Real Faith, Honest Prayer

All right, I am going to make one more announcement and then pray for a second.

And we have some extra seats along this side, front couple of rows.

I promise I'm going to pray long enough that if you're on the back row and you want to make it up here, you can do it.

Nobody will ever see you.

It's going to be one of those every head bowed, every eye closed moments.

So no pressure, but.

if you're having a hard time seeing or hearing in the back.

Here's the announcement is that there is a women's lunch after this in the house about discipleship, and my wife is speaking at it, and I think she's awesome.

So women, if you're a visitor and you didn't know, you didn't sign up, come.

I think there'll be enough lunch.

Maybe the Lord will divide the bread supernaturally, but if you want to come to that right after this.

If you have a Bible, let's open up to Mark chapter 9, and now I'm going to pray.

Lord Jesus, you are so good.

You are so wise.

You are so kind.

You are so strong.

We have come to hear from you today.

We certainly have not come to hear from me.

Use me as a vessel or as a broken vessel.

But you are so strong.

You are so mighty.

You can oversee even my weaknesses.

You can use the weakest, the lowest, to accomplish your purposes.

And we pray that you would be doing that this morning, Lord, that you would be pushing back the forces of darkness in our lives, in our world, in our culture.

You would be advancing.

Your kingdom would be coming in our lives.

And we pray all this in Christ's name.

Amen.