Adriam Rogers was a motivator, an encourager, and a leader of the faith. He was also passionate about presenting scriptural application to everyday life circumstances, and you'll hear that in today's message.
Now, let's join Adriam Rogers. Take God's word and find Psalm 23, and we come this morning to the last of these six verses that have blessed our hearts as we've studied them together. And now we're going to read all six of them together. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name'sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy. Shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Would you agree with this statement? Satan has no happy old people. I agree with it. Satan has no happy old people. May has some happy young people.
The kids, for example, who are living high, wide, and handsome, many of them, they have a certain modicum of fun and what we might call happiness. But Satan has no happy old people, and I'll tell you why. Here's a principle, and I want you to learn it. Satan always gives the best first, and the worst last. He always gives the best first.
And the worst last. For example, Proverbs chapter twenty and verse seventeen says, "The bread of deceit is sweet, but afterward, a man's mouth shall be filled with gravel." That is with Satan. It always starts sweet, but it doesn't end that way. Satan is a counterfeiter. He is a deceiver, and he's certainly guilty of false advertising.
I see these fellows out there in a bass boat, the old old Milwaukee boat, you know, or they're out there and they're hoisting the suds, and and they've just caught the fish, or they're frying the fish, or they've just come in from a great volleyball game, and these good buddies are sitting down and are rollicking good time, and one of them will hold up a wet one, and he'll say. It doesn't get any better than this, and he's right. It always gets worse. It doesn't. It doesn't get any better than this.
I mean, he doesn't show the drunkard in the gutter covered with flies. He doesn't show the carnage on the highway. He doesn't show the blasted lives and the ruined homes. He always gives the best first and the worst last. Satan doesn't have any happy old people.
Dr. Jess Moody of California wrote these words. I think they're tremendous. I I jotted them down. What do aged atheists have to talk about while they sit around waiting to die?
Do they discuss the legacy of morality, decency, integrity, and spiritual sensitivity that they bequeath to their children? Or the good that atheism has done the world—the hospitals, the orphanages, the elevation of womanhood, and the mass distribution of decent literature. Or perhaps they discuss the great bulwark against communism that atheism has erected. Then, when the sun is sinking low, they can joyously contemplate their future. There's so much.
For an aged atheist to look forward to. Then he concludes with this line: "Old atheists never really die; they just go to hell." You see, Satan gives the best first and the worst last. Jesus gives the best last. Remember at the wedding feast when Jesus had turned the water to wine, and the master of ceremonies came out. He said, "I don't understand this." He said, "Most people give the best first, but you've saved the best till the last." And that's the way Jesus always does.
With Jesus, it keeps getting better and better, and every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before, and there's more, so much more than that first sweet day.
Now that doesn't mean That it's not good now, but it means it gets better.
Now, what the psalmist is saying is, "Good now, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." The best is yet to be. Goodness and mercy. Here is the sheep, and the sheep is looking over its shoulder, and it sees two sheepdogs. Job called them the dogs of my flock, two sheepdogs, goodness and mercy, who are just following the flock everywhere the flock goes. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
I remember an interesting story that took place when Dr. Harry Ironside, pastor of Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, he told about it in some of his writings. He said that he had a lady, a poor dear lady, who lived by herself and was just haunted by a fear. She had a phobia, a fear that there were two men who followed her everywhere that she went. She came to see the pastor about it.
She was so worried. She said, "Pastor, she said, I have a problem, a very serious and terrible problem." He said, "Well, what is it?" She said, "There are these two men. Everywhere I go, they follow me. When I go to the grocery store, they follow me. When I get on the streetcar, they get on the streetcar behind me.
When I come home, there they are, right behind me. They're always behind me, constantly following me." He said, "Have you told the police?" She said, "Yes, but they say they're not there. But I know they're there. They're always there." Oh, he said, "You are a most blessed woman." You're a very fortunate woman. Don't you know who those two men are?
She said, "No, do you know?" Oh yes, he said. They're David's friends. And he turned to Psalm twenty-three and read it. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And he said, those two men.
One has a name, goodness, and the other name is mercy. And God has sent them to follow you, all of the days of your life. She said, Pastor. That's wonderful, and to think, all of this time I've been afraid of them, and God has sent goodness and mercy to follow me. She was so happy every day when she would go get on the streetcar.
She'd wait for goodness and mercy to get on. She'd get on when she'd come home to her apartment. She'd open the door and let goodness and mercy go in, and then she went in and lived the rest of her life until she stepped on over to the other side in perfect happiness and no more fear. You say, well. Was the pastor right to tell her that?
Well, friend, would to God that all of us could understand that in a very real way, goodness and mercy. Follow us all of the days of our lives, and every one of us who know the Lord Jesus Christ could write a book about God's goodness and God's mercy, God's goodness in the good times and God's mercy in the bad times, God's provision for our failure and God's provision for our need. Goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our life. But praise God, the best is yet to be. And I want to tell you how to make the rest of your life the very best of your life.
Now, here the psalmist talks about the house of the Lord. Do you see it? Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I want to tell you three things about the house of the Lord that came to my heart as I contemplated and thought about this and prayed over it. There are many things we could talk about.
When we talk about heaven, the very first thing as we think about the house of the Lord that I want to lay on your heart and help you to get excited about is what I want to call the certainty of it. The certainty of it. Look at that verse. Surely I will dwell in the house of the Lord. Do you see it?
Surely. I will dwell in the house of the Lord. No ifs, ands, and buts about it. It's a sure thing. One of the sweetest passages in all of the Bible is that passage in John chapter fourteen, where the Lord Jesus Christ reiterated and underscored and ramified what David said.
When Jesus said in John fourteen verse one, "Let not your hearts be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in Me." In my father's house, he's talking about the same place that David was talking about. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.
Now let me just pause right there and say this: that Jesus Christ was truth incarnate; he never lied. He always told the truth, and he said, "If it were not so, I would have told you." Jesus Christ would not let the hope of heaven go beating within the human bosom if it were simply a lie, a superstition, a fond delusion. He said, "If it were not so, I would have told you." I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am, there ye may be. Also, so let me say this about the certainty of it: that this place called heaven is just that.
It is a real place. It is not merely a state of mind. It is not a condition. It is a place that is so real that Jesus is there in a literal resurrected body. I mean, he is there in a body.
There is a body in this place called heaven. It is his resurrected body. Heaven is a place on God's map. You know, we speak of heaven as being up. And sometimes people who doubt the Bible laugh at us, and they say we're a little we're a little wrong on our cosmology because we talk about heaven as being up in Memphis, Tennessee.
Heaven is that way, but in Australia, then heaven would be that way. And so they say, which way is it? It all depends on which side of the globe that you're on. But my friend, listen: the Bible writers were inspired of the Holy Spirit of God, and when they said that Jesus came down from heaven, that He was taken up into heaven, that we looked up to. Where our possessions lie.
Listen, the Bible knows what it's talking about. There is one place on the globe that is always up, and that's north. It is not by accident that people speak of up north and down south. Wherever we are, there is that polar star. There is that northern fixed direction that is always there, and the compass always finds that north place.
Now it may surprise you to know that the Bible speaks of heaven as being in the north. Let me give you some scripture. You may want to jot these down. Isaiah chapter fourteen, beginning in verse thirteen, tells about Lucifer who rebelled against God and tried to exalt. His throne and place His rule where God's rule is, and listen to what Lucifer said, Isaiah fourteen verse thirteen.
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven.
Now notice where he's going into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. Notice, there's somewhere above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in. The sides of the north.
Very clear.
Now, when God told Moses how to make a sacrifice way back there in the Levitical system, He said, "You tell the Levites this in Leviticus chapter one and verse eleven. When he goes to kill an animal, he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward, toward the Lord." Northward, toward the Lord. Do you see that? Let me give you another verse. Psalm 75, verses 6 and 7, and he says this: For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south, but God is the judge.
What direction did he leave out? The north, and then he mentions God. You see, there is a place in the north, somewhere that I believe is heaven.
Now, it is above the stars of God.
Somewhere there is a place. The apostle Paul went there. He called it the third heaven. Second Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 2. He said, "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell.
God knoweth." Now listen to this: such a one caught up into the third heaven. Very interesting. He calls it the third heaven, and he says you can go there out of the body, or you can go there in the body. Jesus is there in a body.
Some people are there without a body. They'll have a body later on. But he said this person was caught up into the third heaven.
So the Bible mentions three heavens. The first heaven is the atmosphere. You know the Bible speaks of the fowls of the heaven. They fly in the air, and so that's the first heaven, the atmosphere, the clouds, the place, the envelope of air that envelops the earth. And then there's the second heaven.
That is the stellar vast reaches. We call that the starry heavens. That's the second heaven. But above the stars of God, beyond the stars of God, there is a place called heaven. It is the third heaven.
Someone has beautifully said, "We see the first heaven by day, the second heaven by night, and the third heaven by faith." Listen, I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The apostle Paul knew that. Heaven was a real place. Jesus knew that heaven was a real place. David knew that heaven is a real place.
And when a Christian dies, he steps right on into heaven. When the days of his life come to an end, all the days of my life, sooner or later, the days of your life are going to end, and then immediately you're going to step into heaven if you know the Lord. Listen to the Scripture, Second Corinthians chapter five, verses six and following. Paul says, "Therefore we're always." Confident—that is no fear. Certainty—we're talking about the certainty of it.
Knowing that while we are at home in the body, we're absent from the Lord. Right now, I live in a body. This body is not me. I'm just at home here. I'm at home in the body, but I'm absent from the Lord.
For we walk by faith and not by sight. I have not seen God, neither of you. But he goes on to say, we are confident—not only confident—and willing, rather. To be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord, Paul said, "If I had my choice, I would cut out and go to be with God." But he said, "I'm confident that the moment I die, I'm going to be with Jesus." In Acts chapter seven. This is the story of the death of one of the greatest Christian men who ever lived.
His name was Stephen. He was stoned for his faith. And in Acts chapter seven, verse fifty-six, just before he died, he had a vision of heaven, and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God." And he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Jesus told a dying thief, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Now listen, heaven is a present place. Let me tell you something else about it. Oh my dear friend, it is a perfect place.
It is a perfect place. Revelation 21:4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. No more sin, no more sorrow, no more suffering, no more death, no more disease, no more dying, no more doubts, no more pain, no more groan, no more moan. These things are gone; they are passed away.
Now, sometimes people ask a question about heaven. And they say, "Well, now, really, what's heaven going to be like? Are we going to have beds? Are we going to sleep on beds? Will we comb my hair?
Will we eat? How old will we be? What will we do? You know, all of these kind of questions, folks. I don't know, but that doesn't bother me.
You don't know, and nobody knows, and so don't pretend you do know. For the Bible says, 'It doth not yet appear what we shall be like.'" You don't have to know. Let me tell you what heaven is going to be like. Are you ready for this, friend? It's going to be the presence of all that is good and the absence of all that is evil.
Now, if that doesn't satisfy you, let me give you something else. Heaven is going to be this, dear friend. It's going to be all that the loving heart of God can conceive, and all that the omnipotent hand of God. Can prepare that, my friend, is what heaven is going to be. Oh, it's a present place.
It is a perfect place, and bless God, it is a purposeful place. Don't get the idea that when you go to heaven, you're going to get a woolly robe, a rusty halo. You're going to sit around on a fluffy cloud and pluck a harp for all eternity. That's not what heaven is. You don't get that idea from the word of God.
The Bible teaches in Revelation chapter seven and verse fifteen. His servants shall serve him. Oh, how all of us who love the Lord Jesus Christ desire to serve Him better than we do. Every time I preach, I say, "Oh God, I wish I'd have done better." Every time we pray, we say, "Lord God, why isn't there more power in my prayer?" I suppose every singer that ever has sung would wish that they could sing with more power and with more tears and with more unction and with more beauty to give God the glory. But we have this old sin flesh.
That holds us down, but one of these days we're going to serve Him like we've never served Him before, Brother Jim. I was thinking this morning about the choir in heaven, and according to Revelation chapter five and verse eleven, there's going to be a choir up there of one hundred million voices. I know, Jim, just waiting to get his hands on that choir—one hundred million voices, all of them in perfect harmony, praising our great God. And what a time these! Musicians are going to have, but Jim doesn't know something.
At least he needs to learn this: that he's not going to be the chief musician in heaven. You're looking at the chief musician in heaven because the Bible says the last shall be first. And dear friend, we, we all of us are going to be able to praise the Lord and and serve the Lord. You see, my friend, this house of the Lord is a present place, a perfect place, a purposeful place. Think of the certainty of it.
This is what he says: I. Go and prepare a place for you. I will dwell. Surely I will dwell in the house of the Lord. The certainty of it.
But think secondly, not only of the certainty of it, but think of the company of it. The company of it. Notice what he says. Surely I will dwell in the house of the Lord. Now, when he means house of the Lord.
He doesn't mean building of God. There is a building of God, eternal in the heaven, but that's not what he's talking about. He means the household of God. That's what Jesus meant when he said, "In my Father's house." In my father's household are many dwelling places, many mansions. That is, he's saying that we all of us together, all of the saints of all of the ages, are going to be there together.
All of our brothers and sisters in Christ, all of those in the household of faith. The company of heaven—what a grand company it's going to be! That smart aleck Mark Twain is reported to have said, "I will take heaven for climate and hell for society." Oh no, my dear friend. No, I'll take heaven for climate and heaven for society. You talk about those are going to be there in heaven.
People say, "Will we know our loved ones in heaven?" Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, that's the only place we will ever really, truly know them. Remember the story of David who had a little son who died, an infant who died, and David fasted and prayed and cried and wept and asked God to spare the life of the child while the child was sick, and then the child died, and David got up to wash his face, anointed his body. And took food. I'm reading here in Second Samuel 12, and his servant said unto him, "What thing is this that thou hast done?
Thou didst fast and weep for the child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread." And he said, "Listen to this now." And he said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, 'Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live?' But now he is dead. Wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him. Isn't that wonderful?" I shall go to him.
They have a little baby in heaven. Joyce and I have a little baby in heaven, and I'm going to see Philip. I am. You call that sentimentality? I call it Bible truth, dear friend.
You've got a mom, a dad stepped over on the other side. We're going over there to see them. I think of every time a little baby goes to heaven.
So many times I think of a story I heard years ago about a shepherd who brought his flock to a turbulent stream and wanted to lead the flock across the flowing stream, and they were afraid of the water. And the wise shepherd took a little lamb out of the flock, put that lamb in his bosom, and waded across that chilly stream and set the lamb down on the other side. Over here was that mama sheep and that papa sheep, and that mama sheep saw that little lamb on the other side, and that papa sheep saw that lamb on the other side, and the old mother ewe started through the water to get to her little lamb, and here came the father sheep, and here came the flock following behind, and I think so many times God, in His infinite wisdom, sometimes takes the little lamb out of the flock and just sets it on the other side, like He did David's little lamb, and we don't. Understand all the mysteries of God, but we know one thing, dear friend. On the other side of those chilly waters of death, is a place that has been prepared, and we can go and meet our loved ones there on the Mount of Transfiguration, when Elijah and Moses appeared with the Lord Jesus Christ there after they'd already died and had already gone to heaven.
God brought them back to this world, and the disciples were there at the Mount of the Transfiguration, and they saw Moses and they saw Elijah. And they'd never seen them before, but they knew them. They didn't have to be introduced. Moses was Moses. Elijah was Elijah.
Yes, we'll keep our personalities. We're not going to be absorbed into nothingness. Heaven is a place, and real people are going to be there, and we will know our loved ones when we get to heaven. Dear friend, Moses will be there. Want to be something to talk with Moses about the wilderness wanderings?
And David will be there. We'll say, David, would you play the twenty-third psalm and sing it for us? Won't that be something? And David will say to me. Adrian, you never did squeeze all the juice out of that psalm when you preached it.
I want to tell you, just you just touch the surface, and and for a few centuries, he can tell us about the twenty-third psalm. And the apostle Paul will be there. How would you like to sit at the apostle Paul's feet and have him teach the book of Romans and talk about our great redemption and what our God has done for us? And John, the aged apostle, will be there, and he'll open all the mysteries of the book of the Revelation, and we'll know as we are known, and see the mystery. Of God, when that book is open, and when the Lamb sits upon the throne, and you know Simon Peter will be there, and I still think he'll have a big mouth, and he'll say, "Didn't I tell you?
Didn't I tell you? It will be glory unspeakable and full of joy." We are going to be there with the saints of all the ages, but that's not really what's going to make heaven heaven. Listen, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. That's what the Apostle Paul meant when he said, "I'm willing." To be absent from the body and present with the Lord, to see the Lord Jesus Christ, to be with Christ. He said, "Now we walk by faith and not by sight." One of the great hymns that we sing says this: "Jesus, Jesus, the very thought of Thee, with sweetness fills my breast, but sweeter far." Thy face to see, and in Thy presence rest.
That's what the prophet Isaiah meant in Isaiah 33 and verse 17. Thine eye shall see the King in His beauty. That's what Jesus prayed in John 17 when He prayed, Father, I pray for them whom Thou has given Me, that they may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory. The glory I had with thee before the world was what a time that's going to be, but I want you to notice the third thing about this place called heaven. I want you to notice not only the certainty of it.
Surely I will dwell in the house of the Lord, and I want you to notice not only the company of it, the house of the Lord, but I want you to notice the constancy of it. Surely I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Forever, the constancy of it. You see, sheep are nomadic; they always wander. And if they're not wandering, they're being led by the shepherd beside the still waters, in the green pastures, through the dark valleys, over hill and moor.
They're led. They don't settle down and stay in one place. The book of Hebrews talks about it. God doesn't intend for us to settle down here, because this world is not our home. We're just passing through.
Hebrews eleven, verse eight: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed. He went out. Listen, not knowing whither he went. He didn't have to know. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise.
Now notice he didn't settle; he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles. That means in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. But now listen, for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. I feel the same way. One of these days, I'm going to settle down.
All of us here are just pilgrims right now, and it's going to be a place of constancy, a place of constant joy, a place of constant service, a place of constant praise. Have you ever thought about that? I will dwell in the house of the Lord for how long? Forever, forever. Have you ever thought about eternity?
Have you ever thought about eternity, my friends? The length of eternity. There used to be a great preacher that preached over in Arkansas. His name was Joe Henry Hankins, mighty preacher. Wept when he preached.
He pastored in Texas before he went to Arkansas, and in Texas. Upon an occasion, he had a woman who gave her heart to Christ and was going to be baptized Sunday night in the church. She was married to a businessman. Joe Henry Hankins went by to see that businessman on Saturday to try to lead him to Christ. The man had had no time for God.
No time for Jesus, no time for church. But Joe Henry Hankins went by the house and pled with this man, presented the plan of salvation, and begged this man to give his heart to Christ and to be baptized along with his wife. The man listened to the preacher's earnest plea, and then he said this to the preacher: "He said, 'Preacher, what you have said is right. I do need to give my heart to Christ. I do need to be saved, and I promise you, tomorrow morning.'" When the invitation is given, I will come down that aisle.
I will accept Jesus Christ as my personal Savior, and I will be baptized with my wife. The preacher said, "Great! That's wonderful! Praise God!" And he left the house as he started out. He put his hand on the doorknob, and the Holy Spirit said to him, "There's something not right about that.
There's something not right." He went back to this businessman. He said, "Listen." If you're going to do that anyway, let's get it settled now. You give your heart to Jesus now, and then you come tomorrow morning and make it public, and then get baptized tomorrow night. But let's get it settled now. This businessman said, "Preacher, I've got a reputation in this world for keeping my word.
I'm an honest businessman, and if I say that I'll do it tomorrow morning, you don't have to worry about it. I will do it. You have my word." He said, "Well, all right. Thank you. Praise God." Started out, and again the Holy Spirit stopped him and said, "Go back and talk to that man." Joe Henry Hankins went back the third time, and he took with him this time his Bible, and he opened it to Second Corinthians six two that says, "Behold, now is the accepted time.
Behold, now is the day of salvation." Put it under his nose and said, "Pat, you read it." Pat read it. He said, "Now, Pat, that's God's word. Satan says tomorrow, but God says today. Who are you going to listen to? Who?" He said, "Well, preacher, I've been listening to Satan for a long time, and he's never brought me anything but misery.
I'm going to listen to God." And he got down on his knees with that preacher, and gave his heart to Jesus Christ. He said, "Tomorrow." I'll be there to make it public and get baptized. The next morning, when Joe Henry Hankins was standing on the front steps of his church greeting the people as they were coming in, Pat's nephew came up and said, "Preacher, Uncle Pat has had a heart attack in the night, and he's at home. And he told me to tell you he's so sorry he couldn't be here. He intended to be here, but he's sick, and the doctor won't let him come." That noon, when Joe Henry Hankins was sitting at at his noon meal, eating, the phone rang, and it was Pat's sister-in-law.
She called and said, "Preacher, you need to know, Pat has had another heart attack, and it's much worse than the first one. And the doctor says that there doesn't seem to be any hope." Joe Henry Hankins said to himself, "Well, I'll finish my meal and go right over there." But before he could get up from the table, the phone rang the third time. It was the sister-in-law again, and she said, "Preacher, don't hurry. Pat has died. He's already gone.
But he said to tell you, thank you, and tell the preacher, I'm sure glad I took God's way rather than Satan's way." I'm so glad I settled it. Tell Doctor Hankins thank you for causing me to say yes to Jesus. My friend, I want to tell you eternity is a long time. Eternity is a long time, and when you die, you're not going to have an opportunity then to get saved. Loved ones will weep over my silent face.
Dear ones, will clasp me in sad embrace. Darkness and shadows will fill the place. Five minutes after I die, faces that sorrow I will not see, voices that murmur will not reach me. But where, oh where, will my spirit be? Five minutes after I die.
Not to repair the good I lack, fixed to the goal of my chosen track, no space to repent, no turning back. Five minutes after I die, mated forever with my chosen throng. Long is eternity, oh, so long. Then woe is me, if my soul be wrong. Five minutes after I die, can you say it?
The Lord is my shepherd. Surely I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Surely I will. Are you sure? If you died right now, you'd go to heaven.
Woe is me, if my soul be wrong. Five minutes. After I die, behold, now is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation. Precious friend, if you want the Lord Jesus, let me help you to pray and ask Christ into your heart. May I just quiet in your heart now and turn your heart toward God? He loves you. He wants to save you.
Would you pray this prayer, dear God? Thank you for loving me. Thank you for sending Jesus to die for me, Lord Jesus. I believe that you are the Son of God. I believe that you died on the cross to pay my sin debt.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for doing that. Lord, you said if I would trust you, you would save me. I do trust you, Lord Jesus. Would you tell him that I do trust you, Lord Jesus? Right now, this moment, with all of my heart, come into my heart, Lord Jesus.
Forgive my sin. Save me, Jesus. Save me now. And then pray this way: Thank you for saving me, Jesus. I receive it by faith.
And then pray this: Lord Jesus, I will. Acknowledge you as my Lord and Savior. I will make it public to give you the glory. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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