Blessed Are Those Who Mourn 030821

[Speaker 2] [Music: Onward Christian Soldiers] Church and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home for him. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 1] To appreciate my father in the Lord who is not available at the moment because of one or two assignments, and I also appreciate our mommy seated to listen to one of his sons preach. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I believe God is going to reach out to every one of us, both physically present and online. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We started a series last week which is called the sermon of the beatitude of Jesus in the book of Matthew chapter 5. Last week we took the poor in the spirit. For some of us that were present or some of our brethren online, I believe we were blessed because that word was powerful. And one of the take-home that I still took home, and one of my take-home was the definition of to be poor in the spirit. And one of the things that I put down was to be poor in the spirit is to flee from self-assertion, pride, putting one in front in everything. That is pride. Every self-assertion, everything that promotes you above God. Praise the Lord. To flee from them, to be free from them. Praise the Lord. And I took home also some vital point that the heading said, "How to be Poor in the Spirit," and one of the things that I took home was the arrogant spirit in us must be regenerated by surrendering to Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. And there is this word, said we have to see ourselves as grass and vapor. We are nothing before God. We have to humble ourselves. Praise the Lord. And mommy also said something that touched me. Said we have to receive the gift of God with thanksgiving. With thanksgiving, everything that we have, every thing we have, we don't get it with our own power. He gave it to us. So everything God is doing, no matter how small, we must be thankful. Praise the Lord. Finally, he said we have to seek after true riches. Don't cut corners. We don't have to cut corners. Praise the Lord. And we're going to be continuing from there today. We're going to be looking at... before then, I want to say something. One of the words God gave to me when I was preparing for this message. Let's quickly open our Bible to Malachi 3:16. I want to congratulate somebody because I know this word is for you. As I was preparing, God gave me about three points that I quickly want to share with us before we continue with the message. Malachi 3:16. The Bible speaking, reading from Amplified, "Then those who fear the Lord talk often to one another." In fellowship, in Bible study like this, in discipleship class like this. "And the Lord listened and heard it." Praise the Lord. I want to congratulate you because you are here today. As you are here to learn from God, God is here. God is hearing. And every desire of our heart as we listen, God is hearing and he's going to grant everyone according to their heart desire in the name of Jesus Christ. Because you are online, we are here to talk, every time the children of God gather to speak to one another in teaching, in exhortation, in hymns, God is there to hear. Praise the Lord. And the Bible says, "And the Lord opened a book of remembrance was written before him of those who referenced and worshipfully feared the Lord, and who thought of his name." Praise the Lord. The Lord will open the book of remembrance of somebody this evening in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. Verse 17, the Bible says, "And they shall be mine," says the Lord of hosts, "in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be my jewels." Congratulations, we are the jewels of the Lord. You are so special in the hand of the Lord. "My special possession, my peculiar treasure, that is whom you are. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son." Hallelujah. It does not matter what is going in our environment today. It does not matter what is going around us. The Bible says thousand will fall at our side, ten thousand at our right hand side, but they shall not come near us. Said with our eyes we shall see the reward of the wicked. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And he said something that really baffles me. Praise the Lord. The Bible says something, "And I will spare them. Verse 18, Then you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serve God and him who does not serve him." You remember at the beginning of the year, Daddy told us, was talking and was encouraging us in discipleship class like this about what is going around us. One of the word God told him, what is going around us, that we should not look at what is going on as long as we are serving God. The Bible says God is going to distinguish us. It does not matter what is going on. It does not matter what people are saying. It does not matter the pandemic. It does not matter the recession. God is saying this is the time to distinguish those that serve him from those that did not serve him. Praise the Lord. So I want to say congratulation for everyone of us that truly serve God because this year is going to be a peculiar year for us. While others are weeping, we are going to be rejoicing. While others are saying casting down, we are going to be saying lifting up in the name of Jesus Christ. Another point God gave to me, many years ago I was studying the word of God, and as I was studying, I just dabbed into this scripture. I have different Bible and I saw it. Matthew 3:17. And it came to my heart so strongly that I should share it. Matthew 3:17. The Bible says something, "And a voice from heaven said, 'This is my son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.'" And I asked God question then, I said, "God, what can I do for you to say you are well pleased with me?" And the word came, a few points came. For God to say, "I am well pleased with you." I know this word is for somebody because immediately I opened my Bible, I was studying for this, and I got that word. Something just told me that I have to share it. For God to be pleased with us, number one, the word that came to me was, sin must be far away from you. And I pray that, "God, help me. Sin must be far away from me." Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And the Bible says something in Psalm 24:3-4, said, "Who can ascend to the hill of the Lord? Who can come before his presence?" said, "He that have clean hands and a pure heart. and a pure heart." He that sin can never be found in him. For God to say, "I am well pleased with you," sin must be far away from us. And I want us to take note that this year, in everything that we do, in every environment that we find ourselves, in everywhere we find ourselves, we have to be sure that sin does not find its space to our heart. It does not matter what is going around us. Grace has been made available to us. It is our responsibility to stand, to take step and say, "No, I am not going to defile myself. I am not going to say what the world says. I am not going to see what they see. I must only see what God is saying per time for us to be free from sin." Others may be doing it, but I am different. Praise the Lord. And one of the word that came to me was, your love for God must be strong. Our love for God, our love for God must be strong. Praise the Lord. Romans 8:35 says something, said, "Who shall separate me, Godwin Oluwafemi, from the love of God? Who? What? Or who?" That should be our scripture this year, that nothing will be able to separate me from the love of God. Amen. The stronger your love for God, the more God is pleased with you. The love of God in any man can take any man anywhere. It does not matter how our beginning may be. As long as we love God, the Bible says what eyes have not seen, what ears have not heard, and as ever come to the heart of man, that is what God has ordained for them that love him. So for God to be pleased with us, the love of God in our heart must be strong, even better than that of yesterday. We must wake up every morning to say, "God, I love you and I will do everything to please you." Praise the Lord. The Lord will give us grace. The Lord will help us this season. You know, there is this account of this man in the Bible that really touched me, one of my favorite man in the Bible, Enoch. In Genesis chapter 5, precisely verse 24, the Bible says Enoch walked with the Lord. I don't know how because there was no record of anybody in that generation that walked with the Lord. I don't know what inspired him, I don't know how God separated him. The Bible says he walked with the Lord. If Enoch did not love God, he won't walk with the Lord. And the Bible says "not in, but God took him." Praise the Lord. I'm going somewhere. I'm going to link all these things to the message we have for today, but I just have this impression in my heart to share this word because I know this word is for somebody. The Lord will give us grace to walk with him this year, even beyond this year. The Lord will help us because I know there are a lot of things around us that is calling our attention away from God, but God is going to give us grace, grace to walk with him, to walk with him in the name of Jesus Christ. Number three, you must be an addicted worshiper of God. That is, you must love to stay in his presence always in praise. Always in praise. Always in. We must worship God with all our heart. For God to be pleased with us, we can see the account of David, a true worshiper. And God called him a man after my own heart, a man after my own heart, a man after my own heart. A true worshiper. A man that worshiped him in truth and in spirit. Praise the Lord. And that is the desire of God for his children, that we worship him in truth and in spirit. Amen. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. You must build constant communion with God in prayer. Constant communion with God in prayer. Constant communion with God in prayer. I know one of the thing that devil is doing in this end time is to make sure that Christians are not able to stand before God in prayer. At times five minutes we pray because so many things are calling for our attention. We quickly pray and move. But the Lord is going to restore us. The Lord is going to strengthen our feebleness. God is going to grant us grace to stay in his presence. It is from his presence that we receive instruction. It is from his presence that we are guided. For you to be guided daily, you must receive instruction from his presence, and we must stay in his presence. The Lord will help us in Jesus' name. Finally, let's quickly open our Bible to Isaiah 48. Praise the Lord. Isaiah 48. This scripture caught my attention the day Daddy gave it to us. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Verse 18. "O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Amplified says, "O that you have hearkened to my commandment. Then your peace and prosperity would have been like a flowing river, and your righteousness, the holiness and purity of the nation, like the abundant wave of the sea." Oh, that. I don't know what God is. I don't know what is going around you. I don't know what you are going through, but God is saying, if you have hearkened, if you have followed my commandment. Because you are mourning today, you are crying to me to deliver you. Then I will turn your mourning into joy. I will bring you back to Zion. I will restore you again. Praise the Lord. Please follow me. I'm going somewhere. Follow me. I tried to look at one. what happened? We all know the scripture. I know we are Bible scholar. They committed sin. They followed after idols. They left their God to serve other gods, and God had to sell them to the enemy. I'm going somewhere. I'm going somewhere. Let's compare it to what is going on in our world today, what is going on in our generation today. As a Christian, then I will go back to that scripture. Link everything together and at the end I pray the Lord is going to give us understanding. We may spend just thirty minutes, I don't know, as God lead. But I want us to get understanding. Isaiah 59. "Blessed when you feel you have lost what is most dear to you." That scripture touched me. "What is most dear to you." "Only then can you be embraced by the one most dear to you." Praise the Lord. Let's look at it from verse 1. "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear. But your iniquity have separated between you and your God. Your sin has hid his face from you that he will not hear." At times we pray and it look as if God is not answering us. It looks as if the one that is most dear to us is not there for us. God is saying, "My ear is not... I'm not deaf. My hand is not shortened, but something, something has separated me and you. Iniquity." Let's check ourselves. Let's check the church of God today, even our brethren around us. You'll discover that... you know, Daddy was teaching us sometimes ago talking about the perilous time. You know the Bible said the love of men would wax cold. Many will be lover of themselves. The question is, as a Christian, how can we be lover of ourselves? We see the reason why the one that is most dear to us is far away from us. Praise the Lord. The reason why the one that is most dear for us is no longer there. Why? Something has happened. There was a transaction in the realm of the spirit, iniquity has taken over, even the church of God today, iniquity has taken over. Look at the word of God in Revelation chapter 2, beginning from chapter 2, to the seven churches. The revelation of John in the island of Patmos. And I look at everything, I try to look at everything, I look at what is going on in our church today. It's like John saw what is going on in the church of God today. He decided to write. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Verse 3, said, "Your hands are defiled with blood." Then Daddy shared something that happened in a church. Three pastors, because of of the budget, joined to kill one. You see how the church, our hand as a Christian has been soiled with blood. I'm going somewhere. I'm going somewhere. The most dear is no longer there. Why? Many, the love of many are wax cold in the church of God today. Marriages are not marriages again. Homes are not homes again. The same thing the children of Israel were doing. They left their God. God had to sell them out. God had to sell them out. Let's check our lives as a Christian. Are we not in the same path that the children of Israel took? That made God to sell them out? That made God to sell them to the enemy? Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. "Your lips has spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness." The one of the cheapest thing that Christians can do now is to lie. I look at people at times. [unclear: Sorit] to say this. I have a boss sometimes ago. Is a pastor. And this my boss cannot say five things, three must be lie. And is a mother. And every time I go to God, I cry. God, and you are watching this people, and watching this woman, and is a pastor in a church. Then what will this person be telling the church? Lies. Truth can never be found again. I want us to check our lives this evening. The most dear to us is seen when we return, when we cry to him, he's going to hear us. I'm going somewhere. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. At times we joke, said, "I'm just joking." All those words matters. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. "None call for justice, nor any plead for truth." Everybody just want to get justice on their own way. or in their own way. things happen around me and I look and say, "God, can't this people see the truth?" Just because it's my person, I cannot hurt him. Because it's my brethren, you cannot hurt him. You have to join him to speak the... and to do the injustice. Praise the Lord. You know the Bible says, "Let our 'yea' be 'yea' and our 'nay' be 'nay'." Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I'm trying to pick the pictures of those steps took by the children of Israel that God were not happy with, that make them to be sold to the enemy. But something happened. And that is where I'm going. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Matthew 5:4. This chapter portrays the grief of those suffering as a consequence of sin. If you have to look at Isaiah where the prophecy came from. Praise the Lord. So Jesus saying it again in Matthew chapter 5 verse 4, is the grief of those suffering as the consequence of sin, but they have this attitude of repentance. They have this attitude of repentance. "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are you when you feel you have lost what is most dear to you. When you feel that I am no longer in the path of righteousness. When you feel that I've lost it. Then only then you can be embraced by the one most dear to you." And who is that person? Jesus Christ. Only when I searched and searched and I got to that scripture, I look at it, and the thought began to come. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's move forward. Let's move forward. Hallelujah. Who are those that truly mourn? Like I said earlier, those that feel that they have lost what is most dear to them. That is Jesus Christ. When you realize I'm no longer in the path of truth, and you cry to God, you will be embraced by him. You will be comforted. You will be comforted. Praise the Lord. Second Chronicles chapter 7 verse 14 to 15. The Bible speaking, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked way; then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land." Praise the Lord. "My people," when you began to feel, and you humble yourself and you turn away, and know that this path is not the right path for me to go. Maybe temptation came and you realize that "Ah, I have fallen. Ah, I have fallen into this temptation." But if you can turn away, if you can humble yourself and cry to him, then he will hear from heaven. He will forgive your sin and you will be embraced by the one who is most dear to you. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Number two, let's quickly look at the book of Jonah chapter 3 verse 4 to 10. Verse 4 to 10. Jonah. Praise the Lord. Jonah chapter 3 verse 4. "And Jonah began to enter into the city, a day journey, and he cried, and said, 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'" So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his noble, saying, 'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hand. Who can tell, if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?' And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not." Praise the Lord. I believe we understand the story of Nineveh. They committed sin. God was so angry with them and God had to send Jonah to go and declare to go and cry against the city. At first Jonah disobeyed, but eventually he embarked on the journey in obedience to God. Let me say this as a children of God. So many times God ordered us to preach the gospel. At times what will they say? "Ah, these are my colleagues, how will I preach to my colleagues? Ah, by the time they see me with Bible, how will I do it?" Disobedience. What is that assignment God has placed in your hand? What is that assignment? What is that calling God has placed in your hand? And God is not happy with you because you are not doing it. I think we need to wake up and begin to take step. Praise the Lord. Let's go back to our story. Jonah have to go back to Nineveh to cry against the city. And the Bible says they believe. They believe. And the king had to declare fast to both men and beast. See how serious it is. They cry to God, they mourn with the hope that God will listen because they realized that they have lost what what is most dear to them. You know what? The last verse, "And God saw their works." The one that is most dear to them saw their sincerity, saw their mourning, saw their out cry and decided to step in, and decided to repent. Said, "No, no, no, I'm not going to do this evil. I'm going to embrace them because they are mine." Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. So every time you feel that you have lost what is most dear to you, every time you realize you are no longer in the pathway and you cry to him, you will be embraced by the one most dear to you. He will embrace you. He will definitely bless you. Praise the Lord. Let's look at another event that happened. Let's look at Peter. Peter had been walking with God, one of the most favorite of Jesus. Before he even denied Jesus, Jesus called him, "Peter, Peter, thou lovest me?" Then, "Yes, you know that I love you now. You know that I love you." And Jesus just look at him, "Feed my sheep. Peter, the son of Jonah, lovest thou me?" He said, "Jesus, you know that I love you." To the the third time, he got a bit angry. "Jesus, you know you can prove it that I love you." But what happened in the book of Matthew chapter 26 from verse 71 to 75? He was faced with temptation that he could not withstand. Thank God that Jesus Christ knew that this thing was going to happen. "I've prayed for you." Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for our merciful God. What caught my attention there was when he realized that "Ah, I have lost what is most dear to me," he cried to God. And the one that is most dear to him embraced him and restored him. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Matthew 26. Let me read. Let me let me quickly read so I can establish verse 12... verse 75. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. "And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, 'Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.' and he went out and wept bitterly." Because he knew this part, this part, what just took place, what just took place can lead me to another thing. The Bible says he cry. He cry. He cry. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for our merciful God. And today we can read account of Peter, how he took the kingdom for Jesus. Every time we feel that we have lost what is most dear to us, every time... one thing is needful for us to do, turn, turn, turn, turn to the author and the finisher of our faith. Every time we turn to Jesus, he's always ready to embrace us. Praise the Lord. So what happened to the children of Nineveh? And they cry. Verse 9, "Who can tell if God..." but let's do our own part because I know every time you cry to God, God is God. He's a lovely father. He's a lovely father. His desire is not for his children to perish. His desire is not even for sinner to perish. "Why were yet sinners, he love us." Why were yet sinner, he love us. Praise the Lord. I believe I'm saying something. I believe you are getting the word. Praise the Lord. Let's look at another event that happened. Let's look at David. in Psalm 51 verse 1 to 12. When David fell into that temptation for not going to to the war, was relaxing. You know, devil is so cunning, every time you relax, every time you refuse to go to God's presence for three days, you begin to see all manner of temptation coming because he knows that you are in your comfort zone now, I can come and strike. That is why we Christians have to be careful. There is no sleeping time. We have to be alert. That's why the Bible says watch and pray. As we're praying, be watching. Because you don't know when the adversary, the devil, should roar. But every time you are prepared, when he comes, the Bible says he will come in one way but he shall flee in seven ways. Because you are prepared. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Psalm 51. When I was growing up as a Christian, when I was in secondary school, every time I realize I've committed sin, I go to Psalm 51, I keep reading Psalm. "God, take not the Holy Spirit from me." Can't forget that scripture. Praise the Lord. Psalm 51, "Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercy, blot out my transgression. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin." He realized. He realized. He realized he had lost something most dear to him by committing that sin. He had to cry. And the one that is most dear to him came to his rescue, to comfort him. I don't know who is hearing me today, both online and on ground. Maybe there are things in your life that you are not happy with. There are things that you know that ah, with the way I'm living, I'm drifting gradually from the path of life. When you realize it and you turn to this God, you will be embraced. You will be embraced by him. The one that is most dear to you. He will embrace you. He will definitely bless you. Praise the Lord. I have come to understand something in life. As long as you are living rightly with God, God take care of every other thing for you. There was a time I was facing hell in my former working place. It was tough. Physical attack, spiritual attack. Both spiritual, once I close my eyes, there are attack. I and my wife have to prayed and prayed and prayed. One day I wanted to take a move. I said I will keep quiet. I told my wife, God said I should keep quiet. There was a day I wanted to take move, I want to take step, and God said to me, I heard him clearly. Said, "God will fight for you and you will hold your peace. He that God will fight for will not initiate a fight." Ah, that word come. I told my wife and God said, "He that God will fight for will not initiate a fight." It was terrible, but I know that God have said, as long as I stay with him, he will take care of everything for me. You know what? When God began to fight, the same year they received worst attack. Personal attack, just to... just to downgrade me. That was the year I got my promotion as a manager. As they attack, because God said, "He that God will fight for will not..." All of them were sacked. It was then I got to know that as long as I stay with this God, he's going to take care of my name. I don't have to cut corner. I don't have to change figure to become great. I don't have to tell lie to be on top. Why? The one that is most dear to me is ever ready, ever faithful to keep moving me forward. It's just a matter of time. I want us to cry to God, "Lord, in this journey, I desire to stay with I have decided to stay with you. Nothing will take me back. I receive grace to constantly stay. It does not matter the situation around me. I receive grace, grace, grace to stay with you, to stay focused. to stay focused. to stay focused. to stay focused. to love you more. to love you more. In the name of Jesus Christ. to be an addicted worshiper. to stay in your presence. to stay in your presence. to stay in your presence. to stay in your presence. In dry season to stay in your presence. In rainy season to stay in your presence. No matter the situation around me, to stay in your presence. In the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, precious Daddy. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Hallelujah." I want us to pray for the servant of God God have placed over this ministry, that the work of God in his hand will go places, that his voice will be heard in high places, that the Lord will make him a voice. The Lord will make him a voice. Let's pray for him. The Lord will make him a voice. I know his desire, his heart will be here. I know he's online. His heart, his desire will be that he is here. I want us to pray for him. The oil of God upon him will not run dry in the name of Jesus Christ. Grace for this assignment to expand. Grace for expansion. Grace for expansion. Grace for expansion. Grace for expansion. Lord, you will release unto him and unto his family in the name of Jesus Christ. His life will not cut short. In the name of Jesus Christ. Enemy will not cut his life short. The number of his days he will fulfill in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, precious Daddy. Thank you, my God. Let's give him praise. Let's worship him for this evening. I don't know maybe you are blessed. If you are blessed, appreciate him. Appreciate him. There is no better place to be than to be in the house of God. Give him praise. Give him glory. Worship him. Magnify him. Glorify him. Thank you, Jesus. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Blessed be your name, Lord. Hallelujah. In Jesus' mighty name we've prayed. In Jesus' name we pray. Ancient of days, everlasting Father, we are grateful unto you. Thank you, Lord, for bringing us here to bless us. Thank you, Lord, for loading our life again with benefit. Thank you, Lord, because in your presence there is fullness of joy, and at your right hand there are pleasures forever. You have given us your goodness, you have loaded us with pleasure. Pleasures, O Lord, that nothing earthly, temporal can buy. We give all the glory for this word of life. Thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for you have gone ahead of us. You have prepared us, you gave us your message. Lord, into your hand even as we have called upon you, you that have began this good work you will finish it. In all the virtue you have attached blessedness to, Lord, this shall be found in us in the name of Jesus. Lord, you will cause us to be men and women of your presence. Lord, we will not be children, O Lord, that are sold out to the enemy. Lord, you will cause us always to stay in the place of God, where we receive grace for our life and for the lives that you have sent us to, in the mighty name of Jesus. We pray, Lord God Almighty, for every one that in one way or the other have mingled with sin, their life is a disappointment unto God. You have said when we mourn, when we mourn, we will be comforted. Lord, we pray for these lives. We say God, we are mourning. We ask, O Lord, let there be a turning around. Lord, touch their life as they come to the feet of the cross. Lord, have mercy. Lift them up, O Lord. Be their dear great, O Lord, comfort unto them in the name of Jesus. Lord, again we call upon you, O Lord, concerning our nation. We are mourning. The state of Nigeria is a state of mourning. We gather again this evening, we say Lord, look upon Nigeria. Lord, visit our foundation. Heal our land in the name of Jesus. You have also called us to mourn for the state of the church. A lot has been said. We see so many things that are not supposed to be going on. We call upon you, O Lord. Lord, heal your church in the name of Jesus. Put us in the right place, O Lord. Place us where we are supposed to be. A place of light, a place of authority, a place of holiness and righteousness, a place where we point everyone that come to us to heaven. Lord, bring the church of God to this point in the name of Jesus, beginning from our life individually. Because in our gathering, when we gather as a denomination, it's just the collection of different churches in our different homes that gather. Lord, begin from every individual life. Begin from us that are present. Begin from those of us that are online. Begin from us that Lord, our life, O Lord, you will find in us an altar. You will find in us a place where prayers, prayers for other people's life, for the nation, for our life, you find in us, O Lord, the the right kind of fire that will bring deliverance and salvation to men in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we are grateful unto you for your son you have used today. O Lord our God. Virtues have gone out of him. You are the Lord that replenish. You are the Lord that restore. You are the Lord that give in double portion. Release upon your son in the name of Jesus. Father, we are grateful unto you. For all that we have asked tonight, we have no doubt because we know you are here and you have heard us. You did not only hear us, you have answered us. We know we have all that we have asked in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you, Father, for hearing us. Thank you for answers to our prayer. As we go for your presence, go with us in the mighty name of Jesus. In Jesus' unfailing name we pray. The grace, 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 mercies shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. [Speaker 2] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in enriching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission help. Our regular activities are discipleship class every Monday, 5:00 PM, Adolescent and Singles Club every first Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM, marriage forum second Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM, family life seminars, regular school outreaches and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location, Life Camp by the first bridge, Ileri community opposite Very Joy Filling Station along Ijede 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.