What Does God Want with Me?

Isaiah 61. Meanwhile, turn to someone, greet them, and say, “God bless you.” A good evangelical, charismatic, Pentecostal greeting: God bless you. Brothers and sisters, as I shared at the nine o’clock service, my desire for your life—one of the things I ask of the Lord for your life this morning—is that from this day forward, whenever you hear that greeting, or whenever you extend that greeting, you... may never hear those words the same way again. May you know the power of those words over your life, and may you know the authority the Lord is giving you to bless, just as we have blessed these homes, just as we have blessed these families.

You know, brothers and sisters, one way to define blessing—a blessed life—is to live according to God’s will for our lives. That is, we can assume that if we are—if we manage to live according to God’s will for us; if we were able to know the Lord’s perfect will and lived within that will—it could only culminate in blessing. The only thing we can expect is blessing. And perhaps your question—and it is a good and fair question—is, “Well, Samuel, then what is the perfect will for my life? Show me, Lord. Show me Your perfect will and, amen, bless me.

Brothers and sisters, I suggest to you this morning that perhaps that is not the right question, or at least let us ask the Lord something else, and let this be the question: If God had the freedom to work in our lives in the way He desires, what would He do? If we gave the Lord the opportunity to do in our lives precisely what He desires to do—this God who created you, who knows you, who loves you, who is powerful, and who desires only your good—what would He do? Frankly, as I was preparing this message, it was as though I heard the voice of the Lord saying to me, “If they only gave me an opportunity.” “If only they would give Me the opportunity to do what I desire to do in their lives, Samuel.” “If I only had a chance.”

Brother, perhaps you have only recently begun seeking the Lord—perhaps just a few weeks ago. Perhaps you have only recently begun experiencing this thing—“call it whatever you call it,” according to your vocabulary: religion, or the ways of the Lord, or this journey; call it whatever you call it—but you are seeking the Lord, perhaps for the first time, and never more seriously than you are doing right now, because, frankly, you feel that the Lord has been calling you. That is, everywhere you look, you see signs from the Lord. He has not merely been calling you; as A.W. Tosser said, “He has been pursuing you.” It is as though the Lord is pursuing you. Everywhere you go, you see evidence of the Lord wanting to connect with you—in little exchanges, little things that happen at your workplace or in your home. Little miracles: the Lord getting you out of trouble and protecting you like a brand plucked from the flames. And at last you are ready to surrender, at last, and ask Him, “Why are You pursuing me, Lord? What do You want with me, when I see You everywhere I turn?” Everywhere You are; everywhere I hear Your voice; everywhere... What do You want with me?”

Or perhaps you are not so new to the Gospel. Perhaps you have been seeking the Lord for a long time, but you now find yourself at a crossroads, and you feel that you are about to make... you have no choice but to make certain decisions. Decisions that will affect your family, your home, perhaps your ministry, your job, your business; whatever it may be, changes are coming, and you know it. Or deep in your heart you feel that there is something more. And now you ask the Lord, “What do You want with me? What is behind all this?”

And, brothers and sisters, I do not claim that this message will answer or offer you specific answers to questions such as, “What should I study?” or “Whom should I marry?” or “What profession or ministry should I devote myself to?” But I do believe that this word from the Lord, which the Lord is going to share with us, will show you God’s purpose for you, God’s plan for you. It will show you that God is not dealing with your life at random, that He wants something with you. There is an “expected” end, the Word says, for the man or woman of peace.

There is a destiny, something the Lord wants to do with you, and, brothers and sisters, that is the Gospel. The Word of the Lord declares in Luke chapter 4—we do not have to turn there—but early in Jesus’ ministry, He entered the synagogue where He usually worshiped, in the city where He had been raised. Entering the synagogue—the local church, His parish—on that Sabbath day, He was handed the Scriptures, a scroll, and He opened it to this passage, Isaiah 61, and began to read these words. It was not His turn to deliver the message that day; He was not the teacher. He merely read these words and sat down again among the people. But nothing else could be done that day. When they heard the Lord read these words, every eye was fixed on Him. There was silence in that place as the voice of Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed these words, and the Lord broke that silence by declaring, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled before you.”

Brothers and sisters, today we once again hear the voice of the Lord announcing these words. And the Lord says to you, “If you let Me, if you allow Me, today these words will be fulfilled in your life. Today these Scriptures will be fulfilled. If you let Me.” “If you let me.”

What did He read? The Lord began by declaring, “The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me, because Jehovah has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach good news to the afflicted...”

Let us pause there for a moment, brothers and sisters. “Good news,” good news—have you heard this expression? You have heard it many times; the only thing is that you have heard it in Greek, because from the Greek... this expression has been translated “GOSPEL”: good news. That is, to me, my brothers and sisters, verses 1 through 7 of Isaiah chapter 61 are an eloquent encapsulation of the Gospel of Jesus, of the Gospel we preach. And not merely an encapsulation; it is a declaration of the mission of the church of Jesus Christ. Yes, the Spirit of the Lord Jehovah was upon Jesus and anointed Him to preach this message, but the Lord chose disciples, and those disciples trained other disciples, and that is why we now have discipleship in this church. Because you are disciples of Jesus Christ, and you are commissioned, set apart, anointed—which means “authorized”—to proclaim this good news.

The church of Jesus Christ has that privilege and responsibility. The word anointing implies authority. The prophets, kings, priests, and servants of God were anointed for specific purposes, to fulfill a specific mission—not to do whatever they felt like doing or whatever seemed right to them, but to fulfill a specific mission. And the Lord Jesus has said to you, “This is the Gospel; this is your message, Church of Jesus Christ.”

What is more, my brothers and sisters, I would say to the churches—and this is not about denomination; this is about mission and anointing—you, pastor, wherever you may be in the world, tuning in over the internet; you, wherever you may be, cell-group leader, discipleship teacher, brother: fulfill the mission the Lord has given you.

Because frankly, my brothers and sisters, the churches—as I was sharing with a group of brothers and sisters yesterday—that fulfill this mission, that share the Gospel, that live under that anointing, that seek that anointing and are channels of that anointing: God sees to it that those churches prosper. Those churches prosper and grow; they see the hand of God and evidence of God’s presence among them.

There is no doubt that God has called them, but the opposite is equally true. If we stray from this mission, if we forget it, if there are aspects of this mission we would rather not touch for whatever reason—because this is New England and such things are not discussed here—those churches will die, because what are they here for? They are authorized and anointed for a certain work, and if God’s anointing is not being channeled through them, they are not fulfilling their mission.

What we are seeing in New England is that there are no static churches in New England; that does not exist here. One of two things is happening in the churches of New England: either they are growing in an incredible, logarithmic way, or they are dying. And these two-hundred- and three-hundred-year-old buildings, these houses of worship, are being turned into condominiums, restaurants, parking lots, or—preferably—places where a church, perhaps without great financial resources but fulfilling the Lord’s anointing, takes possession of them and fulfills the mission for which those pilgrims laid stone upon stone and put those places there. Three hundred years ago, when they laid stone upon stone to build these churches, they made a covenant, and the Lord is going to take that covenant seriously. Those places will be occupied by churches that reflect the heart of Christ and proclaim this Gospel. Because what God wants with you and what God wants with New England is simple. Incredibly simple—the Gospel is simple, my brothers and sisters. What does God want with you? Do you know what He wants? He wants to heal you, He wants to transform you, He wants to use you, and He wants to prosper you. This God who has called you, who pursues you, wants to heal, transform, use, and prosper you. And here it is, my brothers and sisters; it is very clear. The Word says—He continues—“He has sent Me to preach good news to the afflicted, to bind up...” Can you imagine the God of glory binding up a wound? Do not merely read it; see it, see it—see your God binding up the wounds of the broken. The Lord came to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim “liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.” Let us pause there for a moment.

My brothers and sisters, what the presence of the Lord does is essential. Brothers and sisters, how beautiful the presence of the Lord was just now, wasn’t it? How wonderful it is to be in the courts of the Lord! Even though we may not understand everything that is happening, there is no doubt that it is wonderful to be in His presence. But, brothers and sisters, what makes the presence of the Lord special and beautiful is not merely that God is here, but that you are also here. And not merely that you are here, but that when the Lord sees you, looks at you, contemplates you from His throne, He knows you—He knows you and knows your need. And He not only knows you and knows your need, but there is something more beautiful and even more majestic: He cares about your need; it troubles Him when you are wounded. His heart breaks when yours breaks.

That is part of the formula we so often forget. For the Lord to heal you, He has to know you; and He not only has to know you, He has to love you. And time and again, throughout the entire Word, the Lord finds no other way to communicate it. In the Old Testament and the New Testament, from Genesis to Revelation, the Lord has been trying to tell us the same thing: “I know you, and I love you, and I want to heal you.”

The Lord declares in His Word, “I have every hair on your head counted.” The Lord goes on to declare, “Not a leaf moves without your Heavenly Father knowing it.” The Lord says, “Look, if the Lord cares for the birds of the sky and the grass of the field, are you not worth more than the birds? Are you not worth more than the grass of the field? Do you not have value before the Lord?”

Brothers and sisters, your prayer is worth more than gold in heaven. They make bricks out of gold up there. The streets are lined with it. The prayers of the saints, the Word says—in what I believe is one of the most beautiful scenes in Revelation—the Lord regards them as, do you know what? Precious incense, which He gathers in golden bowls that are poured out at the feet of Jesus. There is not a single tear—I do not know how He does it, but that is what the Word declares—“There is not a single tear shed that goes to waste.”

The Lord notices everything, records everything, cares about your brokenness, and if you let Him, He will heal it. And He goes on to declare, “I have come to bring liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”

Brothers and sisters, you do know, don’t you, that the most effective prisons and the strongest chains are not made of iron? And the Lord wants to bring freedom in every sense of the word. It troubles the Lord to see lives chained and restricted, and there are countless kinds of prisons. You can be captive, so to speak, to decisions you made—decisions you made whose consequences you are now living with.

That is, you are captive in your present and your future because of something that happened in your past. The terrible thing about this, brothers and sisters, is that the Lord sees it. And it may be, brother, that it was one thing or another that you did, and no one knows about it. Perhaps you are sitting here, and to this very day no one has found out about this thing or that, apart from God—and apart from Satan, by the way, who keeps harassing you, who keeps tightening the shackles. And perhaps you have overcome it; whatever it was, you overcame it, and you are a respected lady in the community, a respectable man. You now have your husband, your family, your job, your profession; but in the recesses, in the basement of your heart, in the darkest corner where you yourself are afraid to go, that thing is there, keeping you chained.

The Lord says to you, “If you let Me, today you can be free. Today I can give you freedom.” Or perhaps it is not even a decision you made; perhaps it is not even your past. Perhaps it is a generational chain, a family pattern—a decision your great-grandfather made that affected your grandfather’s future, that marked your father’s life, and now you are living out these patterns, and perhaps you are already beginning to see these patterns in your children. And you say, “Oh, here we go again!” Here we go again—the same thing; may the Lord rebuke it. Here we go again. And the Lord says to you, “That chain, that prison, that captivity... I can open that too. And I can set you free as well.”

Satanic patterns of thinking from which the Lord wants us to be free, and this should not scandalize us. Do you want a hero of the faith more powerful than David? A warrior, a psalmist, a king—and we hear David asking the Lord, “Free my soul from prison so that I may worship You.”

If David could pray that way, David, you can ask the Lord for the same thing. You can be free. I do not know which minor prophet it is who refers to “prisoners of hope”—prisoners of hope—that is what we all are, brothers and sisters. And physical healing.

Brothers and sisters, when the Lord read this passage in that synagogue in Nazareth, He read it not in Hebrew but in Greek. A Bible—what they called the Septuagint—a Greek translation; and He added this phrase: “And sight to the blind.”

And in this place, in this church, we believe that LITERALLY, and on July 12, as has been announced, we have a commitment to the Lord. I am going to be frank with you, brothers and sisters; I am going to be frank with you. With trembling knees, we are going to receive those souls who arrive in wheelchairs or on crutches or stretchers, but brothers and sisters, let them come! Let them come in the name of Jesus! If you are here today, welcome! Because this church, whether we feel prepared or not, will fulfill its mission. The Lord has anointed us for a reason! This is the Gospel. This is the Gospel.

Whether we like it or not, whether you are ready or not, we are going to do this thing.

And He continues reading, and this does not sound quite so nice—and it should not—but look at what the Lord declares as He proclaims the year of the Lord’s favor, and notice: “The day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn.”

Brothers and sisters, the plain truth—notice, do you know what aspect I see in this? What aspect of God do I see expressed here? His justice. Our God is a God of justice. And many of us live in mourning because of one injustice or another that we have suffered; we are grieving.

Brothers and sisters, do you know what the Lord says to you? Frankly, all of this troubles the Lord; it breaks His heart. It breaks the Lord’s heart to see people whose occupation, whose entire energy, is devoted to trying to straighten out the wrongs that have been done to them. What so-and-so did to them, perhaps in their home, or what was done to them in childhood, or something that happened in their life. And by now it is impossible to set the matter right, yet they are living with it, bound there to that situation, with countless chains: resentment, sorrow, loss, brokenness, more resentment.

And the Lord says to you—and, brother, when you come across these words in Scripture, do not ignore them; the Lord has them there because He loves you. He has them there because He loves you.

Romans 12 exists because He loves you, and the Lord says to you: “Child, vengeance is Mine; I will repay. You bless.”

You know, to me this—I said at the nine o’clock service that this is like those gangster movies, when someone approaches the godfather. Today we approach the godfather, kiss his ring, and say to him, “Godfather, give me justice.” And the godfather says to you, “Look, you told me. Fine, I am going to take care of it. There is nothing Satan has done to you that he will not pay for—every last bit of it... every last bit. Do not worry; he is going to pay for it all. You go, you eat, you go in peace, you live your life, you take advantage of every blessing that comes within your reach. You walk through every door that I open for you. Go in peace, son. Go in peace, daughter. Live a victorious life; I will take care of it. Do not worry.”

Because the Lord does not want you to remain there. The Lord says to you: “For Me to do anything else in your life, for Me to work in your life, I have to heal you. I have to heal you.”

How does the Lord...? Notice, He is extending the invitation to you, but it has to come from your lips. You have to say the words out loud: “Lord, I need You. Redeem me; heal me.” Tell God where it hurts. It has to come from you, because God’s will is not for you to remain there. The Lord wants to transform you. The Lord wants to do something completely different in your life.

Brothers and sisters, that is one of the things I most admire, one of the things I frankly love most about this church—not because it is my church, my brothers and sisters, or because we worship the Lord together. It is that—do you not see this pattern? There it is again: in every church that is living out its mission, you will come across transformed lives. Transformed lives. The Lord declares: “I came to appoint and to give those who grieve in Zion glory instead of ashes; the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a spirit of anguish. And they will be called trees of righteousness, a planting of the Lord.” The New International Version says, “oaks of righteousness for His glory.”

Brothers and sisters, by the way... I know that Pastor Omar may have said it just now, but who is here visiting, perhaps for the first time today? Amen.

Welcome, but sadly—I am sorry—you missed the show. You missed the drama, because you come in now and are seeing a scene that God has created here. Perhaps you are seeing a gentleman in his vest and tie, all neatly groomed and worshiping the Lord, looking very elegant. Perhaps you are seeing a lady and a gentleman together—a husband, a wife, and some children who look extremely healthy—and you would say, “Those people have been like that their whole lives.”

Or perhaps, “This family has been like that all their lives.” But you missed the drama. In fact, I suggest something: after the service, perhaps approach any one of these brothers or sisters at random and ask, “What has God done for you? What has God done for you? What has God done in your life? What has He done?” Because what you are seeing is a miracle of God. What you are seeing—what you are seeing—is an act of illusion; it is an illusion. You are looking at people through the blood of Christ; you are seeing people through His anointing.

Brother, perhaps you also know very well the ashes in which you have sat. You know very well the mourning you have endured. Perhaps, brother, you know the anguish your spirit has suffered.

In fact, you may say, “Pastor, yes, I have... I am dressing better, I am coming to church, but the Lord still has not finished with me. There is still a great deal of work to do; the work is still incomplete, imperfect. I am a Christian under construction.” But that is okay; that is okay. Because people see... Glory to God.

You know what I am talking about.

But people do not see that. What people see is the crown of glory that the Lord has placed on you. What people see is the oil the Lord has poured over you. What people see is a smile—perhaps you never smiled in your life... now, inexplicably, you smile because there is something the Lord is doing in you. Unchangeably, undeniably, permanently, eternally, the Lord is doing something powerful in you, and that, my brother, is what God gets out of the miracle, you know? He gets glory. I will turn, as we were singing just now, your mourning into dancing for His glory.

Do you know why? Because perhaps the apostle Paul said: “Neither my word nor my preaching was with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” That is how the Gospel is preached, and your friends will say, “I have never seen God, but I have seen Saturnino. There is no one here named Saturnino, is there? Okay. I am in a safe place.”

I do know Saturnino, and I know what Saturnino went through, and I know the years Saturnino spent on drugs.

Brother, if you feel I am talking about you, do not worry, because this is the miracle the Lord has been performing wholesale in this church. This could be you, or someone else, or about two dozen other people in this church. You see Saturnino and Saturnina, and I know those people had been separated for 10 or 15 years. What are they doing together? And those children—look how beautiful they are; they are on their way to college—and you can say, as Yiye Ávila says, “Who did it? Christ.” Glory to His name, and that is transformation.

God draws glory from your life. And there is nothing that gives the Lord more glory than the fact—and here it is... look... this is what... the Lord is a strategic genius. All of this has to do with spiritual warfare.

Because He chooses the very people Satan wanted to destroy—notice that. He calls the very people Satan wanted to use as a doormat and then throw away. He uses those people whom Satan wanted to deprive of the glory of God.

Those are the people He uses—notice—it says here:

“Those people will rebuild the ancient ruins. Those people will raise up the former desolations. It is those people who will restore the ruined cities, the rubble of many generations.”

In other words, those are the people the Lord chooses to use. The Lord wants to use you. Brothers and sisters, we not only believe in revival; we believe in a revival that is approaching New England, and we are counting the days. We believe it as a fact, as surely as they are forecasting rain this afternoon: it is going to rain over New England. It will be transformed. But we forget the way the Lord brings these revivals. How does He choose? What is the process? And the process of revival is that He takes His children; He takes... you are living rubble. We all are.

The Lord begins by rebuilding us. He begins with you, and then He plants you; you are a planting of the Lord. He plants you in one place or another. It may be your workplace, your home, your ministry, but it is a decisive place, and you begin to hear God’s voice there, and you serve the Lord. And in those places the Lord begins to use you. In fact, you do not even realize that the Lord is using you because He does it so naturally; it flows from you, but the Lord is using you.

Or it may be this: He makes you like Nehemiah when there is a problem in the community, something for which there has never been a solution. Everyone has heard about it for generations, and they have never seen a solution. But when this news reached Nehemiah, Nehemiah... “How is Israel doing? How is Judah these days?” And they answered him, “Oh, if you could only see it! The walls lie desolate, and the people live in depression and anxiety.” But you hear it differently; this affects you. Have you noticed? Has this happened to you? What bothers no one else bothers you; what others hear and let go in one ear and out the other, the Lord does not let you ignore.

It gets you up; you begin to pray and fast about it, because He will not let you rest concerning it. You seek the Lord’s presence: “Father, how can You allow this? How can this thing exist and be a disgrace to Your people? How can it be an affront to Your people and Your children? Do something; this has no solution.” And suddenly you hear the Lord’s voice: “Yes, this does have a solution. I have chosen you specifically for this. There is a strategy. I know the strategy; I know how to rebuild those walls, Nehemiah.” “Joshua, I know how to bring down the walls of Jericho. I know how to do this.”

Satan’s strongholds are malleable, brothers and sisters; they are pliable. They can be moved, and the Lord is looking for Nehemiahs. The Lord is looking for Joshuas. The Lord plants His vision. I see Patty. “Alpha, where did that come from? Where did that come from?”

Years ago, everyone saw the needs. But if someone hears the Lord’s voice and inclines their ear, the Lord chooses you. He begins to share His strategy with you and says, “Now go and do it.”

And perhaps at that moment you are the first to complain, the first to protest: “But Lord, I cannot do that.” And why? Because I am part of the problem. I belong to this generation. How can I clear away the rubble of that generation if I belong to this generation?

You say, as Isaiah himself did: “I am a man of unclean lips from a people of unclean lips.” “Lord, no one in my family has graduated from college,” or, “Lord, no one in my family—no man in my family—no one has lived a sober, chaste life,” “Lord, no one in my family has gotten married.” The Lord says to you, “Do not worry; go, let Me use you. And by using you, I am going to prosper you.”

“You will be first and not last”; you will be first; you will be the head and not the tail.” Has no one gotten married? Well, you will be the first. Has no one gone to college? Good! You will be the first. Has no one lived a life of holiness? Welcome—you will be the first. You are the Columbus of that family. You are the one to whom I will hand the scroll; the curse ends with you, and blessing will come from Me. Blessing!

Glory to God.

“Foreigners,” my brothers and sisters, “will tend your flocks.” “And strangers will be your farmers and your vine dressers.” And brother, you who cannot see how the Lord can use you, the Lord says to you, “You will be called a priest of the Lord.”

“You will be called ministers of our God; you will feed on the riches of the nations. And in their glory you will be exalted. And instead of your double shame and your double dishonor, they will praise you in your inheritance. Therefore, in their lands they will possess a double portion of honor.” And listen to this—this really is strange: How is this translated? What are we supposed to make of this? “And they will have everlasting joy.”

Do you know what that is? If you do not know what that is, I do not blame you. There are many who do not know what it is. There are many who do not know what that is. But let me give you a goal. Ask the Lord for this. People who take this seriously and receive this word live unusual lives in which the Lord transforms things that could destroy anyone else. And even within that whirlwind they experience joy. Joy... everlasting joy that will never end. The Lord working in your life. Stable emotions, from strength to strength—that is what the Lord promises. From glory to glory. And brothers and sisters, if this sounds strange to you, I tell you, brother, in the name of Jesus: Get used to it.

If you have taken this word seriously, if you have allowed the Lord to work in your lives, the Lord calls you a priest. The Lord calls you a product of His glory, of His mercy, a channel of His blessing. The Lord will have to form an entirely new... you have to get used to an entirely new mindset, and instead of thinking in terms of scarcity, begin to think in terms of prosperity and abundance.

The Lord is going to train you. He promises you: "No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your dwelling. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand. You who take Me seriously, you who call Me Lord, you who dare to believe My word—you are different." It does not apply to you! You are the people of God, a chosen lineage, a royal priesthood. You are no small thing. You know, the calling is a calling of one word. If any of this makes sense, glory to God that you have received this word.

But now the Lord says to you: "You know what? Now, My child, let Me heal you. Let Me transform you, let Me use you, let Me prosper you. Let Me work in you."

Let us lower our eyes for a moment, and I ask the musicians to accompany me at this time.

We still have much to do; we have Communion, and time is running out.

But a brother approached me after the first service, and I believe he came to me with a prophetic message and said, "Pastor, please, if you are going to preach that message again, make an altar call." And that is what we will do.

What is an altar call? I am going to explain it to you now. If you are here and you say, "There are areas of my life where I do not feel healing. I do not feel healing; I do not feel that the Lord... there are whole gaps."

Let us go to what is most essential.

These promises, the Gospel—the reason they are good news—is that, first, you have to give the Lord permission... give the Lord permission... for Him to be the Lord of your life, the boss, the One in charge.

In other words: "Father, I have lived this way up to this point. Take me by the hand; now guide me." That is all. Guide me. Make me Your child. I receive You as my Lord. I receive You as my answer; I receive You as my solution.

And if you have never done that, I am going to ask you publicly... if this is news to you... and you wish to do that publicly, please raise your hands. If you want to receive the Lord this afternoon and make Him your Lord, we invite you to raise your hand. Amen.

If you have never said, "Lord, take charge of my life. I want You to be my Lord and to work actively in my life," I invite you to raise your hand. Amen. Amen.

If there is no one, brothers and sisters, I ask that we stand.

Brothers and sisters, let us close our eyes for a moment before receiving the elements of Communion.

And as you digest these elements, imagine that the Lord is there: His broken body, His blood, is moving through your being, through your innermost self; and as He moves, as He follows that course within you, He is touching this or that—different aspects of your being.

And now let us... let us ask Him: Lord, we receive Your healing. Lord, we receive Your transformation.

Lord, we allow You to use us in whatever way brings You the most glory and exalts You the highest.

Lord, we long for You to prosper us and for You to bless the work of our hands. We ask You in the name of Jesus.