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The scripture this morning is in Psalm 86. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my life, for I am godly. Save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God. Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day. Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer. Listen to my plea for grace. In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me. There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours. All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name. For you are great and do wondrous things. You alone are God. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name. I give thanks to you, O Lord, my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. For great is your steadfast love toward me. You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. O God, insolent men have risen up against me. A band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them. But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant and save the son of your maidservant. Show me a sign of your favor that those who hate me may see and be put to shame, because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

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And so we had some pizza, and we took a shuttle bus to one of the free playgrounds nearby. And as we're getting off the shuttle, my two-year-old son, although if you ask him, he's two and a half to be specific, my two-year-old son, he starts kind of wandering away from the crowd. And so I call out to him, I said, Hey, little man, get back here. And this guy, he turns around and looks at me and says, Okay, little dad. And we couldn't do anything other than laugh, and so I scooped him up and I said, You can't call me little dad. And then we just went on our went on our way. But each one of our each one of our relationships has a has a language and has a tone depending on the context of the relationship. I mean think about my relationship with one of my good friends, Pastor Jackson. I would never call out to him and say, hey, little man, come here. That would be very rude and condescending, given the context of our relationship. We think about maybe your relationship with your spouse. It's affectionate and playful. You might say, honey or sweetheart. Or you think about I have some relationships with some friends. When they call me, I answer the phone, I say, hey bro, what's up? It's very casual. Or you might have a relationship with some law enforcement. We have a sheriff's deputy here today. We're so grateful that he's here keeping our campus safe. When you talk to a deputy or an officer, you say yes, sir, or yes, ma'am, because it's a respectful relationship. There's a language and a tone with every relationship, depending on the context of that relationship. What about your relationship with the God of the universe? How are you to talk to him? You see, here's the reality this morning, church. If you are a Christian, then in Christ, the God of the universe is no longer distant and far off, but he has drawn near and he has become the master of your life. Let me say that again. If you are a Christian, then in Christ, the God of the universe, he's no longer distant and far off, but he has drawn near to you and he has become the master of your life. And the question of the day is how are we to talk to our master? How should we talk to our master? Now I'll admit to you that question makes a few assumptions. We are assuming that all of us agree we can talk to our master through Christ. All of us agree that it's imperative we should talk to our master through Christ. The question this morning is how? How should we talk to our master? Let's answer that question from the Word of God today. If you haven't already, turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm 86. Psalm 86, and I'll meet you there in just a moment to discuss talking to our master. Well, this morning we are continuing our Songs of the Summer Teaching Series, looking at a different psalm each Sunday during the summer months. Today is our sixth message in this series. And so far we've looked at Psalms 9, 15, 27, and 37. And I'm so grateful to Mr. Randall Kitchens for last Sunday, preaching faithfully God's Word from Psalm 84. And today we find ourselves in Psalm 86. As is the case with a lot of these psalms, we learn a lot about the Psalm from its superscription. At the top of the Psalm in your Bible, you'll see a four-word phrase, a prayer of David. This is yet another psalm written by King David, a biblical figure who you know well. Most of the psalms we've studied this summer have been Davidic psalms. In fact, all of them except for Psalm 84 last week. 84 was written by the sons of Korah. But every other psalm we've looked at this summer has been a Davidic psalm. But Psalm 86 has one slight difference today. So far, all the Davidic Psalms we've looked at this summer have been, the superscription has been a psalm of David. Today, in Psalm 86, it is a prayer of David. It's a significant difference. Because in 86, David is not talking to the people of God about God. In Psalm 86, David is talking directly to God. David is talking directly to his master. As you'll see throughout the 17 verses of Psalm 86, David refers to God eleven times as his Lord, which is essentially synonymous with master. David is talking to his master. And the reality this morning, brothers and sisters, is David's master is your master if you are in Christ. And David's master is my master. And so as we look at Psalm 86, we learn a lot about how to talk to our master. And so let's dig in this morning. If you're taking notes, church number one on your notes is this continually. Look with me now in verses one through three of Psalm 86. In verse 1 of Psalm 86, David describes himself as poor and needy. Now, the call to follow Jesus is not a call to poverty, but it's also not a guarantee of prosperity. I know good Christians that have a lot of money, and I know good Christians that have very little money. But thankfully, what David is not talking about here is physical and literal finances. In verse 1, David is talking more about spiritual poverty and spiritual neediness. Think about Matthew chapter 5, verse 3, the very first beatitude in Christ's Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5, 3, Jesus says, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. We are granted access into the kingdom of heaven when we acknowledge and admit we have nothing to bring to the table. We are spiritually bankrupt, spiritually poor. We are completely dependent upon the blood of Christ for our entry into the kingdom of heaven. And here in Psalm 86:1, David is saying this ought to be a continual, lifelong acknowledgement and admission this side of heaven. I am spiritually poor, I am spiritually needy. David goes on in verse 2 to then describe himself as godly. I find this an interesting juxtaposition. Because in verse 1, you get this very humble self-description. David is poor and needy. And then here in verse 2, at face value, you get a very prideful self-description. David considering himself to be godly. What's actually going on here is the Hebrew is more so trying to communicate to us this idea of loyalty. So when David calls himself in verse 2 a godly servant, he's not calling himself a perfect, flawless servant, but he is calling himself a loyal servant. He is saying, God, I'm going to follow you loyally. I'm going to follow you continually. I'm loyal to you. I'm going to continually follow you, O Lord. And so David says, I'm poor and needy. And then David describes himself as godly, which really means loyal. And then in verse 3, David says, I'm going to cry out to you, God, all the day. Now notice that David does not use the plural. He does not say all the days. He uses the singular. He says all the day. He doesn't say every single day, I'm going to set aside some time to cry out to the Lord, and when that time's over, I'm good for the day. No, he's saying, no matter what day it is, I'm going to cry out to God all day long. I'm going to cry out to God continually. David talks to his master continually. You know, these days, most of us, if not all of us, have a smartphone. But I'm not too old, but I'm old enough to remember a couple decades ago, these Nextel phones, these chirp phones, you guys remember the chirp phones? They were these really durable flip phones, and you could open them up and you could make a phone call or you could send a text message. But when it was closed, it had a push to talk button on the side of the phone that made the phone function like a walkie-talkie, like a radio. And we thought these were super cool, so my family had some. And I'll never forget being on a mission trip in Brazil, and uh we couldn't call our family back in the States, we couldn't text our family back in the States, but you know what we could do? We could use the chirp function, the chirp feature, on our Nextel phones, and we could talk to family thousands of miles away in radio communication through our Nextel chirp phones. I tell you that story because here's what God does not want from us. Our master does not want occasional phone call communication from us. Our master wants continual radio communication from us. God doesn't want you to occasionally pick up the phone and call him a couple times a week, maybe once a day. No, God wants 24-7 access to your heart. Throughout the day, no matter what's going on, big or small, God wants you to talk to him about it. But God also wants your spiritual sensitivity to be up. It's a two-way radio. God might talk back to you, and the Holy Spirit might plant some thoughts in your heart and in your mind. God doesn't want occasional phone call communication with you, he wants continual radio communication with you. That's what your master wants. And so this morning, are you talking to your master occasionally? Or are you talking to him continually? Hey, church, number two on your notes is this. Number two, joyfully. We should talk to our master joyfully. Look with me now in verses four through seven of Psalm 86. In verse 4, David says, Gladden my heart, O God. Restore joy to my heart, O God. This request in Psalm 86.4, it reminds me a lot of David's request in Psalm 51, verse 12. You'll remember that all of Psalm 51 is David repenting of his sin with Bathsheba. But specifically in verse 12 of Psalm 51, David says, Restore to me the joy of my salvation, O God. And this is a very similar request here in Psalm 86.4. Gladden my heart, restore to my heart joy, O God. In verse 5, David describes God as good. Now, in the English language, the word good is a bit underwhelming. Someone might ask you, How are you? And you might say, I'm good, fine, okay, not bad. In the English language, good is a bit underwhelming. But in Hebrew, the concept of goodness is far more significant. In Hebrew, the concept of goodness means something is exactly the way it should be. This is why in Genesis chapter 1, as God is creating, at the end of each day, God looks at all that he has made and says, it is good. This is exactly as it should be. And David is saying to God in verse 5, God, you are good. You are exactly as you should be. I don't want you to change one thing about yourself. You are good. In verse 6, David is pleading with God for grace. When I see that word plea, I think of someone pleading guilty in a court of law. You see, when it comes to our relationship with the God of the universe, our relationship with our master, we must first plead guilty. We must first say, God, I am guilty. I am a sinner who has fallen short of you. And there's nothing I can do to save myself. But then after we plead guilty, brothers and sisters, we plead for grace. God, would you graciously credit my guilt to Jesus? And then would you graciously credit the innocence of Jesus back to me? After we plead guilty, we plead for God's grace. And that's what David is doing here in verse 6. He's pleading for the grace of God. In verse 7, David says, I call out to God, I call out to my master in times of trouble. We call out to our master in times of suffering and affliction and persecution and oppression in the midst of a mess that we didn't cause ourselves. But this word trouble, it kind of implies some fault. I think about when my children are in trouble, it's their fault. Or when we describe someone else as his trouble or she's trouble, they often cause problems. David is saying here in verse 7, I not only cry out to God when I'm in the midst of a mess that I didn't cause, but I also call out to God and cry out to God when I've messed up really badly, when I've made a mistake, because I know he'll take me back in. We cry out to God joyfully. We talk to our master joyfully. So if if someone calls Hannah when she's driving, or if Hannah places a phone call, the call goes it goes through the car. It's magic. So it goes through the car, there's a microphone close to the steering wheel that she talks into, and then the other person on the other end of the line comes through the speakers in the car, and that's how the phone call works. And so when I call Hannah and she's driving and the kids are in the car, Hannah picks up and says hello, and I say, Hey, how's it going? My voice comes through the whole car, and then I hear a bunch of screaming in the background. Daddy. Because my kids hear the voice of their dad. And so I stop and talk to one of my kids. I say, Hey Piper, how's it going? What do you want to talk about? And Piper will say, Nothing. She has no specific topic that she needs to cover with her father. She's just overjoyed by the opportunity to talk to her dad. Shouldn't we have a similar attitude, brothers and sisters? Sometimes you have a specific topic that you need to talk about with your Heavenly Father. But sometimes you should just be overjoyed by the opportunity to talk to your master. And start a conversation with him and say, God, I have no agenda. What's on your mind? What would you like to talk about? When you talk to your master, be sure that you talk to him joyfully. Church number three on your notes is this. Number three, reverently. We should talk to our master reverently. Look with me now in verses eight through ten of Psalm 86. In verse 8, David says, Lord, there are no other gods like you. There is no one else like you among the gods. Now this is kind of a tricky phrase, but certainly what David is not saying is that there are other true gods in the universe. David really makes this clear in verse 10 when he says, You alone are God. And so when David says to the Lord, there is no one like you among the gods, he's really telling God, You are one of a kind. That's why there's no one else like you. You are one of one. There's no one else like you among the gods. But in David's day, there were other little g false gods in surrounding nations. I think of Baal and Dagon and Molech, some other false gods of neighboring nations. And today there are still false gods. There are other false religions out there, no doubt. But perhaps a more accessible false God, a little g false God in your life might be career advancement, more money, a certain politician or political party. Anyone or anything who we worship other than the one true and living God is misplaced worship. Let me say that again. Anyone or anything that we worship other than the one true and living God, that is misplaced worship. And speaking of worship, David brings up that word and that topic in verse 9. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 28 picks up on this idea of worship. In Hebrews 12, 28, it says that we are to offer to God acceptable worship with, check this out, with reverence and awe. When we worship God, we should worship God reverently. When we talk to our master, we should talk to our master reverently. In verse 10, we've already mentioned how David says that you alone are God. But in verse 10, David also says, God, you do some wondrous things. In David's day, God was up to some wondrous things. He was doing some wondrous things. But I tell you what, he's not done. In our day, in 2026, he's still doing some wondrous things. Right here in our midst, God is doing some wondrous things. At Oxford campus, God is drawing people to this campus so that ultimately he can draw more people to himself. God is doing some wondrous things. And we're working hard at our campus and at our church. We're doing everything we can, but then we're calling upon God to do what only he can, to soften hearts unto faith in Christ. And he is answering our call, answering our cry, answering our prayer. He's doing wondrous things in our midst. But when we talk to him, we should talk to him reverently. On December 24th, 2019, it was Christmas Eve almost seven years ago. I was working at um I was working at Family Church at First Baptist Church West Palm Beach in South Florida. And it's another like-minded Southern Baptist Church in Florida. I was serving at their downtown campus at the time, and in Christmas Eve 2019, we had five Christmas Eve services. Now their downtown campus is just about a mile from Mar-a-Lago, the personal Florida residence of Donald Trump. In 2019, Mr. Trump was the sitting president running for re-election in 2020. And about 10 minutes before our 6 p.m. Christmas Eve service, our church got a phone call from the Trump administration that said, Mr. Trump and his family will be attending the 6 o'clock Christmas Eve service at your church. And we were trying to decide if it was a head fake, but it wasn't. It was real. Within moments, our campus was swarmed with secret service, and sure enough, Mr. Trump attended Christmas Eve at Family Church downtown in 2019. You could Google it for yourself later, not now. So if this was the sanctuary, they were sitting right over here, stage right, house left, row three. They sat right over there. Now I'll admit to you, it is more likely for the Trump family to attend a worship service at a church in South Florida, close to their home, than it is for them to attend a worship service up here in Oxford, Florida. But just imagine with me for a moment. Imagine if the sitting president of the United States walked through the doors of our sanctuary on a Sunday morning and you had the opportunity to meet him. Here's what you would not do. You would not walk up to him and say, Hey bro, what's up? How's it going? You would say instead some version of, hello, Mr. President, it's a pleasure to meet you. It's an honor that you would join us for worship today. You would speak to him with respect because of the office that he holds, respect that that borders on reverence. And here's the thing, church. If we're going to speak reverently to a flawed human being who sits in a desk chair in the Oval Office, how much How much more reverently should we speak to a holy God seated on his throne in heaven? Can I ask you that question again? If we're going to speak reverently to a flawed human being sitting in a desk chair in the oval office, how much more reverently ought we speak to a holy God seated on his throne in heaven? It is a joyous privilege to speak to our master and to speak to the God of the universe. But may we never forget, we're speaking to a holy God. And he deserves our speech to be reverent speech. Number four, completely. We should talk to our master completely. Look with me now in verses 11 through 13 of Psalm 86. In verse 11, David prayers, David prays a pretty interesting prayer. David says, God, unite my heart. Now I'll tell you that I uh I often pray for unity at our church. And many of you have asked me how you can pray for our church. That's one thing you can pray for is unity. And right now in this season, God is blessing our church with divine Holy Spirit unity. It is a unified season at First Baptist Church Leesburg. But have you ever prayed for unity in your heart? Perhaps there's a part of your life or a part of your heart that is closed off to the Lord. God does not have your undivided attention. You are not being completely transparent or completely vulnerable or completely surrendered to the Lord. Your speech, your relationship with God is incomplete because there's an area of your life or an area of your heart that is closed off. Like David prays, you should pray for God to unite your hearts. Help you be transparent and vulnerable and surrendered to Him. David doubles down on this idea in verse 12 when he says, God, I give thanks to you with my whole heart. David doesn't give thanks to God with half of his heart. David doesn't give God his divided attention. David gives thanks to God with his whole heart, and he gives God his undivided attention. In verse 13, David thanks God for delivering him from the depths of Sheol. This is basically saying, David is basically saying, I was as good as dead, but God, you intervened. It reminds me of the words of Paul in Ephesians chapter 2, when Paul says, We were all dead in our trespasses and sins. But God, being rich in mercy and abounding in steadfast love, made us alive together with Christ. We were all as good as dead until God intervened. And David is grateful that God delivered him from the depths of Sheol. But here's the thing: David would never have been satisfied with incomplete deliverance, with half-hearted deliverance. He wanted God to completely deliver him. And likewise, God is not satisfied with incomplete conversation, with an incomplete relationship. He wants our undivided attention. He wants our whole hearts. He wants us to talk to him completely. That's what God wants. That's what our master wants. You know, last Saturday, eight days ago, we hosted in our home a fifth birthday party for my oldest, for May Lynn. And my in-laws, Hannah's dad and stepmom, were kind to come over early and help us clean the house for the party. And we keep our house pretty clean, but you know, when you have people over, you want to do a little extra cleaning, right? So we were cleaning some windows and sweeping and mopping. I was outside putting up the water slide, but we're inside that all that stuff was happening. And so somebody goes to reach for a closet door and says, Hey, is the is the mop in here? And we just say, wait, wait, wait, don't open that closet door. It's a mess in there. Let me let me come get it for you. And we all just kind of laughed because uh we all have that closet in our house, don't we? Maybe for you it's just a drawer. Maybe for you it's multiple closets, okay? But we all have that closet in our house, that catch-all closet where we just throw things and we kind of know where it's at in there, but we don't ever want anyone else sorting through it. We like to keep that closet closed off to our guests. We may all have that closet in our house, but I wonder this morning, brothers and sisters, if you have a closet like that in your heart. I wonder if there's an area of your life or an area of your heart that is closed to Jesus. You've invited Jesus to take up residence in your heart, and you've told Jesus you can go in the kitchen, the living room, the Lanai, just don't open that closet. The mistake in that closet, the habitual sin in that closet, the addiction in that closet, Jesus, I don't want to talk about it. You're not being completely transparent, completely vulnerable, completely surrendered to Jesus. Would you pray the prayer of David in Psalm 86, 11 this morning? Would you ask God to unite your heart? Would you give God your whole heart and talk to your master completely today? Hey, number five, on your notes this morning, church. Number five is this fervently. We should talk to our master fervently. Look with me now in verses 14 through 17, the the last four verses of Psalm 86 this morning. We should talk to our master fervently. Psalm 86, verses 14 through 15. David says that in verse 14, that insolent men have risen up against him. That word insolent, it basically means it's it's brash, it's an arrogant boldness, it's a defiant boldness. And these men have risen up against David. This is really where, in verse 14, where you can feel the urgency and the fervency of David's prayers and David's cry. And these men have risen up against David, and David is saying, Well, my enemies, they know the God that I worship, but God, they don't fear me because ultimately they don't fear you. They don't set you before themselves. And this is why these insolent men are rising up against me. David goes on in verse 15 to talk about the character of God. In Psalm 86, verse 15, David quotes one of the most famous Old Testament passages. David is quoting Exodus chapter 34, verses 6 and 7. In Exodus 34, 6 and 7, God gives us one of the most famous self-revelations. He's talking to Moses in that passage, but in that passage, God says, I am the Lord your God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. Psalm 86, 15 is a quote of Exodus 34, 6 and 7. It's two verses in the Old Testament that you see quoted all throughout the Psalms, all throughout the prophets, all throughout the New Testament. Very famous. In verse 16, David asks God to give him strength. I'm reminded of that hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness. God, give me strength for today and give me hope for tomorrow. In verse 17, David asks that God would show him a sign. Now, this is a tricky phrase because sometimes Christians who are in search of God's will, they will ask God to show them a sign. And that's probably an unwise way to seek out God's will, anyways, but thankfully that's not what David's talking about in verse 17. David is not asking God, show me a sign, God, of what I should do. David is asking God, God, show me a sign of what you've already done. God, show me some evidence of your work in this world and in my life. And so David's not asking for a sign of guidance for actions that David should take. David is asking for a sign of evidence, things that God has already done. And the good news is, church, the evidence is all around us. We don't need more evidence. We need eyes to see the evidence that is all around us. God, give us a sign today. But ultimately, we're supposed to talk to God fervently. If point number one about talking to God continually is with regard to the frequency of our conversations with the Lord, then point number five, fervently, is about the intensity of our conversations with the Lord. The attitude with which we should talk to God. We should talk to Him fervently. On April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft took flight with a three-man crew. Just a couple days later, on April 13th, 1970, came those famous words that you could probably finish for me. Houston, we have a what? Houston, we have a problem. Now, 25 years later, there was a movie made about the Apollo 13, and Tom Hanks plays the actor who gets to say those words. Houston, we have a problem. And in the cinematic rendition of this historical event, you can see and you can hear and you can feel the urgency and the fervency of that request. Houston, we have a problem because an oxygen tank had exploded on board. Now, here's what the crew did not do on April 13th, 1970. They did not radio down to Earth and say, Hey, Houston, how's it going? How's the weather down there? Oh, up here? Yeah, it's good up here. Yeah, we're just we just finished up some ice cream, you know, oxygen tank just exploded, but they do that sometimes. We'll be fine. They didn't talk like that. They talked with urgency. They talked with fervency because they needed something desperately that they couldn't provide for themselves. When we talk to our master, we should talk to him fervently. We shouldn't talk to him lazily or lethargically or apathetically. We should talk to our master fervently. This is why James chapter 5, verse 16 says that the fervent prayers of a righteous person availth much. Are you praying lazy, apathetic, or lethargic prayers? Or are you praying fervent prayers? Because your fervent prayers, according to James 5, 16, will availeth much. When you're praying for that addiction that you're trapped in in your life, are you praying fervently? When you're praying for that lost family member or friend, are you praying fervently? When you're praying for that wayward child or that prodigal grandchild, are you praying fervently? Because it's your fervent prayers that will produce much fruit. When we talk to God, we should talk to him fervently. Well, this morning, church, we began our Bible study by saying that in Christ, the God of the universe, he's no longer distant and far off, but he has drawn near to you and he has become the master of your life. We all agree that we can talk to our master. We all agree that we should. The question of the day was how. And we said that we should talk to our master continually and joyfully and reverently and completely and fervently. Would you commit to doing that this week? But hey, maybe you're here this morning and you wouldn't consider yourself a Christian. We're really, really glad that you're here. God has you here for a reason today. In Romans chapter 10, verse 9, it says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Maybe you're here today and you're not a Christian, but you're kind of ready to do the second half of Romans 10 9. You're kind of ready to believe in the resurrection of Jesus and experience salvation for eternity, but you're not really ready to do the first half of Romans 10.9. I don't know about making Jesus the Lord of my life. I don't know about making him the master of my life. I'm afraid that if I make Jesus the master of my life, life won't be fun anymore, and I won't enjoy it very much. Can I tell you something? God designed all of this. God created all of this. And why wouldn't you live life by the plan of the designer, by the plan of the creator, by the plan of the master? God not only wants to save you for eternity, but he also wants to make your life more enjoyable now. He may not make your life easier, but he will make it more enjoyable if you live life by his design and make Jesus your Lord, make Jesus your master. And so if you're here today and you're not a Christian, we want to extend an invitation to you to join the family. Here's what's about to happen. In just a moment, I'm going to pray to ask God's blessing on our time of Bible study. And when I say amen, everyone in the room will stand to sing one more song of worship. And as we sing, you'll see many people praying and reflecting from their pews. Many people will come to the altar to pray and reflect. But myself and some other members of our team will be standing across the front. And as we sing, if you're ready to become a Christian today and make Jesus your Savior and your Lord, your Savior and your Master, then as we sing, you walk forward and approach one of us. We'd love nothing more than to talk and pray with you about becoming a Christian today. Would you pray with me? Father in heaven, we love you and we praise you. God, we're grateful for your words that are clear and applicable in the scriptures. God, I pray that your word today from Psalm 86 would take root and produce fruit in my heart and in the hearts of my brothers and sisters gathered here in this room. God, I pray for that person here today who's not yet a Christian. God, would you make today the day of their salvation? You started a good work in their life by bringing them here this morning. Would you complete that good work by helping them walk forward and become a Christian today? Would you help them to make Jesus both their Savior and their Lord, both their Savior and their master? Because life is so much better when Jesus is our master. God, we give this time over to you. It's in the powerful name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Would you stand with me?