And Lord, that is why we bow in your presence right now, because you are worthy of praise. As your people, we gather here on the first day of the week, Lord, you've commanded us one in seven, and it was a command that we didn't understand at one point in our life, but now we do. It is so good to come into your presence in the bow before you, and to remember who you are, to remember what you've done, and to remember all that we have now in Christ. You are worthy to be praised, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And we exalt you, and we honor you, and we praise you, and we glorify you, and we lift you up, we magnify who you are, because it is so easy for us to go a whole week and not to remember. Father, we bow in your presence today, thinking of all that you have done for us, we think of your righteousness, and your great love, your mercy. We recognize that you are the king, and worthy of all praise, and Father, because you are holy and righteous, and we're not, and we have a lot to confess. Some of us come today, Lord to confess sin, that we did just in outright disobedience, we knew it was wrong, we did it anyway. Father, some of us slipped into it, we were pulled into it, we caved in to the world, whatever reason, Lord, we confess our sin, and our glad for the cross. Some of us have to confess, Lord our anger, some are fear, some are anxiety. Father, some of us have to confess that we've got dreams that have never been met, and won't be met. Some of us just have to confess our inadequacy, and ask for you to come into our lives, and to build us. Father, our desire today is to see your face, to see who you are, to be drawn into worship, and not so much Lord play church, or just do something that we do week after week, just be here, we want to meet you. We don't want to leave this place without having met you, and without having been lifted beyond ourselves, and to give you, we are created for this Lord. And so we pray that you would help us to meet you across our paths, Lord, today you know our needs, and you know everyone in this place. You know the man in a particular season of his life that is struggling and doesn't know how to take the next step, and he's trying to do it alone. The woman who needs friends, the one suffering from an illness, the one who's heard news that could be very, very bad, and could be nothing at all. Lord, we give to you all that we are, and pray that you would meet us, and ask that Lord, as we come to worship, we would be transformed just because we've met you. As we look into your word, we pray that you'd open our minds and our hearts, Father, today we pray that you would teach us and you Holy Spirit, be the teacher we need to hear from you. So be with the one who stands in front of your people, and for giving us sins, and use one, Lord, who is so finite to communicate your infinite truth. And as we give of these offerings, now Lord, know that we're not giving because we want to, because we want to, and we want others to know what we have found in Christ. Proceed these gifts, and open our hearts as we pray now in Jesus' name. We appreciate that, and it fits perfect for what we've been talking about in Revelation and in the modern mystic series. We've been worshiping this morning, let's continue in that, but kids you may be dismissed for a worship service of your own. And if you have your Bibles, will you turn in them? Well, you turn to Psalm 34, you know, I asked the Spence before the service, if next week the Alonson family could do what they did. And they said, no, that was so good. Thank you. We really, really appreciate that ministry. You know, really, what we've been talking about in this modern mystic series is simply that we finished a study of Revelation, and Jesus Christ is coming back again. The reality is, what are we doing in the meantime? What kind of people ought we to be, and he is coming back again, and that's the hope that we have. And so in the meantime, what do we do? Well, that's what this whole modern mystic series has been about. We've talked about meditation, we've talked about prayer, we've talked about all kinds of things, we're going to be talking about worship this morning. And that's where we're going to turn to Psalm 34 as the basis of our test. I do want to say one thing though, last night we had a great time in our Vision 2000 Bank with, and there were many, you know, it happens to be past his appreciation month. We usually do this in September, and I've forgotten about that, and some of you snuck up and gave us some gifts and tokens of your appreciation. We feel appreciated at Willa Creek Church, and we love you guys, and thank you for that. Our test, Psalm 34, as we continue our study in the modern mystics, and we talk about worship, now we've got to understand that worship is a major part of what we do is Christians. It wasn't something just for those ancient mystics, it wasn't something just for those ancient Christians, it was something for all of us to do, all Christians of every age until Jesus Christ comes again. And guys, I want to keep in mind that worship, this sort of mysticism that we've been talking about, getting in real connection with the Lord, is not like new age mysticism that says turn inward to find the answers. We're not trying to turn inward, we're trying to turn upward. We're not trying to turn into a silence where we clear our minds of that which is true, in worship, we are turning to the God who is, and not just being still, we're being very active, worship is a verb. And so this morning as we look at worship, we're going to look at something that is very, very important, and integral to our life as Christians. We do it now, and we do it when Jesus Christ returns. Psalm 34, David says this, I will extoll the Lord at all times. His praise will always be on my lips. My soul will boast in the Lord, let the afflicted hear and rejoice, glorify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he answered me. He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant. Their faces are never covered with shame. This poor man called, and the Lord heard him. He saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Come, my children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue for mevel and your lips from speaking lies. Turn for mevel and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil to cut off the memory of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them. He delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all. He protects all his bones. Not one of them will be broken. Even evil will slay the wicked. The foes of the righteous will be condemned. The Lord redeems his servants. No one will be condemned who takes refuge in him. This modern mystic series is about becoming more and more spiritually connected to Jesus until Jesus returns. It's about putting in proper perspective our relationship with him, and in this vision weekend we've been talking about how we need to pull together as a church family and you know in our banquet. We do this every year. We've done it for 13 years. We get together for a banquet here. As we did last night, we look at see who hasn't moved over the last year over the summer. We look back on what God has done for the pictures and videos. We look ahead to what God is calling us to do. And as a church family, you know, we are always called to be moving forward. Jesus is the head of the church. And he's calling his people to follow him to keep in step with him. I dare say that more Christians have a trouble keeping up with Jesus than of getting in front of Jesus. He's given us an incredible vision, an incredible command. He's called us to make disciples of all nations, the whole world, what Ken was talking about this morning. And that is incredible. It's impossible. In fact, to do that, I love the missionary who said, attempt something so great for God that if he's not in it, it's doomed to fail. That's what we're about. It will agree. We're continuing to push the envelope. What we're about is doomed to fail if God isn't here. God isn't in the midst of us working. We think he is. And we think what he's called us to do is we're trying to keep in step with what he's called us to do. But you know, I always struggle with this task orientation. Don't you struggle with either the either or, either be involved in what God's doing, or sometimes we get stressed out doing that. So we want to pull away into prayer and Bible study and contemplation and quietness. I always struggle. You know, believe it. I can be quiet. I can. And there are times when I want to do either or be wholly active or wholly contemplative. And Jesus is called us to do both at the same time. And that's why we're trying to study this because we need this perspective being faithful to the Great Commission and to our Lord and yet having that connection with Him where we don't lose our soul and just doing one of the things that is a soft spot for me in the midst of the task is worship. One of the things that keeps me going in the midst of huge visions, huge goals, isn't even bigger God. And I hope it is for you. And we want to talk about that today because David teaches us a whole lot about worship. Somebody said, I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path. Some people like worship because it's interesting, but it always leads us to God. So let's learn what David teaches us about worship and see it as that soft spot as really the overriding principle of our life as we wait for Jesus to return. The first thing that David teaches us about worship here, and he doesn't all sit down and say, now this I want to teach you, but by application he teaches us that worship is response. Worship is first and foremost a response to God. Look at verse four and then six and then seven. He says, I sought the Lord and he answered me. He delivered me from all my fears. This poor man called and the Lord hurting. He saved him out of all his troubles. Verse seven, the angel of the Lord had camps around those who fear him. Worship is preemimately a response to who God is and to what God has done. It's interesting if you look at the Old Testament word for worship and it means literally to bow down. You take the main New Testament word for worship and there are several words. It literally means to kiss the hand. And so the overriding testimony of the Bible is that worship is this overriding sense that people when they understand who God is, when they see who God is, they must bow down or they must correspondingly come to him and kiss his hand. They recognize that he is infinitely superior to who they are and that something must be given to God because of who he is, because of what he's done, because of what he's done for them personally. And as we see in verse four, if you want some other verbs for worship, look at verse one A, we extoll the virtues of God. Verse one B, we praise. Verse two, we boast in the Lord. Verse three A, we glorify the Lord. Verse three B, we exalt the Lord. That's what worship is. It's a verb, it's active. It's recognizing who he is and responding to him in like manner. And we understand worship. This is not a difficult thing for us. We extoll the virtues of the latest diet fat. Don't we? Don't you? Yes. We praise the accomplishments of a great actor or musician. I think we clap this morning because it led us to the throne, it led us to worship. We are appreciative of the gifts. We boast about our favorite statistics of our favorite, the statistics of our favorite baseball player for those of you who watch baseball. I saw a game a couple of years ago. I'm too spiritual. Who has the time? We practically glorify fashion models. We exalt those who have financially succeeded. We understand worship because it's all about seeing something better in somebody else and recognizing that. Let me give you a truth. Everyone worships something. Even pagans do. Everybody worships something. Even pagans, even unbelievers. And worship defines and describes who you are. You show me what you worship and I'll write your biography. For instance, what's your worship reveal so much about you? Let me just point those things out. What you worship reveals what you think to be the ultimate good, what you reverence is what you worship. Worship reveals what you believe is superior to you. In Ezekiel, chapter 8, verse 16, we see that some of the people in the ancient times worshiped the sun as the God. And they thought that this God was superior to them. So they worship. Many people today think that no one is superior to them. So really, we have an interesting phenomena in our culture where many people essentially are worshiping themselves because they believe themselves to be the superior of all things, of all beings. What you worship is the source of your strength and power. You will tend to praise what you think is the source of your strength and your power. You will worship what you fear. Some of us were raised in churches thinking that Jesus was going to come back right then, probably in the middle of that service, and he was ticked. And we were afraid of God, and so we worship not because we love God, not because we had this sense of all that he had done for us, but because we were afraid. What you worship also reveals who has done a lot for you. For some of you, it's apparent. For some of you, it's a child. For some of you, it's a friend, for some of you, it's yourself, and for some of us, it's God. And so it's important to understand that worship is a response. David had been delivered, and I'm going to tell you why in a minute, but you need to understand that worship is a response to the stimulus in your life, to those who you think are superior in your life. It is first and foremost a response, but sometimes we are, and we talk, more critical of God, than more worshipful. I love the story Dave Whitfield gave me of the dog who walks into the butcher shop, walks in, he's got this purse strapped around his neck, and he walks up, sits right in front of the meat cabinet, the counter there, and just waits his turn until the man who's next to him is finished. The man thinks this is kind of strange, so he stands there and watches this dog with a purse strapped around his neck, and he stands back with his purchase in his hand. The butcher looked at the dog, and he said, what do you want? The dog moved right in front of the ground beef, and he said, how many pounds? He barked twice. So the man took two pounds of ground beef, wrapped them up, said, anything else? He moved over and pointed at the pork chops. He said, how many? Dog barked four times. He wrapped up four pork chops. Dog then left the counter, went around the back side, stood there with the man to take the appropriate amount of money out of the purse, and he did, and he walked down the street, this guy who was standing and watching, I was like, I've got to check this dog out, so he follows him down the street. For several blocks later, the dog comes up the steps to a house, scratches on the door, and the owner opens the door to let him in. And the man who's followed this dog says, you need to understand, you have an incredibly intelligent dog, and he says, he's not really all that smart. This is the second time this week he forgot his keys. Some of us will get that later. Guys, I know that God is awesome and to be worshiped. Sometimes we're more critical of him than we are praiseworthy of him. And David here is teaching us that worship is a response of a heart. What happened to David? Do you remember David's life? Do you remember what happened to David? Do you remember the reality that what David did was that he was running from Saul most of his life until Saul finally died and David became the king of Israel. The reality is, and you can read this back in 1 Samuel 21, David finally had had a spear thrown at him once and many times from Saul, and he took off and he thought, work and I hide. And so he went to the town of Gath, the Philistine stronghold. Will Ocush, the king of Bimolek, was his title. Ocush was his name. You'll find both in the biblical text. But he thought, I'll go and I'll hide in Gath and I'll be safe. The king of Gath said, David is a my warrior. And he began to exhibit signs that he was fearful of what David was going to do. And so David thought, this wasn't the smartest thing to do. I've got to get out of here. The problem is there were gates around the city. And so David prayed about it and then took matters into his own hand and he began to act like a crazy man. Have you ever done that? I hope not because you need counseling if you've ever done what David did. I want you to know what David did is if you get a salivate in his beard, he began to act like a wild man. And the king said, I don't need more crazies than I've already got. Get him out of here and David got out. And David, when he got out, looked back and thought about it and he said, God did this. God delivered me. And I sort of agree with those people who think that David should have trusted God a little bit more, but he went weird. But he did see that God rescued him and delivered him. And that's the basis of this whole song. That's why he's worshipping because of how God delivered at last. How did God delivered you in the past from sin? Yeah, me too. From shame, from guilt, me too. Sometimes from guilt that I struggle with every day of my life. Sometimes, sometimes he's delivered me from shame that I shouldn't even feel guilt that I shouldn't even feel. Where has God delivered you? Guys, it is so important for you to get the basis of worship is it's coming and praising it for who he is and for how he's delivered us in Christ. But also how he has delivered us in the many different deliverances of our life. I encourage you to do something practical here. Go home and write a list. In fact, every Saturday night, write a list of 10 things that Jesus did for you that week. 10 things. Stick it in your Bible. When you get up on Sunday morning and you're tired and you're drinking your coffee, you'll remember why you're coming because it's out of a response to what he's done last weekend. I was up in Connecticut speaking to some men. This has been the busy month. I've done at the end of October, but it was a church where I served a church for five years. So Karen and I went and I spoke at this conference and we got to see some old friends and it was a great experience. But over the 13 years that we've been here, I have never gone back to Connecticut, not once, not for an hour. I didn't know what was going on. Many times I thought about several people. I thought about the young man who showed up at our church the morning I announced I was leaving. And he had just moved to that area to do his internship and start a counseling practice. I often wondered how, you know, how's it going to go? How did it go with this guy? Did he ever get started? Or did he fail? I remember the other young man who came to our church just shortly before we left just come to Christ and was in a difficult marriage and a difficult situation. I thought, man, this guy coming from a different religion is never going to make it. I've often thought about him. I've often thought about the couple who left our church because her husband, the husband was under discipline. And it was always sad. We were close to them. And you know, it wasn't a formal case of discipline, but I've always wondered about them. I always wondered about the man I sat across the table with Tuesday, after Tuesday, in a greasy spoon, discipling one-on-one just for months, years. They were all there at the conference, every one of them. Every one of them. The counseling, the counselor, got a great practice. The young man had 12 difficult years, but he's following Christ with his whole heart. The woman was there serving at the tables now in another church. She'd gone through a divorce. She'd seen that we were right. The guy had disciples and elder in the church. And when I came back here on Sunday, you better believe I was worshiping. You better believe that I said, God is awesome. And how he takes care of his people. And that's what we worship out of response. David then teaches us that we worship also out of celebration, and that worship is celebration. Look in verses one through four, he says, extol, praise, boast, glorify, exalt, worship is getting excited about God precisely because of who he is and what he's done. And worship is celebrative. Now I know that some of you are going to come to me and say, yeah, but there are some songs that are so dark that are so depressing. I know that almost every one of those songs comes round to the God who is omnipotent, who will solve that difficult situation. We come around to God. And so even the darkest songs, the most difficult songs, lead us to God and to celebrate God for who he is. Hebrew worship was celebrative, guys. It was enthusiastic. They used practically every instrument you can ever imagine. Sometimes the people stood with hands like this as it to receive the blessing of God. Sometimes like this to bless God. David even danced as they were bringing the ark of the covenant into Jerusalem and a sort of unique worship service there. I'm not suggesting you dance around this church. But we have reason to. You want to hold up your hands, hold up your hands. I'm not telling you what is the right way of worship. What I am trying to tell you is that worship is celebrative. And we will create ought to be celebrative because God is the center of it and he is awesome. And I want you to celebrate more in worship. I want you to come and think about this as a time to celebrate. And so I want to give you a couple of things to do. Number one, and this is practical stuff. If you want to worship more and celebrate more, get a copy of Jay Attacker's book Knowing God. Free that book. Read it as it talks about the attributes of God, who God is, that God is infinite, that he is self-sufficient, that he is just, that he is merciful, that he is omniscient, on the present. I am nip into all of those things. You wonder what all that means? Get that book. Study God. And you will be led into worship. You will come to give. Here is your song. Mystics come to worship to give. And the getting is a byproduct. As we connect with the Lord in worship, it is coming to give. You come wanting to get every week. And that is your focus. And you are going to go away at the end and sometimes. And you come to give. You will get. God will touch your heart. He will meet with you. And you will be fulfilled Saturday night. Write a list. I already said this, but I am going to say it again. Write a list of the five to ten things that God did for you that week. And you will come to worship. And then come to worship. Come to worship each week, recognizing that you are going to be able to get rid of the junk, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. This is the place to come. And to give it to him. And to go out a whole lot lighter. And then you came in. If you think those things and do those things, it will help you celebrate more when you get here. My sister, Vicki sent me this email from California. I love it. It says in a recent Harris online poll, 38,562 men across the United States were asked to identify women's ultimate fantasy. 97.8% of the respondents said that a woman's ultimate fantasy is to have two men at once. While this has been verified by a recent sociological study, it appears that most men do not realize that in this fantasy, one man is cooking and the other is clean. We all have different reasons to celebrate. I want you to know our reason to celebrate is God. And it's because of who he is. By the way, Sunday morning isn't the only time that we can worship. In fact, God is so big. God's goodness is so extensive that Sunday morning simply cannot contain the amount of praise that he deserves nor that we can give. And so I encourage you to understand every day as worship Romans 12.1 says, I urge you brothers and view of God's mercies to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship. All of life is worship for the Christian. It's not just here. It's our behavior. It's how we start our day. And so I encourage you to think of your, you know, what some of you say, I don't know if I ought to do this or I ought to do that. Let me give you a simple principle after reading scripture to find out what behavior you ought to follow, ask this question. Can I do this behavior and worship God with this behavior? Can I follow this behavior that I'm thinking of doing and in it, offer it to God as an act of worship if he can't then they'll do it. You can, more than likely, it's in concert with the word of God in the morning, start your day with worship. You want to have a better day? Start it with a bigger God. Read a few Psalms. That's why they're given to be the church's hymn book to lead us to praise. Worship David teaches his response at celebration. It's personally transforming Psalm 34 verse 5 real quick. Those who look to him are radiant. Their faces are never covered with shame. This idea of radiant is the idea of middle Moses went to the mount and received the Ten Commandments and how did he come back? What did he look like? The guy was, the guy looked like he'd been inside a nuclear reactor. I mean, he was glowing positively. He had been in the presence of God. Those who worship God are radiant and it says here that their faces are never covered with shame. Guys, you want to deal with shame? You want to have a lifting of your spirits? You want to be transformed? Worship. That's mystical. That's spiritual. I know, but it's getting in the presence of God that we are literally changed as God's people. God rubs off on us when we get into his presence. I love what Max Locato said. He said, if God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If God had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and sunrise every morning when you want to talk. He'll listen. He could live anywhere in the universe and he chose your heart. The Christmas gift he sent you in Bethlehem, face it, friend. He's crazy about you. When you get into presence of a God like that, it changes your heart. It radically transforms you. I want to grow. I want to be what Jesus wants me to be. I'm finding more and more that the change comes when I get in his presence. I have a friend this past week who told me he felt guilty. He didn't memorize more passages in the Bible, more scripture memorization. I said, I feel guilty because I haven't memorized more. I said something like, you don't need to memorize any passages in the Bible. Then the navigator of me came out and said, no, you need to memorize verses in the Bible. I recognized how much memorization has helped me. Then I got more balance. I said, wait a minute. What will transform you are not merely getting propositions into your brain. Words and hearing to the hard drive of your mind. What is going to transform you is when those words of scripture get into your heart and drive you to your knees. It is when scripture gets into our mind and into our heart and into our life, but first leads us to worship where we're transformed. Propositions may change your thinking, but it is God who changes your life. So memorize all the scripture you can, but after you've memorized it, let it drive you to your knee with the truth and the reality of what God has done. Then you can worship. I love what Ruth Graham said. Ruth Graham said this about Billy. By the way, Billy is one of the grandsons attending Willa Creek. I can't even say it, but to tell him and Kim come here now and tell him that RTS, Kim works at our preschool. So I've gotten some of these Billy Graham stories. Ruth Graham said about Billy, she said, it's my job to love Billy. It's God's job to make him good. I love it. You want to be good? You want to be different? You want to be transformed? Worship. Worship. That's a great principle for marriage, by the way, isn't it? Great principle for in the church. We don't need more guilt, heaped on each other. We need to love each other, but we are transformed in the presence of God. Listen, 2 Corinthians 3. Now, the Lord is the Spirit, and with the Spirit of the Lord is there's liberty, but we all with unveiled face be holding as an amir of the glory of the Lord. I'll be transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as from the Lord, the Spirit. So worship is personally transforming. Lastly, briefly, you need to understand worship is infectious. Look at verse 9. Case 8 actually. Case and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Fear the Lord, you his saint. For those who fear him, lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord, lack no good thing. David had an incredible experience of deliverance. And because of his deliverance, he wrote the song that was read in the churches, that was sung in the churches, that was brought, his enthusiasm became infectious for other people. True worship based on what God has done in our life is infectious, and it spreads to other people. And one of the important things is to understand it, that when God has done something in your life, the best thing is not to take the weekend off and go to the beach. I'm not saying you can't take the weekend off and go to the beach. I'm just saying on that we can be here and worship and life like this place up because worship is infectious. And it will trans-David because of David's experience, he said, taste and see that the Lord is good. Now I've tasted, I trusted, I waited and he's good, he will deliver you. Sometimes life is so bad, we have to get caught up in the worship of others to get us through. Sometimes we get so negative, we've got to come here so that I can look into your eyes and I can understand that even though my world wasn't all that great, God did something in yours. It's absolutely transforming and infectious. Guys, as we enter a vision weekend, we've talked a lot about where we want to go and you're going to be receiving a vision on tape, we're talking about space, the final frontier. So it is our theme as we move ahead as we grow as a church family. But you need to understand, we're not so concerned about space in the physical sense but we need to understand that we're talking about the space in our hearts because the final frontier is the human heart. And I'm excited about what we're doing and I hope that you will take the time when the tape comes to pray about how God wants you to be involved in the ongoing ministry of Willa Creed Church. It's going to be great. We need to understand, though, that we are primarily concerned for people and that facilities are tools to reach the needs of people. Pray about it. One of the things I can do the most as a pastor, part of my role as a pastor is to teach grace, is to preach grace and then also from time to time to come to you and say okay, don't put all your treasures in this world. One of the pastors' jobs is to be an irritant. It's a medal to say don't put it all here, invest in the kingdom of God. And we hope you'll do that. But understand, it's not so that we can build an edifice so that we can glorify God and minister to people and so that we can understand that we have been called to bring all people into the presence of God where every knee will back. Every knee will back. And every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is God is Lord. And in the great commission is nothing less than that. We're about drawing people to worship so that they might know God as we know him. John 424 has got a spirit and we must worship him in spirit and in truth. We must worship God experiences grace. But let's understand that we're here not only to have our own nice little time of worship, but to draw all men and women and kids to worship him. Did you see that bumper sticker? It said what if the Hoki-Hoki is what it's all about? It's not of course God is. So until Jesus comes back, let's worship and our lives will be changed. You come to church not to get, but to give. But once you give, you get far more than you ever thought. You take it to heart. Let's pray. We bow in your presence, Lord Jesus. We declare with the early church the earliest pre-Jesus is Lord. We worship you our God. And our desire is to bow to meet you. Lord, if summer here and have not ever met you personally, we pray that you would meet in this week, that you would show your goodness and your truth and your power. And that next week you would draw us back to here to this place ready to worship. This week, Lord, now we give to you and pray that in it you do more than we could ever ask or think as we pray these things in Jesus' name. And now I commit you to God into the Word of His grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance upon all those who are set apart. Amen.