Ephesians chapter 1, verses 12 through 14, we
have one of the names of the Holy
Spirit, and we've been looking at the names
of the Holy Spirit, and this one we
want to look at this evening.
Ephesians 1, 12, that we should be to
the praise of his glory who first trusted
in Christ, in whom ye also trusted after
that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation, in whom also when
ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy
Spirit of promise, who is the earnest of
our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Someone has said that happiness consists in three
things, someone to love, something to do, and
something to look forward to, and there's a
lot of truth to that.
We as Christians certainly then ought to be
happy people because we have someone to love,
the Lord Jesus Christ and his people.
We have something to do, serve the Lord,
help one another, and win the lost, and
we have something to look forward to, the
second coming of the Lord Jesus, and until
then all that the Lord has promised for
them that love him.
We're living in days when the future is
not as bright as it used to be.
It seems that everything people were depending on
is falling apart.
And folks are frantically reading the magazines and
the newspapers hoping for some good word about
the economic situation or the political situation or
the international situation, and coming closer to home
even as a church family.
We've had our share of deaths, surgery, difficulty
of one kind or another, people going through
vocational problems, people going through personal problems.
One of the first symptoms of a declining
spiritual life is we hate to see the
future arrive.
For some reason or other we lose hope.
Now abide faith, hope, love.
These three, the greatest of these is love,
but you know when there's love there's hope.
When you love someone there's always something to
look forward to, and where there's faith there's
hope because when you trust someone you're not
afraid of the future.
But I'm sure I speak to some people
here tonight who are concerned about the future,
future health, future wealth, future vocation, some problem,
some burden down the road.
Now the Holy Spirit in verse 13 of
Ephesians 1 is called the Holy Spirit of
Promise.
He is the Spirit of Promise.
I'm wondering why he is called the Spirit
of Promise.
I want to suggest four reasons to you
tonight why the Holy Spirit is called the
Spirit of Promise, and I think that when
you understand these reasons it will help you
to have a brighter future.
I can't think of anything that would be
more miserable than being constantly weighed down by
the worries of the future.
I suppose next to that is being constantly
weighed down by the regrets of the past.
But Paul tells us here in verse 13
that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of
Promise, and when you and I understand why
he is called the Spirit of Promise, I
think it's going to make the future a
little brighter for us.
So if you're discouraged tonight, if you hate
to turn the pages of the calendar on
your desk, if you hate to even think
about a new day dawning, lay hold of
the fact that the Holy Spirit of God
is the Spirit of Promise.
Why?
Well, reason number one, the Holy Spirit came
to earth in fulfillment of promise.
Now that sounds like a rather ordinary statement,
but it's an amazing fact that for centuries
God had promised that his Holy Spirit would
come to the earth, and he's here.
There's an interesting incident back in the book
of Numbers chapter 11.
Moses had complained.
He'd heard the people criticizing and complaining, and
so Moses just got discouraged.
Nothing discourages a servant of God like constant
complaining.
And he came to God and said, God,
did I beget all of these people?
Am I their father that I have to
put up with what they're doing?
God said, all right, I'll give you some
help.
Choose 70 elders, and I will take of
the Holy Spirit that I have put on
you and share with them, and they'll share
the burden with you.
There are those who say that Moses was
wrong in doing this because God was able
to help Moses get his work done.
There are others who say Moses was right
in doing this because he was sharing the
load.
Well, the Holy Spirit was given to these
elders, and they began to prophesy.
They began to be prophets, and two of
the men were off by themselves.
They weren't with the rest of them, and
they began to prophesy and to praise God.
And somebody came running to Moses and said,
Moses, there are two men over here who
are prophesying.
You're the only prophet around here.
And Joshua said to Moses, tell them to
stop prophesying.
And Moses gave one of those magnanimous answers
that he was given, and he was gifted
at giving.
You know what Moses said?
Moses said, would God that all of the
Lord's people were prophets?
You know what he was saying?
He was saying, I'm not jealous of the
fact that I have the Holy Spirit.
I wish all of God's people had the
Holy Spirit.
But in the Old Testament, they didn't.
In the Old Testament, the Spirit of God
came upon certain select people, and he left
them.
That's why David could pray, take not thy
Holy Spirit from me.
Nobody today prays that way.
And God said, I will someday give the
Holy Spirit to all of my people.
Joel prophesied that a day would come when
Israel would receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit.
John the Baptist said of Jesus, he shall
baptize you with the Holy Spirit.
Jesus himself said to his disciples, tarry in
Jerusalem until you be endued with power from
on high.
And at Pentecost, the gift of the Holy
Spirit came.
Several times in his message at Pentecost, Peter
talks about the gift.
Repent, and you shall receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit.
This gift is unto you.
This promise is unto you and to your
children.
In fact, the Holy Spirit is called the
Spirit of Promise, the promise of the Father.
The Holy Spirit of God came to earth
in fulfillment of promise.
Now, do you know what that means?
Don't miss it.
The very presence of the Holy Spirit in
this world is proof that God keeps his
promises.
The next time the devil says to you,
sure, you've been claiming this verse or that
promise.
Nothing's happened yet.
My God shall supply all your need.
You've been claiming that.
How do you know God keeps his promises?
And you just come right back and say,
just a minute, the Holy Spirit is in
this world, and he's the Spirit of Promise.
And the very presence of the Spirit in
this world is proof that God keeps his
promises.
And if God keeps his promises, don't be
afraid of the future.
Because the future is as bright, said Hudson
Taylor, as the promises of God.
Now we'll go one step further.
There's a second reason why the Holy Spirit
is the Spirit of Promise.
He came to this earth in fulfillment of
promise.
Secondly, he came into your life in fulfillment
of promise.
There was a time when you didn't have
the Holy Spirit living in your life.
You had a Spirit, but not the Holy
Spirit, the Spirit that now worketh in the
children of disobedience.
There was a time when I did not
have the Holy Spirit living in my heart.
And then one day I trusted Christ as
my Savior and the Holy Spirit came to
live in my heart.
Now, Paul gives us the sequence of events
in verses 13 and 14.
He says, number one, you heard the word
of truth.
That's where it all starts.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
word of God.
He says the very first thing was you
heard the word of truth.
Paul came to Ephesus and Paul preached the
word of truth and they heard the word
of truth.
Somebody may be here tonight who says, Pastor
Worsby, I don't have the Holy Spirit living
in my life.
I can tell from the life I live,
it's an unholy spirit.
How do I get the Holy Spirit in
my life?
He says, you first of all, hear the
word of truth.
What is this word of truth?
The good news of your salvation, not just
the good news of salvation, the good news
of your salvation.
It's personal.
Paul didn't get up and preach and say,
now, if you are one of the elect,
I want to talk to you.
Paul got up and said, I want to
preach to you the gospel of your salvation.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners.
The son of man came to seek and
to save that which was lost.
God is not willing that any should perish.
God who will have all men to be
saved.
So they heard the word of truth.
Having heard the word of truth, they believed
on Jesus Christ in whom he also trusted
when after that, she heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation in whom
also when you believe.
So there's hearing and then there's faith.
Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word
of God.
Now, when they believed on the Lord Jesus
Christ, immediately they were sealed with the Holy
Spirit of promise.
It's unfortunate that our authorized version in verse
13 mistranslates that text.
It's not after you believe you don't receive
the Holy Spirit after you believe you receive
the Holy Spirit when you believe and the
Holy Spirit came into your life as the
result of a promise.
Now, I don't know what promise the Lord
used to save you.
I suppose we could have an interesting time
tonight going up and down these rows and
saying what promise from the word of God
did the Holy Spirit use to lead you
to Christ?
When I do personal work, I try not
to be stereotyped.
I try to find the promise that helps
people.
Many people have been led to the Lord
with Revelation 320.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If any man hear my voice and open
the door, I will come in and will
sup with him and he with me.
I'm sure when the Holy Spirit inspired John
to write John 316, he knew that multiplied
millions would come to Christ through that promise.
What is the promise?
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
never go to hell, but have everlasting life.
So the Spirit of God is the promise
because he came into your life as the
result of a promise.
You say, Pastor, I think I'm a Christian,
but I don't know of any promise that
the Holy Spirit used.
My friend, the Holy Spirit uses the word
of God to save people.
We aren't saved by emotion.
We aren't saved by discipline.
We aren't saved by religion.
We're saved by believing in Jesus Christ through
the word.
Jesus himself said, he that heareth my word
and believeth on him that sent me hath
everlasting life.
And so the Holy Spirit is the spirit
of promise because he came to this world
in fulfillment of promise.
Secondly, he came into your life in fulfillment
of promise.
Now, if he hasn't come into your life,
my friend, you're not a Christian.
Oh, you say, Pastor, you're being very critical.
No, I'm being very biblical.
Paul says in Romans chapter eight and verse
nine, if any man have not the spirit
of Christ, he's none of his.
I was chatting with a young man after
the visitors were during the visitors reception today.
He told me about how he had trusted
Christ as his savior.
I said, do you know that you're born
again?
He said, yes, I do.
I said, how do you know?
I said, is the Holy Spirit witnessing in
your heart?
He said, yes.
I said, when you read the word of
God, does it say something to you?
He said, yes, it never used to, but
now it does.
That's the witness of the spirit of God.
He's the spirit of promise because he came
into your life because you believe the promise.
Now that means this, as long as the
Holy Spirit is living in your life, you
don't have to worry about the future because
God keeps his promises.
So when the devil comes to you and
says your future is black, you're going to,
you're going to lose your job.
You're going to lose your health.
Everything is in case you're going in for
surgery.
Things are in a mess.
You're worried about your children, your grandchildren.
God can't take care of the future.
You just say, wait just a minute.
Now the Holy Spirit is in this world
that proves God keeps his promises.
And the Holy Spirit is in my heart
that proves that God keeps his promises.
Now there's a third reason.
He came to earth in fulfillment of promise.
He came into our hearts in fulfillment of
promise.
Thirdly, he sealed us that we might share
the promises.
Notice what it says here, whom also when
you believe you were sealed with that Holy
Spirit of promise.
Now you've read your Bibles enough to know
that seals are often used in the Bible.
When Kings sent out their orders, they marked
it with a seal.
When the, uh, when Artaxerxes was going to
permit them to rebuild the city, he sealed
it with his seal.
When they put the stone on Jesus' tomb
and they put the guard there, they sealed
it.
A seal in the Bible is a very
important thing.
A seal in the Bible is a lot
like a signature today.
Maybe you've been through the national archives in
Washington.
You've seen some of great documents of American
history.
I was amazed to see how big some
of those seals were.
There are some documents in there about treaties
and things like that and all these ribbons
and this huge seal that they'd pressed on
there.
That makes it official.
Now the seal of the Holy Spirit involves
three particular blessings.
Number one, ownership.
Ownership.
When you are sealed, it means God owns
you.
Paul was writing to the Christians at Ephesus.
Ephesus was a great commercial city.
And I'm sure when Paul was there and
he was down on the docks, he saw
the merchant men come down.
They're going to, they're going to purchase some,
uh, some wool.
And so they would sign the thing and
put their seal upon it.
Purchase some wood.
The man who's buying the timber would put
his seal on every piece of timber.
I own that.
Nobody else could claim it.
Now, when you were saved, the Holy Spirit
of God came into your life and he
has sealed you.
You belong to God.
He's purchased you.
Now he sealed you to be purchased a
finished transaction.
It is finished a completed transaction so that
we belong to God.
You say, what difference does that make?
My friend, when you belong to God, that
means from now on, he's responsible for your
future.
You see, Paul could go down to the
slave market in Ephesus.
There were 6 million slaves in the Roman
empire.
Paul could go down to the slave market
and he'd see a man standing there and
people would be bidding for him.
And a man steps up and says, I
bid thus and so, and nobody tops that
bid.
And so he owns him.
And from now on, the owner is responsible
for that slave's future.
Now we recognize the fact that you and
I must be obedient to the Lord, that
our future might be all that he wants
it to be.
But when you trusted Christ as your savior
and the Holy Spirit came in and sealed
you, that meant ownership and God's responsible for
your future.
You say, what's my responsibility?
To obey God that he might be able
to do all that he wants to do.
So often I meet people who are afraid
of God's will.
I don't know why, but they are.
They're afraid of God's will.
I often show them Psalm 33 11.
The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
The thoughts of his heart to all generations,
the will of God comes from the heart
of God.
And my friend, my Bible says, I has
not seen ear has not heard.
It's never entered into the heart of man.
The things that God has prepared for them
that love him, not just in heaven, right
down here.
If you had told me 25 years ago,
what God had prepared for me, I would
have laughed in your face.
I would have said you're crazy.
And I could go up and down these
rows and talk to some of our people.
And they'd say the same thing.
I never would have dreamed 10 years ago.
This is what God had planned for me.
Ownership.
When the Lord owns you, my friend, he's
got your future all planned for you.
You don't have to be afraid.
Now the seal not only meant ownership, it
meant protection.
Once a Roman seal was put on something,
you didn't dare tamper with it, not on
your life.
You are risking liberty and life when you
tamper with a Roman seal.
Now, Ephesus was a very, very wealthy town.
The temple of Diana was there and it
was a bank.
People used to deposit their wealth and keep
it in the temple safest place.
And it would be sealed for protection.
When God saved you, he gave you the
Holy Spirit to seal you and protect you.
You say, oh, it's wonderful that God has
my future planned for me, but I might
lose my salvation.
Paul says not on your life.
You have been sealed by the Holy Spirit
of God.
You are protected.
That means you can just keep on claiming
the promises of God.
Just keep on walking a day at a
time.
God has your future planned and God has
you protected.
But it means something else.
It means not only ownership and protection, it
means authority.
Have you noticed the ads in the newspapers
lately that say something like this?
Be sure to check the credentials.
If someone comes to your apartment door and
says, I'm with a telephone company and we'd
like to check something out, be sure to
see their credentials.
Someone comes to your door and says, I'm
with the FBI or we're with the police,
may we come in?
Check their credentials.
I will never forget when I was pastoring
in Covington, the secretary buzzed me and said,
there's a gentleman out here to see you
and I think he's from the FBI.
And of course, your first reaction is, what
did I do now?
And he was from the FBI.
He came in and very polite, very gracious.
He said, I'm so-and-so.
And I looked at him.
Now I couldn't tell a fake ID from
a real ID, but I looked at him
and it looked pretty good.
One of our men was applying for an
engineering post and it was a security post
and they were checking him out on everything.
He asked me questions his own mother couldn't
answer.
I was glad he did.
I'm glad that people in security are checked
out.
Now the Holy Spirit of God is the
seal of God.
This is my credential.
Because I am sealed by the Holy Spirit,
I have the authority to claim the promises
of God.
Now, unsaved people can't claim his promises.
My heart goes out to the hundreds of
unsaved people who are lying in Cook County
Hospital and Presbyterian St. Luke's and the 30
other hospitals in the area and they can't
claim God's promises.
They can't claim Psalm 23, Yea, though I
walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil for thou
art with me.
They haven't got the authority.
But you see, you and I, when we
come into the presence of God, we come
through the name of Jesus Christ and through
the Holy Spirit.
I can still hear Dr. Donald Gray Barnhouse
when he used to pray, Father, we come
in the name of Jesus and through the
Holy Spirit.
And this is true.
We pray in the name of Jesus through
the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit of God, having sealed
us, gives us the authority.
It's as though we can walk up and
say, now Father, here are my credentials.
We can claim the promises of God.
Now, if you're afraid of the future tonight,
I don't know what the cause may be.
I simply say this to you.
You don't have to be afraid.
The Holy Spirit is a spirit of promise.
He came into the world in fulfillment of
promise.
He came into your life in fulfillment of
promise.
Therefore, you can trust the promises of God
and he is the seal of God upon
your life.
Therefore, God owns you and he'll take care
of the future.
Therefore, God will protect you and you cannot
be lost.
And therefore, you have the authority to come
and claim the promises of God.
Wouldn't you much rather have all of the
promises of God and have God taking care
of you a day at a time than
have a million dollars in the bank?
You could lose that million dollars just like
that.
I talked to a man recently who smilingly
said, oh yeah, I remember the depression.
I lost everything.
But you can't lose the promises of God.
There's a fourth reason why the Holy Spirit
is a spirit of promise.
And this is the one that excites me.
I'm excited to know that he's in the
world.
Therefore, God keeps his promises.
He's in my life.
Therefore, God keeps his promises.
He has sealed me.
Therefore, the future is secure.
There's a fourth reason.
The Holy Spirit of God is the earnest
to encourage us to claim God's promises.
Verse 14, who is the earnest of our
inheritance.
Now, a younger generation doesn't remember the word
earnest.
The word earnest to many young people means
zealous, being very earnest about something.
But a few years ago, people talked about
earnest money.
Remember that?
Now, you know what earnest money is.
You go to the loan association and say,
I want to buy a house.
They say, fine.
You'll have to have a down payment.
The earnest money.
That's what the Holy Spirit is.
The Holy Spirit is God's down payment.
Now, when you were saved, God gave to
you everything that he has for you.
The Christian life is claiming what God has
given to us.
Now, there's some things God can't give to
us yet.
A glorified body.
There are days I wish I had a
glorified body.
There are days you wish you had a
glorified body.
We don't have it yet.
There are days I wish I could see
my loved ones who have gone to heaven.
I can't see them.
There are days we wish we just see
Jesus, but he hasn't come yet.
How do we know he's going to come?
How do we know we're going to see
our loved ones?
How do we know we're going to go
to heaven?
How do we know we'll have a glorified
body?
He's given us a down payment.
The Holy Spirit of God is God's earnest
money.
God's down payment.
Let me use this word.
God's pledge that the rest is going to
come.
Now, if I go next door to the
bank and I say I want to buy
something, buy an automobile perhaps.
They say, well, we're going to need $500
earnest money.
I say, well, I haven't got $500, but
I happen to have 500 grapefruit.
Fellas, that's very interesting.
That's a rather juicy offer, but they say,
I've got to have money.
I say, well, I got 500 books.
I got 500 books.
Well, he said, I appreciate that, but I've
got to have money.
You see, the earnest money, the earnest, the
down payment has to be the same thing
as that which is going to come.
If I promise to give him $500 and
then pay him $2,500 in 100 uneasy
installments, he's going to get the whole thing,
but he starts with money and he keeps
getting money.
You don't start with grapefruit and then bring
in money.
Now, the Holy Spirit is this way.
God says, I have so much for you
and just to let you know how wonderful
it is, I'm going to give you the
down payment.
Now, would you just hold on to your
seats for a moment because I'm going to
make a statement that to me is just
devastating.
It just lifts me off the ground.
It's this.
Since the Holy Spirit is the down payment
of the future inheritance for the Christian, the
future is now.
The future is not 400 years from now.
It's now.
We are enjoying the blessings of the future
now.
Oh, we're on earth with all the sorrows
and trials and opportunities that are involved, but
we're seated in heaven.
We have the glory of God.
We have the spirit of God and the
future is right now.
Now watch how this works out.
God said, I'm going to give you the
Holy Spirit.
He's the down payment.
And I'm just going to keep on giving
you the installments until one day Jesus is
going to come and you'll be caught up
and you'll receive the full inheritance.
The future is now.
You see, the Holy Spirit wrote these promises
down.
When he inspired Paul, he said, now, Paul,
there's going to be a preacher there in
Chicago who really needs this promise.
So write it down.
And when he inspired David, he said, there's
going to be a lady going into surgery
and she's going to need that.
So write it down.
The Holy Spirit wrote God's promises.
He inspired them.
Then he teaches us God's promises.
Oh, how many times I have turned the
pages of God's word and a promise just
jumped out at me.
The spirit does that.
That's the down payment down inside bearing dividends.
So he wrote the promises of God and
he teaches us the promises of God and
he gives us the faith to claim the
promises of God.
Oh, many times I've had to pray, Lord,
I know this promise is here, but it's
so hard for me to believe it.
Now, Holy Spirit of God, help me.
You're the spirit of promise.
And he does.
Charles Spurgeon was on a boat one day
and the boat was docked at the wharf.
He was witnessing to a sailor.
That's interesting.
I hadn't thought about our young man being
here tonight.
He was witnessing to the sailor and talking
to him about the claiming the promises of
God.
And the sailor said this, Spurgeon pointed to
the cables from the boat that were wrapped
around the big posts there at the dock.
And the sailor said this to Mr. Spurgeon,
I know that they are good, strong promises,
but I cannot get near enough to shore
to throw my cable around them.
That's the difficulty.
And I've had that difficulty.
I've been tossed and turned on the waves
and the storms of life.
And I see God's promises.
They're standing so strong and so firm.
And I want to get the cable of
my faith around them, but I can't.
That's when the Holy Spirit comes along and
says, wait, just you don't do it in
your own strength.
Let me take care of that.
And the Holy Spirit of God gives you
the cable of faith to lay hold of
the promises of God.
I see some of you shaking your head.
You know what I'm talking about.
He's the earnest, the down payment that enables
us to claim God's promises and enjoy them
right now.
Until verse 14, you got to study the
untils of the Bible.
The Holy Spirit's not going to be the
down payment forever until the redemption of the
purchased possession unto the praise of his glory.
Until, until what?
Until Jesus comes.
That's the promise of promises.
That's the fulfillment of fulfillments.
That's the glory of glories.
Everything else is nothing compared to that.
He's going to come.
Now, my friend, you and I can put
up with anything as long as we know
it's going to end.
And one day it is going to end.
And one day Jesus is going to come.
Now, the Holy Spirit of God is the
spirit of promise.
He came to earth in fulfillment of promise.
He came into your life in fulfillment of
promise.
He has sealed you that you might claim
God's promises.
He is the earnest to encourage you to
claim God's promises.
The future is not tomorrow.
The future is now.
We've been studying Pilgrim's Progress at the 530
hour.
Tonight we had that interesting scene where Pilgrim
and Hopeful are captured by the giant despair
and taken into Doubting Castle and thrown into
the dungeon.
And from Wednesday morning until Saturday night, they're
in the dungeon hungry and thirsty and beaten.
And the giant comes down and frightens them.
And they talked about committing suicide.
John Bunyan, a master of the word of
God, puts it this way.
Sunday morning is dawning, the Lord's day.
A little before it was day, good Christian,
as one half amazed, broke out into this
passionate speech.
What a fool I am to lie in
a stinking dungeon when I may as well
walk at liberty.
I have a key in my bosom called
promise.
That will I am persuaded open any lock
in Doubting Castle.
Then said Hopeful, that's good news, good brother.
Pluck it out of thy bosom and try.
Then Christian pulled it out of his bosom
and began to try at the dungeon door,
whose bolt as he turned the key gave
back and the door flew open with ease
and Christian and Hopeful both came out.
Then he went to the outward door that
leads to the castle yard and with his
key opened that door also.
After he went to the iron gate, for
that must be open too.
That lock was very hard, but the key
did open it.
They thrust open the gate to make their
escape with speed.
What did it?
A key named promise.
Now somebody here tonight is in Doubting Castle
and despair and discouragement have been like a
giant kicking you and beating you.
Bunyan knew his Bible.
He said, I have in my bosom a
key called, not in my pocket, in my
bosom, in my heart.
The Holy Spirit of God is the spirit
of promise.
Now let him be the key that reveals
to you the promises of God.
Let him be the key that opens the
doors.
No need for us to be discouraged about
the future.
We belong to God.
And if something happens to us that brings
disgrace to the name of God, he has
more to lose than we do.
If my father in heaven permits me to
get into a situation that he can't handle,
he ceased to be God.
Oh, my friend, his glory is at stake.
His good name is at stake.
The veracity of his promises is at stake.
He's not going to fail you.
Yes, Hudson Taylor was right.
The future is as bright as the promises
of God.
Now, that leads me to conclude with these
words.
Number one, keep on good terms with the
Holy Spirit.
Don't grieve him.
Don't resist him.
Don't disobey him.
He's the best friend you have.
Keep on good terms with the Holy Spirit.
Secondly, keep reading this book.
Let the Holy Spirit of God give you
the promises you need when you need them.
He'll do it.
Thirdly, let him give you the faith to
use these promises because they'll never fail.
Gracious Father in heaven, we're thankful tonight that
we don't have to worry about our future.
We can commit it all into your care
and keeping because we walk by faith in
your promises.
Thank you that the Holy Spirit is the
spirit of promise.
Oh, Father, we're thankful that through the work
of the Holy Spirit, we can be encouraged
about the future.
We pray for somebody here tonight who needs
to be saved.
Oh, may that one trust the Savior.
I pray for that discouraged Christian.
Give a new inoculation of encouragement tonight through
your promises.
We pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.