LIVE DISCUSSION: (JOB 7:16-12) - Job's Gospel (Part 4 of 4)

A righteous man begs, “Why do you not pardon my transgression?” and the room goes quiet. We open Job 7 and follow his cry through Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 to a hill outside Jerusalem, where the greater innocent suffers and the questions finally meet their answer. Job feels the cup; Christ drinks it. That single contrast reshapes how we think about guilt, affliction, and assurance.

We wrestle with a tender claim: only a believer asks for pardon from the Preserver of Men. Doubt, then, can signal life rather than loss. From there, we challenge the counsel Job’s friends offered and model what faithful presence looks like—mourning, praying, waiting, and appealing to God’s character instead of forcing tidy blame. Along the way, we explore two classic views of Gethsemane’s “cup,” why Jesus’s prayer strengthens rather than weakens confidence in the cross, and how the suffering servant reframes our darkest nights.

This conversation stays practical. Settle accounts now, not at the edge of the grave. Practice self-examination without self-condemnation. Lean on the Mediator you already have, not the one you fear you lack. We end by holding fast to the perseverance of the saints—he who promised is faithful—and by rallying prayer for a sister facing surgery, trusting God to carry her through. If you’ve ever confused pain with punishment or felt abandoned while clinging to faith, this one will steady your steps.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Job 7 Readings And Lament
• 0:47 Linking Job To Isaiah 53 And Psalm 22
• 2:39 Is Job Punished Or Preserved
• 5:17 Assurance, Sin, And True Belief
• 7:12 What Job’s Friends Should Have Done
• 9:28 Searching For Hidden Faults
• 11:15 Resolve Sin Before Death
• 12:21 Need For A Mediator And Righteousness
• 15:17 Mercy Before It’s Too Late
• 16:42 Gethsemane And The “Cup”
• 22:19 Two Views Of The Cup Explained
• 25:04 Wrap-Up And Bildad Preview
• 26:15 Final Reflections From The Panel
• 31:45 Prayer For Healing And Perseverance

Transcript

SPEAKER_11: 0:00

It's gonna be on the honor system. Take a minute after we get we get off here and go read Job 7, 20 and 21 again. And just just meditate on it for just a minute. I have sinned. What shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why do you not pardon my transgression? Why do you not take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. Job thinks he's gonna die.

SPEAKER_10: 0:43

Go ahead, Meg.

SPEAKER_06: 0:47

And to tie that with Christology of it, Isaiah 53, 4. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our inequities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. Wow.

SPEAKER_11: 1:16

Amen. Wow. Why do you not pardon my transgression? He thinks see, so what is he what do you think he's thinking? Mariah. I mean, let me, I'm sorry, Mariah, let me come back to you, but Candy, because I know you had your hand up a little minute a few minutes ago. What do you think about this?

SPEAKER_04: 1:36

I can't stay out of Psalm 22 with it. I mean, it's to me, it's a picture of Jesus. But in Job, we're seeing the foreshadow of Jesus. Because where Jesus says, I'm poured out, we'll see, where he talks about he's poured out like wax, and all his bones are out of joint. His heart is like wax, he's melted within. My strength is dried up like a posture, my tongue clings to my jaws, and you've brought me to the dust of death. And then there's one part down here where he says, um, where he talks about he can see, he can count his bones, like right. I I see Job and I, but it's Jesus, you know, it's the Jesus on the cross, but we're seeing Job in it. It's it's I I can't, it's that one big picture right there that just is one, not two, but one. It just it blows my mind, like it, it, it's it's side, but at the same time, as Jesus didn't do anything wrong, Job didn't either.

SPEAKER_11: 2:43

That and Sister Candy, that's the thing right there. Because just like Brother Trevor said, you said the same thing, and that's and it's 100% correct. Job thinks he's done something wrong. He he's listen, you you have these people. We talked a little bit about this other guy the other day, uh, Johnny Chane. We talked about him the other day, and by the way, I did pray for this man, and I know we talked about that. But let me say something. We know already that what God said about Job. Perfect, upright, shoot evil, feared God. Job is in with the Lord. He's in with the Lord, top to bottom, left to right.

SPEAKER_04: 3:37

Just like Jesus said, Why, why, why have you forsaken me? I can see I can hear that in Job, but Job's not saying those words.

SPEAKER_03: 3:45

Right.

SPEAKER_04: 3:45

Why are you so far from helping me? Right. From the words of my groaning. That's right. And he tells us he cries for him in the daytime, but he's like he don't hear it in the nighttime. He still he's not silent, but he knows that his father, it, it's it's wow.

SPEAKER_11: 4:03

It's beautiful. Beautiful. Job thinks, Job thinks he's being punished for sin. It's almost like he's it's almost like he's questioning his own salvation. And there are people that will tell you you are sinning against God if you do. You're not. You're not. Because here's the thing: only a true believer has these thoughts. You've never heard a sinner say, I have sinned. You never heard somebody outside of Christ go, I have sinned. You've never heard an unbelieving person say to God, What shall I do, thou preserver of men? This is something only people that have the Holy Spirit living in them say. You never hear an unbeliever saying, Why do you not pardon my transgression? You never hear that from an unbeliever. You never hear an unbeliever saying, Take away my iniquity, pardon my transgression. You never hear that. You know you are a Christian if you are asking those questions because only a Christian can answer that question or can ask that question. Only they are concerned about their souls and how they are perceived before the preserver of men.

SPEAKER_10: 5:35

The atheist is not concerned about that, the agnostic is not concerned about that. The Buddhist is not concerned about that.

SPEAKER_11: 5:48

Only a Christian is concerned about their sin and how they are perceived by the preserver of men. And only a Christian will ask the preserver of men about their sin and what he's going to do about it. Job is asking God, what are you going to do about my sin? I have sinned. What are you going to do about it? Because I am at within. I don't know what to do. I'm not even sure how to pinpoint where your wrath and anger is coming from. God wasn't angry with Job, but it certainly seems like his providence toward Job is exactly saying that. That's how humans look. I can't tell you how many times, how many times that in my own life I have second-guessed by salvation. Not because of my Lord and what he's done, but because of me. I know how deceiving sin can be. I know how sinful sin can be to a degree. But I don't think we scratch the surface. I think what we understand about our sin is less than the size of a sliver of a of a clipped fingernail.

SPEAKER_10: 7:11

We know less than that.

SPEAKER_11: 7:16

And so Job is like, I mean, see, now we're getting into it, now we're getting into the meat because Job is talking about things that his friends should have been talking about.

SPEAKER_10: 7:28

They should have been talking to Job like this. We have all sinned. They should have been the same.

SPEAKER_11: 7:40

We let's let's sit down together and let's appeal to the preserver of men. Let's ask him what's going on. Let me pray with you, Joe. Let us all pray for not for you and for each other. Let's sit here in agreement and let us mourn with you. Let us comfort you. Let's talk about the preserver of men. Let's commune around him. And he will reveal to you what's going on.

SPEAKER_10: 8:12

We don't know, but we will sit here until you find out. Sister Mariah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: 8:25

Well, I was just gonna say, just as he's afflicted on every side and every which way he turns, and from rising to his laying down, um, he's also squandered every single part in which he could possibly look at it and say, like, you know, he started out in the beginning. Um, he has not done nothing wrong against God, and he knew he didn't, but now he's at the point to, well, have I?

SPEAKER_09: 8:54

Right. Yep.

SPEAKER_01: 8:56

So I find that very interesting because you see him searching high and low to what it is that could possibly have um caused this affliction. And so, yeah, when we know um just as well that we have not done anything, you do then go to the only thing you can is Lord, from as I was in the beginning, a sinner. Have have I done this to you to make you fulfill that I need this chastisement or this form of discipline.

SPEAKER_11: 9:29

Right. Absolutely. I mean, he he you know, he's seeking God, he's pleading for forgiveness, and he just wants and he can't pinpoint what it is, but he's like, if I he it's not beyond the the the scope of prospect. It's not beyond it. He he can be um caught up in something that he's not aware of in his mind. He really doesn't know. And so he's like, Lord, but I do know this. I know I am a sinner, I know I have sinned, and maybe there's there's some sin that I never resolved with you. Maybe it's because there's a moment where I wasn't communing with you, whatever it may be, we don't know. But Job is pleading for this forgiveness from God, and he's asking for relief from it before he dies. He's asking, let he's he's he's he's asking, Lord, let's resolve this before I come home. I don't want to, I don't wanna, I I I I would love to go if you wouldn't take me, but I want this resolved before I go. He goes, he goes, and why do you not perfor uh pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be there. In other words, I don't want you to come looking for me to resolve this and be and be already and find you find me gone already. Let's resolve this together before I go.

SPEAKER_10: 11:21

And this should be a lesson to us all.

SPEAKER_11: 11:25

Our issues with sins in our life, deal with it here and now. We all have things that we wrestle with and we need to deal with it now. Don't wait till death overwhelms us. Settle it now. That's right. Old school. Settle it now. Deal with it now. Don't wait till he comes and calls us home. Seek to resolve it now. Meg says, this is why we examine ourselves to see whether we are in the faith. This is true, Sister Candy. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_04: 12:06

Man, he's just like, I think was it Meg that said earlier about the mediator? Like he's mediating for himself, and this is what he's going through because he doesn't have a mediator. So I'd like thank you, God, for your son. Thank you. Because we do have a mediator to do this. This is something that he's showing us that we are safe from as well. We are so blessed, Joe. And nine in nine, two, he says, truly, I know it is so, but how can man be righteous before God? So, like, he does, yeah. I've seen Lord, you know what I'm saying? I don't I thought I was righteous, but how does a man be righteous with you in you, you know? And then 1324, he says, Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy? Like, what have I done, Lord? I've seen please tell me what I've done. Thank God for Jesus, because I mean, thank you.

SPEAKER_11: 13:09

Thank you. Yep, absolutely, sister. And brother Mac, I'm glad you're here with us, brother. I uh you have some great comments earlier. I just wanted to let you know I read a lot of them, and I appreciate you, brother. So I'm glad you're here in the comments and just hanging out with us. I just want you to know that. Same thing with you, brother, old school. Um, listen, here's what Job is saying in verse 21. He's saying, Listen, Lord, please grant me mercy before it's too late, before I sleep the sleep of death. Show me mercy before. I don't want to die until until this is resolved. Please help me. Lift me from this this pit. Don't let me die. And this is the picture that some of us should recognize. Does anyone recognize this? No, Job is asking God to show him mercy before he dies. Somebody here, please make the connection. What am I connecting this to?

SPEAKER_05: 14:25

He you're connecting it to salvation. Well, more than that. Well, that we need to understand that we are judged before God. And that we need we need the Lord Jesus Christ. Right.

SPEAKER_11: 14:40

But here's what I want to, here's what I want to ask. Here's what I'm gonna ask. One of the things that we talk about a lot is finding Christ in the Old Testament, right? Finding Christ. I got you.

SPEAKER_09: 14:59

Bring it, Trevor. You know, Jacob, when he was wrestling with the angel of the Lord, and uh the angel was like, it's almost daylight. You know, let me go. And he said, No, I'm not letting you go until you bless me. And uh basically, Jacob is not going to let go until he received the blessing. And this is basically what Job is, you know, wrestling with God, like, please just give show me something, knowing that I'm still in your favor.

SPEAKER_11: 15:30

You know, I like that one. I like that. I like that. That's a good one. All right, there's another one I'm looking for that relates to Christ, to the Lord Jesus Christ. Candy, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04: 15:45

I just want to I I see a lot of words Jesus says, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Before that, Lord, have my word he wants him to ask him to take the cup from him.

unknown: 15:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_11: 16:01

Tell me about it.

SPEAKER_04: 16:03

Take he his flesh wasn't willing, but his soul was, his spirit was. The spirit's willing, but his flesh isn't.

SPEAKER_11: 16:12

What did Christ pray in the Garden of Gethsemane?

SPEAKER_04: 16:17

That he did that the father take the cup from him, that he doesn't have to go through this.

SPEAKER_11: 16:21

What do you think the cup was?

SPEAKER_04: 16:24

The wrath of God, the his father's wrath for sin. Okay, the punishment, the suffering, the agony, the pain.

SPEAKER_11: 16:33

Alright. That's what that's one way of looking at it. Brother Michael, what do you think?

SPEAKER_02: 16:39

Oh, well, you know me on this one. I have a different outlook on all this. That's fine. Uh what uh translation are you reading out of uh King James. Okay. Because I I read out of the NASB. I'm not down with old English. I don't really understand how that's that's fine. He's questioning God, have I sinned in NASB? Okay. So he's not admitting he sinned, he's asking, have I sinned? What have I done to you, watcher of mankind? Right. He's he's asking, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_11: 17:20

Yeah. We were saying that uh before, I think before you came in there, but but uh you're right. It it is right.

SPEAKER_02: 17:27

And so I'm still on the thing that Job thinks he's completely sinless, and we all we know only Jesus is sinless. Uh you think Job thinks he's sinless. Yes.

SPEAKER_11: 17:39

Yeah, I don't see that, brother. I have to be I have to disagree with you on there. I don't I don't see that at all.

SPEAKER_02: 17:44

Yeah. And that's why he's asking God, like, have I sinned? And we'll see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11: 17:50

I think that what he's dealing with is is is very um, I think he doesn't. I don't think he knows the what he might consider to be the specific reason for what he is is is dealing with. I don't think Joe thinks he's he's sinless. I don't I don't I don't see that at all. But I mean I can see why that conclusion can be made. I I I just don't see that, but I I get it. But what I'm what I want to what I want to know is Job is asking here in verse 21, for God, he he wants God to settle accounts with him. Because this is what he this is what he's saying. Um, like Michael is saying, Job is Job is, you know, uh and this is one reason why I don't believe he he sees himself as sinless, because he's asking the question in verse 21 why do you not pardon my transgression? So, Michael, in your version, what does it say in verse 21?

SPEAKER_02: 18:45

It says, uh, why then do you not forgive me my wrongdoing and take away my guilt? Right, so that's then that's questioning God. Right, but doesn't that suggest that he knows he's a sinner? No. He's just questioning him because he's like, Have I sinned? And pretty much, if I have, why haven't you forgiven me?

SPEAKER_11: 19:05

All right, okay. Yeah, that's that's that's okay. That's that's that's I I have to strongly disagree with you on that one, but I but I get it. That I get it. Um so he goes on and he says, Take away my, you know, he's asking, um, why do I not why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust and shall I and shall you seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. What Job wants to do is get whatever his issues with God are resolved before he dies. He's asking you for mercy from God before it's too late, and he has and he leaves this earth. So, what I was relating to this is out of Matthew 26 when Christ asks to have when he's in the Garden of Gethsemane and he's asking God to let this cup pass from me. Now, here's thing you got two you got two schools of camp or two camps where um a lot of the great minds uh theological minds have have been divided one is that christ was asking god to let the cross pass from him in other words they would say that christ was asking his father to if to find another way if it's possible for redemption to be made without him going to the cross i do not believe that i believe that what christ was asking for was for him to not die before he gets to the cross so in other words and remember because the because christ prayed this prayer and then it says that angels came and ministered unto him so why did they minister to him they ministered to him to uphold him to hold him up so that he can make he can go the distance christ's goal wasn't was always to get to the cross there's no way in my mind that I can see clear that anyone can say that Christ was praying to avoid going to do the very thing that he came to earth to do so I believe that like I believe that other camp that says no he was asking to let this come pass so that he could go to the cross and take the full brunt the full bowl as it were he didn't want to die in that guard he didn't want to in his in his flesh he did not he wanted the strength to be he wanted to see himself make it to that cross so what did he do he cried out like Job did in verse 20 to the preserver of men his father don't let me die here let me go all the way I believe that I won't argue with anybody who opposes that that that view but that is the view that I hold unless somebody can show me something that makes more sense but the two primary camps is that Christ was asking if there was a possibility of redeeming man through some other way other than the cross or was Christ praying not to die in that garden. And I believe that the latter is what the truth is because Christ was a lamb slain before the foundation of the world he knew what he came here to do. He laid down his life for his sheep he told us that in John chapter 10. So Christ knew that's what he had to do and I think he was praying to make sure that nothing gets in the way and I don't believe there's ever a prayer that Christ ever made where he did not get the answer for the for the prayer he was making ever but if he was praying to avoid the cross then that would have been a prayer that he made that did not get answered. And I just don't believe that um and that's a whole nother uh discussion that maybe we'll cross when we get if I ever get to do a verse by verse on Matthew we can cross that bridge but it's it's interesting it's interesting to think about so anyway that concludes Job chapter 7 and we will pick up in Job 8 uh tomorrow and I will start with a a bio as it were on Bildad that's how I will start the introduction um giving giving you a profile on Bildad um so with that I'm going to go around and give everybody their last word for tonight before we wrap it up and and have brother Jeff pray for us and close it out and he gives his last word um this has been a good discussion a really good discussion and um um for me that Mariah that comment you made tonight was profound I love it um I won't forget it I had to write it down but anyway uh let's start with oh well the last the last shall be first I'll start with brother Trevor last word for tonight brother I'm over here reading the comments and I'm like all I hear is Trevor I'm like what did he say?

SPEAKER_09: 24:53

He said the last word the last word yeah the last word for tonight I usually I usually give people last a last word like I give an opening word but a last word now uh christ is king you know I don't know that's that's a good last word you know uh you know and all we do you know we face many trials and tribulations you know in in this world in this life and um you know his promises he says in Hebrews 1023 he says he who promised is faithful and if if his word is true and his promises are to give us and and and make us holy and righteous and and be with him you know that is something to hold on to you know that that is just something that we can't let the enemy you know rob us of you know and and question ourselves and thinking that we're not good enough because he died for us and we're not good enough that's the thing right you know we all sin and falling short of the glory of God but but God you know the wages of death is or sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord so you know if we if we believe in what Jesus has taught us and that we abide in him and and we'll live forever with him so you know regardless what happens in this world you know I you were you were talking about boils on Job and everything like that I mean uh people get this stuff all the time I mean you know how many people have hemorrhoids you know like you know it's uncomfortable you know you can't walk sit stand nothing you know it's it's an uncomfortable feeling you know uh not speaking from experience or nothing I'm just saying I've done my research but um I'm just saying like we're we're gonna go through you know everything this this is a fallen world we're gonna go through you know this kind of stuff and getting old ain't fun you know tell me about I I was taking care of my I was taking care of my grandfather and um watching him you know I took took care of him until the day he died you know so I was there at the very end and um just watching him die um it was a blessing to take care of him it was it but it was very painful for me to watch him go through sufferings of the end part of your life and he wasn't ready you know he wasn't ready to give up you know he wasn't ready to go right so um there's gonna be a time in our lives where we have to just give it give it to God you know because we can't take nothing we can't there's only so much we can uh dowards the end of our life and and we just have to submit it all to God you know and and just have faith in in his promises that's right brother and uh so absolutely bring faith that's the last word for me I guess all right brother appreciate it appreciate it Sister Candy last word man I just say faith in the Lord's righteousness I'm gonna run with Psalms 11 if you don't mind and I'll run through it.

SPEAKER_04: 28:25

Psalms what the whole it's just like eight seven seven verses okay in the Lord I put my trust how can you say to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain for look the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow on a string that they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart if the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do? The Lord is in his holy temple the Lord's throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eyelids test the sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous but the wicked and the one who loves violence his soul hates upon the wicked he will rain coals, fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall the portion shall be the portion of their cup for the Lord is righteous. He loves righteousness his counts beholds the upright and I thought that fit for exactly what Job's going through and when we were talking about the cup of the wrath that he has to be passed from him there you go.

SPEAKER_06: 29:25

Amen sister amen sister Meg last word so I'm sitting here comparing the two and I if I could summarize Job chapter seven versus what we were talking about in Matthew I would say that Job feels the cup but Christ drinks the cup and because Christ drank it and drained it now therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 29:58

Ooh amen good one word amen amen to that Sister Mariah last word tonight was such a a great study um just to show his um mindset and how it's how he's uh you know coming from one end um into the end of themselves and then questioning what has he possibly done to God. And um you know again I think that we should all just each day examine ourselves to see whether we are in the place and and if we're pleasing to God.

SPEAKER_11: 30:41

And um I just I love to see this in the in the aspect that it has come to and um I think that that is so good Meg yes there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and and praise God that he has done has done what he has done for us and today is the day of salvation so if anyone hears harden not your heart God bless amen sister should get those kitties I know that brother Michael last word brother you're a little brother Michael you like you're like you're always like the you're you're you're always like the spice you like to bring the spice to the to the table I like that yeah that's weird I'm I'm not like that as a person but uh I I like the the overall picture here in Job and the sense of perseverance of the saints right and how once God sets the relationship he's the one that said have you tried my servant right he made that that uh distinction of who job was in his eyes and so once he does that with us we know we'll persevere to the end.

SPEAKER_02: 31:59

Right because he will finish the work he started in us.

SPEAKER_11: 32:02

He will and that and that's one reason why like I don't like even even how you say that he uh that you that he doesn't realize he's a sinner I do believe that that either way he ends up coming to recognize his fault because I do believe he is going to realize we're gonna see that his his faults are revealed. So I I definitely agree with you. That's why it's not even it's not a point I would even argue too much because later on his faults do become exposed. What God wants to improve with him you know God is going to eventually show him as you as you very well know. And saying that yeah and that's why I think it's matter because the conclusion is going to be that he is going to have to undergo some correction and that's what and that and that sort of presumes what you're what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00: 32:58

So I think there's a there's a case that we can make but I think that the conclusion will show us that um that there is is some truth to that a lot of truth to that so I just want to say that to you um sister Lisa last word Michael did you get your last word in I'm sorry did I was done thank you all right Lisa last word well I just want to thank everybody for all the insight this has been an incredible study tonight um it always is but I I feel like tonight was really really we got into some really good stuff and um I just look forward to can continuing and um this this book even though it's so depressing and it's it was so hard um it is such a blessing and I keep saying it because I just can't get over you know the how fortunate and blessed we all are to know all the information that Job didn't have and now his story remains thousands of years later and this is it it's just it's so beautiful. It is so thank you all and I love you all and God bless.

SPEAKER_11: 34:10

All right sister love you too.

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All right brother Jeff your last word and you can close us out brother all right well again I would just echo a little bit of what Lisa said it's been an incredible teaching tonight Jonathan thank you and again thank you to all of you who are in the panel tonight for every contribution comment thought uh scripture that was shared that went along with Jonathan's teaching tonight it has been excellent and I think it would be safe to say everybody our swords our spiritual swords are sharper tonight than they were because of the teaching that we have received so let's go out and put it uh to good use tomorrow uh if you all have your calendar in front of you I'd like to ask you to do something for me please on your calendar circle Monday January 26th our dear sister Megan is her sister Carly is going to be having surgery and I believe it's uh for some sort of cancer is that correct Megan yes sir okay and so we're gonna pray for Carly in just a moment but what I want to suggest that we do Jonathan we can talk about this a little bit later but on that day that we get a prayer chain going where there's somebody praying for Carly and Megan that entire day that we're lifting prayers up to God so that Carly comes through this procedure better than anybody ever thought was possible because God's going to do something incredible. So we just that's what we're gonna do and that's what we're gonna pray. So when that time comes we'll get something set up and we're gonna pray for Carly. So let's go to the Lord in prayer we'll close up tonight folks. Father we just thank you tonight for this incredible teaching that we have received now Lord we are challenged tomorrow to put it into use take it out into the world and show people who you are by what we have learned this evening. Job went through much but he's going to be more refined he's going to be smarter he's going to be wiser he's gonna be stronger when he comes out the other end and he's gonna have a testimony and a witness and Lord we have a testimony and a witness that we need to let the world see that you are in us who you say you are. So allow us Lord to get us out of the way so that you can have your way in us each and every day. And Father tonight we lift up our dear sister Megan and her sister Carly to you tonight. We pray for their procedure coming up on January 26th everything goes smoothly and according to schedule that they go in they find the cancer that is there they get it removed Lord that it is gone. We claim healing either through your miraculous power or if you decide you're gonna use the doctors to take care of it, you go that route. Either way, either way Lord you're going to oversee this you're gonna your hand of blessing and protection is going to be on it. And Lord when it is said and done Carly is going to come through this better than she was before she went in. She's gonna be better and stronger because that's what your word declares that's what your word tells us and asks us reminds us to pray for so we pray for Carly tonight that her that her procedure goes smoothly, goes well and she comes out Lord and she's gonna have many many more years of serving and loving you alongside her sister. Now Father we're so grateful tonight to be here bring us together tomorrow night so we can be more provoked persuaded encouraging in servants we give you the thanks and praise in Jesus' name amen. Amen thank you so much Jeffrey that means the world to be thanks you're welcome sweetheart and let me tell you something come January 26th like I say we're gonna set something up and we're gonna be praying for you and well and for Carly of course yeah don't pray for me just pray all everything for her well we're going to but we're gonna pray for you because we know you're gonna be by her side with her supporting her and encouraging her and you're gonna need prayers too while you do that kiddo. So uh uh we're gonna pray for all of you but we're gonna pray for her for you for the doctors nurses everybody can argue don't argue with the encouraging servant that's right don't argue with me because I will provoke and persuade if I need to that doesn't work Megan I'll get Jonathan on you and he will so let me know all right good night everybody you will night everybody got this a vulnerability