Psalm 90 - Prayer Session

[Music: Intro hymn] Church and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home front. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Time Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 1] [Background music continues softly] We appreciate Him for His goodness to us and Jesus Christ for another again discipleship class. Today being the last Monday in the month of October and incidentally the last day in the month of October. The last Monday and the last day in the month of October so that we will be taking time as our usual practice for the last month to create enough time to pray. We have been considering the matter of the implication of looking at the cross. And last week we were looking at what it means to be crucified with Christ. The benefit, the understanding that should flow in the believer when the believer says, "I am crucified with Christ." We were able to look at three things that flow from that crucifixion, which is to know. And our focus last week was on the matter of knowing. My intention today is to suspend that matter of implication of the cross rather to look at an exhortation this evening that will take us into prayer to be able to pray. We will not be raising burden from what we have been looking at. We will be raising a prayer burden from Psalm 90, from Psalm 90. That is where we will be raising our prayer burden for this evening for this last month. And I trust the Lord that as we do so together, as we lift up our voice in prayer, as we ask for His presence, it will be a time of refreshing in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us have a word of prayer. Almighty God, we thank You again for another opportunity of fellowshipping together. We are particularly grateful for adoption as sons and daughters of God. We are grateful for the privilege of access that we can approach God. Lord, we thank You that by the new and living way that was consecrated through the blood of Jesus by His death and His resurrection, we can come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy so that there can be grace to help in time of need. Lord, we thank You for this great privilege. And as we come this evening, Lord, to the throne of grace, we ask of God that we will obtain mercy and there will be grace, grace enough for our lives, particularly against the time of need in the name of Jesus. Thank You, everlasting Father. Work in us this evening, help us to pray, enable us to pray, teach us to pray, make us to pray. Thank You, eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let us go to Psalm 90. Psalm 90 as we take our burden for today's meeting in that Psalm. And as we read, we will take time to pray. Psalm 90. Psalm 90 is a Psalm written by Moses. We will just want to pick it out as we create our prayer burden and focus this evening. [Speaker 2] Psalm 90 from verse 1: "Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. You turn man to destruction, and say, 'Return, O children of men.' For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: in the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified. You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a sigh. The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. O, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days! Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, the years in which we have seen evil. Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands." [Speaker 1] Praise the Lord. We want to raise one or two things from this text for the benefit of our prayer this evening. The first focus of our prayer is, "Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are my God." We will be speaking a little to each and then we pray. We want to pray between verse 1 and verse 2. We want to thank the Lord that, "God, You have been our dwelling place. If it had not been You, if You had not been there, if not for You, Lord, the story would have been very, very different." I want you wherever you are, our brethren online, our brethren on Mixlr, our brethren on Telegram, we who are here physically, can you adore God this evening and say, "God, You have been my dwelling place. You have been my dwelling place." From everlasting, yes! Because don't forget, the Bible says He foreknew us before the foundations of the earth. Don't forget that our teaching from the book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians, sorry, that Paul wrote and he made us to see that before the foundation of the earth, God actually chose us. The truth is that God has been there for your life from everlasting. And you can be sure He will be there till everlasting. Before you were born, before you came forth, before the mountain was, before the foundations of the earth, those foundations were laid, God had been there for you. God had been there ever before time. You can be sure He will be there even after time. [Sings] Sé b’eyin lẹwa kí ayé tó wa. Eyin ni yio si wa nígbà tí ayé ò ní sí mo. Apata Ayeraye. I want you to adore God this evening that, "God, You have been my dwelling place." I don't know how you have been seeing your life, but the Bible is making us to see this evening that God had been your dwelling place. Honestly, if it had not been God, your story would have been very, very different. It would have been very different. He had been there. He had been there. And honestly again, you have nothing to fear. If God had been there before the mountain was, if God had been there before time was, you can be sure nothing in time can stop God from achieving His purpose in your life. God had been there from eternity. Before time was, God had been there for you. God commands your destiny from start to finish. From start to finish! Can you worship the Lord this evening? Can you adore Him? That God, You have been my dwelling place. You have been my dwelling place. You have been my dwelling place. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You formed the earth, before the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are my God. [Sings] For this God is our God Is our God forever Forever and ever And ever He would be our guide From now even unto the end Unto the end For this God is our God Is our God forever Forever and ever Say, "God, You are from everlasting, my hiding place. You are the rock, my rock, my builder, my defense, my buckler, the shield on my right hand. O Lord, I worship You." And as you put that together, I want us to also, it said from everlasting to everlasting. Philippians 1:6 says, "Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun the good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ." Can you worship God this evening? That it is not only from everlasting, even to everlasting. Lord, I am confident of this very thing, that the good work that You have begun in my life, the good work that You have begun in my life, You are able to complete it until the day of Christ. You are able to keep that work, You are able to finish it, You are able to bring it to perfection. Lord God Almighty, in the face of all that is happening in this nation, in the face of all the threats, in the face of all the rumors, in the face of all the calamities that is befalling the globe, in the face of all that is happening around us, Lord, I confess this evening that I refuse to fear. I am confident of this very thing, that You who began the good work, You are able to finish it. You will finish it with me. You are able to finish it. You are able to complete it. You are able to finish it. I will not be an abandoned project. The purpose of my life will stand. Can you lift up confidence in God? That "God, I am confident that You who began the good work, dandan dandan ẹ o mumi wa s’aṣepé, alaṣepé l’Olorun mi." Lord, You who have begun the good work, You are able to finish it. You will finish it with me. You are able to finish it. You are able to complete it. You are able to finish it. I will finish well. Hallelujah! Can you proclaim? Yea, O earth, give ear, hearken! Yea, every forces that are in life and in nature, hear the word of the Lord. I will finish well. I will finish strong. I will get to the finishing line. I will get there well. I will get there strong. I will get there still standing. I will get there still shining. Because I am confident of this very thing, that He who began the good work is able to finish it. He who began the good work in me is able to finish it. This work that You have begun in me, this work of salvation, this work of redemption, this work that You have begun, will surely come to the finishing line. I will finish well. I will finish strong. I will finish well. I will finish strong. As I round up the month of October and we are crossing to the month of November, Lord, I proclaim into my future, I proclaim into the month of November, I proclaim into the month of December, I proclaim into my future: I will finish well. In the name of Jesus, I will finish well. I will finish strong. I will finish well. I will get to the finishing line. I will obtain the prize. I will obtain the prize. I will obtain the prize. I will obtain the prize in the name of Jesus. Because I am confident of this very thing, that He who began this good work in me, He began it from eternity. He is my dwelling place till eternity. He began it from eternity. He is my dwelling place till eternity. I will finish well. Can you speak into all that is happening in Nigeria? All that is going on around you? Can you look them in the face? Can you look them in the eyes and speak to them? That in the face of all that is happening in Nigeria, it shall be well with me. It shall be well with me. It shall be well with me. The Lord is my dwelling place from eternity to eternity. The Lord is my dwelling place from eternity to eternity. Yea, Nigeria, in this land, it shall be well with me. It shall be well with me. In this land, I will finish well. In this land, I confess, the Lord is my dwelling place from eternity to all eternity in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Thank You, everlasting Father. Thank You, almighty God. Thank You, King of Glory. Thank You, Jehovah. Thank You, Lord. [Sings] He is able More than able To accomplish what concerns me today He is able More than able To handle everything that comes my way He is able More than able To do much more than I could ask or think He is able More than able He can make me all He wants me to be He can make me He can make me all He wants me to be Can you turn that to prayer? God is able. More than able. He can handle what concerns you today. He is able. More than able. He can handle everything that is my worry. He is able. More than able. To do much more than I could ask or think. He is able. More than able. He can make me all He wants me to be. He can make me all He wants me to be. He can make me all He wants me to be. We go back again to that Psalm 90 as we look at our second focus of prayer in that Psalm. We have been able to see that we need to adore God, we need to worship Him because actually He is our dwelling place. He is our dwelling place from everlasting to everlasting. He is our God. In the verse 3 and the verse 4, we want to raise some other prayer point again. He says, "You turn men to destruction, and say, 'Return, O children of men.' For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night." Look at what the Psalmist is trying to make us see again. He continued the matter in the verse 5: "You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up; and in the morning it flourishes and grows up, and in the evening it is cut down and withers." What is he trying to make us see? He is making us to see the brevity of life. That life is so short. Life is so short. Life is so short. The reason why people do not see life as being so short is the reason he gave us in the verse 4. Men cannot see. Men are always beclouded. They think they have a very long life. They think of life as a very, very long thing. They are beclouded with a lot of things, with several ambitions, with several material things, but they don't realize that life is so short. So that we can come out of that being beclouded the way every other men have been beclouded, he quickly made us to see, "For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night." That is our days. He says, "You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up. They flourish in the morning and by evening they are gone." He wants us to see something very, very important. That God must open our eyes to see things from God's point of view. The reason why men get engrossed with the things of this life is because they cannot realize that it is so short. When you are able to look at it from God's standpoint, that actually all your life is like when God just allowed you to sleep and wake up. All your life is just like a sleep of the night. When you begin to realize that all your life is like a sleep of the night, a lot of things will not distract you. A lot of things will not bother you. For us to see how important this thing is, you will see that Peter used the same word in 2 Peter 3. 2 Peter 3, you see the same thing but in another dimension. Peter used the same thing in another dimension. Look at what Peter said. He says, "Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking in their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they are from the beginning of creation.' For this they willfully forget that by the word of God the heavens of old and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world then that existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now are preserved by the same word and are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But beloved, do not forget this one thing." There is one thing you must not forget. If you forget so many other things, don't forget this one thing: "That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day." The reason why people get wearied when it looks as if, "Ah, I have been waiting for this all these years." The reason why you are looking at all these years is because you have forgotten that even your own life is a moment before God. The reason why we cannot wait for God's promises, the reason why we cannot wait patiently for God to do with our life what He wants to do with it, is because we too begin to act like men of this world: "Gbogbo nkan yii ti n pe jù, this thing, this thing, how many, look, ah, how many years now?" You have forgotten something very, very important. That if God can help you to see from eternity, you will see that even your own life that you want to live is just like a sleep of the night. It is one thing we must not forget. And I want us to begin praying. That God, a double-barreled prayer. First, we will be praying that God, help us not to forget this one thing. That life is so short. That life is so transient. It is one thing we must not forget. It is one thing that as far as God is concerned, we are like grass that flourish in the morning and by evening it is gone. We don't have an abiding city here. Everything here is so transitory. Everything here, that is why the Bible says that the wicked gather and gather, only to leave it for the godly. And again in Ecclesiastes, he says you gather and gather and gather, it says but it just like the travail of man. He says man does not realize that by the time he dies, he doesn't even know who will take them. The person who takes them, that thing that you are doing as if nobody should touch, the person that may take it over may not maintain it like you are maintaining it. Don't die because of some material things. Life is so short. I want us to begin to pray that, "God, help me not to forget this one thing. The one reason why people are misbehaving today is because they have not seen how short life is." Life is like a sleep of the night. When you begin to see life from this very point of view, God, help me that I may see life from Your point of view. Until you are able to see this light, you will be struggling with so many things. For people who are thinking, "Ah, let me gather and gather and gather." Look at the rich fool. The reason why he was gathering and gathering and he will now tell his soul, "Oya come and enjoy," is because he forgot that life is so transitory. When you see men gathering and gathering as if they are sure of tomorrow, you just wonder. They gather in ungodliness, forgetting that they may not even see the tomorrow that they are gathering for. You lie today to make riches so that you can enjoy it tomorrow. Are you sure you will see tomorrow? You see, if you begin to see life from this very point of view, it is because you know that our life is just for a while. God has been there for you, that was where we started from, from eternity. He had been there before time was. God had been for you from eternity. He cannot forget you now in time. He's there for you. He wants you to see things from point of eternity that look, "If I am yours from eternity to eternity, the short time you will use in time, I cannot forget you. The short time you will use in time..." Don't be worried. Don't be too anxious. Don't go about trying to gather for tomorrow. "If I don't get that promotion, how will I be able to live next year? Next year!" You are thinking next year. Because of next year you are not living godly today. What of if Jesus comes tomorrow? And you are because of the promotion you want to use to eat tomorrow, you have used that to forget God today. What of if Jesus comes tomorrow? Look, I'm showing you how God wants us to think. That life is like a sleep of the night. Ọkọ̀ dabi ìgbà téèyàn bá sùn tó dẹ̀ jí lárọ̀. That is how God sees your life. That is how you should see it. I want you to beg God. "Baba, help me. Have mercy on me. I am seeing this because when we begin to see daily reality, we forget all of these things. We forget them." And that is why the Bible is telling us, "Brethren, but beloved, do not forget this one thing." Ohun kankan wa tẹẹ gbọdọ̀ gbàgbé. There is one thing you should not forget. But this is a one thing we always forget. This is one thing we always forget. It is the one thing we always forget. Ah, look at our mother Sarah. She said God has abandoned me, God has forgotten me, and she alternated God. When God still have wonderful plans for her. When God was thinking that princes and princesses will come out of her. Sarah said God has forgotten me in time. Time is so, look, time is so... I want you to see time the way God sees time. God sees it as something so brief. That your life in time is so brief. The reality is about eternity. That is why He gave you eternal life. He has given you eternal life. The relationship is about eternity. Brethren, don't let time overshadow your view of eternity. Don't let time becloud you. Don't let time deceive you. It looks like sometimes oh, it is so long, it is not long. God said it's like a sleep of the night. It's like a sleep of the night. You prosper in the morning and by evening you are gone. Look at it! That is why Paul said whatsoever affliction we are suffering now, we see them as nothing compared to the glory that will be revealed in us. These men were seeing eternity. Brother and sister that are listening to me, the reason why you are disturbed, why you are edgy, why you are beclouded, why you are anxious, why you are, it looks like, "Hey, my next tomorrow! My next year! My..." The reason why you are beclouded by these things is because something happened to your view of eternity. Something happened to your view of eternity. I want you to say, "God, God, open my eyes again. Open my eyes again, Lord, that I may behold eternity." That I may see things from eternal point of view. That I may see them from eternal point of view. That I may see things from eternal point of view. That I may see them from eternal point of view. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. [Sings] Holy Ghost do it again Do it again in my life Open my eyes to see Jesus Who is seated upon the throne Holy Ghost do it again Do it again in my life Open my eyes to see Jesus Who is seated upon the throne We are still praying about this matter. I want you to see how this matter affects us again, particularly in the face of what is happening all over the globe today. Honestly when you look at Nigeria, let's begin from home. When you look at Nigeria, it looks like Nigeria will not go beyond 2023. It looks like what the wicked, what the enemy is planning, what men, the selfish nature of man, the selfish nature in our leadership, the selfish nature of men, tribalism, ethnicity, religious bigotry, all of these things. When you look at everything that is putting together in Nigeria, ordinarily when you analyze it, it looks like Nigeria will not go beyond 2023. It looks like election is gone. It looks like the nation will go on fire. It looks like that when you are looking at it. When you look at every kind of things that you are hearing. That is on one side. When you look at the issue of the flood. A flood that has caught up with 33 states out of 36 in Nigeria. You begin to wonder. You begin to look at the impact, the effect of this flood on the economy of the nation. An economy that is already entering into recession. Now being compounded again. First compounded by COVID, compounded by insecurity, now compounded by natural disaster. You begin to wonder. Will this economy, will Nigeria not sink? When you begin to look at war and aggression globally. Look at what is happening between Russia and Ukraine. Look at the threat again looking at China, Taiwan, and US. Are we moving towards a Third World War? Are we moving towards a global breakdown? When you begin to realize these things, I want to draw your mind to the prayer that we are praying. You see, the Lord gave us a master key for it. It was today as I was meditating that I began to understand it much more better. And what I was understanding is Matthew 24. That once you don't begin to beg God for you to begin to see things from the point of eternity, that is why your heart will be troubled. When you look at Matthew 24, the Lord was speaking to the disciples. He says from verse 3: "Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, 'Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?' And Jesus answered and said to them: 'Take heed that no one deceives you.'" There will be so much deception at the end of the age. So much deception is going on today. We know that one. Everybody is deceiving everybody. Everybody is deceiving everybody. Somebody is deceiving somebody somewhere. Everything is deceit. Deceit everywhere! "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many." There is so much also religious deception. Religious deception is going on so much. "Then what will you be hearing? You will hear of wars, rumors of war." America just set us on alert. Abuja, there's going to be terrorist attack. They are going to attack here, here, and there. They gave an alert to their citizens. "Begin to move out of Abuja. You will hear of war. You will hear of rumors of war. See that you are not troubled." See that you are not troubled. "For all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." Do you know what came to me during my meditation today and I began to say, "God, please open my eyes on a daily basis to be seeing eternity in view"? Do you know that it is your worry, it is the way you hold the earth in your heart, that is making you to be troubled when it looks as if the earth want to go on fire? If you have already recognized in your heart that the whole earth is reserved for fire. So if you are now hearing of war, everything will be burnt, everything will go ablaze, everything will scatter. If your heart has held the earth so lightly that the earth want to go on fire, it will not disturb you. But if you have laid your treasure on earth, if your treasure is here, what you are counting as valuable, what you are counting as life, earthly pride, earthly material things, power, fame, glory, car, money, mundane things of life. When you begin to hear that fire will consume this, this one will go, that one will go, when you begin to take your life as this earth and the things here as a serious thing, you cannot but be troubled. I've began to see that one of the way to see that we are not troubled is not to forget this one thing. That a day with the Lord is like a thousand years and that our life is like just a sleep of the night. Ó kọ̀ dàbí ìgbà téèyàn bá sùn tó dẹ̀ jí lárọ̀. That's just our life. If that becomes your philosophy about life, then something will begin to become a manifestation in you. That is 2 Corinthians 4:16. He says, "For which cause we faint not; though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day after day." Men who are seeing this eternity, even when it looks like the outward one is perishing, the inner one is renewed. When you notice that the earth is to go on fire and your inner one is not being renewed, it's not getting strength, the rejoicing and calmness is not there, you need to begin to beg God. "Baba, help me to see eternity. There is something about eternity that I am not seeing." And so we want to again pray this prayer that we are praying. Lord, I am calling confederacy what they are calling confederacy. You know the Bible warns us. It says do not call confederacy what they call confederacy. Do not fear what they fear. Can you begin to pray and say, "God, help me not to fear what men fear"? Baba, do something upon my heart that will make me not to fear what men fear. You see, men, there is so much fear today, honestly. There is so much fear. Some are saying we cannot sleep with our eyes closed again. You know everything is going on fire. You know everything is going on fire. Yea, the Bible is saying, "Do not call confederacy what they call confederacy. Do not fear what they fear. Only sanctify the Lord in your heart." Can you sanctify the Lord in your heart? You look at earth the way God is looking at it. Can you look at it that it is just for a while? It is just something. I am, look, my life is in eternity. What He gave you is eternal life. He has given you eternal life. The relationship is about eternity. Brethren, don't let time overshadow your view of eternity. Don't let time becloud you. Don't let time deceive you. It looks like sometime oh, it is so long, it is not long. God said it's like a sleep of the night. It's like a sleep of the night. You prosper in the morning and by evening you are gone. Look at it! That is why Paul said whatsoever affliction we are suffering now, we see them as nothing compared to the glory that will be revealed in us. These men were seeing eternity. Brother and sister that are listening to me, the reason why you are disturbed, why you are edgy, why you are beclouded, why you are anxious, why you are, it looks like, "Hey, my next tomorrow! My next year! My..." The reason why you are beclouded by these things is because something happened to your view of eternity. Something happened to your view of eternity. I want you to say, "God, God, open my eyes again. Open my eyes again, Lord, that I may behold eternity." That I may see things from eternal point of view. That I may see them from eternal point of view. That I may see things from eternal point of view. That I may see them from eternal point of view. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ. [Sings] Holy Ghost do it again Do it again in my life Open my eyes to see Jesus Who is seated upon the throne Holy Ghost do it again Do it again in my life Open my eyes to see Jesus Who is seated upon the throne We are still praying about this matter. I want you to see how this matter affects us again, particularly in the face of what is happening all over the globe today. Honestly when you look at Nigeria, let's begin from home. When you look at Nigeria, it looks like Nigeria will not go beyond 2023. It looks like what the wicked, what the enemy is planning, what men, the selfish nature of man, the selfish nature in our leadership, the selfish nature of men, tribalism, ethnicity, religious bigotry, all of these things. When you look at everything that is putting together in Nigeria, ordinarily when you analyze it, it looks like Nigeria will not go beyond 2023. It looks like election is gone. It looks like the nation will go on fire. It looks like that when you are looking at it. When you look at every kind of things that you are hearing. That is on one side. When you look at the issue of the flood. A flood that has caught up with 33 states out of 36 in Nigeria. You begin to wonder. You begin to look at the impact, the effect of this flood on the economy of the nation. An economy that is already entering into recession. Now being compounded again. First compounded by COVID, compounded by insecurity, now compounded by natural disaster. You begin to wonder. Will this economy, will Nigeria not sink? When you begin to look at war and aggression globally. Look at what is happening between Russia and Ukraine. Look at the threat again looking at China, Taiwan, and US. Are we moving towards a Third World War? Are we moving towards a global breakdown? When you begin to realize these things, I want us to pray. As we look towards the month of November, rounding up the month of October, the month of December, as the year rounds up, I want us to pray this prayer, the one in verse 14: "O Lord, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." Can you pray, Lord, as this month ends and I look into the next month, and as this year is rounding up we are looking towards 2023. Everything is now towards 2023. That one 2023, this one 2023, but 2022 has not ended. You can still pray to the Lord, Lord, satisfy me early with Your mercy that I may rejoice and be glad all my days. Lord, satisfy me with Your mercy early. That is the verse 14 of Psalm 90. I'm sure in another week again we will pray with some other verses in Psalm 90. Lord, satisfy me with Your mercy early that I may rejoice in You. And then I also want you to pray, Lord, make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us. Lord, make me glad. See, God can make you glad. Lord, gladden my heart. Lord, gladden my heart. Is there something that is a sorrow of heart for you? Is there something that is bothering you? Is there something that is hurting you? You can ask the Lord, Baba, Lord, gladden my heart. Gladden my heart. Gladden my heart. Gladden my heart. Can you also pray? Can you also pray: "Let Your work appear to Your servant. Let Your work appear to Your servant." Lord, what You are doing, what You want to do with my life, where You are taking me to, let them appear before me. Lord, give me a definite vision. Lord, as we round up this month and I look towards the close, this year 2023 as it is closing up, as I look towards after the year, O Lord God I pray, let Your work appear to Your servant and Your glory and Your glory to their children. And I also want you to pray for Nigeria. Let Your work appear to Nigeria. Let Your work appear in Nigeria. Lord! Lord! Lord! Lord! Take the crafty by their craftiness. Let their table become their snare. Let Your work appear in Nigeria. Lord, take the crafty by their craftiness. Lord, let their table become their snare. Let Your work appear in Nigeria. Lord, take the crafty by their craftiness. Lord, let their table become their snare. God, let Your work appear to Nigeria. Let Your work appear to Nigeria. And lastly, I want you to pray for yourself. It says, "And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us." Can you pray that for your life this evening? Lord, let Your beauty be upon me. As I round up this month and I move into November, December, January 2023, let Your beauty, let Your beauty, let Your beauty be upon me. Olorun jẹ́ k’ẹwà rẹ k’o hàn lára mi. Let Your beauty be upon me. Let Your beauty be upon me. And number two in that place, it says establish the works of our hands. You pray to the Lord, is there something you are doing, the works of your hands, the works of your hands, your labor. Can you pray today, that work in your hand, can you ask the Lord, Lord, establish the work of my hands. Lord establish the work of our hand for us. It says, Lord establish the work of our hand for us. This work of my hand, establish it for me. Pray about that your job. Pray about that your career. Pray about that your business. Pray about that your academics. Pray about that your marriage. Pray about that your ministry. Lord, establish the works of our hand for us. Lord, establish the works of our hand for us. Yes, Lord. That is the emphasis. He says, "Yes, establish the works of our hand." Lord establish the works of our hand. Establish the works of our hand. Thank You, Father. Thank You, almighty God. Thank You, Jehovah. Thank You, King of Glory. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Let me call on my wife to close the meeting for us this evening. [Speaker 3] Father in Jesus' name, we are grateful unto You, Lord, for the working of Your Spirit in our midst, in our lives today. Thank You for helping us pray. Bible says we cannot pray by ourselves but the Spirit of God help us with groanings that cannot be uttered. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for helping us pray. Blessed be Your name, Lord, in Jesus' name. Father, we have no doubt in our heart. We believe we receive all that we have asked of You tonight. We thank You for answers to our prayer, for answers to our prayer in the name of Jesus. We pray You take us beyond this point, O Lord. Keep us praying. You said we should pray without ceasing. Please help us to stay connected, O Lord, keep us pressing to You over Your counsel, Your kingdom to be established in our lives, to be established, O Lord, in the world, to be established in Nigeria and in all that concerns us. Keep us praying in the name of Jesus. Cause us to trust You enough, O Lord, to mutter, to hold on to You as You cast all our burden on You because You care. Thank You, Father, because You have a glorious plan for us in this time, this time, this transient time in the time in eternity. And if You have an everlasting, I mean an eternal love and plan for us, this passage of being on earth, O Lord, they are also part of Your plan. And we know You that has begun the good work in us, You will finish it. We trust in Your everlasting hand. We trust in Your faithfulness. We trust, O Lord, that nothing can thwart Your counsel and so shall it be for us and all that concerns us in the name of Jesus. Thank You, Father, for Your servant that You have used. We pray, O Lord, that God, strength upon strength, causing him, O Lord, to grow from glory to glory. Let Your likeness and image continually be perfected in him. We ask for more of Your grace upon him, the working of Your Spirit for the glory of Your name and for the perfecting of the church and the blessing of our souls in the name of Jesus. Thank You for what You have done tonight. We go forth testifying. The zeal of the Lord will perform it. It shall be unto us according to Your word. We receive answers to our prayers with thanksgiving. In Jesus' unfailing name we pray. Amen. 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. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!