"Heart for the House of God"

Pastor Emmanuel Boakye Akwasi continues in the series, "Heart for the House of God"

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It's it's a Sunday morning. And then the most important thing, if we were all people who know what worship is fully about, you know that you have come to give yourself number one and then number two, you have also come to sacrifice to the Lord. And then when we do that, we are having a relationship with the Father by connecting with Him in worship and then in fellowship, when we offer our heart and we offer ourselves to Him, what we are doing is that ourselves, like me and you, within ourselves, are a lot of things that needs repairs, that needs to be fixed, that needs to be restored, a lot of things that needs to be touched, that needs to be healed or provide like we need work. I need work on me. So when I offer this deficient, incomplete, broken self to God, when I offer that to God, guess what I get back. I'm giving that to one that is complete, one that is perfect, one that is whole, one that is good. And so I'm exchanging all that is not right with me, and I'm receiving more of him back into myself. That's what happened is when we are in His presence every Sunday morning, amen, I just want to welcome our brother and family, who I have met earlier in the service, first time here. If there's anybody that come here, who is your first time here, I just want to say a special welcome to you for taking this beautiful, rainy Sunday to be here. I know that it's only God that will drive and Quicken you and lead you to be here on this day. You are most welcome. And after the service, myself and some of the leaders would like to meet with you right here through this doors we have, we know you might be coming someday, and today is your day, so there are seed prepared for you. Want to meet with you and catch up. Those of you who have signed up for our one on one membership class, we'll meet right after service this morning on the youth set area there, and then go through one on one class. I want to start a message for the day. We want to pick it up from where we ended up last week. You know, your Bible is made up of what has been called Old and New Testament, right? You remember that? Right? And the word testament is the old word that sometimes is called covenant, covenant. And then the last few weeks, we have been looking at God instructing Moses to build him the Ark of Covenant. The Ark of Covenant is also called the ark of the Lord. And then in our studies, where we ended up last week, Sunday, we were looking at that Ark of Covenant which God wanted the people to have to represent few things. Is a picture of Jesus Christ, who is going to come and be with people, mankind and be with us. Does must make his name Emmanuel, that God will be with us. Now in those days when Moses encountered the presence of God, and Moses came to be with the people, the people themselves couldn't look at Moses in the face. That's strange. It's strange because Moses have encountered God. And his physical body, his facial expression have changed and shine in such a way that when the people look at his face, they couldn't So Moses have to even cover his face with a veil, because he has encountered God. Now think about it when we come to church, if we can forget about the imperfection of what is called church, and if we can forget about the individual people that we come and love and interact with and we can make. God the number one priority, where our whole focus can be on encountering God. And I'm sure that many of us in our services, in different occasions, have encountered God in special ways. Can you imagine when you go out, you may like Moses, you may not know your face is shining and your spirit is glorying, and everything about you is unique. You may not even know. But can you imagine what people see about you? You have no idea what the dark world and what it doesn't matter. Why? Sometimes you go to some places and people see you and they are angry right away. They they just, it's like you irritate them. Don't always take that personal. It's not always because they don't like you. There's something about you that is actually causing their spirit not to be open, because what is in you is fighting what is in them. And at the same time, you can encounter some people that as soon as they see you, it's like they've known you from the day you were born. They love you right away. The difference is that the Spirit in you is testifying with the spirit in that person, that you both are children of God. You get what I'm saying now, because God wanted to live with his people, the Israelite, and they couldn't deal with his presence, and they forced Moses to cover his face. God have asked them, Moses to build this ark, and the ark will always represent and tell them that God is among them. And so where we ended last week has to do with the Ark having some things in it, the tablet, the 10 Commandment, the bread, which was the manna that fall, and Aaron's staff, the old stick that was able to blossom again. And then on top of the ark, we say it has a golden cover, two Golden angels from the left to the right with wings stretched and touching each other. And then in the midst, have a seat called the mercy seat. I am sure that if you've been in church this last three weeks, you you are getting understanding about what this act looks like. Now here is the deal. We ended last week by saying this whole thing is a representative and a false shadow of what was to come in Jesus Christ, the ark was manufactured to represent the presence, the power and the glory of God. We realize that in Joshua three and Joshua six, that when they were supposed to cross the Jordan, that it was at a flawed state that nobody could have gone through as soon as the priest carrying the Ark put their feet into the ark, put their feet into the Jordan River. The Jordan River opened into two and gave way to the sons and daughters of God. So when God stepped into the waters. When the Ark got into the waters, the flood stop flooding the waters, seas flowing, meaning that there are seasons in our life that the waters of life, the flood, this kind of flood that can sweep you away. But as long as you have Jesus in your heart, as long as you are carrying the Lord, God Almighty with you, there will be flood. There are floods in life. But then you stepping in, you stepping in the God that is with you. Your flood was separate, and he will help you and make a way for you to go through the flood of this season. If you are here this morning and you're walking through your own flood, floods are not good. They come to destroy. They come to overwhelm. They come to sweep the good things in our life, but the Jesus that is in you will make a way for you that you get to the other side and you ask yourself, How did I get here? How did I get here? Is somebody here with me? I declare upon your life, may the flood in your season come to an end. May God make a way in the midst of your own flood. May He strengthen your legs to go through it, and may Jesus Christ. Your king, your God, your love, your friend, may he divide your own Jordan and take you to your promised land. You will get there. You are getting there. Say, with me. I'm getting there. Say, I'm getting there. I won't get there because the Lord is with me. And then we said, Last Sunday, we said, the bread, which is in the ark represent God's everlasting provision, which means that it does not matter the seasons of life, God saying he's always going to provide for his people, the rod, arrow, stick that burden and blossom represent the resurrection that was coming in Christ, Jesus, the weaknesses in the human body, that the body of Christ that is broken, and your own body, my own life, that is broken. There's a season that then the Son of God comes in. What is going to happen is that this broken body can grow again, can revive again, can blossom again, can be fruitful again. It is an indication of that which is impossible. With you, with Christ, is possible. Indication of that the same stick, dead walking stick that cannot grow is about to blossom that says there is hope for you. Can you tell somebody, there is hope for you? It's never too late. There is hope for you. Hallelujah, somebody, there is hope. It's going to blossom. You're going to get back, you're going to grow, you're going to revive. It's going to quicken you. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead will quicken you and make that which is impossible possible with us. The tablet, which was the 10 Commandment, which was in the ark, actually is the word of God that he gave to guide the people of Israel. And listen, Jesus Christ is saying, for the bread that they ate, he is the bread of life. It's not going to be manna that you eat, and you cannot have some the following day, because every single day there's a fresh manna. Jesus is saying, He's the bread of life. You eat this and you live for good. But the 10 Commandment, which the tablet, which is the word of God, Jesus Christ, John testify. He says, Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. John said, the word, the word that they kept in the COVID covenant, the Ark of Covenant, the Word became flesh and dwell among us. Jesus Christ is the living word of God. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God, and now that word comes and live in my heart comes and live in your heart so that it's no longer what is written on tablets on paper, but it's also the one that lives in me and move with me and walk with me and talk with me. I told you that today we're going to focus on the rainy day. Covenants are very important. We don't use covenant to make people look at what you have on your deed, your house document, your marriage certificate. Is called covenant marriage, covenant, house deed and the terms covenant flows through it. I'm surprised they still use those words on legal terms on legal documents today, because it's not popular. But here is the deal, God, make covenant with people, because people will always be people. People are shortcoming, people are sinful. People are always limited in what they can do regarding the standards that are set for ourselves or set in the world. So because we were born with sin and born into sin and the blood of Jesus gives us and washes us and make us and reconnect us, reconcile us with God when we believe in Him, and He forgives us, so that we are no longer based on our righteousness. We are based on the Covenant, the blood that he shed, that is the seal on the covenant. So here is the deal. Here is the deal number one, where, in the beginning, God saw that the world was corrupt, and he even regretted from creating man, and so he decided to destroy the whole world. But the Bible says in Genesis chapter six, the two scriptures that we will look today. In Genesis chapter six, the verses one, and then we'll look at the verses 12 through 16. It says that when human being began to increase in number on the earth and the daughters were born to them, there was disruption, there was sin and there was chaos, as you can see, that's what we do today, marrying, giving into marriage, living our life, and then doing all that is beautiful in our sight. And then the verse 12 says that God decided to do a new thing, to clean the world and to recreate the whole thing. This what the Bible says in verse 12, says God saw how corrupt the Earth has become. For all the people on the earth had corrupted their ways. All the people have corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them, I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an act if you forget everything that Pastor I'm going to talk about today, there is this statement. I don't want you to forget it, so I'm going to ask you to repeat this for me three times, and then you take that home when we end the service, and the word is so make yourself an ark. You're going to repeat that with me. Number one, let's say it together. Make yourself an ark. Let's say it again. So the last time, I will say the soul, and you will say, make yourself. Just point to somebody, make yourself an ark. Okay, so number three, I will say, so then you will say, you will say what I don't I want to hear you. If you go home and somebody asks you, what did the pastor say? What was the message today? Look at the person and tell the person, make yourself an ark. Make yourself an ark. Here the gentleman, Noah. Is having a revelation, a secret conversation, an information about something that is about to happen that when even an angel tells you, will not even believe the gentleman. Noah is getting a message. The message is that something is coming into the world. The message is that the world may look good, beautiful and enjoyable, but it does not look like that in the sight of God. The message is that they said something coming. There is a season, a day of rain. Rainy Day is coming. There's going to be a flood. There's going to be rain, and the flood is going to sweep things. The flood is going to consume everything. The flood is going to remove what people depend on. The flood is coming. The rain is coming. But the point is that they have not seen rain, and they have not seen floods at that moment ever before, what Noah decided is that he chose to believe the information that God was giving him. He chose to believe the word is, believe, believe in God. Trust in God. Trust in him that what he's saying he will do. What he's saying is true and is right. Noah chose to believe, and God is saying, don't make it for me. Make it for yourself. I'm about to do something. Make it for yourself. What God is trying to do here, he wants to enter into a covenant, a relationship, an agreement, a COVID. Covenant that cannot be broken by anything, a covenant that even if Noah fails, he's making it plain and simple and straight, that he will never break his path. So he's giving Noah a plain sheet to start all over again, to start all over again. But the thing has not begun yet, and so he's advising Noah to make himself an ark. You know, the next few verses says that Noah, at that time, was 500 years old. At that time, he have three sons at that time when God spoke to him. Let's read to verse 16, verse 18, and see what it was so the next verse, God is giving Noah instruction on how he should make the ark. Says, This is how you are to build it. The Ark is to be 300 cubit long, 50 cubit wide, 30 cubit high. What this is saying here for us is that God is giving Noah the prescription or the instruction on how the Ark should look like the way it's supposed to be. I just want to revive some few things for us. This is what God is saying. Now, when God gave Noah the instruction number one, watch this number one. He's giving Noah the material to use to design the ark. It says, Make the Ark from half a type of wood, cypress wood. Use that golfer wood to build it. Instructions, instructions, instructions from the word instruction from the word number two, from the verse 15, God is giving Noah the dimensions. Say, with me dimensions, the dimensions on how to build it. Number three, God is giving Noah the structure. And he's telling him the ark was to have three porches. Look at this verse 16 here, make a roof for it, a roof for it, living below the roof and openings. So that means a window, and a measurement for the window. Put a door on the side, not at the front, not at the back. Put the door on the side and make a lower, middle and upper deck three level building. So what God is doing here is giving Noah the structure. And number four, God is telling Noah the purpose for building that ark. Say, with me. Purpose, the purpose? Why? God is asking Noah to build that ark. He says, I am going to bring bring flood waters. Say, with me, purpose? And what is the purpose? I'm going to bring flood waters on the earth, and I will destroy all life on the heavens, and everything creature on earth, the life of it, in it, everything on the earth will perish. Hear me when God gave Noah this instruction, the verse 22 let's see what Noah did. He says, can you read that for me? Read that for me. Guys. Amen to that. Noah did everything, just as God commanded him. Let me go through our main points for again, number one, we call it what. What is going on? God is giving Noah an inside information. God is giving Noah an information for the future. God is giving Noah tomorrow's agenda. God has given Noah a playbook, a purpose for the future. God has given Noah a picture of the future. God has given Noah hope. What is going on here? Can you imagine being in school with all your student friends, and then your closest friends are not studying. They are going out. They are doing all these bad things, these foolish things that are not right, and you are following them. What you do not know is that one of these girls, you. Have been able to deceive the lecturer and have answers of all the questions in her pocket so she's not studying, and you are following that girl, and that girl is sitting on these answers and is not sharing with you another one. Have an older brother who has finished the same course and knows all the questions and the answers, and they have the answers, and they have the questions, and they have read through. So they are not studying, and so they are just wondering and moving around. And you are following them. You are doing what they are doing, but you don't have the information they have, and they are not sharing that information with them, and you call them your friends. Do you know you are wasting your future? Do you know you are following someone that is going to destroy your tomorrow? But they have an inside information that you do not have? I watched the movie and a young man was being harassed and interviewed by secret agents because he came out from prisons, and then all of a sudden, he's become a more time billionaire, and they are wondering how he made that money, but it was because He traded some stocks, but they were investigating a senator. The senator they were investigating. They are thinking the senator might have given this boy an inside information, knowing that that stock was going to be the going to grow and they're going to make a huge amount of money. In fact, that was the truth. The boy don't know the Senator. He flew into the airport, and he bumped into this woman, and this woman got angry, but a boy, the way he apologizes, the way he helped the woman, and he was good looking. And then the lady was like, What's your name? And I said, buy this stock. And then she left. But they have no friends, anything among them. He went home, and then he put his money into that. And that guy got multi millions. And so the IRS in this movie, they didn't know, how can you make this? And he said, Look, I have a few days in a few years in there, and I read and I studied and I made my money. He was not going to betray the lady, and he never did. But then my story in this movie, for us, is that that boy got an inside information. There is something that you need to know, there is something that I need to know. There are things that we all desire in life and the things that you want. Somebody knows it, someone has made it, someone has gotten there, someone has that information. If you get your hands on that information, you realize that the things you worry about is nothing to be worried about. You realize that things you fear are nothing to be feared. All you need is an inside information. Someone to let you know tomorrow, someone to let you know tomorrow, someone to let you know tomorrow. God knows that there was rain coming and God gave Noah the inside information as to what was going to come. And so God said, Let's make an agreement. Make an ark for me. Noah might be making an ark for God. Have said it, but he was making the Ark for himself. I'm going to conclude I have a very simple message for us today. Now, when were kids going to Sunday school? Part of the reason why, I mean, I'm so glad brother Ebenezer wants to make some time to to start equipping our youth with the Word of God and prayer, which is something on my heart so much, is some of these reasons. You know, when I was much, much younger, going through what we call Sunday school clubs and good news and Sunday school and all those su things. And also that my mother used to recite this scripture a lot. There's this scripture in Proverbs. It says, Cast your bread on the waters, and someday it will come back to you. As little kids, we go to some ponds, and you watch fishes, right? And the way you want to see the fishes is that you break crumbs of bread and you throw them me. I'm not I don't fish. Even anybody with you here go fishing. And I think you know how you try to get all these fishes in there. So we break these crumbs of bread, and you just lay them on top of the water. You. And all these fishes will swim in and come around trying to eat the bread. And I used to think mom says that you cast your bread on the water, someday they will come to you. But these fishes come and eat the bread, and then they go, when are they going to come back to me? You know, when is this bread coming back to me? You put the bread on the water, the fishes come in. They consume it, and then there they go. Well, if you cast your dial and throw in your line to catch fishes, you put things on and you do that. What I'm saying here today simply put that there are things that are contrary to the Scriptures. There are things that worldly wisdom do not affirm by the word of God affirm. This is how it is said in Galatians. Galatians, chapter six. Galatians, chapter six. If you look with me, Galatians six, the verse seven and eight, just turn your attention and underline this final Scriptures with me. I love this scripture because it keeps me grounded and it helps me think to tomorrow. Tomorrow, what we do today that's secure tomorrow, what Noah will do that day that will secure his future. He says, Do not be deceived. What that means is that I can be deceived and you can be deceived. Guys repeat that for me, Do not be deceived. Think about it. What that means is that I can and you can, we can be deceived, but the strengthen is the next verse. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows, a man reaps what he sows. Do not be deceived. So put yourself in the shoes of Noah. God says, Build me an ark. And build yourself an ark. If Noah don't build that ark, he's deceiving himself. If Noah build the ark, he's working in obedience. Don't forget that. Say with me obedience. He's working in trust. Don't forget that he's trusting what he's heard. He should write that down that I should obey God and I should trust him. I should seek an inside information, information for the future, information about tomorrow, the way my tomorrow will look like, is what I do today. If I want to reap tomorrow, I should sow something today, if I want to be saved on a rainy day, if I want to be saved when the storm and the wind and the flood come, I should build the ark today. I don't wait till the flood before I build the ark. You don't wait to the floor, to the rainy day until you try to find a shelter. You build a shelter today so that when tomorrow the storm comes, when the rain comes, you have a place of safety. But the only one who will build this shelter, this ark, or this seed, this sowing today is someone who have a revelation for tomorrow. When you look into your heart, what do you see for tomorrow? What do you see for next month? What do you see for next year? You can worry about people and what they do, but be concerned about what you are doing today. Leave people in the hands of their own God and be concerned about what you're doing today, what you are doing today, to protect and to save you and your family tomorrow, when the flood comes and when the rain comes, Noah was 500 years when he received that word. People used to grow a lot. Scripture says by the time he finished, he was 600 years old. I didn't know when the flood was going to come. By the time he finished, actually, it says that the flood came in when Noah was 600 years old. So we don't know whether he used 100 years to build or 95 years to build, and he finished it, and the ark was still there. And God said, go into the ark, and it's in the ark, and then nothing is happening. And people might be asking, Did you do all? Is for what you do? What is for what? Why do you bother yourself? So nobody knows when the rain was going to come, but it's going to come from there, guys, the prophetic word I have for us today. What I'm saying here today is that the same covenant that God have had with his people, the same God whose word is that I will not leave you nor forsake you when you go through the waters, the same way he made a way for Israel through the Jordan, the same way he preserved Noah and his family through the rain and the flood, that same god is yesterday today and forever. That same God is with you today, and I pray that God will give you the information for tomorrow, and the information for tomorrow is that start doing something today and do the right thing today. We cannot mock him. Let's do the right thing today with our time, with our life, with our resources, your time, your life, your resources, your time, your life, your resources. Do something with it today. Make yourself an ark. We know the story, so I don't want to go through the detail to mess things up. The story is that the same ark that Noah obeyed God and built for himself, that was the ark that saved him, save his wife, save his girls, his children, his sons and their children. What we do God is not mock. He was sowing. Remember God did not buy him nails. Remember God did not come down to cut wood for Noah. Remember God Noah did not have any carpentry experience. Remember he has no engineering skills. Remember Noah, in his days they were farmers. Remember they keep sheep and animals, and God was not coming down to cut all the pieces of wood and how to read building plans. But he decided that, God, you said it, I will do it. I will sow the seed into doing what you ask me to do, and a man will reap what he sow. If you are married, the way you keep your relationship with your spouse, you are sowing seed. If you're a business owner, you work for somebody the way you are treating your boss and working that you are sowing seeds. If you are single, the way you live in your life, you are sowing seed. Call yourself a Christian the way you are giving you are praying for your children today, even your unborn children, praying for them. You are sowing. What? Come on. You are sowing. What? If you are driving on the road and you pay attention and you preserve yourself. You are so easy for you and for your future. When you give you pay your tithe, we are all trying to help restore our building every year we do that. We do that with the hope that we want to trust God. We want to trust him so that we can protect and we can make this building become what the Lord want it to be, and pay it down. We are sowing seed, and we do this every single year. We take some time to do that, trust God and do that for you and for your children and your children's children. Once you are given, you are attaching a covenant mind to it, because we will repeat someday this I'm going to close the service for us today. You know, I talked to one of our brothers in the church the last few weeks ago, he experienced a mighty move of God in his life. And when we knew and were praying and we saw the way God actually divided his Jordan, and God made a way through the waters for him to walk to the other side. Um, thinking about him like this story you need to share with the church. Need to let people know that the same Jesus, yesterday, today and forever. Guys, you know that God is working mightily among us, but we don't always share it things publicly, but we do know what the Lord has been doing among us. We didn't know what the Lord has been doing among us, and I picked this story I want to share with you. And so I'm going to ask Ken and Judy to come and share this story with us what the Lord has done. And then after that, we're going to enter into a time of prayer and communion to close our service. Listen. You. All God has been doing is that he will not ask you to do something with no reason when you are doing something in Christ that you are building an ark. That ark that is what is going to make the same thing that destroy people around you, the same flood that destroy everything. The art we build. The flood comes against each one of us, but we will be secure, and you will be saved because you have already so and prepare yourself for that bad day, and that bad day come and pass and you have enough to sustain you in there. Join me, Ken will you come and share your story with us? Let's receive Kenyon, here are your hands good. Your hands good. I'm going to be with you right here. Let me check. Okay, I don't know if you've ever been asked to stand up in front of people. I've never been comfortable with that kind of thing, so our story started, I guess, just about two months ago, and one day I was over at the James annex, and I was having a What's for me repeat that one day you were white. I was at the Jones. Jones, how about the James annex, over by OSU. And I have a routine procedure I have to have due to some bladder surgery or bladder cancer. So now I have to go over there quarterly, and they just finished the procedure takes about 10 minutes, and I go downstairs and getting dressed. About the time I started to put on my shoes, I began to shake and it was just freezing. I grew up in Michigan, I went cold, feels like but it was my whole body just shaking and shaking. And I said to Judy, I just I, I am freezing. And that's the last thing I remember for a couple days. And that's the last thing you remember for a couple of days, couple of days. Wow, I'm going to go to my cliff notes here, but let's see. This is obviously a story that Judy had to tell me because I was laying in a coma or whatever. But what I now know was happening as I had met sepsis, and I'm sure we've all heard the name, but I hope you never meet it in Jesus name, oh boy, I Okay, what it is, it's an infection you get, usually a bacteria, and it sets your body up in a rage, and it's so much so it's destroying itself. So your your organs are being attacked by your own cells. It just messes it all up, right? And about 50% of the people that get it die. So it's it is dangerous. Now I have a very strong family and they went to prayer. My friends, almost all of my friends, are very strong believers. They went to prayer. People here went to prayer. People at our last church went to prayer because I'm standing here, I guess it's proof that prayer works. Hallelujah, I don't know if you've ever truly had the occasion to to know that God is working. When I woke up, I was singing a song, and we sing here, maybe you remember it. And kadush. Kadush, which means pastor, holy, holy, holy. That's the first thing coming out of couple days of sleep. I. I hope that. Well, let me just say right now that the praise and worship team here, it's very seldom I leave without having shed quite a lot of tears. You're very blessed to have that team. Now back to me. I don't know if you can pick out the points. There's a very quick testimony when the Bible tells us to go into the world and tell everyone this is what you need, is your box full of testimonies every time you have God working in your life, and you know it, put it on paper. That's old school, but you can go on your files and your phone, but you need to keep a record, because I can't tell you how many 1000 times God has been in my life and saved me from something that When I wasn't a Christian, he was still there. So my review, God was with me when I went to the James. If this had happened while I was on 270 flying around someplace, I mean, that would have been horrible. Can't lose consciousness while you're driving 65 a second time. I had this all planned. You can tell, well, that, in fact, I've developed a prayer team. People around me are believers. People around me know the Lord. People around me pray, prayer over. Prayer works. There's many other things that happened in those five now, almost seven days when I was there, as I knew that things were getting better. You know, my body was reacting finally. But when they go in, they have no idea what you have. It's such a weird thing, you know, it's all of a sudden, can't find what's wrong with you, and it's your body that's wrong. They take some blood tests, they do some samples, they do culture, and that takes about 48 hours. So for 48 hours, I've got 10 intravenous drugs going in. They don't know what's going to do it, so they just throw everything at you. Finally, they find something that hits a spot and something improves, something in what your body's doing corrects itself. And so that's what you start getting and getting and getting bags and bags and bags of it. That's God. God has allowed man to find the things that have been there since creation, and they work you. I mean, I'm most appreciative of the nurses, doctors and all that that I meant, but I knew God was right there. Well, I That's it. Come on, give the Lord a hand. Just praise the Lord with me. Stand to your feet, if you can, and just give the Lord a hand with me, Father, God, we thank you for what you have done that through this storm, through his own flood. The midst of that Jordan, you made a way, and for days he did not know where he was. Just woke up singing, Kadosh, Kadosh. Kadosh, for what the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, we seal this miracle permanently, restore this body permanently and. To Your glory. God is a working, living testimony of your goodness in Jesus, name hallelujah. For our closing section, here is what we're going to do. I love you, Lord. The rains this morning, the flood, the waters, I told you, those that came in early. I don't know why it's raining so early this morning, I'm going to preach about rain days, and it's different for everybody. The results will be different for everybody. But however, the resources your God will not leave you alone. I'm telling you, your God is with you in that rain. Your God is with you in that storm, and you are getting to that other side, completely whole. I just want to declare some prayer of visitation, of provision, of healing and of miracles among us this morning, with your eyes focusing on Jesus, just lift up your hands and just ask the Lord, I give you my life and everything about me for a sunshine day for rainy day that you will be my Ark, my place of safety. Help me build that today for myself, your church, my children, family, for our own safety, that in you, we are secure. In you, we are safe the Lord that wipe away tears and replace with joy the Lord that strengthen, comfort heal, the Lord that save father. Touch these hands. We place our hands into your hand, an indication of us placing our lives into your hand. This life into your hand, to protect, to heal, to restore, to provide, to make a way to lift up when we are down. Cover us, surround us. Open our mind. Open our eyes to see what is ahead. Reveal the secrets of tomorrow to your sons and your daughters. Let faith rise. Let Hope Rise. Receive hope. Thank you. Receive an inside information, what to do, how to order your step for a magnificent and for a glorious tomorrow. I bless you. From the crown of our head to the soul of our feet, touch us this morning. Let's worship. In closing, talk to God in prayer as you worship, let's talk to God in prayer. You.