The Heart of Service

[Music plays - Battle Hymn of the Republic] [Speaker 1] Churches and fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God rightly desires a godly home front. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 2] Praise the Lord. We thank our God again for today. We bless His holy name for this opportunity and privilege of being in His presence again, the first Saturday in the month of June for our usual singles club. We trust the Lord again that as we fellowship together with one another—our singles who are joining us online, other brethren who are joining us online also, either on Telegram or Mixlr—we trust the Lord that it will be a blessed time this morning as we fellowship together in the scriptures. Let us have a word of prayer. Our Father, we are grateful unto You. We thank You for Your love, we thank You for Your mercies, we thank You for Your goodness. We thank You for all who You are and all that You are to us. You, we thank You for deliverances. We thank You for provisions, for support, assistant, peace, rest, quietness. Lord, we are so grateful. Accept our thanks in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, unto You again we gather this morning. Lord, we are praying: let Your Spirit work within us among us in the name of Jesus. We who are here physically, our brethren who are joining us online, Lord, we pray, let Your Spirit work among us, within us, in the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, we look up unto You this morning. Cause Your name to be glorified in our midst. Thank You, eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Last month, we considered a very vital and important topic, looking at "His Word, a lamp to my feet." "His Word, a lamp to my feet." That was what we considered last month. We were able to make ourselves to see that it is so crucial and very vital for us as believers to walk and live our lives in the light of God's Word. We saw that if the Word of God is not in our lives, then we might step into what we should not step into, we might find ourselves experiencing what we should not have experienced, we might find ourselves endangering our life in many ways, we might find ourselves not being delivered from, not being rescued from so many things. But when the Word of the Lord is our light, when the Word of the Lord is a lamp to our feet, it guides our steps. And it is very vital for our young people today, young men, young women, to note that, to always ask themselves this vital question in life: how are you taking steps? How are you taking steps in life? Are you taking it by reason of the Word of God? That was our consideration last month. And this month, we want to consider another very vital and important topic for our young men and women, young wives, young husbands, and even older couples. The topic of today is something that affects people of all ages. Even though my focus this morning is on our singles—young men, teenagers, young adults—even though they are our primary focus this morning, the topic we are considering is something that affects people of all ages, very vital. And that is the topic, "The Heart of Service." The heart of service. A heart that wants to serve. We want to look at some biblical examples of the heart of service and the implication for the life of those people, and then we'll consider a home and the heart of service, and then we'll consider the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ about the matter of service. Actually, we're looking at service in relation to our Christian life, our Christian conduct. It becomes very important today to talk about this topic because many times when I relate with young people, I notice they lack heart of service. They always want to be served. They want to sit and be served. They don't take initiative to be helpful. They don't take initiative to be useful. And I want to tell you as a young woman and as a young man, it has a lot of implications for your life. The heart of service, the heart that takes initiative to serve, initiative to do good works, initiative to do good, normally have wonderful outcomes. And the heart too, that is not a heart of service, also has its own outcomes. So today as a young man, as a young woman, I want you to look at some scriptures in the Bible to make you see that this current attitude of young people today, of this generation, is a bad one. It's a bad one. It is not biblical. It is not biblical for a Christian young man, a Christian young woman, not to have a heart of service. And that's what we want to consider. You must learn to take initiative to serve. You must learn to take initiative to be helpful to others. You must learn to take initiative to do good works. Don't forget what the Bible says about our Lord Jesus Christ in Acts 10:38. It says our Lord Jesus Christ, how He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him. And what I want to use that to say is that I want you to know that one important mark that God is with someone, a very important mark that God is with you, is that you go about doing good. A very important mark, one good sign, a very strong indication of God being with someone, is that the person go about doing good. So good works is a mark of God being with someone. Let's look at some biblical examples this morning as we journey together to look at scriptures. And I want to—I will just be making references to them and then we will just be seeing the consequence of service in their lives. The first person I want you to consider as a young man is the father of faith, our father, Abraham. Genesis 18. Let's look at that scripture together. Genesis 18. I take it from verse 1. We'll just be pointing to these lives just for you to learn a very important lesson as a young man and as a young woman. Look at Genesis 18. It says from the verse 1, "Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day." So who appeared to Abraham? The Bible says, "the Lord." But what Abraham saw were three men. So the Lord appeared to Abraham as three men. It was the Lord that appeared to him, but when he lifted up his eyes, he saw three men. So Abraham did not really know that this was the Lord, because he just saw some men. But he didn't know that they were the Lord. These three men is actually the appearance of the Lord to him. Now, "And behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, and said, 'My Lord, if I have now found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.' They said, 'Do as you have said.'" So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quickly, make ready three measures of fine flour; knead it and make cakes." And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it. So he took butter and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree and they ate. As they said to him, then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" So he said, "She is in the tent." And He said, "I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son." Sarah was listening in the tent door, she was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Then Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" And the Lord said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son." What am I trying to say is that the Lord appeared to Abraham. But when the Lord appeared to Abraham, what Abraham saw were just three visitors. But Abraham had a heart of service. You'll be wondering the connection in this thing. I want to read something to you in the book of Hebrews 13. Hebrews 13:1 and 2. Look at what the Bible says. "Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have entertained angels unawares." So you see Abraham did not know who he was entertaining. Abraham did not know that God was visiting him to give him the promise of Isaac. They had been waiting for a child. But what connected Abraham to that visitation was the heart of service. What connected Abraham to that divine visitation—one thing I want to make you see: when you lack the heart of service, many times you will miss divine visitation. When you lack the heart of service, you are likely to miss divine visitation. There is a connection between the heart of service and divine visitation. That is the first thing I want you to see. The heart of service. Abraham just saw them. "Ah, hey, do not pass by, let me give you water, let me give you food." The heart of service. He was willing to serve. The second one. We're talking about the heart of service. Genesis 24:45 and 46. That one is another familiar story again about Rebekah. Genesis 24:45 and verse 46. Abraham was not a young man. Abraham was at this time, Bible says he was about a hundred years. And look at the heart of service. That's why I said that whether you are young or old, heart of service is a very important thing in all of us. But I'm taking this topic particularly about young people today. They like to sit down and be served. Please get out of that kind of heart. It is not a Christian heart. It's not a correct heart. A correct heart is a heart that is willing to serve. Take initiative to serve. Take initiative to be helpful. Take initiative to be useful. Don't just sit down in your own world and in your own corner, hoping to be served. Abraham was not called to serve. He took initiative for service. Please learn to take initiative. Genesis chapter 24. Genesis chapter 24. Just for us to have a better understanding of what transpired in this place. When Abraham sent his servant to get a bride for Isaac, the servant got to the land of Haran, and then the servant offered a prayer. A prayer. He offered a prayer that God, let it be that the person that I will say give this drink, give the camel water to drink and will offer to labor the more, let it be the household that you have sent me to. So that was the background to it. So I want to read from verse 45. "Before I had finished speaking in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her, 'Please let me drink.' And she made haste." What I want you to see is she made haste. The heart of service. One thing about the heart of service is eagerness to serve. One thing about the heart of service: when you notice that you are reluctant to serve, you don't have a heart of service. One thing about the heart of service is eagerness. If you notice that same thing in Abraham, he said Abraham made haste. When you get to Rebekah, she made haste. Eagerness. You'll be wondering where that is coming from. I will show you in the New Testament. Titus. Let's go to Titus. Eagerness to serve. I'm trying to make you understand this heart of service, how it operates in people. And that's what I'm trying to show you what a Christian heart should be. Look at the New Testament. Look at Titus. Eagerness to serve. Titus chapter 2. Let's see something there about the matter of service. The matter of service that is very crucial for us as believers. Talking about the kind of people that the Lord Jesus Christ have redeemed unto Himself. Titus chapter 2. Look at what the Bible says from verse 11. "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, godly in this present world." Please I want you to note something. The grace of God upon our life is teaching us to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. Not in the world to come, in this present one. Something the grace of God will do in the life of a man—I want to make you know when the grace of God is doing something in your life. It will make you to live soberly. It will make you to live righteously. It will make you to live godly. In this present world. It does not stop there. Something the grace of God will do again: it will make you to be looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from lawless deeds—that is useless way of behaving, lawlessness, useless life—and purify for Himself a special people. What is special about them? "Zealous for good works." So when you notice that you are not zealous to serve, there is it is a sign that the grace of God is not working perfectly in your life. The people that Jesus redeemed to Himself, they are people that the love of God constrains them not to live for themselves, but it constrains them to live to serve. There's a constraint to serve. To serve the Lord, to serve people. What I'm drawing out is the matter of zealous. If you check another translation, it will use the word eager. NLT says "totally committed to doing what is right." NIV says "a people that are very eager to do what is good." Eagerness. So when you notice that you don't make haste, you are sluggish, sleepy, doing things out of constraint, it is a sign that the grace of God is not working effectually in your life. One thing about this grace is that it makes you to become committed to good works. We are looking at the heart of service. A Christian who don't have the heart of service is an indication that the grace of God is not effectual in your life. Why Jesus redeemed to Himself a people zealous of good works. Jesus went about doing good works. These are very crucial things, the heart of service. Let's go back to that Rebekah that we are reading. It's just to call your attention that these things, even though they look like story in the Old Testament, they are clear instructions in the New Testament. They are commands in the New Testament. So that's why we are picking on these stories and we are taking lessons from them. The heart of service. Rebekah was coming. She made haste. Let down her pitcher from the shoulder and said, "Drink." Look at what she said. She said "Drink." That's the first thing. What's the next thing? "And I will give your camels a drink also." So I drank, and she gave the camels a drink also. You know what it means for a woman to be fetching water from the well? Fetch, fetch, fetch, gave the man to drink, carried it again, fetch it, gave the camel, fetch it, gave camel, fetch it. Look at the heart of service. She was the one that now offered to give drink to the camel. The heart of service. And look at that, what happened in her life. It connected her, she became the answer to someone else's prayer. She became an answer to people's prayer. May God not only answer your prayer, God will make you an answer to people's prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. God will not just bless you, He will make you a blessing. The design of God is not only to bless us, it's also to make us a blessing. Now, so the heart of service. And look at that, it connected her maritally. It connected her maritally. That was how she got her own husband. I'm talking about the heart of service. The heart of service made Abraham to get his long-awaited expectation. The heart of service gave Rebekah a husband. I'm showing you the heart of service and the workings of God. Why Jesus visited you at a point in your life, but because you don't have a heart to serve, you miss your husband, you missed your wife. So these are very important things, the heart of service. That was what gave Rebekah her husband. There was a heart to serve. That's the second example we are considering. We go to the third example. The third example is similar to this second example. That is in Judges, we are going to consider Ruth. Ruth. The heart of service. That's our focus this morning. And young man, young woman, please check your Christian work. If you don't have a heart of service, it's an indication that the grace of God is not effectual in your life. Jesus redeemed to Himself a people zealous of good works. Now, let's look at Ruth. Ruth chapter 2. The whole thing began from verse 1, from chapter 1. But I just want to go to the particular point where we need. We know the story of Ruth very well. Of course, Ruth was a Moabite that married one of the sons of Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, in the land of Moab when they journeyed to the land of Moab. And of course, eventually Elimelech died, the two sons too later died, then it remained Ruth, Orpah, and Naomi. Naomi was to go back, the mother-in-law, but Ruth chose to follow the mother-in-law. The mother-in-law tried to constrain her to go back, but she refused. She said, "I will go with you." So they all came back to the land of Israel. Now, what I want us to go to is the chapter 2. Please look at something. You remember that Ruth eventually married Boaz. But I want you to see how God deliberately recorded this story in the Bible for you to know that if you are not zealous for good works, if you don't have a heart of service, young man, your life is not correct. You are not living soberly, you are not living godly, you are not living righteously in this present world. There's a problem with your life. Look at how the story was connected in chapter 2, verse 1. "There was a relative of Naomi’s husband, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz." A flash of that man. The next thing that the Bible went to, the Bible went to Ruth. It just flashed that for us in verse 1. Then as if they pause that, they now took another associated factor. They went to Ruth. "So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, 'Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.' She said to her, 'Go, my daughter.'" I want you to look at what Ruth wanted to go and do. I'm showing you the heart of service. They don't know anywhere to go and gather food. You know in Israel in those days, there is a social security service that God put in place in Israel. That when you are harvesting your crop, you don't harvest everything. You leave some for the poor. So when people are harvesting, you will leave some. So the poor will now come after you. They will be picking those ones that you left. That's what we call gleaning. You come and glean. So the owner of the farm must not glean. You just enter, take, take, just take, take. So those ones that he overlooked is for the poor, he must not come back to them. So Ruth did not know anybody to go to. I'm showing you the heart of service. She was a stranger in that land. No specific person to go to. She just know that there is a law. You can enter any farm and gather. She knew that law, she has been told, she's in the land. But she didn't know which particular person to go to. She was a stranger, she was not a son of the land, a daughter of the land. I'm showing you the constraint. But she told her mother, she didn't say, "Mother-in-law, follow me so that because of you, people will allow me enter somewhere." She said, "Mother-in-law, sit down. Let me go somewhere. Anybody where I find favor, I will go and gather food for us to eat." The heart of service. The heart of service is a diligent heart. It's a hardworking heart. They don't give excuse. "You see, it is cold. You see, you know." The heart of service, they go against the odd. When you notice odd don't allow you to serve, you don't have the heart of service. "Ah, you see I would have helped them but you know, I don't want people to be looking at me as if... I should have actually been... but you know, I don't like putting my hand inside cold water. You know, the place itself, everywhere was looking somehow, I did not just want to..." you will keep giving one thousand and one excuses. Do you know why you do that? It is because you don't have a heart of service. Young man, young woman, I'm showing you what is the proper life for you to live if you want to get it right in life. The heart of service is a crucial heart for every believer of all ages. But I'm speaking particularly today to young people because what I notice today is that the average young person prefers to be served. Prefer to receive, prefer to sit down and get than to go out to serve. But look at Ruth. She said, "I will go. Let me serve." Look at what the Bible says. The mother-in-law said, "Go, my daughter." Look at what the Bible says. "Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field that belonged to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech." Do you see that it was good work that connected Ruth with God's divine plan for her life? The heart of service connected her. That was the person she was eventually to marry. That was the person God had purposed for her in life. But look at how they met. She wanted to serve her mother-in-law. She didn't sit down to be served. She gave herself into service, and that service brought a Moabitess, became the great-great-great-grandmother in the line of David. Anytime you talk about Jesus Christ, you cannot but talk about this Moabitess. Israelite daughters were there, they were all in the land, they didn't connect with this. It was a Moabitess. You will sit down in fellowship and be there, you will sit down in church and be there. It is people that should not receive the benefit of grace that will be receiving it, and you just be there seated because you don't have the correct heart. This woman had the correct heart. What connected her with God's eternal plan was the heart of service. As we pray, as we study, let us also have the Lord to help us with the heart of service. Young man, young woman, live correctly, live properly. To live properly and to live correctly is to have a heart of service. I remember one time in my story as an undergraduate. I was to eat my last food that evening. We got to fellowship that night and announcement was made that there are some new students around who don't have a place to stay, they will need some old students to be with them. And then I was called, "Brother Wale, take this person, let the person be with you." Mind you, I was what we have at home was just my last food for that night. But I welcomed the young boy. I was in my 400 level, he was coming in 100 level. So they wanted the mature one to take them because there was no place they would stay for that night. They came, you know, fellowship service. So I took the boy. You have to feed them till when they will now settle down. My own, I came from a very—me too I came from a home where we don't have much. So once they give you money, the money cannot even take me to the end of the month. So I took the young man, we were going home. When we got to the room, what was my last food for that night, we cooked it, and after I cooked, we ate. And then the following morning, I said to the young man that, "See, there's a little challenge that we'll see how God will help us. Actually what we ate yesterday was the last food in the house. But I will see what I can do so that we see how we can get food that... let me see who I can discuss with." And I was telling the young man, and the young man said, "No, I don't need to go anywhere." He was carrying a very big bag, his parents stocked the bag with food. He said, "This bag is not clothes that are inside, it's food." I said, "Ehen?" He opened the bag. Mudus of rice, mudus of beans, yam, oil, groundnut oil, palm oil, salt, pepper. Ah, he said, "Let us be eating." That was the food that carried me for another one month. I went out to serve. I was still thinking that when I finish eating this one, I'll go and look for what to eat again. I'm talking about the heart of service. Later as we were talking, I didn't know that he was from Ondo State. Mind you, I was the national president of Ondo State Christian students. We were looking for Ondo State Christian that we will hand over to. "Oh, you are from Ondo State?" He was part of those we handed over to again when we were leaving. I'm talking about the heart of service. And this "me, me, me" seclusion, just stay on your own? No, the heart of service. The heart of service. I'm talking about the normal Christian life. It says Jesus redeemed to Himself a people zealous of good works. The centurion. Luke chapter 7. Luke chapter 7, the centurion. I say we just be making reference to them and then we'll be learning from all of these things. Luke chapter 7. We want to take it from verse 1. "Now, when He had concluded all these sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered Capernaum. And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and ready to die. When he heard about Jesus..." You know who a centurion is. A centurion is not a Jew. He's a Roman citizen. Jesus was a Jew, and Jesus at different times had said He was sent to the Jews. So when centurion heard about Jesus, he knew that Jesus may not attend to him. He was not sure of what the response will be. But look at what he did. He sent elders of the Jews to him, pleading with Him to come and heal his servant. Look at what the Bible now says, verse 4. "And when they came to Jesus, they begged Jesus," how? "Earnestly." Look at what they said. "Saying that 'This one for whom He should do this was deserving it.'" This person deserve this good, to come and heal his servant. Why? Verse 5. "He loves our nation and has built a synagogue for them." Are you seeing something? Service. It was these elders that now went on his behalf. "Jesus, you just must bless this man. This man is not a Jew, but what many Jews have not done for us, ah, this man, he has done it. Please come and help him heal this his servant." I'm talking about service. I'm talking about how does you get to some point in life, nobody can come to your aid because you don't have a heart of service. Nobody you can connect with, nobody you can connect to. Because you don't have a heart of service. The man was in a desperate situation. He never knew that this kind of thing will be. But he has served. He had a heart of service, then he called these people, "Please help me, this man is a Jew, he will not want to come to me, please help me talk to him." And they went to Jesus. You see what interest me in that scripture was that they earnestly begged Jesus. It appeared to me that if they have not earnestly begged, maybe Jesus would not have come. But it was a passionate plea. What made them passionate? What they have been a passionate service. Let me tell you the truth in life. The motivation to serve must never be to get. However, the truth is this: the consequence of serving is blessing. There is a consequence for service. But it is not the motivation for service. Am I very clear? It is never the motivation for service. When service is motivated by what you want to gain, it's not the heart of service. No, that is not the heart of service. The miracle and the provision that come to a heart of service is a consequence of service, it is never the motivation for service. Our motivation to serve is a heart of service, something you must trust the Lord to give you, something you must trust the Lord to grow in. So that even when you don't get, you don't begin to think in your heart, "Look at this one, could not even 5 Naira, he could not even..." you begin to struggle your heart, you begin to hate the person, you become bitter because you did not get. So they ask the woman—I'm going to Shunamite woman now. They ask the woman, "No, I'm okay, I dwell among my people, I'm fine. I don't have any need." Look at the next thing. So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" It was Gehazi that now answered. Actually, she has no son and her husband is old. When that man said that the woman was struggling to have a son, he now build a house for Elijah that he can be sleeping with her. Woman was not looking for anything. Look at it, it was Gehazi that now mentioned to Elijah. It was not the woman that said it. It was Gehazi that said that, "I notice that every time the woman is doing something, no child is saying 'Good morning, ma, good morning, sir.' Nobody, nobody is in this house. There's no child in the house." When he said that someone was saying that the woman was looking for a child, now build house so that he can be sleeping with Elijah. Was it even the woman that spoke about a child in this place? No. It was Gehazi that mentioned, the woman had left. She was not looking for anything. Then he said to her, "Call her." So when she called her, she stood before him. He said to her, "Call her." The woman after she answered, she left. So Elijah was now asking Gehazi, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi said, "I've noticed something, there's no child in this house, there's no baby, and the husband is already old." Ehen? Then he said to her, "About this time next year you shall embrace a son." Look at what the woman said. And she said, "No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your maidservant." May God help many couples today, particularly African couples, who think that the primary purpose of marriage is that if there is no child, marriage should scatter. While there could be a hand without a child, a hand without cheese. There are many chicks without hand. So if you find situation where the marriage is going on and no child is coming, you can become fathers and mothers to several children without scattering the marriage. This is another example just like Elizabeth and Zechariah. They are both old and they are doing well. But what I'm just trying to bring out is about the heart of service. You see the heart of service? It is not to get, get, get, "how much will you give me if I do... how much, how much?" It's not our generation today. I'm talking about the normal Christian life. It says Jesus redeemed to Himself a people zealous of good works. I conclude this morning, taking you to something in the book of Acts chapter 20, verse 35. Acts 20:35. Look at what the Bible says as we conclude this morning. "I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you may support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" Don't ever forget this in life, that it is more blessed to give. There's nothing wrong in receiving, it's not saying there is no blessing in receiving. There is blessing in receiving, but remember, it is more blessed to give than to receive. There is more blessing in giving. There's more blessing in giving your time, giving your labor, giving your service, giving your money. It is more blessed. There is blessing in receiving. I have received from people and it has changed my life severally. Yes. And I've also given. The Bible is only saying that please have a heart of service. That it is more blessed to give than to receive. Why you are blessed in receiving, remember that it is more blessed to give. So as you receive, also learn to give. As people serve you, make up your mind to serve. As people give, you also give. Have the heart of service. It is more blessed to give. It is more blessed to give than to receive. It is more blessed to help people than to be helped. It is more blessed to serve people than to be served. It is more blessed to give your time than to receive their time. It is more blessed. Let us pray this morning. I want you to talk to God. It is more blessed, the heart of service. It is far more blessed to give than to receive. Oh Lord, help me to live soberly, help me to live righteously, help me to live godly in this present world. To be sober, to be righteous, to be godly is to be eager to do good work. Eager to serve. It connects you with divine visitation, it connects you with eternal purposes, it connects you with miracle, it connects you with blessing, it connects you with open doors. Doors will be open for you. People will serve you. Those are the consequences of the heart of service. Thank You, eternal Father. Blessed be Your holy name, our God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Our Father, we thank You again for this morning's singles club. We give You glory and praise, we give You honor, we give You adoration. We thank You, Lord our God. The Bible shows how the Lord Jesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him. One sign, one indicator of God being with us is we going about doing good. Lord our God, we pray: may our life be a life that serves. In the name of Jesus. Help us, Lord, that we may be eager to serve, we may make haste to serve, we may be zealous of good works in the name of Jesus. And Lord, we saw that the consequences, the benefits, they are many. Lord our God, we pray, we will not miss out in divine visitation in Jesus' name. We will not miss out maritally in Jesus' name. We will not miss out in God's divine plan in Jesus' name. We will not miss out in miraculous happenings in Jesus' name. Doors will be open for us. We will be connected with divine miracle. We will be connected with divine plan. We will be connected with miraculous happenings in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank You, eternal Father. Blessed be Your holy name our God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let's share the grace together. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and forever more. Amen. [Music plays - Battle Hymn of the Republic] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's Word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission hit. Our regular activities are discipleship class every Monday 5 PM, adolescents and singles club every first Saturday of every month at 10 AM, marriage forum second Saturday of every month at 10 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, Ile-Ife community, opposite Very Joy filling station, along Igede 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: 080-3386-1136, 070-3361-3848. God bless you all.