Heaven On Earth IV, God's Provision For His Flock

Good morning, wow that's a great cut. How many were drawn from the west? Do you live over somewhere west of this building? All right, minority so far. How many were drawn from the east of here? Over Richland Way and seven of us. Well we'll work on that one. Now look at this, how many were drawn from the north? Came from the north, look at that. I believe the north has it, do you? I want you to find someone that you are nearby there who is from a different district than you are. Are you from the north? Can you find someone from the south? I want you to greet them by name. If they don't have a name tag, introduce yourself to them and meet someone from a different district. Go ahead, move around and greet somebody. I hope you've greeted a couple folks, then be seated please. You're right on before the Lord this morning, but our officers want to present to all of our guests today, all of our visitors a special little something for venturing out from wherever you've come this morning to be with us. We're glad you're here and you know in this moment I risk, I walk a real fine line and every week we do this in a way that we trust will not be offensive. We would not want to push a visitor into some kind of disclosure they don't want to participate in, but we have found that most folks just want to know a little bit more about who we are and so we've prepared a packet of information just for you if you're a guest today. There are some things in your bulletin right there for you, but if you would like one of these special little packets, and there's lots of great information in here, recent information, this is only a couple of months old. We want to honor you. I won't embarrass you. I just want to give you one of these and we're going to give you a great round of applause and just a minute I'm going to ask you to lift your hand for 10 seconds. It's all it'll take. I won't ask you to come up here. I won't ask you to tell me what you did yesterday or you know what your grandmother used to tell you about God and all those strange stories that get out there. All right, just want to welcome you. So if you're a guest today, and I know there's some visiting, just lift your hand right now. Let's welcome our visitors, Church. All right, go ahead, wave your hand up. Thank you very much right here. Great. Wave your hand high so they can see you. Anyone else over here? There's some more in the back as well. So good to have you today, folks. Thanks for being with us and please take a few moments and look at information over, and expressly I want to invite you to the visitor center over there on my right and your left. You see that little hanging banner or a placard, I guess it is. We'll be right there for a few moments just after the service to show you a 10-minute video and welcome you a little more personally to North Way. If you can be there, we'd love to meet you and help you know a little bit more about who we are. It's just our way of saying thanks for coming today. Church, I want to move right into a time of being before the Lord, so put your bulletin down. It'll be there when you're done. I want you to listen, if you would, to the word of God this morning. The psalmist writes this. He says, I will sing of the Lord's great love forever. With my mouth I will make your faithfulness known. With whose mouth? I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself. The heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness too in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings? In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared. He is more awesome than all who surround him. The Bible's saying right there is there are mysteries that we're still uncovering about created things. Someone told me the other day they really believed they had an encounter with a living angel. They asked me if I believed in angels, and I shared my point of view on that particular subject. The Bible is saying when we get into heaven and stand before God, we're going to be amazed by everything that surrounds us. We're going to see created things that we can't imagine right now. How many believe in this season we see some of the splendor of God just beginning to unfold as the trees all change? And so, hey, that's not even going to be the appetizer for heaven's glory, all right? And there are going to be things there that are going to dazzle our hearts and minds. But the Bible is saying he's more awesome than all who surround him. O Lord God Almighty, who's like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you. As we worship the Lord in these next several songs, I had a clear sense from the Lord this morning as I was preparing my spirit to lead in worship today, that some of you need to come into that surrounding faithfulness of God. You're feeling quite alone today. You've had a difficult week or maybe difficult month, and you're wondering where is God? How come he's not answering my prayers? Why aren't things getting better? And today the Bible paints a picture. If we'll come into his faithfulness, it surrounds him today. His presence is here as we worship. You will find ministry begin to rise in your spirit. We're going to learn a new song that declares that faithfulness. Lee and the worship team are going to help teach us this song, and then we're going to just stay right in God's presence and listen to what the spirit would say. Do you want to do that this morning? How about the rest of it? Do you all want to do that this morning? Let's get before God today. Lee, teach us this new song. Day after day it's called. You have been born to me. Day after day after day, I have known your grace. Day after day, week after week, year after year. I will declare your glory. I will declare your greatness. I will praise you all my life. Let's sing it together. Day after day. Day after day after day, you have been faithful to me. Day after day after day, I have known your grace. Day after day, week after week, year after year. I will declare your glory. I will declare your greatness. I will praise you all my life. Let's sing it together. Day after day after day, you are my Savior, you are my friend. Day after day after day, I have known your grace. Day after day after day, week after week, year after year. You will be right beside me. You will be near to guide me. I will praise you all my life. Let's sing it together. Day after day after day, you have been faithful to me. Day after day after day, I have known your grace. Day after day, week after week, year after year. I will declare your glory. I will declare your greatness. I will praise you all my life. I will declare your glory. I will declare your greatness. I will praise you all my life. We declare your faithfulness to us day after day, week after week, year after year. We shall praise your faithfulness to us beyond all generations. We declare in Jesus' name. Great is thy faithfulness, O God, my Father. There is no shadow of journey with Thee. There is no shadow of journey with Thee. There is no shadow of journey with Thee. There is no shadow of journey with Thee. There is no shadow of journey with Thee. Great is Thy faithfulness, O God, my Father. There is no shadow of journey with Thee. There is no shadow of journey with Thee.