This AM we're going to pray. That's going to be our prayer focus is night to shine. And so be getting ready and praying for us. Would you stand with me as we read again through the Lord's Prayer, starting at verse number nine, when Jesus said pray then this way. Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we have also forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, yours is the power, yours is the glory forever. Amen.

Father, speak to us this morning. Calm our fears and our anxieties as we lay them at the cross in Jesus name. Amen. You can have a seat. Hey, I just want to point out something.

I had a few of you come up and say, you know, that last phrase isn't in my Bible. That's disappointing to me. Now, you know why I use the Bible that I use the new American Standard 95? Because most of our more modern translations, because that phrasing doesn't appear in the earliest Greek manuscripts, leaves it out and gives you a footnote. So if you'll look at the end of verse 13, you should see a little superscript footnote and it'll take it down to the bottom of the page.

You know what I tell you to do? Why don't you just write it in? Unless you don't believe in writing in your Bible, you're not going to kill your Bible if you write in. And I promise you, but just write that in. Because, I mean, it's an elation of worship when you get to the end of the Lord's Prayer and it doesn't stir worship in, you read it again because that's exactly what it's doing.

But there's no better day today to discuss verse 11. Give us this day our daily bread. This is the fourth petition and it's the first one that shifts us from the focus on God to now asking God, I need you to do something for me. But what is daily bread? Is that physical only?

Is it spiritual? What is it, J.I. packer? I'm reading through this book as I'm doing, doing this series called Praying the Lord's Prayer. And in this he quotes Samuel Johnson and says this, those who ignore the needs of the stomach are soon in no condition to care about anything else.

All of my hangry people said, amen. Y' all know what hangry is, right? It's hungry and angry put together. And I might have one child who has a tendency to get hangry. And when they get hangry, they really don't care about anything else.

That's why fasting is powerful. Have you ever fasted before? Fasting is the denial of the physical hunger you have. And as you hunger physically, it drives you to hunger spiritually. Like you.

You want to see and be filled with. With what God has. I mean, think about what I may be scattered in this message. Is that, okay? Jesus said this in a couple of places when he was tempted.

He had fasted 40 days. And the first thing, Satan's like, oh, wait, you know what? I'll get him with his belly. And he says, hey, Jesus, turn that stone into bread and fill up. And he said, no, man will not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, that our physical needs and is always under the umbrella of our spiritual needs.

I mean, in fact, after he has the encounter with the Samaritan woman, it's the same deal. He's sitting there and the disciples come and says he had anything to eat. And he's like, hey, wait a minute. What I need is not of this world. My hunger, my food is to do the will of him who sent me.

So right off the bat, before we start talking about our daily bread, can we all agree that Jesus is the model that points us that our greatest need is the spiritual need that only God can satisfy? Would y' all agree with that? Because as you begin to look at this context. Okay, for just a moment, look at the context of the Lord prayer. There's food everywhere.

It's like a buffet at Ryan's. Like back up to verse 45 in chapter 5, Jesus is talking about, you've heard it said to hate your enemy and love your neighbor. And Jesus is trying to get them to look at their heart. Say, no, let's flip that around. He says, you know, I'm telling you to love your enemies and pray for them.

Why? Because God models it. Look what he says, verse 45. So that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For he causes the sons to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Why does he send rain? So that plants will grow so that we can eat. Then if you skip over past the Lord's prayer in verse 16, he picks up this idea of fasting, and it's the third act of piety that the self righteous were using to promote themselves but then he gets into the nitty gritty. If you start looking into verse 16 after the fasting, he then immediately says, well, don't store up for yourself treasures in heaven. Why would he talk about that?

Well, because we like our stuff. We like to hoard our stuff. In fact, sometimes we hoard up way more than we should ever have. Well, why is that a problem? It's a problem when your security.

Listen to me. When your security is based on what your treasure trove has here, because you will serve whatever has your heart. So if your treasure Trove is your 401k and not the daily sustenance of God, you will be disappointed. If there's another stock market crash like in 2008, you'll find out very quickly. Or an ice storm comes through and you spend all summer creaming corn.

I love creamed corn. You like creamed corn? I'm gonna talk enough about food. By the time we get done, you better. You're like, I hope Chick fil A's open.

I love creamed corn. And so as we're trying to scramble this week and figure out where's going what, we found some creamed corn from 2023. I'm going to eat it. You don't let good creamed corn go to waste. But I'm not basing my livelihood on eating that creamed corn.

I'm basing my livelihood on the God that verse 8 said already knows my need before I ask it. And if you want the solution for this weekend, I mean, let me be honest, let me shepherd your heart for a moment. Some of you are scared of this weekend. And I'll be anxious. I'll be honest with you.

Thursday, I was pretty anxious myself. I'm going like, whoa, what are we going to do if we go four or five days in sub zero temperatures and I don't have, like, what are we going to do? That doesn't mean that God had not already provided. Are you with me? Sometimes the reason that we look and we say, give us this day our daily bread.

Where is it, God? Where is it? It's because you haven't spent time working for it or looking for it. God has already provided. In fact, think about the way you bless your food.

You know, you'll bless your food and you'll say, oh, God, bless this food to my nourishment. He gave you the food to start with. What if instead of saying, bless this food to my nourishment, you start turning around saying, God, you already provided it. Thank you. And you Yield thanks and you exalt the one who has already provided.

In fact, I want you to look down in chapter six a little bit further. I want you to look down at verse 25. Here's the thing. I'll get to the points in the study guide, I promise you. And kids, you know what, if you just get a hankering to just get up and scream and run around the room, I don't care.

Do y' all need a dum dum or do you need a blow pop? I mean, what do you need? You have not. Because you ask not. Why don't you look at verse number 25?

It says this. For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life. Why? He's talking about the treasure trove people want to store up here rather than focusing on the spiritual trove that we have in heaven. Don't worry about what you will eat or drink or for your body is life not more than than food.

But wait, he just taught them in the Lord's prayer to pray. Give us this day our daily bread. His issue here is faith. The issue here is will I trust that God is and has and will provide for me each and every day, even when it looks bleak, even when the jar is getting low. As we saw in that video clip at the beginning, our God has done way more than we could ever possibly think, ask, or imagine.

And if he can keep a widow filled with grain and oil, he can you too. So then he says, look at the birds of the air. They don't sow nor reap. Remember, sowing and reaping would mean storing up treasures. He said, don't look at them and how your Father feeds them.

And then he says, are you not worth much more than they? Why? Because you've been given a soul, the very breath of God. God called humanity to be caretakers over his creation. Yes, we are more valuable than they are then.

Verse 27. And who of you, by being worried, can add a single day to your life, single hour?

We live moment by moment. But I can't live in yesterday's blessing.

And I can't predict what the blessing is going to be for tomorrow. What I need to do is live in it right now. He's given it to me. I mean, he goes on to say, consider the lilies of the field. These two metaphors go together, how they're clothed.

But wait a minute. The lilies are clothed the same way the wheat grows the wheat, it comes from rain and sunshine and soil. He said, but if God so Clothes, the grass of the field which is alive. When today. Do you see how God, Jesus is painting this picture of this daily absolute dependence on what God's going to do.

Then he says, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith. You see, what happens to us is we get wrapped up in that moment, in the anxiety of whatever the problem is in our life, and we forget God has already, before the Lord's Prayer, said he knows what you need before you ask you little faith. It's the same phrasing he used when Peter stepped out of the boat and he's walking toward Jesus. But as soon as he took his eyes off and he began to look at the waves, he began to sink. His anxiety increased as his body decreased.

Jesus was just an arm length away. He was within shouting distance because Peter had a conversation with him and said, well, if it's you, tell me to walk out there to you. Jesus comes and pulls him out. He says, you of little faith. The focus when we pray like this and say, give us this day, our daily bread is about moving us to total dependence on the sovereign God who's got everything in his hands and his control.

You know, I love today because yesterday we got emails from the two colleges my kids attend and said, you're kicked out. Go home. So everything is right in the orbit of my home because all of my kids are home. But as I began to think about this whole idea about doubting, I remember an image. I believe it was Caroline when we were at Panama City, and she's learning to ride her bicycle.

Dad, y' all remember teaching your kids to ride a bike? How'd you do it? You got behind them. They can't. They didn't look at you because if they looked at you, the bike was gonna fall over, right?

But you would grab them by the seat just so that they wouldn't feel your hand back there, but they could feel you holding them up. And before you turned 50 and couldn't run anymore, you would come behind their bike and you would walk with them and they would pedal and you could feel them not quite getting that balance yet, but you would do this over and over again. And do you remember that feeling? Dads or moms, when you were behind them and you're running and you just let go and they keep going. They had absolute faith.

And, guys, that's what we need to think about. God's right there. Sometimes what God provides for us daily, we don't see it because we're not looking for it. Sometimes what God Provides for us. Unfortunately, we live in a cursed world and it gets taken from.

What is it that Satan has taken from you that's diminished you and caused you to have little faith? You. You get down to verse 32 and you find out God. Jesus says the Gentiles earnestly seek clothes, food and shelter. But then he repeats that phrase.

Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. Same thing that he said in verse eight. But put these side by side. For your Father knows what you need. Say need before you ask him.

Now listen to the other verse. For your heavenly Father knows that you are needing. Say needing. Do you see the difference? There's a noun and then there's a verb.

God knows the needs you are needing, not the wants you're yearning.

And what diminishes our faith more times than not is that we come to God and say, God, I need X, Y or Z. And he doesn't give us X, Y or Z. And we immediately say, you know what, God? You're not worth following. You're not worth believing.

Where were you when I needed you most? Right there beside you, holding the bicycle wheel seat as you were pedaling. You may not have seen him, you may not have felt him, you may not have discerned him, but God was right there with you. Martin Luther said, this is what it means. Daily bread.

That God certainly gives daily bread to everyone, without our prayers, even to evil people. But we pray this petition that God would lead us listen to, realize this and receive our daily bread with thanksgiving. Like when Christmas time comes. We see the presents, we know they're coming. But how special is it when somebody gives you a gift and you didn't expect it?

How precious is that gift that was already there, Somebody already purchased it, it was existing, and then you receive it. What happens? Tell me folks, what happens when somebody gives you a gift like that? You're thankful. You're elated with joy because you weren't expecting it.

But notice this. I want you to see this very clearly. Matthew 6:33. I believe this verse sums up the Lord's Prayer. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

Is that not what the first part of the Lord's Prayer is? Hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things, including your daily bread, will be added to you. My challenge is I need to focus on the here and the now.

Why verse 34, so do not worry about tomorrow. Can I get an amen on that? Folks, if you're joining me online, don't worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow's got enough worry of its own. Jesus said, each day, each day we're called to focus on it here and now.

Is that not the message of manna in Exodus 16? I mean, you think about miracles. These guys witnessed a miracle every week of their life, and yet they still doubted. God sent manna six days a week and on the sixth day sent a double portion that did not rot like it would the other days of the week, but it was a daily provision. They didn't gather more than they needed.

You know what they learned? They learned how to share. Well, see, I'm not. I don't believe in socialism. I don't believe in communism.

I believe in generosity. Did you hear that? What if the reason. What if the reason there are people that are struggling around us or struggling is because we're not being generous and we're not opening our eyes to see how many of you don't raise your hand? How many of you have checked on your neighbors yet?

Have you checked on your neighbors yet? Do it. Check on them. Because you don't know what kind of needs they may have or don't have. But at the same time, don't be afraid to say, I need some help.

I had a friend of mine come over and help wire something for me yesterday, because I know this much, enough to hurt myself or kill myself. And so he came and he helped me, but he never would have helped me if I hadn't asked. Each day has enough trouble of its own. The reality of starvation, the reality of drought, the reality of those things exist. And Jesus even acknowledges this.

Each day has trouble of its own. But what if that trouble is there? To continually point us back to the God who makes daily provision for us? Is that the God that you believe in? Is that the God that you trust in?

The God who has already provided? We just need to open up our eyes and see it. So if you want to follow in the notes, let me give you some blanks. We'll get through this study guide pretty quick. So when we pray, if we're going to pray like the Lord's Prayer, Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.

We pray with praise. We start with praise, and then we say, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. As you pray, shift to submission. You're laying your needs and your wants, in a sense, below what it is that God wants and what God is. And then where we are today, give us this day, our daily bread.

After you pray with submission, state or declare your dependence. I pledge allegiance to my God that I will depend on you fully. Now that's a battle of your brain. Because reality, Christian realism, is there are things in this life that stink. Why is there starvation?

Why is there problems? Can I give you one little bitty word? It's called sin. When Adam and Eve sinned, do you remember what the curse was directed at Adam? He said, from this point on, you won't be in the garden, just kind of picking fruit off my trees.

You're going to till the land, and you're going to plant the land, and you're going to sow the land and you're going to reap the land. And from this point on, thorns and thistles are going to come up. So that means that when you reap what's been sown, it's going to take work, it's going to take effort.

God's not going to serve it to you on a silver platter most of the time. God already knows what you need and what you are needing. What we need help doing is we need to be able to see it. Look at the word bread in both Matthew 6 and the same reading in Luke 11 of that Lord's Prayer. This context all points to physical daily rations of food and sustenance, but it also includes the spiritual needs that you and I have.

Matthew praying in the simple past tense, give right now, Lord. Give this day my daily bread. Luke says, be giving my daily portion. So it's not just that morning prayer that you pray, it's for the whole day, and I get up the next. If it wasn't the case, Jesus would say to ask one time for God to feed you the rest of your life.

Is that what he commanded? No. He said, give us this day our daily bread. Why? Because he intended for you and I each day to renew our declaration, we need to depend fully on a sovereign God.

Do you pray that way? And the word this day, It's a very rare term. It only appears in these two Lord Prayer passages in the New Testament. It doesn't even appear in any extra biblical literature. But when you put.

It's a compound word. And when you put it together, it basically paints the picture of essential. Give me the essentials.

Yes, I would love to have a brand new truck in a bass boat. And I could justify that by saying, well, I need. I need fish in my freezer.

Y' all realize that $100,000 for a bass boat, which would be fun, would Be fun. How much fish would that buy for people that already have the truck and the boat? God provides what we need. I think as blessed and spoiled American Christians, most of the time what we get discouraged by is God just didn't give me what I wanted. Have y' all ever seen just some really extreme videos of kids pitching fits?

We do that in our heart more times than not our three year old heart. God doesn't give us what it's want it. And we hold our breath and we kick our feet thinking that that's going to leverage God. Y' all know you can't emotionally manipulate God, right? You can't twist his arm.

We've already solidified that God is in heaven and he does as he pleases.

But what if it's because of my lack of faith? I'm just not seeing what God has already provided. When you think about this day, one author said this in terms of the Jewish prayers. They would pray in the morning for today's bread. In the evening, they would pray for tomorrow's bread.

And they would pray this to reflect total God dependence. When most of us pray it, we think, gimme, gimme, gimme. Because I mean, think about it like if God gave you, let's say that you like wheat bread, but he gave you like just white bread, you'd be like, I don't want this bread.

Are you going to sit there and starve to death? Are you going to eat it? Like, I know, I love the Horatio Hornblower series. There's one where there's no supply ships and they're having to eat old bread and the captain brings the bread out and he knocks it on the table and maggots fall out of it. But you know what the captain did?

He didn't think, well, I'm the top of this crew, I should get the best. You know what he did? He ate it. Sometimes we need a little dose of humility to receive what God's already provided. So fast forward motion, first point, here's how we need to pray.

If we're gonna pray this line, we need to pray dependently, declaring God alone meets our needs. And I need to fire myself and, and fire the critic inside of my heart that comes to God without appreciation and come to him with absolute faith and come to him with absolute gratitude. When we send our kids, when we used to send our kids to other people's houses, we would say, now listen, you may not want to eat it, but don't tell them that you think it's bad.

You've Done that too, haven't you? Now, we didn't force just eat what's put in front of you because we didn't want them throwing up at this house. But what I'm saying is that sometimes God slides you something. You're like, I just don't really want this. Let me take you back to what Jesus said, God, if it's your will, if you're willing, let this cup pass from me.

Yet not my will, but your will be done. Now connect that back to John. My food is to do the will of him who sent me. How does that work in our lives? Are we willing to say, God, I crave your word, I crave your will.

Do through me what you wish. Give me what I need each day, both physically and spiritually, to do your will. Let me give you a sampling of some of these verses. Proverbs 30, verse 8. The Psalmist said, Two things I have asked of you.

Do not refuse me before I die. The first one is, keep deception and lies far away from me. And the second one, give me neither poverty nor riches, but feed me with the food that is my portion. Did you catch that? He said, don't, don't make me.

Don't give me so much. I'm boastful in what I have, but don't keep me wanting. Well, wait a minute, that sounds a lot like Paul. Y' all know the verse, I can do all things through him who gives me strength. Right?

You love quoting that. What's the verse say before it? I have learned to be content in poverty and prosperity. Which means that even a saint of God struggled with hunger. Well, that's not fair.

Listen, I'm telling you, we need to start opening our eyes and see what God has already provided. And if he doesn't give you a three course meal, he's going to get you through it. We know the inevitability of tonight, right? Or according to our modern day secular prophets, we don't know what tomorrow's going to hold. But I know who holds tomorrow, folks.

We need to depend on the God who said, I will hold you in my hand and no one will pluck you out. And here's the thing. If I'm in a situation that leads to death, praise God, where am I going to be? If I know Jesus Christ, I'm going to bust the portal of heaven wide open, run straight to my Savior. It's a win win.

When I live with this attitude of give me this day my daily bread. There ain't nothing the enemy can take from Me, unless I give it to him, you know, and it sounds like the church in Laodicea when he said, Jesus said to him, I know your deeds, that you're neither hot nor cold, but I wish you were one or the other. So because you were lukewarm, I'm going to spit you out. We stop there. Why?

Why are they lukewarm? Because they were secure in their earthly treasures. He says, because you say, quote, I am rich, I've become wealthy, and I have need of nothing. How does that work? When Jesus said, your Lord Father knows what you need before you ask.

Your heavenly Father knows your needs before you ask. How does that work if I say, I don't need anything? That's the essence of pride. And I can guarantee you God will tear your pride down to gain your heart. He will tear your pride down to gain your heart.

Why? Because God doesn't need anything from us. And he has all sufficiency. Listen to the sampling. Psalm 24:1.

The earth is the Lord's and all it contains, so can't he give to you and me? Psalm 34, 8. O taste and see that the Lord is good. And how blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. In verse 10, the Young Lions lack and hunger, but they who seek the Lord will never be in want of any good thing.

And that's not always what's on my plate. Psalm 50, 10, 12. One of Laura's mom's favorites. For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle on a thousand hills. You may want enough cattle to make a little patty and put it on your George Foreman, but he has.

He owns all of them. He owns all of them. And what about Philippians 4:19, and my God will supply all your needs according to his riches and glory. What if we started praying this way, declaring that God alone meets our needs and we fire this guy right here?

Depend on him. Second point. This day we need to pray dependently that God will answer in his time. I hate that part, because if God doesn't answer the way I want, I give up. If God doesn't answer now, I give in.

If God doesn't respond the first time, I just throw in the towel. I remember a guy back at a previous church who prayed 45 years for the salvation of his brother. Randy shared a story the other day about a Brazilian lady who prayed 30 years that a church would be built on her property. What about you? How many of you really even think to thank God each day for what's right in front of us?

Do you Know what that requires? That requires that I exalt God. I submit to his will. But before I start asking anything, I thank him for what he's already given me. It changes the way that I pray.

Well, why isn't he giving me? Well, we talked about the curse. We talked about the curse. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all experienced drought, and yet God brought them through. We know in the Old Testament the children of Israel constantly broke the covenant and were in drought and starvation.

But then you get to the New Testament and you meet Jesus, who says in John that I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never hunger, and he who comes to me will never thirst. And how did he prove it? They're sitting on the side of a hill one day and all these people come to hear Jesus preach. And he feeds 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes and then does it again and feeds 4,000.

The bread of life, the manna of God, the spiritual bread of life, right there in front of them. We know that in his time, Lamentations 3:25 says, the Lord is good to those who wait on him, to the person who who seeks him. Another one. Diane Thomas taught us this principle so well when she would quote Psalm 37:25. I have been young and now I'm old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.

Give us God this day, today, the essentials I need to survive. How different would it be? Praying Father, I believe. Help me persist in that faith, believing that you will come about and do in your time, praying God will answer in his time. So you know what that requires of me.

If God is about answering in his time, I need to set time aside. I'm going to go ahead and give you your application. This is the one application I was going to give at the end of this message. 61 1. I'm going to challenge you for the next 30 days to set an alarm either for 6 11am or 6 11pm to pray through the Lord's Prayer every day for the next 30 days.

Now, some of you may not be awake at 6:11. Some of you may be on shift at 6:11. But at 6:11 every day, set an alarm and pray through the Lord's Prayer and focus in on this aspect. God, I will wait on you as you provide my daily needs. Third point, pray dependently that God alone will satisfy.

After all this is said and done, the hunger that we feel should remind us that I spiritually hunger that apart from Christ, I have no hope. But When I repent of my sins and I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to forgive my sin and, and was raised to give me eternal life. When I do that, I am saved and he fills me fully and marks me with his Holy Spirit. As we talked about a few weeks ago, when I begin to worship the Lord, that spirit begins to overflow in my life with gratitude and blessing. And it could be the reason that there's still starvation in this world is because God's people hasn't seen themselves as an overflow into generosity and giving and loving.

We need to pray alone that for our lives God will satisfy. We know that every morning, every morning the Lord's kind, loving kindness doesn't cease. It's new every day. That Psalm 118 promises that this is the day. Not just the day Jesus went into Jerusalem, but this is the day the Lord has made.

Let us rejoice and be glad in it. What if tomorrow you woke up before you uttered a word? You said, God, this is the day you've given me. Let me rejoice and be glad in it. And I start my day with gratitude and appreciation rather than, oh, me Lord, what am I going to do?

Change the mind? What if we prayed this way, Matthew 6, 8, that we say, God, you know way better than I know what I need, change my wants. What if I pray, as Psalm 104 reads that, that we would recognize all that God has done and then move to celebrate what he is doing. He says in there, he says he causes the grass to grow, to bring forth food and the wine which makes man's glad heart and his face to glisten with oil. Both of those symbolizing the blessing and the overflow of God.

Guys, God blesses us. Let us live in that blessing. I promise you, if you'll spend more time thanking God for what he has done, those things that you see, his problems begin to fade away. Psalm 145. The Lord sustains those who fall and raises up those who are bowed down.

The eyes of all look to you. You give them food in their due time. Food. I had a terrible habit years ago when I lived in Cleveland because they put that Dairy Queen right where they did every day. I drove by probably once to twice a week.

Yes, I did. We had a debate online this week. Snickers. Blizzards are the best. God said it, but I would stop in and get one.

And then I started realizing I started carrying those blizzards home with me. When we were in Italy two years Ago, we would go and eat and I didn't walk away bloated, gassy feeling, weird feeling. You know why? Because food over there doesn't have salt, fat, sugar and high fructose corn syrup and fine carbs and additive. All of that disrupts gut bacteria, slows digestion and causes water retention.

I feel sorry for everybody sitting in this section right here.

What are you eating? What's feeding your soul? There's a reason you may be going. Well, God, I'd ask you to give me my daily bread, but I don't think you're going to give it to me. It might be because what you're eating isn't satisfying.

You're eating junk. You need to be craving the pure word of God to feed your faith that you can trust God. Give me this day what I need, and then watch him do it. We need to pray dependently by trusting God reliantly. So here's what I'm going to challenge you to do.

61 1. Set an alarm. 6 11am or p.m. and for the next 30 days, would you pray through. Don't. Don't just recite it.

I'm telling you to pray through it. Like say our Father. God, I thank you. You're my Father. I thank you that you've saved me.

Elaborate. So that you know that you're getting the essence of the prayer. But here's the other thing. As we open up this altar a minute, there's two things I want you to think about. Number one, some of you just need to come down and you just need to praise the Lord.

Like you just need to thank God. God, you have provided for me. Thank you for my blessing. Thank you for the people sitting around me. Thank you that I had a car to drive this morning.

Thank you that I'm ready for this, whatever it's going to be. Thank him. Thank him. And then surrender. Like tell the Lord, God, I'm afraid I'm anxious.

But when you think about Philippians 4:6, it says, be anxious for nothing. Because honestly, nothing exists. Nothing is the absence of anything. Be anxious for nothing. But in everything, by prayer and supplies supplication.

Let your request with thanksgiving be known to God. Did you hear me say with thanksgiving, the answer to anxiety is Thanksgiving. Thank him this morning. But maybe this morning some of you were like, you know, but there is something that's hindering my faith. I can't put my finger on it.

I just know I get up and it's just hard for me to trust the Lord that he will provide for me. He's let me down. Well, you know what? Maybe today's the day. You need to come down and say, you know what.

Lord, I know I don't know as you do, but I know in my heart I need to say I'm sorry and forgive me as I forgive my misunderstandings of you. Help me see what you've already provided. And then whatever it is that you need from the Lord, tell him. Tell him we know he taught the disciples. Ask anything in my name and I will.

What? I'll do it for you. First John 5, 14, 15. Ask anything according to my will, and know that the Lord will hear you. And if he hears you, he will respond.

So as we stand with us today to sing again one last song together. Sing with gusto. Sing with power. God, I love you. Your name be praised.

And give him thanksgiving. But also this morning, if you're lost and you don't know Jesus Christ, you wandered in here today because you're like Saturday church. That's kind of weird. Well, thanks for being here and thanks for being weird. The if you're here today and you don't know Jesus Christ and you don't have the security, if something happened to you, you would be in heaven.

Come see one of us. Our pastors are down here at the front. We would love to talk to you and tell you how you today could put your faith and hope in a man. Not pray a prayer, not recite anything, but know that Jesus alone saves your soul. Father, we love you.

We thank you for this time to be together and worship. Work in our midst today. In Jesus name, Amen.