WEBVTT 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.000 Good morning, Emmanuel. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:14.400 It's a real pleasure to be here with my wife, Florence. 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:16.960 She's seated here with our U.S. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:22.640 Executive Director, Alan Hotchkiss, is must be somewhere in the crowd here. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.640 And we are grateful to always come back to Emmanuel. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:29.199 I want to thank you, Emmanuel. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:38.479 I want to thank your pastors, your elders, all the church members in this place for the last 24 years of partnership. 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:41.359 I remember arriving in Washington, D.C. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.600 as a younger person on my way to go to Mount Noma Seminary in the year 2000. 00:00:47.759 --> 00:01:02.880 And when I arrived here, I was welcomed in a very special way, partly because I developed a relationship with Pastor Steve, who found me in Uganda and became one of my sponsors to go to seminary. 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:17.200 And quickly, the Lord led us to start a ministry in Rwanda, which was in many ways helped by Matty Granger, one of your elders here, to get us started in Rwanda. 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:26.159 That was the time when Rwanda just came out of a terrible genocide that took nearly a million people in 90 days. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.680 And God called us, just like in Nehemiah, to get back into the same environment to rebuild the nation. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:37.439 And for the last 24 years, in a big way. 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:48.959 And I want to say, in a big way, Emmanuel has supported me and my wife and African New Life Ministries from sponsoring the first children. 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:57.200 Remember one time stepping into a Sunday school class, and someone said, I'm going to sponsor 17 children in one day. 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:58.480 Build rigors. 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:00.000 I'll never forget that. 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:08.560 And the testimonies after testimonies of so many people that have sponsored children here have impacted our lives. 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.400 The building of the hospital because of your doctors here. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.840 And now Africa College of Theology. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:22.479 God continues to change your Rwanda, keep praying, and we'll keep doing the work of God. 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:25.360 So I come to say thank you very much. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:30.719 Today I want to bring a word that I believe in. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.680 Letting go of worry and trusting in God's plan. 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:41.280 I am learning continually to trust in the words of Christ. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:49.120 And whatever Christ said, I want to declare it again that it's reliable, it's truth. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:58.719 When you trust the words of Christ, they produce faith in your heart for every day living. 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:07.759 In the book of Luke, chapter 22, Jesus Christ said some beautiful words about being anxious. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:20.000 And he said to his disciples, therefore I tell you, don't be anxious about your life, what you eat, or what you uh what you eat, know about your body, what you will put on. 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:27.039 And in verse 23 he said, Life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:33.680 And then verse 24 he said, Consider the ravens, they neither sow or reap. 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:42.639 They have neither store storehouse or barn, yet God feeds them. 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.919 Of how much more valuable are you than the birds? 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:59.039 And then to our text, he said, Who of you, who of you by worrying, can add a single hour to your life? 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.919 Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:11.680 Today we want to come to trust the words of Jesus Christ. 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:19.759 We want to come to trust the plan of God and listen to what the word of Christ says. 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:26.959 Who of you, by worrying, can add a single hour to your life? 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.839 Let's not talk about the hour. 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:34.000 Who can add 30 minutes to his life? 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:37.439 Who can add 10 minutes to his life? 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:39.839 We don't have what it takes. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:44.480 Life is a gift from God every day. 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:50.800 Many times when I pray, I thank God for the gift of life. 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:58.720 And when God gives us the gift of life, I have good news for you that He takes care of us. 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:03.040 And we need to learn to trust God's plan. 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.959 Because our God is faithful. 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:16.319 For the last 24 years, we have trusted the planning of God, and God has been so faithful. 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.959 You know, we all have so many things to worry about. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:24.959 We worry about our children when they are little. 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:29.439 We even worry more when they become teenagers. 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:33.920 We get worse when they start their own families. 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.920 You know, we worry about finances before we start to work. 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.199 We worry about finances when we start working. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.360 We worry about finances when we retire, when we are about to retire. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.160 We worry all the time. 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:56.720 Let me tell you so many things to worry about: money, relations, marriage, children. 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:02.079 But this is the problem of being anxious and worried. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:07.040 The problem is that worry will not change your circumstances. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.079 You're just burning empty calories. 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:16.000 Jesus Christ said, Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.800 You can do nothing about your life. 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:24.399 Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:37.120 In other words, worry does not provide creativity, doesn't bring change, and it doesn't help us control the future because the future is in the hands of God. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.480 Someone said, Don't worry about something. 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.160 To worry about something you cannot change. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.480 He said, That is stupid. 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:47.600 Change it. 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.040 Either way, do not worry. 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:55.439 You know, another problem with worrying is that worrying damages our faith in God. 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.079 It actually damages our faith in God. 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:02.720 Worrying is a demonstration that we don't trust the words of Christ. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.079 And it damages our view of God. 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:09.040 Our God is a good God. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.240 According to scriptures, our God is a good God. 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.560 I want to have a good view of God. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.600 I want to look at God as a good God. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:24.240 In spite of what you are going through, in spite of what I am going through. 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:27.839 One thing I know, God is God. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.800 In Psalms 91, verse 45, he says, He will cover you with his feathers. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:38.319 Under his wings you will find refuge. 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:43.519 His faithfulness will be your shield and your rapant. 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:51.920 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day. 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.680 I put my faith in Jesus Christ. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:14.959 I put my faith in God because in all circumstances, in all situations, in the middle of pain and loss and challenges and uncertainty and things I cannot interpret, and situations I can't interpret. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:20.079 One thing I know God promises to cover me in his feathers. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.800 To find refuge in his wings. 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.519 And our God is a faithful God. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:38.240 So I want to be very careful not to damage my view of God, not to damage my faith in God. 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:42.559 Because the more you get worried, the more you damage yourself. 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:51.679 And as you damage yourself, it distorts how you look at God, how you view God, and that affects your faith. 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.159 But you know, worrying is not good. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.159 It actually is harmful. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:02.960 It destroys our own bodies, it destroys us in, inside, and out. 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:08.240 I mean, you can see someone who is going through a worrisome moment. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:13.679 I remember when we were going through COVID, everybody could see that on my eyes. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:18.240 The first few weeks of COVID messed me up. 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:32.960 They messed me up because in the twinkling of an eye, all airports were closed, doors were being closed, and we are taking care of 11,000 children, 500 workers everywhere. 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.919 We had just launched the hospital. 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:40.240 Can you imagine launching a hospital in the middle of COVID? 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:43.440 And you have a payroll to cover. 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:49.360 And in a twinkling of an eye, all our communities are separated from each other. 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:54.399 I remember being worried and anxious and concerned. 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:59.200 And I came back to trust the words of Jesus. 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:11.919 I will heal. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:17.919 And through the two, three years of COVID, I always went back to those words. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.720 I'm trusting you, God, who protects. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.679 I'm trusting you, God, who provides. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.039 And I'm trusting you, God, who heals. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:28.240 And it's amazing. 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:34.159 Throughout COVID, God provided, and God did amazing things. 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:42.320 And as a result, I became more healthier in COVID than regular days by trusting in God. 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:48.000 Therefore, we need to learn to cast our worries to Jesus. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.720 Jesus has spoken to us. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:56.399 Therefore, I need to learn to trust my worries to Jesus. 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:58.399 My cares to Jesus. 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:02.000 Worries and anxieties will never stop to come. 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:03.919 They will always come. 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.240 Life is like that. 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:10.080 But how do you cast your worries to Jesus? 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:20.080 Number one, this is how you trust in God's sovereign goodness over your wormsome life. 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.159 I trust in God's sovereign goodness. 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.279 God is sovereign. 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:33.360 There is nothing that will ever happen in your life without his permission. 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:34.559 There is nothing. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:45.600 Let me tell you, even demons and devils and spirits and all the evil forces, there is nothing they can ever do to you without the permission of our Lord. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:48.559 Our God is sovereign. 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:58.559 The sovereignty of God gives me a sense of comfort that God has a plan for my life. 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:05.919 Because in the sovereignty of my God, there lies the plan of God for all of us. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:17.200 That's why in the book of Isaiah, chapter 46, the Bible says, Remember the former things, those of long ago. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.440 And he says, I am God and there is no other. 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:27.440 And let me tell you, I'm so happy that is God and you are not God. 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:33.120 I am so happy that is God that the leaders of the nations are not gods. 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:39.840 I am so happy that is God that the kings of the earth are not God. 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:44.240 Our God says, I am God and there is no other. 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.960 We come to trust in our God who is unchangeable. 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:54.000 And he says, I am God, and there is none like me. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:13:01.759 And he says, I make the no, I make known the end from the beginning. 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:14.240 From ancient times, what is still to come, I say, my purpose will stand, and I'll do all that I please. 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:22.399 Now, when I listen to that verse into my ears, into my brain, into my heart, I go to sleep. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.200 It doesn't matter what's happening around, I go to sleep. 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:32.720 It doesn't matter what is on television and the news going on, I go to sleep. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:39.840 It doesn't matter what the the scare outside there, I go to sleep. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:40.320 Why? 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:52.320 Because I know God is in charge, because I know God is sovereign, because I know God knows how tomorrow is gonna look like He is God and there is no other one. 00:13:52.559 --> 00:14:00.639 He is in charge, he has not created this earth and created us to just abandon us. 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:13.120 He is a God who is with us, and he says his purpose will always stand from one generation to another generation. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:20.399 Number two, how do I submit uh my cares to Christ? 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.639 I submit by following the Good Shepherd. 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:27.039 You follow, you follow. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:33.679 He knows how to lead you to where you are supposed to go. 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:43.440 I learned to follow very early in my life because I had a very vulnerable life. 00:14:43.919 --> 00:15:17.679 By age 14, 15, I was caught up in a warfare, and I was a younger person, really a teenager, and during those days, there were so many grenades on the ground, and you had to work with the experts who know where you are going as you run away in times of war, and you had to carefully follow them step by step. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:33.519 I learned to follow, but let me tell you, there is a better person to follow, and his name is Jesus Christ, because he is a good shepherd, and he leads us well. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:46.960 The Bible says in Psalms 23, which is my favorite psalm throughout the entire Psalms, it says, The Lord is my shepherd, I have all I need. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:16:02.000 He lets me rest in green pastures, he leads me beside the peaceful streams, he renews my strength, he guides me along the right path, bringing honor to his name. 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:13.440 Because a good shepherd provides, because a good shepherd protects and defends us from our enemies and from harm. 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:23.200 Because the good shepherd guides us and he leads us when we are confused and we don't know which way to take. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:31.120 And not only that a good shepherd provides and protects and guides, a good shepherd also corrects us. 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:36.399 Um, he comes along and he corrects our lives. 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:47.679 The amazing thing is that God has promised that he would do all these things in our lives when we trust in him, he will lead us. 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:54.799 You know, I love also Isaiah chapter 41, verse 1, and I'll tell you why. 00:16:54.960 --> 00:17:07.839 It says, I'm gonna read it in the living, uh New Living translation, and it says, He'll feed his flock like a shepherd, he'll carry the lambs in his hands. 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:16.880 And the Bible says, holding those close to his heart, he will gently lead the mother sheep where they are young. 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:23.759 You know, I have a mother, my mother is about 82 years. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.839 My mother's gone through so many things in her life. 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:34.559 Obviously, when you meet her, you're gonna think she's uh 90, but she's gone through so many things. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.640 She's been sick much of her life. 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.880 And uh my mother worries about me. 00:17:43.599 --> 00:18:01.279 She has never been on a plane, she will never be on a plane, she doesn't know the difference between Europe and America, and she she she's a basic mother, and mother worries about me all the time. 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:05.839 I mean, she's still worrying about me up to this day. 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.240 But listen to what the Bible says. 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:25.759 He will feed his frock like a shepherd, he will carry the lambs in his hands, and the lambs are the little, are the little sheep, the small sheep is going to carry the small sheep in his hands, holding them close to his heart. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:31.359 God cares, but listen, he will gently lead the mother sheep with the young. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.880 You know, mothers worry about their children. 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:36.720 They worry, they worry. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:42.480 My wife calls her children many, many times more than I do. 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:47.359 Uh, sometimes she calls them till they get tired of all the calls. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.319 But the thing is, mothers get worried about their children. 00:18:52.400 --> 00:19:03.200 But listen, he says he will gently lead the mother sheep with the young, he will take care of the mother and he will take care of the little ones. 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:08.480 Our God cares, he is a good shepherd. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:16.880 And as I come to the end, I also want to say that make prayer a daily practice in your life. 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:20.000 And I want to put my emphasis there. 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.880 How do we cast our cares to Christ? 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.599 We make prayer a daily practice. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:35.440 The Bible says in Psalms 55, verse 1 to 17. 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:47.119 Everything, every evening and morning and at noon, I'll pray and cry aloud, and he will hear my voice. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:58.480 Evening, morning, and at noon, I'll pray and and and and cry aloud, and he will hear my voice in the morning. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:06.640 Let me tell you, the best antidote towards anxiety is living a life of prayer. 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.039 Is living a life of prayer. 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:23.839 And pray says in the morning, when you wake up, in the evening at noon time, when you surround yourself with the spirit of praying, you actually live a life full of victory. 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:43.920 Philippians chapter 4, verse 6 says, Don't be anxious about anything, anything, anything, but in every situation by prayer, petitioning, with thanksgiving, make your prayer requests or your requests known to God. 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:50.880 Again, Paul gives us a command and he says, Don't be anxious about anything. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.160 What are you anxious about this morning? 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.119 Listen to what the Bible says. 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:04.240 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by what? 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.599 Prayer. 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.599 Speak to God. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:21.119 Speak to God, make petitions before God, give thanksgiving, present your requests to God so that you can live a peaceful life. 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:27.119 Let me tell you, the greatest peace I want in my life is the peace of my heart. 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:32.319 Is the peace of my heart because I cannot calm down what is in Ukraine. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:34.480 That's not I have no power to stop it. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.640 I can't stop the coup in Syria that has just happened. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.559 I have no power to stop it. 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.160 I can't stop what is happening in Congo right now. 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:47.200 I can't stop what is happening in Somalia. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:50.160 It's part of the fallen world. 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:55.359 But one thing I can't do, I can stop what is happening in my heart. 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.960 I can stop the woe in my mind. 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:05.920 I can Find peace with God through Jesus Christ. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:22.079 The way you find peace first and foremost is by surrendering your life to Jesus Christ and making a prayer, asking Him to forgive you your sins so you can find peace with God. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:30.400 And then every day, every day you come back to find peace. 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:36.960 In other words, your life can be in control because of Jesus Christ. 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:45.680 Peter said also in 1 Peter chapter 5, verse 7, cast all your anxiety to him, for he does what? 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:46.720 He cares. 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:47.680 He cares. 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:50.799 Cast all your anxiety to him because he cares. 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:58.160 In fact, cast means to earn the Lord and let it go. 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:00.880 Earn the Lord and let it go. 00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:07.119 The Greek word literary means to drop down. 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:09.839 You drop, you earn the Lord. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:15.920 In other words, prayer is an incredible stress reliever. 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:27.279 If we prayed more in the morning, in the evening, in the afternoon, we'd spend more less money with the therapists. 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:30.240 I tell you the truth. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:48.799 We can unload them and we can cast them back to Jesus Christ. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:52.319 Now that sounds very simple. 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.559 And let me tell you, life can be simple. 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:05.359 But we complicate it because we carry all the things. 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:09.200 So I want to make it a little bit serious. 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:13.519 And I'm gonna make it a little bit serious with my last point. 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:19.759 My last point says, make long-term plans, but live one day at a time. 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:23.039 So I am not saying don't plan for your life. 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:29.039 No, I am not saying don't have a brain, I'm not saying don't think. 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:35.359 No, you still have to think, but trust in Jesus, okay? 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:48.000 Even in your thinking, trust in Jesus, even in your planning, make long-term plans, but come back and live one day at a time. 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:49.519 One day at a time. 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:56.480 When we start African New Life, I had big plans of a hospital, of children, of churches. 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:04.160 But let me tell you, you cannot live in 20, you cannot live in year 24 without living in year number one. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:09.680 Someone said, This is today you worried about yesterday. 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:11.200 Look at you today. 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.480 This is today you worried about yesterday. 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.559 Look at what God has done in your life. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:23.119 Matthew 6, 34 says, Don't be anxious about tomorrow. 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:25.920 God will take care of your tomorrow too. 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:28.480 Live one day at a time. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:36.079 Another person said, Do not open your umbrella till the rain begins to rain. 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:41.839 Don't open your umbrella till the rain begins to rain. 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:47.839 Today is the tomorrow you're worried about yesterday. 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.440 The future can be overwhelming. 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:52.880 Overwhelming. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:57.440 When you think about the entire future, it can be overwhelming. 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:01.920 When you think about the next four years, it can be overwhelming. 00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:06.400 When you think about the next four years, it can be overwhelming. 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:10.000 When you add on the next other four years, it gets overwhelming. 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:12.000 But this is what God has done. 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:19.599 God has put life in 24-hour increments at a time. 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:22.480 We live one day at a time. 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:29.519 That's why the Bible says, give us today our daily bread. 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.160 Today, our daily bread. 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:35.599 Now I know in America you don't pray for the daily bread. 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:40.480 You stack your fridges with food for a week, for a month. 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:45.680 When I was growing up, we actually shopped every day. 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:49.599 Every day we go to shop and eat that day. 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:52.799 And go back to shop and eat that day. 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:59.119 Because you make little money every day, and as you make little money, you go to eat. 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:03.839 Let me tell you, God gives us our daily bread. 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:19.519 We can have a long-term plan, but the key to living a peaceful life with yourself is learning to live one day at a time in increments of 24 hours. 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:25.279 Learning to trust Jesus and resting in his hands. 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:31.839 Every day I have to take care of 12 communities in Rwandan all over the country. 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:37.599 500 workers, 11,000 children, nearly 12 of them. 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:39.119 Bible college. 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:46.240 Obviously, we have directors and leaders over each of those entities. 00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:51.359 If I decided to worry about them, man, I would not find peace. 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:52.799 So what do I do? 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:54.559 I pray for them. 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:56.799 One by one. 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:05.759 Sometimes I pray and say, God, I pray for Kajeyo, I pray for Kayonza, I pray for Kigali, I pray for these pastors, I pray for these communities. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.200 I'm trusting God to take care of them. 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:19.039 And it's powerful that when you trust God, there are things He will fix on your behalf which you can never fix for yourself. 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:27.920 So let us put our trust in Jesus Christ and trust his plan for our lives and live a worry-free life. 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:30.240 God, we come before you. 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.039 We thank you for this morning. 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.039 We thank you for every good things you do for us. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:38.799 We thank you for Jesus. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:42.559 You came and you were born. 00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:58.480 And you had to go through everything you went through to the cross and to resurrection because you wanted us to have a much better life through the sacrifice you gave on the cross. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:04.799 May you bless the rest of our moment, even as we come to partake on the Holy Communion. 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:11.440 May you help us be reminded that through your death we are taken care of. 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:12.799 In Jesus' name. 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:13.680 Amen. 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.039 And now for a parting word from Pastor Jesse Johnson. 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:22.480 Thanks for joining us. 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:24.000 If you're in the Washington, D.C. 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.720 area, I would love to see you at Emmanuel Bible Church. 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.920 For more information on our church or our current service times, go to IBC.church. 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:35.200 For more information about the Master Seminary and their Washington, D.C. 00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:38.000 location, go to tms.edu. 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:46.240 I hope this resource has been a blessing to you and it helps you seek the Lord daily, serve others around you, and share the gospel with boldness.