I Got You

Next I went to Lexington to St Jo. They were great. I had more tests and they kept me there until Sunday morning, the 25th. But the surgeon that was working with the team there came to us on Sunday morning and told us what I had was beyond what they could deal with. They were going to send me to UK. God was with me. These guys didn’t let their egos get in the way of my health. I owe them a lot.

Now came UK. Wow. I was in the ICU till Monday. A full week. I was put through it. I was so messed up I couldn’t talk or remember people names. I was scared I wouldn’t be able to preach again. I so missed my church. I know they loved me and I wanted to be there to serve them.

I had the surgery Thursday. I spent the weekend really sick. But I remember praying to God to let me get through this. Sunday was a good day and Monday I got to go home. God was with me in so many ways. I prayed for him to take away the things I was seeing in my mind that was keeping me awake. He did take them away and I got to sleep.

I have missed so much and didn’t tell everything, but believe me God was with me all the way and I am going to serve him with all my life.

I’m sorry if my telling my story is out of line but I believe God was with me through it all. I believe he is still with me as we finish with the procedures yet to do.

We live in a world that has a great need for hope. The resources may be economic, emotional, relational and spiritual, but the lack of any of these things brings a hopelessness that leads to despair.

There is a rampart increase in depression in contemporary American Society. Some eleven million patients currently need treatment and over 250000 are attempting to take their own live each year. This is awful to hear.

Historians and social scientists tell us that we have fewer spiritual resources to draw from that at any other time in our history. Some say that our culture has forsaken its spiritual roots that we live in an overly secular society without even the pretense of spiritual values.

Many young people today feel their cultures fail to provide answers to questions of purpose and meaning and destiny. We fail to; they feel, to provide some reason for hope.

I as your preacher want to bring you hope into your world. Its there, just waiting for you to take it.

Yet to this age of despair the Bible brings another perspective.

God says that life is more than what can be seen immediately and He offers us a wealth of spiritual resources to be found in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

These spiritual resources are accessed as we trust God’s Word and build our lives on it.

His oaths help us see beyond our limitations to his limitless power and provisions for us.

Encouragement comes from knowing we play a part in a life full of meaning and lasting.

These qualities of hope breeds hope for us all. [Screen 4]

Romans 15.13, May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In our longing for security and safety we build remarkable semblances of security into our lives.