 My dear viewer, welcome again to our series of 40 days of prayer. Today is day 18. We are glad to have you here. It's a Sabbath morning. Allow me to say happy Sabbath. I'm glad that you chose to be part of this ministry. Blessing our when we come before the Lord to see him in prayer. And before you go to church, if you are in tune this morning, perhaps could be watching it in the afternoon depending on your time on the evening. But before you go to church, just a few minutes, that we can commit ourselves to the Lord as we go to church. The text we are sharing today is from the book of Psalms number 73. And we read verse 25 and 26. The one of God says, Um hava'i in heaven b'atvee, And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Verse number 26. My flesh and my heart faileth. But God is a strength of my heart. And my portion forever. I'll read one more time. Psalms number 73, number 25, verse 27 and 26. Um hava'i in heaven b'atvee, And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth. But God is a strength of my heart. And my portion forever. Let's pray. Lord we thank you. As we speak from this text in the next few minutes. We invite you presence in Jerusalem we pray. Amen. There are times when we go through difficulties and challenges in life and we feel so much broken, so much rejected and rejected. We feel we are so lonely and even God himself has hid himself from us. Such experiences are very common. They are not new to us. They have been there before. The author of this particular song, who is a friend of David, Kondasaf, he went through a trying moment, a friction moment. And he lost it. He felt broken. He felt God was not with him. He felt rejected in fact. Before he comes to this verse number 25, when you read from verse number 21, it's very interesting. He says, in that situation my heart was grift and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before me. Some version says I was senseless and ignorant. Being afflicted and you lose yourself through affliction. Passing through trials in life and until you lose your senses. I mean, what this text is saying that there are difficulties that can come your life. Your challenges can come your way until you start even doubting God himself. Talk about death. At times death can be very devastating. Death is the last one. There's nothing that can explain how one feels when he has lost the last one. Imagine losing a last one and especially when you have trust in the Lord, you praying, but then God seems not to answer. At times we have death through accidents and expecting death and things just happen and you're fast struggling to understand where was God and why these things have to happen. So you've just been working well employed at your workplace and things have been well but boom, from nowhere, things are turning around and becoming shapeless and before you know there's a light on your desk and you shun the door and you don't even know where to start. At times your marriage could be doing well and you're good people, you're surfing church, you're nailed or deconized or committed in church, you're giving your title and offering and everything is okay. But boom, something happened, disrupts you and your marriage is going down the drain. You're praying, you've called this person, that person, they're trying to intervene, nothing seems to change. You wonder where is God? Could be your child who is sick and watching them or maybe they've been addicted drugs, they're being drained and swept away as you watch hopelessly. You're praying but God seems not to answer. At times, when life becomes meaningless and appreciating God's power in your life becomes meaningless, mistakes of that situation and says, I was there and I could not understand how I became senseless, I became foolish and the ignorant, I was like a beast because of what I was going through but then he says in verse number 23, nevertheless I was continually with these. God, even in that moment when I was complaining and mummering and talking things about you, I never allowed my heart, you know times you can be talking ugly things before the Lord because of what you're going through. You don't mean it, it's just a situation you are in and that's what's happening. But then this order says even so in that situation I never allowed my heart to wander away to doubt the presence of God and his love upon my life. And so in verse number 25 he says, Whom have I in heaven apart from you God? In my crisis, in my afflictions, in my trials, in my tribulations, whom do I have apart from you God? He says I have only you and there is none upon earth that I desire beside me. Think of Job who would lose everything, that twinkling of an eye has lost everything. Children is all, I mean all children dying instantly, what a horrible experience losing property, losing children and everything including your flesh and you're there still waiting upon the Lord trusting the Lord and wonder. Job's wife, she just became a woman, she's just a practical person, a practical Christian because you are a human being and she turns to the husband and says, come on my husband, I know you're a friend of God but I doubt whether God is your friend. Who does this kind of thing? Who allows heaviest power such kind of things to happen? You have lost everything. I've lost the seed of my womb and you're still here talking about this God? What a God can do such kind of things? In fact, she's suggesting to Job just cast him, cast this God that we have nothing to do with him. You see, she didn't mean it. She didn't mean it. She was overwhelmed and so at that moment when you feel overwhelmed, the scripture is advising you never to allow your heart to wander from God. Yes, in this world we shall go through tribulation. Jesus says, be of gun shia because he has overcome. You can say like phase over here, um havae in heaven bati and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. Version number 26 is, my flesh and my heart faileth but my flesh in my heart may fail but here he says faileth presently this is the situation I am in my flesh and my strength are failed I am lost of ideas I'm lost of options I'm lost of anything I know that could be a source of my health I'm here hopelessly yet waiting upon the Lord says my heart and my flesh faileth but God is the strength of my heart love is in my portion and I hear Paul asking what can separate us from the love of God and goes ahead to talk about things that ordinarily ought to separate us tribulations, you know conflicts, promise unemployment struggles of every kind he says no even in these kind of things we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus the love of God will never leave us my dear viewers in Sabbath morning I want to invite you as you prepare to go to worship or wherever you are whether in church or wherever you are God cares for you God loves you the God of the mountain is still the God in the valley he cares for you despite the pain you are feeling today he loves you despite what you see today and I want to encourage you that may we hold hand to the Lord may he be our refuge and our strength in the time of need is such a friend and I hear one musician saying what a friend we have in Jesus and in that text he says what needless pain we bear because we do not learn how to take everything to him in prayer God is waiting to address our emptiness our brokenness he is waiting to deal with our pain he is waiting he knows how to do it to fix our brokenness and we can trust him one more time you can trust him with that condition with that situation with that circumstance you can trust him and I'm here to pronounce today that weapon which he cast against you shall not prosper in Jesus name just hold on to your faith we are upon the Lord and we shall see the reverence that comes from God just walking to church on this sabbath and worship him in confidence and waiting upon him and we shall see the miracle he is going to perform join me as we pray gracious for the heaven indeed whom we have in heaven apart from you what we desire here on earth if not you our heart and our flesh may fail but you are strength and our portion forever yes indeed in this world we are going through tribulations but Lord when we imagine and think of the glory of the victory of a scene the glory of the new Jerusalem that we are preparing for us we admire and get committed for that the joy thereof and the good things thereof cannot compare with the momentary trial and afflictions we are going through we are willing Lord this money to say like job I know in whom I believe the Lord our faith will not waver because of the current situation we are faced with and I'm praying for my viewer Lord I know what they are going through it could be a family issue it could be a work related issue it could be anything health or anything but they are in their lowest moment when as it were they are losing their senses Lord we inviting you in these ugly desperate situations of our lives that you can come and gather those broken pieces and bind them together that your children may have hope one more time gracious father we don't have any other source of hope apart from when your children are crying to you your promise to hear even before they speak you are going to answer and Lord we are seeking you this morning that you may answer the needs of your children as many as they are presented Lord we pray in Jesus name thank you media viewer for this moment the Lord thank you for choosing every time to be here for this for the days of prayer this is the source of your blessings and thank you for being a blessing to too many people by sharing this message and if you have not been sharing and invited to share but also inviting you if you have not subscribed to our channel please just click that button that anytime we have such programs may come to you and you may continue being blessed remember to pray for the 7 member list that you have let's continue praying and praising let's continue pleading let's continue interceding let's continue asking in faith and indeed miracles will be vowed by God till tomorrow I'll be with you