Divine Service - 19 Sep 2021

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dearest loving heavenly father it is for us a joy a privilege and an honor to come and gather here before you now whether we be connected or at home by an online means or whether we be present here father we now come into your presence and we feel that you are among us and it is a wonderful feeling to know that we are close to you again dear lord that we can come and hear your voice that we can receive from you your guidance and we can feel your love we bring our deepest thanks to you thank you for granting us this opportunity today thank you for making it possible that we can connect with you but thank you lord for giving us this future to which we walk towards to which we have journeyed towards as the congregational hymn is now expounded lord we know that upon this journey there are many roads that could be travelled left and right but we wish to remain upon this main road this this narrow way and it is for us father and moment now where we can come and just take a moment to be able to reconnect with you to feel re-energized to lay down our burdens and maybe where we have felt tired to drink from this living water that gives us the energy to continue again and so dear lord it is with thankfulness and with honor and praise to your holy name that we can come now and just be at peace with you here by the still stream and be able to just partake of this wonderful water let it be that each and every one of us can dip liberally from this fountain today we all be able to feel lord that you have spoken into our souls that we have a connection with you that is real and even though maybe our faith has waned that we have felt this deep under welling this this motivation this movement within our soul that allows us to take one step closer to our eternal goal that brings our future and one step closer in reality to us the heavenly father we know we have our ups and downs in life and we placed before you at this holy altar this morning all the silent prayers that have been uttered by those who have gathered here you can see into our lives you know that we battle some of us battle physical ailments some of us battle ailments that cut deep into our hearts lord whatever it is may your peace nonetheless be upon us now and may we feel the power of your spirit among us we pray for a a wonderful binding with our dear apostle let there be this unsevered connection lord that we are able to serve in the apostle ministry today it's your spirit allah that your words can remain fervently entrenched within our soul lord that fruit can come from these moments that we haven't just wasted time coming into this place but lord that we have changed that we have become more like you here too the prayers of those fathers have brought their thanks to you who have given their thanks in the form of a offering who if lord said a silent prayer thanks because they recognized just being connected to you having being able to carry your name as a child of god is indeed something that hasn't been taken for granted bless such a faith we also pray for those father who have severed their connection we think of them we miss them it brings pain upon our hearts sometimes when we have to consider those who are no longer among us because either they have left this faith or they felt cold in this faith or no longer see the purpose of it we also think of those who've gone into the beyond father who are still close to us and we want to pray lord that there can be this beautiful connection to the unseen congregation this morning but now we wish to open our hearts to you the heavenly father bless those who shall serve here today and may your word be spirit inspired sanctify us there for all that we lord can be a plowed field and that the seed that shall fall upon our soul now can be nurtured can be watered and when you come that the harvest lord might be full and ready to be reaped bless us here and bless this place now with peace bless also dear heavenly father the technical connections that we have to rely on today as well any special times and may we be able to also know that your hand of blessing is upon that too now come lord and teach us now and grant us your words of eternal life we pray this all in jesus name amen my dearly beloved brothers and sisters a hearty welcome here into god's house and to all of you are connected online this morning as well we receive a word that we have from the book of philippians chapter 2 and we read the verses 10 and 11 and it reads that at the name of jesus every knee should bow of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth and that every tongue should confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father thus far uh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] r [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] comments [Music] is [Music] so [Music] my dearly beloved brothers and sisters i feel a profound sense of holiness come upon me here this morning it's astounding when we think about this that we today have this privilege to come into this place and here we will hear the words of our dear lord jesus christ given through the spirit through imperfect beings here we will hear his voice here we will partake of his body and his blood will touch jesus today isn't that just a profound moment if you really think about that i look at the flowers that have been placed here and it was just yesterday actually we were looking at purchasing a bunch of flowers and looked at some sunflowers and we just felt that they weren't open enough to to warrant a gift so we purchased another lot but i i look at these and i think to myself how is my demeanor today am i open to your heavenly father to this light have i turned away from everything that is dogging me in this world the worries of the bulls the worries of the the issues of life the physical the viruses and and and gas prices going up are these things occupying my mind right now my concerns about my daily life are they so loud that i i cannot even begin to see and feel this holy moment now may we be like the sunflower that turns its head towards the light opens itself up and it allows that light to penetrate it means we've got to turn away from that which is of this time and we've got to look to that which is a divine because here in this temple our almighty god is present in the lord jesus christ and this word this morning allows us to reflect upon that in a very deep and reverent way the services of sunday services that have continued through this month have co have concerned themselves with fundamentals of our faith faith being a thing of action and we've concerned ourselves with prayer we concerned ourselves with the word of god and today we will concern ourselves with that which is also important to faith which is what do we believe who do we believe in who do we profess what do i confess in my faith and that is i confess the lord jesus christ as my lord my savior and it's personal to me and it's meaningful to me and it changes the way i do things in life and we'll un-pick that and also next sunday concern ourselves with that which is of what can i do back for our lord jesus christ how can i sacrifice but today our lord wants to take us through this understanding he's given us this word that is taken from it's called a hymn actually a creedal hymn to the philippians and it speaks of the lord jesus christ and what his importance was for humankind and just you know you've got to admire how this how paul writes his letters and the words he uses but he speaks and says let us mind be in you which is in christ jesus and then he explains who jesus christ was it's good for us to think back on us it says there who being in the form of god he is our creator he was there right in the beginning who created everything we know in the form of god what did he do he did not consider it robbery to be equal with god but made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bond servant a slave with no rights and came to the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death even the death of the cross that's what our lord jesus did for us god came here to this place because he loves us therefore god has also highly exalted him and has given him the name which is above every name which is the name we call today and the name of the lord jesus christ every knee should bow every knee the word every is quite significant here because there's going to come it's not the case now that every knee bows before him but there will come a time where every knee that's every living creature every creature that lived every creature that has life in it of that is of a nature will call to him as king and as it says in every tongue shall confess him as the lord jesus christ that is a beautiful prophetic statement that has been uttered and that shows for us all that are seated here the journey that we are also on because there will come a time my dear brothers and sisters when things will look very different to what they look now now we live in an imperfect time the ministers you see before you are imperfect there's mistakes made we're just human beings we look amongst ourselves in the congregation we sit amongst those who are also coming here in sin and that is the nature of what it means to live in this time but there will be a time where there will be no sin where there will be perfection and where every creature will look to the lord jesus christ who will be this beam of light in that circum circumstance and that's something that we can all look forward to that perfection and so it is good that we ruminate upon these things now that we consider what is it that it means for me to be a christian today who do i trust who do i call to what is my relationship with him or am i just doing this because it's just the way everyone is going or the way my parents have told me to go do i really feel the love that he has for me and do i reciprocate that love to him by loving my neighbor and so this aspect of profession we want to really truly consider this the profession means that i that is where i nail my colors to the cross i let i say i belong to him and as a result of that there needs to be certain activities that come forth from me to be able to profess christ means that i'm present in his house and when we say present doesn't mean we just come to the door and plonk ourselves on the seat here or to switch the youtube channel on for those who are connected at home it means i come and my soul opens to him so there is a process that takes place prior to me even being here i've already considered myself considered my my battles in life where i'm lacking and i've come seeking him because i need him and i come like that that woman who bled for many years and touched the hem of his garment that's how much i need him and it's meaningful for me when i touch him because i feel him and it causes me to have this deep inner conviction and no matter what is ongoing in my life i'm still ready to go forward because i suffer with him and to suffer with him is an honor it's an honor to be called a child of god to carry his name what an honor and anything can happen to me in my life but nothing can take that away i am the child of the most high my dear brothers and sisters do you think about that can anyone say you are a lesser being absolutely not we all have value now we all have future now we have meaning in our life now there is hope now no matter what happens in our daily lives eternity is the reality to which we move and because of what our lord jesus christ did for you and me it changes everything and we can battle through anything because he's with us it's the greatest love story i almost think this profession my dear brothers and sisters should be like when we are for the first time in love and for many of us see today that we might have experienced that maybe not for all the youngsters i don't know but you know it's when you fall in love oh wow suddenly the world is tinted pink everything is beautiful and you see life from a totally different perspective i often think of that chapper goes with the guitar and stands outside the block of flats and puts the amplifier on and twang and sings in very false tones to his beloved was on the top floor and everyone's going shush quiet and he doesn't care he just wants to just declare what he feels there's absolutely no boundaries to that that ought to be our heart my dear brothers and sisters it should be easy for us to be able to say i belong to him he's meaningful to me and be able to go and say that to anybody we meet without fear and sometimes it's difficult look at our poor peter when he was there amongst the crowd and they had come to arrest the lord jesus christ and it was that pivotal moment and then they looked at him and said hey hey aren't you one of the followers and then fear wrecked him he was fearful of his life at that moment he said no that was me and there's no i'm sure it was you no no it wasn't me and another one came down is he man and he said no i promise he's not me he denied christ three times yeah it's easy for us to stand i go i shouldn't have done that but you and i would have done exactly the same thing i attended one sir it was like a speech and they were talking about a person who's who used to rule i might as well just say it was stalin and they were talking about this man and and somebody said why is it that um you know you you couldn't stand up against this man in these draconian ways and the person who was at the podium said who said that and then everyone went quiet and then he said now do you understand why it's easy my dear brothers and sisters to stand when we're not in the situation but when the matter is upon us and we're right there and we feel that fear and we feel the heat of the fire then sometimes we wilt our heavenly father knows that he knows we live in this time this is the imperfect world in which we live and we just but mere children battling through this trying to find our way and he cared for peter he knew why peter had wilted but yet peter grew courage it grew within himself and he grew to love the lord jesus christ to a point when christ was able to say to him peter do you love me he asked him three times you know why you asked him three times now because he had denied him three times peter told him he loved him and he knew even on that third moment when he said do you love me peter you sure you love me yes lord i love you he said feed my lambs and feed my sheep and peter was able to go and do wonderful things my dear brothers and sisters that exists within our grasp today let our faith not become something that is just the habit that we contend with on a daily on a weekly basis yeah faith not be just something we put on as a suit on a sunday and that's when we are faithful it is a way of life and let our our life be a testimony to our connection to our lord jesus christ that we live according to all these wonderful values that he has established in our life yeah that will come at a price sometimes and maybe it'd not be that we're going to lose our life like it was for the christians and the philippians particularly at this time they were facing they were facing mortal danger maybe sometimes it comes in a more subtle way but also equally hurtful sometimes where maybe we lose friendships because of others because we've declared our faith we may be others ridicule us and they point fingers at us and maybe we have to go through now maybe less favorable circumstances within our workplace as a result they happen to me when some share with you little experience that happened to me many years ago when i was far away in in another city and i was in the military and we'd had to do duties which is every three days you would have to be on guard and i would always try and get sunday off because i wanted to be in church and so i i worked out that i was going to duty and one sunday and i went to the chapel who was on saturday's duty and i said to him would you mind swapping with me he's just fantastic i can go and i have my saturday party now so wonderful and i went and we swapped and i did his saturday and in the morning i went off to uh to church and then monday i got called in by this like a sergeant major it was called the master at arms it was a short check and he didn't know but we called him the poison dwarf because he was a real difficult customer to deal with and he said to me in african englishman which an englishman come here and he got me in his office he said why were you not in on duty on sunday like you were meant to and i you know kind of the cat had got my tongue and i was fearful at this moment i thought you know what now what i know exactly what was going on i wasn't trying to do anything wrong and i explained in the whole situation and i explained to him what it meant to me to be in church on a sunday and i was with another brother who we were two together a good friend of mine who's actually here in the uk with us it's actually quite nice and so this man looked at us and he turned his chair away from us and he was writing something and then he looked back at us he said are you still here in other words get out the office we quickly jumped and ran away that was his way of saying yeah i acknowledge you in a strange way my dear brothers and sisters yeah sometimes we're going to go through these matters in life sometimes they're going to be these battles but when we stand firm and declare our lord jesus christ no matter what there is a beautiful benefit attached to that look at the deacon stephen faced with mortal danger going to have rocks thrown in he knew exactly what was going to happen did it stop him from declaring before all those there even though they didn't want to listen he explained to them with the spirit and what happened to him he looked up and the spirit showed him what was standing here and it was the lord jesus christ standing the right hand of god he saw that and he was able to be to do an amazing thing he was able to say even in his moment when he was being pummeled by rocks just think of it and he was able to say lord don't cast the sin upon them what an amazing amazing circumstance and what an amazing act of love my dear brothers and sisters made we feel today that to be able to profess the lord jesus christ is not a duty it's not a it's not a weight it's not something i want to do because someone's told me to do it let us feel this morning that to be able to profess our love for our lord jesus christ it's for me breathing it's for me just being able to be able to live because there is no other way to be able to live my life but to live in him and may his light be able to shine into every darkest corner of our existence that no matter where we are in our existence we feel truly and deeply within our soul my lord jesus christ is with me and i'm going to be able to meet him again one day for all eternity and may i be the one who can just be the tool in his hand to be able to go to my neighbor and say neighbor come with me i know where you two can feel love amen so it's nice we have a choir this morning we also have two deacons and it's nice that we can have our d conserve us this morning and we will hope that they can also serve in the mind of our deacon stephen as we've heard this morning but our heavenly father will open the way for that so i'll answer a deacon white service further and then i'll deacon stigli require please hmm [Music] may god [Music] may keep you is [Music] jesus he will keep your [Music] [Music] my beloved brothers and sisters it makes you it's amazing how i was just thinking yesterday in and and and the context behind this this whole bible verse where where it talks about the fact that jesus was with god and he then humbled himself to become a slave imagine that you you are a king and all of a sudden it's like okay here's all my goods and everything i've got and i'm just gonna i'm gonna go live in your house and i'm gonna do all your chores and things like that can can can can any of us say we would we would be so humble to go and do that and it's amazing how you know in these um these superhero movies it's always like one of those moments where where the bad guy's gonna going to kill the good guy then all of a sudden out of nowhere there's like a bunch of people and it's like oh but but but we're gonna but we're gonna but we're gonna but you're not gonna do it because we're gonna we're gonna save him and and and and don't we want to be that person to like but like he's like evangel said when the man said oh who said that it's like yeah no no one's going to say that right but only then as the saying goes only in the movies will someone stand up to the to the bad person and say okay like go go for it take take me i'll i'll i'll save that person so yeah it's it's but but isn't that such a wonderful thing to aspire to to to be there for the little guy but aren't we all little guys because that that's that that in itself is the problem is like oh um i was like it's like i was watching people i was people watching yesterday and and and you can see sometimes when people they'll walk around and they do that that whole thing is like oh you can say oh clearly here's the boss coming or something and thinking wow do we do we carry ourselves like that or do we do it because as evangelist was saying we should be that humbleness in our daily life it's not just okay like this church now and stand open and proper and everything or is it every every day that is how we walk that is how we portray ourselves that is what we do and my my eyes fell on this also in philippians the second chapter verse 3 let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit but in loneliness of mind oh let nothing be done with that agenda okay right i'm gonna do something today because tomorrow he's gonna give me a hundred pounds or whatever the case may be it is something to be gained by this because you know later down the line he's gonna help me out and sort me out and i've got a connection now as people would say so let us let us have that humbleness of heart at all times that that no matter where we are no matter in what circumstances what situation we find ourselves in but we are always there willing to be helpful and and to help those in need no matter the need and and and and that doesn't mean we have to spend millions of pounds to help someone just just to be there just to listen just to open our hearts to that situation because it's amazing how you know i was thinking when evangel said the openness is just how you get these directional speakers where you can you know if the the noises behind you it can point that way and you get only the good stuff so let us let us be that way let us let us be open to to the circumstances around us let us feel that that need and serve that need because it is within each of us and then surely the lord will send his son to future soon amen my dear brothers and sisters what a wonderful demonstration of that conviction you know the sacrifice that jesus made and that professing and i was moved by this demonstration of how that preparation when we take part in the divine service attending divine service that's also conviction just because we don't stand in the corner of every student professing i love jesus i am a child of god going to divine service is a whole process whether it's consciously or subconsciously and that preparation we make that conscious effort to accept his word and his teaching and that's that's really powerful and i think sometimes we not that we forget the value of the sacrifice but it's not always in the forefront of our minds we don't always apply in our daily lives due to various reasons and in psalm 103 verse 12 it really demonstrates the sacrifice or the weight of the sacrifice and it says as far as east is from the west that's how far god has removed the transgressions from us to put that into context if you look at earth planet earth if you travel from north to south at some point you're traveling south you come back at some point you're gonna head north again so it kind of it it reaches a point where you travel north again but east to west doesn't quite work that way because if you travel from east to west you're continuously traveling east and you will never reach west so the two never meet and i thought that if we put it into context that the weight of the sacrifice surely it's easier to profess the lord jesus as our as our lord and savior and for us as christians whether we come to church or whether we profess or find an opportunity whether it's in our workplace or whether it's through our behavior it doesn't mean doesn't necessarily mean just because we don't profess out loud and through our words we don't profess jesus we can profess it in many other ways whether through our actions or deeds and sometimes less is more a good friend of mine always reminds me less is more and and that in itself is quite powerful so my dear brothers let let us take this teaching in the simple word and then just really reconnect with that that image that sacrifice and the lord jesus and that teaching and then just a reminder of why we do this because we've got our sight in the goal may the lord bless us richly amen it's lovely to hear the holy spirit expounded through our dear deacons and the deacon ministry having its rightful place on the altar beautiful thank you my dear brothers and sisters we now come to a point where our heavenly father is going to be able to bless us abundantly through his sacrifice we can have our sins forgiven again there as a deacon mentioned there's a process to that we must have already enumerated us and before we come and even seat ourselves here it should already be that feeling of i've let the lord down this week i'm really really sorry i feel bad imagine how peter felt when he denied christ three times that's why the lord loved him because he saw within him the regret that he had we get an opportunity now to readdress that and our heavenly father wants to help us in doing that but it comes that we have to have that attitude as our dear convention that you humble attitude i went to go and watch some sport yesterday and it was quite a warm day so i wore sandals and i was running around field and all sorts of things and when i got home i took the sandals off and went and sat down on the couch and watched telly and my wife said look at your feet oh my word and it was full with black dust and i'd made some marks on the carpet and i have to go and clean that when i get home later today otherwise i'm in trouble and i thought to myself look at that day it's a matter what you do in life you're going to have this dust come upon you and then i thought of how jesus taught us to be when you see someone with dust on their feet what do you say look at you you've got dust on your feet is that what you do and judge them and denigrate them what did jesus jesus be an example of he went and he knelt down in front of the disciples and said come let me wash your feet for you that's what he did and that was the task of the slave in the house in those days they you know you you'd have to walk into someone's home and you'd have someone to come and actually wash your feet for you who's of very low standing and you can imagine what the streets must have looked like in those days they didn't have flushing toilets it couldn't have been good that's a yucky job my dear brothers and sisters the thing is our lord jesus christ was teaching us to be humble to those who are about us our neighbor and we can do that now by saying to this one to those ones i forgive you i forgive you of your sin and may i also have forgiveness for my sin it is a wonderful humble way to go about life and when we do that my dear brothers and sisters we are not just serving that individual we are serving the lord jesus christ who's asked us to do that may that be our mindset now and when we pray the lord's prayer when we hear those words your sins are forgiven may that aspect of humility not be feigned let it be genuinely felt jesus died for me and i've everything to to to give him thanks for and let me just for this one moment now say i forgive others and then experience that moment of release for my own sin my dear brothers and sisters may god bless us that we have truly that feeling within our soul and this process of repentance be something that we engage in often and it's not just a one-off here now but it continues that we enumerate our sin know and feel that it is that regret that is in our soul and that we have the mind to want to go and be better people and that comes with action that comes with activity that comes with behavioral change so this person this ego this thing that doesn't want to change we need to chip away at that block and it's painful sometimes let's not shrink we suffer with christ and we will be with him for eternity amen so we have a hymn of repentance and thereafter we can pray the prayer which our lord jesus taught us [Music] with control [Music] grace [Music] me [Music] [Applause] grace [Music] is [Music] so maybe now stand together for you at home as well if you can stand and we can pray together the prayer which our lord jesus taught us our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen in the commission of my sender the apostle i proclaim and to you the glad tidings in the name of our lord jesus christ the son of the living god your sins are forgiven the peace of the risen one abide with you amen dear loving heavenly father our lord jesus we are filled with thankfulness thank you lord for your love and for your grace thank you for being patient with us thank you for accepting our sin and placing your life on the cross to pay the price you took the blame away from us lord and you've left us now in a position where we can have a future perhaps being fickle humans we will never fully understand that until the day when we reach your kingdom lord but we look upon this moment now and we peer through this keyhole of grace and we just see what glory awaits and we thank you for that thank you lord that we have this opportunity to go and be different grant us the strength to do that heavenly father we wish to now partake of your body and your blood let this be the impetus that helps us father to gain ascendancy over the old adam that we no longer shall be that creature that we shall aim and strive to be more like you more loving more patient long suffering humble willing to serve heavenly father may we now be worthy partakers of your body and your blood and we touch your hem may your power enter us we pray this in jesus name amen now we shall celebrate holy communion the lord's table is now prepared in the name of god the father the son and the holy spirit i consecrate bread and wine for holy communion lay there upon the once brought eternally valid sacrifice of jesus christ for the lord took bread and wine gave thanks and said this is my body which is broken for you this is my blood of the new covenant given for many for the remission of sins eat and drink do this in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this wine you proclaim the lord's death till he comes body and amen of jesus is given for you amen by the blood of jesus given for you amen body and blood jesus give it to you body in the blood of jesus christ the lord now invites you to holy communion [Music] body and body jesus the body and blood of jesus given for you body foreign [Music] foreign [Music] jesus [Music] foreign [Music] jesus [Music] foreign [Music] jesus [Music] so so my dear brothers and sisters we can now stand and close in prayer dear loving heavenly father we thank you for this moment to be in your house and what a beautiful moment lord to be able to come into your presence we truly feel it's the honor father to be you called your children now we want to go and be those in our workplaces in our friendship circles wherever we are lord that we can be a legible letter that we belong to you we carry your values we carry your love we are humble we are patient we are enduring bless us lord now that we can do that and become part of this building process of this wonderful new future the heavenly father nonetheless we have our battles in life we pray for all that come to you need those who are connected father who can't be here today but they've also felt lord the power of holy communion even though they're not weren't physically partaking of that lord we pray for your blessing to be upon all the work that is done in your name let there be lord that ministers can be added to this work teachers can be added those are willing to lend a hand to have talents may those talents come to the fore so that we can beautify your house lord we pray for a quick cessation to this virus so that we can continue to serve you unabated bless us in doing so we pray for the leadership of our church we pray for the leadership lord of our country all of these are necessary so that we can serve you without any fear or without any boundary lord may your blessing also be upon our dear chief apostle we look forward to being with him in october open the ways that nothing may prevent that that may be the case may your blessing be perfect upon us all may we be wise father in the decision we take whether we be present there or not now lord we place our lives into your hand please protect us as we travel on our ways home grant now your blessing that it may rest upon us all this word father and remain within our hearts like a little glowing ember and that we can take it into our lives with us may we lord be able to be truly those who profess you in the way we are how we speak and how we think lord as always our prayer is shorten the time and if you come please find us worthy we ask and pray this now all in jesus name amen the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all amen [Music] ah [Music] we have a letter to be read so ask please the choir close and then erector will read a letter to so [Music] of than jesus my sins [Music] away my heart [Music] wonderful the much disgrace of jesus deeper than the mighty holy seed higher than the mountains [Music] thank you very much dear brothers and sisters is a letter from our district apostle dear brothers and sisters i would like to send a few words to you regarding this year's thanksgiving day first i would like to thank you thank you for your readiness to bring offerings for your faith and for your faithfulness thanks to you it is it is possible to offer divine services even in this difficult time we are certainly living in a time unlike anything we have ever experienced but is but it is still possible to clearly recognize god's handwriting our heavenly father knows how to care for us we are not lacking in word and grace we are now approaching thanksgiving day on sunday the 3rd of october i was made aware of the bible text from psalm 103 verse 1 bless the lord o my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name even even nature gives praise and thanks to the eternal creator we are all caring for the beauty of the earth of earthly nature birds sing this song trees bloom in spring and bear delicious fruit when we are thinking of the wonderful flowers or cornfields these images surely bring joy to us all behind these sensations is god the creator whom we will give praise and thanks of course we all experience these times differently some of our brothers and sisters have to live with grief others are living in difficult circumstances and the question is asked how are we supposed to praise god our heavenly father also looks into the hearts of those who have to live through difficult times still we want to worship him our heavenly father because we know that the day will come when he will thrust in his sickle in revelation 14 15. we have this moment in our sight and may be grateful to god for this moment already today thus we as the crown of creation want to praise god let us do so with our faith and with our offerings step by step we are walking towards the goal of our faith our heavenly father will not abandon us in connection with all apostles of the northern and eastern germany i would like to give you heartfelt greetings and i wish you a blessed time yours my dear brothers and sisters from uh administrative hatman opening my church office hat on if you would like to offer online that is a preferred method it is safer and it doesn't cause the virus to be spread the bank account details are the new apostolic church uk limited and the sort code is 2011 and the church account 531-888809 if you wish to gift aid you're very welcome to contact me my email address at the church office is admin hyphen hq at btconnect.com and you can ask for a gift aid number in which case you could use that as a reference for your online offering so my dear brothers and sisters wish you all a very blessed day further and we look forward to coming about the chief apostle please pray that everything may run smoothly for that and i wish you all a very blessed week going forward take care bye [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] you

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021