A Reflection on Micah 6 Part 5

[background noise: singing] [Speaker 1] Church and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home for you. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 2] Reflecting on the book of Micah chapter 6, today we hope to continue on that reflection to take the matter from where we left it last week. Last week we were trying to reflect on this matter of walking humbly before the Lord, and we were checking the life of the King of Assyria. We began from looking at what Peter said, to look at that Old Testament story in Isaiah to learn some things from that passage about the King of Assyria. Some very important points came to bear when we were considering that passage, and I trust the Lord that today as we move on from that point, the Lord in His mercies will grant us more light in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us have a word of prayer as we move on from where we left the matter last week. Almighty God, we are grateful unto You. We thank You again for this evening as we gather into Your presence. We commit the class into Your hand. We commit our brethren who are joining us on Telegram, our brethren who are joining us on Mixlr, our brethren who are joining us physically here. We commit ourselves into Your hand. Lord, we pray that Your spirit will work within us among us in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, we pray that You will meet with us where we need You most in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord our God, our eyes are on You. Let nothing prevail against Your purposes in our lives in Jesus' name. Thank You, Almighty God. Blessed be Your holy name, our Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. Reflecting on the book of Isaiah chapter 10, we stopped at verse 15. So we will just read verse 15 again. We will just read from verse 15 where it says, "Shall the axe boast itself against him which chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him which saws with it? As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up, or as if a staff could lift up as if it were not wood." So what did the Lord say concerning this king in conclusion? He said, "Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory, he will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire." So we saw that by the end of the day, the Lord says He is going to send leanness among his fat ones, and under his glory, He will kindle a burning. That is at the end of the day, we saw that pride goes before a fall and a haughty spirit before destruction. And you see that eventually, by the time this man is through with all his accomplishments, what is going to be his own portion? Destruction. And I keep telling people when we don't walk humbly before the Lord, that is where we eventually climax. The climax of arrogance is destruction, anyhow you put it. The Lord Jesus put it this way. He said, "He who humbles himself shall be exalted, but he who exalts himself shall be brought low." I tell people it is good for one to humble himself and let God exalt you. Because if God brings you low, actually what God does is that He humiliates you. God doesn't humble a man; God humiliates a man. You are the one that humbles yourself. But if you allow God to teach you humility, if God has to bring you down, God will humiliate you because the end of arrogance is destruction. So I want us to move on to this matter on Isaiah chapter 36 today. I believe we will be able to get through with Isaiah, then we quickly move to Daniel, and then we see how we now come back to some practical principles of the word of God in respect of walking humbly before our God. Isaiah 36:1 lets us understand the background to the story. This is another king again of Assyria, this time is Sennacherib. "Now it came to pass in the 14th year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. Then the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. And Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to him. Then Rabshakeh said, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What confidence is this in which you trust? I speak to you of having plans and power for war, but they are mere words. Now in whom do you trust that you rebel against me? Look, you are trusting in the staff of a broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him."'" I hope you are following the discussion. This commander of the king of King Sennacherib, because they have taken all the fortified cities of Judah, the king sent him to speak to the king of Judah at this time Hezekiah to surrender to the king. So in a bid to make him surrender, he was trying to make him understand the power and the might of the king of Assyria, his master. And then he began with a pronouncement. "Thus says the great king of Assyria. Thus says the great king." So he began to say a lot of things. I want us to skip all those things. But at a point in verse 11, Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the commander of the army, "Please speak to your servant in Aramaic for we understand it, and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." Are you getting what they wanted? They don't want the whole nation to hear. They just want they who are the leaders to discuss with him and know what he is saying. But in verse 12, Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words and not to the men who sit on the wall who will eat and drink their own waste with you?" So he now stood up. What did he do? He now cried out. Are you following what is going on? So instead of speaking gentlemanly discussion, what did he do? So that he can create fear in the heart of the people so that they can tell their king, "Surrender, hey, hey, we heard what he said." So he said a lot of things. "Don't let Hezekiah deceive you for he will not be able to deliver you. Don't let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord saying the Lord will surely deliver you. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Do not listen to Hezekiah for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make peace with me by a present and come out to me. Every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the water of his own cistern until I come and take you away to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you saying the Lord will deliver us. Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my hand that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'" But they held their peace and answered him not a word for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him." Then he went ahead and said so many things on and on. Now in 37, Hezekiah responded, he tore his clothes, he went to pray and all of that. He called on Isaiah that he should pray that God has been reproached on and on. Then Isaiah brought a message of assurance. Let's go to verse 15. Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord saying, "O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the one who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heaven and the earth. Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to reproach the living God. Truly, Lord, the king of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands and cast their gods into fire for they were no gods but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore, they destroyed them. Now, therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord, You alone." Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel." What is the statement that Isaiah first made? Can we read that statement that concluded verse 21? My version says, "Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria." What I am trying to make you see is one practical and crucial way by which we walk humbly before the Lord is to be anxious about nothing, but to commit everything through prayer and thanksgiving into the hands of the Lord. One crucial way to walk humbly with God, one crucial way to submit to God, one crucial way to show that God, our work is with You, Lord, it is You that our life is in Your hand, one crucial way by which the believer humble themselves before the Lord is to learn the way of prayer. It is to learn the way of casting your cares upon the Lord. It is to learn the way of resting on the Lord. It is to leave the way of anxiety, the way of being anxious. I don't know whether you are understanding what was going on. What was going on ordinarily is beyond what an individual who does not understand how to walk with God will not enter into. Because everything was falling and everything was failing. Sennacherib have taken how many cities already? All the 45 cities. Do you know what that means? Do you know what it means when he says 45 cities? Under the Old Testament reading, when you say 45 cities, it means, for instance, if somebody wants to take over Nigeria, once the person has taken over Abuja, has taken over Lagos, has taken over Kaduna, has taken over Ibadan, everywhere all the military base is, what remains of Akure? That's what it means. The 45 cities are the strength of a nation. So this king has taken over all the 45 cities. It remains the unfortified ones. That's what it means. It's like somebody who wrote the simple simple courses and when he wrote the exam, he was not sure what he will get, and the next three papers are the strong courses that he does not really understand. You know the kind of anxiety that person will be going into that place. But you see one thing I want you to see about our discussion. I was discussing with somebody some three days ago. I said in terms of socio-medical analysis as against psychological analysis, anxiety is a phenomenon that threatens the well-being of an individual. But in terms of spiritual interpretation, anxiety is a phenomenon that does not properly place a man in a position for divine intervention. Anxiety does not allow a man to be properly placed for divine intervention because God has said, "Be anxious about nothing, but in everything through prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving let your request be made known to Me." Just tell Me. And you notice the response of God here. God said, "Thus says the Lord. Because you have prayed to Me against this matter." Do you know that there are several matters in your life that remain the way they are because you have not particularly prayed to God? Because you have not particularly committed them to God? Because when we come saying God, we don't have any other help but You. Yes, everybody because He said yes, this king has killed everybody, he has destroyed everybody, he indeed took over all of these people. But You God, You are a different person. Show that You are God. He was showing that look, I can still trust in who? That is humility before the Lord. That's humility. That's walking humbly before the Lord. Ability to understand the place of no, there is nothing my God cannot handle, and that is it. He said, "Because you have prayed." Brethren, please note that in your life, key into that in your life. How is your prayer life? One thing I tell people, when you notice that you have a zigzag prayer life, the indicator, what it's telling you, you know what it's telling you? It is that God is not your hope. If you notice that your prayer life is shallow, your prayer life is just zigzag, your dependence is not God. There are some other things you are depending on. There are some other things you are trusting in. And we can quickly take cite examples in scripture that came directly from the mouth of Jesus. He said men ought always to pray and what? Not to faint. So when a man doesn't pray always, how do we interpret it? Men ought always to pray. When a man prays sometimes, or when a man rarely prays, he tells you that he's not a man. He's not a man. A man who is truly a man, one of the correct images of a correct man is that he prays always. When you are not praying always, you are not a man. You are something else. I mean you are not living the life of a normal. What is a normal? He created man in His own image. A normal man as far as God is concerned prays always. When you notice that you don't pray always, in the definition of God, you are not a man. You are something else. There's a problem. And then number two is that when a man doesn't pray always, what's the other indication? The other indication is that he's not praying enough. Until it is always, it is not enough. Until it is always, it is not enough. Men ought always to pray. So sometimes you need to ask yourself, when you notice that your prayer life is shallow, you need to ask yourself, "Am I really a man?" Am I really a human being as far as God is concerned? You may be something else and you don't know. Do I give an example of a church that is like that? The church in Revelation, in Laodicea church. They said we are rich and we have need of nothing. Of old he says you don't know that you are poor, you are blind, you are wretched, you are miserable. You have a false impression of yourself. You don't have the correct picture of your life until God shows you the correct picture. What I'm trying to say is that number one, ask yourself, "Am I really a man?" Am I really a human being? Number two is that you are not praying enough. He said men ought always to pray and not to faint. Then He gave the example of a widow. If you look at that story, He said He gave the example of a widow. Who is a widow in Israel? You know in Israel once a woman's husband dies, women don't inherit. Everything about the woman is in the man. So that once a husband dies, every support, assistant, everything about her is gone. So that's why He used a widow. That there was a widow. You know it's a parable trying to teach us something. The reason why the Lord used a widow, he said the widow went to who? The unjust judge. And you know the unjust judge, "Avail me about this matter." The man did not avail him. What did the widow do? Did the widow go to meet her husband? Why couldn't the widow go and meet somebody else? Because the husband is dead, that's why he used a widow. It means there was somebody who does not have a support except the judge judge the case, there's nobody to help the woman out of the matter. Are you getting the point now? The bottom line of that parable is that when you come to meet God once, you come to meet God once in a while, it means you, you are not a widow, your husband is alive. That's why you don't go persistently to God. Once you say, "Baba," you also have another "Baba", you have another one again, you have another one again, so anytime again you use this one again. You are not a widow. Your husband is still alive. I hope you are getting the point I'm making. Some of us still have husbands that are alive. We are not widows before God. We can alternate God. But the widow had no alternative. That was why she was going how? Persistently. "Avail me, avail me, avail me, avail me," until the judge said, "Ah, this woman will kill me, please let me answer this woman else this woman will kill me." What made the woman to be persistent because she's a widow. One major problem why your prayer life is not persistent is because you are not yet a widow before God. You have alternatives. You can alternate God. People who alternate God are not walking humbly before God. But people, individuals, that God is their only source, God is their hope, when everything seems to fail, that was what was going on. Everything, the king just said look, how I have taken everything. I have done this, this, this, this, this. Oh, I just remember this scripture about Abraham. He said Abraham continued to hope in God when there was no reason to hope. Does that look like something that looks logical? How do you hope when there's no reason to hope? He continued to hope when there was no reason to hope. Those are men walk humbly before Him. And that's what we are seeing in Hezekiah. He says because you have prayed to Me against this matter. Brethren, please note that in your life. Key into that in your life. How is your prayer life? One thing I tell people, when you notice that you have a zigzag prayer life, the indication, what it's telling you, you know what it's telling you? It is that God is not your hope. If you notice that your prayer life is shallow, your prayer life is just zigzag, your dependence is not God. There are some other things you are depending on. There are some other things you are trusting in. And we can quickly take cite examples in scripture that came directly from the mouth of Jesus. He said men ought always to pray and what? Not to faint. So when a man doesn't pray always, how do we interpret it? Men ought always to pray. When a man prays sometimes, or when a man rarely prays, he tells you that he's not a man. He's not a man. A man who is truly a man, one of the correct images of a correct man is that he prays always. When you are not praying always, you are not a man. You are something else. I mean you are not living the life of a normal. What is a normal? He created man in His own image. A normal man as far as God is concerned prays always. When you notice that you don't pray always, in the definition of God, you are not a man. You are something else. There's a problem. And then number two is that when a man doesn't pray always, what's the other indication? The other indication is that he's not praying enough. Until it is always, it is not enough. Until it is always, it is not enough. Men ought always to pray. So sometimes you need to ask yourself, when you notice that your prayer life is shallow, you need to ask yourself, "Am I really a man?" Am I really a human being as far as God is concerned? You may be something else and you don't know. Do I give an example of a church that is like that? The church in Revelation, in Laodicea church. They said we are rich and we have need of nothing. Of old he says you don't know that you are poor, you are blind, you are wretched, you are miserable. You have a false impression of yourself. You don't have the correct picture of your life until God shows you the correct picture. What I'm trying to say is that number one, ask yourself, "Am I really a man?" Am I really a human being? Number two is that you are not praying enough. He said men ought always to pray and not to faint. Then He gave the example of a widow. If you look at that story, He said He gave the example of a widow. Who is a widow in Israel? You know in Israel once a woman's husband dies, women don't inherit. Everything about the woman is in the man. So that once a husband dies, every support, assistant, everything about her is gone. So that's why He used a widow. That there was a widow. You know it's a parable trying to teach us something. The reason why the Lord used a widow, he said the widow went to who? The unjust judge. And you know the unjust judge, "Avail me about this matter." The man did not avail him. What did the widow do? Did the widow go to meet her husband? Why couldn't the widow go and meet somebody else? Because the husband is dead, that's why he used a widow. It means there was somebody who does not have a support except the judge judge the case, there's nobody to help the woman out of the matter. Are you getting the point now? The bottom line of that parable is that when you come to meet God once, you come to meet God once in a while, it means you, you are not a widow, your husband is alive. That's why you don't go persistently to God. Once you say, "Baba," you also have another "Baba", you have another one again, you have another one again, so anytime again you use this one again. You are not a widow. Your husband is still alive. I hope you are getting the point I'm making. Some of us still have husbands that are alive. We are not widows before God. We can alternate God. But the widow had no alternative. That was why she was going how? Persistently. "Avail me, avail me, avail me, avail me," until the judge said, "Ah, this woman will kill me, please let me answer this woman else this woman will kill me." What made the woman to be persistent because she's a widow. One major problem why your prayer life is not persistent is because you are not yet a widow before God. You have alternatives. You can alternate God. People who alternate God are not walking humbly before God. But people, individuals, that God is their only source, God is their hope, when everything seems to fail, that was what was going on. Everything, the king just said look, how I have taken everything. I have done this, this, this, this, this. Oh, I just remember this scripture about Abraham. He said Abraham continued to hope in God when there was no reason to hope. Does that look like something that looks logical? How do you hope when there's no reason to hope? He continued to hope when there was no reason to hope. Those are men walk humbly before Him. And that's what we are seeing in Hezekiah. He says because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him. "The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back. Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. By your servants, you have reproached the Lord and said, 'By the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the heights of the mountain, to the limits of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress tree. I will enter its farthest heights to its fruitful forest. I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet, I have dried up all the brooks of defense.'" So what was God reasoning with him? Look at what He said. Look at how God puts this matter for you to know that if you don't understand the place of not making too much of yourself, but placing God at the center of all that happens in your life, you don't understand humility before God. God is always at the center. You are never at the center. God is the one that is always at the center of everything in our life. Look at what God told him. God said, "Did you not hear long ago how I made it? From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass that you should be for crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. Therefore, their inhabitant had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field and the green herb, as the grass on the housetop, and grain blighted before it grows. But I know your dwelling place, your going out and your coming in, your rage against me. Because your rage against me and your turmoil have come to my ears, therefore, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came." I want you to see how it went. Let's read on. "This shall be a sign to you. You shall eat this year of what this was a sign to Hezekiah." But let us see what God did to Sennacherib. Verse 36. God said, "I will put a hook in your nose," isn't it? Verse 36. "Then the angel of the Lord went out and killed in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000." I want you to know that the angel, not the angels. 185,000. "And when people arose early in the morning, there were all corpses, all dead. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh. And it came to pass as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his stead." So all the boasting, what was left was unfortified cities. So could he take the unfortified cities? I'm just showing you that the end of arrogance is destruction. The end of pride is humiliation. And what was the point that God was making with him? Let's look at that point. Look at the point that God raised with him in that verse 26. "Did you not hear long ago how I made it? From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass that you should be for crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins." What is God trying to tell him from this reading? What is God trying to make him see from this reading? That he's a tool in the hand of God. There is nothing about you in anything you do. It is all about God. Don't give yourself too much sense of importance. Give the sense of importance to who? To God. We started from Micah chapter 6. He said don't make yourself too important. See God as important. Humility before the Lord, walking humbly before the Lord. It is really nothing about us. God says look, you don't understand that actually long ago I ordained it. I ordained it long ago. So when it looks as if you are shining, you are this, this is going on, don't let this run into your head. Don't begin to think that it is only me. Don't begin to think that there is something particular about me. No. He said actually long ago I have ordained it. Long ago. Always learn to see that it is His plan all along. When it looks like and and and that is exactly what Jesus was trying to tell Saul. He said, "Look, young man, it is a hard thing for you to kick. You can't be kicking against the pricks. You cannot. You don't understand that actually long ago I have planned it." Don't begin to don't begin to and it is very important. Let our self-image, our self-projection, let that thing we call trust and confidence, let it be in who? In the Lord. Let us try as much as possible, although it is just semantic, but let us watch it in our life. The concept of a great man of God, with the concept of man of a great God. Where the greatness is shifted to God. But of course, you can say a great man of God, not because the man is arrogant. I hope you get the point I'm making. It may just be semantic. But I'm just trying to say that in reality in our heart, let's understand that the greatness in anything is who? Is the Lord. The greatness is in the Lord. Don't pride yourself against people. Don't give yourself don't you you we need to. And that's why you remember in our earlier class, I said real living, if your life will not be meaningless, is to align yourself with the purpose, the plan we are created for His pleasure. You align yourself with the Lord. So it is so when you see things, when when things are manifesting, when things are coming forth, please let us appreciate the place of mercy. That it is it is the mercy of the Lord. It is His plan all along. And like the other people said, you are just used for that plan. That's why you are a tool. There was a plan and you are used for that plan. So because you are used for the plan, you can't take you can't say it's about you because in the first place if there was no plan, there would have been no you. Do you agree with me? And that is how the Bible, redemption wants us to see ourselves. This thing is properly positioned in scriptures for us as believers to scriptures to corroborate what we just read here. Let's see Ephesians. Let's go to Ephesians quickly. Ephesians chapter 1, verse 1. "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus chosen by the will of God. I am writing to God's holy people in Ephesus who are faithful followers of Christ Jesus. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm because we are united with Christ." Please note that whatever He has blessed us, I'm not serving God to be blessed. I am serving God because I'm blessed. By my union with Christ, I have been blessed. You get the point I'm making. So we are not we are not we it's an important thing to understand ourselves also positionally. He's looking at our position because Ephesians chapter 1 and chapter 2 talk about our position up to some part of chapter 3, our position. From toward the end of chapter 3 to chapter 4 and 5, it talks about our walk, W-A-L-K, not W-O-R-K. You get the point I'm making. What should we have for God? Then from from chapter 6 from verse 10, it talks about since this is where our position is and this is how we are walking, then let us stand to fight. You get the point I'm making. That's the division of Ephesians. Three-part like that. You sit, that's your position. We were sitting in the heavenly with Christ. We walk and then we stand against the devil. If you don't sit and walk, you cannot stand because you submit to God before you can resist the devil. Now, talking about our position, he said we should realize that we have been blessed by what? Our union with Christ. Many times we don't see it as a blessing. And that is why we do anything with it. You understand? We just trivialize it. You don't know what it means to be redeemed. You just think you are just anybody on the street. You are not just anybody on the street. You are a redeemed person. Salvation is free, but it is not cheap. It costs God His son. Because you did not pay, does not mean that it is cheap. You get the point I'm making. We were not redeemed with cost silver; we were not even redeemed with latest currency now. Please help me. I think it's pounds. We were not redeemed with pounds. Forget about naira; naira does not even have a place in the matter we are talking about. We were not redeemed with pounds. We were redeemed by the death of God the Son. So salvation is free, but it is not cheap. Let us always remember the price that was paid on our behalf. If we had to pay, I don't know how many of us how many of our children would die, how many sacrifices we would bring. Maybe Father will begin to pay, okay, if you want to be saved, Brother Wale, you kill the first your first two children. Then I'll give people understand the price of salvation. Then only half 14, okay, you'll give half for feet. 50% will go. Then you understand what it means. You have spent all your life to raise how much? 100 billion. 50 billion as Father Jesus. I receive You today. You are saved. You say, "Aha, you mean I'm saved? Is that all? Nothing? It's all like that." And that's why I tell people our God carries us. We don't carry our God. Some people they carry their own God. They tie it here; they tie it there. Our God carries us. We don't carry Him; He carries us. Now, by our union with Christ, we are blessed. I'm trying to make you see this matter of "long ago I have planned it." That's where I'm taking you to. Don't lose focus. Long ago I have planned it. Now, that union please read on now. That union please read on. "Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes." Please, when were we loved? Even before He made the world. So do you see from God's position of the matter? We are whatever you think you are long ago He has planned it. Don't begin to brag, don't begin to you you you. We need to. And that was why you remember in the earlier class, I said real living, if your life will not be meaningless, is to align yourself with the purpose, the plan. We are created for His pleasure. You align yourself with the Lord. So it is so when you see things, when when things are manifesting, when things are coming forth, please let us appreciate the place of mercy. That it is it is the mercy of the Lord. It is His plan all along. And like the other people said, you are just used for that plan. That's why you are a tool. There was a plan and you are used for that plan. So because you are used for the plan, you can't say it's about you because in the first place if there was no plan, there would have been no you. Do you agree with me? And that is how the Bible, redemption wants us to see ourselves. This thing is properly positioned in scripture for us as believers to scriptures to corroborate what we just read here. Let's see Ephesians. Let's go to Ephesians quickly. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10. Look at how God puts it again. I'm just trying to relate this Old Testament and New Testament together to answer this matter to us. Humility before the Lord. So crucial, so important. So crucial, so important. So crucial, so important for us to see this thing. I want us to begin to talk to the Lord this evening to be humble, to be humble. We are adding to what we saw last week. We saw humility today to be ability to consistently be in the place of prayer before the Lord. That's the first thing we saw. We are just we keep adding, adding and adding to the things. Different dimension to humility before the Lord. That's what we are just looking at. It is the ability humility is man understanding that to walk before the Lord is to depend on the Lord. Next week I will show you how much God expects you to pray to Him. I will just show you some scripture again in the Old Testament. You will see a man who did not pray to God and what God did, how God dealt with him. And God said, "Because you did not depend on Me, you depend on somebody else, I will deal with you." I want you to it's humility is one important ability to know that we should be anxious about nothing. A life of consistent prayer, praying before the Lord. Staying before the Lord. Resting on Him, rolling ourselves on Him, we cast ourselves on Him, we lean on Him, cast your cares on the Lord, He will sustain you. He will not let the righteous fall. No matter what, I showed you David. Even in sorrow, in tribulation, in adversity, men who understand this truth, they still walk humbly before Him. They cast themselves on Him, they roll themselves on Him, they lie on Him, they lean on Him. They say, "God, You are the one that can save me. You are the one that can get me out of this pit." David said, "O Lord, turn the counsel of Ahithophel to foolishness." I mean no matter what, men who understand humility before the Lord, they throw all of their life before Him. They lie flat before the Lord. They say, "God, nobody again can get me out of this. You are the only one. I lean on You, I rest on You, I trust in You. O Lord, You are my savior. You are my deliverer. You are my redeemer. You are my helper. Pull me out, pull me out of this." Men who understand the place of dependence. Do you understand that in the Lord? Dependence on the Lord. Dependence on the Lord. Dependence on the Lord. Dependence on the Lord. Dependence on the Lord. Dependence on the Lord. Talk to the Lord this evening. Talk to the Lord, talk to the Lord. Lord God Almighty, oh, Baba, awaken me again. Lord, awaken me up, awaken me up. You are only trust, You are my only hope. O Lord, everything that have affected the altar of prayer, everything that have affected my altar of prayer, Lord set my life ablaze again. That altar of prayer. Lord set my heart ablaze, bring again a fresh fire on my altar of prayer. A fresh fire, a fresh fire, by this understanding. Oh Lord, let a fresh fire come upon my altar of prayer. Let a fresh fire come upon my altar of prayer. Oh God, by this understanding, bring a fresh fire upon my altar of prayer. Bring a fresh fire upon my altar of prayer. Bring a fresh fire upon my altar of prayer. Oh Lord God Almighty, a fresh fire. Oh Lord help me to depend on You. Help me to lean on You, to depend on You, to rest on You in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. I want you to pray. Lord God Almighty, help me to give the honor that is due to Your name to You. Help me to give the honor that is due to Your name to You. Lord God Almighty, help me to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. Help me to be transformed in the way I think. Lord, bring transformation in the way I think. The way I think. The way I think. The way I think. The way I think. The way I think. The way I think. The way I think. It is all about God. It is all about God. It is all about God. It is all about God. It is all about Him. It is all about God. It is all about God. It is all about the Lord. It is all about the Lord. It is all about the Lord. It is all about the Lord. It is not about me. It is about the Lord. It is about the Lord. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Almighty God. Blessed be Your name, our Father. Blessed be Your name, our God. Blessed be Your name. Blessed be Your name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let's share the grace together. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore. Amen. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, equipment ministry involved in a reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development and mission heat. Our regular activities are discipleship class every Monday, 5 p.m. at Adolescent and Singles Club every first Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. Marriage Forum second Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. Family life seminars, regular school outreaches and everyday counseling. For further counsel you can reach us at our location Life Camp by the first bridge, Ilere community opposite Very Joy Filling Station along Ijegun road, Akure, Ondo state, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles familytent@yahoo.co.uk, familytentministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentministry.org. Our phone numbers are 08033861136, 07033613848. God bless you all.