Mike Bickle emphasizes the beauty of God and how it is imparted to believers, highlighting that God's beauty is not only to be admired but also shared with His people. He explains that this beauty begins at the moment of salvation and is cultivated through humility and surrender, which may often go unrecognized in this life but will be celebrated in the age to come. Bickle encourages believers to intentionally seek out and recognize the beauty within themselves and others, as it is a reflection of God's grace and love. He reminds us that even the smallest acts of kindness and humility are beautiful in God's eyes and contribute to our eternal significance. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a shift in perspective, urging believers to see their lives through the lens of God's beauty and purpose.

that I've been focusing on the last three or four weeks. And that is the subject of the beauty of the Lord. And I've been looking at the beauty that God possesses. And last week I talked a bit on the beauty that he imparts because the very beauty he possesses himself that we gaze on is the beauty. He imparts to his people. This is one of the great biblical themes about our salvation. We have an indescribably beautiful King all heaven adores him. They never grow weary of gazing on him and new discoveries of him. But it's a shared beauty. It's a beauty that he imparts. He wants his beloved to possess the beauty that he himself possesses. Now part of the salvation message that is often neglected is that God the beautiful King has a plan to beautify our life. Not only do we escape hell, not only do we have a meaningful life and relationships now, but there's a long-term master plan to beautify our life. And it begins the day we're born again. God sets that plan into motion. And it begins to even wrestle with us and ambush us. And sometimes we get boxed in a corner and the Lord says, I want to I want to response out of you of humility and surrender and you'll be grateful because in the age to come you'll see that all of heaven is just rejoices when there's humility chosen on the earth beloved when you choose humility in this age, though it goes unrecognized by many maybe even by yourself. You won't really esteem it heaven celebrates and shouts and you'll wear that humility forever and God knows that so he says I'm going to hold you to some things though. You'd like to escape some of that pressure. I'm wanting to produce a response that will have long-term impact that you will really appreciate when you see the whole story of what it's worked in you. Now the beauty of the Lord that he imparts to us the focus of the beauty in this age is internal first Peter calls it an incorruptible beauty in the heart. It's a beauty that God sees and it's a beauty that he talks about and that he celebrates openly in the age to come but the beauty starts now and the challenge is the challenge is that we see the beauty that's working in us like he does so that we have a sense of hope and a whole different perspective about our life. We can cast off the enemy's lies. He keeps telling us our life is worthless and weak and doesn't matter and the Lord says no, I'm working beauty in you it the beauty is real now and I want you to see it. My word declares it but one day you'll see it openly and fully and you'll rejoice in my leadership over you in this life when you see the whole story unfold before you now one of the challenges of the subject of the beauty of the Lord is the fact the beauty is hidden the Lord's beauty and the beauty that he imparts we have to search after it. It's not immediately obvious. Yes, it takes an intentionality to go after it last week. We looked at the two parables the hidden treasure the great treasure that was hidden and the pearl the beautiful pearl and the message was the beauty of the Lord is there but it has to be pursued and we would just like it to suddenly fall on us and be overwhelmed and there's moments when we're surprised and overwhelmed by glimpses of beauty but in our everyday life like King David said all the days of my life were intentional about going after it all the days of all these my life is what David said well, let's look at Psalm 90 we began with a prayer that Moses prayed now Moses was the first person in the Bible to highlight God's beauty being imparted to human beings and he prayed this prayer in Psalm 90 verse 17 he said let the beauty of the Lord be upon the people that was probably a bit surprising to the people that time because the people in the generation of Moses they thought of God's terrifying presence the mountain shook the fire the thunder the lightning and they were far more afraid than they were fascinated but Moses he says that let me tell you it's in God's heart to cause his beauty to be imparted and to rest upon his people now Moses had greater revelation of the glory of God and the beauty of God in terms of majestic encounters that anyone in the Old Testament any prophet in the Old Testament he prayed in Exodus 33 Lord, let me see your glory he could have used the word beauty or the word majesty matter of fact in the book of Isaiah majesty glory and beauty are used interchangeably in many of the passages and many different Bible translations one will say glory the other will say beauty the other will say majesty because it's a again. It's a word that can be translated in many different ways. I mean in these several different ways Moses said let me see your glory in Exodus 33 let me see your beauty and in Exodus 34 he did the Lord's visited him in power and his goodness and his graciousness appeared and Moses saw the beauty and the glory of the Lord matter of fact, it was such a remarkable encounter that in Exodus 34 when he had it that the glory and the beauty rested on him and when he came off the mountain the children of Israel looked he says your face there was a brilliance. There was a glory resting on him and Moses. I mean the children of Israel were terrified to look at him now when Moses encountered the beauty and then that beauty was imparted and rested on him that was just a little down payment of where Salvation is going the Salvation plan of God the beauty of God will be fully upon his people. Well, it was probably after that encounter where Moses said let the beauty rest on the people of God now in the Old Testament the Holy Spirit only rested on a few people for a very short time. So this larger Salvation plan of Salvation to impart beauty it was progressive the Salvation history reveals. The plan was progressive a little bit of the Old Testament a few people had a touch of the Holy Spirit for a short period and a little bit of the beauty of God rested on the people very small number and the New Testament. It's significantly increased every believer has the indwelling spirit every believer has the aid of the Holy Spirit to help them. But the problem is the beauty we receive is still hidden from our natural mind though the spirit dwells in everyone and we have the word of God we have to look to the word to see with clarity the beauty we possess but every believer could do it and the Holy Spirit says I help you I will inspire you. I will enlighten your understanding. So in the Old Testament, just a few people a touch of the Spirit here and there in the New Testament everybody but the beauty still hidden from our natural thinking in our natural five senses, but we got the word the word says the beauty of God is a part of our life. So we say what the word says of the Holy Spirit enlightens us as we stay with that dialogue with the Lord, but then in the age to come it's the fullness of the resurrection. I mean the beauty you possess is fully made known and fully revealed. You see the beauty of God in your life in full splendor and you see it in the lives of the people around you. It's open for all to see well paragraph B Isaiah 61 Isaiah 61 is one of the most well-known passages describing prophesying the ministry of the Messiah. I mean, everybody knows Isaiah 61 the Spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach the good news heal broken hearts liberate captives. Well, if you look at Isaiah 61 closely, you will identify there's 12 specific facets of the Messiah's ministry that he will do 12 specific ones and one of them that I'm highlighting here is this reality the Holy Spirit was on Jesus to impart beauty to his people. Now, that's an element of Jesus's ministry by the spirit that's often neglected even by the most devout and earnest and eager people. They're big on preaching the good news, which they should be that's number one setting captives free healing broken heart. Maybe a little bit. They'll go down a few more of that list of 12 aspects of Jesus's ministry. But most folks don't really camp out on this facet to give them beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning now the oil of joy and the revelation of the beauty that we receive they go together. We'll talk about that a little bit more. Now we emphasize looking on the Lord's beauty but Isaiah 61 saying something different. It's not just look on his beauty see the beauty he imparts to you and that's part of the whole storyline of gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Psalm 149 David prophesies he's in agreement with Isaiah the same spirit the Lord will beautify the people that respond to God with humility. God will beautify their lives and the beauty that's in their life in this age that which which we find out later. They don't fully grasp the full implications of it, but it's fully revealed in the age to come but the beauty is real and it's substantive and it's in the people of God even now not I want to wait till the resurrection to understand what's going on. I want this part of Jesus's ministry functioning in my life now. I don't want to wait till the resurrection and see that every act of humility every word of encouragement every dollar. I invested the kingdom every hour. I invested every person I talked to I mean the simplest conversation the Lord remembers it and he esteemed it as beauty that I stand before the Lord. I go Lord, but I would have known that back then I would have been far more engaged and far more motivated and far more encouraged. Well, David prophesied it God's going to beautify the humble those that respond again, they'll see it a little bit in this age, but they'll see it full implications of it in the age to come paragraph C well, we go to the familiar passage of Psalm 27 for from King David beauty and when David says this one thing all the days of my life, I gaze on the beauty what he's teaching us here. He's teaching us that we have to be intentional to search out the beauty. We have to be intentional when he says all the days of my life David saying I want to grow in this on a regular basis. Not just wait for a one-off encounter that suddenly falls upon me from heaven. And and so David's message here is that we're intentional to search out what the word says about the beauty of the Lord and we look at creation through the lens of the word and the spirit. We look at the story of redemption. We look at God's leadership and history in our life. We look at many things but through the lens of what the word says and we see it differently though. We can see the grandeur of creation just with our natural observation. But if we take the word of the spirit and ask the Holy Spirit to tutor us and teach us we'll see more that would normally meet the eye just by natural observation. Well today we are doing Psalm 27 for David said I'm going to be intentional to search out the beauty of the Lord and that's what excuse me. That's what we're doing today. Now David I got to make another comment about David that in Psalm 16 verse 3. He says that the Saints the people that were close to him. He said they are the excellent ones of the earth. That's a pretty remarkable statement that David's view of his co-workers and the people around him was influenced by his searching for the beauty of God. The beauty that God possesses but the beauty of God in people the beauty of God in his own life. He was searching for it and he discovered it and it changed the way he evaluated people. Now I've studied the life of David pretty diligently over the years and the people around David day I wouldn't have called him excellent. I think boy David that's a reach I would have said something like they are diamonds in the rough undoubtedly in eternity. They will shine brightly, but they're diamonds in the rough. But I believe David saw them differently because he saw the beauty of God in his own life in his own brokenness. He saw his life through the lens of what the Word of God says and when you see yourself different you see other people different. I mean just take a moment. Look at the person to the right and left. I mean, they are beautiful. They're really excellent ones and you can tell them say man. You are one of the excellent ones and if you have to you might say by faith. I mean, you know what? I mean, no, don't say by faith. Why would David search out the beauty of God all the days of his life? Why would it be so intentional? Why do we want to be so intentional about this? I mean, what would be the purpose in the reason for this? Well, one reason is it gives us tremendous hope when I see the beauty of God in my life in the face of Satan's continual accusations in lies that bombard the Saints Satan tells us all the time your life is too weak. Your life is too aimless. You're not bearing any fruit. All you do is fail and struggle. You're not hitting the mark on anything. When we see our life through the lens of God's Word. We have a paradigm shift. We a real radical perspective change and when I see the truth about my life, it really changes the way I feel about myself dramatically. The truth is the Word of God says it. So I believe it. Our smallest deeds of obedience are beautiful to God and he remembers them forever. Now, you wouldn't know that if the word didn't say it, but the word says it. One of the verses I quote the most. I mean, I quote very often is if only you give a cup of cold water in my name. The smallest act of service. Jesus said surely surely I will reward you. I will never forget the smallest act of service because it beautifies you. It's beautiful. And when I meet you face to face one day, I will reward you. Now, we know that eternal rewards is Jesus. Letting us see how he felt about the way we loved him and the way we sought to imitate him. That's what eternal rewards are every cup of cold water. The words the weak simple words you speak in conversations that encourage people just ever so slightly those words the scripture says are recorded in his book. I mean the vast libraries in heaven of all the books that have the conversations that were redemptive and I don't mean you had an intense Bible study. But just simple words of encouragement where you encourage people in the Lord and bless them. Those are written in the book and God calls those beautiful those words and he remembers them forever. The weakest expression of humility, but it were really expressing humility. I mean, we're humbling ourselves to we were not treated in the way we deserve to be treated. We were passed by and things didn't go our way and but we humble ourself and trust his leadership. The Lord says that beautifies your spirit. That's beautiful and it's very dear to be very precious to me. We may not remember it. We may not even esteem it but God does this hidden beauty. Now again in Isaiah 61 the passage we started with he says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. To give you beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for morning and the revelation of beauty and the oil of joy are deeply associated and connected with one another when I see my weak words my small labors my imperfect efforts to humble myself that God is moved by them and calls them beautiful. It gives me a sense of encouragement and my life is going somewhere. Nothing's more painful than thinking your life is going nowhere. It's derailed. It's off the tracks. It doesn't matter. Nobody remembers nobody notices. It doesn't matter whether you do it or don't do it. That's one of the most destructive mindsets, but many people have that mindset. And it's called morning and Isaiah said the Messiah he'll give you the oil of joy for morning morning is that despair that sense of being forgotten of being aimless of having a worthless life wanting to just quit and give up that's morning Isaiah says there can be joy. There could be a confidence and a gratitude coming in your spirit about God's leadership in your life. And though your words are weak and your deeds are small and your efforts to humble yourself. Aren't that great? God remembers them. Your life is going somewhere. There's a plan that's unfolding and it's going to last forever and it moves God beloved when we have that sense of that oil of joy. It's an it changes everything. One of the reasons a lot of good sincere people who love God quit pressing into God because they can't see any fruitfulness or any profit in what they're doing. They go, you know, I love God, but I didn't go in anywhere and the Lord says, yeah, it is. No, it's not the Lord. Just take the testimony of my word. Not your observation of circumstances. My life is going nowhere and they draw back and they quit pressing because they can't see what God sees about their life. This is an intensely practical subject. This is not just a pie in the sky subject for spiritual romantics that want to pursue beauty. You see your life through this land lens joy that sense of well-being is what I mean by joy will triumph over despair. Talk to people all the time. They go. I can't go any further. I can't keep doing it. I go. Well, actually you can and actually you will you'll still be alive tomorrow. You'll still be doing it. But I want to encourage you instead of yielding to the devil's lies and just giving up and giving in don't give somebody a cup of cold water and go say a couple kind words to people because that will beautify your life. Then see what the word says about you doing that and go with the story of what God says about your life. Well, let's look at Colossians chapter 3 in paragraph D. Colossians 3 articulates the challenge of this subject very clearly. Paul the apostle says your life is hidden in Christ. Your life is hidden in Christ. But verse 4 when Jesus appears in glory and his manifest beauty then you will appear in glory and the beauty of God. You can use again beauty and glory. You can use interchangeably many times when related to the being of God. Well, let's look at this is a very very significant statement because what Paul is saying is that it's not obvious to your five senses in your natural mindset the beauty you possess without the aid of the Holy Spirit and the written word you won't see it. Like the scripture says you're forgiven. You can't measure it in a cup. How do you know you're forgiven? The word says it that's it because it's hidden. You can't see it in an analytical way to measure it scientifically. The word says it so you believe it. The word says you've received the gift of righteousness. There's no proof but the word says it the word says your words your deeds your humility. God sees is beautiful. That's in the same vein as how we believe the other issues of the word of God. So these things are hidden from our natural observation. They're hidden from our five senses. We can't measure them, but the revealed in the word and Paul says draw on the word renew your mind by the word say what God says don't wait for natural observation to discover this because you won't and that's where a lot of believers go wrong. They just say well, it's a cool subject. But you know, I'm glad we're touching on that a few weeks and let's move on. I go. No, this is life-changing. This is essential to your life. This is essential giving beauty for ashes in the oil of joy that sense of well-being in the place of despair is critical in managing our heart through difficult times in life. This is part of Jesus's ministry to give beauty for ashes. Well, the good news is in a short period of time a matter of time the truth about your inward life before God will be fully made. No, you go. No, no. No, that others does forgive it and cleanse. I'm talking about all the movements of your heart the words the small deeds the money the time you've sowed into the kingdom because you love him. We'll see it openly fully displayed when he is fully displayed paragraph eat Peter emphasizes the same word that Paul does hidden. There's several passages in the New Testament that let us know that the glorious things that are true now are actually hidden from natural observation. And again, we only have the Word of God's and the testimony of the word as our source of truth. So it's critical that we renew our mind by saying what God says about our life and not let the devil accuse us lie to us to just run wreck havoc in our life through lies that create despair and fear and then those feelings cause us to make really bad and wrong decisions. We need the oil of joy, but it comes out of seeing the beauty. Look what he says here in first Peter Peter agrees with Paul that it's hidden. He talks about the hidden person of the heart. It's not obvious to natural observation without the aid of the Word of God. Peter goes on and says it's incorruptible. We talked on this a little bit last week. It's incorruptible. It will never diminish natural beauty diminishes this is incorruptible. It's real right now. It doesn't begin in the age to come. It's real right now and God looks at it and it says here. It's very precious to God. It's valuable to God. It's not casual or incidental to him. It's very precious to him. What is precious? Look at the two words that Peter highlights when you respond with gentleness and with a quiet spirit. Now many translations will use the word humility instead of gentle. Some translations will use the word meekness meekness, humility, gentleness are often interchanged by different Bible translations. What Peter is saying you're in a difficult time. You're not feeling you're getting the treatment. You deserve things are going tough. You're being dishonored in some way overtly accidentally or intentionally and your heart's responding and the Lord says no and trust yourself to me. Don't go on the attack mode. I'm not talking about legal situations and complicated things that are beyond what I'm addressing right now. I'm just talking about an interpersonal relationships in the kingdom. In the marketplace and somebody not he's got a wrong attitude and they're not honoring you. They're passing you by and you choose humility because you choose humility because you've done that transaction in your heart where you've given yourself to God's leadership and trusted him that I know that what's in your heart towards me will come to pass. God says when you do that Peter says that's beautiful. It's incorruptible beauty. The beauty is real now. You could actually enjoy God's esteem God's estimation of that beauty. If you take first Peter 3 for it face value, but what happens is we kind of get lost in the shuffle and and we're hurt and and all these things happen and the Holy Spirit's like first Peter 3 for it's beautiful hump. This is humility. It's glorious. God loves it. He'll openly tell you about it one day. You'll wear it. Heaven is shouting and celebrating that choice when people on the earth choose humility. But now that's kind of pie in the sky. I want my rights. So we kick into criticism and attack mode and whisper mode and complain mode our spear gets defiled. We sink deeper and the Lord says no, no, there's beauty working in you. If you can see it, it will cause the oil of joy. You'll triumph over despair. You'll have a confidence. You'll have a gratitude. You'll have a sense of well-being that your life is going somewhere. If you could connect to my narrative. Well, the other word he uses is a quiet spirit. Now a quiet spirit. What this means in the context is that in times of trouble, the trouble comes. I mean circumstances. I mean a tough circumstances in life. The enemy wants the negative circumstance to dominate the narrative of our life. Life is too hard. It's financial physical persecution setbacks, whatever the enemy wants that narrative to dominate our life. But the word of God says now look to my leadership. I have the last word. Look to me say what I say. I work all things together for good to those that will interact with me and bring their heart to me. That's what Peter means in this context by the quiet spirit. He means the one that's at peace instead of agitated and filled with fear. That is very normal for us to get in that situation under a time of pressure. But the point I want to make when we bond and humility, even though it's not mature humility, but that's the reach of our heart. And in our troubles, we do this transaction is realignment with God's heart and we trust him and God has the last word. Peter says, do you know it's beautiful. It's not going to be this now. Heaven is celebrating. God is moved. Say see what God sees about your your responses and you can have a whole strengthening a whole new dimension of strengthening of your spiritual life. Roman numeral to why are we beautiful to God? Number one beauty is in the eyes of the beholder because the personality of God if God was cruel and angry, he would not view you responding in humility and trusting him as beautiful. He was cruel and angry. Vindictive when you trusted him, he said, so what you ought to trust me. I'm the sovereign God big deal. But because God is so gracious and kind when we trust him, I mean, we ought to all the angels adore him and we trust him and they go, what's the big deal? They trust you. Look who you are. God says, oh, no, no, no, it's beautiful. Look at that. So it's because of his personality. That's one reason why God views our life is beautiful. He's the fountain of beauty. Therefore, he is the authority to define what is beautiful and what is not. And he says at responding in humility, giving someone a cup of cold water, speaking some kind words to somebody just in the course of life that encourages them. That's called beautiful. God says that I believe it. Second reason, God sees us as beautiful. The gift of righteousness. I mean, this is amazing. You know, the righteousness you receive the day you were born again can never be improved upon. It's God's own righteousness. It can a million years from now. You will not have a righteousness superior to the righteousness. You receive the day you were born again. It's beautiful. Isaiah 61 calls it beautiful garments of righteousness. They're beautiful to God. When he looks at us, he looks at us through that lens to those garments. The design of the human spirit. We're the only part of creation that is made in the image of God made designed to interact with intimacy with the Godhead. God likes the way we're built. The way he designed us. There's no other part of creation. The angels can't interact with God this way. It moves God. He likes the way he designed us. Our godly choices. Again, the simple words. The little the weak words, the simple deeds, the movement to be humble to trust God. He calls those beautiful. He's budding virtues. They're not even mature yet, but he sees beauty in them. I'm glad you do. I don't know that I would see beauty in it, but you're God. So I'll take it. If you say it, I'll take it. And then our eternal destiny. The enemy wants us to look at our life through the last few weeks or few months. And we look at our life. Oh, man, it's been tough. I haven't fall through the way. I thought, oh, oh, that's not, I don't know. The enemy goes, come on. That's right. That's right. You loser. Just quit. God looks at our life through the lens of billions of years as the bride of Christ. 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of your billion year time with Jesus. You're billion times a billion. You're walking in perfection. God sees even that the big story of your life, not the last week or month. The devil says God's written you off. God says, no, I know who you are. You can't fathom who you are. I mean if Matthew the tax collector immoral cheater Swindler would have known his name would be on the foundation of the New Jerusalem Not a chance he could have figured that out top of page two God sees his people as precious jewels This isn't just symbolic We are far more valuable than jewels When he says you're like jewels Jewels are lower in quality and value than the people he's talking about Some people say well now a symbolic. I mean the jewels are kind of the big value God says no my people are they're far more beautiful valuable rare far more durable than even natural jewels Says in Zechariah 9 you're like jewels of a crown Isaiah 62 you're a crown of glory. There's a number of verses that are like this Hebrews 2 7 God crowns you with glory and honor and you could put the word beauty and honor He crowns you with beauty like jewels Ephesians chapter 1 verse 17 The passage we pray all the time father of glory Open the eyes of our Understanding by the Spirit so we can see here's the phrase the riches of the glory The riches of the beauty of belonging to Christ being his in his eternal companion Let me see the beauty I possess in his eyes that I am his eternal companion the wealth of the beauty the riches of the glory a Belonging to Jesus because he sees beauty of course, it's his own beauty that he aparts but mingled in with our own unique Personalities according to his creative design. It's it's a glorious reality I want us to see this riches of glory of how he looks at us when he sees us He doesn't look at your life ago. What a loser. He goes Wow Beauty Glory Splendor, it's growing. It's emerging in your life paragraph see Paul says 2nd Corinthians 2 God always Leads us in triumph. It's an interesting phrase and he manifests through us releases through us his fragrance The fragrance of his knowledge to other people verse 15. These are big statements. These are dramatic statements That are bigger than our context here For we are to God now the fragrance of Christ now not going to be God looks at us and the aroma and the fragrance that he sees now. He's talking to the Corinthians The Corinthians were only surpassed in carnality by the Laodiceans This is the most carnal church nearly in the book of Acts And he looks at their weak lives, but he sees Dimensions of their life that are responding to his leadership. He goes Fragrances emanating out of you because of the grace of God of the work of the cross Worked in you and your response to it now I've always Appreciate this word always he always leads us in triumph what? God Is he wrestles us he gets us in a corner? Gets us in a situation where there's no easy way out. So we respond to him and We triumph does it mean we walk in victory in every area of our life all of our days? What it means is his leadership because I backed you to corner. I wrestled you I got you to respond I put you in a situation where you needed to respond and Your response will triumph over meaninglessness It will triumph over vanity that kindness that humility that Response it will live to the age to come that will beautify you It will make your life powerful and when we get there on the last day We'll say Lord I could have never have known in that difficult situation I responded you were leading me in a way that triumphed over vanity and meaninglessness in this life It's more than that, but it includes that as well Paragraph D David agreed with Peter David says praise When we realign our heart with God, it's beautiful When he says praise, he don't be just beautiful music at a worship service That's included but there's it's more than that when a human being Rejoice in the Lord instead of caving in to criticism and despair and quitting Complaining and gossiping they go. No. No, I'm gonna take hold of God's leadership realign myself under his leadership Thank you. I trust you. That's the same thing Peter said what he said a quiet spirit. You're trusting in him You're realigning and David said it's beautiful to God Peter said it's incorruptible beauty. It's a beauty that lasts beyond the grave. Look at paragraph II Only a cup of cold water The smallest deed he will remember forever Look at Malachi 3 the people that fear God people like you He says when they talk to one another it's written in the books the books in heaven the libraries are filled of Conversations. This isn't just the top apostles in the book of Acts having a Council and it's written in heaven what they said. This is you coming and going talking to each other just encouraging instead of criticizing and judging and whispering and all that God writes him in the book. Praise God. He deletes and Forgives the other but he goes the simple words you say They move me look what he says he goes you're my jewels When you speak this way your beauty your value is being exhibited when you talk Give somebody a cup of cold water say some words Beloved look at the next passage Matthew 13 you shine The beauty that will be manifest in the days to come Linked to the simple little things we look at those little things they got they don't really matter Gus's. Oh, you're completely wrong Where'd you get that idea? They don't matter. Well, I don't feel like they matter. Nobody paid attention. It didn't move anybody God says read the words see what I say and see what how heaven evaluates those small Deeds and those weak words Say what I say over your life Paragraph F. I'm gonna have the worship team come up paragraph F Malachi 3 God says full disclosure. I Am a refiner's fire I'm coming after the dross. I Am state champion wrestler plus some I'm gonna get you I'm gonna wrestle you full disclosure disclosure. I'm a refiner's fire, but here's what you don't know When I get you and get you to respond though, you won't like the process The gold appears and emerges. I'm after gold. You won't get it now But look at the final verse first Corinthians 13 on the last day Those simple words of encouragement and blessing and being helpful the simple cup of cold water the little deeds the investment of time helping people the finances the responding in humility praising God first complaining and criticizing and Gossiping but we're praising we're lining up with leadership. This results in gold in the age to come Beloved when we stand there on that day. We'll say oh If I could have enjoyed who I was More when I was on the earth, I would have gone I would have been more consistent with you Lord Well, amen and amen Let's stand before the Lord and let's respond to him. Let's just take a minute. It's the worship team prepares to lead us Everybody has got a pressure or a problem And like Peter said Humility, he's the word gentleness, but humility or a quiet spirit the problems God has the last word You're realigning to God and you're being humble to people Let's take a minute and realign and I want to declare the word over you It's precious to God It's incorruptible beauty. It's beautiful today right now. We can do something Beautiful that lives beyond the grave right now we can So let's just take a moment Go ahead. Let's just go ahead and begin to lead us Take that area That prompt that trial that problem. I want to respond in a quiet spirit. I want to realign with God Lord all things work together for good. You're All loving all powerful all wise, you know, what's best for me. I can trust your leadership realign right now I'm letting go of this complaining No, I trust you Right now just cross the room Humility the person that's not honoring you. Let it go bless them Lord I put my life in your hands You're my source You define me now God says that's beautiful right now today do an act of beauty right now in your life supplies in our marriage with our children our neighbors In the marketplace, this is everywhere beloved For beauty To grow in our life because Wanna bite anybody that Related to this or healing in your body or a family situation you want to pray about it or anything There might be someone in the room that you've never given your heart to Jesus You've never received his salvation Come on up here when they pray with you. Tell them say how does this work? They'll talk to you how you can actually receive the gift of salvation and that's when a beauty in your life All we love your leadership Anybody in need go ahead come on up Leaders and SCF Lord I just declare the beauty of the Lord Open the eyes Perfect Lord open the eyes We have because we're yours Come Holy spirit, we just invite your ministry Holy spirit we invite your healing power Mountains and their splendor they cannot steal your heart And he's ravished by Please We take the 40 over the spirit of heaviness He would give you joy Oh Speaking over our hearts You say we're beautiful to our hearts calling this beautiful When you look at us You need sickness if your body is sick and you need healing Your body let us know come up here and identify the fact you're asking for healing Speak those words Lord we want to say How do you measure us Let us believe Lord release your glory Release your Lord show us your glory like Moses said show us your beauty If you show us your glory show us your beauty You're beautiful beautiful God speak it you are you For God speak over us speak over us those words of life Praise will God speak over us Speak over us those words of life Beautiful God speak over us speak over us those words of life Beautiful God speak over us speak over us those words of life Those words of life Release your world in a new way Oh We step out of agreement with those lies come replace them with the truth that you're speaking over us