Alpha and Omega Comparisons
no. 5
Shaping the Messenger
July 15th, 2007
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers:
but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 13 And
who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers
of that which is good? 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy
are ye: and be not afraid of their terror,
neither be troubled; 15 But sanctify the Lord God
in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of
the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 16 Having a good conscience;
that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that
falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For
it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye
suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the
unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Let us pray: Dear Loving and merciful Father, we
realize that you are the author and finisher of our faith, and as we see by Your
Scriptures how You have molded and shaped Your own Son through suffering, the
we ask Father that you might help us to understand this principle. Then help us
to focus our thoughts this morning on the three Exoduses and the Alpha and
Omega comparisons between them. Help us to gain a better understanding of how
you shaped your Messengers also Father, so they would echo forth what You gave
them to deliver to your people and nothing more and nothing less but a pure
echo of Your Message. Help us to understand that before you bring deliverance
you always bring forth a trial or testing of our character. We know that in
school before we are approved to move up higher each student is tested and we know
that approval process is necessary for graduation. So too Father, help us to
see how Your principles ready your people even as you made ready your
messengers for your people. For we know that Moses ate what the people ate, and
he suffered what they suffered, and yet we see the approving hand of a loving
Father in all of this, and we ask that you continue to watch over us and bring us
to perfection, in Jesus Christ name we pray.
You may be seated.
So far in our study of the Alpha and Omega comparisons
of the Three Exoduses wherein the Pillar of Fire has come down to man, we have
noted the following:
I)
There was a
system that held the people in Bondage, either civil or ecclesiastical.
II)
The people needed
to be delivered from that system but were incapable of doing so
themselves, and they were crying out to God
for help.
III) God therefore
came down Himself to deliver His people in each of these three
Exodus’s. Here we find the Presence of God
is the sole essence of each exodus.
IV)
At each exodus God
chose a man to deliver His Message of deliverance to the people. The Message
was the avenue of deliverance.
If the people follow the Message they are delivered.
If they do not, they are not delivered, but they perish. And furthermore, they we
know that if they turn down mercy there is only judgment left for them.
V)
The Message that
God came with He delivered first to a Prophet and then from that prophet to men
who would be faithful to listen. Then out from those faithfully taught men, the
Message would go out to the world and deliver the world from that organization
system that held them in bondage. This second part of the Exodus was the teaching
ministry of the Holy spirit. This is the part that bring the people in.
This morning I want to look at How God shaped the
Messenger to reflect the Message the way He wanted it reflected.
VI) God
shapes the Prophet for the Message and proves the people.
1st
Exodus: God gives that Prophet a Message that will deliver the people
from bondage.
Exodus 9: 1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto
Pharaoh, and tell him,(deliver my message to
him) Thus saith
the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my
people go, that they may serve me.
Again we find in Exodus 4:15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words
in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and I will
teach you what ye shall do.
And we also find in Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among
their brethren, like unto thee, and I will
put my words in his mouth; and he
shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. So we see the ministry
of the anointed vessel that God uses has but one thing to learn, and that is to
shut up unless He says what God tells Him to say and only that is he permitted
to say.
And in order to do this God
promises that He will be with the mouth of his anointed messenger. Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and I
will teach thee what thou shalt say.
So we see it is not just any man that God will work
with, but God chooses a man that is humble enough to only say what God tells
Him to say.
Exodus
4:10 And
Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not
eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but
I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who
maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? And God will not cut slack for anyone. So God
teaches his servants what it means to be obedient.
But Moses learned that God’s ways are not easy ways,
and he would have to suffer if he was to receive the reward. Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach
of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Notice the Scriptures tell us he chose rather to
suffer with the people of God that to enjoy the pleasures of sin. Until you can
come to this mindset you will never have victory over your flesh. In fact we
talk about victory but jut what is victory but a surrender of self. And even
the Son of God had to get self out of the way if he was to be victorious on our
behalf. Then how could it will be any
different with us when God is nt a respecter of persons, and He always acts the
same. He did it at the first Exodus.
EXODUS 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I
will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
certain rate every day, that I may prove
them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
EXODUS 20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not:
for God is come to prove you, and
that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
DEUTERONOMY
8:2 And thou shalt remember all
the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to
humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to
know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or
no.
DEUTERONOMY 8:16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna,
which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at
thy latter end;
JUDGES.3:4 And they were to prove
And in the Second Exodus
even Jesus the Son of God, had to be proved first and then adopted. And he learned
obedience by the things that he suffered. That’s Hebrews 5: 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suffered;
From his sermon Conference 60-1125 P:43 Brother Branham said, There was a
And that is where the test
has always come. That is where the suffering always comes. The greatest battle
ever fought is in our mind, and in our mind is where we suffer the most. And we
do we hate the tests? Not because we have drawn blood by them. But we do not
like the mental battles that test our will or His will. But Jesus wrestled not
against flesh and blood but against principalities in high places. And Paul said in 2
Corinthians 10: 3 For
though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting
down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Christ; 6 And
having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is
fulfilled.
And again in Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Church
Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean
Church Age P:17 Now
the Lord God Almighty says, "I KNOW." There He is walking in the
midst of His people. There He is, the Chief Shepherd of the flock. But does He
hold back the persecution? Does He stem the tribulation? No, He does not. He simply says, "I KNOW your tribulation, I am not at all unmindful of your suffering."
What a stumbling block this is to so many people. Like
Church
Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean
Church Age P:18 Why
does He stand by? The reason is in Romans 8:17-18,
"And if children, then heirs,
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him,
that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.”
Unless we suffer with Him we cannot
reign with Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that character
simply is never made without suffering.
Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man without character can't reign because power apart from character is Satanic.
But power with character is fit to rule.
And since He wants us to share even His throne on the same basis that He
overcame and is set down in His Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little temporary suffering
we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that
will be revealed in us when He
comes. Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into
His kingdom through much tribulation.
Notice he said Character is
simply never made without suffering, and character is a victory not a gift.
That means you are not born with the right character. You are not born
perfected. You are born in sin and come to the world speaking lies. That is why
character must come through suffering, and if we try to work in our children
character without suffering our children will never mount to a hill of
beans.
Br. Branham learned the hard
way and he lost his wife and little daughter for his disobedience. God told him
to go to the Pentecostal people but he loved his wife so much he wanted to
protect his wife from the insults of his mother-in-law and so he compromised
and we know what happened. He listened to his mother-in-law instead of God and
he suffered for it.
Life
Story 51-0415A P:80 And
there, friends, is where my sorrows started. I listened to my mother-in-law in
the stead of God. He was giving me the opportunity. And there this gift
would've been manifested long time ago, if I'd just went ahead and done what
God told me to do. But instead of that, I didn't want her to be angry, and I
didn't want to hurt nobody's feelings. And so I just let it go like that. Just
walked... Just said, "All right, we won't go." And right then,
sorrows started. Immediately after that, my father died. My brother was killed
a few nights later from that. Almost lost my own... I lost my father, my
brother, my wife, my baby, and my sister-in-law, and almost my own life within
about six month's time. And just started going down. My church, pretty near everything
went down, down, down. Hope taken sick.
Life
story 55-0626A P:21 Now,
from here, listen. I listened to my mother-in-law instead of God, and forsaken
the church, and went on back with the Baptist people. Right away, plagues hit
my home. My wife took sick; my father died on my arm; my brother was killed.
And everything happened just in a few days. A great flood hit the country and
washed away the homes. My wife was in the hospital. And I was out on a rescue
with my boat. And one night out in the water, my boat got in the current, and
was going over a big falls. I couldn't get the motor started, and I raised up
my hands, and I said, "Oh, God, don't let me drown. I am not worthy to
live, but think of my wife and baby." And I tried again, and it wouldn't
start, and I cried again to God. And then, just before going over the falls,
the motor started, and I got to the land.
The Apostle Paul learned the
hard way. He started off fighting against God and not even knowing he was doing
that, so God just threw him off his high horse and told Paul that he would have
to suffer many things for his sake.
Acts 9: 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name
before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of
So we see that suffering is
God’s way of training up his children, and anyone that God will use must also suffer
because that is God’s way of proving you.
1
Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as
though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that,
when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If
ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory and of God
resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as
a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if
any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be
ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For
the time is come that judgment must begin at the
house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be
of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if
the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore
let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their
souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful
Creator.
Church
Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean
Church Age P:19 "Think it not strange
concerning the fiery trials that are to try you.” That is what Peter said. Is it strange that God wants us to develop
a Christ-like character that comes through suffering? No sir. And we all
have trials. We are all tried and chastened as sons. Not one but goes through
that. The church that is not suffering,
and is not being tried, hasn't got it, it isn't of God. Heb. 12:6, "For whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
Church Age Book Chapter 9 - The Laodicean Church Age P:84 "You had better come
before it is too late,” saith the Lord, "and buy of Me gold tried in the fire and then you will be truly
rich." Are we getting it? Listen to me, "Naked (physically) we came
into the world, but naked (spiritually) we will NOT leave it." Oh no, we
are going to take something with us. What that something is, is ALL we can take
with us, nothing less and nothing more. So we had better be real careful now to
see that we take something that will make us right before God. So, then, what
will we take with us? We will take our
CHARACTER, brother, that is what we will take with us. Now what kind of
character will you take with you? Will
it be like HIS Whose character was molded by suffering in the fiery furnace of
affliction, or will it be the softness of this character-less Laodicean
people? It is up to each one of us, for in that day every man will bear his own
burden.
Christ suffered to bring us to God. That ought to tell
you how God works.
And the suffering that Christ did on our behalf was
done for an example for us so we might know how important it is to be willing to
suffer. 1 Peter
2:19 For
this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience
toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye
shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 21 For even hereunto
were ye called: because Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.
2
Timothy 3: 12 Yea,
and all that will live godly
in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. All that live Godly in Christ Jesus, shall what? Shall
suffer persecution.
But unless we suffer we
shall never reign with Him. That is what Paul taught us.
2
Timothy 2: 12 If
we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
And just remember, he will
not allow you to be put to the test beyond what you are ready to endure. 1 Corinthians 10: 13
There
hath no temptation (putting to proof or test) taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted (put to the test) above that ye are able; but will with the temptation (putting
you to the test) will
also make a way to escape, that ye may
be able to bear it. Now his word “escape” comes from a Greek
word that means a way to end the test or a way of exit.
Romans
8: 17 And
if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that
we may be also glorified together. The words “glorified together” comes from a Greek word sundoxazo which we know
the word “doxa” is the opinion, assessment and judgment of God. But the word “sun”
as a prefix means “in union with”, so we see that we come into a union of the
same mind through our suffering with him. So
if we are willing to suffer for him, He shall also glorify us, which means He
will also equip us with the same mind that was in Christ. And that only makes
sense since He also told us that Jesus was made perfect by the things he
suffered. So if we are to be made perfect it must also come through suffering.
Now, I do not understand why Christian parents don’t
look to God our Father as their role model for being a parent. This generation
of young men is the most effeminate and unmanly in the entire history of
mankind because parents took the advice of a godless man like Dr. Spock who
told them they should never spank nor discipline their children or the child
will grow up with a low self esteem. And so we have a generation of boys in
their 30’s and 40’s who have never grown up and don’t know what it means to be
responsible.
Romans
8:18 For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us.
Look
Paul is telling us here the sufferings and things we are going through right
now are not worthy to be compared with what it is producing in you. That is why
the trial of our faith is more precious than gold tried in the fire.
That’s what Peter said in 1 Peter 1:7, because it is to
produce in you something. We never seem to be able to look at suffering and see
the outcome, but that is the purpose of our suffering.
1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations
(that’s many putting to proof, God is
proving you) 7 That the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
So
we see that God puts us to the test for the purpose of approval. That’s exactly
right.
1
Peter 1:6-7 Wuest Translation: In
which last season you are to be constantly rejoicing with a joy that expresses
itself in a triumphant exuberance, although for a little while at present time
if perchance there is as need for it, you have been made sorrowful in the midst
of many different kids of testings in order that the approval of your faith,
which faith was examined by testing for the purpose of being approved, that
approval being much more precious than the approval of gold which perishes,
even though that gold be approved by fire testing, may be discovered after
scrutiny to result in 1. praise and 2.
honor and 3. glory at the time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Notice, Wuest shows that it is not the suffering that
is more precious than Gold but the approval that results from it that is more
precious than gold. It is not the suffering itself, because suffering never
seems to equate to anything. And most people don't understand that without
suffering there is no character, period. That's scripture. If you do not allow
your children to suffer then they will not develop character, and that is
Satan’s
Notice Peter speaks to
us of the Trial of your faith. That is how God develops the picture in us!
Through the trials. And those trials are for the purpose of approving you. You
don't do all that work with the negative just to wash it clean. You do all that
washing and follow the process in order to develop the image that is in the
negative with the purpose of bringing it into a positive. You are tested for the purpose of approval.
And the result is to produce in you “praise, honor, and glory”.
Now that doesn't mean that you've got to suffer the
way most people think you've got to suffer. We don’t believe in doing what the nuns used
to do. They would kneel on a kneeler with a wire across it while they prayed in
order to suffer. That kind of self inflicted suffering is not what builds
character. Suffering is simply a process of discipline especially in the mind. Mental
suffering is much worse and sometimes is a lot harder to go through than
physical pain. Some people have a high threshold for pain, and they can take more
than others, but to be able to stand with the Word of God and take whatever
comes your way as a result of that stand, is what most people will not do. Being
able to stand alone when the whole world is going the opposite direction takes
more strength of character than to just go out in the ring and let someone
pound away at your face.
Real suffering is allowing God to have His way, and
learning to get out of His way, and that is what builds real character.
Now, we are not just talking about suffering for
sufferings sake. But we are talking about being molded By God for suffering on
account of our faith. That’s the trial of your Faith. God places you in
situations because of your faith to see how you will utilize your Faith.
Remember Daniel in the Lion den and the three Hebrew children in the fiery
furnace. They all possessed the revelation of their hour and so God tested them.
The Revelation you possess is your Faith, and thus in order to get you to use
it and to apply it, God allows affliction and suffering to come your way
because of your stand for your faith.
Thus the suffering does not bring faith, but having
faith we thus suffer for it. You already possess Faith and that puts you into
the place of having to rely upon your Faith to see you through. That is exactly
what Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego went through, and Daniel & Moses,
Abraham and all God's prophets. Each had to go through a trial of His Faith, A
trial of His Revelation. The trial came because of the Revelation and thus he
learned to wait upon God and in due course when God brought forth His Faith for
testing again, it caused the Revelation to energize his own faith. Your Faith
is given you to be used. But you can't just use it for any purpose. It must be
of God's choosing and according to His timing. But believe me, If God has given
you a measure of Faith, then He will surely test your faith, thus assuring it
is of use to you. So when you enter into the trials of your faith, just Let go
and let God.
Then it is up to Him to help you to exercise your
Faith that He’s given you. I Peter 1: 7 - 9 'That the Trial of your Faith (Revelation),
being much more precious than gold that perishes, that your Faith may be found
after scrutiny to result in praise , honor and Glory at the Appearing of Jesus
Christ." So we see that there’s to be a trial or a testing of
your faith, and the result of this testing will actually produce in you, “praise,
honor and Glory”. So then as James said, the testing will, bring forth
Patience, and when patience has it's perfect work, it'll produce a fully mature
son of God in the very image of the Father just as His First born was.
Remember, Jesus Himself, God's firstborn, learned obedience to God's Word by
the things that He suffered.
There is no doubt that we all have to be tested, for every son that
cometh to God must first be tried and tested. Each of the prophets was
tried and tested. But they passed the test because it was Christ in them. And
Christ in you is the hope of Glory, and the glory is the doxa which is the very
mind of God in the believer. And that is our perfection. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body,
and then having the mind that was in Christ in us. What more could you ask for?
Look, God said “every son that cometh to God must first be tried and tested”.
Christ in you is the hope of Glory, and the glory is the doxa which is the very
mind of God in the believer. And that is your perfection, by one spirit we are
all baptized into one body, and then having the mind that was in Christ in us
is our perfection. What more could you ask for? The trial of our Faith is
supposed to produce in you “Praise,
Honor and Glory”, and that is to
come at the Appearing of Jesus Christ. That’s when the revelation of Christ is
made known.
Now, I want you to notice these three stages that we
go through at the Appearing of Jesus Christ. Peter speaks of “Praise, Honor and Glory”. Now, the first stage is “praise” because Paul told us in
Hebrews that the praise offering is the fruit of our lips giving praise to his
name. And so our trials produce “praise” in us, which is the giving back to God
His own Word. As you go through the trials you begin to quote to God what He
said in His own Word about those trials and how He promised to not give you
anything greater than what He has equipped you to withstand. In other words, when
we are tested we begin to give back to God what He said about what we are going
through.
Then once our minds are focused on speaking God’s
Word, our bodies follow and come into subjection to what we are saying from
God’s Word. And the word “honor” was translated from the Greek word time’
pronounced “teem-ay”. And it means “a valuing by which the price is fixed;
hence the price itself:” So we first begin to give back God His own word in the
midst of our trials and then we begin to “value” that Word and we thus value
what God values, and finally we receive the very Glory or Doxa of God which is
His very opinion, His assessment, and His judgment.
Now, we see in the first Exodus God tested Moses and
actually took him out to the dessert for 40 years to get him where God wanted
him before God would use him. And in the Second Exodus Christ was tested; He was the lamb that
was tested before it could be sacrificed. And He was tested by what? Satan
against the Word. When he hit Eve, she fell; when he hit Moses, he fell; but
when he flew up against Christ, and tried to quote the Scripture to Him wrong
(uh-huh), he found out that that wasn't Moses. See? He was tested. What did...
he turn around, he said, "If thou be the Son of God. Now they tell me you
perform miracles, and they tell me that the Messiah's to do that. Now, if it
is, you're hungry, you haven't eat, turn these bread into... these stones into
bread, and eat." God’s only provided place of Worship P:69
Brother Branham said, Jesus was tested to
see where He was standing, see, tested in every manner, tested like we are
tested. But there was no giving in to him at all. No, sir! That was the Son of
God.
ACTS 2:22 Ye men of
Now
this is what I want us to focus on tonight, if God tested His own Son, to Prove
Him, then won't every one of us be treated the same?
JAMES
1:12 Blessed is the man that
endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life,
which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
I JOHN 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try
the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out
into the world.
Therefore
if we are to try every spirit then we should try our own spirit to see whether
we be in the faith. That’s what Paul said in 2
Corinthians 13: 5 Examine yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates? And how do you prove your own selves? Give
yourself the word test. You know we are always so concerned with the other guy,
but what does the other guy have to do with whether your life is pleasing to
God or not. Get your eyes off of all others and get them back on your own self.
GALATIANS 6:4 But let
every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself
alone, and not in another.
I
CORINTHIANS 11:19
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be
made manifest among you.
I
THESSALONIANS 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which
is good.
ROMANS
12:2 And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
So our transformation that comes from the renewing of
our minds is to prove the perfect will of God.
II CORINTHIANS 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the
faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus
Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
I CORINTHIANS 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the
fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Let us pray, Dear Father we thank Thee for your plan
and Process of Child training for we have irrefutable evidence that your way
works, and your way is not our way, but your way is much higher than our way,
and we ask that you help us to understand your way for we know that “All things shall
work together for the good of them that love you and are thee called according
to Your Purpose.” In Jesus name we pray, Amen!