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I am your host Anita Morris Reverend Anita Morris, and I am actually going to talk regarding the Gospel I wouldn't say gospel all of it is gospel because it's oral tradition However, I'm going to come from the Old Testament called the prophet Habakkah Habakkah was a prophet who was proclaiming in The things of God and the midst of violence that was happening in the regions of Jerusalem because Babylon has caused them to be in confused placed Perplexed and And Habakkah had a complaint to God and saying how come these people are wealthy and advancing and the righteous Go and wanty Okay, so oftentimes he was placed at Dis-ease with God and God had a had a word for him even though sometimes you don't see that your change will come No matter the adversity some people suffer loss going from worse conditions to far more gruesome conditions from bad to worse But there's a word of the Lord today and again, I'm proclaiming the word of God from Habakkah Heavenly Father, I thank you. I thank you because you did not allow me to suffer sickness to death Thank you Lord God for allowing me to have continued health and healing in my body I thank you Lord God for Allowing me to be human and to allow me to have a common cold and to allow me to overcome all adversities Sickness and illnesses. I thank you Lord God for touching me and touching those who are underneath my breath to hear the voice of The word of God. I pray that healing I pray that you touch every home and free them from sickness and disease in flu Common colds of any kind of thing Thank you for shielding those who have lost their loved ones in recent days Of course my family who lost their loved ones my cousin and Also, his family his wife his children and also come of those that have lost their lives in the limousine accident 20 at one time Those that who suffered in Indonesia in Japan and the surrounding regions Lord God through Tosami and all different kind of storms Lord God But I thank you Lord God that there is hope that you are sovereign and Lord God that there's help and that there's rescue And we ask Lord God that your rescue will continue to lead them on and that you provide quiet Confidence for those who are remaining Heavenly Father, we thank you father for touching us afresh anew and Jesus mighty name. Thank God. Amen it reads and the book of Hebeka starting with chapter 2 I Will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guard post often times as Proclaimers of the gospel such as I am Proclaiming God's the good news of God Ministers of Christ reverence preachers pastors teachers We're also to be in the secret place of the most high Guarding God's word and also hiding it in our hearts listening for the voice of God So we can have a word for those who are weary And also for ourselves to know what we need to do and how we are to be led by the spirit of God and to be guided while when I was recovering over my common cold the Lord had me To listen and to quiet me and settled me down after burying my cousin And after I had my dad up here Visiting like I said, he's in his stage third stage of gastric cancer So a lot of sickness around me So I just thank God for holding them close and holding my family close In the midst of peril and not just my family, but you might have family that have gone through Different adversities, but when you quiet yourself and when God is quieting you down To allow you to hear listen in on what he's saying to you And may it be a peace even though there's different situations society is going to move on um The world is going to continue to keep on moving and There's going to be a change of command. There's going to be a change of of What do you call it? November elections you have all these different? um outstanding Vices virtues are going on. So just come and find a quiet place That to know that God declares the end from the beginning and he is sovereign. He sees he's el rojah The God who sees everything And so hebeka Mentioned I will climb up to my watch tower and stand at my guard post There I will wait to see what the Lord says And how he will answer my complaints Oftentimes we have many complaints. We have me too movement. We have people who have during this month of october It's cancer Awareness month as well as the next domestic violence Awareness month and then there's also those who were males who have been victims of domestic violence, etc But we also have to give it into the hands of God and we just had Uh news fascinating news on CNN. I'm sure you guys keep up to date With what's going on in the world and praise God for the testimony of dr. Ford in also the uh hearing to hear um honorable judge Kamana Whatever God will make Whatever is wrong. He'll make right in it in its due season So I do not worry about things that I cannot change. You cannot change But know that change will come in its due time It reads Look at the proud They trust in themselves and their lives are crooked But the righteous will live by Their faithfulness to God Because hebeka the proclaimer The old testament prophet Minor prophet he was He was looking at the proud of Babylon. Look at all this is going on They trust in themselves and they have lives that are crooked paths. They get away with everything But he said but the righteous Will live by their faithfulness to God Amen by what you do continuously and you're constant and you're showing yourself to trust God That is called faithfulness to God It says wealth is treacherous And the arrogance are never at rest They're always feasting on other people's flesh to pray to get in advance or to get the upper hand But he said the just shall live by faith Amen, that is in hebeka too And then when you read along and you go further Hebeka was so In a turmoil and struggling with the warfare what was going on spiritually and physically And trapped with the ruins of his his um countrymen and also the people Of his city That he said wow, I tremble inside when I hear this. This is in hebeka chapter 3 verse 16 This says I tremble inside when I hear this My lips quivered with fear My legs gave way beneath me And I shook in terror I will wait quietly for the coming day When disaster will strike the people who invade us Even though the fig trees have no blossoms. This is hopelessness When you feel there's trouble like we said the trasami the indonesia everything feels like there's no hope I want to throw the towel in he said even though the fig trees have no blossoms And there are no grapes on the vines even though the olive crops fails There's nothing that you can do to cause it to produce In your human self, but I come to tell you it's not by might human power nor by religious spirit But by god's spirit says the lord it is by his spirit It says even in the fields lie empty and barren If you are at a barren place load a bar, which we call it in the Hebrew where there's no growth. There's no Results, okay, and you were waiting for an answer. This is hebeka He was crying out saying I need an answer from you of the many complaints. I have before you god He reads and it reads and the fields lie empty and barren Even though the flocks die in the fields and the cattle barns are empty He said all this is going on even though this is all going around and the psalms we have hope And it reads that thousands may fall around you, but it shall not come near your dwelling See we have hope in the scriptures to know to trust in the living god to be faithful because god is faithful to us Not that we are faithful But we continue to trust and obedience to god. Amen It says yet. I will rejoice in the lord after all these things I can see that there's no hope around me, but yet I rejoice And the lord I will be joyful and god of my salvation an attitude of gratitude To take your wet your your focus off what's going on around you to give god the highest praise A shabbat praise a hallelujah praise Yet I will rejoice and the lord keep looking up And I will be joyful and god of my salvation The sovereign lord is my strength. He is your strength He makes me as a sure footed as a deer He makes you as a deer So basically he makes your feet like hinds feet swift Moving about strengthening you giving you the agility giving you the flexibility To move about giving you the resiliency that you need to sustain To move you from glory to glory From strength to strength to revive you again to refresh you to hudest you amen to make you new amen It says the sovereign lord is my strength He makes me as a sure footed as a deer Able to trade able to tread upon the heights amen able to tread upon the heights He's an abler amen. He's he makes you able to tread upon your heights amen That he makes the mountains to come low to bow before you amen that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow Every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is lord that he makes your your mountains Low and he he lowers them to make them to valleys amen And that he sets high in his high and lofty place, but he's looking after every one of us amen And he's making you to tread upon your very heights Those oppositions those struggles those obstacles those adversities that surrounding you He's making you to tread upon your highest places and the oftentimes It reads right here and the new livin translation note It reads hebeka had asked god why evil people prosper While the righteous suffer Don't be bitter That you are a follower and a believer of christ and other people you feel that they're heathens That's judgment. Don't cause yourself to judge others because you are a believer and somebody else is not That would not be of god. Amen It says it reads In the word of god It says all have sin and fallen short of the glory of god and god reigns on the just and the unjust And he is kind to those that are unkind so continue to keep on being kind amen. Keep on doing good. Amen It said it read that hebeka the proclaimer the prophet the might of prophet in the old testament He had asked god why evil people prosper while the righteous righteous suffer or you can see people who are truth tellers They they often tell the truth, but they get backlash for telling what is the truth And some people are afraid to to proclaim god's word because it's truth telling And sometimes you will be what do you call it afflicted? Or you would be what do you call it in a struggle in a battle? It says many of the afflictions are the righteous But god will deliver you from them all don't trust in your might your human power And what is your motive in telling the truth anyway? Is it to glorify god to bring god glory or to bring you status and glory? Check your motive. Check your heart. It says take the lock out of your own eye Then you're able to take the log and help somebody else. Amen. It says It reads in the notes it says they don't Not in the long run Will prosper but you would see the those that are the evil That's going on that they're prospering and what their wicked deeds are doing for a moment It says hebeka saw his own limitations In contrast to god's unlimited power So he was seeing with just his own lens. He didn't have a god's lens 365 going on like all around him god's eyes go to and from the earth Seeing those who are worshipers and reverently serving him who fear the lord But Although hebeka was a prophet he didn't see all what god has seen or god has saw And it continues Hebeka saw his own limitations in contrast to god's unlimited power In control of all the world's events So god is sovereign and that's what he made note in verse nine 19 not nine, but hebeka 319 it says the sovereign lord And when we say sovereign lord, that means god will do what he would have Himself to do he is god all by himself. She is god all by himself because The power khalid is a feminine now for the spirit Okay, the who dwells within us the power khalid amen So you can say mother god father god, but god is sovereign The divine is sovereign and he looks to make justice He looks to to make things and correct what is wrong to make right in the appropriate time He is sovereign. He knows the perfect timing. He knows what justice need to be taken He knows what corrective action need to be taken. He is god of justice and of good judgment There's no unrighteousness in him at all God is a lie and in control of the world in its events We cannot see all that god is doing Beloved and we cannot see all that god will do But we can be assured that he is god And we'll do what is right yasha. He will do what is right The root word of yashua complete Right just right Amen Because he is the way the truth in the life Jesus And he is a way out of no way Amen No one's this can give us confidence and hope in a confusing world So god has not given us beloved a spirit of confusion of Babylon upon us to go this way in this way Who shall we do this and who shall we vote for who shall we? What stance shall we take what cause shall we what efforts it should always be about showing compassion to humanity To to love As god and christ has loved us amen To forgive and walk into forgive and walk in forgiveness to seek justice and to do good Amen, that should be always paramount and the forefront of our minds and our lives Amen, and that's the word of god For the people of god amen and the The midst of suffering loss and as we have Seeing on the news or those that have lost loved ones um, I'm going to read you materials that I Was able and was an honor to be a part of um clinical pastoral education in My settings of educational life clinical settings where people must say goodbye and how to say goodbye To those who are transitioning life or you might have a co-worker who's leaving to go to a different branch of of government or a different company Or you may have lost a loved one. You may have lost a limb. You may have lost, um A person to death of catastrophic or setting or crisis. We don't know what you lost in transition You may have been a relationship. We don't know what the loss is But I'm going to read this beloved verbatim. It says saying goodbye Goodbyes play an important part in the circle of our lives Like the season of the year Goodbyes help define our moments of joy and sorrow life and death Do we ever really get used to saying goodbye? I don't think so But saying our goodbyes does help us Experience a deeper appreciation of our humanness The word goodbye originally meant god be with you Go with god It is recognition That god is a significant part of the going There is strength in remembering That the one who brought us together Will be with us as we go our separate ways And there is the assurance That god is in our new beginning as well Over the years I have discovered that there are five important elements to saying healthy goodbyes The order can be rearranged But all five should be present number one To acknowledge that it is a goodbye This it takes courage and vulnerability To acknowledge that change and a relationship is inevitable To identify the moment of farewell has arrived shows value and respect for the relationship number two To share a memory Sharing a memory of something that happened affirms you Have had a relationship This could be a funny occasion a story A tender moment a lesson learned At the time when we were at the funeral of my beloved cousin We shared memories at his casket It was often hard to take in But it was memories stories that were told To know that he was loved and that his imprint was upon our hearts And that we will walk in a newness of memories to come number three It says say what the relationship has meant to you Be authentic. Say what the relationship meant to you This needs to be short And possibly related to the memory you just shared. What did the relationship mean to you? number four Be specific about the future Here it is important to be clear About what it is you want If and how you want to stay in contact Or cannot be avoided or contact cannot be avoided It will shape the future. How do you want to Draw it about What does it look like to you? So make it clear number five Offer some type of hope or blessing When you send off or say goodbye Offer some type of hope and blessing peace be with you This involves the right of a closing conversation. A simple I hope things Go well with you. God bless you or take care God's speed. I love you grace be with you And god watches you And it reads continuously Before actually saying a goodbye Practice articulating a goodbye While imagining the person you are addressing Repeat your farewell until it sounds natural Furthermore, there are basic principles of successful termination if you don't have a regular transition of goodbyes There's also other successful ways of Saying Goodbyes in a termination way These are the elements which help to make termination a satisfying experience Termination is goodbyes Or goodbyes are necessarily incomplete Okay Express expressing anger And or love or any other feelings that one experiences are normal and appropriate responses These are successful elements that are comes to with your goodbye Sometimes it becomes incomplete incomplete. Sometimes it's anger there. Sometimes there's emotion there It is important to name the difficult feeling It's important that you name it which Is connected to the goodbye, which it evokes Even naming that is hard But is helpful Number three be as specific as possible avoid generalities Be as concrete as you can It says speak to the individual And what was unique? What made this person unique about that person over against words that could divine or describe any person In that relationship any other person in that relationship. What? Was unique about him or her Number four goodbyes should reflect both the good And the bad difficulties in relationships Number five as much as possible Goodbyes should be mutual Both parties should be involved should share with one another if they are living Number six Each person Needs to come to termination in his or own her own time Don't rush it But allow yourself beloved to take the time you need on your own time to say goodbye Some people take longer than others in terms of when they are ready to say goodbye As you know with then grief and loss some people take longer to Move away sometimes they don't move along Quite fast. Okay. Number seven Each person needs his or her own time frame So respect each other's timetable and wish to say goodbye We need to create enough space For people to say all That they need to say And um Concreticizing making it concrete You have religious traditions and rituals that give us models of termination So you can look into those also ministers Preaches of the faith And of your holistic hope um help groups pair groups help you to say goodbye stay connected In a healthy group when you're in transition with your loved ones and families stay healthy Drink a lot of fluids take care of yourself get a wingman have someone to check on you to see about you And if you don't need to be by anybody, you know Take the time to be with yourself and with god and be the watchtower what god is saying to you In jesus mighty name hemley father. We thank you. We thank you father for your blessed assurance We thank you lord god for Looking lower down to us lord god and You said you blessed us even we have been lower than the angels lord god that Who are who are we that you are mindful? Lord god of us and lord god that lord god you place your spirit within us This to cause us to be children of the most high god The children of the living god to bear a righteous seed not that we are righteous But you have placed your seed of righteousness within us To show forth your praise in the earth We thank you lord god for using our lips using our ligaments using our airs our eyes our senses of touch taste and smell using our voice lord god To glorify you lord god and not formalis, but for good And thank you lord god that you know the plans that you have for us plans of peace Not of our harm to give us a future of hope and expected in We thank you lord god, but put in our allowing us to put our trust in you Help us to bring us to that even more closer walk with you You said if we draw a night to god, you'll draw a night to us So help us even the more and your most holy precious name Amen and amen