It’s a joy to come into your homes and if you’re ever in our area please stop by and be a part of one of our services. I’ll promise him we’ll make it feel right at home. I’d like to start with something funny and I heard about these two brothers ages 4 and 6. They were spending the night at their grandmother’s house. She told them before they went to bed to make sure they said their prayers. They went in the bedroom got down on their knees and the youngest brother started praying at the top of his lungs. God I pray for a new bicycle. I pray for a new place station I pray for a new puppy. His brother stopped him said Why are you screaming. God isn’t deaf. He said. I know that but grandmother is.
Say it like you mean it. This is my bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.
Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus name. God bless you.
I want to talk to you today about surrounded by the most high. We all have times when we feel like we’re surrounded by difficulties surrounded by sickness surrounded by death. Everywhere we turn it’s facing us. So easy to get discouraged and think I’ll never get out of this. It has me surrounded. That’s the way a young man felt in Second Kings. Chapter 6. The king of Arum had just sent a great army with horses and chariots to surround Elias house. They snuck up in the middle of the night and had it totally encircled. The next morning when the young man went out saw all the horses and chariots. He nearly passed out. He ran back in totally panic. Said Elyse you’ll wake up we’re surrounded by the enemy. What are we going to do. It like she said. Don’t be afraid. There are more for us than there are against us. I can hear him say and what do you mean Alicia. Just you and me. I saw thousands of them. In life she prayed Lord opened his eyes and let him see. All the sudden the young man looked out and saw hundreds of thousands of powerful warring angels all across the mountainside standing beside their chariots of fire.
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