This sermon from Psalms 30 emphasizes the journey of King David, highlighting his struggles, victories, and ultimate trust in God. It speaks of the deep faith and courage given by God, the trials faced, the comfort found in God's presence, and the promise of eternal joy and victory. The message encourages listeners to hold on to their faith, trust in God's provision, and look forward to the eternal home prepared for believers.

Psalm 30, please, if you'll go there. Psalm 30, message titled this morning, even Jesus will soon be shouting for joy. Even Jesus. You may wonder, where is that in the Word of God? Well, I'm going to, you're going to, you're going to see that by the time we get to the end. Now, Father, I thank you, Lord, for the touch and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, God, that where you are, there is life where you are, there's hope, there's a strength and a future. I thank you for the touch of your Holy Spirit upon my physical body to just take me out of the limitations of this, this, my own self, Lord, and to bring me into where your mind is in this message. Lord, you're the key that can go into every prison. You're the oil that can heal every wound. You're the tender touch of heaven that can give courage to those that have lost heart. I'm asking you to do that today, God. I'm asking you to reach through me into the deepest struggles that are in this sanctuary today. I thank you for it in Jesus' mighty name. Psalm 30, even Jesus will soon be shouting for joy. I will extol thee. This is David, the psalmist, the king of Israel, wrote this. I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me up and has not made my foes to rejoice over me. O Lord, my God, I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave. Thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a moment, in his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. And in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved. Lord, by thy favor thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O Lord, and unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. Thou hast turned from me, my mourning, into dancing. Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent. O Lord, my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever. Now, this is an interesting psalm, Psalm 30. It's written by King David, and some of you in your Bibles have a little bit of a title, I guess, before the psalm, and in mine it says, a psalm and song at the dedication of the house of David. Now, we don't know which house this is. There are theories about it. Probably the most prevalent theory is that it was the house of God that was dedicated on Mount Moriah. When David had that vision, after numbering the people, and he became proud. He numbered the people, and because of it, he was turning away from trust in God, and God brought a plague upon the nation of Israel. And you remember the angel had his sword drawn over Jerusalem, and the Lord told David to go to this mountain called Moriah, and on top of that mountain was a man with his two sons, and he was threshing wheat. His name was Orn in the Jebusite, and Orn in the Jebusite gave him his threshing instruments. He gave him his oxen. He gave him everything he had to make a sacrifice to the Lord that the plague may be stayed. And after David had done this, heaven was opened to him, and he saw that this was the house. This is where God was going to put his house. There was, and of course, many believe that this is what this psalm is about, because the elements leading up to that appear to be in this particular psalm. Now, what we know about it from reading it, is it was written at a time when he had known victory. Now, this is written after the fact. He had been through a great struggle. Verse 1 says, I will extol thee, Lord, for thou has lifted me up and not made my foes to rejoice over me. He had known healing. Verse 2, Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. David had come to a place in his life where you can just imagine, after all the years of victory that he had known, and suddenly it seems like he's being overpowered, and there's this sense of unwellness that's come upon him, and he knows that if God doesn't touch his life, he's not going to get out of this situation. Verse 3, it's written after feeling as if death had either conquered him or threatened to conquer him. He said, O Lord, you've brought up my soul from the grave. You've kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit. He had been brought by God to a place where he knew that, God, if you don't touch me, I have no life. If you don't open the way, I've got no future. If you don't give me strength, I'm no better than all of those that are lying in the grave somewhere. I can't come out. I don't have any power. How many might be feeling that way this morning, even in this sanctuary? You come into the house of God. You have lifted your hands. You have sung the praises of God, but deep inside your heart, you say, God, if you don't touch me, I don't have a future. I'm losing heart. My enemies seem to be rejoicing over me. I feel like I've got a loathsome disease inside of my mind that's growing inside of my body. It's not just a physical disease, but it's perhaps depression, despair, anguish. I'm being overpowered by something that is stronger than I am. This is exactly where David was. He felt in verse 5 like he'd been under the chastisement of God, and of course, if it is Mount Moriah, then he was. He says, for his anger endured but a moment, but in his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. You know, even if God is chastening you for a particular reason, remember that the Scripture says He only does it to those He loves. If you were not a son or a daughter of God, He would not bother to bring correction into your life, because of course, you wouldn't receive it. No chastening for the present, the Scripture says, seems to be joyous. How many come in here this morning, and you're leaping in the air when the choir is singing, saying, praise God, I'm being chastened of the Lord. No, it's not a fun time. I've been under the chastening of the Lord. I know what that's all about. I know what it's like to walk down the street groaning, to get up in the morning, and you feel like there's a grand piano strapped to your back, and you don't know how to get out of where you are, and sometimes it's the enemy, but sometimes it's God, who's just saying, son, I need to slow you down just a little bit. I need to speak to you. You're not willing to hear me on this, so I'm just gonna put this piano on your back for a little while, until you're willing to consider what I want to talk to you about. I remember one time I was just plowing through some agenda, and I was walking down the street, I believe it was 8th, and finally, this is several years ago, and finally, in desperation, I said, oh God, what are you wanting to tell me? And it was as if the Lord said, I'm thankful that you finally asked. I've been wanting to speak to you. And we come to a place of weeping, but the Lord will never let it endure for more than a night. I want you to take heart, those that are in that place. You're struggling. You're in a trial. You can't seem to get through what's before you, and if you are a child of God, number one, the enemy will never prevail against you. There's no weapon formed against you that will prosper. And so you might be going through this for a season, and there might be a weeping in your heart, but you're going to get through. God says, I'm going to give you the power, and this is not the end of the story. If God's walking with you and walking with me, we don't finish this course in despair. We finish it in victory. Now, verse 11 tells us that it was at a time when he says, Thou has turned from me my mourning into dancing. You put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. I believe in my heart that it might have been a deep inner awareness, that no matter what I have faced or will face in this life. You see, David, just a few psalms before this, in Psalm 23, David had come to an awareness that God will always be with me. He said in verse 4, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Now folks, there's a time that you and I just become aware that to be a Christian does not mean that we escape hardship. It does not mean the trials don't come. Circumstance knocks at every door, saved, unsaved, rich, poor, educated, uneducated. I don't care what your station is in life. Circumstance and trial will come to your door just like everybody else's. But the difference between those who know God and those who don't, is David said, Even though I've got to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of it, because God is with me. He always has been with me and he always will be with me. He says, You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil and my cup runs over. In other words, let hell rage as it will. Supernatural provision will always be mine as a child of God. You'll have to fight. You'll have to fight enemies. You'll have to fight despair. You'll have to fight fear. You'll have to fight many of the things that are wanting to come and just rest upon the minds and the spirits of so many people in our society today will try to rest upon you too as well and somehow convince you that hell is going to triumph in the end. But David said, No, you anoint me with oil. In other words, there's an oil of gladness in the knowledge that I am God's and God is mine that comes into my heart and no matter who is fighting against me, whether it's as Paul says, whether it's fears within or fighting without, no matter what it is that I'm fighting, God sets a table before me, a banquet of strength, a banquet of truth that vanquishes all of the lies of the enemy that tried to destroy my mind and my testimony. And then David comes to this conclusion after all, after going through the valley of the shadow of death, after having to fight against every enemy that came against him, he says, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Hang around long enough in this world and in the church of Jesus Christ. Go through some battles and some struggles and trials as we all have to do and you will come to the same end as David did. You'll come to the place where you begin to understand that goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life and that you and I are not destined for some obscure future. We will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. God's house is my house. Praise be to God. Jesus said, Don't let your heart be troubled. Don't let it be afraid. In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there ye may be also. If it were not so, I would have told you. He's gone to prepare a place. Did you know you have a place in heaven not made with human hands that's being prepared right now? Did you know there's activity going on in heaven this morning? A lot of activity. Did you know there's a street somewhere in heaven with a mansion on it that's got your name on the door? Did you know that? I believe it was an eternal home. Now David was dedicating a house on the earth, I'm sure of that, according to the psalm, but there's an inner awareness in David because he's a man of the Spirit that this is a temporary house perhaps I'm rejoicing over, but there's an eternal one that's in the heavens not made with human hands. Listen to what the Apostle Paul says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verses 1 & 2, For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with human hands that's eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. Now David knew this. I'm not going to be here forever. I'm not going to have to live in this creaky old body for eternity. Thank God. I don't know, as you get older you get more thankful for that every day. I'm getting to the place where every time I sit down I groan now and every time I get up you have to start figuring out how you're going to do this. When I used to exercise, I exercise most every day. When I get down on the floor and do sit-ups I would just bounce up back to my feet for years. I counted one time. Pastor Neil and I were working out together. There are seven distinct moves now to getting up off the floor. If you get up too fast your back goes out, your legs hurt, your heart, your shoulder. You have to be really careful and I'm just so thankful that I don't have to take this old body with me. I'm not going to cough in heaven anymore. Praise God. Now David started out, if you'll turn to Psalm 142 please with me. Now David started out just like we all do in life. David had a promise, a new life in God. I think when you and I started out as young people you think of all that the world seems to hold. The future, the potential for most at least. For some maybe that was not the case for you but I want you to know this morning that you do have a future no matter who told you you didn't or how you felt where you were growing up. You do have a future, a wonderful future ahead of you in God. David was set apart and anointed as a young man. Do you remember called in from the pasture and Samuel the Prophet was there and poured oil on him and set him apart from all of his brothers as a young man who's anointed and called of God for a specific purpose. David was given supernatural faith and courage just like many of us have. When you first came to the Lord you were given the supernatural faith to fight against your enemies, oppressions and depressions and such like things that had perhaps governed you and governed your mind, governed your thinking, produced in you a certain worldview and a self-view which was not correct according to the Word of God and suddenly you found the supernatural life of God is infused into your life and everything now becomes possible. All the limitations are gone, all the barriers are gone, every word of hell ever spoken over your life by anybody at any time is gone, dissipated. You're now a new creation in Christ and the Bible tells us clearly that whatever God's called you to do you will do, whatever he's called you to be you will be and you will not do it with power nor might nor anything of your human effort, you will do it by the Spirit of God within you and so the whole realm of possibility now is open to those who belong to Christ as it was with David. He found favor in the king's house, he became a worshiper whose praises put the devil to flight. You remember when that evil spirit came upon Saul, David would pick up his instrument of music and begin to praise God and that spirit was immediately bound as he began just to glorify God with a heart of faith and trust and many of you have known what that is to come in and praise God in your circumstance and feel that any evil that wants to get a hold of your life and mind is suddenly put to flight. He's brought into royalty, Saul arranges for him to marry his daughter and he's just overwhelmed and remember how overwhelmed we are when we realize that we are sons and daughters of God. As lowly as our estate may have been we are called in to fellowship with Almighty God through Jesus Christ and to realize that we are children of God, we are part of his family, we haven't earned it, we don't deserve it, we haven't worked for it, it is all by grace and just like the prodigal son it's somewhat overwhelming sometimes in the beginning and it just seems like the possibilities are endless. David must have must have felt that way. Nothing can stop me now, God's spirit is on me and I'm part of the family and we're moving forward and of course he's conquering, he's leading Saul's armies and they're conquering enemy after enemy after enemy is beginning to fall just as many of you can't say. I was I was hooked on drugs and my mind was captivated by despair and all of these things they're all gone I'm part of the family and I've been out there and I've been fighting the battles of the Lord and the Lord's been winning phenomenal victories through my life and suddenly after all of that David finds himself in a place that must have felt like death. In Psalm 142 he says I cried verse one to the Lord with my voice unto the Lord I made supplication I poured out my complaint before him and I showed him my trouble. Now you understand suddenly everything's turned against him suddenly he's not in favor in the king's house anymore suddenly finds himself in a cave pursued by the king that once professed to love him and once professed that to honor against the Spirit of God that was on him now he's pursued by this king he's in a cave with just a few discontented people and over three thousand soldiers are seeking his life and trying to kill him what a turn of events it can happen folks it can happen in the spiritual realm in your mind you can be living in a great great victory and all of a sudden just out of nowhere just seems like hell has come against you with the fullness of its fury. Listen to what he says in verse four he says I looked at my right hand and there was no man that would know me refuge failed me and no man cared for my soul nobody had the answer I was in a struggle so deep nobody could quote a scripture to me that would make a difference nobody can understand the depth of what I was facing I know I'm speaking for somebody here this morning you're in a struggle right now that is so deep it's so seemingly unique in your heart and to your situation that you don't even want anybody to try to talk to you you don't want anybody opening the Bible and quoting scripture to you it's it's a struggle so deep that you know instinctively that only God can bring you out of this only God can make the difference in your life and ultimately that's what happened with David surrounded in a cave like a man who's in a grave people all around him and he doesn't even know who's a friend and who's an enemy there's 400 or so men gathered with him in this cave but how does he know that one of them is not planted there by Saul he has no way of knowing it must have been a fearful time in his life in verse 5 he says but I cried unto thee O Lord I said you are my refuge in my portion in the land of the living attend to my cry for I'm brought very low deliver me from my persecutors for they are stronger than I and folks I want to tell you something everything that God allows in to your life and into mine is a classroom and this classroom is to lead us all to one point this is where the ultimate victory lies I want you to really hear this today this is where your victory is when you and I get to the point when we can honestly say Lord you are all that I have you are my present help you're my future refuge you're my provider my strength you are my everlasting home everything I am everything I have everything I ever will have is in you Lord Jesus Christ it's all in you I'm in your hand and God there's nothing around me that I can lean on I can't lean on anything to the left or to the right I can't lean on on any other human being I can't lean on my past I can't lean on anything I've done I can't lean on anything but Oh Jesus you you are the only one that can take me into the future you are the only one that has the promise of life for me you are the only one and folks that is the deepest victory you'll ever experience in your Christian life when you and I get to the point when we fully realize as God said through the Prophet Zechariah it's not by might it's not by power but it's by the Spirit of Almighty God that this race will be finished it's by the goodness of God it's by the grace of God it's by the mercy of God it's by the provision of God it's by the power of God it's by the faithfulness of God it's by God and God alone that this race is going to be won and this race is going to be finished 2nd Samuel chapter 6 verse 14 and 15 tells us later on when David came out of this place and you remember he took the ark as God now began to establish him you and I cannot be established until Christ is our only strength if Christ is not your only strength somehow you'll fall or fail along the way but Christ became the strength of this King and as he brought the ark which is the presence of God that it represented in that generation into the center of Jerusalem the Bible says that David danced with all his might remember we started with the scripture that says weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning you've turned my morning into dancing you put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness Samuel says David danced before the Lord with all his might and David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting with the sound of the trumpet praise God David knew at that point everything I am has come from your hand everywhere I go has been predestined by you from my feet Oh God I cannot be overcome by the evil one I will not be triumphed over by despair I can go into the valley of the shadow of death and there your rod and your staff will be with me you will give me a banquet of truth and a banquet of hope in the midst of my struggle and I know that I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever I know it Oh God I know it deep in my heart that's the ultimate worship folks when you and I can come out of hell itself and dance in the presence of God and say Satan you throw anything at me you want but it makes no difference anymore I'm in the hand of God now he's my strength in my life hallelujah Lamb of God thank you Jesus thank you mighty God Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonian Church he speaks of a time in coming when even Jesus himself will shout for joy there's coming a day of joy folks like you and I have never known or seen you can taste a bit of it now but there's a day coming of joy that's unspeakable and full of glory the Thessalonian Church was under persecution Paul had only been able to preach there for a short time and you remember they they drew even the people out of the house where he was staying and they threatened them and they find him and there was an uproar in the city and he was charged with creating public disorder and he had to actually flee from this city and he was very very concerned about the church whether or not they would survive under the persecution there was like a and against God madness in that particular society at that time and Paul writes back to the church after finding out that they indeed have stood they indeed have held to the testimony of Christ and he says for this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent or that means proceed those that have died before us for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout there's a day coming when even Jesus is going to shout the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout it's a shout of victory it's a shout of joy it's a shout of triumph it's a shout emanating from so deep within the heart of God it's something that God's been waiting for from the day he lost the man that he loved the woman he loved created in his own image in the garden of Eden he's been waiting since that day for a day coming when all of his children would be gathered to him again he's going to come with a shout folks what a shout that's going to be with the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of remember remember David brought the ark in it says with shouting and the sound of the trumpet it's it's a prefiguring of Christ he says he's going to come from heaven with a shout the voice of the Archangel the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first everyone who trusted in Christ in whatever cemetery they are in in and around the greater New York area is going to rise first I do hope I do hope they have time to get here before we leave I do hope what a service that's going to be folks what a time that's going to be in the house of God then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air so shall we ever be with the Lord Paul said wherefore comfort one another with these words we will all meet one day at the gate of heaven I think and this when I say I think it doesn't mean it's in the Bible okay it's just I think but I think that maybe we'll all be allowed one good cry at the gates of heaven before we enter into a place where tears will be no more I think we'll get there and I think we're going to dance I think we're going to shout at the gate of heaven you see my mom and dad are going to be there I find it hard to believe there'd be no tears there at that moment pastor tree says mama dad will be there people I've known in the Lord and have gone on before we're going to be there people I never believed would be there going to be there you're going to be there I'm going to be there we're going to dance like David danced we're going to sing we're going to cry we're going to hug we're going to shout because folks this is the beginning of eternity for us now this is everything that God has promised this is the dedication of an eternal house not made with human hands a house in heaven made by God Almighty himself through his son Jesus Christ on the cross 2,000 years ago all praise God and don't you despair because I know there's some here say well listen I don't have a father and mother there I don't have a brother that I don't have a sister there I don't have anybody there number one Jesus is there he knows you he knows who you are number two there's a cloud of witnesses according to the writing of Hebrews that are watching you now that are encouraging say my son my daughter don't give up the fight don't give up the race it will be worth it all keep on running keep on going there's a great great reward for those who don't cast away their confidence in this or any other time and number three we will be there and the Bible says we will know even as we were known we will know you we will remember even though I don't get to meet you here I'll meet you there at the gate oh we'll be hugging we'll be crying there's no time there anymore doesn't matter if we're there a million years it doesn't matter there's no more time you talk about dancing you talk about shouting you talk about glory you talk about the goodness of God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God hallelujah you know the Bible says that we'll not be married anymore I'm going to talk to the Lord about that see if we can't do I'm sure that can be arranged I'm sure that can I mean it's heaven script says he won't withhold any joy so I'm sure we can do something about that folks hold to your confidence in Christ declare him to be faithful in your trial and realize deep down that forever and always he will never fail you and he will never forsake you don't let your own heart and don't let any power of evil suggest to you that you're going to be triumphed over the Lord God has interwoven his the honor of his own name into keeping you if you could be triumphed over then it would and you had a trusting heart in God if you could be it would bring a reproach to the name of God himself and he won't allow it he will not allow any trusting heart now maybe your trust is no bigger than a grain of mustard seed but didn't the Bible say that's all you need and from that a great big tree can be born that gives shade to others maybe that's all you've got today maybe your problems are so big that that all you've got is a faith that looks so tiny but Jesus said that's all you need and from that little seed of faith that's in your heart I'm going to do something phenomenal in your life if you will hold to that and not let that little bit of faith slip through your fingers in this hour of time hold hold to God's unchanging hand as we sing quite often in this church and then for others will you come with us there is an incredible day coming and it's going to come suddenly actually it's going to come at a time when the world is starting to spin into some form of uncontrollable calamity people will be aware of it in their heart and the Bible says it's suddenly Christ comes for his church like a thief in the night he comes and we are taken to a place where there's only joy forever won't you come with us Jesus died on a cross 2,000 years ago to make a way for you he paid the price for the sin that means the wrongdoing that separates you and God he paid the price an innocent man took the penalty for your wrong upon himself the Son of God and if you believe in him and open your heart to him and let him become the Lord of your life he promises to forgive you of your sin to cleanse you and take away the whole record of it so there's no record that can stop you from entering the presence of God forever then he promises to give you a brand new life a new start and a new hope a future a soundness of mind steadiness in your journey this is what God promises to give to you won't you come with us won't you join us at that gate won't you be part of this celebration that will be for eternity in order to do so you must admit that you need a Savior you must open your heart and let him come let him love you let him forgive you let him walk with you he promises you life not only here but for eternity please will you consider turning from your sin and turning to your Savior I'm going to give an altar call in just a moment and before I do I want to just say for those who are just I want to give an altar call for those who have just a seed of faith left your battle is so strong that there's there's no man no woman that can comfort you only God can would you would you come to this altar today and let let Jesus Christ comfort you he will comfort you he comforted David he'll bring his word into your heart and he'll tell you that this weeping is going to endure for a night but joy is coming to you in the morning and for those who need to give their lives to Jesus Christ you come and join those that are coming let's stand together slip out of your seat in the balcony in the annex there's not too many people there today so you can make your way here as well we'll wait for you in the annex and let's take time to worship just make your way here please if you will slip out of your seat let's all stand together don't be don't be shy don't be ashamed just make your way join these that are coming praise God now I want to talk to you just for a minute those that have come to the altar all the single mothers here I see you on Sunday morning you're dragging your teenage kids here to church usually they walk about 8 to 12 feet behind you dragging their feet all the way heads down not wanting to be here and it's such a battle you work so hard you work very hard every every week and you're bringing you your kids to church and you're saying is it really worth it oh you better believe it's worth it you better believe it's worth it don't you ever let Satan tell you that it's not worth it Greg Thomas he was one of those young men brought to church by his mom who didn't want to be there and he was so bored was so bored in church that he would just sit there watch the guy playing the piano every service now don't tell me it's not worth bringing your sons and daughters to church young men here you fight so many battles inside and outside and you say oh then is it really worth keeping myself or walking this narrow path you better believe it's worth it you better believe it every struggle we fight here is only for a short time the Bible says our lives are just a vapor they just appear like a like a breath of you know the smoke on a cold day just appears and then it's gone and don't ever give up walking with God he won't give up walking with you and one day it'll be all over and you'll be dancing there's just a night of sorrow that all of us have to go through but joy is coming joy is coming you'll get you'll get experiences of it time to time that joy will hit your soul hit you on the subway hit you on the job just just hit you when you're laying in bed at night just joy will come but they're only only just a little foretaste of what's coming your way one day you're going to be in a place where your body can't sigh can you imagine that you can't you can't do that you can't breathe in it you can't sigh there is no sorrow there are no memories that would cause pain you you maybe you eat and never get full I really don't know I really don't know but I do know that it will be worth it to not cast away your confidence in God because he will not cast you away Lord Jesus Christ father I pray that you encourage this church today encourage Lord all of those who have placed their confidence in you even those who only have a seed of faith left it seems so small in comparison to the mountain the problems that seem to be on every side but you said Jesus that's all that we would require is just a seed that's all that you needed to work with and God we bring this little seed of faith to you to this altar today and God I'm asking you as the pastor of this church Lord to let that seed begin to grow in every heart of every person that has come to this altar today Lord take these lives of God and use them for your glory let there be an explosion of faith and grace and I pray God that you've got you will give these moments of rejoicing these moments of dancing before the presence of God until that final day Lord we thank you for this we praise you for it in Jesus mighty name amen and amen