Where Am I Going?
Samuel Prime · Tidal Church Shediac · August 9, 2026 · Heroes of the Faith series
Samuel Prime looks at Abraham and Sarah in Hebrews 11:8-16, showing that faith means trusting God's promises without knowing every step. They lived as pilgrims in tents, seeking a city God builds, and the true reward of faith is God Himself.
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[0:00] Last week Pastor Nathan brought us into a message where he talked about Abraham and Isaac and he said a phrase in there that you may or may not remember where he said, I want you to forget everything that you knew. And so if you're following along in the little like prayer journal things that you may have purchased and you're walking through, you may have noticed that we're a little bit out of order. And so the things that he told you to forget all about are some of the things that we'll be walking through here this morning. And the beautiful thing about the book of Hebrews and the series Heroes of the Faith that we're in, is these passages in the book of Hebrews aren't really necessarily about how great these individuals' faith truly is. Really, it's a story about how faithful our God is to an often faithless people.
[0:50] And what we're going to begin to uncover in the story of Abraham as we look at Abraham as somebody who has this great faith and he does, but he didn't always get it right, is what we're going to begin to uncover here this morning. And so before we jump into the scriptures here in Hebrews chapter 11, starting in verse 8, why don't we pray together. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of your word. We thank you for the gift of community. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would meet us here, that you begin to soften hearts and open us up to what you have for us here this morning. Father, we love you. We worship you and we praise you all in the powerful name of Christ Jesus. Amen. So in Hebrews chapter 11 starting in verse 8, we read, by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called out to go to a place that he was to receive as his inheritance.
[1:36] And he went out not knowing where he was going. And so right out of the gate what we see in this passage is we see that Abraham went to a place that he didn't fully know where he was going. And for some of us, that's unbearable. I get it. It's all good. We'll come back to that in just a moment. And so the first thing that we learn about faith here in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 8 is, faith is obedience with incomplete information. That faith is obedience to the Lord with incomplete information. Abraham was called to a place to go to a place to which he did not know. He said, leave your city. The thing we have to remember about the book of Hebrews is, is it's referencing chapters in Genesis of events that have happened in the book of Genesis. And it's really easy for us to read this and think, OK, cool.
[2:23] This is really quite short. But actually, this is what's called Abraham's wanderings. And so Abraham's wanderings covers, I believe, it's 10 chapters in Genesis. And so Hebrews is really referencing a really small portion of what we see in the book of Genesis. And so God calls Abraham to go to a land in which he didn't know where he was going. And so if we look back to Genesis, what we'd see is, is we'd see Abraham had enough faith to go, but he didn't have enough faith to go alone. He brought a lot with him. And so when he gets to the Promised Land, what we see in the original account in Genesis is we actually see that he received a famine. So Abraham goes, he gets to the Promised Land, he receives a famine. And I wrestled with that a lot. I was like, man, why is it that when Abraham, who had faith to go to a place where he didn't know where he was going, which is crazy for a lot of us in the room, he finally gets that land.
[3:15] Why is it that he received a famine? And I wrestled with that for a while, to be truthful. But what I came to the conclusion of, and what scholars helped me come to the conclusion of, is the Promised Land is where God teaches you to trust the Promiser. Well, the Promised Land is where God teaches you to trust the Promiser. And so what happens is, is the famine became too much for Abraham. And so Abraham goes and he flees to Egypt. And when he gets to Egypt, he lies about his wife. He calls his wife his sister, and the story begins to unfold. So the reason I'm sharing kind of that snapshot with you is to truly paint the picture that Abraham, on the first shot, didn't get all right. He fled to Egypt and he lied about his wife. And there's a whole bunch of stories that began to unfold there, because we see that the story in Hebrews isn't about how great and how big Abraham's faith is.
[4:08] It truly is a story of God's faithfulness to those who are often faithless. And so what we see about this faith is when every step along the way is planned and secured, where we know how everything is going to play out. The truth is, is that wouldn't take much faith. If you know every step along the way, every thing that was going to happen, every step that we're going to take from beginning to end, that wouldn't take a lot of faith. And so as we begin to uncover the scriptures here this morning, my challenge to you that I put forth is, what is that little step, that baby step of faith that the Lord is asking you to take? Maybe for you it's leading in an area that you don't necessarily feel qualified to, but you know the Lord's been kind of pulling on your heart to jump in and to serve people because he's put that inclination in you.
[4:59] Maybe it's faith to have a conversation with a family member or with a co-worker or somebody that you begin to build relationships with in a coffee shop or a restaurant or wherever you frequent in your circles to actually begin to have a faith conversation and share what it is God has done in your life. Maybe it's the thing that you know God's been nudging you for months on, that you've just been delaying saying yes to, that you'll finally jump out and take a step of faith and say okay God, you have spoken clearly, I'm going to be obedient to what you are calling me to. And the truth is, is you don't have to know the end. You don't know how it's, you don't often know how it's going to end up. But the important thing is, is that we actually take the step of faith. And I just want to take note here that Abraham first went halfway, he only fully obeyed the Lord later.
[5:48] And yet, many, many, many years later, God didn't remember the delay, he only remembered Abraham's obedience. And so, how was Abraham able to walk out in faith? How was he able to go to a place to where he did not know where he was going? Well, we see it in the next verse here in verse 9 and 10. By faith he went out to live in the land of the promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations whose designer and builder is God. Now, it's easy for us to look at this and say like that's very abstract. They look forward to a designer and builder, they look forward to a city whose designer and builder is God. We look at that and we go, what does that mean?
[6:35] Why is that important? How is that even relevant for us today? Well, when we look at the Old Testament, we know that they didn't know the person of Jesus, they didn't know who he was. But I would actually argue that they know more than what we give them credit for. They knew that a city was coming that would change everything. And one of the themes that we see in scripture and there's many themes of scripture from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation, is we truly see a tale of two cities. And this is why this is important for them looking forward to a city whose foundations, whose designer and builder is God. And at the end of the Bible and the book of Revelation, what we see is we see that there's a city that comes down to earth. So if I can take you just for a moment back to Genesis with Adam and Eve in the garden, what happens when they eat from the tree and they were removed from the garden of Eden, we see this word that's used where they went east of Eden. And that's really easy to miss.
[7:29] What we see is when Cain kills Abel and Abel goes and he founds a city, again, not a throwaway word, we see that he goes east of Eden. The reason that that's easy to miss and why it's important is what it actually is, is it's what's called a literary refrain, which means that what they were doing is they were moving further and further and further away from the place in which God dwells. And what's fascinating is when Cain kills Abel, he goes and he founds a city. And so again, those aren't throwaway words when we come to passages like Hebrews 11, because what happens is when you build a city, you then have to defend it. When you build a city, you then have to defend it. You can't let everybody in, you begin to become a little bit suspicious. Walls kind of go up.
[8:17] And what we see here is that's the logic of the city of man. You secure your land, your city by grabbing a hold of it and taking control of it and holding your ground. And here's what should stop us dead in our tracks here this morning. Jesus never played that game. Pilate asks Jesus, are you a king? And Jesus says, my kingdom is not of this world. If I were, my servants would fight is essentially what he said. That's a Sam paraphrase just a little bit. But the point is, is Jesus didn't come to found an earthly city. He didn't come to be a political power that the Jewish people were hoping for, that he would come and take political power and absolutely reign over the land. That's not what Jesus did.
[9:04] He didn't take a crown here on this earth. In fact, he went to a cross instead. And so what we got to be kind of careful of this morning is to acknowledge, are we looking forward to a city whose foundations, whose designer and builder is God, which I believe is the kingdom of God, which Jesus came to this earth to set up to be not only partakers in the kingdom of God, but contributors to the kingdom of God. Or are we pouring foundations to build things on this earth that at the end of the day, when we die, we cannot bring with us. And so what I find interesting about this passage is, is the tent is provisional. You don't set up a tent with the intention to live there forever. When when I was a kid, me and my family would go to PEI every year. And we go to a little campground called Marco Polo. I still remember it today.
[9:55] They had this like giant like pillow bouncy thing where like all the kids would like jump on a was this besides the point. When we went to PEI, we didn't like call Canada post and say, hey, we need all of our mail forwarded to lot 34 at Marco Polo PEI from where we were in Nova Scotia. No, that would be kind of ridiculous. And so the reason that Abraham pitched tents with Isaac and Jacob was because they chose a city whose foundations, whose foundations, whose designer and builder was God, they chose the foundationless dwelling. He refused a lesser permanence because he was holding out for a greater one. He wanted more than just real estate and a city who had massive walls and who we could point to and say, ah, look at what I built.
[10:42] He was looking forward to a city who said, look at what my God has done. And so here's what most of us do. I believe that most of us actually do the opposite of what Abraham did. We stand in God's promises and yet we build earthly cities. We stand in God's promises and yet we build earthly cities. And so the easy way to figure this out of what you pour yourself, what you pour foundations into is the thing that if God asked you to leave tomorrow, you'd call him crazy for asking. And so what's interesting is Abraham lived in the promise land, the land that was promised to him in tents, the thing that they have waited years for and yet he lived in a tent. I think that truthfully Abraham held that promise loosely because he knew that there was a greater promise that was coming.
[11:38] And so there are things in which we think that, you know, that God has promised us that we hold on to. And yet Abraham who was living in the land at which God promised him in a tent provisionally said, God, I know you've promised this to me, but I'm actually going to hold it loosely for your sake. And sometimes I think when God promises us something, whether we think he promises something, whether it's physical or whatever, we hold on to it and we don't let God, God, you promise me this. And so sometimes I think that if he doesn't come through on that, we go, man, God did not keep his promises. He's not a promise keeper, but that is not true. And so everybody in this room is building something, but the question then becomes, are you pitching a tent or are you building or pouring a foundation? And so the scriptures continue on to talk a little bit about Sarah here in verses 11. By faith, Sarah herself received power to conceive even though she was past childbearing age, since she considered him faithful to the one he had promised. And so what, there's a few things here, but we don't have a ton of time to kind of unpack them all here this morning.
[12:43] So there's just a few notes that I want to make here. First, again, we see that her faith is not perfect. If you go to Genesis chapter verses 9 through 15, we actually see that she laughed in unbelief when God came to her and told her that she was going to bear a child. And then later on in Genesis chapter 21 verse 6, we actually see that she then learned to laugh in faith. And so what we learn from this just very quickly, just a quick principle is faith is judging that God is faithful and able to keep his promises. And so God gave Sarah the strength to conceive and Sarah received it by faith. And this is where things get a little bit crazy for me in verse 13 here, where it says this, these all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar and having acknowledged they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
[13:37] What's cool about this is they were willing to look at and consider the promises of God, even though the fulfillment seems so far away. And it continues to say, and they have acknowledged they were strangers and exiles on the earth. And verse 14, it continues to say, for people who speak thus make it clear they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had the opportunity to return. Can I just say this for a moment this morning? If these examples of faith endured through difficulty and discouragement without having received the things promised, we as followers of Jesus who have received the promise through Christ Jesus, how much more should we be able to endure on this or having received the promise in Christ?
[14:22] And I just want to point out something that's really easy to miss. They died in faith. They didn't go scrambling for faith when they finally hit their deathbed. They didn't finally have faith when the end was near. They died in faith, which means that they actually lived in it. They had faith and they still died. And sometimes I think we get it backwards a little bit. We think that faith is the thing that gets us out of hard things, that gets us out of sickness, that gets us out of loss, that gets us out of death. But that's not what we see here. We don't have faith to escape death. We have faith to die in it. And so that's a really important framework. They never grew beyond a childlike faith or a simple dependence on the Lord.
[15:09] Like it was some kind of beginner's faith. They never slipped below and lost it either. For the first breath they took to the last breath that they took, they died in faith. And so here's what holds up that kind of faith for a lifetime. It isn't wishful thinking. It's not, wouldn't it be nice? It's not, well, I really wish I had this, that, or the other thing, it rests on the promises of God. And if God made a promise to us, we know that He can keep it. We know that we can believe it. And so can you? And so what did He actually promise them in the scriptures? Because as I was like, well, we're going to talk about the promises of God. Probably be important to talk about what He actually promised them. So as we look into the scriptures, we see that He promised them a homeland, a place to finally belong.
[15:56] They promised them a city, not one they'd have to build and defend, but rather one that God builds and designs who designer and builder is God. He promised them His presence, the God who said, I will be your God and you'll be my people. And underneath it all, what this promise was, is He was promising them Himself. That the reward at the end of the search, at the end of the longing is God. And these aren't like small promises. These are really, really important to us as followers of Jesus. And what's really easy to kind of miss is the writer of Hebrews kind of put this in three movements. They saw the promises far off in the horizon. They were assured of them, certain enough to stake their life and die upon them. They embraced them. They held them close enough that they held them close that they could take them in to death. And the truth is, is I think that's hard for a lot of us who have been following Jesus for maybe some time now is because truthfully, I think if we boil down to it, there's some of us that live as what I call practical atheists.
[16:57] It's not that you don't believe that there is a God or believe that He exists. I'm not talking about somebody who denies that God exists. I'm talking about someone who says they believe in God, theoretically, on paper. But the belief makes no actual difference in how they live throughout the week. That their faith and their belief in the Lord, that they haven't put their demonstrated trust in Him, where God is real in theory, but absent in our everyday lives. And to be truthful with you this morning, that kind of faith, where it doesn't actually make a difference in how we live, that the Holy Spirit hasn't transformed us, haven't created us to be a new kind of creature or creation, that kind of faith is a kind of faith that makes the enemy rejoice, because it isn't life-giving. As the song that we just sung, it doesn't make dead things come alive.
[17:50] The kind of faith that makes dead people come alive is a faith that trusts in and lives out the promises of God. And so, I think of James in chapter 2 verse 19, where it says that you believe that there is one God, good. Even demons believe that and they shudder. You see, that points to that demons have perfect theology. They know the scriptures, they'd ace the doctrine test, and it saves them from nothing. So belief, having an intellectual knowledge of who God is, is not the finish line. And there's a lot of people who have some kind of knowledge of who God is, but it doesn't actually transform them from the inside out. And so, there's very few people who will live it out. And so, the hard question this morning is, if you never experience the things that you think that God has promised you, the things that you think that God owes you, what would happen?
[18:52] It says, these all died in faith, not having received the things promised. And there's this tough truth that there are things that God has promised that we will not receive this side of heaven. And I want to ask you a question, does that make those promises not true? I would actually say, it makes them true. It makes them true. We have faith in a city whose builder and maker is God. And so, just because you don't see it doesn't mean that God has let you down. They died calling him faithful, not having received the promises. And the scriptures continue to say in verse 16, but as it is, they desire a better country that is a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. Now, as Christians or as followers of Jesus, we often talk about this idea of not being ashamed of the Lord, of being ashamed of Jesus. And that's very true.
[19:43] The Apostle Paul said, I am not ashamed of the gospel. Jesus said that if anyone's ashamed of me, then on that day I'll be ashamed of them. And I'd hope everybody in this room would say, I'm not afraid to be accounted as a follower of Jesus Christ. But as I begin to wrestle with the scripture in this passage, I begin to think, okay, so then is there a world in which God would be ashamed to be called their God? Is there a world in which God would be ashamed to be called my God? And I think the answer is actually found in Hebrews chapter 11, verse 6, where it says, without faith, it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and he rewards those who seek him. And so it says, without faith, it is impossible to please God.
[20:33] It doesn't say it is difficult to please God. It doesn't say that it's improbable to please God. It says that it is impossible to please him. And so what's one of the greatest opportunities that God can give us to build that faith? I've come to the conclusion that oftentimes it's circumstances that look nothing like what we think they should look like. That it looks opposite of how we think that things should be happening. And it's an opportunity for us to say, I don't actually understand all that is happening, God. I don't understand why you're doing things the way that you are, but I'm choosing to put my demonstrated trust in you because you have proven yourself true. You see, God proved himself true to Abraham on several different occasions in this passage. We see that God proved himself true in what we learned about last week with Abraham and Isaac.
[21:21] He proved himself true in the land of promise. He proved himself true by giving Sarah a child when she was past childbearing age, which is improbable. She was past childbearing age. It made no sense at all. But God is faithful and he keeps his promises. And that last phrase that we see in this, and he rewards those who seek him, right? He rewards those who seek him. And we love to twist this a little bit, that he rewards us with some kind of like financial blessing or rewards us with, you know, like it's like the Oprah Winfrey. I think it's Oprah. It's like you get a car and you get a car and check under your seat. We like to think that sometimes it's maybe a little bit like that, but that's not what the writer of Hebrews is saying. He's saying, if you seek God, the reward that you get is God. The reward that you get is Jesus.
[22:09] And and I think sometimes it's easy for us to kind of look around the world and what other people have or what other people don't have. It can be really easy for us to say, like, like, really, like all I get is Jesus, but getting Jesus, getting the Lord, seeking him and finding him is everything. It is life. It is sustenance. It is, it is everything. In John chapter six at the end, towards verse 60, it's one of my favorite passages in the New Testament where Jesus did a whole bunch of miracles and he gained a whole bunch of followers and the scriptures make a distinction between the twelve and and his disciples, people who had some level of admiration for for who Jesus is and what he did. And Jesus basically says that you need to eat my flesh and drink my blood.
[22:56] He's not talking literally. He's not talking about communion. What he's basically saying is, is you need to find your life and your sustenance in me. You need to find everything in who I am. And his Jewish audience goes, well, well, that's offensive. That's a hard saying. Who can understand it? And the scriptures then say, many, many turned away or many kind of went away. And so Jesus then turns to his apostles and said, would you guys like to go to? And the interesting thing is, is the apostle Peter says, Lord, to whom shall we go? You are the one who has the words of eternal life. And so when we seek and our reward is Jesus. It's not nothing. It is actually everything.
[23:42] And so I think sometimes we struggle to believe that we go, OK, God, I like I, I want you as my reward if like the stock market goes OK. Or Jesus, I want you as my reward if that result comes back benign. It comes back non-characters. I want you as my reward if this life works out exactly as I think it should work out. And so the question then becomes for us as followers of Jesus when we approach this passage. And if you're not a follower of Jesus, I just want you to know that that Jesus is the gentle shepherd, that he loves you and he's pursuing you and he's chasing you. And he wants you to make a decision in faith for him. He wants you to he wants you to experience the kingdom of God.
[24:31] He wants you to know what it is means and what it is like to be a partaker in the kingdom of God, to move from being dead in the transgressions of sin into a life giving relationship with the one who has the words of eternal life. But the question that becomes for those of us who are followers of Jesus in the room is would you still want faith in the person of Jesus if he was your only reward? No house thrown in, no car, no guarantee just because and truthfully that's what Abraham was after. A man who's looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. I think of the apostle Paul who wrote that it is no longer I who live yet Christ who lives and me. I think of consistently throughout the Old Testament that it talks about the crucifying of the flesh.
[25:20] There's a reason that that kind of language is used is because having faith in the person of Jesus costs us something. There's an idea that Dietrich Bonhoeffer talks about quite consistently in his book The Cost of Discipleship which is a framework that's called a cheap grace. And this idea of a cheap grace is that we you know we say a prayer and that we're good, we get baptized and that means nothing for our life other than we come to church and we die someday and then we get to heaven. But Dietrich Bonhoeffer calls that this idea of this cheap grace. One, it demotes the idea of God's transforming grace of what that means for us as followers of Jesus, the testimony that it is to the world of which who yet does not know him. But it also doesn't cost us anything and isn't transformative in our lives.
[26:09] The Jesus that we follow in the scriptures actually calls us to sacrifice and to lay things down for him as he sacrificed himself for us. And so the question is would we still want the person would we still want faith in the person of Jesus if he himself was our only reward. And so living that out means trusting him and listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit, the voice that never contradicts scripture but pushes us to obey it. The voice that is never convenient, it's the nudge that you know talks, that urges you to talk to the person in the grocery line, that pushes you to be generous to the people, maybe paying for somebody's food at the grocery store, whatever it is that pushes you to have faith conversations with people. Because we as followers of Jesus believe that following Christ is a relationship, that it's an intimate relationship, that it's not just like we do certain things and we work our way into heaven.
[27:08] The Apostle Paul in Philippians chapter 3 gives a laundry list of his confidence in the flesh, a laundry list of things of why he should be counted as a follower of Christ. He talks about he was from the tribe of Benjamin, he talks about how he was born as he was born into the tribe of the kingdom of Israel, he talks about how he had this zeal for the Lord, he talks about how that he was you know like the Pharisee of all Pharisees. He gives a whole laundry list and at the end he says a phrase which says I count them all as loss for the sake of Christ. I count them all as loss for the sake of Christ and we know that it's not by works by which we are saved but it is by faith in Christ Jesus. And so what I want to do is the worship team comes back up just in closing, is faith is confirmation of what we really believe. Faith is the confirmation of what we say we really believe and so not what we say but what we'll actually walk out and do.
[28:11] And so I think it can be really easy to say like hey we're people of faith but not actually live it out, to not actually share with people the transforming grace, the transforming power that Christ Jesus has done in our lives. We believe as followers of Jesus that the same spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead lives within us when we become followers of Jesus. That should radically shape and transform not just what we do but fundamentally who we are. It should begin to create in us a new life. The scriptures talk about the fruits of the spirit, joy, gentleness, patience, kindness, forbearance, and the list goes on. Those should begin to flourish in our lives because someday when we stand before the Father in heaven it's not going to be Father look at what I've done. I've done you know I've cast out demons in your name and you know I've done all these things in your name.
[29:04] That's not what it's going to be. It's going to be did you actually know me? Did you have a relationship with me? It's based off of the fruits that we produce that the Holy Spirit produces in us in this life and so my encouragement to you as we close and as we spend a moment here just in prayer is maybe for you there's steps of faith that you've been putting off. Maybe you've been putting it off because you don't know how the end result is going to go. Maybe it's because you know you've maybe had a wrong idea of what living in faith actually is that you thought that God was going to speak to you and give you point A to point Z but I'll tell you that's not how he has worked in my life personally. In fact when God called me to even first of all follow him and then go into pastoral ministry I'll tell you right now I didn't want to do it. I didn't know how A to Z was going to work and I fought every step of the way but the truth is is there is a God who pursues us relentlessly and as he pursues us with his grace and the fullness of who he is and we finally say yes Lord I want to put my faith my demonstrated trust in you. You'll begin to see that he'll transform the not just the posture of your heart but it'll begin to transform your heart and so for you maybe that step of faith that the Lord's asking you to have is to be you know generous to somebody.
[30:21] Maybe it is that there's a neighbor or a family member that you need to reconcile with. Maybe there's somebody that you kind of know when they're home you know what car they drive you know when it comes in you know when it goes but you've never had a conversation with them. Maybe for you that faith is actually inviting them into your home and sharing what God has done and continues to do in your life because we serve a God that is in the business of making dead things come alive. We serve a God that when we put our faith in him radically transforms not just what we do but fundamentally who we are and it's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing to rejoice in the glory of our Lord. It's a beautiful thing to put our trust in him to see him not only use us but to know him truthfully and intimately.
[31:12] Let's pray together. Heavenly Father I just thank you. God I thank you for all the ways in which you've done a work in people's hearts in this room. Father I thank you for how you have called people to yourself. Father I thank you for the transforming work that has been done not only in this room but outside of this room and living rooms and around dinner tables Lord and I just pray that you would continue to do that work. That people would you know begin to just put their full demonstrated trust in you. That they begin to seek after you. That they begin to chase after you Lord. That they begin to put their full trust in you to say Lord there's things in my life that you are asking me to sacrifice so that I can fully put my heart in you. Put my trust in you Lord.
[31:59] And God I just pray that we'd put faith in the God who didn't just walk this earth physically but allows us to be partakers and contributors into the kingdom of God which is the only thing that you are the only one who will give us new life. As the apostle Peter said that Lord you are the one who has the words of eternal life to whom shall we go. And God I just pray this morning that you the one who has the words of eternal life would meet us here this morning. That as you call us to yourself we would have the ability to respond to that call. That we'd have the the willingness to say Lord I want you. Lord I seek you. You are the one whom I want.
[32:46] You are the one whom I love. Lord everything else doesn't matter. You are the one who matters Jesus. You are the one that is talked about from the beginning of the scriptures to the end of the scriptures. You are the one who gave yourself to us and for us Lord who poured himself out. And so Lord I just pray right now that we would have the faith to respond to your call. That we'd have the faith to respond to the voice of your Holy Spirit. That we would have the faith to put our full and whole trust in you. Lord we love you. We worship you. We praise you all in the powerful name of Christ Jesus. Amen.