In this sermon, the preacher describes a journey up a cableway to a beautiful mountain, followed by a visit to a tea place and a boat ride around Seal Island. The preacher then mentions a visit to a beautiful garden where royalty from around the world come to see a president. The sermon takes a personal turn as the preacher reflects on a conversation with his father and a meeting with a woman named Jeannie. The preacher then shifts to discussing the importance of friends and warns against having bad friends. He emphasizes the need for discernment and quotes a proverb about the influence of evil communication. The sermon concludes with a story about a young man who became a millionaire but had personal struggles, highlighting the importance of seeking God and avoiding negative influences.

Dear Lord, we come to you this morning. Lord, we thank you for giving us a night of rest. Thank you for the time here with Keith Daniel. Lord, you know the questions that we will put forth or the things that he will share with us. Lord, I pray that you give us open and receptive hearts. May we learn, may we apply, may we take out from this place something that may encourage us to live a closer life and walk a closer walk with you. Be with each one of us, Lord, and help us to be attentive. Help us to be alert, Lord, to your spirit, to your presence, and to enjoy the fellowship that we have around your word. In Jesus' name, amen. I want to floor the first question only for the reason that was shared with you earlier. Yesterday morning he spoke very well. On the very well on the prodigal son. And it's extremely important, a couple points he made, and I was going to use it my family altar this morning. I told my wife I'm gonna, I'll have Keith to expound upon it, because I was going to expound upon it in my own family. But he's the one who preached the message, so now he gets a chance to expound upon it. Some of the prodigal son, some of the ways that you know that you're going into the far land. One of the ways is by the friends, and another by the places. How do you know what that friend is? What are the evidences of a bad friend? What, or how do you know when you are being a bad friend? Do you understand what I'm getting at there? Can you expound upon that a little bit to these young people, because they are at that age where they are making friends, and they are moving away from their family ties, which is normal and natural. To have friends is very important. Go for that, please. Well, there's a lot of scriptures that I can think of. You might be able to quote them better than I am able to right now, just thinking all over. But be not deceived, you know, if you have evil communication, you become bad-mannered. It's basically a proverb, and you have evil friends, they're going to influence you. And of course your conscience is quickened by the Holy Ghost when you're saved. And the moment you're with somebody that's out of touch with God, you know. Let's rephrase that. You can be saved and insensitive to God, the Holy Ghost, guarding you, and the protection, if you neglect your quiet time. You've all heard me say it over and over again. I think to some people, I've actually said those words a hundred times, and they kind of look at me just to say, well, was there nothing else you can tell me? If you are right with God, when you are right with God, the quiet time doesn't make you right with God. The initial meeting place with God is by the Holy Ghost, convicting you, bringing you to a crisis moment, where you seek God with all your heart, soul, and might. But when you are right with God in a moment, through prayer and faith in the blood of Christ, and you're yielding the will to God and the fight ceases, against God, you are maintained daily by the quiet time. You can have a quiet time until you die and be a grief, unless you've had a meeting place with God. It's not the time you spend, but when you daily are renewed, and fed, and strengthened, and built up to grow, in every aspect, you are protected. You are protected the moment you are with the wrong friend, the Holy Ghost, who is somehow whispering in your heart, careful, don't get too close here. Witness, and run. If he's going to carry on with this language, this lightheartedness, you spend just too much time with somebody that even has the wrong spirit in how he speaks, it will influence you. It will influence you. And the only safety you have, and I have, the only guarantee we have of knowing is the quiet time. You have to be right with God, that's a whole sermon in its own, and an appeal, and a prayer, but thereafter, to know when you're in the wrong company, how do you know what friends to choose? The Holy Ghost told you, you shouldn't spend too much time with this girl, unless she seeks God, and unless you are so sure God wants you to witness, and that you will not be defiled, or in any way affected by the spirit this person is carrying. I have a young fellow in South Africa, he became a millionaire, I think in American terms of dollars, by the age of 20. His father was one of the top executives in our country's land, and he had real perverted problems in his life. And of course, sitting there with other people that dragged him, he began to speak to his parents, who had aged through his life, starved, and his wickedness. But he began to want to meet me, he met me at the airport, he wants to be the one who takes me through to these very wealthy areas, beautiful mansions, where they let me stay, when I'm in that area. Because his mother is so godly. But he wanted a friend of me. And there was a point in front of his parents, I just said, I can't be your friend, sir. I can share to you the gospel I can share on a spiritual level to bring you to Jesus Christ. But I cannot find time or make time to just sit with you with the things you're interested in and listen to your interest in other things. I can't be your friend. I can help you to find Jesus Christ and true repentance, and I will be there for you. I will not become someone who will sit and waste hours listening to the things that could defile me, or even influence me. Now that shook him. And he kind of recoiled in shock and hurt, I suppose. But his mother said, you know, you were so wise. Because other preachers he made friends of, but he had nothing in his heart to get right with God. He gets taken up with people, preachers. And you're the first one that said what I want to hear a man say, I was interested in your friendship, I'm interested in your soul, and until you get right with God I can't be a friend. So I'm not his friend. But I said to him, I'll be there at two o'clock in the morning. You can wake me up the moment you want to seek Jesus Christ. I'll cross the country to be with you if you need me, if you really need me to be the one to pray with you. I'll do any sacrifice, but I will not be what you're looking for. I lost all my friends in one moment when I got saved. They just fled. Because their values were obnoxious to me and defiling. Their priorities were a waste of time. Not a year later, the day I was saved. And if you've been saved a long time and you come near anybody, even in a church situation, that isn't there for Christ, that's against their will there, perhaps for their parents, which is, it is your duty to be a witness, it is your duty to show love and concern, it is your duty to try. But there's just a thin little line the Holy Ghost will draw and say to you, no further or you will be influenced wrongly. And the only way you'll know that is not a book of look for these things, just be right with God, the Holy Ghost, by the quiet time. You're as safe as your quiet time in every aspect of life, even in who you allow yourself to spend time with. It sounds cruel, but I think many a person in the church were ruined because they weren't having this quiet time like they ought to. And maybe it seemed the right thing to want to win this person to Christ. But that person won you in the end, by his influences, by his spirit. What's the verse? Evil communication, bad manners. How does it go? Yes, you can't get away with it. You choose the wrong company, it'll influence you. But that doesn't mean you don't neglect the soul. You don't neglect the soul. You don't neglect to show compassion to the weak and to the failing and to those compromising. You don't neglect to pray and try and reach them. But the Holy Ghost, because of the quiet time, full stop, when you're right with God, the being touched by God and renewed and brought into touch with God and anointed, literally, unless you are anointed through the quiet time, you didn't have a quiet time. Anointed to walk through this world and stay pure. But if you are, the Holy Ghost will tell you. So far? Yes. So that's how you would know how to choose a friend, even in the church. In our conventions, back in South Africa, we are very conservative, but wow, the influences of the world come in. You just see like they're from another planet, suddenly these wicked, you know, that arrive at the convent, of course we've got to show them compassion, of course you don't all sit around and say, you go away, what are you doing in this convention? We've got to win them. Hallelujah, you've got to. And you do. You win the worst. Isn't that your, like Jesus, he would sit with sinners, but he never sinned. He never was influenced by them. And in our conventions, a lot of our children, a lot of our children, their downfall, spiritually, was at a holiness convention, where there was a high conservative standard. Their downfall was there was somebody there who came from a godly family, but who was just not there for God. And a lot of our children in our missionaries' homes, of the godliest missionaries, you could ever find on earth many of them, their children were destroyed through just being at a Christian conservative convention. They just spent enough time with the wrong person to be influenced by that spirit and those values. Or a sensual, wicked moment of suggestiveness. And even David could fall, who was a man of the God's own heart. Don't think you can't fall. You don't be with such people long enough to let them do that. One of the children I'm speaking about was murdered the other day in his wickedness and it started at a convention where his father was the preacher and he made a wrong friend. And he shouldn't have, and didn't have to. We mustn't go too far into the doctrines of eternal security, etc. yet. Because his mother really believed he was saved as a boy. I just say, your quiet times are your safety. Actually, in every aspect of life they're your safety. Your time with Jesus, alone with Jesus. Even Christ said that differentiates between someone who's a joy to God and a hypocrite. The secret place. Reality, hypocrisy, the secret place. Does that answer your question? Yes, I think it did Go on, I hope the pumps are primed. Is there any other questions? Please just ask and I'll try. Maybe some people have to help me here. Because please don't believe I know everything. I look at Brother Tim and I'm learning from him. He doesn't know it. He said, I prayed about your pastor this morning and I'm going to embarrass him and I just said, Lord, this man is uniquely good. And I'm very honored to be here with him. He's a uniquely good man. That isn't to puff you up brother, and let's face it, I will not do that. And sometimes a man just needs to hear something positive. It's true. So now, what's the next question? Otherwise we go for a pizza. A whole week. I'm even thinking of it now. When you were speaking I was like, whoa. It's not how long you spend with questions. It's what happens in the heart while you ask them. And what God will keep in your heart and change your course. And five minutes of something that was God's business pushing for two hours here, so in 40 minutes or an hour we finish, we go and have our pizza. But now, who wants to ask something else? Have braveness. Have courage. And ask. Please don't ask something that will make me have a heart attack. And you will know as you're asking it, this is going to kill him. So that's your fault if I die, brother. Okay. There comes time for you to perform before you're born. The greatest role in that is not the discipline and the strictness of keeping you from the opposite sex in a long situation. Their prayers. There was this sermon I preached in South Africa years ago and this Methodist preacher was sitting there, his name was Stephen Murray. He married Andrew Murray's great-granddaughter. And she was very godly and her parents were so godly. And I preached that someone prayed for us when we were saved. We were so smashed by sin. Our family, we had wealth but we had poverty of happiness through not knowing God. And my father was such a good man but his priorities were so out of touch with what God wanted a man to seek for happiness that our lives just were a shipwreck and our family was destroyed. And a couple of houses down when we got saved, this little lady, I'll never forget the way she just walked to the door and said, we want to tell you we've been praying for six years for your family, every day. We knew you were going through horrible times and things and we were on our knees praying and God has answered our prayer. And others later on that I was astonished how many God had raised up to pray for us. And then I made this statement I think I'd be astonished if anybody has ever been saved that wasn't earnestly prayed for. When we're in heaven it won't be the preacher that God will say, look at all the fruit it'll be from one who prayed and wept for six years. And God will say, look this is your fruit. And the old preacher would have to sort of go back and back as the prayers, those who prayed just get thanked by the dear Lord Jesus and those who came to Christ for, that's what God uses. Anyway this young fellow who had married Andrew Murray's great-granddaughter she was one of our missionaries before she married him, he was a Methodist preacher I think he's a Methodist, I don't know but he said to us oh no he said later on he told us he said I don't know anyone who prayed for me. Brother Keith said he believes everyone was prayed for. But no one prayed for me, no one ever came to me and said I've prayed six years. So his wife's mother, she was crippled with arthritis, she was this little always held a Bible she just got up and walked over and said oh I prayed for you to be saved. He said yeah but I didn't know you when I got saved and only met you later. She said oh no from the day my daughter was born I prayed every day for the man that she would one day meet and fall in love with to be saved and to become a man of God. And I look at you and I see in you all the things I ask God to do. I prayed for you when my child was born every day. I didn't know your name but God knew you'd come on my daughter's birth. So that's the first way a parent will have in any say true say in what a child finally ends up with their son or daughter. And of course their example their teachings their warnings be not unequally owed to the unbelievers their plea don't be like Esau please be like Jacob because Esau Esau's wives actually before he married his friends the choice of girls and company were a grief to Isaac and Rebecca they were a grief and then he finally married these godless girls and these wives were a grief to his father and mother he had been in a godly home raised in a godly home and he knew he was grieving his parents you see it was tragic but you can be a child who is raised but there's the free will of man what he chose back in the Old Testament made God hate not him as a person but his choices careful of Romans 9 unless you look at the rest of the scriptures because almost every verse comes from the Old Testament a lot from Job it isn't just thrown up a new theology that Paul gave us in Romans 9 and you've got to be careful there but the influence on the other son worked it worked he respected he revered that he had to wait for a choice that his father and mother would not be grieved at would even influence and he was waiting and when circumstances come you know when you fall in love your heart must go bang God made you like that it's not a sin and I get scared if someone's heart doesn't go pow they tell me I've got a script so I must marry this person that's a bit abnormal if they don't tell me and their heart went badum badum and then God created confirmation through the scriptures yes in the quiet time and the scriptures you need once your heart goes bang isn't this is my will it is God's will if you're right with God the scriptures you need to take notice of if God stops you and warns you and not only that but circumstances parents warn you no the godly who prayed for you from day one and the person God can use them wonderfully and they have discernment my son has just got married no he's 26 and she isn't a missionary caliber and she hasn't been saved for years one must be careful not to wait for somebody that is what God took 40 years to make me before I'll accept this could be God's will for my son remember the patience God had with you Keith and everybody else before you say this girl is in God's will she loves the Lord and you know my heart has looked at her of course I would like to say do this, do this, do this I'd be a liar but she is God's choice my heart has said this girl loves Christ and given time she's going to be so godly I know that and she's good for my son she really is good for my son other people might have a little list as they look at a girl and interview the girl or interview the boy and if you fail in the list I mean it's horrific to put a person through that I just looked at her and I had no list she was saved she wasn't exactly what God had made us after 40 years of salvation 42 but that doesn't mean it's not God's choice in 42 years she'd probably be more godly than we were Jenny and I, possibly so that isn't how I measure but I did measure this spiritually she influenced my son for good that her heart is set on God and he's in love with the girl that his heart is set on God and I have so prayed for his protection before his heart went like that yes your heart can go bang and it could be not God's will but trust me God will stop you you have to literally be taking a hammer and smashing through the wall that God builds in defiance of God to marry her if you're right with God I mean if you're saved and your quiet time is real and God will reveal to you but then the only way you'll be able to still marry her God will so show you, no but if it is God's will your heart will just pursue that girl your heart and if your quiet time is intact that's the centrality of your entire life when I say that the most vital thing in life is not just saying I love God God is a word, it's time that's how much you love God and if that quiet time is your most central, vital embrace in life daily you will be protected and one man said how come my heart went bang for this one and that one, I said oh it's natural it's not sin to look and see a girl as pretty and some girls are not just pretty they are so pretty it's terrible they shouldn't be allowed to be that pretty and it's not that you are unspiritual or sinful that your heart went bang you didn't sin you just didn't you're human it's not sin that God doesn't make you immune or blind I don't see this it just doesn't happen that's where temptation comes in temptation is not sin though it's yielding you just cancel out, say no this is not from God seeing that pretty girl wasn't my choice I just cancel out but now to know it's not God's will or is God's will is the quiet time and the circumstances that God creates from that moment onwards if God cries out to you from every direction, no and you still pursue her don't blame God if your marriage turns into the taste of hell on earth he can still give you second best though, you mustn't divorce her even if you went against his will knowingly through the self will saying no to God and tragically we can do that you can get up and still have God's second best but the blueprint that God has for your life it can be totally fulfilled to the degree with all our imperfections to the degree you are faithful with your quiet time and as a result to the sensitivity of the Holy Spirit leading in every aspect of life including who you marry or pursue once your heart goes back if your heart goes back you're normal my son said something about his heart going at least I know you're normal that isn't the answer I was looking for just don't let her know until God tells you the Lord didn't tell him so he's gone on yes you can go on you can move on even though your heart went bang you didn't sin, you weren't failure you weren't unspiritual, you were normal and that's why when you're married and you see a very pretty girl your quiet time protects you from the second look it's not sin recognizing beauty the devil lies telling you that's sin and right from the start as young people it's not sin to recognize or be influenced or be taken aback my mother was so beautiful it was actually it was something beyond human comprehension I'm saying that so carefully it's not common it's common to speak like that I suppose about your own mother but when I was a little boy and we used to walk in the town the city on Saturday mornings there was no such thing as malls so we all went to the cities to buy our shopping and everything else it was quite exciting as unsaved people mother would walk I'd hold her hand and I used to as a little boy people would stop as we walked groups looking at her and I used to hear them say have you ever seen any woman more beautiful than her? have you ever seen anything so beautiful? and somehow my mother was immune to it I thank God for that as unsaved as she was amazing human and it's not sin to recognize a really beautiful person even to acknowledge beauty is not sin that's not lusting only the devil tell you that and so right into its context as young people you see somebody and your heart goes wow! it doesn't mean it's God's will though because your heart went you've got to wait but on the other hand if you tend with God you will not hop after that person if it's not God's will somehow God will just take it out of your heart that you won't hop on it, you know or dream about it and it's not God's will God will take it out of your heart just soak yourself in the Bible though and do what I did when I got saved I wish I had been saved when I was young very very young but one of the first things I said was Lord keep my heart until until the lady that thou has chosen for me and I had no Denny Kennistons I had no Bill Gothards to influence me it was just my heart said God keep me that I don't form any relationship now I've had enough of dating I've had enough I've had too many girls and I've been hurt too many times God please from this day just keep me for the one that thou has chosen and he did but I have to be honest even with my wife and children there was a moment or two I saw a godly Christian girl from a godly family that was so beautiful that I could this be the one you know but that wasn't God being unfaithful to me within a few days I'd forgotten about that just go on with your life God just took it out of my heart until I saw Jenny then I couldn't see anything but Jenny it was terrifying I walked out into the street I looked up in the sky and all I saw was Jenny in the clouds I saw her face you've got to be it's dangerous driving all you see is Jenny and the confirmation of circumstances God saying it's my will it was so God saying it's my will that actually it was terrifying God was saying to me this is my will you know I was so shy and so scared as a Christian turned to the Lord and she hadn't she was so shy and so scared that literally a woman, a young fellow a lady couple, family very godly said to me have you not noticed this girl how am I going to hide this and I said you've seen her Keith's noticed her my daughter said I've met Keith's wife about a year ago about a year ago Bible college this is the girl Keith's going to marry I packed my bags and I'm off to Bible school to see whether in the moment I saw her I knew this is your wife it wasn't only her it was many godly people a German woman walked up to me and said I knew about a year before you knew that you would marry Jenny it was just amazing how many God had told now this family said to me well you're leaving when the day after tomorrow you're going a thousand miles away and so the son said well we can't leave it up to Keith because nothing will happen so we better do it for him so I said whoa just leave things no on the phone they got her innocently coming there to the place and she thought it was going to be cream scones you just don't say no to Mrs. Smith she was one of the most loved missionaries in Africa in our history revered and loved and yet she phones this Bible college you come along for tea cream scones we have a few young people anyway have you met Keith I've heard him preach oh anyway so she says well we've decided that it's Keith's last day here and you're far from home and I've asked him to take you up the mountain and my son her son said here's the key before she arrived for the call here's money you need money you will go here be at this time at the cableway go up the cableway one of the highest and most beautiful mountains on earth and you will walk around this is a tea place at this time you will take her to tea and then you will go down at this time and you will go to the boat that goes around the seal island one of the most beautiful harbours in the world all these blue and green and then you will go to this garden it's beautiful the royalty of all over the world come to see it presidents and you will go there and there's another restaurant and then you will go up it's amazing what these people were doing to me you know and my father had told me two days before I saw Jane that he was praying for me my eyes would open and that he was going to die anyway but anyway the whole thing all ran smoothly she got in the car and she just looked at me and said but what am I doing in a car my father and mother will be amazed but how do you say no to Mrs. Smith no one could say no to her so we I said you know I must be honest I see you're embarrassed and I didn't want this I didn't organise this and I can take you straight back to the bible college but these people somehow just felt that you and I should get together today and so we're driving along and she says it's ok so I said I must be honest my heart is really gone you know she says I think we should stop speaking now so oh it was terrifying there was nothing immoral nothing wrong nothing that we failed you know I think by the end of the day we need to go to my parents fast before this goes any further and of course God just gave the parents they'd heard me preached I'd known them in conventions I didn't know their daughter though but I'd known him he was a very loved Christian anyway all in all everything, circumstances forced me to get together with Jenny and I'll tell you something if you write to the God and you're too slow God will really shake things up a bit I don't believe he just did it to me but if God closes the doors if God closes the hearts if God closes the circumstances be careful don't fight God fight God you might end up getting married and then finding out that's why everything went wrong God was trying to stop me your quiet time knows everything your parents influence yes yes they do Daddy just looked at me and said Keith before you leave he said I want to tell you that your daddy's going to die soon that shook me and Keith I've asked God to let me live to see you married and then to take me I want to see the girl I've prayed for daily for you since we came to Christ as a family and I want to see you married and all I see you looking for is souls and I don't want you ever to change but I'm asking God to open your eyes that you see a girl and I'm asking you to do it before I die and I haven't got long Keith so I said Daddy please don't do this to me everybody's trying to get me married across this country and now you with such words the next day and I wasn't expecting it I wasn't looking for it I saw Jenny something happened that has never ever happened all my heart said that's a very beautiful person that's not sin I do not believe we are mechanical machines that just press a button and say wow nothing but the next day I saw Jenny and I burned a hole right through my shirt as everybody knows because people everywhere tell me that in countries I've never been they tell me the story that everybody heard about me burning and the smoke was coming I didn't lift the iron they told me I lifted the iron on and I was just worried about the smoke to see her she did stand there because everybody was screaming trying to get me away she did look at me up and down but she got out fast then I saw her when I was coming down the passage I almost thought can I lean over perhaps I could just lean the other way and walk boom and I'm leaving the convention's ending and of course I spent that night with Mrs. Smith and she told me they knew how did you argue with such people nonetheless it was the Lord because I don't think anyone you know there's someone for you that no one else will survive in this world truly but that person with you and I tell you God needed to find somebody very uniquely full of grace graciousness and patience long suffering to such a degree with this man the course of life I had to take there's no wonder God kept me all those years and the other fellows might as well getting married till Jenny was ready and I was ready because I thought of it often and a lot of people have thought of it would anyone have survived the life I put them through other than Jenny for me God knew that and I waited for his choice my father was praying by the way he did see her he did fly her down after I'd been to her parents and that and he just wept he sobbed he couldn't speak to her at the airport we looked for daddy no one could find him so mother of course looked through the crowd over there so I walked in there he was behind the pillar just sobbing holding on the pillar and just seeing Jenny just seeing what God had given her he just sobbed he couldn't speak to her he had to go into vehicles the next day he came up to her to try to speak to her but he was broken at the beauty the purity the beauty of purity of a girl that was saved when she was six and kept herself pure for me for the man she didn't even know who God was but she knew there was someone the next day well we got married and daddy died days later so even there the father's prayers made God I believe just to honor his prayers swiftly show me and yes a parent has a lot to do with who you choose their values of course if you're right with God and if they were truly what they should be or what you would look for in a girl subconsciously sometimes and would run a mile if they're not there the values that are in your mother's life if your mother was godly or your father's life if your father was godly not perfect godly doesn't mean perfect the prayers from the day your child is born the influence of their lives, their values what she is I think many a child doesn't even know why he's falling in love until somebody says wow how much she is like your mother not in looks, in values and in character defined by the Holy Ghost and circumstances where those who love you especially your parents if they're godly will influence you or caution you one way or the other parents do have a lot to do with if they're unsaved ungodly and not good for the woman even for your wife and she got saved it's a very different set of circumstances if you won't go in that territory does that answer your question? another question? you'd be scared to ask me because I tell so many things on one little question who's got another question? nobody that's alright if somebody has gone out ahead of God's will and married a wrong person then what should they do? you stay with her until you die and you trust God that in spite of it being the wrong person even if you fast a continual sacrificial fast to God until you see answers that God can somehow make second best a God glorified thing not His choice so be careful with the word second best but that it can be still taken by God but you do not leave her you do not divorce her if you made a mistake God still heard your vows and still made you one I heard somebody say but what if it wasn't in the will of God the Bible says it's the will of the Lord to be married was it a marriage in God's eyes? was it truly looked upon by God as marriage as if it was an unsaved person I married yes it was looked by God as marriage and it is regarded by God to the day you die as marriage and so John Wesley if you married an odious woman you heard that horrible word there's four things the earth cannot contain it just cannot it cannot even grasp how to accept this but one of them is an odious woman when she is married not an odious woman but a repugnant person who might have a Bible in her hand and a youth group and a smile and the right length of dress but she is an odious person a horrible person not a woman of noble character and you didn't listen to God and somehow in a backslidden state because you have to be backslidden not just missing one quiet time that doesn't make you backslidden but if you consistently haven't been in touch with God you neglect the word you go into it on what you see the Bible but get married and you suddenly find what John Wesley found I mean she was so repugnant that his worst enemies across the world doctrinally didn't ever touch the mistake he made they just felt compassion for the man it wasn't his mistake it was his brother's by the way, Charles stopped him from marrying his choice where his heart went bang and said no this is the right one so Charles made the mistake and she was a terrifying woman she swore, she cursed she beat him publicly as he preached she shouted out abusive filthy words he had to die through this woman again and again die to everything and just turn and walk in humility but it's a strange thing they say he never revealed one moment of unchristlikeness to her hmm so he didn't fail and he never divorced her because he had said God to death us to part for better or worse whatever's coming and until she died he came home to this woman that beat him shoved him in the wardrobe and locked him in the closet and locked him for so long that day she was a repugnant woman if you make a mistake even if you're John Wesley's brother you wait until they die before you think of another person or divorce if a person is mentally psychopathic psychopathic how would you violence beating you children I would be the first to say come run before he comes and hope he never finds you again and I would know I would be doing God God doesn't want you to stay in that common sense tells you but in spite of that God allows separation and God hates divorce sometimes divorce is essential and so God allows divorce though he hates it but you never remarry you don't even go out to the lady again brother, till that person's dead you don't even have someone accompanying you in the place of a wife you sit alone if you make a mistake yes, unless she dies that's it, you're married in God's eyes to death Ginny's granny Ginny I say it so carefully but he told me, no one else grandpa, who he named she loved Christ and he betrayed her he saved her 40 years that he came home to her and even her children said mother just tell him to get out God doesn't God can't want you to tolerate this this shame this humiliation this betrayal everyone's talking as he made the food or when he comes home 12 o'clock in the night to the dance when I married him when I went to the dance when I got saved he said to me you finish the dance, but I'm not I want you to come, but if you're not going to come, I'm going he said, I said to God to let us depart and I meant it so my children don't ever discuss this again I'll never leave him I'm going to win him 40 years 40 years later after she was saved and had to live this embarrassment and all the scandals the whisperings he came to Christ and I was the first one to ever ask him his testament and I didn't know anything about his life and he wept, and he wept and everybody got up to the table and I tell you, it was as many as more than this, the whole family and I was sitting alone with him and I said, what have I said all I said was, how did you get saved, when did you get saved? and here he's shopping and he shopped I don't know how long he shopped and I couldn't move and he said, I've never said but I'm going to share the first time I'm going to say what I did to Frances but she didn't leave me she should have she should have but because she didn't leave me I have come to Christ I don't know how many years before 4 years or something to come I'm so ashamed you see, for 40 years she prayed because of what she saw in this book about what God says marriage is even if you are married to an unsaved person some people would disagree with me on the finer points of these things that's my honest opinion because that's her testimony and it worked and by the way, she wasn't ashamed she was the most honored Christian in the whole valley agricultural valley very wealthy valley there was no one no doormenny, no preacher no Christian no one in the entire valley that was so revered because of her life she did that they stood brother children stood but this lady because of that one thing she was willing to go through all that so is there another question? if you made a mistake and said the vows to death do you keep those vows? God expects it, yes sir what do we do? you mean young people who are in danger of missing their moment and landing up old mate you know Paul actually in one passage he discourages marriage but in its context the first six verses are for this present circumstance danger, situation where they were being persecuted slaughtered, thrown to the lions and the most horrific evils were done publicly in the arenas to Christians so Paul, seeing what was happening and knowing the terrifying dangers Christians were in all the time he said it's better not to marry but there are, if we have to be honest in the context, there's about six other verses the following six verses that literally he seems to discourage a person getting married for one reason because marriage is a danger there's a danger of marriage consuming your life so that you have no time for God the things of God so there is that danger but in no way must it be looked upon as an isolated passage that cancels out all the will of God which is for marriage and all that God had in mind for man and woman can't be cancelled out because then you really are like the Jehovah's Witnesses you take a little passage and say that's it and forget the rest of the scriptures you've got to be very careful but some ladies in Africa and men like Bill Gothard in America and in our country we had a man, Major Alistair Smith oh so God did not marry but wonderfully used in the most amazing way that they are very unique and very rare so don't think it is impossible that God wants a person to remain unmarried sometimes really it is his will some are born eunuchs you've got to be careful of that passage but some really it is the will of God and the grace is there to not be destroyed but most of us would be so absorbed in self unless we got married and so condemned in our heart because we can't ever fulfil the natural desires of our physical needs that God made us in our holy capacity and so we live a life of condemnation self disrespect because we majority have to be married just to have respect of self and not a heart condemning them so it is possible that you could really make a terrible mistake and land up being an introvert negative self destructive self consumed person because you didn't get married when God wanted you to I think that some people have the danger of bypassing God's moment there is definitely a danger where they are so determined to give God the best years of their life or something and they suddenly realise that there where that man was in that situation that was God and now that man is gone to a situation where I can't go near him again there is a danger and I would say the danger is because of two reasons not just neglecting the quiet time or being out of touch with God when God wants you to make a move even if it's one look that's all you need when you're married you're as good as betrothed one look, so be careful how you look this one, that she sees the look and others you're married you might as well have written the contract so be careful but be careful not to look that look if it's really God's will that one look that that person is waiting for but you just didn't give them hope so they walked away eventually be careful to not to not lose God's moment the other danger is not just the quiet time but the protectiveness of which your parents and your church and the godly conservatives brought you up with concerning your keeping a distance influenced you to do right and good but beyond what God wanted and it kept you from doing what is normal walking up to someone and not bypassing your parents authority and in many situations where they're very truly godly even their consent before the woman even knows that you pursue you've got to be very careful a lot of parents are so out of touch with God that they're the last ones you need to ask before you pray about this woman though you must want your parents consent primarily if they're godly and if you're godly I'm not saying, but I do say this when you see someone be careful that this conservatism which has protected you from being destroyed by the devil and weeping for the rest of your life for the defilements you found thank God for the protection but be very very careful to not bypass that moment abnormally if you see someone and your heart goes and she's godly or he's godly and you're in natural normal circumstances let those circumstances without creating something don't walk up to a woman and put your arms around her and say I'm interested in you you do walk up to her and your eyes tell her that she knows and if her eyes tell you no, that's the answer but if her eyes suddenly say that's the beginning and it's normal it is just how God made us it sounds pretty shallow the way I'm saying it but this is the normality of life and then on a godly level give yourself time before you make a foot forward that is a real commitment but take advantage of the normal circumstances and don't be abnormal get to know her single her out if you can to the point that even if it's one minute in a crowd that minute wasn't lost and she goes home and dreams about that minute right through the night and so do you if it's normal and if it's from God it just goes on, it's a natural developing but don't lose that minute don't lose those occasions and don't lose the opportunity if God isn't stopping you to pursue this thing until she really gets the message I'm in love with this lady and your eyes, how do you hide that but be careful not to put your foot forward until you've given yourself time to really look at her closely if you haven't known her for a long time it's so good, one young fellow came to me this lovely girl Bible Bible and he was a good boy and he said we're getting married when? I don't know how many weeks time I said I haven't even heard about this when did you meet just about three months ago we're getting married I said but no, that doesn't work that way that's on your background I said you need to get to know each other I'm begging you hold it back until you know each other you don't know this girl well, he got angry with me in a really strange way he's a nice boy but he didn't expect that and he felt that embarrassed him but they went on their honeymoon she left him on his honeymoon and you know even her parents didn't know where she was for months and months and months actually for a long time she was unstable and the parents admitted it later on unstable things you need time don't run don't put your foot forward until you've had time to really know what your heart is going and God will give you time and God will give you circumstances where it's going to become normal natural alright, Jenny and I were forced upon and it was wonderful hallelujah, it was beautiful it was unique in many ways but I still said to Jenny when can we marry and her daddy too said you need time I give you permission to court my daughter but you need time don't think of the day of marriage yet get to know her two years later we married but I would have been a fool if I hadn't pursued it when it was virtually forced on me, I could have said no no, no, no, this is not spiritual it was so human it was obnoxious all this interference and romantic people and they were excited it was God it was lovely, it was the Lord and everything when your heart goes bang that's how God made you, it's not sin if you're right with God it won't stop going bang when I say that it means it will just beat when you see her something happens when you see her or him and if it's God's will he won't stop you he will confirm it you both will have peace and the love will just keep growing and the peace concerning this relationship will just keep growing doubts and fears will just be pushed away more and more as you pursue God and in normality put your foot forward to not lose life's moments to get to know her and to form a relationship and get her to know that you really are interested in her but don't be so silly as to think that you must walk away from everything expect writing on the wall before I look, before I let her know don't do that I do think conservative Christianity has created what you say a great amount of young people especially homeschoolers homeschooling protected most of the world's conservative Christians from becoming worldly in the sudden generation where church lost their children homeschooling was to a great degree the protection of losing our children to the world so we thank God for all the good but there were flaws as humans in homeschooling and one of them was we should have allowed more trust in relationships forming naturally in social moments, socializing moments of the godly as individuals and as parents and you're right, suddenly it is there people are aware a lot of people should have been married by now and how to overcome that I don't know I did think of speaking to someone like Mr. Gotthard and others there's a whole lot of young people across this world who did all we told them including give the best years of their life they need something to be arranged that they can all get together that isn't exactly what the world talks about, worldly dances and places in most of social life but where they are able without trust because if you don't trust your child when they're that age, goodness me just to have access in circumstances that it isn't like a big signboard marriage union night that's obnoxious and stupid it is normal events that we really do allow them to socialize to a great degree they are allowed let's be honest they're allowed to look and talk but to a greater degree we have to protect them so much they also need to know, look it's time for you to really go to these godly conferences and mingle and to ask God tell them so that somehow this gap can be brother I'm speaking about sensitive things here that explosion but I've never heard anybody really publicly address it what are we going to do practically so forgive me if it doesn't sound the right thing because quite honestly I've never heard anybody say anything about what are we going to do about it obviously something needs to be done I've grown children I've given them to the 23, 21 I was married at 23 and Jubalina was married at 23 and I've got James is 23 and I said Lord I love James don't worry brother they haven't got a chance of not getting married they're all too lovely looking girls and boys, good looking and pretty well the godly men will have to be totally abnormal not to make a foot forward to your children I'm scared to say that too lightly but I'll tell you something they are still young they haven't been put on the shelf and you have no fears you might be fearing of what you've seen in other homeschooled homes all over the world where this is happening they just by going 30s and suddenly they're 39 40s and there's a whole group rising up the bed that we see something has to be talked about but generally don't, you want your children to sense they've got to do something fast enough I think the socialising you have even in your church is beautiful and I sense something very natural and normal here I don't sense people standing and looking, their daughters looking or coming near a boy come on, I don't sense that here so I think you're all pretty normal, I think it's going to be alright you've got one good son-in-law so brother you the same father and the same mother and the same atmosphere and the same attitude and the same love and acceptance and encouragement and protection and example all your children have the same atmosphere to find someone but just don't let us make them feel that they're on the shelf when they still really are far from that, that we must be careful now, who dares to ask another question after this long talk on each don't you have a question to ask? loves the Lord I don't know, do you have? something in your heart? no you do have something to ask, don't you? I'm sure there's a lot of you who have something to ask but you think, oh that wouldn't be the right thing but it will be yes, sir I'm a little older than beyond the age of I was curious what ladies in missions were single ladies in missions were how would I view them? what would be your thought are gods, what do you think gods would be? concerning what we're talking about the context of marriage not necessarily perhaps during the time prior to marriage, or if they felt that as the Lord our mission is very guilty I wouldn't want to have been in another mission if I had ten lives, I'd ask God to put me back in the protection I had the examples of the godly and the naturalness they tried to but in our zeal not to tolerate compromise, I think we overprotected some of the young missionary girls and boys concerning forming a relationship but in spite of that our mission asks and expects two years of you to try and keep your heart, and if your heart goes just to keep it to yourself so that for two years you can go around and get some sort of a foundation without being committed to somebody and absorbed with somebody of missionary work so that if you do marry a missionary in the mission or other missions you haven't lost the grounding that you need normally I would say in our type of missionary work to not be married but to be living out of a suitcase and going over the hills and into the huts and into the buildings and into the prisons just everywhere you need to be consumed in this foundation of serving God so our mission encourages it like Mr. Gotthard I think encourages homeschoolers to give a few years of their youth to God before they get involved and committed, I think the motive is right our mission also encourages and then once you reach an age, we've got a mission that today, I won't say this always was perhaps it was, I don't know everybody matchmakes brother even the most spiritual of standing around, shoot him you just think I don't want to think of this you know, and not everybody, the godly are very careful what they say and you get them very reserved and fine and do just pray to you, but you know they all talk and they're all matching in missions, brother there's no mission they don't in Africa anyway so yes we do ask them for it used to be four years before you allowed yourself to form any relationship, six years before you formed an engagement and a year later you were able to be married it's changed, the years have found that that was just too hard a rigid thing that not only our mission but missionary societies across the world were rigid with you want to read every missionary and see what they went through from bible school, theology, days into the missions, what they had to do, waiting for wives, you know many of our greatest men went through a waiting period that was expected of them but times have changed and more wisdom I think has come in many many fields many spheres but now in our mission they want us to go through bible school and keep you hot and this one student comes to the principal weeping and broke oh I was just one girl in the opening meeting and I have to confess she was probably going to tell me to go but I'm so in love with her I took her hand and no one saw that I was holding her hand and said oh ok brother you've told me now now just keep a distance and don't do it again you know a month or two later oh I hold her hand anyway if I tell you how what a godly man he turned out to be and now he actually he doesn't know I know this story I heard it from but anyway you know I look at them all and I say just remember what happened to us and the patience shown with us before you tell them to leave so they let us keep quiet a bit about when they want to get rid of some student or some young worker who's too fast you know because some of them did and were so impatient some were told to go immediately depending on their spirit but I do think that in a mission a young lady as you specified sees as safe as her walk with god is in our field today and although we are very protective and very conservative in comparison with most missions in southern Africa our mission there is the moment two years after you leave bible school we expect them if they're normal to be in love with somebody or to find out what god's will is, let's put it that way to really, if you know you've quite taken it back two, three, four years ago we love them, nobody stands frowning at them but you begin to pray for them because there's some other young guys there that need a wife you know so yes we want them to but we're asking them to please keep their hearts and if their heart goes don't let anyone know until two years is up after you come into work then they let you get engaged not married another year or two which is safe, depending how old you are brother our mission is so stable now they weren't always they were so rigid, like all missions were deeply considered today a fellow by the name of Gordon arrived at bible school and before he left bible school his heart went to a lady who was on the shelf actually I shouldn't be saying this this isn't going to go to South Africa is it she was a beautiful lady but she wasn't married and they said no need to wait, marry so they used their brains you see they didn't say four years brother there's a lady that's reached that age and thank god a man her age comes along to bible school he's godly, no need for these rules these guidelines actually that's what I like guidelines so that you don't just waste your opportunity by diving into marriage when you should have been getting a grounding in missionary society we're speaking specifically about missionaries now a missionary lady my understanding concerning how she should be protected or when she should make her move or be allowed to be approached is that right? somewhat in the parameters of how your mission board would handle it would she be permitted to sort of be out on her own or how is that handled? with me, I'd been ten years in our mission everybody else was married had children my age nobody said boo I think everybody's just grateful the man's finally found somebody we were scared he might not get married you never become another Mr. Gofford or something I don't know but our mission we do discuss but we don't touch the sanctity of the private things you know where the person should be left alone for a while unless they're problem people then the council will discuss if they jump the gun and are not willing to wait for Bible scholars to be through our council will normally meet and say well at the end of your training please don't apply for this mission because if you can't be in subjection to this one request as young as you are with all the years of your life ahead you've got no threat of being on the shelf if you're not willing to wait and take advice from those who have had years and years of before they came to these laws these guidelines then you please go somewhere else to some other mission but we want to tell you now in case you want to move off to their theological seminars for training because you won't be accepting that if they pursue marriage unless their age and their godliness just unitedly make everyone say don't let's interfere here this is right but young people sitting together in a Bible school with each other for two years a lot of wrong choices can be made so you've got to protect them and ask them to be social and to wait a little while until they had time out in the middle of the work and then to let the person know and if they have let the person know to ask the person are you willing to wait now that you know it's my heart are you willing to let them do that I keep quiet brother unless I feel it's unjust anything unjust then I open my mouth and they can't show otherwise I just leave it up to them they've got far more wisdom than I have than the other fellows there of how to sort out problem areas so anyone else for one final question because I think what is the time 12.15 that's lunch time isn't it listen we've gone on to questions today some of which I are very different and I've had to be careful I've had to weigh words here I don't think I said things very easily but they're very different some of these questions are very very different this thing's saying enough I appreciate you sharing this there's real concerns that I've noticed and I talk to young people here our young people a lot of course I have Miss Hannah she's a Miss Cupid in our church but she matchmakes a lot so this is a good question doesn't mind this being known right because everybody in the church knows this how old are you 12 does she want a special commission to come and sit in on this because it may be interesting to her mission wise in the Jewish communities they have matchmakers it's their full time job and they pay for it they literally do it the parents all pay and they're rich women and they know everybody I know just the one the parents all get together and it says you marry just get together fall in love and marry you match basically that's how it used to be the Jews are very unique aren't they and lovely if you have to be honest how many of you are 19 and younger raise your hands good and high ok so 18 and younger ok the reason I want you to see this they need maybe a special council otherwise I don't want their hearts to jump they might need a little more brains on them a little bit maybe have some special advice keep yourself there's no age limit to love but maturity I mean immaturity is something that has to be there or you will be a disaster as a mother as a wife in your own spirit your life will fall to pieces if you are not mature give God time to make you mature in all aspects of life and you know 18, 17, 18 you're becoming a woman but when you reach 20, 21 you'll be astonished how those 2, 3 years have changed your understanding of so much every one of you maturity is something you can't press a button and receive you've got to wait for it and maturity is something I didn't have and that was one of the reasons I think God mercifully didn't let me marry until I was more old than most people because my wife wouldn't have survived I was so immature I loved God with every breath in my body that isn't maturity I was a blaze for God you want to see Roy, my son it's fearful how a blaze for God he's right with God but maturity I pity the poor woman but anyway maybe he's just like me like I was if I have to be honest I needed time and I tell you only life's experiences in the school of God can give you the maturity that only time will bring you don't press buttons give yourself a while to be sure that you're mature enough to know that the values you really have you know, a lot of girls could fall in love with everything this perfect, beautiful human and re-heal and make some commitment and they're Christians but there's some form of commitment a year later, two years later this is exactly what they don't want this character this joking this is and suddenly they're aware they weren't in their maturity aware that this isn't what I want for life anyway give yourself a time to get mature not to get old but mature and by the by, girls mature at least four sometimes five years faster than a boy the same age so give the person a little bit of time to get mature enough to actually look at him as if he's sensible because you will be more mature than him if he's close to your age normally a girl is more mature than a boy not always but normally that's why you need to give yourself a bit of time to get immature and you mature I was far too immature to marry when I was your age my wife would have died within three, four years you might think that's ridiculous but really that's how I used to I never woke up, I exploded I never got out of bed I jumped I ran, I don't know where all the energy came from, for souls for God's sake to keep up with me or to let me I mean even when I got married I was mature the missing little lady next door came and said sit and you sit and said Africa she was in her eighties she had won thousands to God in Africa they said how shall I name this godly miss glass and she said has it ever occurred to you that Jenny might just want to stay home and not be running around with you to meetings and all the preaching and all these plays and all these souls running after souls all day day after day, week after week, month after month has it ever occurred to you that as a wife she might want to stay home and actually cook a meal and not arrive here when you arrive here in the night now what time, what time and then she's still got to make something for you I said Jane, do you perhaps want to stay home sometimes and not always be running around with you, do you want to perhaps it would be nice she said I don't want to be with me running after souls but I was still immature in many ways, but I was mature enough to listen to a woman and know it was God and say to my wife you stay home you come out when you want to with me to these things, otherwise stay home and do what ladies do, you know so she started getting a little bit of right treatment maturity and sensibilities come from experience and life and you can't push a button and have them so give yourself a chance and don't get married before God has made you mature enough to be married as boys and girls and don't despise youth it's not sin, it's beautiful and don't want to leave it behind too fast because in no time it's gone don't hurry it up don't try and become men and gravity and that's not maturity by the way nothing at all like that perhaps the most wonderful thing or aspects of maturity is you can accommodate another person without feeling threatened you can accommodate another life without wanting to change it and love him for it and that is perhaps the most wonderful thing about true spiritual maturity in a character is that everything? I think so I just called the pizza place they don't have whole wheat so you have to eat that other stuff that's ok I am married for right now we're married just on 30 years and when I met Jenny and fell in love with her I didn't know I've never ever known love in my entire life I've known infatuation I've known attraction but I've never ever experienced love the love God can put in your heart I've never ever known that something happened that I never ever knew could happen in a human being's heart or mind that love has grown I love Jenny a hundred times more than that perfect love I had to her for everything she wants her flawless beauty she's not flawless anymore she has wrinkles, she's grey but I love her more now than I did when I first met her when she was flawless physically you see I can guarantee you very little in this world I can guarantee but one of the things I guarantee is if you both stay right with God you enter into marriage determined that you will not neglect the quiet time of individuals you enter into marriage determined for the other one's sake that you will stay right with God as your greatest priority toward your marriage partner you will never neglect God you will devour this book and I guarantee you otherwise I was very unique if it doesn't happen to others that if she never neglects God and I never neglect God as individuals you can pray together, that's vital but individual alone with Jesus never ever neglect it even if World War 3 breaks out don't go out to read the newspaper, ask what's going to do until you finish your quiet time don't ever neglect God and I in my heart feel I can guarantee anyone in this world that's saved in 30 years time you will love her a hundred times more than when your heart first went bare I don't love her simply because of how perfect she looks and pure I love her the way she poured her life and soul out for my children when I left them I love her that she never ever, ever judged me or made it hard for me to leave she never stopped me from fulfilling the will of God I love her for not complaining and being miserable and negative that she had a husband like me I love her a hundred times more for though she's proved to be a unique incredible human and by the grace of God I love her a hundred times more for what she's proven by the grace of God a human could be as a wife and a mother and was willing to be but I love her a hundred times more because I never neglected God and she never neglected God I never knew my wife to neglect God one day I watched, there was genuine no matter what was on life no matter what happened through the night there was Jenny on her knees with God in the night even if it was two in the morning Jenny didn't neglect Jesus but no matter how you apply your life to all these things and you go into marriage without this in your heart determined that you will never neglect Jesus Christ no matter what happens in this world or in your circumstances apart from death then you can walk away from a quiet time of fortune if you neglect Jesus as an individual you will not love your a hundred times more, somehow what do you say young people thank you very much appreciate that give me a favor, we're going to go down to this guy he's a lost man, he's not saved he saw some other young people a few weeks ago he was so impressed he began to cry his daughter couldn't believe he was crying she looks at him crying so you go in there remember, number one you have a testimony you're watching number two, you're already a testimony as you walk into there you sit down together no tomfoolery no foolishness because of the devil he will build God, he will destroy he will build just like the rest of the world just like the rest of the world so please don't take that stand you're doing me great disarm and distrust really I thank the Lord because God that knows what's in that man's life not even be sane be sane for him but he told me, I just want you to know it wasn't their sinning he says, when I looked in their faces and I saw three counties that's what he told me, a lost man came on purpose and told me that so we go in there now it might be a good idea for us to take a few moments and just get our hearts prepared just pray for the God's heart take any type of foolishness as any because you will be a witness to that we talked about something very dear to the hearts of many of you I know because I've talked to enough of you to know that you've been romantic this morning brother Keith has become a hero in a different fashion I was talking about romance I was looking in these girls eyes while you were talking every one of them I saw they were struck by you this is odd you were talking their language the guys, well not quite so the same I was looking at them too I know it's special but don't get so excited you forget who you are the guy that asked you to do that I trust you too remember this guy what a blessing all of you, I'm invited I want you to come I'm paying for it I'm paying for it I gotta take my own cups they don't have cups for soda they don't usually allow it such a large group let me bring my own cups so they can buy their soda brother Keith brother Keith will have something to tell the world about me I saw him buy soda for these young people put strong drinks in these young people's lips well not alcohol but let's take a few moments and stand I think I'll have you sing it to my people all of you hear that now while we're down there I think I'll have you sing that so let's prepare our hearts first by singing that song just one stanza we'll sing it twice down there just one stanza my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and see my face and turn from their wicked ways and will I hear from them and forgive their sin and will heal their land father take every young person here and through what we've discussed this morning guide them let this have a profound effect and not be wasted let those that aren't even seriously thinking of marriage suddenly find they don't forget these things can't put them out of their mind and when the right time comes the Holy Ghost reminds reminds them and uses to each one of them things discussed here this morning to fulfill the perfect will of God and the blueprint of God's plan for their lives not to be destroyed even after marriage even 30 years later remind them protect them under the blood of our Savior keep their hearts until it's God's choice will, plan blueprint and as humans we are give them the grace not to wait when God wanted them to make a move forward but until God's will keep their hearts and I have one hope that they'll be able to do this without any fear of making a mistake that they never miss thee not one day in their lives meditating delighting in this book day and night I don't think it's possible for them then to make a mistake Lord it's a very rare occasion that could happen to a godly person in Jesus Christ's name for His glory take us now and give us good fellowship and a lovely time and make us a blessing to this world even if we're not consciously trying to be all conscious that we are make us a blessing and tonight visit us bring people from near and far by the Holy Ghost moving and these last remaining nights of this outreach bless our pastor and his wife and his children in a very unique way we pray for them thanking thee for them all they are all they bring about even such meetings as these their concern for our spiritual well-being their example bless them protect them and honor them in their ministry in a profound way and thank you we could have been here this morning because of our love for Jesus Christ alone and longing to fulfill His will in our lives fully in His lovely name in faith in the name of Jesus Christ we all ask this of thee our Father in heaven in absolute faith Amen thank you for the privilege it was a joy wonderful pray for my sons so they're not married please especially Roy he's 26