Good morning, Resurrection Church.
My name is Richard. I am the high school youth
director here at Rez. I'm so excited that you're here
with us this morning. So a couple weeks ago, it was
volleyball season for my daughter and we had a game that
night and we weren't sure if she was going to play.
So I was like, hey, I got other stuff to do.
I do I really need to go. And then the Holy Spirit
reminded me how many times God shows up for me even though I
don't, I'm not going to play in the game.
How many times it's not about my performance or how good I
perform, but that God is always showing up for me.
So we went to the game and it was awesome.
But I want to remind you and encourage you with this is no
matter what you're doing, no matter in the chaos of your
life, how well you're performing or not, that God is going to
show up for you. And he shows up for you every
day. And maybe you're new to this
whole Christian thing and you're, you're barely getting to
know who God is. I want to let you know that he
loves you and he cares about every intricate part in your
life because he's a loving father.
So today is going to be a little different.
We are going to have our prayer service.
And I'm so excited that we get to pray together as a church
family. We get to practice what Pastor
Daniel's been teaching us for the past couple weeks, how to
pray. So we're going to go through the
acronym space, right? We're going to praise Scripture.
We're going to praise, we're going to acknowledge, do
acknowledgement. We're going to have a time of
confession, and we're going to entreat to the Lord.
We're going to plead to the Lord with requests.
So as we get to pray today as a church body, there's going to be
a segment when we have open mic, you're going to be able to come
up and you're going to get to pray your you have your prayer
requests also. So if you're able to, would you
stand and worship with us today? This.
Is my story. I'll testify.
Blessings on blessings be poured on my life.
Start remembering how good you should.
Yes, thank you, God. Hi, my name is Pastor Steve and
I serve as one of your elders here.
And it's my privilege to start us out today and pray the
Scriptures. And we're going to be talking a
little bit right now about God's character, but I want you to
assume a position of prayer, kind of like Lee leads this
worship, just actively, Not just, you know, humbly.
Yes, humbly, but not just quietly.
This is a time where we're worshiping and talking to God
through His Word. So join me as I lead us out.
Father in Heaven, we so grateful and thankful for the fact that
you have allowed us to the privilege of coming to to you in
prayer and even using your word. It says that the Lord is
gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and great and faithful
love. The Lord is good to everyone.
His compassion rests on all He has made, and you have made
will, and all you have made will.
Thank you Lord, the faithful will bless you.
And Father, as we continue this time in prayer, we do bless you.
We thank you so much for your compassion on us.
The fact that you're slow to anger.
Let us learn from that as we deal with our family, as we deal
with our workmates, that we are slow to anger.
That our brains process what's coming in so that we can
respond. And love and compassion and
goodness so that we might be able to build your church by one
person at a time as we communicate that love that
slowed us to anger, that greatness that you have given us
in your name through your Word, through the preached word and
the prayer word and the singing that we sing.
Father, help us worship in all areas of our lives as we
continue this time today in prayer, through worship, through
song, through reading your Word and contemplating in our hearts
our relationship with You. And all these things I pray in
Jesus holy name, Amen. Well, good morning, everybody.
My name is Pastor Dave. I'm the middle school director
here at Resurrecting Church. In a moment, we are going to
pray over our tithes and offerings.
But before we do, I have a few things that you need to know for
this week #1 if you have not yet and you desire to be baptized,
December 7th is the week for you.
People off, let's go. People often wonder.
Come on, they wonder, does God have instructions for me?
Does He give us steps in our lives?
And absolutely, number 1, he says believe in Him, believe and
entrust in Him with everything you do #2 immediately he says go
be baptized, go get baptized. He doesn't say that because it
seals your salvation. It doesn't solidify what he's
doing. He tells us to.
Because when God changes you, when He does something so
amazing in your life, you have to tell other people about it.
Amen. And the Bible gives us the most
beautiful way to do that. And that is to follow and what
we're commanded to do in the believers baptism, December 7th
is that day, no matter how old you are, God calls us, go get
baptized. Follow in His commands, do what
He's asking, Show the people around, show the church, show
your friends, show your family that you are sold out for God
and you're doing what He asked you to do because you love Him
so much, because he's changed you.
December 7th, the following Sunday, December 14th, If you
have a child now wives, I'm not talking about your husband's.
If you have a child that you would like to be dedicated, here
at the church, we have a child dedication service coming up.
Child dedication services are so beautiful.
It's an opportunity for you as the parent to commit what we
know is the gift that God has given you.
Commit that child to showing him and her what it's like to live a
Christian life, to raise them in the way that God calls them to
do in church. Church, this is a moment for us
to commit our lives to these families, an opportunity for us
to stand and pray with them and guide them and be there for them
because we are not to do this alone.
Amen. We are to do this together as a
family and help each other raise each other and show them and
help them guide them through the ways.
So December 14th, both of these dates, both of these things have
sign ups. We'd love for you to sign up.
We'd love for you to go to our website and sign up for baptism,
sign up for child dedications. We asked you to sign up so we
know we can be prepared and, and, and hand you the, the stuff
that we're going to do for dedication.
And as we prepare to pray over our tithes and offerings.
Last week, last week, we kicked off our Build 2026 campaign.
We handed out pledge cards and we asked you to pray over these
pledge cards. Pray about what God is calling
you and how he asked you to respond to what He is doing here
at Resurrection Church. In these services, 34
salvations, 65 baptisms, 270 first time guests have shown up
to Resurrection Church this year.
The list of what God is doing in our church, it goes on virtually
endless. So as we stare 2026 in the eyes,
Resurrection Church is dedicated and moving with God and coming
alongside him with all that He is already planning for us.
Amen. This week, this week we ask you
to take the next step. If you have not filled out that
pledge card, consider doing it right now.
If you have, if you filled it out, pray whether God is calling
you to go even further. You can drop those pledge cards
at any of your any of our offering boxes that they're all
at the exit stations in the lobby.
This is also how you can give to God's mission by dropping off
your offerings in any of those offering boxes.
Also, you can text give to the 888-976-7349.
This is another way you can easily give to God's mission
through Resurrection Church. Let me pray over these tithes
and offerings and our 2026 pledge cards.
Father God, we look at everything you're doing.
We see it, God. We see you moving, we see your
hand. We see people confessing that
you are Lord, and we thank you God, We thank you that you are
working. I ask that we step up, we step
into your will, and we dedicate. We dedicate some of our money,
our time, our ties, our offerings to you, God.
We give to you because you command us to give joyfully.
And God, I just see you do so many things.
We thank you God in Jesus name, Amen.
Let us continue our prayer service.
We will now focus and recognize God's holiness.
Isaiah 5715 says this. The high and lofty One who lives
in eternity, the Holy One, says this.
I live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits
are contrite and humble. I restore the crushed spirit of
the humble and revive the courage of those with repentant
hearts. Join as we pray, as we focus on
God's holiness, let us pray. Father God, we gather here and
take a moment to exalt you, to lift you up as the Holy One.
We recognize how amazing you are, how massive, how completely
set apart from all things bad. God, when I stand here and I
think about it, it humbles me how holy you are.
I'm in awe of you, God. Your words tell us that you are
the high and lofty one who lives in eternity.
You're the ultimate king sitting on the ultimate throne.
It's hard to imagine, but your words tell us that your robes
fill your temple with glory. We recognize that you are so
holy that even powerful angels cover their eyes, cover the
faces and Your holiness in reverence.
This morning we echo their cries.
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord. The whole earth is filled with
your glory. We bow low before you, God, for
you are Holy Father. Even even though you live in
such a high and holy place, You are with us, God, You do not
distance from us. You choose to live with those
whose spirits are contrite and humble.
Thank you for reaching out to us.
Thank you for being the one who can restore our crushed spirits.
Thank you for reviving us. We ask that you give us strength
and the dedication to pursue Your Holiness to work at a life
that you ask us to be holy. I pray every single person in
this room makes the choice to be able to tell this to your face.
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is
to come in Jesus name, Amen. Good morning.
My name is Jeff Palmbach. I'm one of the elders here at
Rez Church. This is a Elder Don Van Sickle
up here with me, and we're going to lead the section on praise
and Thanksgiving for what God has done in this church and what
God has done through us. So if you'll join me as I pray
through Scripture and as I pray through words, so let's go join
together in prayer. Yours, Lord, is a greatness, and
the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all
that is in the heavens and earth is yours.
Yours is a Kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as Head above
all. Both riches and honor come from
you, and you rule over all in your hand, Our power and might,
in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
Thank you Almighty God, that You would work in our lives and
through our trials to build us into a people that are complete
lacking nothing to love you and to love the people You place
near us. Blessed be the name and God the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as He
chose us in Him before the foundation of the world that we
should be holy and blameless before Him.
Thank you Lord, for Your plans for us as your people, that You
have a future and a hope for us, that Your love is
unconditionally, wholeheartedly in continuously towards us,
Lord, that we can know you, each one of us personally.
Thank you Lord, for the love you have given us for the next
generations, the children, the Sunday School program, the youth
and the teens, and the servants and leaders that love these
kids, the camps and the volunteers that have brought
community and kids and their families into your Kingdom.
Thank you, God, for the great news of your salvation, that we,
you would use us to show your love and hope to the next
generation. We love you, Lord, We praise
your holy name. We thank you for being with us
here as we reach out to you and praise your wonderful name.
Amen. Thanks, Jeff.
So years ago, in an elder room, I remember being together and
somebody said, we need to pray about this.
And one of the pastor said, has it come to this?
And if you knew Pastor Ted, that's his sense of humor.
Pretty dry, right? But some people often think that
it's the last resort. This is what we do as a last
resort. But the truth of it is it's the
first thing we do. And I so much appreciate this
series on prayer and the elders and pastors, deacons of this
church are devoted to prayer and ministry of the Word.
And we realize how important it is.
It's often talked about, but if you have a an attention span of
a gnat like I do, it can be difficult to pray.
But we are training ourselves and working diligently at being
in prayer and offering up to God what what is his?
When I start out in Psalms 106, praise the Lord, give thanks to
the Lord for he is good and his love endures forever.
Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we love you.
We're in awe of you. We're so appreciative of how
you're working the lives of your congregation.
And as we answer the call to love you, love one another, make
disciples of all nations, and bring glory to you.
I love this church, this Church of yours and all that are part
of it. Their love for you, the servant
attitudes, the generosity of their gifts and their talents.
May you bless them mightily. Colossians talks about whatever
you do in Word or deed, do everything in the name of the
Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
We thank you God for what you're doing in the lives of your
people. It's amazing.
We sit, we look at our community groups, discipleship programs,
mentor groups, women's brunches, global missions, J Doe,
everything that goes on there, local outreach.
Amazing. And we realize, as we've heard
recently, that our chief end is to glorify you and enjoy you
forever. And from our community group,
Philippians 4, it's kind of our go to do not be anxious about
anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
And it keeps it keeps popping up in our group text and we talk
about it regularly at group how important it is to be anxious
for nothing. 2nd Corinthians talks about for our sake he made
him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. You might not know it, but out
in the office there, it's on a sign.
It's it's an amazing and without Jesus, without the resurrection,
nothing else really matters. Amazing passages.
I'll end with Zephaniah. The Lord your God is in your
midst, a mighty one who will save.
He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you by
his love. He will exult over you with loud
singing. Think about this church.
We have this mighty Savior, powerful and capable of saving
people. He's present, He's in our midst,
He's with us, He's calming us, He's singing to us, and He wants
to spend eternity with us. What an amazing, what an amazing
passage. We love you Lord, We thank you
for this day of prayer. We thank you for this time of
worship. We pray these things in Jesus
name and for his sake. Amen.
Well, church, when we read the
Bible and we look at what did, what did church service look
like when it started in the very beginning as as disciples and
and believers begin to come to Christ, man, what did, what did
those church services look like? And what we find as early as
Acts 2 when the first church met, is that as they gathered,
they all had prayers of Thanksgiving and hymns and songs
and an opportunity to participate when they gathered
together to encourage one another.
My friend Nathan talked to me about his experience in the
Plymouth Brethren churches where they would come together and
each of them would be able to stand and, and speak to the
goodness of God and, and read verses and pray out loud.
We have a really cool church here in town called the River in
the Way where they meet in homes and everyone gets to participate
in those services. And so I think one of the
laments of being a pastor and an elder is to feel like at times
we're here entertaining you. It is your relationship with the
Lord. We're not a substitute for that.
You get to participate. Hebrews would say the veil
between US and God was torn so that you and I could have
personal access to God. And so we're here on
Thanksgiving week, and we're in this segment thanking God.
And I guarantee you, you won't have to think very hard to find
some things in your life that you can thank God for.
Amen. Amen.
So here's what we do. We've got microphones here on
either side. You're going to come up and
you're just going to thank the Lord.
It's your opportunity. This is called congregational
prayer, to come up and to say a prayer of Thanksgiving to your
Father. And so you move as the Lord
leads. You will take a few minutes, and
then we'll move on to the next segment of prayer.
Go ahead. Heavenly Father, we come before
you in the name of Jesus Christ and we just ask you to please be
with us. Look over the church, look over
the elders. We pray for them that they have
wisdom, that they have the care that they know to go out to the
communities. And we were given the Great
Commission of making creating disciples.
And we just ask you to put it in a heart, heart in our hearts to
go out and do that. We just like like Elder Don said
that without Jesus, nothing else matters, you know, and I ask you
just to please in our hearts, bring us back to the basics and
know from Alpha to Omega, it's all about Jesus in our hearts.
Please rotten us to love kindness.
We just ask you to be with us and we thank you for the
blessings in our lives, the ones that have already come to pass
and the ones that will surely come to pass in the future.
We just thank you, Lord. We ask you to please be with us.
Look over us and our families and our times of need.
And we just thank you so much in Jesus name, Amen.
Father, I am so thankful for your word.
I'm a thankful that it's alive and well in my life.
And just recently, as I was crying out to you, Father I,
your word came. To my mind, seek my face.
And it seems like when we seek your face that all other things
pale away. And I am so grateful.
Thank you so much. Father, I am thankful that you
are the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the
Father except through the Son. I'm thankful for that You put up
with me all those years of rebellion and having my own way
and that you brought me through that and let me live long enough
to kind of get my attention. And just I thank you for a
church that emphasizes prayer. And I just pray for our elders
and our pastors and for the congregation that we may always
pay attention to you also. Thank you that I'm able to get
up in the morning and we give you praise and glory and honor
in Jesus name, Amen. When our life is full of
blessings, when we have our hands full of relationships with
children, with work, it seems like we should just be
overwhelmed by the generosity of God.
But so often when we have our hands full of children and work
and relationships, we find that instead our anxieties multiply
our our fear of losing what we have multiplies.
And so the things that we've prayed for and, and asked for
and hoped for, the things that by every right, we should be on
our knees thanking and praising God for become burdens.
Not because of not because it was a trick or a lie.
Like God convinced us to like go get married or go have kids.
And then that was really a trap. But just because life is hard,
life is difficult, it's hard to predict what the future holds.
And so the truth of all of these blessings is that they really
are the generosity and the riches of God, but only in
surrender to God, only with open hands, recognizing that what he
gave he can take away. And what He's given to us isn't
ours to hold on to with closed fists, but to, to share, to both
receive and to give to others. And so God, I, I thank you that
it's only in surrender that I'm free.
It's only when I release the blessings of family, of
children, of of work and responsibilities, that I can
find freedom in those things. I thank You that we can find
relief from our anxieties and freedom from pain and suffering,
not by running away from our problems, God, but by daily,
again and again, laying all that You've given us, every
responsibility at your feet, and trusting that Your will, not
ours, Your power and not ours, Your strength and not ours, is
sufficient to meet all of our needs, to provide for us until
the end, and to build Your Kingdom here on earth.
Thank You that You are enough, even when we are weak, even when
we are small. Amen.
Lord, I thank you for your perfect mercy and your perfect
grace, and I also thank you so much for your faithfulness.
And I thank you for the change in my life, in my heart that you
have made over this past year. Lord, I thank you so much for
the pastors, the elders, the the friends I have in the
discipleship group, Simon. And I just feel like my life
keeps getting better and better whenever I just immerse myself
and you, Lord, And so I thank you for that.
I thank you that your burden of love is just so your your burden
is light, Lord, It's because you always show us love and and I
thank you so much for having the long legs that you do and you
chase us down in our sin whenever we need correction,
Lord. And I just thank you for for the
life that I have here on earth until I'm with you, Lord, I just
want to be a light to other people.
And I just want to spread your word.
And I'm just incredibly grateful for this church and how the
church is growing and serving in the church.
And I've learned most, Lord, that, you know, it's not about
what position that you serve in in church.
It's it's where your heart's AT. And I just thank you for being
in my life because without church and the activities, I
have no idea where I would be right now, Lord.
So I just thank you for your perfect mercy, your perfect
grace and your faithfulness, especially whenever my family,
we, we would say, OK, we're going to put our trust in you,
Lord. And you know, maybe we're going
to choose to up our our tithing and you still show us how
faithful you are to provide. And Lord, I just thank you for
all of the blessings. In your name we pray.
Amen. Our heavenly Father, dear and
precious Lord, I come before you this day.
Father God, with praise and adoration in my heart, I lift up
praise into your holy place for setting my feet back upon the
rock. Father, you've given me power
over the darkness that has plagued me, plagued me, plagued
me my my whole life, and I claim that victory over my addiction.
I lift up my marriage to Shan unto you Father God and I pray
for the 91st time that you would get charged over your angels to
watch this in all of our ways lest we dash or put against a
stone. God, I'm thankful for your
provision and your power where I am weak.
I lift the resurrection church to you Father God.
I just pronounce a blessing financially that they would be
able to reach out to community in a mighty way, Lord.
I lift up all those who are hurting, who are lost here Lord,
and I just pray completion and strength through your name in.
The name of beauty. Christ, I pray all these things.
Amen. Dear Heavenly Father God, I'm
just so grateful for the people of Resurrection Church, the
people that you've placed in my life.
When I've needed people, they've surrounded me with their love
and their care. They've lifted me up, and then
you've given me the opportunity to lift others up when they
needed me. God, I just thank you for the
servant heart that you've given the people here.
And I pray that you will continue to bless this church,
that you will continue to put upon our hearts the people of
our community, of our state, of our nation, and around the world
who need us. God, they need us to step up.
They need you. And I just pray that you would
continue to work through us and that you would continue our
mission here with love and compassion and care.
I ask these things in Jesus name, Amen.
Lord, where do I begin? Let's start with thank you for
saving us. We wouldn't have been here
without you, without your providing, without your love,
without your guidance. I thank you for saving my family
from the depths of hell, from saving my family from these
earthly demises. I thank you for a home that we
can call our own. And I'm thankful that I was able
to stay here and see it. I'm thank you.
I'm thankful for a lot of things, Lord, and you already
know what they are, but I just want to speak them out to you
again. Thank you.
In your heavenly name I pray, Amen.
Lord, there's so much that I could come to you with
Thanksgiving for right now. Lord, I could tell you I'm so
grateful for a marriage that's thriving when I've tried to blow
it so often. I can tell you how grateful I am
just for your provision and, and the lack of my unfaithfulness.
And Lord, I could tell you how grateful I am for this, this
church. But, but Lord, above all else, I
am grateful that you have paid the price that that I could not
pay. I'm grateful for your son.
I'm grateful for salvation. And, and Lord, this morning, I
pray for your church. Lord, I, I don't pray for the
world. We do not pray for the world.
Your son did not pray for the world.
He prayed for his own. And so, Father, this morning I
pray for your church and I am so grateful that the building of
the church does not rest with us.
It rests with you. You said I.
I will build my church. Lord, you are doing that work.
And so Father I, I pray for our leaders that you would give them
even more hunger for your word, even more hunger for depth.
It take them deeper than they ever thought they could go Lord,
make your word go forward and just continue to keep us.
Lord, you are the one who keep us.
You are the one who sustains us. It is not up to us.
You do the work, all you have ever called us to do.
You is be faithful. So Father, that is my prayer
this morning is that you make us a people of your word.
Take us even deeper and Lord, help us continue to remain
faithful to to the preaching and teaching of the Scriptures and
help us remain focused on building up your people,
building up the church and making disciples.
Help us keep focused on that and help us not to get distracted by
the world, by programs, but help us stay focused on the good news
that you have delivered once and all to the Saints.
Amen. Lord, you are holy, holy, holy,
and I thank you for that. I thank you.
Without you, without what you did to your Son, I wouldn't be
standing here today. Family that you've given me
coming to this church, Lord, I am grateful and thankful for as
they encourage one another, The things I've seen here, Lord,
I've never seen in any other churches.
And I just thank you for that time and thank you.
For guiding me here, in your mighty name I pray.
Amen. Dear Lord our Father, I just
want to thank you for saving me from the darkest steps of
myself. And not.
Ending my life and being able to be here and see my son grow and.
Lord, I pray. That you can put a blanket of
love around my son and my wife. That they know that my wife can
come to you, Lord, and I could be here at church with my wife
and my boy. But thank you for giving me the
strength to become the man I am today.
If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here.
And thank you to the Rez for being a family to me, a family
that I really didn't have much of growing up.
So thank you very much, Lord, Thank you.
Lord God, you are so good. You're so good.
You're so faithful. You're so holy, Lord, I thank
you that you draw near to the broken hearted.
I thank you that you provide peace beyond our understanding.
I thank you that you heal deep wounds.
God, only you can do that. Lord Jesus, I thank you that
even through the church's troubles the last several
months, God, that you are still working.
You are doing a work. You are changing hearts.
You are changing minds. You are renewing people's minds.
You are giving hearts of flesh to replace the hardest stone.
You are giving salvations freely.
You are leading people to be baptized.
God, you are doing such a work. You're raising up group leaders.
You're raising up mentors, you're raising up people in
ministry, you're raising up people to disciple others, Lord,
and you're softening others hearts to be discipled.
You are doing such a work, God. You are convicting people to lay
down their sin and they are obeying you.
God, you are doing such a work through this community and I'm
so grateful to be a part of it. I'm so grateful to witness your
faithfulness to draw a sin and to sanctify us.
God, you are so faithful. This place doesn't have to be
perfect because you are. You are perfect Lord, and you
are going to use it no matter what.
I thank you for that power, God, that is going to carry us
through. You are doing such a work
through this church, Lord Jesus, you've given this community such
a special heart of service and just loving on one another.
Lord, there's nothing like it anywhere else that I've seen.
I'm so grateful that you brought me and my family here, Lord
Jesus, you are doing such an incredible work, Lord God, I'm
so excited to see what else you're going to do through this
incredible place. Thank you, Lord.
Germany, father, I just want to thank you for this church and
all the people that are in this church.
Our small group stared at me, father, and men that are in my
men's group. Thank you for being there for
us, Germany Father, even though we deserve it.
Thank the Heavenly Father. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise.
The. Jesus, Hallelujah, Thank you the
heavenly Father. We praise and worship you, the
heavenly Father. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus, God, I.
Thank you for godly community, for the women that you encourage
it, encourage to be vulnerable and to speak truth with love and
kindness. I'm so grateful for my family,
for my children that challenge me to be healthier and grow
every single day. I'm so thankful for the ability
to break generational chains, even though it's so hard.
I'm so grateful for your sanctification process, for your
relationship, for your companionship through so much
grief and hardship and challenges in life.
It's so easy just to want everything to be easy.
But the hard moments are what grow us, and I'm learning to be
grateful. Not positively toxic, but
grateful even for pain, for obedience, and for your love
that just keeps pushing me every single day in Jesus name, Amen.
Oh Father God, I'm so grateful that you chase us down even when
we're far away from you and you never give up.
Lord, thank you for bringing us to this church So.
Just grateful and thankful in Jesus name I pray.
God, I almost forgot to thank you for financial peace that the
churches having members go through on Wednesday and
Thursday nights. Lord, you know, you take
something with the church's struggles, as JC said the past
couple of months and how you're going to take something and just
completely make it beautiful. The lives that are being
transformed on Wednesday and Thursday nights, Lord, through
this program, just the just the amount of time that my husband
and I actually now spend talking about finances without yelling
or rolling our eyes at each other.
We're almost showing each other the app like we would YouTube
videos. So I just thank you that in
spite of the church having some financial difficulties in the
past, Lord, how many lives are going to come out changed
because of that, that are going to come out better from it?
So I thank you so much for that, Lord.
Heavenly Father, in Psalm 51 it says, let me hear joy and
gladness. Let the bones that you have
broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and
blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O
God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy
Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your
salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Heavenly Father, I just. I thank you and praise you for
allowing us to be your church. I just thank you and praise you
for. All the wonderful blessings that
you've given us, all the tremendous things that you're
doing within our church and within my family.
Lord, it's so easy to just look at the path that you've put in
front of us and and treat it like an escalator.
We just get on and stand there and oh, God's going to move me,
but I know that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Heavenly Father, the path that you put in front of us, we have
to walk. We have to do the effort.
We have to do the work, Heavenly Father.
So I just ask that that you allow us to rejoice in your
work, rejoice in the the tasks that you've put before us, and
help us to to be faithful servants of Jesus.
In your name we pray. Amen.
One more on each side. Father, I just want to thank you
for your faithfulness. A year ago today, my family was
broken and you restored us. You gave me Psalm 40, which says
I waited patiently for the Lord to help me.
And he turned to me and he. Heard my cry, he.
Lifted me out of the mud and the mire.
He said my feet on a solid rock. He has given me a new song to
sing, a hymn of praise to my God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed.
They will put their trust in the Lord.
Father, thank you. Thank you that today my family
is whole. Thank you that you are restoring
God. God, I could not have pictured
this day. I couldn't have pictured me
standing here thanking you. But you are faithful, and I know
that you have plans for so many families to be restored.
We just praise you and we thank you and remember that you are
the faithful God. We love you.
Lord. I just want to echo what so many
have said this morning about your faithfulness.
So often when I am in the middle of challenging circumstances,
it's easy to turn and shake my fist at you and say, how could
you do this to me? God, where are you?
And so I thank you for the times in my past that I can look back
on and recognize your faithfulness and know that you
are unchanging and therefore you are going to be in the
challenging circumstance that I am in right now.
So I thank you for that. Lord, I thank you for your
testimony in my life that I can use that to preach to myself
about your unending faithfulness.
Thank you for your goodness to us.
Thank you for your Son and his sacrifice.
In the name of Jesus, Amen. Morning Resurrection Church.
It's so beautiful to hear the thankfulness from everybody.
Now we're going to move into our segment of giving, asking God
for our request, requesting things from our heavenly Father.
We are going to ask for provision in Philippians 419 it
says, and my God will supply every need of yours according to
his riches and glory in Christ Jesus.
But we also want wisdom amongst all that provision that that God
will give us. Well, it says, if any of you
lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all
without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Father, we just come boldly before you right now as your
sons and daughters joint heirs with Jesus.
Father, Lord, that you promised, Father, that we would receive
power, but through the Holy Spirit, Lord, He would come upon
us and that we would be your witnesses in our local
community, our Jerusalem, Lord, our Judea, Lord, those people
who are transplanted among us and Samaria into the ends of the
earth. Father, Lord, Father, I just
praise You that we are here right now with the power of Your
Holy Spirit. And we just entreat You, Lord,
to give us that power, to be able to reach into the hearts
and minds of our loved ones. Those people that we know,
Father, that need to come to know you, Father, Lord, that you
would send laborers for the harvest.
Those laborers for the harvest, Father, would have the power of
your Holy Spirit, Lord, and they would speak Your words of truth.
And those words of truth, Father, which we know do not
come back void, Father, would find the good fertile soil and
transform their hearts, transform their minds, Father,
and germinate and grow. 3060 and a hundredfold, Lord, and that
you would multiply, Father, this congregation, this church, our
community, our neighborhoods, Father and Lord, that we would
be able to reach out, Lord, with your, be your hands and your
feet, Lord, be your, your love, be the very motive of your love,
Father, to reach these folks in all the power and the glory of
your name, we pray Jesus. Of all the things we're asking
God for as we entreat Him, the one that is for me, preeminent
is that men and women would be saved.
We've been praying as pastors in this town, as elders in this
church for revival in Bakersfield, in Kern County.
And I'm going to just pray, pray some scripture, and we're going
to lift up our hearts and our voices to God and cry out to him
that he would come and save people in this city.
By the most recent estimate, only about 8% of this county is
saved. 92% of Kern County does not know Christ as King.
Let's pray. Blessed be you, our God and
Father, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, because you have blessed
us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places, even as You chose us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless
before Him in love. You predestined us for adoption
to yourself as sons through Christ Jesus, according to the
purpose of Your will, to the praise of your glorious grace
with which you have blessed us in the Beloved.
In Christ we have redemption through His blood, the
forgivenesses of our trespasses, according to the riches of Your
grace which You have lavished upon us in all wisdom and
insight, making known to us the mystery of Your will, according
to Your purpose, which you set forth in Christ as a plan for
the fullness of time to unite all things in Christ, things in
heaven, and things on earth. In Him and in Christ we have
obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to
the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel
of His will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ,
might be to the praise of His glory in Him also.
When you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation and believed in Him were sealed with the promised
Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance
until we acquire possession of it.
To the praise of Your glory, Father, thousands and thousands
of years ago you prophesied in the book of Joel that someday
you would pour out your Spirit and save men and women who were
lost in sin and hopeless without you.
You said, And it shall come to pass afterwards, that I will
pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters
shall prophecy, Your old men shall dream dreams, and your
young men shall see visions. And even on the male and female
servants in those days I will pour out my spirit, and I will
show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and
columns of smoke. And the sun shall be turned to
darkness and the moon to blood before the great and awesome day
of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that
everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those
who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors
shall be those whom the Lord calls the Father.
When you sent Peter out to the crowds of Pentecost, as the Holy
Spirit came down for the first time to dwell amongst people, He
read these very words to that crowd, and he preached your
gospel. But because of your Son Jesus
Christ, because of His life, because of His death, because of
His resurrection, all men could be saved.
So, Father, we cry out for the people in this room who do not
know you. We cry out for the people who
are watching. We cry out for the people so
lost in sin that they're not here and they don't know you and
they don't know church. So they don't know faith.
They don't know how to hope. They don't know encouragement,
they don't know life. We cry out for our brothers, for
our sister churches all around town who are preaching the same
gospel. We cry out Father, we cry.
We entreat you to pour out your spirit on this city and this
county God, to cut and Pierce men to the heart, to convict us
of our sin, to show us what hope looks like.
We cry out, We cry out in Jesus name, Amen.
If you do not know Christ is King today, I want to invite you
to take a step forward, to put your faith in Christ, to change
not just your future, but your eternal future forever.
So this is what we're going to do.
There are many requests in this church.
I know we pray for them. There's some that we know of.
There's probably many we don't. Our prayer team is going to come
up here. We want to pray with you and for
you and over you. We want to pray for your
request, the ones we already know about.
We want to pray for the request that you haven't told anybody
about. We want to pray for your
confession of sin. We want to pray for your hope
and your dream. We want to pray that God would
bind up your wounds. We want to pray for your future.
We want to pray for you. And if you're ready to take a
next step to put your faith in Christ for the first time ever,
we want to pray for you. We want to walk with you.
We want to get you signed up for baptism.
We even heat the water before we nunk you.
So our prayer team's coming up. You move as the Lord leads.
Please stand with me. We're going to sing a song as we
close. We're going to just take a time
where everyone can be prayed for.
You don't even have to do it in the microphone.
You move as the Lord leads you. We love you, Church.
more that could ever come close. Nothing can come there.
You're our living cool. You're praising it.
aware of your presence. Let us experience the glory of
your goodness. Let us become more aware of your
presence. Let us experience the glory of
You are will. Come here, come fly this place
and fill the atmosphere. Your glory, God, is what our
hearts long for to be overcome. Church, it was a good day.
As you leave into a Thanksgiving week and into a world that most
of which is far from God, let me pray this blessing over you.
The Lord spoke this to Moses. Saying this, You shall say to
them, The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
So they put my name upon the people of Israel and I will
bless them. Go church and be a light in a
dark place and know that you carry in you the God, the
Creator, the Architect of all things of heaven and earth.
We love you and we'll see you next week.