# Is That You God

Key Passage: Genesis 18
Date: June 7, 2024

We are in for a pleasant surprise tonight. I meant to mention it Sunday night, and I failed to do so. Then I made announcements that I did not have written down. I felt I should announce it earlier: Brother Adam Miller is preaching for us tonight. I am excited about that, looking forward to it. The Millers have been such a blessing, and I am sure he will tell it from his side.

They found our church website, YouTube, and all those things maybe a year and a half or over a year before they came. They were checking us out. Then they came for a trip last summer, not this summer, last summer.

My wife and I had the privilege of meeting with them and going out to eat with them, whatnot. We told them this and that about the church, and they said, “Oh, we know. We know. We’ve been watching, you know.” When I mentioned something, they said, “Yeah, we heard that.” I thought, “Man, they know everything about us!” Remember Andy Griffith where the fellow came to town and knew everybody because he’d been watching? That is what it felt like.

Praise the Lord, they said they were going to pray about it. The Lord clearly led, and they wisely waited until the Lord clearly led. They left in great standing with their home church; in fact, I think he preached at least one of the last services there. They just have a heart for the Lord. They moved on a Saturday and joined the next day on Sunday, saying, “Hey, put us to work.”

Wow, what a blessing. They have convictions; they have standards. God wants to use a clean vessel, and they try to keep their lives clean and ready for God to use them. I appreciate his willingness, not just to read and watch the news about politics—and I am not saying that is wrong—but he is willing to get involved.

He ran for office and worked with the Republican Party up in New York and whatnot. I appreciate that as the Lord leads, people are willing to get involved in politics. We need it. I often think, why do not we have more Baptists involved in politics? We need it. I appreciate men, people, and ladies willing to get involved in that arena. You say, “That is a bad arena. That is a dark arena.” Can you imagine how dark it would be if Christians were not involved in there?

Praise the Lord for these people who are willing. He is willing to get involved. He said he is going to some meetings now here and there, watching and attending. He is scoping it out. He says he is going to scope it out for about a year before maybe the Lord will lead him exactly where to get involved. I appreciate that. I like that. We need that.

What a need it is in our country. Can you imagine where our country would be if Christians had been doing this for the last 60, 70, 80 years and getting involved more and more and more? Praise the Lord for Christians who are willing to do it. I am very thankful for that, and for standing for the truth. I appreciate him preaching for us. I asked him; I have been wanting to get him up here and working on the calendar a lot. I thought that would be a blessing for me, and I know it would be a blessing for you all too. So I appreciate him being willing to do it. Let us give him a warm Rutherford County Baptist welcome as you come preach this for us. Politics is a dark arena, but it just gives you an opportunity for the light to shine a little brighter. Turn to Genesis chapter 18 in your Bible.

As is the usual arrangement between me and God: I get asked to preach, and I know exactly what I want to preach. Then, the next two or three days, God tells me what He wants me to preach, and we fight back and forth. That happened again, as usual.

Like the Pastor was saying, the decision to come down here was not an easy one, but it was not a hard one either once we knew that God was in it. I am going to tell you a little bit more about that in this message. It started when Melissa and I first met back in 2017. We met online, which is not an endorsement for online dating.

But it does work sometimes. We both were open to the possibility of relocating. That is something you have to be open to if you are going to go online. It was either going to be me going to Washington or Melissa coming to New York. Shortly after we had that conversation is when I was first asked by our local Republican Party if I would run for city council.

Because I started getting more involved in politics, that is the reason why Melissa ended up coming to New York. Over the next few years, I started to get promoted up through the ranks and take on more responsibilities. Then, all of a sudden, all those responsibilities started being taken away from me. We sat down and talked about it. We had been praying right from when we got married, saying, "You know, Lord,

‘Lord, if you want us to go anywhere, we will go. Just show us.’" We were not particularly—the reason she came to New York was because I was getting involved in politics. If politics was getting taken away, I was getting excluded from meetings; I was not told about meetings. It is kind of hard to be involved when you are being blocked out. So we thought, “Hey, maybe this is God showing us.” So we started looking.

That is when we found you guys online. I was looking around the area; we started looking for a church. We were not going to go anywhere if we could not find a good church. We found Rutherford County Baptist Church. Melissa came home from work, and with her dad being with Rock of Ages, they know a lot of the churches and preachers down in the area. I said, when she came home from work, “Hey, does the name Chisgars ring any bells?” And she goes,

“It actually does.” We found out that she knew John McKenna from North Valley, which, you know, God’s social network works much better. Like the Pastor said, we started watching online. We would get home from our church in the morning, grab our lunch, sit down, and watch the morning service from here. We started to follow along. We found out what he was preaching. We sculpted out the website, got on Facebook, and made sure everything was good. The rest of the story will come in the rest of this message. If you can stand with me, Genesis chapter 18, we will read the first few verses and get started here. Genesis chapter 18, starting in verse 1, says, “The Lord appeared unto him”—that is Abraham—in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him.

When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself toward the ground and said, “My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched for your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will fetch a morsel of bread and comfort ye your hearts. After that ye shall pass on, for therefore are ye come to your servant.” They said, “So do as thou hast said.” Let us pray. Lord,

I thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. I thank you for this opportunity to preach tonight. Lord, I ask that you would use me to be a blessing to the folks here tonight. Lord, that you would put me aside and allow your message to come forth. Lord, I just ask that you quiet my heart, quiet my mind, and help me to get across this message that you have. Just be with us the rest of this evening in your name. Amen. Thank you. You can be seated.

So, it was not an unfamiliar story. We know the story of Abraham. I started to dig into it. I was reading through this passage, and something stuck out to me: Why would an old man be so quick to jump up and run to a traveler on the road? We know Abraham was a stranger. He was a nomad by every definition of the word. A nomad is very skeptical of other people for their own safety, and it makes sense. They do not know who they are going to come up against; they are in a foreign land. So why was it that Abraham was so quick to jump up and run to this traveler?

Now, in my Bible—and I do not know how it is in your Bible—if there is a period of time that goes on between stories, there is a gap in the verses. But if events seemingly take place back to back or closer together, there is no gap. In my Bible, there is no gap between chapter 17 and chapter 18. So it suggests that those events took place closer together. I had to go back to chapter 17 to find out what happened and see if we can connect the dots here. In chapter 17, God actually came and made a face-to-face appearance and talked to Abram. He gave him some instruction; He gave him a promise. He changed his name to Abraham.

As I started to read back through chapter 18, I wondered, what if Abraham recognized that traveler? What if it was not a stranger? When he saw him coming up the road, he said, “I know him. He has not been here for a minute, but I know him.” He would not let his Lord go until he had a chance to love on him for a little bit. We need to be like that. There are times in our own life where we go through a period where it seems like God is not there. It seems like the heavens are like brass. We know that God is there. We know the promise that He will never leave us and never forsake us. But there are just those times that it seems like we are all alone. What do we do? When God walks back into our life, we need to be just like that and say, "Ah,

‘That is God. I know that is God.’" We know that He is working in the lives of His children. A lot of the time it is behind the scenes where we cannot see it. But so often it is right out in front where we can see His leading, where we can see His provision, where we can see His protection. We can point to that and use it as a tool to say, “I know that is God,” and show my friends and family around me that that is God. When we do not do that,

we risk becoming like the Romans in Romans chapter 1, where they saw God but did not recognize Him as God. Then God gave them up to a reprobate mind. We do not want that. So we need to be careful about recognizing God in our life. As I said, we can see God in His leading, in His provision, and in His protection. Those are the three areas that I would like to look at tonight. The title of the message is simply, “Is That You, God?”

Just looking for God in our life. Go with me over to Judges Chapter 7. We will start with God’s leading. Judges Chapter 7. This is another unfamiliar story: the story of Gideon. God calls Gideon because He wants him to help raise an army and fight the Midianites to set the Israelites free. Gideon gathers his army together—his 32,000 men. God says, “That is great, but I cannot give you the victory with that many men.”

Tell your men, “If you are afraid, go home,” which is a great war strategy, right? If I want my army going one way and I have men going another way, you have a problem. So send everybody home who is afraid. Then God says, “Great. Now I want you to take the rest of them down to the river and tell them to get a drink. If they get down on all fours, put them over there.”

If they bring the water up to their mouth, put them over there. God says, “All right, with these 300 men that are not afraid and that are circumspect, I will give you the victory.” Look down in verse 9. It says, “It came to pass the same night that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host, for I have delivered it into thine hand. But if thou fear to go down, go thou with poor of thy servant down to the host.”

“And thou shalt hear what they say, and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host.” Then he went down with Pura, his servant, under the outside of the armed men that were in the host. The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the East lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude. When Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow and said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream.

‘Lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, so that the tent lay along.’" His fellow answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. For into his hand hath God delivered Midian and all the hosts.” When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and the interpretation thereof, he worshipped and returned into the host of Israel

and said, “Arise, for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.” Now, Gideon had a problem. Gideon so often had trouble. He found it difficult to trust God and know for sure that this is what God was calling him to do. We struggle with that too. So often, God clearly will show us something, and we think, “But did you really, though?”

God might say, “I want you to pass out a tract to that person. I want you to witness to that family member. I want you to go here or go there.” And we think, “But really, God? Really?” Gideon had that problem too, where he needed constant reassurance from God that, yes, this is the way that He wants you to go. To his credit, Gideon got it right. After God reassured him, “Yes, I want you to go here. Yes, I want you to do this,” he did it.

God was leading him every step of the way. In this specific passage that we just read, Gideon was able to recognize God’s leading, and he rejoiced in it. When he saw God’s hand, he was able to go back and encourage the rest of his army and say, “Hey, God’s got this. We can do this.” Through conversations,

with circumstances, in sermons, with personal Bible study, and even with good, godly music, we can learn what God wants us to do. We can also see where God is leading us in our life. We should be quick to discern what God wants us to do. Like the old song says, when we are happy in the service of the King,

we can go back and be an encouragement and a blessing to those around us. When Melissa and I were in the process of making this decision—whether or not God wanted us to come here—we went through a similar situation. We kept praying, “God, if you want us to go, make it obvious so that we do not make a mistake.”

Moving from one state to another state, away from family, to just pick up and leave is a big decision. I did not want to make a mistake in making that decision. Over and over and over again, God was making it clear: “Yes, I want you to go. Yes, I want you to go. Yes, I want you to go.” But we kept saying, “But God, if you really want us to go, make it obvious so we do not make a mistake.” Then I was teaching a lesson to our junior church kids.

I was teaching about faith. I told the kids that faith is like using a flashlight on a dark path. If you are walking down a path in the middle of the night, you do not shine the light way up here because you are going to trip over something. There is going to be a root; there is going to be a rock; there is going to be something there you will trip over. You have to take that flashlight and point it down on the pathway, and you take a step into what you can see. Then the light shows a little bit more of the path.

Then you take another step into what you can see, and the light shines a little bit more of the path. As I was teaching the kids this, I heard the Lord say to me, “Hey, dummy, try that.” I am now convinced that if anybody is struggling with any decision you have to make, go teach a children’s lesson, because you have to dumb it down for the children to understand. So often we overthink everything.

God spoke to me that day and said, “Hey, try it. You might like it.” Our prayer quickly changed from, “God, if you want us to go,” to, “God, when do you want us to go? It is obvious now. When is it that you want us to go?” So we need to be quick to recognize God’s leading hand in our life. Secondly, go with me to 1 Kings chapter 17.

Another familiar passage: we see the prophet Elijah at the brook during a famine. God is miraculously feeding the prophet, bringing him food from the ravens and water from the brook. But it is a famine; the water is going to dry up, the food is going to go away. Then we pick up the story in verse 8. 1 Kings 17, verse 8, says, "The word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

‘Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.’" So he arose and went to Zarephath. When he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there, gathering sticks. He called to her and said, “Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” As she was going to fetch it, he called to her and said, “Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.” She said, "As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake,

but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse. Behold, I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die." Elijah said unto her, “Fear not; go and do as thou hast said. But make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ‘The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.’”

She went and did according to the saying of Elijah, and she and he and her house did eat many days. The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. It was the middle of the famine. This woman was experiencing some pretty difficult times. She had no money. I am guessing that she did not have a job where she could provide money for food.

I assume that her son was not old enough to work and provide money for food. She only had enough food for one more meal before the inevitable was going to happen. Then, just as all hope seemed lost, here came Elijah. We know that God and Elijah had already had a conversation about this. Elijah knew that what God was going to do was that this woman was going to feed him. God told me to go to her, and He told me that He told her to feed me. I do not know if God revealed any more of the plan; we do not have that recorded. So maybe Elijah knew what God was going to do—I do not know. But he goes there and says, “Hey, make me some food.”

In verse 12, when the lady responds, I do not think she was having an attitude. I do not think she was being argumentative. I think she was going to obey; I think she was submissive. She was just explaining, “Hey, listen, I do not have much. This is all I have.” She had no idea what God was going to do. But from this day on, every time this family sat down to eat, they were reminded that God will provide,

even in the midst of a difficult situation. God will provide. I can only imagine that the prayers around their dinner table every day were just a little extra thankful when they sat down and saw God had worked and still is working right now. There are times when we too will go through a famine.

It may be that there is a lack of food. It may be that there is work that needs to be done on the car, work that needs to be done on the house, or a little extra month at the end of the money. We all have that situation. But you know what? In Matthew, we are told that God knows what we need before we even think to ask Him for it. He just wants to hear us ask Him for it.

Think about the sow/reap principle. We stay faithful to God. We give to God. We do what He wants us to do; we sow to the Spirit, and God will bless. God will take care of us. In Philippians, we are told that when the church gave sacrificially to the Apostle Paul and his work, his response was, “Because you gave to me, my God will supply all your need according to His riches.” What need is that? Exactly.

Whatever need you have, God will take care of it. Just like the widow woman, when God does provide for us, we need to be quick to point it out and say, “That was God. That was my Savior.” After we finally recognized—we finally got on the same page with God and said, “Oh yeah, we are supposed to go”—our conversation then turned to, “Well, what do we do with the house?”

Do we get a realtor? Do we sell it on our own? Do we put it on the market? Do we do word of mouth? What are we going to do with the house? God provided the right people and the right places at the right time for everything to come together in His time. We were talking about what to do with the house when a couple at our church contacted us and said, “Hey, we heard you guys are thinking about moving. You might want to sell your house. We want to look at it. Can we come and look at it?” Absolutely.

We scheduled a time for them to come over, and they took a look at the house. About a week later, they texted me and said, “Listen, we love the house, but God’s just not leading us in that way. So we are going to look elsewhere.” I said, “Great. If it is not time for you to buy the house, it is not time for us to go. Fantastic.” Then another couple in church asked, “Hey, can we come look at the house?” Yes, absolutely. Come on over. They scheduled a time and came over. About a week later, they came up to me at church and said,

“We love your house. We want your house. But God is just not letting anything work for us to get your house.” I said, “Great. Not your time to have the house? Not our time to go. Great. Fine.” So we were back to square one, thinking, “Well, what do we do now? Do we go and get a realtor? Do we just do it on our own? Do we put it on the market? Do we do work?” God was not leading us in any of those directions. We had no clue, so we just kept plugging along,

doing what we were doing: teaching our junior church class and doing whatever else we needed to do at the church. Then the first couple texted me back and said, “Listen, we can’t stop thinking about your house. We’ve looked at other houses. God’s not opening the door anywhere, and now He is leading us back to you guys and your house. Can we come look at the house again?” Absolutely. Come on over. They came over and looked at it a second time, and then we thought, well,

we still were not sure how we were going to go about the process of selling the house. It just so happened that one of our friends at church worked at a local lawyer’s office, and she said, “Oh, we handle for sale by owner all the time. I can help you; I can walk you through the process. It will be little to no pain on your part. We can get this taken care of.”

Once we figured out what God wanted us to do, God provided for us to accomplish that will in every step of the way. He provided exactly who we needed, when we needed it, at the perfect times so that we could accomplish His will. Once we learn what God is leading us to do, remember that God will always equip you to accomplish that will. He will always provide in that way. Third, Daniel, Chapter 3.

Daniel chapter 3. Again, another familiar passage: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. The king says, “All right, I am going to make a statue. When you hear the music, everybody can start worshiping.” They finish the statue. The music plays. Everybody bows down, except for those three boys over there. They get called up to the king, and the king says, “Guys, you know the rule. When the music plays, you bow down.” They said, “Oh, King, no. We are not going to do it.”

They said, “No. God will take care of us. Even if God does not take care of us, no, because we are going to honor our God.” Look down in verse 24. It says, “Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste and spake and said unto his counselors, ‘Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?’” They answered and said unto the king, “True, O king.”

He answered and said, “Lo, I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spake and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth and come hither.” Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth of the midst of the fire.

The princes, governors, captains, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed; neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word and yielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any God except their own God.” Again, we find strangers in a foreign land—these three boys—and they knew what the political and physical consequences of their decision were.

They were determined to serve and honor their God regardless. They had already seen God work on their behalf. If you remember back in chapter one of Daniel, God kept those boys healthy when they refused to eat the king’s meat and instead ate just pulse and water.

God kept them healthy. In chapter 2, when the king wanted someone to interpret his dream and nobody could, and he said he was just going to kill all of the wise men and all of his counselors, God gave Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego the answer. God had already worked in their lives. They could point back and see what God was doing or had done, and they knew that God would do it again.

It was already common knowledge in the kingdom that these boys would not be shaken when it comes to matters of their faith. They had already seen God work in their lives. But even with this knowledge, the king tried to catch them once again, throwing them into the fiery furnace, heating it up seven times hotter than ever before, and then sitting back to watch these boys burn alive.

Even this wicked, heathen, pagan, unsaved king could recognize when God walked in. When God walked in, he said, “Wait a minute, that one’s a little different. That one looks like the Son of God.” He knew from that point on that their God was the God who was going to protect them no matter what the situation.

We know that God is always there, and God will protect us whenever we come up to a situation that seems like it is going to be a mountain. He can make it into that little anthill that we can walk over. So many times we can point back and say, “God held up my [unclear word], He put this distraction in my way, and He let me get off schedule.”

That helped me to avoid an accident. That helped me to avoid this situation. God protected me from that. If you have ever gone out door-to-door visitation, you probably have a really good story, at least one, of how God protected you. One of the guys at our church in New York, if there was a mean dog to be found on visitation, he found him every single time. That man had been known to jump, scale fences,

to get away from dogs. He has some of the best stories ever. We all can point to those times. How often do we, before we go on a long trip, stop and say, “Lord, keep us safe as we travel; give us a good day”? But when we get there, how many of us stop and say, “Lord, we made it? Thank you”?

We need to be pointing to God in those situations every single time. Like these boys, we can look back at what God has done for us and know that God will take care of us again. We can use the example of how God has protected us, like these boys, to show others how God works in our lives. For the rest of their lives, these boys were going to be known as the three boys that did not burn.

Maybe they were invited to conferences around Babylon: “Come see the boys that would not burn.” They had a testimony they could say, “Hey, that was our God. We stood up for our God, and our God said, ‘Yeah, we will take care of that.’” God had protected them and did protect them again. Once we learn what it is that God wants us to do, know that God will provide for you to accomplish that will.

In the midst of it, God will protect you in doing His will. We had a long trip down here, and we had a couple of pretty good storms. It was, you know, “Find the red lights of the car behind you and just stay there.” Hey, we got here. God blessed. God took care of us when we did a cross-country road trip after we got married. We can look at that and say, “Hey, God kept us through that.” This is a short trip compared to that.

God will lead us. God will provide for us, and God will protect us. As I said at the beginning, though, there are times when it seems like God is not there. What do we do? Go with me to 1 Samuel chapter 30. I am bringing the plane down for a landing; we are circling the airport right now.

1 Samuel chapter 30. We have the story of David. David is on the run; he is running from Saul. For some reason, he thinks the safest place for him is with the Philistines, the enemies of the Israelites. He tells the king a bunch of lies and gets himself a whole city for him and his men to live in. Well, the Philistines decide, “We are going to go make war with the Israelites,” and here come David and his men: “We are going to come fight too.”

The king’s advisors say, “Hey, King, it is not a good idea. We are fighting the Israelites. We probably should not have the Israelites on our side too. We do not need a Philistine sandwich here. So why do not you send David home? It is just not good for him to be here.” The king calls David in and says, “Well, you know, my guys are right. They are your people, and it is probably best if you just catch us on the next war. Go ahead. Go home. We will catch you on the next one.”

So they are headed back home to Ziklag, and they find that the city has been completely ransacked. All of their worldly possessions, their families—everything is gone. His men immediately turn on David and say, “This is your fault.” We pick up the story down in verse 6. It says, “And David was greatly distressed, for the people spake of stoning him because the soul of the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters.”

But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. I would say this was a pretty dire situation. David was all alone. Not only was he all alone, but his men were going to kill him. He did the only thing that he knew he could do: He went to the only person he knew he could go to. He went to his God. Can I tell you when it seems like

when it seems like God is not there, when you are having a hard time seeing the presence of the Lord in your life, can I tell you what not to do? Do not get out of this book. Do not get out of church. Do not get away from God’s people. David’s first thing that he wanted was the Ephod—the one thing that he had that he knew God would communicate to him through. We need to stay in the book.

We need to stay in His church, staying with His people where we can find Him again. During the pandemic last year, during the shutdown, right at the very beginning—I like politics; I am always listening to the news, catching up on the headlines. But for me, when the same story is being told over and over and over and over, I am not learning anything new. I shut it off. At the beginning of the pandemic,

I was not learning anything new, so I shut it off. I started listening to more sermons. I started reading my Bible more. I started doing my own studies. I started listening to more good, godly music. In that situation where it seemed like it was pretty bad—I am sure all of us at some point during the last year could say there was a time where we sat down and said, "God, I do not know what you are doing. I do not know where you are.

I do not know what is going on." But in the middle of all of that is where the journey started for us to come here. When I started to get into this Word, when I started to read it, and I started to study it, and I started to have conversations with other people, and I started to listen to more messages, I started to learn, “Hey, I think this is what God wants us to do.”

We were able to find, in the middle of that time when everybody was all alone—we were all locked in our homes, nobody could go anywhere, you could not see anybody—I was, at one point, yelling at the Blue Jays in the front yard because I am a Yankees fan. “Get out of here!” That was my entertainment. But in the middle of that, God was working, and we were able to recognize God’s leading hand.

We were able to see God provide along the way. We could see where God had protected us, and we knew that God would continue to protect us. If you are having a hard time finding God, just wait. Stay in His will. Stay in His Word. Stay in His church. Stay with His people. Sometimes you might have to go away; you might have to get away. Go talk to Brother Marlin; you guys just came back from a camping trip, right?

He will tell you where the secret spot is where you can go and learn what it says in Psalms chapter 46: “Be still and know that I am God.” That is where it is. If you are having a hard time finding God, know that God did not move. Just be still and know. Read His word. Stay with His people. God will lead.

God will provide. God will protect. Are we recognizing God in our life? Let us pray. Lord, I thank you again for this opportunity to be here. Lord, I thank you for the way that you did lead and are leading, and I am thankful for the way that you do provide. Lord, I am thankful for this church and the way that they have been a blessing to us.

Lord, I am just thankful that we have a Word that we can go to, and we have a God that cares, that loves us, and that wants to hear from us. Lord, I just ask that you bless this time now. Be with us the rest of this evening in your name. Amen.

Original File: Is that you God - Brother Adam Miller Wednesday 11172021