All Things Are Possible

Dr. Bernie Miller: So we fall into discouragement and we fall into failure, and we think that those two things really make us who we are. And you stay down on the ground, wallowing around in the mud and thinking God will never forgive you, but He's already forgiven you. He forgave you on the cross.

Guest (Male): New Covenant Fellowship Church, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. A place for every race.

(Singing)

I came with empty hands, no plan to hide.

Just all my fear laid out inside.

You saw the cracks in me and stayed so near.

You spoke my name, "I'm still right here."

So I open up, I let You in.

Every locked-up room, every broken thing.

You can have my heart, Oh Lord, every part is Yours.

You can have my soul, I let it go.

I surrender to You. I surrender to You.

Take my tired thoughts, take my stubborn pride.

Take every hope I chase and turn it right.

I don't need control, I don't need to prove.

I just need Your hand to carry me through.

So I open up, I let You in.

Every locked-up room, every broken thing.

You can have my heart, Oh Lord, every part is Yours.

You can have my soul, I let it go.

I surrender to You. I surrender to You.

If I am all of me, nothing held back, nothing hidden.

If I am at Your feet, take my life, make it holy.

You can have my heart, Oh Lord, every part is Yours.

You can have my soul, I let it go.

I surrender to You. I surrender to You.

I surrender to You. I surrender to You.

I surrender to You.

Guest (Male): From New Covenant Fellowship Church, this is All Things Are Possible. Worship with us on Sunday mornings at 10:30, where you'll enjoy great music and solid teaching from the Bible. We're on North Moore Road in Chattanooga. Directions and details are at ncf.church. We are a place for every race. Now, here's this week's message.

Dr. Bernie Miller: Thank you family. Love you. 30 years and counting. 34 and counting. My wife and I were talking about those 34 years and one of the things I remember, I was trying not to come in the house because I was just a little upset with her.

I got off from work from WMBW and I was still hot. I pulled into the driveway, still hot. She came out the door, "Come here!" I pulled out of the driveway. I rode around the block and the Holy Spirit said, "Where are you going? You ain't got nowhere to go. You ain't got no money. That's your house. Go back home, face the music."

I went back home, never thought about leaving again. 34 years. You have your ups and downs, but through it all, we've learned to trust in Jesus. If any of y'all had a perfect marriage, y'all let me know and call me at the first chance you get. I just want to get your secret. I know some of y'all have that exceptional talent and I just want to get a little bit of it from you. But we've trusted Jesus and we haven't looked back.

I thank y'all for last night. What a beautiful time we had and all the volunteers. Amen. Some of us have become professional worriers. I know I'm talking to somebody. We worry when things go wrong, then we worry when things are going well because we're saying to ourselves, "Things are going too well. Something has gotta happen. This doesn't happen all the time." And so you worry about it when things are going well, which doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

Have you ever gotten a text message, one that said, "Call me when you get a chance?" What happens to your body? What happens is your heart starts to beat a little faster, you get all sweaty palmed, and you're thinking, "What are they going to say? What do they want?" Immediately panic sets in and the peace of God that's supposed to surpass all understanding now exits stage left because you're worrying about what they want, assuming that whatever it is is bad.

Why do we always settle on the bad stuff? I don't understand that. We say, "Well, something bad must be happening." But they could just be wanting your red velvet cake recipe. But no, you're not going to think that way. Your mind has already created a three-part Netflix documentary entitled *The Call*. "What happened?" the first episode. "Who did it?" the second episode. And the third, "Why do they want me?"

And don't let the doctor's office leave a message. "Please call. We need to talk about the results from your test." Before calling back, you've diagnosed yourself on Google, then updated your will, picked out funeral songs, and decided who's not speaking at your homegoing ceremony.

Worry takes something that hasn't happened and makes you suffer through it as though it already has. But Jesus teaches us that we have a cure for worry. The cure for worry is we need to have confidence in His provisions. We need to have confidence in His providence, which means divine intervention. Third, we need to have confidence in His priorities.

That should be on the screen, but Constance is falling asleep on me. We're going to Matthew. It's late than never. Matthew 6:25: "For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" he's asking.

Then he says, "Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them." I want you to pay close attention to *your* heavenly Father. Didn't say *their* heavenly Father. It says *your* heavenly Father feeds them. "Are you not worth much more than they?" And the answer is yes, we are.

The "for" is really the same word "therefore," which directs us back to what Jesus had already discussed in verse 24 where He says you cannot serve God and money. Then in verses 25 through 34, they're connected to 19 and 24 on treasure, money, and possessions and masters. Jesus is essentially saying if God is our Father, we don't have to live as though money is our provider.

Money has to come through so many hands to get to you. But God, who owns all the cattle on a thousand hills and the hills that the cattle are on and the earth and all that, is the same God that is your Father if you know Him as your Lord and Savior. Do you think your Father is going to keep something from you if you need it? I think not.

Contentment is this: Jesus says do not be worried. The Greek verb means to be anxious. It means troubled, distracted, or pulled apart by cares. Jesus isn't condemning planning; He's condemning anxiety that creates fear in us. There's a difference between thinking about tomorrow and being worried or tormented by it. A planner prepares for tomorrow, but a worrier thinks they have to control tomorrow. You can't control tomorrow.

Then Jesus gives an object lesson. He said, "Look at the birds." The verb tense for "look" means look carefully, observe the birds that are in the air and consider how they are taken care of. Jesus is saying go bird hunting. Birds don't plant crops. Birds don't have to worry about harvesting fields. Birds don't own barns. Yet, our heavenly Father feeds them.

Jesus doesn't say *their* heavenly Father. He says *your* heavenly Father, *my* heavenly Father. That's the foundation of contentment. Provisions flow from our relationship with our Father. If you don't know Him as your Father, you're not getting anything that's worth anything. You're going to get the crumbs off the table. I'm getting the loaf of bread and I'm getting the meat. And then when I had enough of it, I'll share it with you.

But if you know Him as your Lord and Savior and Him as your Father, you can get the loaf and the meat as well. You don't have to worry about it because your heavenly Father, not theirs, but your heavenly Father. That's the foundation of contentment. We're not depending on an impersonal universe; we're trusting our Father who created everything that we see and everything that's before us, including us.

Then Jesus asks, "Are you much more important than they?" The "much more" means a lot. Have you ever noticed birds having nervous breakdowns? Have you ever seen a bird on a limb shaking? I've never seen a bird, no. Have you seen a robin sitting on a branch chirping, "I don't know how we're going to make it this month"? No. Or another bird saying, "Have you seen the price of worms?"

Birds get up every morning, you know what they do? Chirp, singing. They're singing. The one of them wears my wife out. My wife's like, "Get that thing to shut up." I said, "Honey, he's praising God." They don't even know where breakfast is yet, but they're singing before they see the provisions.

Maybe that's why some of us have lost our song. We don't get up thanking God for the provisions, anticipating that since He takes care of the birds, surely He's going to take care of us. I mean, aren't we more important, much more important than the birds? Of course we are. And we are worrying about Him feeding us? Really? I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread. That's what the Bible says.

David wrote that. He said, "I ain't never seen the righteous forsaken." Maybe that's why some of us have lost our song because you're not thanking God for what you already have. You wake up complaining about what you don't have and not really focusing on what you already have. Are we waiting to see the provisions before we praise the Provider? Really? That's not faith.

But faith says, "I don't see the breakfast yet, but I know my Father feeds the birds. If He knows where the sparrows are, my all-knowing God knows my address. He knows what's lacking in my life and my contentment is in Him." Our contentment shouldn't be based on what's in our bank account. It should be based on what's in your Father's house. In my Father's house are many mansions.

Wait a minute, now that's in heaven. So what does He do here? The Bible says, "My God shall supply all." Y'all took the words out my mouth. Y'all know exactly what I'm talking about. He'll provide today and tomorrow. Commitment is confidence in God's provisions. Matthew 6:27: "And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith."

He didn't say "you of no faith." He said you have a little faith. Verse 27 asks, "Can worrying add an inch to our height?" I'm getting shorter by the years. So the answer is no. Worry feels productive, but it's powerless to provide a solution. Jesus says worry can't extend our lifespan. Worry can't add anything worthwhile to our lives. Worry does the complete opposite. It takes away from the life we're living right now.

You can worry all night and wake up on Monday with the same problem and less sleep. I know this guy, he used to go to bed worrying. He used to drink himself to sleep. He did that for several months. And over several months, every night he'd go to bed, then one day he woke up with a King Kong sized habit, drinking and drugging trying to get rid of the worry. And guess what happened? The worry never went away, but his liver did and he died, worried about tomorrow.

The devil uses worry a lot in our lives. He tells us certain things are not going to happen when you know God's promises are true. A lot of people say, "Well, you know the Bible, I just don't really understand it tonight." Well, if you don't know Jesus, you won't understand it. But let me tell you something, if God gets in your spirit and you have the Holy Spirit and you're sealed by the Spirit and you've walked with God for at least a month.

I remember Buster. I said one time when we were across the street—Buster's gone home to be with the Lord. He was our trustee at one time. And across the street I said, "I want you to tithe. And if God doesn't bless you after following that, come back and see me and I'll give you your tithe back." Buster said he tried it. He tried to prove me wrong.

Buster had come to me and said, "Pastor," he told me this years later. He said, "Years ago you challenged me to tithe." And he said, "I'm going to show him. I ain't going to tithe nothing." And then he said, "Well, I'm going to try it." So he said, "I started tithing just to see if that was going to come true." And he said, "I wasn't just giving a tenth." He said, "I started giving more than that."

And then he said, "And then something miraculous happened. God started opening up the windows of heaven and started pouring out a blessing into my life, my wife's life. Me and Gayle were going to look at one another going, 'Wow, look at God working'." But people get hung up on a tithe. Tithe means a tenth. But in the Old Testament, it meant a tenth of your produce, a tenth of your flock. It meant a tenth of everything that you were able to produce with God's help.

It wasn't just about money. It was about time, it was about your talents, and it was about all the livestock that God had given them people in the Old Testament. Now, God says give with a cheerful heart, not because of a tithe. No, you give with a cheerful heart. And that's how we give, that's how I give, and that's how most of you guys give.

We don't place any emphasis on tithing; we place emphasis on being a blessing to God. Give God whatever is your best and if that's the best you can do, then that's the best you can do. Don't feel bad about it. And we don't have tithers come down and show off. Some of them act like peacocks and they have an envelope and you'd think something is in it. I'm trying to tell y'all, they're playing with God. And then they walk down this aisle, "Tithers, please come down."

Open it up and it ain't nothing but air. Then seal that thing up thinking that and somebody's getting ready to count it. They got something on the outside even. Don't play with God like that. We don't do that. We had a company called Percept Marketing out in California, they've long gone by the wayside. But they did a survey of the three-mile radius of this church to tell us what non-church people and church people wanted out of a service.

And some interesting things came up. One of the things was, "We don't like for anybody to read announcements that are in the bulletin. We can read, go on with the program." And then if you put the songs in the bulletin, you've got to do that because if you don't do that, the A-types are going to get upset. "They didn't do my song. It says Amazing Grace, it ain't there. They didn't sing it." Sometimes I don't know what they're going to sing. I mean, I get the list ahead of time, but for several reasons I don't know what they're going to sing. I'm surprised every time y'all walk in here.

But you know what they said? It was something interesting. They said, "We don't like them passing the basket to take an offering. And we don't like the idea of tithers coming down to give." Now, it's a very small thing, but I understood that because one person said, "I gave last week my tithe. And then when they passed the basket and I don't put anything in there, the guy next to me said, 'Oh, you're not tithing?' And I'm saying, 'Well, where were you last week? I already gave my tithe'."

And so people just felt uneasy about all that. And so I said, "Let's get rid of all that. You give when you come in, we got the baskets out there, or when you leave. You can give online. We didn't just start a ministry without doing research." I came out of that kind of business and I was determined that—and having worked with census, having done that and understanding the value of information and numbers and what people like and all that, meant something to me because it's human beings saying, "This is what I don't like and this is what I do like."

There are some things that we don't do that other people do. That's them. But we try to do our things the way the Lord had given it to me. And I tried to do it one time, I was going to change the first Sunday that we started in July—July 7th of 1996—and I was going to take an offering. And we had a meeting, that first meeting that we had, we prayed together and everything and I told them, I gave them my ministry outlook and what I wanted to do, what I saw God using me to do. And one of the things was I wasn't going to take an offering.

And then somebody said, "You're not going to pass the plate, Pastor?" I said, "No, I'm not." "So what? No, okay, I'm going to pass the basket." I went home that night and I couldn't sleep. My stomach was turning. God says, "I didn't tell you to do that." So I called that person the first thing that next morning. I said, "We ain't taking no offering like you said." I said, "God told me to do it this way." "Well, Pastor, do it your way. Do it the way God told you to do it."

You know what they were looking for? Somebody that had a strong conviction about what God told them to do. And I understand when it's in the Word, I'm going to do what the Word says. If it's not in the Word, we can talk about it, but if it's in the Word, we're not doing anything other than what the Word says. And so for the last 30 years, I've made some mistakes and I'm not going to make those same mistakes, but I'll make some new ones and y'all just have some grace for me.

But worry does the complete opposite of what we think it'll do. You can worry all night and wake up the next day with less sleep and the same problem that you went to bed with. Jesus then shifts from birds to flowers. "Consider the lilies," Jesus says. Lilies don't labor. Now, He didn't say Larry doesn't have to labor. He said lilies don't have to labor. Y'all are getting it in a minute. I know some people say, "Well, you know the lilies don't have to labor." And somebody's sitting around at home and the mama's telling him, "Get a job." And they're saying, "Well, you know the lilies don't have to labor." And the mama is saying, "You need to do something in this house."

Jesus says lilies don't labor. He didn't say the Larrys, the Johns, the Marys, the Suzies don't have to labor. Don't confuse "don't worry" with "don't work." It's not the same. If a man won't work, the Bible says neither shall he eat. Then Jesus says if God clothes the grass of the field, will He not much more do the same for you? God's providence means divine intervention. So at every point in our life, God intervenes divinely. It means God actively is sustaining, governing, and directing and caring for us according to His purposes.

Contentment doesn't mean everything will happen the way I want. It means whatever happens, I'm still in God's hands. That's the difference. I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow. And if I worry, it's like being in a rocking chair. Have you ever rocked in a rocking chair? You're moving, even working up a sweat as you sit out in the sun, as you put in effort. But after three hours, you're still in the same place, rocking. Somebody asks, "What did you accomplish?" Answer: nothing. But I'm exhausted.

That's worry. It gives you something to do but nowhere to go. You're just rocking in your problem. Verse 30 says, "Oh ye of little faith." Jesus identifies the deeper issue. Worry isn't just emotional; it's theological because persistent worry eventually asks, "Can God really handle this?" Jesus doesn't say they have no faith. He says they have little faith. They believe *in* God; they're just struggling to believe *that* God cares about their situation.

But contentment says if He clothes the lilies and if He feeds the birds and brought them through yesterday, He'll take care of me today and tomorrow. So the question is, whose Father feeds the birds? The answer is "our Father." Can y'all say it louder? Our Father. Next question: whose Father clothes the lilies? Our Father. Whose Father takes care of us? Our Father.

I'm very confident that He will continue to do just what He's been doing. He'll be taking care of us. That's God's top priority. We are His—do you know he's our top—do you know when we make Him our top priority, don't you know that we become His top priority? But if He's second on the list then you may have to wait a little while for that blessing that you've been waiting on. It's just the way it is sometimes.

Matthew 6:31: "Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?' For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

I wrote a song, *Don't Worry About Tomorrow*, and I just did a little instrumental thing for that video. But I wrote it because years ago when they didn't renew my contract and I was worrying about my Father taking care of me. And I was a greeter—we call them greeters here—so I was a greeter. I came out of my little insecurities and decided, "Okay, I'm going to meet people and take them to their seat and seat them." And that's what I was doing.

God did a miraculous thing. We had a very close-knit group of greeters and every Sunday morning we'd come in and we'd pray together like we do here. But then afterwards, we would have another time to share scriptures with one another and everybody would have an opportunity to share something that God had done in their lives. Well, that morning I came in and I was saying, "God, You're my Father and I need Your help in this area and I just need a few dollars."

And I read a verse of scripture: "I haven't seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread." Then I read the verse of scripture in Matthew and I walked in and the head usher came over. He says, "Here's an envelope for you." And I said, "Okay, thank you." So I opened it up and there was first a note and it had the passage of Matthew in there, Matthew 6. And I started reading it. Then I opened up the card that was also in the envelope and money fell out. All of them had taken an offering among themselves to give to me. Now, I asked God to help me and He used some people that I didn't tell I needed help. I'm too proud. But they knew I needed something because God told them. And they knew I was out of work, so they knew something was going on.

And you know what I did when I got that money? My first offering out of that was to God. You say, "What? You're out of a job and you get money. Why don't you spend it all on yourself?" Because God didn't tell me to do that. God says seek Him first and then all the things will be added to you. And so I go to Him first and what little that I had, it was amazing what God was able to do.

God was working on me and my pride and my self-esteem and all that. And I tell you, I've come a mighty long way. God is probably—I never wanted to be in front of people talking. For what? No. And what did God do? Call me into the pastorate. Now, what do pastors do? They gotta talk in front of people. And I'm thinking, "God, really? Could you not find someone else?" Then He gave me Jeremiah when He called me into the ministry: "You better do what I tell you to do and say what I tell you to say or else I'm going to embarrass you in front of them." Read Jeremiah chapter one if you want to know my calling, that's where it is. That's why I tell y'all some things I really don't want to tell you, I really wish that somebody else could tell you, but God says, "No, you tell them, and if you don't tell them, then it's going to be bad for you."

I'd rather it be bad for you. I'm just saying. Look, God has shown me a lot over all these years and especially during these 30 years as a pastor. It's been a blessing, heartbreaking in some areas. People die, people leave, people do whatever. It breaks your heart because sometimes you take it personally and it's not personal; it's people that have other choices and they make those choices. That's fine. Next, Jesus brings everything to a climax.

Don't run past verse 32. It says "your Father." Before we prayed, He knew. Before we cried, He knew. Before the bill arrived, He knew. Before the diagnosis, He knew. Before the layoff, He knew. Before you needed it, your Father knew. That's why contentment is in confidence—is confidence rather in God's care. In Matthew 6:33, the centerpiece is "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness."

Now, "seek" is the Greek word that means to pursue, to desire, and to strive after. "First" in order means first in order of importance. It means top priority. Jesus isn't merely saying put God somewhere on your list; He's saying put God at the top of your list and anybody that comes after Him, be careful. Our problem is we often seek these things first and God's kingdom second.

We say, "Lord, give me the job. Give me the money. Give me the house. Give me the relationship. Give me the opportunity." And Jesus is saying you're chasing additions instead of seeking the kingdom of God. The promise isn't "seek things and they will be added"; it's "seek God and things will be added." Have you ever gone to the grocery store hungry? That's dangerous, isn't it?

You went in for milk, bread, and eggs. You came out with cookies, chips, ice cream, two frozen pizzas and you don't even like it, chicken wings that they were trying to sell that were frozen in the cooler. And something you sample in the aisle that you just thought you just had to have, that you can't exist without it. Why? Because your appetite determined your priorities.

Jesus said change what you're hungry for and seek first the kingdom of God. When God's kingdom becomes my greatest appetite, I stop believing that acquiring more will satisfy my soul. I love what the songwriter said: "When Jesus is my portion, my constant friend is He. His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me."

Matthew 6:34 is very important: "So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough worry of its own." Let me tell you about something. Today has enough trouble of its own, so don't borrow trouble from tomorrow. Here's why: if you drag tomorrow's trouble into today, what's going to happen is you're trying to carry it with today's grace.

Tomorrow's trouble comes with tomorrow's grace. So if you pull tomorrow's trouble in today, you don't know how much grace you've got left in the day. You only have enough grace for today. You get new grace, new mercy, new everything tomorrow. So when you bring your troubles from tomorrow into today, you are exhausting the little grace that you have left for today.

That's why He says don't worry about tomorrow. Why? Because you're robbing the grace you have today and you're trying to spend it on tomorrow. When the Israelites God says, "Look, I'm going to give you manna from heaven, but you only get enough for your family today. Don't take nothing more unless it's the day that I tell you." But see, what did they do? Hard heads. They took more manna than they were supposed to take. And what happened? They turned into worms. Some of y'all got some worms all around you and don't know why. I'm telling you, you're pulling your troubles into today, tomorrow's trouble, and everything's turning wormy around you.

You cannot borrow grace from tomorrow. You got enough for today. Today has enough trouble of its own, so don't borrow trouble from tomorrow. Tomorrow's trouble comes with tomorrow's grace, with tomorrow's mercy, and great is His faithfulness. Morning by morning, new mercies I see. Did you hear that? Morning by morning, new mercies I see. Not leftover, new. Not moldy, new mercies I see. And great is His faithfulness. Tomorrow's got a blessing for you. Don't worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow has enough worry of its own.

The lyrics to the song I wrote was: "So don't worry about tomorrow, God is in control. If He feeds the sparrow, He'll feed your soul. Wherever you're going, He already knows the beginning from the end and every winding road. So don't worry about tomorrow, God is in control."

Guest (Male): All Things Are Possible from New Covenant Fellowship Church. Join us in person for worship on Sunday mornings at 10:30 or online at 11:00. Connect with us anytime at ncf.church or on social media at NCF Chattanooga. We are a place for every race.

(Singing)

We lift You high when we praise Your name.

Jesus the Christ, You deserve our praise.

When we lift You high, we feel the Spirit's flame.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, we love calling Your name.

We lift You high, You deserve our praise.

We glorify Your holy name.

We lift You high to glorify Jesus the Christ.

When we're in the valley of never enough,

When we're on our knees, You lift us up.

So we lift our hands as a testimony,

Taking a stand with the One and only.

It's so amazing to see chains start breaking, bars start shaking.

And victory from the One who stands, the Great I Am, the Son of Man.

Representing you and me in the Trinity.

We lift You high when we praise Your name.

Jesus the Christ, You deserve our praise.

When we lift You high, we feel the Spirit's flame.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, we love calling Your name.

We lift You high, You deserve our praise.

We glorify Your holy name.

We lift You high to glorify Jesus the Christ.

From the rising sun to the setting of the same,

We will glorify Your holy name.

We lift You high as we raise the praise.

Every breath You've given us we will raise

As an offering of endless praise.

It's so amazing to see chains start breaking, bars start shaking.

And victory from the One who stands, the Great I Am, the Son of Man.

Representing you and me in the Trinity.

We lift You high when we praise Your name.

Jesus the Christ, You deserve our praise.

When we lift You high, we feel the Spirit's flame.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, we love calling Your name.

We lift You high, You deserve our praise.

We glorify Your holy name.

We lift You high to glorify Jesus the Christ.

We lift You high when we praise Your name.

You fill our hearts with a holy flame.

When we praise Your name,

You turn our mourning into praise.

When we praise Your name,

As we sing about Your amazing grace.

We lift You high when we praise Your name.

Chains start breaking, bars start shaking.

And victory from the One who stands, the Great I Am, the Son of Man.

Representing you and me in the Trinity, together forever.

Jesus, we love You and we love Your name. Your name!

Dr. Bernie Miller: Remember the Alabaster box? It was broken. You know there's something about the Alabaster box: you can't open it. In order to get in it, you've gotta break it. God's been trying to get your attention and He's been breaking things up all around you just to let you know, "I've been trying to get in."

Guest (Male): New Covenant Fellowship Church, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. A place for every race.

(Singing)

I walk this road by faith when I cannot see the bend.

I hold a little hope and You keep holding in Your ways.

Ah, hard to understand, but You don't let go of me.

My days are in Your hand even when I cannot see.

So I lean in close, I lay it down what I can't carry.

You have found Your ways. Your ways are hard to understand.

But my days are in Your hand. Your ways.

I walk this road by faith when I cannot see the bend.

I hold a little hope and You keep holding in Your ways.

Ah, hard to understand, but You don't let go of me.

My days are in Your hand even when I cannot see.

So I lean in close, I lay it down what I can't carry.

You have found Your ways. Your ways are hard to understand.

But my days are in Your hand.

And if I don't know the why, I know the One who stays.

And if I don't see the road, I trust Your hidden ways.

Whatever may befall, You'll be there when I stand.

So I rest my heart in Your hand.

Your ways, Your ways are hard to understand.

But my days are in Your hand.

Your ways, Your ways are hard to understand.

But my days are in Your hand.

Are in Your hand. Are in Your hand.

In Your hand.

Dr. Bernie Miller: We're quick to send out a prayer hand emoji. "Come on, I'm in the hospital sick," you send a prayer emoji and you don't say a word. Like that emoji can speak for you. God doesn't want a text message relationship; He wants a personal connection.

Guest (Male): New Covenant Fellowship Church, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. A place for every race.