Bless the Lord.
I'm so glad to come out and hear
that song, because the title of my message
this morning is Jesus Cares.
Luke chapter 7 please, if you'll go there
with me, Luke chapter 7.
Now we don't confer in this church, in
other words there's no program on this platform.
Music ministry rarely ever knows what we're going
to be preaching.
We just leave that to the Holy Spirit.
So you need to know today that God
is very clearly speaking to you, to all
of us who are gathered.
Now Lord Jesus I thank you, God for
your strength.
I thank you Lord for the quickening of
the Holy Spirit.
Thank you Lord that you care about everything.
You care about the big details and the
little ones Lord.
Everything is in your hand.
I thank you God Almighty that you've never
ever asked me to speak in my own
strength.
Oh I praise you for that oh God.
I'm asking Lord that you override my frailty.
Lord that you just simply come and give
me your thoughts, the intonations of my voice
and the passion of my heart.
Let it be an expression of what's in
you today.
Lord I just ask for the privilege of
speaking on your behalf.
Oh God I ask Lord Jesus Christ that
you be glorified, that your word be understood,
that your kingdom advance richly and deeply in
the hearts of your people.
Thank you for anointing the word.
Thank you for the quickening of the Holy
Spirit.
Thank you God for feeding us today.
In Jesus mighty name.
Jesus cares.
Luke chapter 7 beginning at verse 11.
And it came to pass the day after
that he went into a city called Nain
and many of his disciples went with him
and much people.
Now when he came nigh to the gate
of the city behold there was a dead
man carried out the only son of his
mother and she was a widow and much
people of the city was with her and
when the Lord saw her he had compassion
on her and said unto her weep not
and he came and touched the that means
the casket and they did bear him stood
still and he said young man I say
unto thee arise and he that was dead
sat up and began to speak and he
delivered him to his mother and there came
a fear on all and they glorified God
saying that a great prophet has risen up
among us and that God has visited his
people and this rumor or that means this
report of him went throughout all Judea and
throughout all the region roundabout.
You know after 30 something years now being
a Christian and a lot of those preaching
the gospel you know you might ask me
today what is what is the greatest truth
you've ever learned what gives you the most
comfort what corner of the diamond gives you
the greatest revelation of God I think when
it all boils down to it there are
various seasons throughout your life where you you
and I believe that we really have found
something of God that is of incredible value
and that may be true in itself of
course if it is God it is true
but ultimately it all boils down to two
words Jesus cares and it's such comfort to
the heart to know that no matter where
you are what you're going through no matter
what your struggle no matter if you're up
on the mountaintop or you're down in the
valley or you're down deeper than the valley
it really doesn't matter where you are the
eye of God is never off of you
you and I are children of the living
God he never takes his eye off of
you the compassion of his heart never fails
his mercies the scripture says are new every
morning his eyes behold us constantly throughout the
day and I am strengthened personally by knowing
that Jesus cares we see it throughout scripture
for example in John chapter 6 we see
the miracle of provision still in the hand
of God when our own resources run out
there were 5,000 people 5,000 men
the scripture says gathered together that particular day
plus women and children so they'd be at
least say let's say 10,000 at least
and Jesus didn't want to send people away
because he had compassion on them and another
version says that he had compassion on the
multitudes and he said if we send them
away another time when he fed them he
said if we send them away that they'll
they'll faint in the way they're hungry let's
feed them and so he turns to Philip
and says Philip what are we going to
do how are we going to feed these
people and the scripture says he did this
to test Philip because they already knew what
he was going to do Jesus already had
a plan he already had a person of
great faith that he was going to work
through but he turned to his disciples because
you see you and I never really fully
know the miracles of God's compassion until we've
run out of resources and the reality is
that they still had resources and so the
first thing that Philip did and probably in
conference with some of the other disciples is
to check the money bag and he says
200 penny worth of bread of money in
other words or bread is insufficient for everybody
of the crowd this size to even get
a bite we don't have enough money he's
saying and even if we did have enough
money there's no bakery big enough in the
area I mean who in that generation would
have 10 or 15 thousand loaves of bread
on hand just think it through it and
in the natural it's not possible it can't
happen the crowds too big the need is
too great but Jesus cares and all of
a sudden in the crowd there's this little
boy and Andrew Andrew brings him to Jesus
and he said well there's a little boy
here and he's got a bag lunch he's
got five barley loaves in it and two
fish but what is that among so many
and and I I can see now now
listen in the crowd that size there's no
way a child is running around without his
parents I think this boy is in the
crowd I think he's close enough to hear
the heart of Jesus you ever notice how
empathetic children are if you cry they'll sit
with you and they'll they'll more or less
mourn with you even if they don't know
what's wrong they'll laugh even if they don't
know what's funny and this little boy is
there and suddenly he hears Jesus saying listen
the people are hungry we got to feed
them he looks down and he knows he's
got a little bag in his hand he's
got some blows he's got a couple of
fish in it I see him turning to
his mother and father and saying would you
is it okay if I give these to
Jesus and the mother and father are most
likely thinking well this and this isn't this
cute isn't this nice little little Sammy here
wants to take his lunch and give it
to Jesus well Jesus is probably hungry he's
been preaching to the people all day and
won't he be appreciative of these few lows
and a couple of fish won't be enough
for him and his disciples but it's a
nice gesture go ahead and so this little
boy comes up and you can just see
him when all the disciples all the big
players in the kingdom of God at that
time all the mighty men all the ones
who are willing to fight to the death
and go to Jerusalem and all the other
boasting and bragging they're doing and this little
kid is just tapping Andrew on the leg
and he says here and in his heart
I believe in his heart he's saying what
a day this is going to be me
and Jesus are going to feed this crowd
Jesus knew what he was going to do
and the Bible says he doesn't operate outside
of faith there's got to be somebody in
the crowd who's got faith somebody who's willing
to and there was a little child that
comes up and offers that little bit that
he has believing that he and Jesus are
going to feed the people folks that's a
simplicity of being a child no wonder Jesus
said I say to you whoever will not
receive the kingdom of God as a little
child he will not enter therein in the
original text it means he will he will
intellectually he will in his life experience he
will dwell outside of where the power of
God is he will know about the kingdom
he'll hear parables about the kingdom but he
won't live in the kingdom the kingdom will
elude him unless you and I become like
this little child unless unless we believe like
the little boy with his little lunch that
I don't have much but I believe that
me and Jesus can feed a multitude I
believe that with all my heart oh my
god if people could get a hold of
this simple truth today we could revolutionize New
York City a simple truth with Christ all
things are possible with men it's impossible but
with with God all things are possible just
like Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 6 he's drawn
up to the throne of God and in
the presence of a holy God he sees
his own unworthiness he comes to a complete
understanding that he doesn't have the resources for
any task he says I he had already
been more or less beginning in the prophetic
ministry in Israel but his testimony at that
point was I am a man of unclean
lips and I live in the midst of
a people of unclean lips God he says
we've all fallen short of what I see
here I see the glory and the majesty
of God I'm standing in the presence of
God and Lord I don't have anything in
comparison to you I think as they felt
he had less than this little boy had
in his lunch that day on that mountainside
but yet when he began to hear the
heart of God and the Lord says who
will go for us who go down to
the people who give them this understanding of
who I am who will convey to the
people the heart of God and Isaiah is
very much at that point like that little
boy on a mountainside he knows he has
very little in the way of natural resources
but he says here am I send me
I believe Lord that with you all things
are possible I believe that if I put
my little bit into your hands that you
can multiply it and didn't God not multiply
the little bit that Isaiah had today we
have this incredible vision through the Prophet Isaiah
not only of time past and time present
but into the future into the coming of
Christ in his eternal kingdom we have a
vision of revelation of where he would be
born how he would be born the circumstances
surrounding that birth the magnitude of his ministry
that he would be called wonderful counselor the
mighty God the everlasting father the prince of
peace and of his kingdom and reign there
should be no end God took the little
bit that Isaiah had and multiplied it and
fed not only thousands but millions have been
fed through that one man who had a
vision of his own smallness in but combined
with it was also a vision of the
greatness of God Jesus said in Matthew 13
the kingdom of heaven is like a grain
of mustard seed which a man took and
sowed it in his field which indeed is
the least of all seeds but when it
is grown it's it's the greatest among herbs
and becomes a tree so that the birds
of the air come and lodge in the
branches thereof the kingdom of heaven starts with
something small starts within awareness that I don't
have what it takes to feed this generation
I don't have it folks and you don't
have it either but I have a seed
of faith inside of me I have a
seed an understanding of my own littleness but
yet of the greatness of my God it's
not about us folks it's about the greatness
of our God the power of our God
the glory of our God the compassion of
our God Jesus cares even when we accuse
him of not caring the disciples were heading
across the water in Mark chapter 4 and
the storm came in the midst of the
storm you can see them they're rowing they're
charting there might be encouraging one another but
the waves are getting bigger the wind is
getting stronger and finally the water begins to
fill the boat to the point where seasoned
sailors and fishermen begin to know this thing
is going down and we're going down with
it and in the midst of their despair
in the midst of their struggle in the
midst of their trial they awake Jesus in
the back of the boat not to pray
but to actually accuse him do you not
care that we perish a lot of our
prayers are like that how many prayed that
way this morning or last night Lord don't
you see you know what I'm going through
don't you aren't you aware of the turmoil
in my family the war in my heart
the demonic powers that seem to be pitted
against me Lord you're not aware of this
and yet in spite of the accusation even
sometimes in our misunderstanding and our and our
prayers Jesus cares and he stood up in
the boat and with a spoken word he
calmed the wind and he calmed the waves
and then challenged them in their faith challenged
them to believe challenged them to go deeper
than they'd gone challenged them to not just
wait till you get to the end of
your resources to cry out for the miracle
what is it about society that we wait
until until the ships going down what is
it is it just pride in the human
heart it's in all of us why do
we chart our own course why do we
wait until there's no other option when the
miracles could actually happen sooner if we simply
believed and understood that there really is no
other option apart from God but people in
the book of Exodus had to wait 400
years until they finally cried out and Jesus
God sends his word to Moses and says
I've heard their cry I've heard their groanings
and have come down to deliver them when
there were no other options when they were
being pressed beyond what they could endure they
were being sent out to do things they
they didn't have the power to do and
finally there was a cry I think we're
coming there as a society folks I think
we may even have arrived at the moment
when people are starting to in a sense
it's not so much an awakening it's the
pre awakening cry it's that it's that moment
when we say God there's got to be
more to life than this there's got to
be a way out I've run out of
strength I've run out of straw I've run
out of resources I've run out of energy
I don't have an alternate plan think about
the Prophet Jonah when he was running away
from the Lord and the incredible storm came
into that ship and it was only when
the ship was in danger of going down
that everybody began crying out to his own
personal concept of God whatever that was but
everybody started crying out they even came and
woke up the only man who knew God
was asleep and they came and woke him
up and said you sluggard what are you
doing sleeping cry out to your God maybe
he will come and maybe he will save
us and of course Jonah actually became the
solution in that story to their problem some
107 says talks about the different people throughout
times and seasons that begin to cry out
to God the wayward redeemed those that say
they know God but have a very casual
relationship with him is a very loose structured
thing has so little of the heart of
God in it but suddenly peril comes suddenly
everything starts falling apart around them and the
wayward redeemed start crying out to God speaks
about those who choose darkness over light believing
that that was going to give them a
measure of security and happiness in their heart
and suddenly the darkness starts to overwhelm them
it starts to swallow them it starts to
press in so powerfully that they don't believe
there's going to be a way out and
they start crying out to God the God
rejecting foolish who think they can live life
as if they've got a million tomorrows suddenly
realize that the tomorrows ahead are becoming very
limited and they begin to cry out to
God the self-seeking merchants and merchandisers traveling
the world to get goods and gain thinking
that's going to give them a sense of
security suddenly that's taken away all of that
begins to fail and fall and they start
crying out to God everyone starts crying out
in their despair only to find out that
everything they've ever longed for that Jesus was
waiting to give it to them all along
he brings them out of their despair the
scripture says he cuts the iron bars and
sunder he heals those that are wounded in
heart he brings the merchants to their desired
haven to really what their heart was really
looking for security but they were looking in
the wrong place all along they finally find
out that Jesus really cared he really did
care all along he really did care Psalm
107 verses 40 to 42 says he pours
contempt upon princes and causes them to wander
in the wilderness where there is no way
those who think they can do it in
their own strength those who still have a
money bag those who still feel there's some
resources left that we haven't exhausted yet we
still have a plan we still have an
alternate strategy we still have something yet we
haven't tried scripture says he pours contempt on
all of it he brings it by mercy
to nothing because he cares he sets the
poor in on high from affliction and makes
him families like a flock and the righteous
shall see it and rejoice and all iniquity
shall stop her mouth God brings to nothing
those things that are the scripture says by
using things that society has considered weak marginal
and foolish and brings them to life that
no flesh can glory in the presence of
Almighty God every knee must bow and every
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord we
are living today beloved listen to me carefully
we're living and we all know that we
are at a time when all the options
for a safe and secure future are quickly
running out you know it the unsaved know
it the heathen knows it the skeptic knows
it anybody with a shred of intelligence knows
it the options are soon to run out
we're soon going to be in a place
like this scripture that we began with in
Luke chapter 7 it says it came to
pass that he went into a city called
Nain and many of his disciples went with
him in much people now Nain means a
city of pleasantness and a city of beauty
it was a place where many people had
actually desired to live there they probably came
from all over the the known society of
their day it was a place that offered
a hope it offered a future it was
a nice place to live it was a
desired place to live it probably they probably
had a lot of opportunity there might have
been an abundance of jobs in Nain at
one time it was a place where the
widow could find hope everybody could come there
perhaps it was a city of the world
that offered the poor the oppressed the cast
out refuge and offered a hope offered a
solution to the problems that we all face
in the future but suddenly this city had
turned into a place of hopelessness and despair
it says when he came nigh to the
gate of the city behold there was a
dead man carried out the only son of
his mother and she was a widow and
much people of the city was with her
this woman had no husband and she was
carrying out of the city her only son
and that only son was her hope that
was her provision that son was her safety
that son was her future that son was
her life and now it was gone and
she was not the only one that had
lost her hope many others it says were
with her coming out of the city oh
beloved listen to me it is so vain
to look for help and to look for
a future apart from a relationship with the
Living God it so leads to an inner
emptiness I don't care how much money you
once had in the bank it leads to
an inner emptiness if you don't have a
relationship with the Living God and here she
is carrying her son out of the city
her greatest fear has come upon her she's
lost that which was the dearest to her
heart there's no hope anymore I have no
doubt this woman has lost hope everything is
gone no words can comfort her there's no
little promise about the future there's no resource
left there's no secondary plan there's no word
that can be given her there's nothing can
be said to this woman I think in
New York City all the single mothers in
this city that must be crying out to
God doubt night have put such hope in
their sons and put such hope in their
daughters put such hope in a in a
city that perhaps at some point in their
own thinking offered of hope in the future
to see it just literally swallowing their sons
and daughters the hope so quickly leaving there
is a cry in New York City I
know it the Holy Spirit keeps speaking it
into my heart there is a cry and
God hears it he knows the cry the
scripture says when the Lord saw her he
had compassion on her and he said to
her don't weep now they were at the
gate at this point it's the gate is
a place of future hope it plans and
strategies all these things are gone we're very
very quickly coming there I wish with everything
in my heart I didn't have to say
these words today it would be nice to
be able to say endless prosperity endless good
times are ahead of us but if I
did I'd be a liar the resources are
quickly running out not just here but all
over the world now and at this moment
in time all hope seemed lost nobody's doing
CPR on the body there are no secondary
options to secure the future and verse 13
says when the Lord saw her he had
compassion on her not she didn't see him
the scripture says he saw her oh thank
God Jesus cares thank God he could have
passed by nobody would even know he could
have not written this text in the scripture
we would know not know the city would
not have known the winner would not have
known nobody would have known that he'd ever
been there but you see he couldn't pass
by because he cares and he hears the
cry of the widow and he hears the
cry his own law he can't violate his
own law is that he is the husband
to the widow he is the he warned
societies when you enter into the fields of
the fatherless I will come and fight for
them he he would be outside of his
own character to have no compassion he said
he came and he touched the the casket
and those that bear the casket stood still
and does the scripture not say stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord stop
scurrying stop worrying stop fretting stop bringing your
hands about the future stand still stand still
and come face to face with the one
who created the world's by the word of
his mouth stand still and come face to
face with the one who went to a
cross and said it is finished the reign
of sin hell death poverty sickness is over
then he said young man I say to
you arise it speaks to me of that
deepest part of death that's trying to work
into our lives in our hearts it speaks
to me of the deepest fear of the
heart the deepest struggles of our life the
deepest places we have to go through when
our resources have failed there are people here
today you're going through valleys and trials and
battles and it's so deep that your own
resource has failed you and in your heart
you're even beginning to accuse God of not
caring you're wondering where have you been Lord
he's been there all along but he's had
to wait until there was no other option
you see when we still have options we'll
take credit for the miracle folks we'll tell
others how to do it when we still
have options oh yeah we'll write books about
it we'll tell them the six steps we
took and if you take those six steps
the miracle is going to be yours oh
yes we will so make a mess of
the simplicity of that little boy with his
bag lunch it just came to a great
big God and in his littleness said Lord
here's what I have but the rest is
all it's all it's all up to you
Lord if anything's going to happen you're going
to do it if there's going to be
a testimony it's going to be a testimony
of your glory he will stop this parade
of death in you it's a parade of
death human effort human reasoning now these are
wonderful things if they're in the right place
they must be always in subjection to the
word in the will of God but he
stops the parade of death and puts his
hand on that deepest struggle and fear and
says live and the scripture says the young
man sat up and began to speak and
this is an incredible thing because in the
Greek it's the word is Lyle and it's
and it's a word that's also attributed to
the speech of God in Hebrews chapter 1
verses 1 and 2 it says God has
in these last days spoken to us by
his son it's the same word Lyle in
other words this young man got up I
don't know what he was speaking before he
died but I know when he was raised
from the dead he's speaking something else what
do you think he was speaking you're not
gonna believe where I've been but thank God
I'm not there anymore thank God I've got
life thank God the Lord one more time
has taken something that's weak in this world
he's put his strength upon me praise God
how's God going to reach this generation he's
going to take the weakest of the weak
he's going to take the nobody's the nothing's
are going to take our sons and daughters
he's gonna take our lost hopes and he's
gonna touch them by this power and say
live hallelujah you think that city was the
scripture says after this great fear came on
everybody and they glorified God this city of
weeping this city of no hope this city
of a parade of death and hopelessness coming
out to bury their dead suddenly great fear
came upon this city and they began to
glorify God and they said a great prophet
has risen up among us and the report
of this went throughout all the nations round
about I believe with all my heart and
folks you're at liberty to believe it or
reject it but I believe I've heard from
God that a great touch of God is
coming to New York City in our generation
that's not coming the way you think is
not coming by some new great shining man
or woman of God being raised up in
our generation no sir it's the sons and
daughters of the widow in the city his
people were just a little bit of strength
they have no resume they have no big
ministry they have no PhD they have no
high-profile positions they have no 401k they
have no big bank accounts they have a
little lunch but they're bringing it to God
Oh God thank you Lord and that's the
way it should be that's the way it
was in scripture and that's the way it
will be when this is all over the
nobodies and nothing's the prostitutes and lepers those
that were in prison the lame the blind
the lepers the dumb coming to God and
one more time one more time hallelujah thousands
will be fed thousands thousands thousands will be
fed with the knowledge of God by that
which had no strength in itself we've gone
through our season and putting all our PhDs
in charge of the church and look at
the mess it's become in this society no
give me a young man raised from the
dead hallelujah give me a child with faith
in this generation give me somebody that knows
they have no hope or just willing to
come to God and say in my nothingness
touch me Almighty God and take my littleness
Oh Lord and begin to feed thousands with
it Oh God hallelujah hallelujah what a testimony
is that little boy goes down the road
I fed 10,000 people today hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah glory to God I guess you
have to see it you have to walk
there to see it this little kid heading
home telling everybody who would listen I fed
10,000 people today with five loaves and
two fishes me and Jesus we fed them
we fed them today we fed them and
not only did they all eat but there
were 12 baskets left over there was leftovers
for people hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah young man
I say to you arise young woman I
say to you arise now that's my choice
and that's yours we can choose to live
in our death we can choose to stay
dead we can choose to to just say
no there's no strength in me there's no
life in me there's no hope in me
I'm bankrupt in this area of my life
so we can make the choice of staying
there if we want we can look in
the bag and say now the needs too
great and the resources in my life are
too small and live outside the kingdom of
God in a sense oh yeah go to
heaven but live outside of heaven's power our
whole time here on the earth no I'd
rather just come to God in my littleness
I'd rather come with my nothingness I'd rather
come in my emptiness and my bankruptcy Oh
God and just say Lord you come and
with my little bit that I've got of
life that's in me Lord and your great
power we're going to feed thousands we're gonna
feed them God they're gonna go home satisfied
Oh Lord God thank you Jesus you speak
to that area of death in my heart
and command it to come to life praise
God praise God we're always
looking to something other than where God works
to bring us out of our dilemma forgetting
that it's in my weakness that Christ is
made strong it's in my nothingness he becomes
everything it's in my emptiness that he fills
and becomes the supply he's done it all
through Scripture and really the essence of all
of that I'm talking about and all the
power of God that's available the little boy
found it the widowed mother found it is
that Jesus cares why should I do this
why should I make my life available why
should I go through everything that those who
allow God to use them have to go
through what's the point what's the purpose if
heaven is my goal anyway then why endure
the beatings why go through why go through
the battle with darkness why fight the fight
that we have to fight if I'm going
to heaven anyway there's only one answer Jesus
cares he cares he cares about you he
cares about this city he cares about people
that are going into a Christless eternity he
cares about the starving he cares about the
dying kids Jesus cares oh beloved if we
could just rise up and understand this we
have the courage to call out to the
God who can do the impossible what a
difference our lives are going to make in
this generation what a difference you don't come
to him in strength you come to him
in weakness you don't come with resources come
with a little bit that you have and
ask God to multiply it and use it
for his glory are you willing to do
that today are you willing now you can
do like the disciples you can check your
pockets you can look around big city little
me what could I do or you can
be like that little boy says I'd like
to give this to Jesus I'd like to
bring it to him I believe that we
can feed this crowd I believe it with
all my heart you'll never know what God
can do through your life until you make
the step to let him prove himself to
you you'll never know till you make the
step I want to speak to everybody today
who's you got an area of death so
deep that only God can resurrect it you've
just so you've just so given up only
God could ever take me and cause me
to speak his word that young man was
dead and his mother's hope was dead but
he gave life because he cared and others
that are here you're not struggling is as
deep as others but you have another struggle
you really don't believe that God can use
you you really don't believe that simple faith
is enough you're always looking in the mirror
you're always looking in a drawer for some
elusive degree that's never going to be there
and will never make a difference anyway when
all you've ever needed is a heart of
compassion and God will give you the rest
and if that's what you'd like to have
today I'm going to invite you in a
moment to come to the front of the
sanctuary and in the annex you could stand
between the screens if you will please and
we're just gonna pray and we're gonna truly
truly believe God that we're not leaving the
sanctuary the way we came in I'm going
to leave richer fuller deeper I want that
heart of compassion that God has to give
me or I'll never ever be able to
fulfill the calling that he's placing on my
life would you stand please if the Holy
Spirit is drawing you come and meet me
here please at this altar we're going to
worship for a few moments just make your
way out of your seat please and come
just draw in those that need to be
raised from the dead just come you need
life strength don't be ashamed you
you know this
Jesus came and touched the casket and commanded
this young man to come to life and
yes the Lord cared for him just as
he cares for us passionately loves us but
really the miracle was done because of his
mother says he saw her and had compassion
on her and God does the miraculous in
us as his church he heals us he
gives us what we could never hope to
possess because he loves us but also because
he cares about other people that are close
to us people that we will have contact
with in the future and when this young
man was raised from the dead the the
inference in scriptures he began to speak right
things his priorities were right his conversation was
right he began to speak as an oracle
of God in other words God in his
mercy will touch us and in our littleness
give us life for the sake of the
weeping around us and if you and I
can get a hold of that for the
sake of this weeping society there's so many
people have lost hope and God will bring
us to life for their sakes because he
cares help us to be willing to be
given for other people help us Lord not
to see the life you've given us is
too small to make a difference give us
good words give us right things to speak
help us to be people who build and
not destroy who show the way out to
difficult situations and like Daniel can dissolve doubts
like Esther are willing to go in at
our own expense for the sake of others
God thank you I believe Lord that the
miraculous is happening even this day Lord you're
touching us God in our weakness and you're
giving us strength for the sake of this
city for the sake of our families for
the sake of our children our sons and
daughters for the sake God of our grandchildren
for the sake Lord of our nephews and
nieces for the sake Oh God of so
many Lord who need a father a mother
a brother a friend in this generation you're
touching us Lord and God we open our
hearts and we receive that touch of life
we receive that call from the dead whatever
areas we've given up on Lord you've never
given up nothing is ever out of your
reach you are the one who calms the
storm you are the one who provides when
there's no other provision available Lord you provide
so I thank you for the resources I
thank you for the calmness of spirit I
thank you Lord for the strength God to
go forward in this life and on this
journey simply because you care and Lord let
that be that what causes our hearts to
beat what causes our voices to sing and
speak it's because you care Lord it's because
you care about every person Lord everyone God
no matter how deep down or dark they
might be Lord you care you care Lord
you care God plant that in our hearts
in the workplace Lord in our apartment buildings
on the subway Oh Jesus in our homes
Lord you care Lord you care help us
God give us that heart that's what we
need this day Lord that heart of compassion
that sees no task is too small no
obstacle is too great Oh Jesus I thank
you for these my brothers and sisters and
I pray God for the blessing of heaven
to be ours today Oh God Oh Lord
my God my God bring hundreds of thousands
to the saving knowledge of Christ in our
generation Lord Oh Lord thank you God thank
you father