How You Received 5122020

[Intro Voiceover] Churches and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home for us. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 1] We thank God for His mercies, particularly since this is the last first Saturday for the month of December 2020. By the time we'll be having Singles Club again, it will be 2021. Hallelujah. Our God be praised. We thank God for how He was able to help us, particularly through the year 2020. The testimony of being able to continue with the Singles Club, and of course other programs, was that sometimes towards the end of 2019, that was last year, around December thereabouts to early January, it occurred to us that will it not be good that we have our programs online such that brethren who are not immediately around us can connect with us? Coronavirus was not in view. We were not even envisaging that there's going to be a lockdown, everything is going to go this direction, the direction it went in 2020. But we went ahead, put things in place, and we started. By the time it was February, March, it was a different ball game altogether. It has come to a stage where the only way to keep going is to remain on air and online. We want to particularly say as a ministry that we are grateful to God for reorganizing us between December 2019 and January 2020. God prepared us for the challenges that will be coming up with the COVID-19 issue. Honestly, we are grateful to God. As I reflect on that, what is occurring to me is that God again will be arranging our lives this December. He will be preparing us again this December, setting us again on a platform. I have this strong persuasion that it's going to be mounting on wings as eagles. He will prepare us to mount. Bible says in Isaiah 40:31, "Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount on wings as eagles." And that is telling us that 2021 is going to come with several storms of wind. But those that will be waiting upon the Lord, what will happen to them? They will mount on those winds, just as Peter walked upon the waters. They'll be mounting on those winds. I'm seeing a situation where the Lord will be reorganizing us again because honestly, our coming online December 2019 and January 2020 was the Lord preparing us for the wind of COVID-19. I want as we commence this morning, wherever you are, I want you to pray that God, arrange me again as an individual. Arrange me, arrange my life, arrange me as a young man. Lord, set me, get me prepared to mount on wings, to mount on wings. The wind that will be blowing in 2021, Lord, set my life to mount on those winds. My strength shall be renewed. I will mount on wings as eagles. Tests shall become testimonies. Trials will lead to breakthrough. Every temptation will lead to a promotion for my life. In the name of Jesus. The Lord will arrange you for 2021. The Lord will prepare you for 2021. The Lord will position your life in a way that your strength will be renewed at every junction of life in the name of Jesus. I say concerning you, brethren physically here and those connecting with us online, you shall run and you will not be weary. You will walk, you will not faint. You will not stumble in the name of Jesus. Because the hand of the Lord will arrange you. The hand of the Lord will undertake for you. As a ministry, the Lord will arrange us and prepare us for 2021. As a ministry, we shall mount on wings in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, eternal Father. Blessed be your holy name, our God. In Jesus' name we pray. If you are listening to me somewhere, speak to yourself: I am going higher. I am breaking through limitations. My coast shall be enlarged. My borders will not be small. Hallelujah. I see the Lord moving in a prophetic dimension this morning. So even as we go through our fellowship for today, let us be set for the prophetic. Words might be coming at different times, and I want you to be sensitive in your spirit to pick the signals of God, to know what God is saying, to connect with whatever God might be bringing your way. 2021 is going to be unusually prophetic. It will be men who can hear God, who can receive from God and walk with God that will survive it. Men who can receive signals, who can pick the Lord. In the midst of that storm, the disciples were confused, not knowing what to do. They thought they saw a ghost. But there was somebody who had a different signal, and that was Peter. Peter said, "Lord, if it is you, tell me to come." While others were still seated, Peter began to launch into something else by the same situation. I pray you will be sensitive to what God will be doing and how God will be doing it in the name of Jesus Christ. The year 2020, we were able to consider several topics. I remember the year opened up for January, February, and March with a consideration of understanding the will of God. It was particularly about making marital choice. That was what we opened up the year with. The highlight from those discussions is that very importantly, we must know that unlike all other creation, man was designed to be able to fellowship with God, to hear God, and to receive direction from God. We saw that for Adam to enter into what God will describe as a marriage He has prepared for him, Adam could be led of God. The Bible says God said it is not good for man to be alone. As God was saying that in the heavenlies, Adam was picking that signal. Adam began to look for a wife as God was bringing the animals and he was naming them. At the same time, he knew it was his set time to look for a wife. The Bible says Adam named all the animals, but there was none that was fit for him. Eventually, when God brought Eve, Adam said, "This is now bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman for she was taken out of me." I said any young man that don't want to miss it in marriage, it becomes very crucial that you must have a working relationship with God before you get to the junction of marriage. We also mentioned for sister Eve that we noticed that the Bible says, "And God brought Eve." God brought her. For God to bring her, it means she could be led of God. I said sisters that cannot be led of God, they cannot get it right in marriage. For the Bible says, "As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons and the daughters of God." If you cannot be led of God, Eve was led, she was brought. I said sisters, how is your fellowship with God? Can you be brought? Or are you so stubborn, so stiff-necked you cannot pick the signals of God, you cannot be brought? We are looking for sisters that can be brought. If they cannot be brought, then they are not qualified to enter into what we can describe as Christian relationship or Christian marriage. Another very important highlight was that the Bible says it is understanding the will of the Lord. That it is a process. We took Proverbs 3:5 where the Bible says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart." I said the first thing in that process is to trust the Lord. The second thing is you are trusting Him with all your heart, not some of your heart. The third thing in that process is you are not leaning on your understanding, but in all your ways you acknowledge Him. And then the Bible says He will direct. So we said it's a process we enter into to be directed by God. I mentioned lastly that there is the place of understanding what the will of the Lord is. There is the place of the open will of God and the obscure will of God. That was what led us to the next set of series from April to October. We were looking at the issue of character development, integrity, different aspects of the fruit of the spirit, self-control, diligence, constancy, faithfulness. Those are the things we began to look at. Then God's eternal plan and good works. All of those topics were offspring of the topic we discussed between January and March. The topic was this issue of the obscure will of God and the open will of God. I want us to have a reflection. How did you receive? Were you able to receive well through 2020? How did you receive? That's our concern this morning. How did you receive? We are evaluating all that we received and how we received them. I remember in rounding up in March, we were talking about the obscure will and the open will of God. I began to say that it is not possible for me to be asking the Lord, "Lord, please lead me on this matter. Should I tell a lie or not?" "Lord, I don't even know what to do. This sister wants me to fornicate. Oh Lord, speak to my heart. Should I go into this sexual immorality or should I not go?" We made it clear that there's a place of integrity when we looked at Proverbs 11. "The righteousness of the righteous will direct their path. The integrity of the upright will deliver them." I began to mention that there's the place of walking in integrity, the open will of God. There are 1,01 things about your walk with God that you don't need to go to God to pray to say, "God, what are you saying?" Two jobs are before you. One of them you must tell a lie about your age and your state. The other you must not tell a lie. Then you begin to ask God, "Lord, what do I do? Which one should I take?" You don't need to ask God about those things. I was saying that if you don't walk with integrity in the open will of God, then you will not enter into the obscure will. There is nowhere it is written in the Bible that every Paul should marry Paulina. There is nowhere it is written in the Bible that every Anthony is meant for Antonia. So if Anthony must marry Antonia, then it becomes very important for God to speak. But for God to speak in such obscure matter, it becomes important that you must have been walking in the open will of God. Jesus said, "If you abide in me and my words abide in you." "Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful." That is Psalm 1:1. A man is blessed who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly. Just because you don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly, you don't stand in the way of sinners, you don't sit in the seat of the scornful, you are a blessed person. That's the place of the integrity of the upright. If you don't have integrity, if you don't separate yourself from the way of sinners, ungodly counsel, the seat of the scornful, then you now come to God and say, "Baba, please speak to me about who I am to marry." You are not qualified to hear anything from God. It was that discussion in March that led us into the various dimensions of the fruit of the spirit, not just the gift of the spirit. We began to look at faithfulness, self-control, persistence, constancy, good works. Being full of good works as a young man. We saw how Rebekah entered into the purpose of God because she came out to give water to that servant. Not knowing that the servant had prayed that the woman that will give water to me and to the camel would be the person. She was just full of good works. We mentioned all of these things relating to walking in integrity as a young person so that you don't miss the purpose and plan of God for your life. I remember for the month of October, our brother Innocent was bringing something our way on the issue to maintain our walk with Jesus. The need to maintain that walk, the need to focus on it. You need to be sure we don't derail from it. You need to know that as young people you will be tempted. As young people, there will be a lot of things to fascinate you, to pull you here and there. Last month, November, we were looking at the matter of In His Image. I was bringing the matter to a close when I was saying that the eternal plans of God, the eternal purpose of God, is that at the end of the day, we are conformed to the image of the Son. That's the purpose of God. Everything that God is doing with your life, everything He is doing around your life, is to bring you to a point where you reflect the image and the character of Jesus. I said anything about you that is not culminating in that, that is not ending up in that, you need to be careful about such things. For the Bible says, "For as many as He foreknew, He also did predestinate that they should be conformed to the image of His Son," so that the Son can be the firstborn among many brethren. [Romans 8:29] How did you receive? How have you... what can you say now about yourself? How did you receive? I am saying that as I read a scripture, a very popular scripture for us, Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 1. The Amplified says, "Remember also your Creator... remember earnestly also your Creator, that you are not your own, but His property now, in the days of your youth, before the evil days come or the years draw near when you will say of physical pleasure, 'I have no enjoyment in them.'" The King James version says, "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, 'I have no pleasure in them.'" The NLT translation says, "Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator." The excitement of being young, are you sure it's not making you to forget your Creator? How did you receive? If there is no connection between your latter end and your youthful days, the Lord will not be telling you to remember your Creator in the days of your youth. There is a connection. Remembering your Creator in the days of your youth is to remind you that your latter days will be to harvest what you sow in the days of your youth. Your latter days will be to be harvesting. You will harvest. There will be a time of harvest. It's like your youthful days are the seed time, the time of sowing seed. What type of seed are you sowing now? I want you to know that a harvest time is coming where you will harvest. The Bible says, "Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. For whatsoever a man sows, that is what he will reap." [Galatians 6:7] What seed are you sowing? From what we have discussed this year, the matter of faithfulness, trustworthiness, constancy, following Jesus, being true to your neighbor, being led by God, reflecting in His image... where do you stand? You don't need to be daydreaming of one future that is not a reflection of your youthful days. Don't daydream a future that is not connected with what you are doing now. Do you realize that what happened to Joseph at the age of thirty was not something that was completely new to him? It was something that crept into his life when he was seventeen years old. He was just a teenager. You see the connection between his teenage years and his latter days? That young man remembered his Creator when he was a teenager. This young man would not join his elder brothers. They were elders much older because before Rachel could give birth, Leah was through with childbearing. Such that Leah had to give her servant girl. It was much more later that God now remembered Rachel and said He has taken away my reproach. Then she gave birth to Joseph. So there was a big gap between Joseph and the other ones. With people like Reuben, ordinarily maybe they would be able to father Joseph. But anytime they go to the field, Joseph will not join them, but rather he will bring their evil report to their father and say, "Daddy, what they were supposed to do, my elders didn't do it." And for that reason, they hated him. But what I'm trying to show you, that young man learned faithfulness in his teenage years. By the time he got to Potiphar's house, it was not a new thing to him. He has learned faithfulness. And so he began to sow the seed of faithfulness. If you remove faithfulness from the life of Joseph, would Joseph have become a Prime Minister in Egypt? No. So I want to beg you, remember now your Creator. There is a connection between your youthful days and your latter days. There is a connection. Don't just think that by the time I become adult, I will just now learn some kind of faithfulness. You know what even the English adage says? "It is difficult to teach an old dog a new trick." If the dog has not learned enough trick while it was young on how to live correctly, it will be difficult to teach the old dog a new trick to live well. Another truism is that it is easier to mold children than to repair adults. Into what mold are you molding yourself? As a young man, a young woman, how are you molding yourself? The matter of standing in faithfulness with God will determine so many things about the marital future of 2021. Let me show you something the Lord called my attention to. Look at the book of Proverbs chapter 18 verse 22. "Whosoever findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favor from the Lord." Now, it tells you that finding a wife and finding a good thing is a matter of favor. If God don't favor you, you may not find a good thing in a wife. And then you begin to say that women are woe of men. When God made her, the Bible says when God looked at everything that He had made, the Bible says it was good. So there's nothing evil about women. It is the evil in men that is a reflection of the evil in women. So don't let anybody tell you that one thing that God created is evil. People are just reaping what they sow. "Give and it will be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over." If you have been woe of women, then women will be your woe. That's the truth about it. The Lord said something. He said people will be marrying and they will be given into marriage until the day that the Son of Man will appear. That event will be going on. But I'm showing you something that if you are among those that will be finding the sister or find the brother for 2021, I pray for you that your portion will be that you will find a wife and you will find a husband. It will not just be that you are finding something that is not good. You will find a good thing. But I'm saying this, that it's a matter of favor from the Lord. If you compare that scripture with Proverbs 12:2-3, it says, "A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of wicked intentions He will condemn." A good man obtains favor from the Lord. But a man of wicked intentions... a brother who is busy defiling women here and there, a brother who is not truthful in his relationship, a young man who is not correct, who is not faithful, who is not true, who is not pure, a young man who is not trustworthy, a sister, a lady who is not upright, a lady who is not pure... living in pure life, living in lust and all kinds of sexual perversion... and then he comes to the junction and says he wants to find a good thing and obtain favor from the Lord. Sorry, it will not be. As men move into this thing in rounding up this year, in 2021 and beyond, as men move into these things, remind them that he that will find a wife and find a good thing is a man that will also obtain favor from the Lord. And if you are a man of wicked intention, God will rather condemn you, you will not find a good thing in a wife. And then you'll be among those flock that begin to say women are evil. But you forgot that you are just reaping what you sow. You are not a good man yourself and you are looking for a good person in a wife? Like beget like. You must reap what you sow. So if you are looking for that which is good, you want to find a good thing, I'm begging you today as you look into your future, it is the good men that will obtain favor. We started with this matter January to March this year, and I see the Lord again closing with this same matter this year. And you see how it is connected with the matter of In His Image. If you are reflecting the image and the character of God, I don't expect you to be deceitful. I don't expect you to be hypocritical. I don't expect you to be immoral. For the Bible says the grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared unto all men. And what is that grace doing? It's teaching us that we should say no to ungodliness. [Titus 2:11-12] The character of Christ. How did you receive? All the things we piece together in 2020 was to bring you to a point to tell you that all of these things is to climax into one thing: to reflect His image. And I'm showing you something particularly about 2021, that if you are a man of wicked intention... I don't know what kind of prayer and fasting you may be praying now, but I'm telling you what the Lord told me to tell you. That if you are a man or woman of wicked intention, God will rather condemn you, you will not find a wife. You may marry, but you will not find a wife. You may marry, you may not find a husband. Because the Lord will condemn everybody of wicked intentions. If your intentions are evil, you are not true, you are not faithful, you are not pure, you are hypocritical, you are deceitful. I pray for you as a young man, you will mount on wings. Maritally, financially, spiritually, career-wise, I pray for you as a young man, you will mount on wings. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth. There is a strong connection between your days of your youth and your latter days. How did you receive? 1 Peter chapter 2. I'm taking my reading from verse 9 particularly. But I want so that we can get the message, I want to read the matter from the verse 1. I told you last month that we cannot finish the matter of His image in one discussion. In closing chapter 1, Peter by the power of the Holy Ghost raised a matter with us in the verse 20 to 23. He said, "God chose Jesus Christ... God chose Him as your ransom long before the world began, but He has now revealed Him to you in these last days." So the whole plan of our salvation began before the world began. He chose us in Him before the world began. And that is what makes us, we are not just ordinary people. I'm fearfully made and wonderfully made. Because ever before the world was, I am. God saw me before the world was. So I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. God knew me before the world was made. I was chosen in Him before the world was made. These are marvelous things of grace. We are not just anybody. I cannot live anyhow. I am somebody in God. If God knew me before the world was and God chose me before the world was and God prepared my ransom before the world was, then what is in the world that should distract me from God? Of course, nothing. He was chosen before the world was. How did you receive? How did you hear? I must put all these things together to reflect His image. I must live as men that want to mount on wings. Even though darkness will cover the earth, gross darkness the people, if you are a reflector of the image, if you are walking in that image, I can say concerning your life that the glory of the Lord will rise upon you in the name of Jesus Christ. [Isaiah 60:2] Darkness will cover the earth, gross darkness the people, but the glory of God will rise upon you. So don't be afraid of the darkness. It is whether you are reflecting His image. Wake up from your slumber, look at how you receive, and make up your mind about this matter. He says it was done before the world began, but was manifest in this last day. He says through Christ you have come to trust in God, and you have placed your faith and hope in God because He raised Christ from the dead and gave Him great glory. He said you were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth. So now, you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart. For you have been born again, not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal living word of God. [1 Peter 1:22-23] There is a very strong premise that anybody who cannot deeply and sincerely love the brotherhood is not likely to be truly born again. I'm talking about some fundamental things you need to use to check your life. Take heed how you receive. How did you receive? The matter of this His image. What are you receiving? I notice a trend. Somebody will rise up somewhere, a young man will rise up somewhere, and then they will come up with all kinds of high-sounding teachings. Something like, "You see, this dimension of God, of the new reality of our new birth, is in a frequency and a dimension that is to revolutionize and bring a reconfiguration of your mindset by the power and instrumentality of the word of God to bring a dimension that outflow the former." All of these sound very big. But ask that brother, can he handle sisters with purity? He cannot. Ask the sister, put away lying from one another? They cannot. A little lie, a little hypocrisy, a little deceit. The whole purpose of whatever revelation God may be revealing to you in whatever dimension of that revelation is so that you can live a godly life. If it does not climax in a godly life, to hell with your revelation. The Bible says anybody that does not preach that Jesus came in the flesh is an antichrist. [1 John 4:3] Jesus lived the life of God physically. He lived the life of God. He was hungry, He slept, He was tired, and He was demonstrating the life of God for us. He was showing us that life physically. Look at Jesus. The Bible says how God anointed Jesus with what? With the Holy Ghost and with power. [Acts 10:38] And I want to ask you, that Holy Ghost and power upon Jesus Christ, how was it reflected? The Bible says first thing, He went about doing good. He was doing good. It was to do good. It was not all the Holy Ghost, all the power, all the revelation. In Him dwelleth the Godhead bodily. [Colossians 2:9] Everything about heaven is in Jesus. And yet, at the height of that, He is high and holy, He is meek and lowly. I don't know what level of revelations you got and the thing is sounding so high in the air. But when it comes to do good, live in purity, don't tell lies, be patient with others, don't be selfish, don't be full with selfish ambition, don't be concerned with getting glory about all things, don't be self-centered. When we come to these basic practical things about life, we cannot see it reflecting and you are telling me that you are anointed with the Holy Ghost and power. So how did you receive? What did you receive? Revelation is the key. If the revelations of God don't come to you, you can't become anything. I'm only saying that a revelation that don't translate into practical daily living, you need to take heed about such revelation. Not every spirit is from God. The spirit that comes from God says Jesus came in the flesh. But if anyone begins to put Jesus something mystical, revelations, but you cannot live a daily godly life, you cannot be sincere with people, you cannot be true with human beings, you cannot be patient with others, you are an antichrist. The Bible says you have been cleansed from your sin when you obey the truth. When we obey the truth, which truth was that? The truth of the gospel. When we receive Jesus. The Bible says you shall know the truth, the truth shall set you free. Jesus said I am that truth. When we obey the truth, when we obey Jesus, our sins were forgiven. What is the next thing that should follow? So now, you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart. 1 John 4:7-8 says, "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. For whosoever loves is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." It's the same thing that we are saying here. That if a man cannot love sincerely... love is patient, love is kind. Love is not easily irritated. Love does not seek its own. Love does not keep record of wrong. I remember one time a brother, there was an issue for us to settle between him and another brother. And we were shocked when the brother went and brought out his diary. And was the date and time of offenses recorded in diary. And we began to wonder, what of revelations of God to you? Where are the date and the time? And he was counting them. So-so date, this is what he said, this is how he said it, I noted it, I noted that. Then I keep asking myself, is there anybody that don't offend another? If I'm with such a brother, then I will not be fit to live because I know I offend people. And people offend me. It's just a matter... the Bible says forgiving one another, if any man have a complaint against any as God in Christ forgave us, let us forgive. [Colossians 3:13] Let us be tenderhearted towards each other. So the Bible makes us to see that offenses are just normal things that will happen. They are bound to come. But our response to it is that there is a deep love, and love covereth multitude of sin. [1 Peter 4:8] Query your salvation if you are not seeing that happening in your life. You say, "Ah, but how will I? Sometimes people..." Oh, look at what the scripture says in Romans chapter 5. Paul said the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. Hallelujah. The love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. That is a fundamental thing about our salvation. So you see, when the Holy Ghost and power came upon Jesus, what was He doing? He went about doing good. Before the next thing, healing all that were oppressed of the devil. The first fundamental sign, fundamental manifestation of anointing, of power in a man that is like Christ, is the ability to live right, to do good, to love sincerely, to be faithful to men, to be sincere in his dealings. If I truly love my sister, will love adjust iniquity? If I truly love, will I be backbiting? "My President did that, and so I must go and tear him down because of what he did." As if you too don't offend people. And then you go around backbiting. "My Pastor did this." Enter into our churches today and see what is happening. Backbiters, caterpillars pulling down, tearing down. Do you remember that we were messed up when Jesus covered us up? And He gave us the same ministry of reconciliation. That everywhere there is a mess, we should be there as ransom, as cover up, as saviors. Isaiah chapter 61 says, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, to bind the brokenhearted." People whose heart are broken, what is Jesus doing? He's binding the brokenhearted. You, what are you doing today? Are you binding broken hearts or you are busy breaking people's hearts? I'm talking about His image. Take heed how you are receiving. That is why through the course of this year, you see the Lord bringing to our way the fruit of the spirit. I am telling you, even men and seducers will wax worse and worse. [2 Timothy 3:13] It will be coming more and more difficult. Time will become more and more difficult to deal with because of the behaviors of men, because of the wickedness of men. But remember, in the midst of all of this, the Bible says the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached. [Matthew 24:14] As dark as it will be, there will still be men who will be advancing the kingdom. And I pray you will be among those men who will advance the kingdom in the name of Jesus. No matter how dark, I will in all situation and circumstance, I will manifest the kingdom. The kingdom life. I will bring to bear the kingdom. No matter how dark it will be. It was so dark in the days of Daniel. He was the only one in the midst of all of them, and yet that life could subdue the darkness. I want you to pray that I will subdue. I will make impact. No matter how dark, darkness may cover the earth, gross darkness the people, but I speak concerning my life, I shall mount on the wings, I will manifest the character of God, I will bring to play the life of God, I will shine as light in the midst of the darkness. The light shines into darkness and the darkness could not possibly resist it. I will shine as light. I will overcome. I'm an overcomer. I know who God says I am. I know what He says I am. I know who I am. Thank you, eternal Father. Blessed be your holy name, our God. In Jesus' name we pray. Let me call on Banjo to close the meeting. [Speaker 2] In Jesus' name. Lord, we thank you for everything that you have taught us today. I pray that you help us at all times to bring glory to your name, no matter how dark the days become in Jesus' name. We pray you help us to walk in keeping with your steps and in line with your truth in Jesus' name. Lord, we pray that as we continue with the year, we will see your hand and we will see your love in our lives in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name I've prayed. Amen. 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 mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. [Intro Voiceover] 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, community development, and mission aid. 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. 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