Keep calm, still your soul before God at
the moment of impact.
Be still and know that I am God,
the Bible says.
Rushing about, this is what we do, trying
to correct the injury usually causes greater damage.
Number two, apply direct pressure of understanding to
the wound.
What caused the incident?
Could you have prevented it?
Negligent?
Two, how does the offending party feel?
What if things were reversed?
Then what?
Three, wash the wound thoroughly with kindness to
remove all harshness and vindictiveness.
Beautiful.
Four, cope liberally with the ointment of love.
This will protect from the infections of resentment
and bitterness, which by the way can create
another 30 or 40 or more illnesses, which
some of you have already started to read
about in that book, incredible little book, None
of These Diseases.
Five, bandage the injury with forgiveness.
This will keep it out of sight until
the wound is healed.
Bandage the injury with forgiveness.
Six, don't, this is very important, please get
this, don't pick the scab.
Don't pick the scab off by bringing up
the subject, opening your wound.
Serious danger from infections in number four still
exist.
This picking of the scab could prove to
be fatal spiritually.
Okay, seven, beware of self-pity.
Any of you ever get in the self
-pity puddle?
Yeah.
Especially when you're not appreciated.
Your gifts are not recognized by the body.
Go to a fellowship, they talk about body
life and no one's recognized you.
That always is a special blessing, isn't it?
Beware of self-pity, which is painful and
touchy.
This is often referred to as withdrawal pains,
evidenced by the injured one withdrawing from others,
especially the one inflicting the injury.
Remedy, accept apology.
These things, by the way, work very well
around the home.
Any of you who come from homes, this
is very helpful, very helpful.
Your minds are going a little slow this
morning.
Okay, number eight, prescription.
Take a generous dose of antibiotics from the
word of God several times daily, using prayer
each time.
This has a soothing effect and is definitely
a good pain killer.
Nine, stay in close contact with a great
physician at all times.
Depend upon his strength, joy and peace to
help you during your convalescence period.
And then number ten, evidence of full recovery
is noticed when the patient is in full
fellowship and harmony, especially with the offending party.
Praise God.
You know, I believe one of the things
the Holy Spirit wants to do as a
result of our time here is restore relationships.
We can do this by a phone call.
We can do this by a love gift.
There were two ladies that hated each other
on the same street, always fighting, always bickering.
You know how these things happen.
One lady's dog goes over on the other
lady's grass and, you know, all these heavy
experiences.
People start screaming and yelling, calling the police.
And then the one lady got converted.
And one day she went down the road
with a beautiful cake.
She knew her neighbor liked this particular kind
of cake, so she baked her cake and
she just went to the door and she
said, No, look, I know you're very busy
and I've not come to take any of
your time.
I just wanted to give this expression of
my appreciation for your being such a wonderful
neighbor over the years.
I tell you, there was a mini revival
on that street.
A love gift.
And then you can write a letter.
Or you can go to someone.
Or you can apologize.
Without digging for a little bit of self
-pity remuneration.
What a wonderful thing.
If every one of us goes from here,
and we put right at least one or
two relationships, maybe a relative, maybe a loved
one, maybe someone that's misunderstood us, maybe someone
that's totally opposed to your Christian convictions.
They're still human beings.
They still need a certain amount of respect.
Sometimes with Christians we behave very well, but
with the unconverted we get very upset.
This was one of my problems.
And I also had a lot of convictions
about little things.
This is one of the problems with Christians.
They get too many convictions about little things.
One of my convictions is when a man
is pumping gasoline into my car, I don't
have a car, but if I'm borrowing a
car, he's pumping gasoline into my car, I
don't like him to spill the gasoline on
the car or on the cement.
I mean, at the price, you know, 85
cents a gallon up here in Canada, you
don't want to pour it all over the
cement.
I mean, this isn't right.
And I remember one time, here I am,
you know, Christian, preaching, sharing Christ, here I
am in a gas station, the guy made
a mistake, he probably was caught up, frightened
by my face or something happened.
Anyways, he started putting the gas all over
the car, all over the pavement.
What are you doing, man?
Pretty soon I really chewed him out, gave
him a piece of my mind.
I think it's one of the reasons I've
got some troubles.
I've been going for years, giving out pieces
of my mind, and I'm getting short.
I hope you don't do that.
And as I drove away, you know, I
was really convicted.
And it's easy at times to go back
and apologize to a Christian.
But to go back and apologize to, you
know, an unconverted person, first of all, you
know, they don't understand it.
But often times, that speaks to people.
And I believe one of the benefits of
this time together is going to be a
healing of persons, a healing of relationships.
And the blessing we receive here is going
to be carried back to many, many people.
I believe God is going to put families
together.
I believe God is going to put husbands
and wives together.
I've seen that many times.
A young man about this time last year
come to me for counseling.
He said, it's all finished.
It's all finished with my wife, I can't
stand her.
She's just the opposite of everything I've ever
wanted.
I was tricked, I was fooled, I went
into it too quickly.
We went on for hours talking.
I let him talk all this out.
He was infatuated with another girl.
He couldn't get her out of his mind.
It really seemed, a bad scene.
End of the road.
And we talked.
Pointed out from the Word of God the
way of faith rather than the way of
feelings.
And many other verses.
And then I just let him.
I kept accepting him.
I didn't reject him for his wrong.
He knew where I stood.
Kept loving, kept accepting.
And God was speaking to his wife.
His wife wasn't mainly to blame but she
was partly to blame.
And you know, we saw in a wonderful
way God put those two people together.
I talked to him on the phone recently.
Everything's going fine.
He loves her again.
Marriage is going great.
I don't know what he means by love
her again.
You know, I believe when God puts you
together in marriage that's it.
You're one.
There's no possibility anymore of not really loving
one another without becoming schizophrenic because you're one.
You're one.
You're committed to each other regardless of feelings.
Maybe we ought to put that into the
marriage pledge.
We say for better or worse.
And we should put feelings for better or
for worse.
It's great to have wonderful feelings toward our
wife.
I still have them.
Not all the time.
You know, I'm going over the hill.
You can see.
I know from a distance.
I look very young.
You come up close.
That's what my wife tells me.
But it's a beautiful thing to realize that
in husbands and wives we are committed to
one another.
We don't live by feelings.
And oftentimes with a young couple, it's not
that they aren't in love anymore.
It's that their feelings are going through a
time of trial or because of problems, lack
of communication, sin, unbelief, whatever.
Their feelings have become dull.
I say this because the same thing can
happen between you and Jesus.
Some of you get some real wonderful Jesus
feelings.
Nothing wrong with that.
Climb a tree and shout hallelujah.
I used to do that.
I don't do it so much anymore because
a few months ago, a few years ago,
you know, boing.
Fortunately, I caught myself on a limb.
But it left a pain in here for
about four months.
So some of you may want to stand
at the bottom of the tree and just
look up and say thank you, Lord.
And it's wonderful to have great feelings.
You know, I listen to this Christian music
all the time.
Jamie Owens and then this scripture group, I
have their record.
I got a record player.
I didn't want to spend much money.
I was praying, Lord, give me a record
player.
You know, all our money is committed to
gospel literature.
Our work, you know, it's not quite like
it is here in the States.
I was praying, Lord, give me a record
player.
My secretary knew my burden.
He went down to Salvation Army.
It was just fantastic.
It must have been the first stereo ever
made.
It's actually stereo.
It's got two speakers.
Of course, the same thing comes out of
both speakers.
No, it's a real stereo.
He paid $6 for it.
You should hear, you know, these old-time
speakers.
They're really simple.
I just turn the volume up.
And, of course, the neighbors are always complaining
about my music.
Barry McGuire, big hair.
You can't hear his hair, but it really,
really comes through.
So, you know, when I'm listening to my
music, it's easy to feel nice.
Start, you know, start grooving around and praise
the Lord.
Of course, you have to watch out.
Somebody doesn't come there with a television network,
get in trouble.
But there's a lot of other times when
your feelings are blah.
I have this problem.
I go, in one day, I can go
up and down ten times.
I always wake up blah, blah.
I don't even feel saved in the mornings.
In fact, one of my problems is that
I can't get out of bed.
I love the sack, the sack.
I love it.
And I know what you're all laughing at.
It's very serious.
It's a serious problem.
So I arrange for someone who's more disciplined
than myself to get an alarm clock or
an automatic time switch with a bucket of
water over his head, some mechanism to get
him up.
Then he comes and knocks on my door,
usually around 6.30. Bang, bang, bang, bang.
Of course, I can't leave the guys, you
know, standing at the door all morning.
My wife doesn't like to hear all the
knocking anyway.
So I get up and I go jogging
or exercise.
Usually after that, plus a cup of tea,
if I'm in England, I begin, oh, you
know, feelings start to come.
And somehow I grab, I reach for my
Bible.
Oftentimes, the last thing I want in the
morning is a Bible.
Now, I just admire those of you who
wake up all spiritual.
You know, just reach for your Bible.
Oh, my Bible.
Here it is.
And then you just, you know, just fill
with the Spirit from the pillow.
You know, I admire you.
In fact, after the meeting, you could come
and autograph my Bible.
Really.
But I feel terrible many mornings.
And it can be very serious because sometimes
it doesn't go away.
And one of the things that has kept
me going, both in marriage and in my
relationship with Jesus, is to realize that I
can't live by feelings.
Now, I'd like to read this little thing
by A.W. Tozer about feelings.
Let me read it.
Somebody must be very ill back here.
Anyway.
Feeling is the play of emotion over the
world, a kind of musical accompaniment to the
business of living.
And while it is indeed most enjoyable to
have the band play as we march to
Zion, it is by no means indispensable.
Isn't that beautiful?
We like the music.
The feelings are the music.
He goes on to say, We can work
and walk without music.
And if we have true faith, we can
walk with God without feeling.
Praise God when the feelings are there.
But when they're not, it may be God
testing us.
It may be God trying us.
Now, some of you are young in the
Lord.
And this next quotation may be a bit
too heavy.
But I want to get it.
It's from a man named H.A. Hodges.
Some of you feel that perhaps you've lost
your first love.
There's a difference between the first love, which
is not primarily an emotional thing, and the
initial fervor of the young Christian.
There is a difference.
A.W. Tozer said, The greatest gift needed
in the church today is discernment.
We have to be able to discern between
that which is soulish, that which is man
-made, especially man-made manipulation, and that which
is from God.
It is the greatest gift needed in the
church today.
We need to be able to discern between
our first love, which I believe we can
maintain all our life, I still have mine,
and the initial fervor, the initial bubble, which
will change.
Here's what Hodges said in his incredible book,
The Unseen Warfare.
This fervor, the initial fervor, is especially characteristic
of beginners.
Nothing wrong with it.
But its drying up should be welcomed as
a sign that we are getting beyond the
first stage.
To try to retain it, or to long
for its return, in the midst of dryness,
dryness, ever had that?
Is to refuse to grow up.
It is to refuse the cross.
By our steady adherence to God, when the
affections are dried up and nothing is left
but the naked will clinging blindly to Him,
to Christ, the soul is purged of self
-regard and trained in pure love.
That's God's training program.
And if you and I would start to
see the seriousness of this biblical message, it
would revolutionize our lives.
And many of you would go on to
become great men and women of faith and
of prayer.
I want you now, in the middle of
our time together, to turn in your Bible
to 1 John chapter 3.
1 John chapter 3.
Verse 4, sorry.
Chapter 4, verse 1.
I want to go back to chapter 3
as well if I get time.
I think we are going to run out.
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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but test the
spirits whether they are of God.
Because many false prophets have gone out into
the world.
By this know ye the Spirit of God.
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is of God.
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is not
of God.
And that is that spirit of antichrist of
which you have heard that it should come.
And even now already it is in the
world.
Then going over to 3 John, a very
small book, not often studied.
3 John.
Can everybody hear okay?
Okay.
Can you hear okay back there?
Good.
Thank you.
My problem is I often speak too loud.
It's hard to know how to speak with
these microphones.
But generally the deaf people, the hard of
hearing, often come up to me after the
meeting.
Say, oh praise the Lord brothers, it's the
first message I've heard.
Not when there's a sound system like this,
but in some of the churches.
Verse 4.
I have no greater joy than to hear
that my children walk in truth.
I want to get into this subject in
a little greater dimension of spiritual balance.
If you want your life to count, you've
got to learn spiritual balance.
Tozer said, the more enthusiastic young person, the
more keen young person, is more easily led
astray.
That really spoke to me.
Because I've seen that happen.
They're hungry to become more spiritual, to know
God, so sometimes they're more easily led astray.
Somebody comes along with an instant spirituality trip
and perhaps a little superior reputation for Godliness
and they fall for it.
Away they go.
We see in the word of God tremendous
emphasis on balance.
For example, some people very much emphasize love.
Even to the point of compromise, feeling they
can fellowship with anybody and anything.
And they don't emphasize enough truth.
You know, if it wasn't for the truth,
all the message about love wouldn't be here.
The Bible says, we should speak the truth
in love.
Never allow these two things to be put
against each other.
They must come together.
We are the salt of the earth.
Salt, the little I know, almost failed physics,
chemistry, consists of sodium and chloride.
If you take those separately, I believe, you'll
find rather a disaster.
Have a glass of chloride, you may actually
need the emergency unit.
Have a bottle of sodium.
But sodium chloride is salt.
Salt without savor is of no value.
Love without truth, no value.
Truth without love, no value.
This is a thesis of my little book
called Revolution of Love, which is incorporated into
this book, Revolution of Love and Balance.
And in that book, I've especially emphasized those
words in James.
Turn to James.
Book of James, chapter 3.
This is really powerful.
Look at it in the Word of God.
Don't accept what I say.
Verse 13, chapter 3.
Who is a wise man, endued with knowledge
among you?
In other words, who has all the right
doctrine?
Who has all the right answers?
Let him show it out of a good
life.
Did you get that?
Let's see it in his life.
Truth and life, doctrine and life, both are
essential.
Let him show it out of a good
life, his works with meekness of wisdom.
But if you have bitter envying and strife
in your hearts, glory not and lie not
against the truth.
That's an amazing phrase, isn't it?
Have you studied that?
You can lie against the truth.
Why?
By being truthful without love.
Truth without love becomes a lie.
It's still truth in the legalistic sense.
But it's not truth in the full sense.
It becomes a lie.
And it's destructive.
And if you're a leader, it's not just
a matter of knowing what they're due to
do in your assembly or church.
It's not a matter of just telling someone
what to do.
It's saying it with love.
If you're the head of your family and
husbands, you ought to be the head of
your family.
Not the dictator, but the loving head of
your family.
And as your wife submits to you, you
love her as Christ loved the church.
That's more difficult than submission.
And if you are the head of your
family, then you must not just speak the
truth, but you must speak the truth with
love.
I've often said the right things to my
children in the wrong way.
And I had to go to my children
and I had to apologize because it was
unkind.
And unkindness is a sin.
Look what else it says.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is
earthly, sensual, devilish.
Wow!
Earthly, sensual, devilish.
Those are strong words.
That's what happens when we have orthodoxy without
reality.
When we have the teaching and the talking
without the walking and the living.
And this is the greatest need in the
church today.
For where envying and strife are, there is
confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is
first pure.
Now here's the real stuff.
Here's the real wisdom.
As leaders, as fathers, as wives.
For the wisdom that is from above is
first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be
entreated, full of mercy, good fruits, without partiality
and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in
peace by them that make peace.
That's the balance.
And that's what God wants in our lives.
In these closing ten minutes I want to
give you other areas of spiritual balance that
I have been studying.
And I want to commend them to your
attention that you will study them and that
you will try to find the balance.
Number one, there is the balance between the
crisis and growth.
Acts 4.31 was a crisis experience.
Acts 20.32 says, I commend you to
God and the word of His grace which
is able to build you up and to
give you an inheritance among them who are
sanctified.
Don't put the crisis against the process.
And remember this, God works in different people
in different ways.
I believe the greatest miracle of this Jesus
Festival and I know about many such gatherings.
I believe one of the greatest miracles of
this Jesus Festival and of this gathering and
people all over the world when I've told
them about this they have been impressed.
The greatest miracle is the coming together of
both people of a non-charismatic and a
charismatic background.
That is very unusual in North America because
the devil is trying to polarize these two
groups and when he gets them polarized and
if you know anything of what's happening then
he begins to divide the two camps.
There's already plenty of divisions between non-charismatic
people because they've been much longer on the
scene.
But now the charismatic movement has gone into
several major streams.
Some of them really at each other's throats.
There is no end of division and if
those who are non-charismatic separate from their
charismatic brothers and sisters that is not the
end of division nor the end of your
problems.
And vice versa.
There is no end of division until it
gets right down into your own family.
If you know anything about the exclusive brethren
you know that they eventually ended up teaching
that a husband should not eat with his
wife if she was not baptized in an
exclusive brethren assembly.
Don't get that confused with an open brethren
assembly of which there are quite a few
live ones yet especially in Europe.
And oh my, what a beautiful thing it
is.
We may not all agree with one another.
We may have different ways of worshipping and
some may be a little noisier than others.
Some may be heavy on dancing.
In Britain, the devil is trying to divide
the believers over dancing.
Those who believe in dancing in the Spirit,
those who don't believe.
And now there has just come a division
between those who believe in dancing because one
group believes in dancing too much and the
other group doesn't believe in dancing so much.
And in England, we just had a major
split among those who have been touched in
the last years by the Spirit of God
and one group has excommunicated a major leader
of the other group.
And now they have two magazines and two
conferences and two everything.
There's no end to it.
And I'll tell you the result of these
continual divisions.
Young Christians eventually get sick of it.
They throw the whole thing over.
I've counseled too many in that camp.
When we even are listening to a speaker
or we go somewhere, maybe we don't like
something.
Maybe that's not our scene or maybe we've
had a bad experience in the past so
that gives us a block against something that's
happening at that moment.
Nobody's forcing you to accept it.
But in all things, love.
In all things, let us try to believe
the best.
Let us try to understand the other man's
viewpoint, the other man's spiritual experience and reality
instead of dogmatism and extremism because it's easy
to get involved for God on the basis
of your own ego trip or because you're
overreacting to something else.
Many a church has been planted not guided
by the Spirit of God but because one
brother was reacting against another brother because he
was hurt and he didn't know God's first
aid.
He said, I'll show you.
I'll show you the Holy Spirit is with
me as much as with you.
I'll prove that the Spirit of God is
in my heart.
And he goes down the road, I'm going
to plant a church.
Jesus, Jesus, please help me.
I've got to prove he's a worm.
I want to tell you, you may laugh,
but if you would have seen the religious
nonsense that I've seen for 23 years, you
would not laugh.
Extremism, confusion, division and the devil gives three
cheers in hell.
We need Christ's experiences.
Some people are more emotional than others but
we also need growth, the Word, discipline, constant
prayer, exhortation.
Don't put one against the other.
Don't put different groups one against the other.
The Holy Spirit is sovereign.
We're turning the Holy Spirit into some kind
of spiritual midget.
He is sovereign.
He works in different people in different ways.
His power is beyond measurement.
We can't even write about it in all
of our wonderful little gospel gazettes.
And one of my fears for North America
is the over-emphasis on publicity.
And little Johnny, he's just converted.
He knows how to play his guitar.
Pretty soon he's in the front lines of
the paper.
And what happened to Mr. Flint, this pornographer
who made his great decision for Jesus Christ?
The mass media got a hold of it.
The Christians got a hold of it.
Now I read last night, he's gone back
on his conversion if he was ever converted.
Nobody knows and I don't even know if
the article I read last night is the
truth.
But what I do know is that the
devil is a mastermind at using publicity.
He's a mastermind.
Another area of balance because our time is
just about gone is between discipline and liberty.
Those who are heavy on liberty, they like
to sort of belittle those who believe in
discipline.
Oh, that's all bondage.
Oh man, you're under the law.
You know, just because the guy believes in
a little bit of discipline.
And the disciplined people, they can belittle the
liberty people.
Watch out for him.
He's always, you know, lots of things to
talk about.
We need both.
And if you study Scriptures like 1 Corinthians
8.13, Galatians 5.13, 2 Corinthians 3
.17, you'll see the need for both.
Mix that in with 1 Corinthians 9 where
Paul said he buffets his body, brings it
into subjection, lest after preaching to people he
becomes a reprobate.
He was the same man who wrote 2
Corinthians 3.17 where the Spirit of the
Lord is.
There is liberty.
And Galatians is very important.
Yes, we are called unto liberty, but used
not to liberty as an occasion to the
flesh.
That's the key, isn't it?
But to serve one another.
We try to put the Marys and the
Marthas against each other.
It's true.
In that passage in Scripture where Jesus spoke,
Mary seemed to be doing the better thing.
Worshiping.
But He didn't put down Martha.
Martha was needed as well.
It wouldn't have anything to eat.
We need both.
And then the balance between submission and freedom.
As you know, in some circles today there's
a very, very heavy emphasis on submission.
Everybody must get in line.
And there are certain apostles and everybody must
get in line.
Now, there is a biblical basis for submission
and a lot of us need that.
We see, for example, in 1 Thessalonians 5,
12-13 that we should respect those who
are over us in the Lord.
But that does not turn you into a
robot.
That does not rob you of the privilege
of determining the will of God for your
life.
Now, that's hard.
And there are some types of people they'd
rather cop out.
They'd rather let somebody else determine God's will
for them.
And they get into these extremist groups where
they can't decide anything anymore.
And I can tell you, I've seen people
just smothered, just smothered and choked.
We need the balance in this.
I'm not saying what way you should go,
but search out the balance and then the
balance between work and service and worship.
We need a balance in that as well.
How important that is.
Both are emphasized.
You get a group of people in the
church that are very passive.
They want holiness.
They want to see the Lord.
They want to wait upon the Lord.
And you get others in the church saying,
well, what are we sitting here for?
We've been doing the same thing for the
last five years.
Let's go.
And, oh, these people are worried you're going
to get into the flesh.
They're always worried you're going to get into
the flesh.
These people feel they're already in the flesh.
They're asleep.
And so, I've seen whole churches.
They come in too.
Look, we need each other.
We need those who are a little more
active.
Men that can get up.
People like Randy Birch and his co-workers
who organize this stuff.
So others can come in and just feed
and get the blessing.
We need men with a gift of health.
And we shouldn't judge one another.
Some people are very mystical and they seem
to be more holy.
It may not be that you're so holy.
It may be that your temperament leans more
that way.
I believe we need all kinds of people
in the church.
This is why the body is so important.
Different people fit into the body.
We don't judge them.
We don't let division come in.
And as you study passages like Hebrews 10
.25, balance it off with Acts 2.42,
you will see the difference.
And then the balance between the work of
God and the family.
This was one of my problems.
You know, I had this great vision, this
great burden, going 17 hours a day.
And I started to neglect my wife.
Started to neglect my children.
I was on the road seven months a
year, away from home.
God had to break me.
And I had to see again.
I thought I already saw it.
You know, a lot of things in the
Christian life, we have to re-learn.
It's not all new truth.
Not with a spiritual donkey like me.
A lot of things have to be re
-learned.
Some of us are a little bit like
that lady with her pet donkey.
You know that story.
This lady had a pet donkey and the
donkey one day froze in the garden, in
the backyard.
He wouldn't move.
And she wanted to get him to move.
She called up an international donkey specialist.
This guy can move any donkey in the
whole world.
And he came and it cost $100 to
move her donkey.
She said, you've got to move him but
you can't hurt him.
You can't hurt him.
He said, okay, I won't hurt your donkey.
He goes out, he picked up a 2x4,
about that big.
He picked it up, he clobbered the donkey
straight on the head.
The lady ran out.
You promised not to hurt the donkey.
I'm not hurting your donkey.
I'm just getting his attention.
Some of you are like that?
God has to hit you pretty hard just
to get your attention.
He loves you.
Those whom He loves, He chastens.
And that's an area where God had to
hit me with a 2x4 and show me
that He was first, then family, then family,
wife, children, the home, reality in the home,
worship, and then the work, operation, mobilization.
Get it in that order.
Whatever your gift, however important people make you,
no matter how many people want to see
you, God, family, the work, spiritual balance.
We'll pick up from here in another session.
Let's pray.
Living God, we thank You that You alone
can bring us into greater spiritual balance.
We thank You for this first aid for
our spiritual emergencies.
We may even get one before we get
out of here.
We thank You for Your Word that has
an answer to so many of these practical
problems.
We thank You for the reality, spiritual balance,
crisis and growth, freedom, discipline, liberty and authority,
family and the work.
Help us by Your grace to function together
in the power and the energy of Your
Holy Spirit.
People of different emphases and different backgrounds, may
we understand what Your Bible really says.
May we have it.
May we have truth, but may we have
it according to Your God-given priority.
For we pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.