SPEAKER_00: Good morning, First Baptist Wimberly.
SPEAKER_00: This is Mike Gibbons.
SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Friday.
SPEAKER_00: I hope you are looking forward to worshiping together this Sunday.
SPEAKER_00: We will have a guest preacher, Matt Bowles.
SPEAKER_00: And he's going to be looking at 1 Timothy 4, verses 7 through 8, and talking about training for godliness.
SPEAKER_00: I do hope you'll take some time this weekend to read through that text and prepare your heart for what the Lord has for us on Sunday.
SPEAKER_00: I do want to pray over you today using a short prayer from William Jay.
SPEAKER_00: Jay was a popular and very influential preacher in the mid-1800s.
SPEAKER_00: He was best known, honestly, for his preaching ability and his focus on fathers as the primary spiritual leaders in their homes.
SPEAKER_00: I found a prayer from him that I really needed this week.
SPEAKER_00: It's called a prayer for right perspective.
SPEAKER_00: I hope this blesses you as much as it did me.
SPEAKER_00: O Lord, help us remember that gratitude is more fitting to us than complaint.
SPEAKER_00: Our afflictions indeed have been light compared to our guilt.
SPEAKER_00: They have been few compared to the sufferings of others.
SPEAKER_00: They have all been attended with innumerable alleviations.
SPEAKER_00: They have all been necessary, all given to us with a regard for our welfare, all designed to work together for our good.
SPEAKER_00: We bless you for what is past, and we trust you for what is to come.
SPEAKER_00: Indeed, we cast all our cares upon you, knowing that you care for us.
SPEAKER_00: This is Mike Gibbons, and I love being your pastor.