remind me of another one of 33 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:06,820 his names. I just wanted to share before we 34 00:02:06,820 --> 00:02:11,460 get into today's passage and today's message In Genesis 35 00:02:11,460 --> 00:02:13,900 chapter 16. If you've never read it, we meet 36 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:18,180 a woman called Hagar. And basically, I might refer to 37 00:02:18,180 --> 00:02:20,980 this a little bit later on, but God made a promise. 38 00:02:21,390 --> 00:02:23,750 To somebody. But instead of trusting God that 39 00:02:23,750 --> 00:02:27,150 he would fulfill his promise, people decided to try and and 40 00:02:27,150 --> 00:02:29,710 sort out the situation by themselves. 41 00:02:29,710 --> 00:02:32,670 And it led to a bit of a mess and it led to a woman called 42 00:02:32,670 --> 00:02:35,510 Hagar getting hurt and running away. 43 00:02:36,150 --> 00:02:38,870 And as she was running away an Angel of the Lord appeared to 44 00:02:38,870 --> 00:02:42,190 her and spoke to her. And this encounter led her to 45 00:02:42,190 --> 00:02:47,590 give God the name Al Roy, which means you are the God who sees 46 00:02:47,590 --> 00:02:49,870 me. And I just really felt just to 47 00:02:49,870 --> 00:02:54,190 remind somebody in the room today that God is the God who 48 00:02:54,190 --> 00:02:57,070 sees you. It can sometimes be easy in a 49 00:02:57,070 --> 00:03:01,310 crowd of people to think no one understands exactly what I'm 50 00:03:01,310 --> 00:03:03,950 going through. Or you can say that, but you 51 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:06,750 don't know what it means in my life or you don't know what's 52 00:03:06,750 --> 00:03:10,150 happening to me right now. And I just felt God wanted to 53 00:03:10,150 --> 00:03:11,590 remind somebody. Today. 54 00:03:11,710 --> 00:03:15,230 He is Al Roy, the God who sees you. 55 00:03:15,710 --> 00:03:19,430 And you are not hidden from him. You're not lost in a crowd when 56 00:03:19,430 --> 00:03:21,190 it comes to God, but he sees you. 57 00:03:21,510 --> 00:03:23,670 He is the God who sees you. Wonderful. 58 00:03:23,670 --> 00:03:28,630 Well, Jehovah Gyra the Lord is my provider. 59 00:03:28,630 --> 00:03:31,590 Or Jehovah Gyra on the mountain of the Lord. 60 00:03:31,830 --> 00:03:36,670 It will be provided. Does anyone here love mountains? 61 00:03:37,110 --> 00:03:39,470 Anyone love climbing mountains? Anyone. 62 00:03:39,470 --> 00:03:42,510 A successful mountain climber, to be honest. 63 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,280 Not 100% sure I see the attraction. 64 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,760 Maybe I've got something to learn. 65 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,600 So I asked Google. Google. 66 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:55,360 Why do people climb mountains? It can be the most rewarding 67 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,200 thing some people have ever done. 68 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,720 Apparently it takes us to a place of incredible beauty, and 69 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,440 it challenges us to find untapped reserves of strength 70 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,960 and resources and hope you're ready for the sentence. 71 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,990 It's plain fun. When we think of mountain 72 00:04:12,990 --> 00:04:16,390 climbing in the UK, you know, we don't have any records 73 00:04:16,390 --> 00:04:20,149 necessarily, but I think most people would say that it doesn't 74 00:04:20,149 --> 00:04:23,550 get better than the Three Peaks. And we are going to go on our 75 00:04:23,590 --> 00:04:27,590 own three peak adventure through the Bible as we seek to think 76 00:04:27,590 --> 00:04:30,510 about Jehovah Gyra, the Lord, our provider. 77 00:04:30,550 --> 00:04:33,350 I've got good news. It involves no physical 78 00:04:33,350 --> 00:04:34,510 climbing. We're all right. 79 00:04:34,510 --> 00:04:37,640 We can stay relaxed and chilled. But we are going to look at 80 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,720 three peaks in the Bible and look at Jehovah Gyra. 81 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,480 And so if you want, maybe a catchy away, although slightly 82 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,280 cheesier way of remembering today's messages, Jehovah Gyra, 83 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,000 the three peak Provider. We're going to start on Mountain 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:57,560 #1, the mounts of by attitudes and we're going to see that God 85 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,920 is our daily gyra. This is a mountain famous for a 86 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,710 particular preach. The Sermon on the Mount. 87 00:05:06,110 --> 00:05:10,150 And no one can be 100% sure exactly where this mountain is, 88 00:05:10,470 --> 00:05:13,910 but when Tom and I were first married, we had the joy of 89 00:05:13,910 --> 00:05:17,630 traveling to Israel and we went to the Mount of the Attitudes 90 00:05:17,630 --> 00:05:21,070 where there is a church where they think this sermon was 91 00:05:21,070 --> 00:05:24,190 preached and it's a church was built there to commemorate it. 92 00:05:24,550 --> 00:05:27,470 And it is a beautiful mountain and all around the mountain I 93 00:05:27,470 --> 00:05:30,710 remember it being very luscious. There's lots of greenery and 94 00:05:30,710 --> 00:05:34,180 flowers and trees. And all around the mountainside, 95 00:05:34,180 --> 00:05:36,700 along the path, there's these little plaques that have little 96 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:38,900 quotes from the Sermon on the Mount. 97 00:05:39,260 --> 00:05:41,540 But Jesus is teaching the crowd. And we're going to look in 98 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:44,780 Matthew chapter 5, and we're going to see that on this 99 00:05:44,780 --> 00:05:49,860 mountain, on our first peak, Jehovah is our daily gyra, our 100 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:53,980 daily provider. This is what it says now, 101 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:57,740 Matthew 5, verse one. Now when Jesus saw the crowds, 102 00:05:57,940 --> 00:06:00,460 he went up on a mountainside and sat down. 103 00:06:00,890 --> 00:06:04,490 His disciples came to him and he began to teach them. 104 00:06:04,490 --> 00:06:07,610 Now, if you've never read the film on the Mount, I'd really 105 00:06:07,610 --> 00:06:09,650 encourage you to find some time to read it. 106 00:06:09,650 --> 00:06:13,330 It's in Matthew chapter 5 and it's basically Jesus sitting 107 00:06:13,330 --> 00:06:18,210 down and teaching people what the Kingdom of God looks like. 108 00:06:18,850 --> 00:06:22,090 It's almost like he's presenting the Kingdom of God Manifesto. 109 00:06:22,370 --> 00:06:25,610 This is what God's way of living should look like. 110 00:06:25,610 --> 00:06:28,980 This is how his. Ordained way of things should 111 00:06:28,980 --> 00:06:31,140 be. He resets moral standards. 112 00:06:31,140 --> 00:06:35,020 He gives instructions on how to live a life that brings glory to 113 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:37,340 God. There's so much wisdom to be 114 00:06:37,340 --> 00:06:40,580 found and then he gets onto the subject of money. 115 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:44,340 Here we go, Matthew, chapter 6, verse 25 to 33. 116 00:06:44,380 --> 00:06:48,500 It will come up on the screen. Therefore, I tell you, do not 117 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:52,060 worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your 118 00:06:52,060 --> 00:06:55,480 body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and 119 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,840 the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air. 120 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,040 They do not sew or reap or store away in barns. 121 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,440 And yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. 122 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Are you not much more valuable than they can anyone of you by 123 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,160 worrying at a single hour to your life? 124 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:13,840 And why do you worry about clothes? 125 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,600 See how the flowers of the field grow. 126 00:07:17,210 --> 00:07:20,450 They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even 127 00:07:20,450 --> 00:07:23,690 Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 128 00:07:24,130 --> 00:07:27,650 If that is how God closed the grass of the field which is here 129 00:07:27,650 --> 00:07:31,610 today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much 130 00:07:31,610 --> 00:07:36,130 more clothe you So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat, Or 131 00:07:36,130 --> 00:07:38,050 what shall we drink, Or what shall we wear? 132 00:07:38,330 --> 00:07:41,810 For the pagans run after all these things, and your Heavenly 133 00:07:41,810 --> 00:07:46,540 Father knows that you need them. But seek first his Kingdom and 134 00:07:46,540 --> 00:07:51,780 his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as 135 00:07:51,780 --> 00:07:54,580 well. A few weeks ago in Little Stars, 136 00:07:54,580 --> 00:07:58,220 which is our Under fives group here at one church, we said this 137 00:07:58,220 --> 00:08:03,820 phrase God looks after the birds and the flowers and God looks 138 00:08:03,820 --> 00:08:06,460 after me too. And it's true, we can look 139 00:08:06,460 --> 00:08:10,140 around in creation. We can look at the birds, We can 140 00:08:10,140 --> 00:08:12,700 look at the flowers and know God's promise. 141 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:17,020 If he cares for them, how much more important are we to him? 142 00:08:17,260 --> 00:08:20,180 He is going to continue to care for us too. 143 00:08:20,660 --> 00:08:23,780 I have a bit of a bad reputation I think when it comes to flowers 144 00:08:24,180 --> 00:08:27,420 and people come up to me and say give me tips of how to look 145 00:08:27,420 --> 00:08:30,740 after flowers, it doesn't work. However, I would like to just 146 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:34,100 say that our garden at the moment is blooming. 147 00:08:34,340 --> 00:08:36,780 It's flourishing. I even had to cut away. 148 00:08:37,179 --> 00:08:40,100 At some flowers today. Gotta tell you this. 149 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:42,659 It had nothing to do with me. I didn't do anything. 150 00:08:42,659 --> 00:08:45,020 It's all that miserable weather. That's where it came from. 151 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:47,100 Thank you. I know that people might not be 152 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,180 enjoying their holidays, but my garden is full of life, so I'm 153 00:08:50,180 --> 00:08:53,460 very grateful. God sent rain to look after my 154 00:08:53,460 --> 00:08:55,900 flowers and now they are flourishing. 155 00:08:56,260 --> 00:08:59,100 But God looks after us. Just like he looks after the 156 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:00,820 birds. Just like he looks after the 157 00:09:00,820 --> 00:09:04,760 flowers, He looks after us. I've really enjoyed different 158 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,360 conversations this week with people talking about the 159 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,960 blessings of God, and it's been so enjoyable just to listen to 160 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,320 people share how God has provided for them, how God has 161 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,240 always looked after them, how God has abundantly blessed 162 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,960 different people. And the first conversation I had 163 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,960 was about tithing here at one church. 164 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,800 We don't say people have to give. 165 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:30,140 We don't pressure people, but we give people the opportunity to 166 00:09:30,140 --> 00:09:33,620 discover the blessing of what happens when we give to God 167 00:09:33,820 --> 00:09:38,500 something that matters to us, when we give him our resources. 168 00:09:38,740 --> 00:09:42,630 It's amazing. The journey of tithing How much 169 00:09:42,630 --> 00:09:47,590 more God can do with the 90% than we could ever do ourselves 170 00:09:47,790 --> 00:09:50,590 with the 100%? It's completely counter 171 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:53,270 cultural. Why would you want to take away 172 00:09:53,270 --> 00:09:56,830 from what you have? But somehow in the economies of 173 00:09:56,830 --> 00:10:00,230 the Kingdom of God he doesn't see it as a subtraction. 174 00:10:00,230 --> 00:10:05,270 Instead, because God is God, our daily Gyra, He multiplies what 175 00:10:05,270 --> 00:10:09,390 we give Him, and His promise is this if we seek first His 176 00:10:09,390 --> 00:10:12,870 Kingdom. And His righteousness, all these 177 00:10:12,870 --> 00:10:17,030 other things will be added to us when we give in to the local 178 00:10:17,030 --> 00:10:19,670 church. We're seeing the Kingdom of God 179 00:10:19,670 --> 00:10:23,470 advance here on earth and as we seek Him first by being generous 180 00:10:23,470 --> 00:10:27,510 to others as we make wise, ethical decisions, As we're not 181 00:10:27,510 --> 00:10:30,190 driven by a desire for more money, but a desire to live 182 00:10:30,190 --> 00:10:33,310 right and to be a blessing to those around us. 183 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:36,660 All these other things will be added onto us. 184 00:10:36,660 --> 00:10:39,540 It is the promise on the 1st mountain peak. 185 00:10:39,740 --> 00:10:44,140 Seek first my Kingdom, my righteousness, and all these 186 00:10:44,140 --> 00:10:46,420 other things. Your daily needs, what you'll 187 00:10:46,420 --> 00:10:50,420 wear, what you'll eat, that all be added to you as well. 188 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:53,900 The second conversation I had with someone about blessing. 189 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,080 Was about how God doesn't just give us a little bit, He doesn't 190 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,760 just give us enough, but God answers our prayers. 191 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,360 He gives us exactly what we need. 192 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,280 Later on on the Sermon of the Mount, Jesus continues and says 193 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:13,840 this in Matthew 7, verse nine. Which of you, if your son asks 194 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,680 for bread, will give him a stone? 195 00:11:16,170 --> 00:11:18,690 Or if he asks for a fish, we'll give him a snake. 196 00:11:19,170 --> 00:11:23,290 If you then that you are evil, know how to give good gifts to 197 00:11:23,290 --> 00:11:27,010 your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give 198 00:11:27,010 --> 00:11:33,210 good gifts to those who ask him? Our Father, our Gyra, Jehovah, 199 00:11:33,210 --> 00:11:36,530 Jira, the God who provides our daily needs, doesn't just give 200 00:11:36,530 --> 00:11:38,730 us the scraps. He doesn't just give us enough. 201 00:11:39,210 --> 00:11:43,650 To get by, He is the God who gives good gifts to the children 202 00:11:43,890 --> 00:11:47,450 who ask him for them. And I just want to encourage us. 203 00:11:47,450 --> 00:11:51,250 And I was talking with this person about how we can ask God 204 00:11:51,250 --> 00:11:53,770 for things, we can ask him for big things. 205 00:11:54,090 --> 00:11:58,370 And then my encouragement to you is wait and see what God does. 206 00:11:58,610 --> 00:12:04,130 Sometimes we kind of ex say God's knows for him recently at 207 00:12:04,130 --> 00:12:07,570 school and our daughters are moving into a new class next 208 00:12:07,610 --> 00:12:10,350 year. And I really wanted my eldest 209 00:12:10,350 --> 00:12:12,070 daughter to have a specific teacher. 210 00:12:12,350 --> 00:12:14,790 And I was praying that she'd have this specific teacher. 211 00:12:14,790 --> 00:12:18,030 And I wanted to tell her that's who I was praying for. 212 00:12:18,430 --> 00:12:22,830 But something in me thought to myself, oh, no, I want to say to 213 00:12:22,830 --> 00:12:25,350 her, Annabelle, I'm praying that you have this teacher. 214 00:12:25,550 --> 00:12:29,270 But what happens if God doesn't give her that teacher? 215 00:12:29,550 --> 00:12:32,590 And I was hesitant to say to her or this is what I'm praying for 216 00:12:32,590 --> 00:12:35,110 because I didn't want her faith to be, not because I didn't want 217 00:12:35,110 --> 00:12:37,870 her to think that God doesn't answer our prayers. 218 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,840 But I just felt God say to me, why are you saying my no for me? 219 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,960 And why are you denying her the opportunity to see her faith 220 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,400 built? And so I said to her, Annabelle, 221 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,080 I'm praying that you're going to get this teacher. 222 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,240 And she opened up her piece of paper that said what class she 223 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,520 was in and she looked at me and she said, Mum, that's who we 224 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,720 prayed I would get. And I said, I know, isn't that 225 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,920 amazing? And I'm not guaranteeing that 226 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:02,600 God, it's not like a wish list that we say I wish this would 227 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,640 happen and magically it appears. But I do know this God gives 228 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,320 good gifts to his children, the right gifts. 229 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,520 But I want to encourage us. Let's build our faith with by 230 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:15,520 being specific, asking God for things, knowing that he doesn't 231 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,280 just provide for our daily needs, but he wants to give good 232 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,920 gifts to the children that ask him. 233 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,080 And I was just reminded of another story when we had our 234 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,340 second child. And we need a double pushchair. 235 00:13:29,020 --> 00:13:31,380 So I said, God, would you, would you give us a double pushchair? 236 00:13:31,380 --> 00:13:34,580 That's what we need. And I was in a staff meeting and 237 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:37,060 someone said to us, I have a double pushchair. 238 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:39,500 Would you like it? And I was like, yeah, I would 239 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:41,300 actually like, that's what we've been praying for. 240 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:43,620 And so I went home. I just said to myself, God, I 241 00:13:43,660 --> 00:13:46,940 really hope it's a Phil and Ted's pushchair, because that's 242 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:50,120 what I really would like. I went back to them and they 243 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,120 gave us this pushchair and it was a lovely pushchair, but it 244 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,360 wasn't effluent Ted's pushchair. But anyway, I was like, God, 245 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,480 thank you so much for providing us with this pushchair. 246 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:00,880 I'm really grateful. I said thank you to the person. 247 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,880 And then on Sunday I happened to be in one of our one church 248 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,080 sites. And at the end of the service I 249 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,440 remember having coffee at the back and someone came up to me 250 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,320 and said we were in that garage the other day and we have a 251 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,240 pushchair, a double pushchair. Are you in need of 1? 252 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,280 And I said, well, to be honest, someone has just given US1. 253 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:19,680 So thank you, but I think we're OK. 254 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,080 And they said it's a Phil and Ted's pushchair. 255 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,600 Are you interested? And I just love the fact that to 256 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,280 God, I wasn't being greedy, I wasn't being ungrateful. 257 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,000 I was, I was giving him a specific need that I really 258 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,760 wanted because I wanted it for a specific reason. 259 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,680 And God, who hears His children, whose promise is to be our 260 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,320 Jehovah Gyra, our daily provider, He provides for our 261 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,840 knees, but He doesn't just give us the scraps. 262 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,320 He longs to give good gifts to his children, so my 263 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,920 encouragement is to you. Trust that He is your daily 264 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,800 gyre, but also ask Him. Be bold in your asking and trust 265 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,720 that he loves to give good gifts to his children. 266 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:00,760 This is what I want to say today. 267 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,840 You can stand on the mountain of your daily needs, and as you put 268 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,040 God first, trust that He will care for your needs and not just 269 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,200 the bare minimum. But he loves to give good gifts 270 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,860 to those who ask Him. On peak number one, we see 271 00:15:15,860 --> 00:15:20,540 Jehovah Jira, our daily provider to the next peak. 272 00:15:21,340 --> 00:15:24,340 How can we be confident that God will provide? 273 00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:28,260 How can we be sure of it? How do we trust Him with our 274 00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:31,100 daily needs? Well, it's in His name. 275 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:34,740 He is Jehovah Jira, the Lord our provider, and we're going to go 276 00:15:34,740 --> 00:15:39,740 to our second mountain to find out when this name was given to 277 00:15:39,740 --> 00:15:41,340 God. It's the only time this name 278 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:43,500 appears in the whole of the Bible. 279 00:15:43,970 --> 00:15:49,050 On Mount Moriah, on peak #2, we discover that God in the test 280 00:15:49,050 --> 00:15:52,010 and trial is that miraculous provider. 281 00:15:53,010 --> 00:15:56,090 I spoke earlier about a promise that God made to somebody and it 282 00:15:56,090 --> 00:15:58,810 led to mess and Hagar running away. 283 00:15:59,210 --> 00:16:04,170 Well, in Genesis we see that God chooses a people for himself, a 284 00:16:04,170 --> 00:16:08,010 special people set apart, and he makes a promise to a man called 285 00:16:08,050 --> 00:16:10,220 Abraham. That he will have many 286 00:16:10,220 --> 00:16:13,500 descendants and make him into a great nation. 287 00:16:13,820 --> 00:16:17,300 The problem is Abraham has no children. 288 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:21,460 God promises that he is going to make him into a great nation, 289 00:16:21,460 --> 00:16:24,660 and his descendants will outnumber the grains of sand and 290 00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:27,740 the stars in the sky. But he has no kids. 291 00:16:28,140 --> 00:16:31,580 But God is a faithful God, a God who is faithful to his promises. 292 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:35,340 And even though temporarily, Abraham tries to make it happen 293 00:16:35,340 --> 00:16:37,300 by himself, which leads to the mess. 294 00:16:38,260 --> 00:16:40,860 Eventually God fulfills his promises. 295 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:47,460 It says in Genesis 19, God, as he had said, gave Sarah a baby 296 00:16:47,860 --> 00:16:49,860 and say Abraham and Sarah have a son. 297 00:16:49,860 --> 00:16:53,060 His name is Isaac because God is a faithful God who keeps his 298 00:16:53,060 --> 00:16:55,580 promises. And then we join the story in 299 00:16:55,580 --> 00:16:59,940 Genesis chapter 22 where God tests Abraham and we're going to 300 00:16:59,940 --> 00:17:03,340 read it together and bring some thoughts out from this passage 301 00:17:03,340 --> 00:17:06,740 about Jehovah Gyra and Miraculous Provider. 302 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,680 We're in Genesis chapter 22. Sometime later, God tested 303 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,359 Abraham. He said to him. 304 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:19,240 Abraham, here I am, he replied. And then God said, take your 305 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:24,400 son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the 306 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,200 region of Mariah. Sacrifice him there as a burn 307 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:34,280 offering on a mountain. I will show you it's quite a big 308 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,670 request from God. He doesn't say what Abraham's 309 00:17:40,030 --> 00:17:41,750 initial response was. I don't know. 310 00:17:41,750 --> 00:17:44,990 All it says is this. His first response that is 311 00:17:44,990 --> 00:17:49,030 recorded was one of obedience. It says this early the next 312 00:17:49,030 --> 00:17:52,550 morning, Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. 313 00:17:52,950 --> 00:17:55,510 I listened to someone speak about this and they said perhaps 314 00:17:55,510 --> 00:17:58,470 he got up early so that Sarah didn't know what he was doing. 315 00:17:58,470 --> 00:18:00,870 He's like, right, come on Isaac, quickly, let's get out of this 316 00:18:00,870 --> 00:18:02,790 before your mother has something to say about this. 317 00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:06,030 But his first recorded response was obedience. 318 00:18:06,450 --> 00:18:09,810 Early the next morning, Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. 319 00:18:10,530 --> 00:18:13,810 He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. 320 00:18:14,890 --> 00:18:17,770 When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out 321 00:18:17,770 --> 00:18:19,450 for the place God had told him about. 322 00:18:20,130 --> 00:18:23,210 On the third day. Abraham looked up and saw the 323 00:18:23,210 --> 00:18:27,370 place in the distance. He said to his servants, stay 324 00:18:27,370 --> 00:18:31,530 here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. 325 00:18:31,970 --> 00:18:35,810 We will worship and then we will come back to you. 326 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:40,360 Interesting that the order of things in this story mirrors 327 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:45,000 what Jesus says, that as we seek him first, then all these things 328 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,080 will be added unto him. In this story we see Abraham has 329 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:54,360 to obey first before he sees God provide miraculously, he has to 330 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:59,000 decide to obey. Sometimes when we're in the test 331 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,600 and trial, God asks us to do certain things and we can 332 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,840 question. We can say, Are you sure, God, 333 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,500 why? I can't do that. 334 00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:11,940 You're asking too much of me. My encouragement here is at the 335 00:19:11,940 --> 00:19:13,660 end of the story on the mountaintop. 336 00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:15,900 We're going to see the miraculous provision, but 337 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:20,580 sometimes it takes us to step out and to be obedient to what 338 00:19:20,580 --> 00:19:24,100 God is asking for us. Abraham's first response was 339 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:27,860 obedience. Secondly, Abraham had full 340 00:19:27,860 --> 00:19:30,020 confidence in the promise keeping God. 341 00:19:30,820 --> 00:19:33,420 He says this. Stay here. 342 00:19:33,580 --> 00:19:36,980 We will worship, and then we will come back to you. 343 00:19:37,620 --> 00:19:41,820 He had full confidence that him and his son would return. 344 00:19:41,820 --> 00:19:43,620 It doesn't say I will come back to you. 345 00:19:43,620 --> 00:19:45,980 It says we will come back to you. 346 00:19:46,580 --> 00:19:51,580 And the reason why Abraham has full confidence in God in this 347 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:55,820 test and trial is he remembers that God is a faithful God. 348 00:19:56,380 --> 00:20:01,620 He is a God who promised that he would have a son through whom he 349 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:04,740 would have many descendants and would make into a great nation. 350 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:11,020 And God fulfilled his promise. Abraham was 100 when God gave 351 00:20:11,020 --> 00:20:15,020 him Isaac. It was 14 years after Abraham 352 00:20:15,020 --> 00:20:19,060 tried to fulfill the promise his own way with Hagar and her son 353 00:20:19,060 --> 00:20:22,930 Ishmael. And God is faithful to his 354 00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:25,610 promise, and Abraham knew that he had to wait. 355 00:20:25,610 --> 00:20:30,930 But eventually, as he had said, Sarah gave birth to a son. 356 00:20:31,170 --> 00:20:34,770 He had full confidence in the promise keeping God, it says in 357 00:20:34,770 --> 00:20:37,930 Hebrews 11. It kind of explains a little bit 358 00:20:38,250 --> 00:20:41,360 of what Abraham maybe was going through by faith. 359 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:46,120 Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. 360 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,000 He who would embrace the promises was about to sacrifice 361 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,640 his one and only son, even though God had said to him it is 362 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,120 through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. 363 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,480 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead and so in a 364 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,000 manner of speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. 365 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,040 I imagine what was going through Abraham's mind was this God. 366 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,320 You have said this. I trust that you are a God who 367 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:15,320 keeps your promises. So perhaps as I sacrifice Isaac, 368 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,160 maybe you're raising from the dead. 369 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,520 Maybe that's how you'll sort it out. 370 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,560 But I trust that you are going to make things OK. 371 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,600 I trust that you are going to fulfill your promises. 372 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:30,880 In the test and trial, Abraham was obedient. 373 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:36,000 In the test and trial Abraham had confidence we will return 374 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:41,240 because he knew that his God was a faithful promise keeping God. 375 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:47,720 Abraham continues and when the situation looked grim, Abraham 376 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,640 continued to trust that God would provide for God would see 377 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,800 to it. Verse 6. 378 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,720 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed on his 379 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,040 son Isaac and he himself carried the fire and the knife. 380 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,120 As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and 381 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:06,760 said to his father. Father. 382 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:10,780 Yes, my son, Abraham replied. The fire and wood are here, 383 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:13,820 Isaac said. But where is the lamb for the 384 00:22:13,820 --> 00:22:16,540 burn offering? Abraham answered. 385 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:20,260 God himself will provide the lamb for the burn offering, my 386 00:22:20,260 --> 00:22:23,020 son. And so the two of them went on 387 00:22:23,020 --> 00:22:25,940 together. I can't imagine what it would 388 00:22:25,940 --> 00:22:30,140 have been like for Isaac when things just, oh, how? 389 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,440 Put on a minute. I see what's happening here. 390 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,600 I see what's happening here. Dad. 391 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,160 What's what's gonna happen here? What is happening? 392 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,760 And Abraham's response is don't worry, son. 393 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:44,880 God will provide it. Sometimes because we read the 394 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,920 Bible in the language that it was not originally written, some 395 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,080 of our words don't always do justice to what God is intending 396 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,730 to say through His word. This word provide, it doesn't 397 00:22:57,730 --> 00:23:00,530 give the full weight of what of what the Bible is trying to say 398 00:23:00,530 --> 00:23:02,490 here. It actually it's not just God 399 00:23:02,490 --> 00:23:07,730 will provide, as in God will give some say it is God will see 400 00:23:07,770 --> 00:23:10,250 to it. I wonder, have you ever had a 401 00:23:10,250 --> 00:23:13,450 problem and you've gone to somebody and they don't tell you 402 00:23:13,450 --> 00:23:15,690 exactly how they're going to fix it. 403 00:23:16,170 --> 00:23:19,130 They say don't worry, I'll see to it. 404 00:23:19,770 --> 00:23:23,370 And some people, when they say that because you trust in them, 405 00:23:23,690 --> 00:23:26,080 you know, actually I can leave that now. 406 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,840 I don't have to worry about it because they're on the job. 407 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,120 They'll see to it. It's like that with God will 408 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,640 provide. It's not just Jehovah Gyra God 409 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,560 will give us, it's Jehovah Gyra. God will see to it. 410 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,520 He'll sort that out. Abraham when things were looking 411 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,840 grim and when Isaac realized, hold on, what's going on here, 412 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,000 Abraham said this. Don't worry. 413 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,720 God will see to it. He's got this sorted. 414 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,720 Perhaps you're in the middle of your child and you need to be 415 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,000 reminded today. It's all right. 416 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,120 God says to you, I'll see to that. 417 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,360 I'll sort it out. And then Abraham gets to the top 418 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:09,320 of the mountain, and that's where he experiences miraculous 419 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,810 provision. When they reached the place God 420 00:24:11,810 --> 00:24:14,570 had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and 421 00:24:14,570 --> 00:24:17,770 arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid 422 00:24:17,770 --> 00:24:20,170 him on the altar on top of the wood. 423 00:24:20,450 --> 00:24:23,450 And then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his 424 00:24:23,450 --> 00:24:25,890 son. But the Angel of the Lord called 425 00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:28,370 out to him from heaven. Abraham. 426 00:24:28,810 --> 00:24:32,210 Abraham. Here I am, he replied. 427 00:24:33,330 --> 00:24:35,410 I picture this. I wouldn't when I think about 428 00:24:35,410 --> 00:24:39,010 this story was like Abraham. Like how close do I have to get 429 00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:41,090 to Isaac's body before you're going to intervene? 430 00:24:41,090 --> 00:24:43,330 God, like surely this is time God. 431 00:24:43,530 --> 00:24:46,090 Maybe he was hoping that on the way up, before he bound his 432 00:24:46,090 --> 00:24:49,010 body, maybe God would intervene. But still it feels like God 433 00:24:49,010 --> 00:24:52,170 waits until the last minute. But he does come through, 434 00:24:52,170 --> 00:24:55,170 because he is a faithful promise keeping God. 435 00:24:56,010 --> 00:24:58,130 Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said. 436 00:24:58,530 --> 00:25:02,120 Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, 437 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:04,560 because you've not withheld me from your son. 438 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,440 Your only son. And Abraham looked up, and there 439 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,560 in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. 440 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,160 He went over, took the ram, sacrificed it as a burnt 441 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,880 offering instead of his son. The miraculous Jehovah Jira 442 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,400 promised keeping. God came through. 443 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,760 He saw to it, and a ram in the thicket came to the rescue. 444 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:31,260 And then it says this. Abraham called that place 445 00:25:31,260 --> 00:25:34,540 Jehovah Gyra. The Lord will provide, and to 446 00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:38,460 this day it is said on the mountain of the Lord it will be 447 00:25:38,460 --> 00:25:41,100 provided. I read this quote this week and 448 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:45,780 I just wanted to read it. As it says it here Abraham names 449 00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:49,980 the place after God's miraculous provision, not after his trial. 450 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:54,540 Abraham christened the anonymous mountaintop, not by a name that 451 00:25:54,540 --> 00:25:58,370 reminded him or others of his trial, but by a name that 452 00:25:58,370 --> 00:26:02,410 proclaimed God's deliverance, Jehovah Gyra. 453 00:26:03,130 --> 00:26:05,810 He did not say anything about his agony or about his 454 00:26:05,810 --> 00:26:08,970 obedience. Let us name the heights that lie 455 00:26:08,970 --> 00:26:13,250 behind us, visible to memory by names that commemorate not the 456 00:26:13,250 --> 00:26:17,130 troubles that we had on them, but the deliverances that on 457 00:26:17,130 --> 00:26:21,810 them we received from God. Abraham was tested. 458 00:26:21,930 --> 00:26:27,220 He went through a trial, but he trusted that God would see to 459 00:26:27,260 --> 00:26:29,660 it. He trusted in his faithful 460 00:26:29,860 --> 00:26:33,220 promise, keeping God. And sure enough, he stood on the 461 00:26:33,220 --> 00:26:35,700 mountain and experienced miraculous provision. 462 00:26:36,340 --> 00:26:39,420 And I love that. Then he chose to rename that 463 00:26:39,420 --> 00:26:41,460 place. Not the place of. 464 00:26:41,780 --> 00:26:44,140 Oh, God, you really had me going on that one. 465 00:26:44,140 --> 00:26:45,580 I didn't know if you'd come through to me. 466 00:26:45,580 --> 00:26:48,660 Not the place of well, God. I trusted you because I always 467 00:26:48,660 --> 00:26:51,340 trust you. He chose to name the place. 468 00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:53,860 This is the mountain of the Lord. 469 00:26:53,860 --> 00:26:56,900 On the mountain of the Lord. It will be provided. 470 00:26:57,140 --> 00:27:00,940 Jehovah Gyra, some thoughts for us today. 471 00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:03,220 Are you being tested? Are you in the middle of a 472 00:27:03,220 --> 00:27:05,630 trial? Well, let obedience be your 473 00:27:05,630 --> 00:27:08,350 response. Have confidence that the 474 00:27:08,350 --> 00:27:12,350 faithful Promise keeper will see to it. 475 00:27:12,790 --> 00:27:16,270 And when you experience your miraculous provision, when you 476 00:27:16,270 --> 00:27:20,470 see your ram in the thicket, maybe it's time to rename your 477 00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:23,910 mountain. Not out of trial, not out of 478 00:27:23,910 --> 00:27:26,310 agony. Don't call it all that you've 479 00:27:26,310 --> 00:27:28,230 lost. Don't call it all that you've 480 00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:31,430 gone through. Instead, call it Jehovah Gyra. 481 00:27:31,870 --> 00:27:36,450 On the mountain of the Lord, it will be provided Jehovah. 482 00:27:37,370 --> 00:27:40,290 He's our daily provider, our daily Gyra. 483 00:27:40,730 --> 00:27:44,050 We see it in the birds, we see it in the flowers. 484 00:27:44,290 --> 00:27:49,650 And we also hear His promise. I love to give good gifts to my 485 00:27:49,650 --> 00:27:54,730 children who ask for them. We see Jehovah Gyra, our 486 00:27:55,250 --> 00:27:59,830 miraculous provider. Abraham saw a miracle in his 487 00:27:59,830 --> 00:28:03,910 test and trial, and we can also see miracles when we're tested. 488 00:28:04,070 --> 00:28:08,470 When we find ourselves in a trial, we can have confidence 489 00:28:08,750 --> 00:28:13,910 that as we obey the faithful promise keeping God, He will 490 00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:17,110 provide for us. Jehovah Gyra, on the mountain of 491 00:28:17,110 --> 00:28:21,390 the Lord, it will be provided. And now we arrive at Mountain 492 00:28:21,390 --> 00:28:26,540 #3. God's miraculous provision of a 493 00:28:26,540 --> 00:28:31,300 ram in a thicket that saved Abraham's only son was just a 494 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:37,020 foretaste of the lamb on the hill of Calvary, when God's only 495 00:28:37,020 --> 00:28:41,900 son was sacrificed as the miraculous provision for all 496 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:48,500 people on mountain #2. On peak two we see that the ram 497 00:28:48,540 --> 00:28:53,920 saved one boy. On Mountain peak #3 we see a 498 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,480 lamb who would go on to save the whole world. 499 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,480 John One verse 29, John the Baptist sees Jesus and he says 500 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,000 this. The next day John saw Jesus 501 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,960 coming toward him and said, look, the Lamb of God who takes 502 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,920 away the sin of the world, and three years later on Mountain 503 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,020 Peak #3, the hill of Calvary, or some know it as Golgotha in the 504 00:29:21,020 --> 00:29:25,220 Bible, the Lamb of God, whom John the Baptist spoke about, 505 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:29,780 who preached on Mountain Peak number one about Jehovah, our 506 00:29:29,780 --> 00:29:35,860 daily Gyra found himself on Mountain Peak #3, and it says 507 00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:39,780 this in John 19, carrying his own cross, he went out to the 508 00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:42,940 place of the school, which an Aramaic is called Golgotha. 509 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:47,540 There they crucified Him, and with two others, one on each 510 00:29:47,540 --> 00:29:52,740 side, and Jesus in the middle. And to explain what happened on 511 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:55,700 Mountain Peak #3, we can look in Romans 5. 512 00:29:56,260 --> 00:30:00,980 Therefore, since we have been justified 3 faiths, we have 513 00:30:00,980 --> 00:30:07,020 peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we 514 00:30:07,020 --> 00:30:12,780 have gained access by faith into His grace in which we now stand. 515 00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:18,750 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, 516 00:30:19,070 --> 00:30:23,310 Christ died on hill #3 for the ungodly. 517 00:30:24,270 --> 00:30:27,910 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a 518 00:30:27,910 --> 00:30:30,430 good person someone might possibly dare to die. 519 00:30:30,830 --> 00:30:35,310 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this While we 520 00:30:35,310 --> 00:30:41,350 were still sinners, Christ died for us, and through Him we have 521 00:30:41,350 --> 00:30:46,250 now received reconciliation. When we think about Jehovah 522 00:30:46,250 --> 00:30:50,730 gyra, our provider is sometimes easy for us to to think about 523 00:30:50,730 --> 00:30:53,170 our daily needs. And it is so true. 524 00:30:53,490 --> 00:30:57,930 We need a daily gyra. We need a daily provider, and 525 00:30:57,930 --> 00:31:02,370 he's there for us. Then sometimes trials and tests 526 00:31:02,370 --> 00:31:05,410 come along. And in those moments, we also 527 00:31:05,410 --> 00:31:08,090 need to know that he is a miraculous gyra. 528 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,280 He provides for us when we don't see an option or a way out. 529 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,760 He comes through because he is a faithful God. 530 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,400 He is a God who keeps his promises in the test and trial. 531 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,920 He is our miraculous provider. But that's just a foretaste, 532 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:30,560 that story of what he did as being the ultimate gyra, our 533 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,640 eternity Gyra. That's the biggest need. 534 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,440 We have our biggest need. It's not about what we wear. 535 00:31:38,010 --> 00:31:41,690 It's not about what we eat. It's not even about when things 536 00:31:41,690 --> 00:31:45,010 seem very big in our heads and they are big when we face tests 537 00:31:45,010 --> 00:31:48,530 and trials. Actually, Jehovah Gyra is more 538 00:31:48,530 --> 00:31:52,450 than that. Jehovah Gyra paid the ultimate 539 00:31:52,450 --> 00:31:57,050 price for us on the hill of Calvary and we can know today. 540 00:31:57,050 --> 00:31:58,770 We can rejoice and say thank you. 541 00:31:59,770 --> 00:32:02,010 He has met the biggest need I have. 542 00:32:02,810 --> 00:32:05,730 He has paid the price for assins. 543 00:32:06,810 --> 00:32:08,810 He died the death that we should have died. 544 00:32:08,810 --> 00:32:10,770 He paid the price that we couldn't pay. 545 00:32:11,090 --> 00:32:15,170 And now, because of what he has done, we have eternal life. 546 00:32:16,730 --> 00:32:22,090 God's soul of the world, that on peak #3, on the hill of Calvary, 547 00:32:22,410 --> 00:32:26,290 He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him 548 00:32:26,770 --> 00:32:29,410 will not perish but have eternal life. 549 00:32:30,370 --> 00:32:34,010 I am grateful. I am grateful for my Jehovah 550 00:32:34,010 --> 00:32:38,950 Gyra, my eternity provider. Shall we pray together? 551 00:32:38,950 --> 00:32:40,950 And you might want to bow your heads. 552 00:32:40,950 --> 00:32:44,790 If it helps you just focus on the 33 mountain peaks that we're 553 00:32:44,790 --> 00:32:47,670 going to declare Jehovah Gyras today. 554 00:32:49,270 --> 00:32:53,910 First of all, we're going to go backwards Peak #3, the hill of 555 00:32:53,910 --> 00:32:58,670 Calvary where salvation took place. 556 00:32:59,670 --> 00:33:03,110 Perhaps today in this atmosphere, you just want to say 557 00:33:03,110 --> 00:33:08,380 thank you to God that He provided for your biggest need. 558 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:13,620 He made you right with Him. And perhaps you find yourself 559 00:33:13,620 --> 00:33:16,700 here today and you haven't actually yet confessed your 560 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,700 belief in Jesus. You haven't actually said out 561 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:25,700 loud I believe that God sent Jesus to die for me in my place 562 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:27,540 so that I could have eternal life. 563 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:31,950 Well, maybe you want to pray this prayer after me now. 564 00:33:31,950 --> 00:33:34,710 And and maybe even if you've prayed it before, maybe you just 565 00:33:34,710 --> 00:33:38,110 want to pray this prayer, the salvation prayer, thanking God 566 00:33:38,910 --> 00:33:42,190 for what he did on the cross. Maybe you want to say this in 567 00:33:42,190 --> 00:33:45,830 your heart after me. Lord Jesus, thank you that you 568 00:33:45,830 --> 00:33:48,470 know me, and thank you that you love me. 569 00:33:49,390 --> 00:33:52,750 I am sorry for my cinema stakes. Today. 570 00:33:52,750 --> 00:33:57,470 I choose to accept the gift of life that you paid for on the 571 00:33:57,470 --> 00:34:02,040 cross and to follow you as my Lord and Savior. 572 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,880 Help me to live a life that brings you glory in your name. 573 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,400 Amen. On the 2nd mountain peak, maybe 574 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,960 you are going through a significant test and trial. 575 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,880 Remember God's promise at the beginning. 576 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,360 I am the one who sees you. I might not understand what 577 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,600 you're going through, but there is a God in heaven who sees you. 578 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,670 Maybe you need to stand on that mountaintop today and say, 579 00:34:29,670 --> 00:34:34,630 Jehovah, You are my gyro. You are my miraculous provider. 580 00:34:35,590 --> 00:34:38,830 I'm going to obey you. I'm going to trust that you are 581 00:34:38,830 --> 00:34:43,469 a faithful God, that you keep your promises, and I believe 582 00:34:43,469 --> 00:34:46,150 that I will see your miraculous provision. 583 00:34:46,790 --> 00:34:49,909 Or perhaps you've just come through a trial and and maybe 584 00:34:49,909 --> 00:34:52,790 you've been wounded by it. You've been very hurt. 585 00:34:53,670 --> 00:34:57,090 You've experienced loss. Whatever's happened to you and 586 00:34:57,090 --> 00:34:59,850 you're remembering the agony and actually God would just love to 587 00:34:59,850 --> 00:35:02,810 remind you today I've seen to that. 588 00:35:04,050 --> 00:35:08,250 You can name that test. You can name that trial Jehovah 589 00:35:08,250 --> 00:35:10,450 Gyra on the mountain of the Lord. 590 00:35:10,850 --> 00:35:14,250 It will be provided. And finally, maybe today, you 591 00:35:14,250 --> 00:35:17,250 want to stand on Mountain Peak number one and just say God 592 00:35:18,570 --> 00:35:22,570 thank you, that you are my daily provider, my daily Gyra. 593 00:35:23,620 --> 00:35:26,620 I've been consumed by worry. I've been worried how I'm going 594 00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:29,100 to make ends meet. And God wants to come and fill 595 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:33,100 you with His peace and remind you He is your Jehovah Gyra, 596 00:35:33,460 --> 00:35:36,540 your daily provider. And he doesn't just give you 597 00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:40,100 enough. He loves to give good gifts to 598 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:44,220 those who ask him. Thank you, Philippa, for that 599 00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:47,740 message. What an incredible God we have. 600 00:35:49,140 --> 00:35:51,700 And if you would like to respond in any way, especially if you 601 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:54,220 prayed the prayer to invite Jesus into your life for the 602 00:35:54,220 --> 00:35:56,780 first time, then we would love to hear from you. 603 00:35:57,340 --> 00:35:59,700 Give us a call or send us an e-mail today. 604 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,860 There are many things happening in the life of 1 church. 605 00:36:03,220 --> 00:36:09,340 Here is this week's family news for 1234. 606 00:36:09,340 --> 00:36:12,380 Firstly, there is currently a team of 11 young adults in 607 00:36:12,380 --> 00:36:14,820 Tanzania. They have already seen God do 608 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:17,500 some incredible things, including casting out demons. 609 00:36:17,910 --> 00:36:20,630 And praying for rain. Please continue to pray for them 610 00:36:20,630 --> 00:36:23,630 this week that they would have even more stories and that they 611 00:36:23,630 --> 00:36:27,270 would come back full of faith and a passion to see God move 612 00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:31,390 here in the UK. Secondly, it's now less than 613 00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:34,910 five weeks until opening weekend for the renovated One Center. 614 00:36:35,470 --> 00:36:38,510 Join us on the 9th and 10th of September to celebrate God's 615 00:36:38,510 --> 00:36:41,030 incredible goodness and faithfulness to us in this 616 00:36:41,030 --> 00:36:43,270 season. And why not bring someone with 617 00:36:43,270 --> 00:36:46,710 you? Thirdly, on Sunday the 27th of 618 00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:49,110 August. We have our next encounter 619 00:36:49,110 --> 00:36:52,390 night, 7:00 PM at 12 Frog Island. 620 00:36:52,950 --> 00:36:56,270 Last month was such a powerful time and we're believing for 621 00:36:56,270 --> 00:36:59,550 more of the same this month. Anyone is welcome to come and 622 00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:02,790 join us. And finally, if you would like 623 00:37:02,790 --> 00:37:06,070 the opportunity to bring to life some of the places we read about 624 00:37:06,070 --> 00:37:09,470 in the Bible, some of the places where Jesus himself walked 625 00:37:09,470 --> 00:37:12,430 whilst he was here on this earth, then we have a trip to 626 00:37:12,430 --> 00:37:17,650 Israel in March 2024. We get in touch today to find 627 00:37:17,650 --> 00:37:20,330 out more details and to register your interest. 628 00:37:20,850 --> 00:37:22,970 And that is your family news for. 629 00:37:25,530 --> 00:37:29,370 The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine 630 00:37:29,370 --> 00:37:31,410 upon you, and be gracious to you. 631 00:37:31,770 --> 00:37:35,290 The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.