[00:00:00] Speaker A: You're listening to the message podcast of High Ridge Church, Longview, where our vision is to help you know God, find freedom, discover purpose, and ultimately make a difference. We are so glad that you're here, and we pray that this message impacts your life as you apply the spiritual truths from God's word in practical ways. Let's listen in.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Howdy. Howdy.
It's okay. It'll be all right, I promise. Turn to the person next to you and say, I think we're gonna be fine.
I think it'll be okay.
Welcome. Welcome. It's always a privilege when Pastor Tim asked me to bring a message to you, and I'm so excited. I'm gonna tell you how grateful I am for our great leadership here at High Ridge Longview. I'm so appreciative. Pastor Tim is a great pastor and leader, and so for him to trust me to come and share with you is a big honor for me indeed. I also want to say thank you for your generosity, because we've been able. Through your generosity, we've been able to complete our High Ridge Youth Building. It's been completely outfitted, remodeled, and apparently they're playing something called pickleball there. That sounds disgusting. I don't know what a pickleball is.
I'm too old for that. But what a great thing that we have, that place. And we are so appreciative to you through your generosity, one that we were able to secure that building and purchase it, but also remodel it, make it very usable.
So thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I want to bring a message today that I'm calling when life gets hard.
Now, if you've been a believer for at least five minutes, you have realized that being a believer does not mean that life suddenly becomes easy.
Just. Just me.
Yeah, just me.
Maybe it's somebody watching online who needed to hear that. It's one of those truths that. Here's the thing. When we get saved, when we become believers, we know that old things have passed away and all things have become new.
However, we are still here.
There is still life to live. And what has become new is true. Because often what is new is how we walk through the challenges of life. Because we're not alone.
We're not just left to our own understanding or wisdom. We now have the presence of the Lord within. We have the Holy Spirit to guide and direct us. So we. It is new how we are traveling through this life. Now, I want to tell you I am well traveled. I've been a lot of places Overseas, South America, all through Central America. I am well traveled, but I am not a great traveler.
Do you know what I'm saying? Because, you know, let's just be honest.
There are no vehicles of transportation that were designed for people my size.
No, we can be honest. I mean, nobody designed a seat on an aircraft for me.
Not for me.
I know that when I travel that I'm going to be uncomfortable, there's going to be pain.
And I mean, I'm not whining, I'm just telling you the facts.
And because of that, I can often find myself due to the discomfort that I know is coming and all of that, and the fact that my attention span is so easily exceeded that I can often talk myself out of a trip.
I can. I can do it. But here's the reality.
Deborah and I are going to Scotland at the end of this month.
We've been trying to get to Scotland for probably 15, 20 years. And always something would come up and we couldn't go. And the last time where we were almost about to buy the tickets to go was 2020 and something happened.
So, yeah, no, we didn't get to go, but we are going. And Lord willing, we're going to be leaving the end of this month.
Why am I telling you this? Well, because life is often like traveling.
It can be uncomfortable, unfamiliar, uncertain.
There's pain. Sometimes these things happen because we are alive and we are humans.
And I can tell you this, the problem that most of us face is that our culture has trained us to arrive.
It hasn't really helped us know how to get there. It hasn't really helped us know how to travel. Well, it just, just get there. Just, let's just arrive. And arrival is in our minds because our culture has reinforced it. And I can tell you right now, the, the cries of when are we going to get there and are we there yet? Have echoed from the back seats of vehicles for as long as I can remember.
And that is just a reality of how we often think.
Unfortunately, it develops a type of mindset that I call I'll be happy when syndrome.
Right? I'll be happy when I meet that right person.
I'll be happy when I get this position or job. I'll be happy when this.
Just trust me when I tell you if you are unable to find joy and happiness where you are, it's not waiting for you out there. There.
Now, honestly, when I talk about arrival, let me be clear, there are goals and milestones and achievements in life that should be celebrated. And, and I don't mean that we, we just going to be slogging till the end. That's not what I'm trying to say. But I mean, do you like that word, Doug? Slogging. We're going to be slogging, slogging through the end. Here's the, here's the interesting reality for us, though. We need to celebrate those milestones and those achievements and when we achieve those goals. But we're not going to arrive.
We're not going to arrive.
So we have that I'll be happy when syndrome. But even in the business world, I had the privilege of working with leaders and people in business and just recently had the privilege of speaking in the 40 under 40 workshop through the Longview Chamber of Commerce. Got to do workshop all day thing with our leaders in our city. It was wonderful.
But leadership circles have a title for this. They actually have a name for this. What I'm talking about, it's called destination disease.
As this the flip side of the coin. There's the I'll be happy when. But then there's, hey, I've achieved enough, I'm going to coast the rest of the way, you know, and they literally stop learning, stop growing, stop moving. I think it's John Maxwell who said leadership is uphill all the way.
You know, we don't stop.
We don't stop learning. But I want to make this point to you today, and that is this. Our focus on arrival diminishes and disregards the value of the trip itself.
It's not about arriving. It's about how we get there. It's about what we're doing, how we're living our lives. It's what are we discovering along the way? What is in it for us? Now let me give you three lies. That when we're going through hard things, when life is hard and it's challenging, let me give you three lies we can fall prey to believing. Here's the first one.
Things will always be this way.
That's when we believe the lie that our present state is our permanent state.
Well, here's the reality.
A season by definition, cannot be permanent.
I will pause while you let that sink in on your brain.
Seasons come and go. That's what seasons do. They change. And whatever it is you're in right now, you will move into another season. The question is not will the season change? The question is, will you, will you come out of the season better or bitter?
Will you come out of the season? Learning are just wasting it.
That's the key.
Things will always be this way. No, they won't.
But you get to decide whether you will always be this way.
Think about that one for just a second. Here's number two. I am powerless to change anything.
It's a lie. The enemy loves to traffic dissent when we're in difficulty.
He loves to sow his lies when we're struggling.
Do you know the enemy really only has one lie?
He tells it a bajillion ways, spins it all kinds of ways, but he really has one lie. And it's the same lie he told to Eve in the garden.
Is God good?
God's withholding something good from you. That's why you can't eat the root of that tree.
He doesn't want you to have something good.
This is how the enemy works in our lives. He comes along when we're struggling or we're having a difficulty or meeting a challenge. Life is hard.
And he sows that dissent. And then we fall prey to these lies of I'm powerless. Well, I will tell you this. If you choose to be the victim of your circumstance, circumstances will continue to victimize you.
And that is important to recognize. You cannot choose everything that happens to you. But you get to choose by God's grace and his giving of us this powerful thing called choice. We get to choose how we respond to everything that happens to us.
We get to take some agency in this.
I can't control everything that happens, but I get to choose how I respond to it.
This is a lie.
You do have power.
More than you realize. Here's a third lie.
Everyone is judging me.
They all think I'm a failure. They see it.
They're all judging me. I can see it in your eyes.
I told you I was going on a diet and I gained five pounds. I see you looking at me.
Everyone is judging me. I had an old pastor one time, years ago, as I was a young man, looked at me and he said, son, he was old enough to say that to me, son, we wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought of us if we realized how seldom they do.
That was life changing for me. I'm like, you mean not everyone's not out there just looking at me?
You mean I am not the actual center of the universe?
Everything does not actually center around.
I'm being silly, but here's the reality.
That's a lie that we hear from the enemy when we're facing hard times, when we're struggling. Maybe we're not doing as well as we think we should. He will piggyback on There. Here's the truth.
Everybody's living life. Everyone has things that are hard.
And it helps us to realize we're not alone in this.
It's called life.
Oh, here's a bonus one. This one I threw in. This is extra free, no extra charge.
I love this one. Here's the lie. I'm fine.
Hey, how are you doing? Are you okay? I'm fine.
Get that little picture in my mind. You've seen a little meme of the little character sitting at a table, and the house is burning down around them, going, it's fine. It's fine.
We tend to do it right. We deny that we're having trouble because we think if we admit to the fact that life is hard or that we're struggling, people, people will think less of us.
But the truth is, people all around us are struggling.
Struggle is kind of part of the thing. It just kind of is.
Basically, when I say I'm fine, I'm just avoiding my own need for assistance.
Everybody needs help. Everyone needs support. Everyone needs guidance when life is hard. This is why we have groups.
One of the big benefits of being in a group is that we have other people that we can share what we're going through with. They can pray for us and encourage us.
By the way we find out, oh, other people have problems.
That's a revelation sometimes, but it's very encouraging when I realize I'm not the only one.
We can get through this together. We can help one another. We can encourage one another. And while I'm telling you that you need to sign up kind of quick, groups are filling up fast, and they start next Sunday. Okay. There you go. You like that, Pastor Paul?
There we go.
Yeah.
Here's something I want you to understand. When I say that we're prone to arrival, I want you to hear this truth today, and that's this. There is no finish line for learning, growth, or spiritual development for a believer.
There is no finish line.
Now, that doesn't mean we don't achieve things. It doesn't mean we don't meet goals. It doesn't mean that we. And we can stop and celebrate those. But this doesn't stop.
You remember the story of Abraham? Hebrews tells us that he was searching. He didn't put down permanent. Wasn't looking for a permanent dwelling. He was looking for a city whose builder and foundations were of the Lord.
He was an extremely wealthy man, and he chose. I'm gonna live in tents, and everywhere the Lord tells me to go, I'm gonna pitch my tent and then I'm going to build an altar.
It's a great study. If you're looking for something to just study on your own, go look at the life of Abraham.
You'll be encouraged by it.
It's one of those things that we need to recognize. The Apostle Paul, toward the end of his life, wrote these words in Philippians 3, verses 12 through 14. Now, Paul has written most of the New Testament as we know it.
He's accomplished so many things, and this is what he says towards the ends of his life. Not that I have already obtained all this or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Here's a man who had accomplished great many things.
We look back historically and we go, that was what a great life that guy was. He had it together. He was doing well.
In fact, before he wrote this verse, he lists some of his previous accomplishments even before he met Christ, and says, I'm just gonna choose to ignore those. They're worthless.
Here's the reality when life gets hard.
Here's number one that I wanna share with you today. Seeing the big picture reminds us of purpose.
Sometimes we get just so up to our eyeballs in what we are experiencing in the moment that we can lose sight of the fact that there's actually more to this than what I'm seeing right now.
Seeing the big picture reminds us of purpose.
This speaks to our perspective. There are two things.
There are two things that really will impact how you experience a season.
Perspective and attitude.
They won't necessarily change your circumstances, but they will affect how you experience them and what your potential outcomes in a season might be. So they're important.
Paul said in Ephesians 2, verses 4 through 7.
But God, who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Interesting. He says that we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. In order to get a big picture or see the big picture, we need an elevated view.
And what we have been told by the Lord is that we have this elevated view available. It's when we choose to draw near and we worship and we become those who get still so that we know that He's God, that we are in a place where our perspective can be adjusted.
We can see from a bigger picture. Paul here is saying, hey, the way that Christ has saved you, his grace toward you and his kindness being shown to you in your life is going to speak and continue to have impact for the ages to come.
Every person watching online and every person in this room, you are living a life that as you embrace the goodness and the grace of God in your life, you are going to have an eternal impact beyond what you are able to see right now.
That's an important distinction.
We need that.
I put it this way. When we only see the snapshot of our current circumstance, we risk discouragement and lose perspective on the season that we're in.
I began pastoring when I was 20 years old.
You're welcome to gasp, I understand.
I was also in college. I was going to school. I was at East Texas Baptist. When I started there it was East Texas Baptist College, but by the time I graduated it was East Texas Baptist University.
Some things happened there. In fact, I was on the accelerated program with my education. I crammed my four year degree into six years, but I was pastoring full time during that process, raising a family. So I was commuting, had a one hour commute to school and I can remember having a certain perspective on school.
Necessary evil.
That was my perspective. Necessary evil. I had classes like pastoral ministry and all these types of things that, I mean I was taking them because I had to have them for my degree. But I mean, I'm like, I'm already a pastor, you know, I'm preaching every week. And until we had a 25 year old father and husband die of a congenital heart defect at 25, just died and I had to do his funeral.
Three months later, his five month old child who had the same congenital birth defect, died and I had to bury a five month old child.
And then within three months, the widow and the mother who had lost her child came home from work to find that her home had burned to the ground and lost everything.
My perspective changed.
And I remember showing up for the next class at school, walking right past all my friends who were joking and talking about how boring this class was. And I walked to the front of the room, sat right in front of the professor and I looked up and I said, please God help me know how to serve this family.
My whole perspective on school suddenly changed. I realized and connected. What I thought was a necessary evil suddenly became connected to my purpose.
Prior to then, I was an average student. I mean, you know, I was okay.
After that, I became a 4.0 student. They had my full attention.
My perspective had been shifted.
It's important when we're going through challenges. And by the way, it was difficult raising a family, pastoring a church, commuting one hour to school. I had to have that perspective shift. I needed to see that big picture to remind me of purpose. Here's the second thing. Embracing the current season reveals value benefits. Now, I notice I did not say loving the current season.
I didn't even say liking it.
I said embracing it.
Embracing the season.
I'm in this. I'm going to lean in.
I'm going to embrace it rather than despise it. And when I do that, I begin to recognize there are opportunities for me to learn things about my God and myself.
You know, the disciples found themselves in storms a couple of times.
And sometimes when we're going through storms, we immediately say, what did I do wrong?
I must have messed up. How did I get in this storm? A storm came out. I did something wrong. I'm being punished. But you know that the disciples, when they were in the storms, they were there because they obeyed.
Jesus said, hey, get in the boat and go across and I'll meet you on the other side. They were in the storm not because they were disobedient. They were obeying. Here's the thing. Storms happen.
They happen. You know what the difference is? Who's with you in the storm?
That's the big difference.
All things have become new. Old things have passed away. We're now believers. But you know what often is? What's new? How we get through it, because we're not alone and the Lord is with us. I put it this way, leaning into challenges, relying on his faithfulness and guidance builds trust and and faith for future challenges.
It's important to remind yourself, oh, yeah, he's been with me. Oh, yeah. Romans 8:28 says this. And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
That does not say that everything that happens to us is good.
It says that God's commitment to us, when we embrace his calling and his purpose for our lives and his commitment is, I will take everything that happens to you and turn it to your benefit.
In other words, I will Help you learn, grow, develop, get better at what I've called you to do.
I think that's important.
I think it's significant, leaning into the challenges.
This is important thing. You know, hard stuff is hard stuff.
It can be challenging.
We all need friends in our lives who will help us with perspective and help us with attitude.
I have some friends like that in my life who will look at me when I start talking about how hard things are.
And they just. Every now and then, out of nowhere, they'll look at me and say, but did you die, Doug?
But did you die? And my usual response is, you might.
They is young. Anything could happen.
All he's doing, though, we have that kind of relationship, that kind of relational equity, that he knows he can say that to me. And I know what he means is, it's going to be all right. You're okay. You survived.
You know what? He's right.
And everything that I survive, everything that I come through, if I've embraced the season and learned and grown in the development of that time, I haven't wasted that pain. I haven't wasted that difficulty.
I am stronger for whatever's in front of me.
I'm stronger for whatever lies in front of me.
I have seasons in my life I don't want to repeat, but I can look on them and go, that was helpful.
I learned from it. I wouldn't want to necessarily ever live that again. But I'm grateful for the wisdom and the knowledge I got from it.
First time we went to the UK and traveled overseas, we grossly underestimated the weather and the terrain.
Yeah, we overpacked like crazy. We had way too much stuff. We got to the UK and so it's the land of stairways and circles. And if you've never been, just trust me. It's a land of stairways and circles, and we're toting baggage that we didn't. I think we maybe used a third of what we took, but we didn't know.
But we learned something.
And you won't get me this time. Scotland. I know what's coming. I know what to do, because I learned from the previous.
Here's the third and final thing I want to share with you today.
When life gets hard, choosing to keep moving is the key to breakthrough.
It's the key to breakthrough. Winston Churchill is credited with this saying, if you were going through hell, by all means, keep going.
Don't stop.
The greatest threat we face is not whether or not we'll make a mistake or that we might have a failure.
The greatest threat to us is that we will lose heart and just give up.
Keep moving. We need to receive the mercy that comes every day. It's new every day from the Lord. We never bankrupt his mercy for us to walk.
I put it this way. The only way to make progress is by remaining committed to the process.
Keep moving forward.
My wife and I walk two miles every day in our neighborhood.
And my neighborhood geographically, is laid out very interestingly.
It is either uphill or downhill.
I'm not kidding. It pretty much is uphill or downhill. And so we're walking in our neighborhood. I think there is one street that's kind of level to where you just say, okay, I won't die, necessarily. But I call them leaners and laybacks because I physically, on some of these hills, I physically have to lean forward and should I get a text or something like that, and I have to stop. It's brutal.
It's brutal because all momentum is like, oh, no.
Right. And so coming down them, I'm having to lean back because otherwise, well, you get the picture.
There's one particular leaner in our neighborhood. It's. It's the first one that I get about halfway up that thing, and I'm thinking in my head, and sometimes I'll say to everyone, go, who Like? And she knows what that means. It means you can. Come on, come on. It's a mental thing that I know if I can get to the top of that first leaner, I'm going to make it.
I need that breakthrough. And you think, I've been doing this since January, guys. You would think by now it wouldn't be the same challenge. It's the same every day.
Every day.
But here's the truth. Breakthroughs can be circumstantial. They can be relational. They can be financial. They can be internal. But let me say this to you, this is important. The most important breakthroughs often happen in our hearts and our minds.
Sometimes what we want is a financial breakthrough. In other words, we want our financial position to change. But sometimes what's needed is a breakthrough in how we think about our finances.
We want a health breakthrough. We want to be healthy. I want to wake up tomorrow morning and be fit.
Is that a thing? No, that's not a thing.
But I would, like, would make me happy.
Here's the reality, though.
What I need is a breakthrough in how I think about my health.
The breakthrough may not look the same as what you're asking for. The breakthrough that you need may not be the one that you want.
It's important that we find those breakthroughs, though. Maybe we need a breakthrough in our relationships. And what we need is something to happen in our heart so we see the value of that relationship differently.
Some of us are like, well, if I could just get that person just to agree with me all the time, everything would be great.
Probably not. You're not that smart.
You need each other, right? Here's the reality, guys.
Those struggles are real.
Can I just tell you? If you're stuck, ask for help.
If you're tired, get some rest.
If you're lost your way, turn to him. Look for guidance.
Paul communicates three things in our message today.
I won't settle for the past.
Paul listed all of his accomplishments, but he said, mm, mm.
I'm not gonna settle for it.
Not gonna settle for my past, both its successes and its failures. I will reach for the future because I believe it is good and fulfilling.
And I will press on in the present.
I'm committed to keep moving.
What my experience has shown me in my own life and the life of others is I notice that people in hard seasons tend to either break up, break down, or break through.
Last week, Pastor Tim shared on the life of Joseph.
If you go back and study the life of Joseph, you know that he was thrown into a pit by his brothers slavery. Then he wound up a slave in Potiphar's house. And then he was unjustly accused and found himself in prison.
Looking at those things as random experiences, you might just say, boy, that's just tough luck.
That's hard.
But actually, these things were preparation and they were the actual pathway that led him to the palace and to the ultimate fulfillment of his purpose. And by the way, Joseph didn't see the palace as his arrival.
When he died before his death, he said, take my bones to the promised land with you.
Take my bones with you. And you know what they did? Scripture tells us they did that they took him and they took him with them on their journey into the promised land. He saw beyond his life. He knew, I'm not going to arrive here.
I'm not going to arrive here.
Can we just recognize that your present season could be like that as well?
It could be a pathway.
It could be what's taking you to your ultimate sense of purpose and potential.
If we can see the big picture and be reminded of purpose, if we can lean in and embrace the present season, if we could make that commitment to keep moving, would you bow your heads and close your eyes?
Maybe we just ask the Lord to speak to us through The Holy Spirit today, where we might be in this. Maybe we need.
We need to see that big picture of purpose today.
We need to be reminded that God has good, good plans for us. And we can see that it's a season.
We can adjust our perspective.
Maybe today we need to really lean in and say, I'm going to stop resisting and despising this season that I'm in. I'm going to lean into it and see what. Ask myself, what am I learning? What can I. What do I discover? What can I learn about myself? What am I seeing about who God is in my life so that I don't waste this time?
Maybe today is a day that we need to just say, lord, this is uncomfortable.
This feels unfamiliar. This is.
This is difficult. This is challenging. But I'm not quitting.
I'm gonna keep pressing.
I'm gonna keep moving.
Father, I pray for my friends today, those here in this room and those watching online.
Lord, help us.
Thank you that you have made all things new. And that means that we don't have to go through these hard seasons of life the same as those who do not know you.
You are with us.
We have your Holy Spirit. We have your word to guide us, to comfort us.
And for that, we're so grateful.
With heads still bowed and eyes still closed, maybe there are people here in the room that says, bill. That would be great. But I don't think I have that kind of relationship with Jesus. I don't know if I really have a relationship with him at all.
Maybe you grew up in church, maybe you know about religion, but you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus.
I would like to give you an opportunity this morning here in this room and those watching online, if that's you, you say, bill. Yes, that's me. I want to lead you in a prayer. It's a simple prayer. It's not a formula. It's not magic. But I promise, if you will pray this prayer and mean it from your heart, God will answer that prayer.
It's simple. It goes like this. Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God.
I believe that you came to this earth, you lived a sinless life, that you died upon a cross for my sin and the sins of the world.
You were buried and you defeated the grave. You rose again, giving me hope of eternal life.
I ask you to forgive me for my sin.
I invite you into my life to take charge, to be my Lord.
I choose to say today.
I will follow you for the rest of my days.
Thank you for hearing My prayer and for saving me in Jesus name.
The head's still bowed and eyes still closed, friend. If you prayed that prayer with me just now and you say, bill, I did. I prayed that prayer and I meant it. I really meant it. I prayed it and I believe God heard my prayer. I'm just going to ask if you wouldn't mind, just. If that was you, just look up here at me and raise your hand and then you can put it back down.
It was me, Bill. I prayed that prayer. Thank you.
I see you. Anyone else? I prayed that prayer with you, Bill.
I meant it. I believe God heard me. Thank you.
Thank you.
For those online and those here in the room, for those online, you should see on the screen coming up for you, a number here in the room. You should see a number on the screen behind me.
If you will simply text I prayed. All one word. I prayed to 844-HRCTXT. Just text us. We have some resources to help you know what your next steps are so that you can begin your journey and your relationship with Jesus.
Right now. I don't know what all they're doing up in heaven, but the scripture tells us they stopped and they rejoiced over those who made that decision here today.
And they're celebrating.
We want to celebrate as well. There were two people in this service who prayed that prayer with me.
There were two in early service. So today four people have made that commitment. Can we thank the Lord for that?
Well, High Ridge family, thank you for listening to me for a little while. Let's stand together. I want to remind you of a couple of things. As our elders and their wives come forward to be available to you to offer prayer. If you need prayer for any thing going on in your life right now, we strongly encourage you come forward to receive prayer because we all need it. We all need help. We all need guidance. We all need the support that prayer can give us.
So whether it was related today's message or not, they're going to be here.
Let me remind you that today at the end of third service, we are having baptisms. What's a wonderful thing to celebrate people who've given their lives to the Lord. It's always great. It's going to be next door here in our High Ridge Kids building right after third service. You might have time to leave here, go get something to eat and come back and be a part of that celebration. Also want to remind you of Unite.
Unite is coming up September 11th. Tickets are going fast. They're likely to sell out.
You can Go to the Belcher center website and you can get those tickets. But here's a little cheat code for you. If you type in student, you can get those tickets for $17 right now. They're going to go fast. Let's be honest, we're all students in the game of life.
We're all learning, right? So we're actually encouraging you to do that. We want you to take advantage of that promo code. Also, one more time, remind you that groups start next Sunday.
They're not all meeting on Sunday, but the first ones start beginning on Sunday and they're filling up fast. But please go visit our the High Ridge Longview app or the Church center planning area. There, the app that we have, you can find a group and you can join. Is that okay?
You all right?
Turn and look at somebody say, you didn't die.
You got through it. You got through it. Let me pray over you and send you out. Father, thank you so much for your goodness and your mercy. We thank you, Lord, for every family, every household represented here today and online. And we ask you for your presence to go out with us in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. God bless you. Hope you have a great afternoon.
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