PSALM 143
“Fervent Praying for Desperate
Times”.
From the Sermon Preached:
Sunday, February 18, 2018
By: Brother Paul
How many of you saw the news this week
about what happened in Florida? Terrible wasn't it? 17 people killed
by this young man, who may have mental problems. He actually told
the police that demons not only told him TO do it, but told him HOW
to do it.
Now some people may try to turn
their nose up at that, but it doesn't relieve the young man of his
guilt and justice that he will face. Folks, I want you to know that
there is a real and personal devil at work. And he has I don't know
how many demons at his beck and call. The Bible even teaches that
they strategize how to do their work. They “scheme” against
us...that's the word that the Bible uses.
You may think sometimes if you are
losing interest in your Bible study, or your prayer life or going to
church, it's for this reason or that reason, but at the bottom of
it...if you've given your life to Christ, the devil has lost your
soul, so now he wants to take your joy, and he wants to take your
testimony. And the devil and his group of demons “scheme” and
come at us, and oftentimes we don't really get to that point as we
examine what's going on in our life. But the devil is at work, and
if you don't believe that, all you have to do is see that event that
happened in Florida.
And it's been happening with greater
increase over the past 20 years, even 30 years, and I'm going to go
so far as to say that if you go so far as to check the history of
America - and I'm not here to discuss political issues. I'm just
trying to make a point. - We've always had guns.
That's one of the reasons when our
patriot fore-fathers decided to fight for our freedom they were able
to muster together armies because everybody had guns. We've always
had guns. We've always had sin since Adam and Eve. We've always had
death and destruction. But I'm talking about in AMERICA.
I've never seen it as bad as what it
has been since we kicked God out of schools in 1963. Now the problem
is that you will never hear a politician get on public TV and say
that. They'll interview these psychologists, and maybe there is a
need for them. And they'll let the people who believe in the right
to possess guns, and those who want to take them away...they'll let
them argue. But they won't let someone get on Prime Time news and
say, “The problem is we kicked God out in 1963 and when He left, he
took His protective power with Him.”
I remember back in 1999 when Columbine
happened. Somebody asked Billy Graham's daughter, Ann Graham Lotz,
“Where was God when all that killing was going on? Why didn't He
put a stop to it?” She said, “I'll tell you exactly where God
was. God was staying out of school because we kicked Him out, and
He's a gentleman and He won't force His way back in.”
And that's true.
You can say, “Oh Preacher that's
awful, that's terrible.” Listen. Somebody's gotta stand up and
tell the truth. We're in a mess. We're bound with worsening evil
and destruction. Everyday. The only way we can be set free, the
Bible says, is to “know the truth, and the truth will set you
free.” Everything else is just a band-aid that may give some
temporary relief. But only the truth of God's Word brings heart
transformation, and that's the ONLY thing that's going to change our
Nation.
I think I was probably the last
generation who got to go to school in the morning, and our teacher
would lead us in Bible reading, a morning devotional and a morning
prayer, then we would say our allegiance to the flag. (There's some
schools somewhere that are thinking of cutting that out.) Then,
before we would go to lunch, we would stand to our feet and say the
Lord's prayer. I bet most kids in most schools today can't even quote
the Lord's prayer. I know I learned it at church, but I learned it
really well at school. And when all of that was going on I never
feared that anyone would come in and shoot us, or bring a bomb and
blow us up. The worst thing we worried about was not bringing your
homework in and getting a paddling. Or getting caught with chewing
gum. Or being in my sixth grade teachers' class, Mr. Wilson, and him
catching you talking when he was talking. I never will forget that
day! He stopped everything, and he looked back there at me at the
back of the class and said, “FORGEY! Come Up!” I walked up there
to the head of the class, and he said, “BEND OVER!” And I can
STILL feel the sting! (*audience laughing)
But, I'm telling you, that was it.
Occasionally, two bullies might get in a fight on the playground, but
that was it. And they (the schools and teachers) didn't try to force
people to covert. They just brought God, and the influence of His
word and His presence into the classroom. And it had a positive
effect on the thinking and on the consciousness and on the heart and
the life.
We are in trouble today.
Psalm
143 - If you have your Bibles, turn there with me. I've
been teaching through the book of Genesis, and was ready to get
started on the life of Joseph this morning. But since what happened
this week, it's like God has compelled me to go in a different
direction. And so, I'm trying to be obedient to the Lord.
I want to entitle today's message
“Fervent Praying for Desperate Times”.
I know some of my friends here today
will remember Brother Woody, as he preached many meetings in our old
church. Oh he loved God, he couldn't hardly preach without crying.
One of his verses that he loved was that one in James where it says,
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
Then he used Elijah as an example. Elijah prayed for it not to
rain, and it didn't rain for the space of three years. Then he
prayed for it to rain again, and God sent the rain. That's having a
lot of power with God, isn't it?
God's the one with the power, by the
way. He's the one we need to be in tune with.
So, Brother Woody was using that as an
example of the power that is available to the righteous man or woman.
“The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman,
availeth much.” Availeth much with who? With God! It holds
weight with God. And he says the definition of that word “fervent”
in the Greek (and he's like me, didn't know a whole lot of Greek...)
means “Red-hot with desire”.
That's the kind of praying God's
looking for. Fervent praying...Because man looks on the outward
appearance, but where does God look? On the heart. And He's looking
for hearts that will come before Him Red-hot with desire for Him and
for His help. No wonder the song writer wrote that old song, “Sweet Hour of Prayer”. And how many times he must have found
relief in that sweet hour of prayer.
In this Psalm there's a little bit of
difference in what might be the background. Some say it might be
David as he was younger when Saul had turned his back on God and God
had sent an evil spirit to trouble him. And God had young David come
along, and used him to defeat the enemies of Israel. Saul got real
jealous of David and for no reason he starts trying to kill David.
Sometimes, during all this, David finds himself running from
wilderness to wilderness, from cave to cave, hiding from Saul. Saul
is trying to kill him. Some say that's the background of this
passage.
Others say the background is when
David's son, Absalom, leads a rebellion against his own father. Now
David committed that sin with Bathsheba, had her husband put to the
front line in the war where he would be killed, because he was trying
to cover up his sin. And you've heard the old saying, “Sometimes
the cover-up is worse than the crime”. It was with David.
Anyway, God forgave him. David went a
year without repenting. God sent the prophet Nathan to confront him
and David broke under the conviction. Psalm 51 gives us the recorded experience of how he went before God
and told God the truth. God knew it anyway, but He was waiting on
David to come with a repentant heart. David comes with his heart,
repents, and God forgives him, but He says that there is going to be
some lasting consequences for this. There will be trouble in his
home from this day forward. And there was much trouble among his
kids.
Now, one of his sons, a real handsome
fella...if he was alive today, he would have probably been a
politician...with a real silver tongue, he was able to come along and
put his father down, exalt himself, and like a modern-day politician,
promise everybody everything but the moon. The next thing you know
he has the majority of the people behind him, and he is marching on
Jerusalem and he is going to kill his own father. David, his own dad,
has to hurriedly leave town with the handful of people who are still
with him, and go out into the wilderness to hide. And this could be
his fervent prayer during that desperate time.
I think it is so applicable to the day
and time we live in. We need to listen to it, and learn from it. We
need to be at the altar when it's over saying, “God teach me to
pray like that!” Because we are in desperate times today.
First of all we see David's
Appeal:
Let's begin reading in Verse 1....and by the way, this appeal comes from a desperate heart.
It comes from a man who realizes his desperate situation. “Hear
my prayer, O LORD.” Now when you see the word LORD, in all capital
letters like this, it is referring back to the covenant name of God
which was Yahweh. It was such a holy name that the average Jew would
not use it very often at all. But this is the name. It stands for
the covenant-making, covenant-keeping name of God. And this is what
David is relying on. “I'm in a desperate situation. My Nation is
in a desperate situation. He may be my son, but he's a scoundrel.
He might not only kill me, but he's going to lead this Nation away
from God and into judgment. God we need help! I'm facing a
situation that's terrible, and it's going to have an effect on the
whole Nation. I'm not able to take care of it, and I don't have any
grounds to appeal to You on, except the fact that You entered into
covenant with me, and You said you would always be faithful to your
covenant with me.”
Aren't you glad God's faithful?
Aren't you glad that when He enters into that covenant with us
through the blood of Jesus, He is going to be faithful to you? I'm
thinking of Lenore Lovelady, and she used to love that verse that
says, “We may be unfaithful, but God is faithful.”
And so, David appeals to the faithful
covenant of God. He says, “Give ear to my supplication...hear my
prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my supplication.” Twice, he's
asking God to listen to him. The first time, when he says, “Hear my
prayer O LORD”, it's like he's saying, “Lord, answer me. Lord, I
need a hearing and I need a favorable answer.” And then with the
second one, he says, “Lord, give ear to my supplication”.
A lot of times in the Hebrew writings
they would say something twice to emphasize it's importance. What he
is saying here is, when you as an individual, or you as a family, or
you as a church, or us as a nation, find ourselves in desperate
situations...he had to say it twice, he had to double-emphasize
it...the thing you have to do most is get in praying condition with
God, and stay there until God moves. I'm saying it twice. I'm
emphasizing it. Lord, answer me.
And then, in Verses 2-4, David is saying “Lord, Aid Me”
I need Your help.
He says, in verse 2, “Enter not into
judgement with Thy servant, for in Thy sight shall no man living be
justified.” Now what is he really saying here? He is saying,
“First of all, Lord, I don't have any merit to plead.” He knew
He had been a sinner against God. But he had been forgiven. Still,
he had no merit to plead-he didn't have any good works...and even
though he had done some good works, David knew that he was still a
sinner and that his sin would separate anybody from God. Nobody's
good works are going to make them right with God. Nobody's good
works are going to grab the attention of God...the only thing that is
going to grab the attention of God is when we come with an open,
honest heart and we appeal to His mercy. That's what David is
saying. He says, “I cannot plead my merit. But I am leaning on
Your mercy, and I am pleading my need.”
He is saying, “God I don't want you
to look back on my past and dig up all the dirt on me, and uncover
all the sin...I'm guilty.” In fact, he says in the latter part of
the verse, “For in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.”
Now I personally am not saying that
David hasn't had a time in his life when he's confessed his sin,
repented of his sin, and that he has forsaken his sin. God requires
that. But he knows he's been forgiven. Still, he knows that if he
were to call upon God to give him justice, justice would not help.
Friend, you can have all the justice you want when you are calling on
God, I would rather have God's mercy. I know my sin, I
know my failure, and I know my weakness...and I would much rather
count on God's mercy than any justice that would be due to me.
And so, David is confessing his sin,
his weakness, his unworthiness...and through it he's saying, “God,
there is no man worthy of being saved by works. There is no man
worthy of Your help because of his works. But Lord, I need You.”
He's saying, “My soul is doomed without You.”
In Verse Three
he's saying, “My safety is destroyed without You.”
“For the enemy has persecuted my
soul.” Man, don't you know how he was stabbed in the heart that
his own son was trying to kill him and take over his kingdom? And
don't you know, he was stabbed in the heart when these people that he
had fought the Philistines with for their safety and their
well-being, and killed thousands of the enemies, and put his life on
the line many times for these people...and they are turning against
him? His heart is stabbed.
And he goes on, and he says, “He has
smitten my life down to the ground.” It's like, “He's knocked me
down to the ground and he's just trampling all over me.” Do any of
you ever feel like that's just what Satan has done to you? Boy, I
feel that way all the time. I'm glad I don't have to face that
Booger on my own, aren't you? (**audience laughing quietly)
He says, “He's knocked me down, and
walked all over me, and the enemy has made me to dwell in darkness as
those who have been long dead.” As though he means, “My life is
so depressed right now. My life is in such danger. Things are so
desperate, and helpless in my eyes, I feel like I'm in a darkness and
I can't come out. I feel like somebody that's been dead a long
time.” Not only that, but in verse four he says, “My spirit is
desolate.”
Look at Verse Four. “Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me. My
heart within me is desolate.” Well, I've been on that street a few
times, anybody else? Certain things come into my life that just so
overwhelm me I just mentally can't wrap my mind around it. It so
overwhelms me and so discourages me, that I just don't have any hope.
I have an old building out behind my
house that's 8'x16', and I was real proud of that building. But,
then my son and his wife sold their house and moved up here near me
and they don't have room for a big storage building, so my son asked
if he could put a storage building next to mine. I said, “Well,
yes son, that'd be fine.” I didn't want him to be embarrassed that
mine was so big.
This big truck pulls in one day. This
thing looks like a house trailer. And he sets it next to mine, and
now mine looks like a little doghouse. (**audience laughing) It's
all ok, because they don't know it, but I'm going to put a bunch of
my junk in theirs too...But anyway, David says, “I'm overwhelmed.”
So, what I was going to say about my little building, is that I've had times and things that have gotten me to this kind of place in my own life. You feel like giving up, but there's nowhere to run to if you don't run to the Lord. Who are you going to run to? There's nowhere. So what I would do is I would go out and I would get in my little metal building, and I would close the door behind me. I would sit there, and I would sob my heart out to God. And in the course of my sobbing, I would try to usher in some words of prayer. I'm glad that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us according to the will of God. I would go in there overwhelmed, my heart would be desolate. But I would come away from that time with a little bit of strength, and a little bit of hope. I have a good, godly wife, and when I'd walk back in the house she'd look at me and say, “Honey, we're going to have to trust the Lord.” And I would say, “Honey, you are right.” Before I had that time alone with God, I didn't have faith to trust the Lord.
So, what I was going to say about my little building, is that I've had times and things that have gotten me to this kind of place in my own life. You feel like giving up, but there's nowhere to run to if you don't run to the Lord. Who are you going to run to? There's nowhere. So what I would do is I would go out and I would get in my little metal building, and I would close the door behind me. I would sit there, and I would sob my heart out to God. And in the course of my sobbing, I would try to usher in some words of prayer. I'm glad that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us according to the will of God. I would go in there overwhelmed, my heart would be desolate. But I would come away from that time with a little bit of strength, and a little bit of hope. I have a good, godly wife, and when I'd walk back in the house she'd look at me and say, “Honey, we're going to have to trust the Lord.” And I would say, “Honey, you are right.” Before I had that time alone with God, I didn't have faith to trust the Lord.
And this is how David was...”My soul
is doomed. My safety is destroyed. My spirit is desolate...I have
persecution from without, they are coming after me. And I have
anguish from within, I can't rest. I can't sleep. I can't do
anything. Oh God. I'm appealing to You for Your help. I'm
appealing to You God (one more thing I wanted to point out) according
to Your faithfulness and according to Your righteousness. God, You
are faithful to Your covenant. I'm appealing to Your faithfulness.
God, You are righteous. I've failed a lot, but this scoundrel son
that's going to take over the Nation, he's going to ruin it! I know
You are too righteous to allow that to happen. God, I'm appealing to
Your faithfulness, and I'm appealing to Your righteousness. God, I
need Your help.” Then the next thing we see in verses 5 and 6, not
only David's appeal but David's attitude.
Look in Verse Five...David has spent his time in prayer. I tell you, the more
time spent in prayer, the more it changes you, not just the
circumstance. It's changed David. It's changed his thinking. Look
at his attitude getting better in verse five: “I remember the days
of old, I meditate on all Thy works. I muse on the works of Thy
hands.”
What is he saying? He's saying,
“After I prayed, God helped me to get my mind off the desperate
situation around me, which I knew would not disappear, but He helped
me to look above it, and to remember Who God is. Most of all, I
remember how faithful God has been to me in the past. I remember the
wonderful works that God has done for me in the past.”
Remember when David was keeping the
sheep? The lion came after him, he was
just a young boy. God helped him win victory over the lion. Then a
bear comes after him...God gives him
victory over the bear. And then, when he was just a lad, too young
to be in the army, he takes some supplies to
his brothers who were in the army. A big 9 ½ foot tall
giant Goliath says, “I challenge you to send out a champion and
fight me, and if the Israelite champion wins the Philistines will be
your servants. If I win, the Israelites will be our servants.”
And nobody, not even Saul who was the king...whose job it was to
stand up for the Nation would go.
But here's how David saw Goliath. He
saw Goliath in comparison to God, and he wasn't one bit afraid. He
even walked out there and told this big giant, “Hey, I'm not afraid of you...God has rescued me from the paw of a lion, and another time
God has rescued me from the paw of a bear, and in the hands of my
God, you are going down too.”
Now, how does David get this good
attitude? He has spent much time in fervent prayer depending on the
mercy of God and the faithfulness of God. Depending on the
righteousness of God, pouring his heart out to God, “Here it is
God, I can't do anything about it. But You are my covenant God, and
I'm laying myself and all of this in Your hands and I'm seeking You.”
So what does God do? God begins to
change David's thinking...”Oh yeah, you're right God, my scoundrel
son is bringing a big army against me, but they aren't as big as You.
God I remember that lion. I remember that bear. I remember that
day You took that rock out of my sling and You planted it right in
Goliath's head and he fell over dead, and I went up and took his
sword and cut his head off and held it up as a trophy. I remember
those days...I remember those days when I would go out and help Saul
lead the armies of Israel battle the Philistines and we'd come back
home and the women would sing 'Saul has slain his thousands, but
David his ten thousands”....God I know that song should have said,
'GOD has done it!' because I'm still that little shepherd boy. It's
YOU my Great Big Wonderful God! You did it in the past, and You can
do it today!”
Now, you're not going to hear that on
CNN or even FOX news. And, I don't know how many preachers are going
to get up and preach it in their pulpit. I hope it's all of them.
But, folks, the thing that's going to turn this Nation around is if God's people, who are called by His
name, will hear this and believe this, and will get on our knees and
repent of our sin, and turn from our wicked ways, and with all the
fervency of our heart stand on the character, the promises, and the
faithfulness of God. Let's stand in the gap and pray for this
country to turn back to God. Lord I'm awed by your power.
Not only this about David's
attitude...look in Verse 6, “I stretch
forth my hands unto thee...my soul thirsteth after Thee, as a thirsty
land.”
Let me just say this, we can't be like
we were at 9-11. With 9-11 the whole Nation was praying. I even
remember those Congressmen and Senators got together on the front steps of the Capitol building and were singing“God Bless America. Two weeks later, if you mentioned
God in public, they would throw you in prison. But when the trouble,
and the desperate time was there, everybody came out of their closets
talking about God and praying to God.
That's not what David is saying here.
He's saying, ”God I don't just want Your help...I want Your
presence. I want to be filled with Your Spirit. I want to walk with
You and talk with You. I want to know that I'm Yours and that You
are mine. To know that You created me for a purpose, You saved me
for a purpose. I want to hear Your voice in the morning, telling me
'deny yourself, and take up your cross and follow Me. I've got work
in my Kingdom for you today.' God I want You!”
We've got to want God again. When we
invite God back in again, He'll bring His blessings with Him. I like
that part where it says, “I stretch forth my hands unto Thee...”
Now this here is my mental picture...for some reason my little
granddaughter has come to love her Papaw. Come to think of it, if
you look at this face, can you not imagine her loving me?
(**audience laughs) Anyway, she just melts my heart. She'll come to
me sometimes....and she'll just raise up her hands to be lifted
up...it doesn't matter if I have an appointment that I'm heading out
the door for, that appointment is going to have to wait. When I see
her standing with her arms stretched up for me, I'm going to stoop
down, she's going to be the most important thing in the world to me,
and I'm going to pick her up until she's ready to be put down.
Folks, what do you think God feels
about His children when we reach up to Him? (**arms outstretched)
“God we are in desperate times. God, my heart is sinking within
me, and I'm about to lose hope. The enemy is about to take over.
God, I'm reaching up for You.” Now, if I, who still battle the old
flesh, the world and the devil...I, who am imperfect...have that kind
of love for my little granddaughter, how much more overwhelming love
does God have for a blood-bought Child? Amen?
You say, “But you don't know where
I've been, you don't know what I've done. You don't know how much
I've failed.” No, but God knows. And He's just waiting on you to
come with all your heart and tell the truth because He knows it
anyway. And He's made you a promise. If He fails His promise with
you....you will be the FIRST ONE He's failed. “If we confess our
sins, He is faithful (you can count on it every time) and just (will
do it for everyone) to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL
unrighteousness.”
So the last point...David's
Aspiration, Verses 7-12
David asks God to hear him speedily.
“If You don't come on the scene soon, it will be too late. We will
be like those who go down into the pit...Lord, cause me to hear Your
loving-kindness in the morning, for in Thee do I trust. Cause me to
walk in the way wherein I should, for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Oh God, I'm crying out to You. God I want You to hear my voice,
please keep me close so that I can hear Your voice. Deliver me, O
Lord, from my enemies....I flee unto Thee to hide me. Oh God, I want
to feel Your welcome saying, 'C'mon and hide in Me'. The name of the
Lord is a Strong Tower, the righteous run into it, and are safe. And
Lord, I thank You for these bad winds that have blown me up against
the rocks because they've caused me to look up to You, Lord. I've
been revived. Lord, I so want Your blessings. Teach me to do Your
will. Lord I WANT to do Your will, for You are my God.” I think
of the verse, “Why call ye me Lord, Lord but do not do the things
that I say?”
“Your Spirit is good, Lord...and I
want it to lead me in the land of uprightness.” The term of
uprightness in this passage meaning “level land where one can walk
free from all the obstacles.” It symbolizes God's divine blessing
and protection, that comes along and takes over what is rough and
smooths it out again for awhile. Hallelujah!!! Don't you like that?
You don't have to stay in this rut!!! You look to God. You seek
Him, and in His time He will bring you out of that pit and set you on
level ground again, amen?
“Deliver me, quicken me, make me
alive again, O Lord for Thy name's sake. God, let this happen for
Your glory. For Thy righteousness sake, bring my soul out of
trouble. And in Thy mercy cut off all those who afflict my soul, for
I am Thy servant.” Now folks, do you know what he's praying for
there? He's praying for God to come out and defeat His enemies, and
to get them out of the way.
Several years back, one of the men in
our church who's a part of our prayer ministry, started praying
“Lord, I'm going to pray for the leaders of our country. That You
will lead them to what is right for our country, and cause them to do
what is right for our country.” And then he said, “But, Lord, if
they won't do right I pray You will remove them and replace them with
people who will”. That's Biblical. (also, here, here and here)
The Bible tells us in one of the
epistles of Timothy, that we should pray
for our leaders in a specific way, so that we will “lead a quiet
and peacable life, in all godliness.” Who's responsibility for the
nation to be in that condition? It's for us to pray for our leaders,
so that God will give us leaders to lead us in that direction.
In conclusion let me say:
David was heard. David was helped. And
he and the Nation of Israel were healed. Folks we need God to hear
us. We need Him to help us. Our Nation needs healing again. Most
of the people in America would just laugh at this sermon today. But
God is real.
The late, great preacher F.B. Meyers
was on a ship that was crossing the Atlantic ocean. He was leading a
series of Bible Studies, and there was a man who was agnostic. An
agnostic is not the same as an athiest. An athiest says, “There is
no God”. An agnostic says, “Well, I don't if there's one or not,
and I don't think anybody can know that.”
This man, this agnostic, attended
these meetings but he would leave putting them down. One day he
hears there's another study, so he begins walking down the deck of
the ship planning to attend this one too, and he passes a little
elderly lady sitting in a chair. She's gone to sleep with her hands
in her lap, both facing upward. This man happened to have two
oranges in his pocket, and he thought he'd be funny and put an orange
in each of the lady's open hands. He leaves and attends the Bible
study. After the study is over, he walks back the way he came and
passes the lady who is now awake. She's eating one of the oranges.
He decides to talk with her (summary-) “Hello! How are you doing?”
he asks...she replies, “I'm wonderful.”
“Why are you so wonderful?” he
asks still amused.
She tells him, “Well, I've been
sick, and with this particular illness I needed an orange. I didn't
have any money to buy an orange, and while I was on the deck praying
about it, I fell asleep. When I woke up I had TWO oranges in my
hands!” That agnostic suddenly learned that there IS a God, and
that God used somebody who didn't really believe in Him...eventually
the man professed his faith in Christ and was saved.
You can't wait until the government or
the news media, the Supreme Court, this party or that party or
whoever believes in it and leads the way. They are not called to be
the light of the world. WE are called to be the light of the world.
We are called to be the salt of the earth. This is a message for us
to make us say, “Lord, make me more like David. Bring me down from
my pride, and bring me down to my knees. God, it may be ok at my
house right now, but my Nation is falling apart”
And, listen to me, those of you who
have grandchildren...if Christ doesn't come first with as swiftly as
evil is taking over, what kind of world will our grandchildren grow
up in? If not for yourself, the pray for your grandkids!
Let's get off the seat of do-nothing.
Let's get off the seat of self-satisfied. Let's get on our knees in
fervent prayer, “God! We are in desperate times! We need Your
help!!!”
I believe we will find the help of God.
