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“God Will Provide”

John Siota
09/01/24 - Sun PM

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• God Will Take Care of You (Author: Civilla D. Martin, copyright 1904, public domain)
• The Rock of My Heart (Author: Matthew Bassford, Composer: Glenda Schales, copyright 2000, permission granted by Bassford family estate)

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Before I begin, I just want to say a couple of things.

One, if you think back to uh for the members here or whoever was here last week will harris' sermon about the body and ligaments.

I just want to say a public thank you to all the members here who have been the ligaments that are holding me together for about the past year or so.

Um I appreciate a lot of you more than I could ever say.

Um Second thing while I'm up here, I also want to give a plug for the elders.

Um If you don't know how great uh the five elders are here, just come see me, come talk to me and I can give you some personal experiences uh that might help you.

Uh But just wanted to say those two things before, before we start.

OK, got my notes up.

So I just want to for a little bit talk about some things that have been rattling around in my head.

It's kind of dangerous to let you into my head.

It's kind of like an episode of welcome to my world.

Welcome to my weird mind, but I think you'll find that a lot of you have had maybe the same thoughts, um, you know, thoughts that come to mind.

Why did my faithful Christian friend die in that car wreck?

Why did she die young?

You know, why did my mom die from cancer?

Why are so many of my friends and family falling away from the Lord?

You know, why am I going through such a hard time right now in my life?

Why do I pray for the same things over and over and over, you know, same things.

Maybe I change it up a little bit.

Um But this doesn't seem like God is listening.

So I've been wrestling with those thoughts and I know that God's word has helped me and can help me continue to help me.

And so hopefully, what we talk about today can help maybe some of you who are wrestling with thoughts like that.

But the answer that I've found an answer that I've found is that God will provide, like Alex said, we're gonna be talking a little bit about God providing for us and we're gonna be based in Philippians chapter four verse 19 Philippians 419 I believe on the screen.

It's in the ESV, it says, and my God will supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.

So I don't wanna look at this verse, lay a foundation to show how God provides.

Look at a few real life examples and that even if it doesn't seem like it, God's still providing for you.

So let's break this first down as we start, it says, my God, that's what Paul says.

Paul says, it's his God.

We can say the same thing, my God, each one of us can say that this relationship that we have with God is very personal.

He's mine.

He's my God.

He's not some far off divine being that he just kind of spun the world into existence and then stepped back and doesn't care about us.

My relationship with God is as personal as it gets.

That's a phrase that I've heard Jared say up here when he's talking about the Lord's supper.

It's so personal. Jesus.

God sent Jesus, he died for us.

He sent his son for me.

That's personal.

And he because of that, he's my God and he adopts me as his child.

So my God will supply.

It's not, he might, it's not, I think He will.

It's my God will supply.

There's no room for doubt.

You can hang your hat on the fact that God will supply all you need.

It's not just some, you know, a few or just most of our needs.

God will supply all of our needs according to his riches, makes me think of Ephesians chapter three verse 20.

It says God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think God's provisions for us are endless he's so rich that we, you know, it's, it's above all that we can comprehend.

And so I want to go back for a second on all needs a little footnote there.

I think we need to remember that.

What we think our needs are and what God knows our needs are can be two very different things and we'll talk about that a little bit later as well.

So thinking about this verse, my God will supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Well, what we just read Psalm 153 that's a really good parallel.

The Lord is my shepherd again, very personal.

He's my shepherd.

I shall not want, you know, all my needs will be supplied.

Matthew Henry in his commentary on this.

Psalm says more is implied than is expressed.

It's not only I shall not want, but I shall be supplied with whatever I need.

And if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me or not good for me or I shall have it in due time.

So Matthew Henry is saying, if it doesn't seem like my needs are being supplied, it's either because what I think I need what I'm asking God for isn't right.

It's not good or it's just not time.

So if it doesn't, doesn't seem like your needs are being supplied right now, just remember that stop and think, you know, why might that be again in the psalm.

You prepare a table before me, you anoint my head with oil and my cup runs over.

So there's these things, God doesn't just prepare a plate for you.

You don't just have your place with your plate.

You have a whole table, a whole spread of food.

You see in the background that cornucopia of just food spilling out.

That's kind of what I think about out of his riches.

God prepares a table for us.

It's not thrown together at the last minute.

He has prepared this beforehand.

He's, he's thought this out and he's prepared a table for you.

He anoints your head with oil.

That's a, that's a gesture of special favor.

We're God's special guests at this table that He's prepared for us.

And our cup runs over.

Going back to the Philippians 419.

His riches.

Our cup is running over.

I think of the Beverly Hillbilly song.

It says God uh sorry, it says they, you'll find a heaping helping of hospitality there at the Beverly Hillbillies.

So that's, that's kind of how God works.

He heaps it in your cup and your cup runs over.

So that is what God does for us.

So we're actually gonna sing a song here.

We've been talking about God supplying our needs.

So God's gonna take care of us.

So we're gonna sing.

God will take care of you.

Thank you.

Be not this man time.

We need this way of right?

You rude days of when danger.

Hey now, hey, create, OK, you or you may on OK?

Nothing you God will say.

Yeah, yeah, no matter now, right?

Mean where you want now.

Yeah, you and yeah.

So God has promised us some things.

Yes, he will supply our needs.

But I wanna look at two promises that I find in scriptures that hopefully will help us.

When thinking about this first one is that God will never ask more of us than we can handle.

Look over at Matthew chapter 25.

Matthew chapter 25 I think we're all familiar with this parable, the parable of the talents.

Matthew 25 verse 14 to 30.

We won't read all of it.

But you see there's this master and there's three servants and he leaves to each one of them, a different amount of talents that would be money and he leaves to 15 talents to 12 and to 11 talent.

So we know the story, right?

The point I wanna make comes from verse 173 says he gave to 15 talents to another two to another one, each according to his own ability.

And immediately he went on his journey.

So God knows our abilities in this parable.

The master knew his servants each what their ability was and he didn't give them more than they were capable of handling.

That's what God does for us in Psalm 139 it says he formed us in the womb.

Don't you think that the one who formed us in the womb knows everything about us?

Psalm 103 says he knows our frame.

He knows what we're made of why, because he made us, he knows what we're made of.

He knows what we can handle and he's not gonna give us something impossible to do.

You know, you hear of pranks that different areas of professional work do like the classic firehouse prank on a rookie fireman.

They tell him to go find the hose stretcher and he, he searches the truck, searches the truck and he can't find it, but it's a prank, you know, or a mechanic, a new mechanic.

He's some young guy, maybe an apprentice and the mechanic tells him to go change the blinker fluid in a car, right?

It's like impossible task.

It's a prank, but that God's not gonna do that to us.

God's not gonna give you something.

Give you a trial, give you a temptation that he's looking down and knowing that you're gonna fail to get through.

That's not God.

First Corinthians chapter 10, first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13.

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man, but God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you're able.

But with the temptation will also make the wave escape that you may be able to bear it.

God is faithful.

He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you're able to bear.

I think of job. Right.

You know, job had it pretty bad.

But God knew what job could handle each time Satan came back to God.

God would say, ok, you can do this but don't do this.

Jo God knew exactly what Joe could handle and exactly what he couldn't.

And he wouldn't let Satan go further than that.

He knows us.

Same for us today.

I was talking to my cousin Michael Reeves.

I know, I think most of y'all know him.

I was talking to him recently about kind of the feeling that maybe I had more on my plate than I could handle.

And he reminded me of something that my mom would tell him.

She would say this.

It went something like this.

God must have a co a lot of confidence in your abilities if he gave you a trial that big.

That's wow.

You know, have you ever thought about that if you're going through something and God knows what you can handle.

God is saying, I know you can handle this.

Have you ever maybe you think of yourself as the one talent man, you're thinking God, you know, I can't handle this.

You know, the one talent man, he took his talent and hit it in the ground because he didn't, you know, he didn't think he could do anything with it.

You may think you're the one talent man.

But if you have a trial that you think is too big for you, God is telling you, I know you, I have confidence in you.

You may be actually the five talent man.

You know, maybe that's something to think about.

But one thing that you can always count on God will always do the right thing, God won't be unjust or unfair with you.

He'll always do the right thing.

And on top of that, there's also the possibility that whatever trial, whatever temptation it is you're going through, it might be discipline.

We were just talking about Hebrews 12, uh Wednesday night here in the auditorium, Hebrews 12.

It talks about God disciplining those who he loves.

Hebrews 12 183 says my son do not despise the chastening of the Lord.

Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him for whom the Lord loves.

He chastens and discourages every son whom he receives.

So maybe your trial, maybe that thing that you can't seem to get through is discipline.

You know, that's just something to think about.

Something I thought about.

I think sometimes we get in the mindset that Cain had when he killed Abel and then God cursed him.

He comes to God and says, God, you know, my punishment is too hard, too much for me to bear.

You know, I've thought that maybe you have too, but God reminds us through his word.

I know you, you know, even though, you think this is too big for you.

You know, I know you better than, you know yourself.

Trust me, I will provide for you.

So God will never ask us to do something that we're not able to get through.

He's also promised us peace and strength, but the key is to look in the right place for it.

You know, some people try to run away from their problems.

They're going through a really hard time so they just, they just run away, they leave.

You know, maybe if I get out my problems won't follow me.

That's what Jonah tried to do.

But how did that work out for him?

Right. God, did God provide for Jonah?

I think God provided a big slimy wake up call for Jonah, spend a few nights in a fish belly.

You know, maybe you try to escape reality using some substance.

You're looking for peace.

You're looking to get away from your problems because it's too, too much for you.

But you can never find the peace that you're looking for unless you go to God.

That's what we find in Philippians chapter four.

Philippians chapter four verse six and seven.

Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

So what's the key here?

Go to the end that last phrase through Christ Jesus.

It's only in Jesus that the peace of God will guard our minds.

Notice the source.

It's not our peace, it's not peace found somewhere else.

It's the peace of God.

God has promised us peace through Christ Jesus.

We find a similar promise over in Isaiah, Isaiah 41 verse 10.

God is telling Israel that he will help them.

But the same applies to us today, God through his word tells us Isaiah 4110 fear not for I am with you.

Be not dismayed for I am your God.

I will strengthen you.

Yes, I will, I will help you.

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

And one more passage, Psalm 216.

Psalm 21.

The first three verses, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore, we will not fear even though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling.

The psalmist here is saying, you know, even if the earth and mountains fell into the sea, even if some catastrophic, catastrophic event happened.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble.

You know, once again, realize it doesn't say the strength is ours.

Yes, God gives it to us, but the source is not ours.

Remember the source, you know, after a while.

Maybe you've gone through something God has given you strength and you start to feel like, oh, you know, I'm, I'm pretty good, I'm pretty strong.

I can get through this and you kind of get a little too big for your bridges at that point.

And at that point, you've lost connection with the source of your strength.

Not too long ago, I heard Steve Klein over in Athens say you're only as strong as your source of strength.

So where are you going for strength?

We're going to sing a song that talks about where our strength lies the rock of my heart. OK?

All right.

My, of my Yeah, of you home where my face and you and no, that we at least a you and problem.

Hey, yeah, we say, yeah. Yes. Yeah.

You um so we've talked about God providing for us being my God and my shepherd.

He'll supply all our needs.

I won't want anything.

I'll have nothing that I need out of his riches.

I have a feast spread before me.

But you may be thinking kind of like we're just saying, you know, I can't understand.

I ju I just, you know, my heart's embittered.

I'm overcome with things.

I can't understand.

You know, it sounds great to hear that God will provide.

But John, it just doesn't seem like that's happening, doesn't seem to mesh with how my life is going.

So what does this look like in real life, you know, when the rubber meets the road, how does God provide?

How does God help me when I'm going through the valley of the shadow of death like that psalmist writes in Psalm 2414.

So I want to look at a couple of examples.

Hopefully, we can relate to their human examples.

First one, Elijah over in First kings chapter 234, we won't read really from it, but you can turn over there if you wanna follow along with kind of what I'm talking about.

But Elijah is told by God early in chapter 215 to go hide by the Brook Cherith and that he would provide for him.

He says, in verse four, first kings 217, verse four says, let's back up to verse three, get away from here and turn eastward and hide by the Brook Charith which flows into the Jordan and it will be that you shall drink from the brook.

And I have commanded the Ravens to feed you there.

So God's saying, go over here and I'm gonna provide.

So what does that provision look like?

Well, God tells him that Ravens are gonna feed him.

He has a brook and Ravens are gonna feed him.

Well, I didn't really know this before uh preparing this lesson.

But Ravens, they're carrying eaters, they're scavengers, so they're big, they're dirty birds.

They're kind of like kind of like a vulture.

And so I could see Elijah saying, you know, really God these big old nasty birds are gonna feed me, they're gonna bring, bring me food.

God said he's going to help me.

God said he's going to provide for me.

So, you know, maybe just, maybe that bread that the Ravens brought and the meat that the Ravens brought, maybe it was a hot, freshly baked loaf of bread and it was a juicy steak, but I don't think so.

These are scavengers. Remember?

This is probably stale bread that they picked up somewhere.

This is probably a carcass of an animal that they picked up somewhere.

And that's how God provides for Elijah.

So maybe he gets used to that.

We're moving on.

Maybe he gets used to that.

But at least he has this brook that God's given him.

Well, we see that there's a drought that Brook starts to dry up.

You know, that wouldn't be an overnight thing.

He wouldn't wake up the next morning and the Brooks just dry.

That would have been a gradual thing.

It would have started to flow a little slower, you know, not be as clear and then it kind of dries up and there's little pools here and there of warm cloudy water, but God's providing.

So then after a while, God comes to him and tells him to go to Zarephath.

He says, Elijah, go to Zarephath and there's a widow there that she will, she will take care of you.

Interesting fact here, Zarephath in Hebrew translates to a place of refinement.

Uh oh, Elijah's been in a hard spot.

He's been fed by these big nasty Ravens.

Probably stale food.

His brook dried up and now God says go to the place of refinement.

Elijah and that's 18 miles away.

It's in enemy territory up in Sidon.

So Elijah goes there.

He probably walked.

Maybe he had a donkey, I'm not sure, but on the way all along the way, maybe he's thinking, you know what?

I don't understand.

It seems pretty bad, but God said he's providing for me.

Well, he finally gets, if it's a fact, he finds this widow and he comes to her and asks her for a drink.

So she's going to get him some water.

He's probably parched.

Remember it's in a drought.

He's gone 223 miles.

That must have taken a long time.

He asked for a drink and as she's going, he says, oh, by the way, can you get me a little bit of bread too?

Maybe he's hoping for a hot loaf of bread after a long time.

And what does she say?

What does the widow say?

Verse 216.

218st kings, 17 verse 12 says as the Lord to God lives, I do not have bread.

Only a handful of flour in a bin and a little oil in a jar.

And see, I'm gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son that we may eat it and die.

So God has prepared a widow for Elijah who is about to die, who has nothing.

You know, Elijah, at this point is probably really confused.

God told me he would provide and this person that he had told me will provide for me is about to die.

So maybe he's thinking maybe I found the wrong widow, right?

But no, this is the widow that God had prepared for him all along.

God is supplying God is providing Elijah's needs, what he keeps on providing through the drought.

And the drought lasted about 3.5 years.

We find that in uh in the New Testament in James and Luke.

So for 3.5 years, Elijah is there and then they get through that and Elijah settles in and then disaster strikes and the widow's son dies again.

You know what's going on God.

And this is how Jonah uh Elijah reacts.

Uh first kings 17 verse 20.

He cried out to the Lord and said, oh, Lord, my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge by killing her son?

So Elijah, thank God, you killed this widow's son.

You said you would provide.

And then we know the rest of the story, God brings the boy back to life.

God will provide.

So in this scenario, in Jonas life all along God was providing, it probably didn't look like it to him.

But God was providing, he knows what we need.

He will supply those things.

So that was Elijah one more Abraham Genesis chapter 163.

Again, a really well known story Isaac is the son of promise.

Abraham's waited many years for Isaac.

He has Isaac.

And then God comes to him in Genesis chapter 22 starting in verse one.

And it came to pass after these things that God tested.

Abraham said to him, Abraham, he said, here I am.

Then he said, take now your son, your only son Isaac whom you love, go to the land of Mariah offer him.

There is a burn offering on one of the mountains which I shall tell you.

So God comes to Abraham tells him, you know, there's a son, here's the son of promise.

God promised he would provide a son.

He has provided the son and God comes to Abraham must have been at night and he tells him go kill that son.

Well, we see Abraham gets up early in the next morning.

I imagined him tossing and turning.

This is just how I see it.

You, you might interpret it differently.

But I imagine him tossing and turning all through the night.

He can't sleep knowing what he's about to do.

You know, I think maybe sometimes we don't read between the lines enough in scripture.

Maybe we get the idea that Abraham just kind of robotically got up in the morning, marched up the mountain and then was ready to kill us.

So I don't, I don't think so.

May maybe that was the case, but I don't think so.

I think Abraham struggled every step of the way, wondering how God would provide.

How is God providing right now?

I know I do that a lot each step of the way.

You know, how is God providing?

And I kind of want to see Abraham doing this too.

It, it helps me relate to him.

But Abraham had great faith in God.

But having great faith, having a strong faith doesn't mean that you're gonna have questions sometimes, doesn't mean you're gonna have doubts sometimes.

But we have to remember that God will provide.

So a Abraham gets up, you know, he doesn't understand, but he knows God will provide.

So he's, it takes him three days to get there before he goes.

He splits the wood because He has to sacrifice.

You know, he, he gets a torch, he gets the wood, he gets his knife ready.

But all the while remembering that these are the things that are gonna kill his son.

But he's thinking, you know, God will provide.

So they get, they get near to the place where he's gonna sacrifice.

And he tells the two young men that are with Him.

He says, you know, stay here with the donkey, watch the donkey and my son and I will come back, we're gonna go sacrifice and then we're gonna come back and then under his breath, I hear him saying we're gonna come back because God will provide.

So Abraham gets that bundle of wood that he's prepared and he straps it on Isaac's back.

All the while thinking, you know, this is about to kill my son.

This is about to burn him.

But God will provide as he's tightening the straps, he's thinking that he grabs a torch from one of the young men thinking God will provide.

God will provide.

He makes sure he has his knife knowing that that's about to kill his son.

He's nervous.

He has that sick feeling in his stomach.

And then they start going up the mountain, they walk in silence for a while.

You know, Isaac has a load of wood on his back.

They're just going in silence and suddenly Isaac says, you know, Father Abraham, I just realized, you know, we have the wood, we have the torch for the fire.

But what about the lamb?

You know, where's the sacrifice?

And what does Abraham say?

It's what I envisioned Him thinking for three days, my son, God will provide.

So they get to the place they build the author and it's time for Abraham to tell Isaac my son, you are the offering.

I see him begging in tears for Isaac to let him bind him up and put him on the altar.

You know, maybe he even told Isaac, you know, the only, the only way I can see that God is providing through here is that He's gonna raise you back up.

Maybe he said that to him.

So he binds up Isaac puts him on the altar thinking God will provide.

He reaches for that knife at his belt.

He's raising it up ready to kill Isaac.

And may you know, I see him thinking God will provide God will provide.

Maybe he even said it out loud and suddenly a loud voice comes out of nowhere, Abraham Abraham and he turns around trying to find it.

He says, here I am, it's the angel of the Lord.

He says, Abraham, stop.

Now I know now I know that you fear the Lord.

And he says, look and there's a ram over in the thicket struggling God will provide.

You know, it didn't seem like it three days of misery wondering how God would provide.

And there it is the ram, the ram caught in the thicket.

And so Abraham offers that ram on the altar and he decides to call the place the Lord will provide.

So those are two examples.

Maybe you can relate to them.

You're maybe you've gone through something maybe three days, maybe longer where it's just like I don't get it.

How is God providing?

But we see with Elijah, we see with Abraham the Lord will provide.

Sorry, I'm notes sir acting up on me.

So that's what Abraham and Elijah show me.

This is, these are the things that it showed me.

It's ok to be confused.

It's ok to be discouraged.

It's ok to doubt that, you know, God, what's going on, you know, when life is slapping you in the face, you just can't understand.

It's ok to wonder why.

You know, I think sometimes we set an impossible standard for ourselves where we feel guilty, we feel like we've sinned, maybe for wondering, for doubting for, you know, asking God what's going on. God.

Yes, doubt is a tool that Satan uses to drag us away to pull us away, tempt us to leave God.

But if you realize that it's just Satan, that doubt is just Satan, that God will provide for you, no matter what, that's half the battle, the other half of the battle is trusting that my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

So when you're going through a valley, remember God's promises that we've talked about, talk to Him, how you feel like again, I think sometimes we're scared to be real with God.

Uh Maybe we think we're gonna, we're being disrespectful or irreverent asking God why or telling Him how we really feel.

But the thing is God formed you in the womb.

He knows your frame.

He already knows what you're thinking what you're going through and He knows that you can do it because He is providing.

So don't let your frustration sit in and fester don't let bitterness uh grow in your heart but lay your heart heart out to God.

Tell him how you really feel.

If you just read through the Psalms.

Psalm 88 sticks out to me.

You can see how the psalmists talk to God.

And it's a very real, very raw open dialogue.

I think we can do that.

I think we can be like that.

I think that's what those examples in the Psalms are for.

So don't feel guilty for being human.

You know, we're not emotionless beings.

God knows that God will provide one last verse, Hebrews chapter four, Hebrews four verse 14 through 16.

1 reason that we can come before God with our raw and real emotions is because of this Hebrews 414 seeing then that we have a high, great high priest who has passed through the heavens.

Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

We can come boldly before God's throne.

Cry out to God for help.

What does Psalm 34 say we're not gonna turn there.

But verse 15 says, the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to the cry.

God is listening.

When you come boldly before His throne.

Verse 17 says, the righteous cry out and God hears you if you're a righteous person, if you're trying to live according to God's word, God will hear you.

And verse 18 says, the Lord is near to the brokenhearted.

If you're brokenhearted, if you're going through something that you just feels like it's so much more than you can handle.

God is near to you.

And he hears you think back to Psalm 23.

David talks about walking through the valley of the shadow of death.

What does a valley imply?

A valley implies that there's somewhere above that, right?

You can't have a valley without a higher place.

What does a shadow imply?

The valley of the shadow of death?

Well, a shadow, you can't have a shadow without light.

So there's a higher place somewhere and there's light somewhere.

Look to that higher place, look to that light.

That's God, that's God's promises.

David says there's no reason to be afraid God is with you.

I want to be realistic though, right?

I don't wanna paint an impossible picture of some fairy tale.

I'm not saying we're all have a fairy tale and they live happily ever after ending, right?

You know, there's a very, very real possibility that we might not ever come out of that valley of the shadow of the death of death.

If we're going through it, we may never come out of that here on earth and that's hard to wrestle with.

That's hard to go through, but don't give up.

I said we already looked at the last scripture, but we have one more second Corinthians four, second Corinthians four verse 16 to 18.

Therefore, we do not lose heart even though our outward man is perishing.

Yet, the inward man is being renewed day by day for our light affliction which is, but for a moment is working for us a far more and exceeding a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we do not live.

Look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Paul says we have a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory awaiting us, even if we never make it through the valley of the shadow of death.

Here, we have that in eternity waiting for us.

So if you, if you're going through a valley, if you have been in the past and now you're through it, whatever your situation is tonight, I hope that something I said can help you.

You know, maybe if you haven't gone through a valley yet.

Uh First of all, be thankful, thank God for that.

But then hopefully, if you do start going through that, remember what we've talked about, remember God's promises that my God will supply all your need according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus.

Before we close, I want to read the words to a song.

He gives us more grace.

Maybe we can learn it and sing it here.

It's a newer song.

Well, it's an old song but newer to a lot of people.

I think it encompasses a lot of what we've talked about.

Verse one.

He gives us more grace as our burdens grow greater.

He sends us more strength as our labors increase to added afflictions.

He adds his great mercy to multiply trials.

He multiplies peace when we have exhausted our store of endurance.

When our strength has failed, ere the day is half done.

When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, our father's full giving has only begun fear not that your need shall exceed His provision.

Our God ever yearns his resources to share.

Lean hard on the arm, everlasting, availing the father will bear up both you and your cares.

His love has no limits.

His grace, has no measure, his power, no boundary known unto men for out of his infinite riches in Jesus.

He blesses and blesses and blesses again tonight.

If you're not a Christian, you can't say my God because He's not your God.

You can't say that He'll supply your needs.

You can't enjoy the promises we've talked about.

And if you go through a valley of the shadow of death, the Lord's not with you because he's not your God.

Maybe, maybe you're going through a valley and you are a Christian or maybe you have some spiritual need.

Whatever it is, if we can help you in your situation, you can come forward and make that known as we stand and sing.