Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton,
the official podcast of Cross -Christian Fellowship,
Route 66, in the heart of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
where Burton is the lead pastor. We're glad you're
here. Let us pray. Father, we thank you for this
opportunity to learn and grow with you. Please
open the eyes of our hearts and minds to what
you have to speak to us today. And teach us how
to apply it to our lives as we go forward in
Jesus' name. Amen. All right. Again, welcome
everybody to Cross 6 -6. I mentioned it last
week. Everything is still showing Cross Christian
Fellowship Route 66. But slowly but surely over
this next month, everything is going to start
transitioning over. So it's just the Cross 6
-6. So everything just kind of falls in line.
You know, with our website and our email address
and everything else. So that's exciting stuff,
but just a little reminder, if you see those
little changes, that's what it's all about. Well,
this week, as we get started, I'd like for everybody
to just take a moment and just kind of reflect.
And I want you to reflect on those times in your
life when you've played the telephone game. Is
there anybody here who doesn't know the telephone
game? Okay, I'm seeing some faces. Okay, there's
a nod there. So the telephone game, and once
I start describing this, I'm sure everybody's
going to know exactly what I'm talking about.
The telephone game is where you give somebody
a message, and they pass it along to the next
person and the next person, and by the time it
gets to the end, it's distorted or changed into
something totally different. You guys know what
I'm talking about now? It's called the telephone
game. You know, it's like, oh, it's a phenomenon.
It's not a phenomenon. It's just the way it works,
right? So take a moment, just kind of reflect
on your life at those times when the telephone
game's kind of popped up in your life, because
it's popped up in all of our lives. And for the
next few weeks, and the reason I bring this up,
and I want you to have it in the back of your
minds, because for the next couple weeks, you
can see here on the slide behind me, We're going
to be talking about some of the most commonly
misquoted scripture in the Bible. And it twists,
right? It's important to know. And when we go
through it, we're going to be looking at the
context so we know that we have the scripture
correct. No twist, no trying to change the narrative
or anything like that. What it is, what it means,
and how it applies. And the reason why this is
so important is because the devil and his ministers
love to twist the word. Love to do it. And it
goes all the way back to the beginning, right?
Twisted just enough to get Adam and Eve to question
what they knew of God, right? And then when's
the next big time that we see him try that again
that really sticks out? Jesus in the wilderness,
right? Boy, did he try, and he twisted it, and
he twisted it, and Jesus fired back, said, uh
-uh -uh, and he fired back with Scripture in
the correct context to the point that finally
Satan fled, right? So it's important to know
because as we go through life and we come across
Scripture that's being misquoted and taken out
of context and twisted, we need to be able to
respond in the same way as Jesus, right? especially
these days because everything's always turned
on. Cameras and mics and all this other stuff.
So people are watching and people are listening.
And the people who know that you're a Christian,
if you're just kind of like, eh, whatever, and
you're just kind of going along with it and you're
not firing back, say, no, that's not right. Guess
what? You're the Bible they're reading. And now
they're getting bad information, bad theology.
So it's very important. You know, this is a tool
that we utilize in our spiritual battles. That's
how the Lord uses us because we're on the front
lines of that spiritual battle. This is one of
the tools that we have to repel the enemy. It's
also a good reason why we should all be studying
and reading our Bibles on our own free time.
And you're going to hear me say that a few times
today because it's really important. So as we
kick off this series, I'm going to be starting
with a scripture, and this is one that tends
to sting some people because of what they've
come to know of it and how it's been used for,
well, a really, really long time at this point,
decades and decades and decades. This is one,
it hurts a lot of people when I talk about it
because in the conversations I've had with people
in the past, what it does is it comes up and
it slaps the face of religious nationalism or
Christian nationalist, as some of us have come
to know them. So let's open our Bibles, our Bible
apps, whatever it is that you're using, to 2
Chronicles 7, verse 14. So 2 Chronicles 7, verse
14. And this is going to be the first piece of
misquoted scripture. This is going to be our
focus for today. All right, so 2 Chronicles 7,
verse 14, and the word says, If my people who
are called by my name will humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and
will forgive their sin and heal their land. This
one pops up a lot, and it has for a long time.
This right here, in a lot of circles, especially
when you go to conventions and that sort of thing,
and unfortunately, a lot of veteran, because,
I mean, let's face it, as veterans, we're all
very patriotic for the most part, right? It just
happens. Unfortunately, though, this is one of
those that's often taken out of context, and
it's referred to as the John 316 of the Civil
War. It goes back much further than that, but
Civil War was where this was used a lot to try
to rally the troops. It's, to this day, matter
of fact, you go to a lot of political rallies.
This same scripture is used. We like to use it
in prayer, even. So political rallies, it's used
at different speaking points by lawmakers, politicians.
You know, those people who are not afraid necessarily
to offer up a prayer of some sort at these types
of conventions even. Right? Because it sounds
good. It's like, ooh, our nation. Our nation.
This is good. We should be proud of where we
live. We should be proud of where we come from.
Right? And yes, you know, we should be. Because
we live in a great land. We've been blessed.
You know, typically the way it's laid out is
like this. It's basically a guideline or a blueprint.
Right? It's how it's often preached on even.
And there's some truth to it. It says we should
humble ourselves. Okay, that's good. We should
pray. Absolutely. We should seek the face of
God. Oh, yes. Definitely. We should repent of
our wicked ways. So it sounds pretty sound, right?
That is a good blueprint. That is a good way
for us to all be living our lives. However, this
is also where it all falls apart. The context
is lost, and it starts getting misquoted. Because
all too often, American Christians, and it's
not just us, other countries do the same thing,
Canada, Ireland, England, all these other places,
all these modern countries, try to take this
scripture and apply it as a promise that's made
to their country. We try to apply this as a promise
that's made to our country. It is not. That's
why it hurts. That's where the issue lies. This
is not a promise that the Lord made to every
country out there. There is something very specific.
about this promise. I said, there's truth in
here, absolutely. Are those all good things that
we should be applying to our lives, ways that
we should be trying to live our lives? Absolutely.
But the problem, like I said, is the application
of this and other passages to the United States
or any other nation, any other modern nation
especially. Trying to apply it as though it's
a covenant with God between our country and him
because it's just not. You know, Russell Moore
puts it like this. The problem is that the application
of this and other passages to the United States
or any other nation for that matter is a confusion
of the question of who we are. I don't like doing
air quotes, but there's your air quote. We. The
United States or any other modern nation is not
in a covenant with God. 2 Chronicles 7 verse
14 is not a general statement about humbling
or blessing, but the gospel. Ooh. Ooh. There's
a good summary right there, isn't it? It's the
gospel. Okay. See, and what happens is if we
actually go in. And we read this passage in its
entirety. We don't just pull out that one verse
to make it sound like what we want it to sound
like. We literally open up our Bibles and we
look at 2 Chronicles 7. Because we need the whole
bit. I mean, we can... Go with a section of it,
basically from 12 on. But having those first
verses for the whole chapter really lay out the
big picture. It's important to know. All right.
If we see it in that big picture, we know what's
going on. We know what the actual context is,
how it applies. It's about a covenant. A covenant,
in other words, is a promise or a contract, right?
They're making a deal. They're striking a bargain.
And it's between God. King Solomon, and the country
of Israel. That's the country it's made for.
Not us. Nobody else. It has never, ever been
a covenant for any other country. Can we learn
from it? Yes. Does it have truths and applications
for us today? Absolutely it does. However, It
is because of this misinformation, this misunderstanding,
and this misquoting, this taking out of context
that we have to study the word. Remember I said
I was going to say that a couple times today.
We have to study the word in our free time. We
need to take a moment, even if it's just like
a minute or two out of the day, we need to be
reading the word and studying it and meditating
on it, reflecting on it for ourselves to make
sure that we truly understand. Praying over what
we're reading, right? We need the Lord to open
the eyes of our hearts and our minds to speak
to us, let the Holy Spirit flow. So that we have
understanding and knowledge. Two different things,
right? Wisdom and knowledge, understanding. These
are all different things. How we apply them.
How they come together. And why do we have to
study it? Because context is king. Right? So
in looking at this passage, we have to ask, who's
involved and why? Now, I encourage everybody,
when you have some free time, read this chapter.
It's not a very long chapter. Right through it.
I'm going to give you the cliff notes. I'm going
to sum it up. Right? Basically, this came about
because King Solomon had completed his work on
the temple. Everything that was on his heart
to do for the temple had been done. And everybody
was starting to get in a motion of doing the
things that they were supposed to. And God had
made a promise to Israel. Hey, you go and do
this. You make your sacrifices. You pray. to
me. You humble yourselves before me and I will
heal your land. He made it to this select group
of people, to this select nation. It was the
contract that they had done. The people met their
end of the bargain. God would follow up with
his because God does not break his promises,
does he? He makes a promise. He keeps it. Plain
and simple. This is not a case of name it and
claim it. This is not a name it and claim it
deal. Matter of fact, for any other country,
even at that time, for any other eastern country
to come in and try to claim that promise would
be blasphemy. Right? It's no different than any
of us walking out, walking into one of these
businesses on either side of the church. Walking
in and be like, hey, I claim this in the name
of the Lord and walking out the door. What do
we call that? Stealing, right? Theft. That's
the problem with naming and claiming. You can't
take something that doesn't belong to you. When
you do, you're stealing. It's a sin, right? You're
lying. So this is a promise between God and a
select people, and God kept his promise. He keeps
his promises. No other nation fulfilled the promise
that he made to them about healing their land.
In fact, all throughout the New Testament, we
see how God fulfilled his promise and how it's
applied for everybody else. Because there is
an application that comes to everybody else.
And it's because the ultimate fulfillment came
in Jesus Christ. It came with Jesus Christ. And
with Jesus, of course, as we know, a new covenant
was made. A new covenant was made. It was made
through him. It was made through his blood, right?
A covenant that applies to everyone who is willing
to accept the deal, the gift that has been made
to us in mercy and grace. A deal that we're not
worthy of, right? A deal that comes to us not
through monetary, not because of what we can
give, but because of love. This is one of those
places where we have to remember as Christians,
as followers of Christ, yes, we might live, In
the United States, right? There may be people
out here who live in New Zealand or the Philippines
or Japan or wherever else, and that's their home
here on earth. But as Christians, the nation
we truly belong to is in heaven. We belong to
the kingdom of God. Plain and simple. We're ambassadors
here. We're ambassadors. Now on that note, we're
going to go into our next piece of scripture.
Still looking at the same thing. I'm going to
go to 2 Peter. If I get this to go. There we
go. 2 Peter chapter 1, verses 3 through 4. So
2 Peter chapter 1, 3 through 4. I promise I'm
not going to have you flipping all over the place
today. I know it's a little bit different preaching
than what you're used to. It's okay. So 2 Peter.
1, verses 3 through 4. The Word says, His divine
power has given us everything we need for a godly
life through our knowledge of Him who called
us by His own glory and goodness. Through these,
He has given us His very great and precious promises
so that through them you may participate in the
divine having escaped the corruption in the world
caused by evil desires. This is where we find
our covenant with God. Not as a nation, but as
individuals. Because nobody gets to make the
choice for us. We make the choice ourselves.
You're either team Jesus, Or you're not. We should
all pray for those who are not. Before it's too
late. They need to come to know Jesus. That's
why we've been given the Great Commission. But
this is where we find our covenant. That all
who come to God by faith in Jesus and follow
him are entered into this agreement. We have
no proxy filling in for us. We don't give our
vote to somebody else. It's not allowed. It is
our choice and our voice. And we have to remember,
again, that while we live here on earth and we're
in a country, we're in a good country. Some people
take that for granted. We live in a great place.
For all of its problems, we are in a wonderful
place. But ultimately, we are ambassadors here.
We are ambassadors of Jesus Christ. And how we
live our lives and how we talk to people and
how we treat people should always reflect that.
Because for those who don't believe, for those
who don't know the Bible, you are the Bible that
they are going to see, hear, and therefore be
reading. Right? Because faith comes to us through
what? That's right. Hearing. Hearing is much
more than just this, because a deaf person can
hear how you're living your life, right? Blind
people can hear and see how you're living your
life. Ray Charles was still alive. He could testify
to that, right? He had some great gospel music.
But we are ambassadors. Because as Christians,
as followers of Christ, our citizenship again
is in heaven, not here. This is temporary. And
we come by it because of our relationship with
Jesus, and that's how others come by it. There
is no other way. It's not a birthright. We don't
get to try to claim something that belongs to
somebody else. Again, it's called theft. We have
to study the word. We have to read it. We have
to listen to it. We have to reflect on it, meditate
on it. Do what we need to do to make sure that
we're seeing in the right context, that we're
getting what it truly means. We have to be like
the Bereans. Say, okay, cool, you have this,
and you're saying this. Let's pick that apart.
Let's study it, and let's make sure whether or
not that is fact. Matter of fact, that's where
our word amen comes from. Because when we say
amen, and we go back to the original, is it Arabic,
I believe it is? I could be wrong. It might be
Hebrew. I'm going to say it's Arabic, though.
When we go back, though, and we look at the origin
of the word and how it translates, what it actually
means, it's basically saying, yes, it's true.
All right? When people would get done with their
Bible studies, you know, or their studies of
any kind, they're out there and they're with
the rabbi and all that, they would come back
and at the end of it saying, amen. They say,
yes, we've looked at what you've had to present.
We agreed that what you've presented is true.
There's amen for you. So like when we pray, when
we get done, somebody's up here and they're saying
something. Somebody's sitting out here and they
say something. They're just like, yeah, amen.
Yeah, it's true, absolutely. That's what it's
there for. So it's a good thing. So we study
the Bible. We learn from the Bible. We meditate.
We internalize it. We take it into our heart.
And when we do all this stuff, we find out that
everything in it from the beginning to the end
is all about Jesus. It all points to Jesus. That
narrow gate. Not parts of it. Not little pieces
that you take and you pick and choose from. The
whole thing. Because it's all God breathed. It's
all inspired by God. Right? Look at how many
people it took to write the Bible over how many
years. And it's all in context. It all flows
together. We can't get everybody in this room
to agree on everything in life, can we? You're
going to tell me there's that many authors and
it's not God -breathed? Come on. Let's be honest.
So in that note, when we're looking at Scripture,
when we're looking at things like 2 Chronicles
7 -14, we have to look at it through the lens
of Jesus, of who Jesus was. Right? And that lens,
it's a biblical lens. It's that lens that shows
us, you know, Jesus, who came, lived perfect,
sinless life, took on our sins, died on the cross,
went to the grave, rose three days later, ascended
to heaven, and is returning for his followers,
for his family, for his bride. That is the lens
that we have to be looking at it. If we look
at it through any other lens, we're lying. We
cannot try to paint him into another lens. Right?
It's not white Jesus. It's not black Jesus. It's
not nationalist Jesus. Right? Political Jesus
or any of the rest of this nonsense that's out
there. It is biblical Jesus through and through.
Any other version is another misquote. It's another
lie. It is another jab to separate us. from him
through using the tools of the devil, right?
You know, I'm talking about a lens, right? So
let me give you an example of a lens that's very
applicable today, especially for those who are
online. Today, all of us pretty much have cell
phones, right? Or tablets. What's one of the
most common things that we see out there today?
What's made things like Instagram or Snapchat
so popular? What's that? Pictures, yes. Selfies.
I've got to video this. I've got to video that.
And we all have those coworkers. They're sitting
there. Right? They're posing for their little
camera. They're taking all their little pictures.
And then what do they do afterwards? They sit
there forever. And they got all their filters
out. Right? It's like, ooh, I got a pimple here.
Let's get rid of that. Oh, I don't like that
lighting. Oh, look at that. I got wrinkles. Let's
get rid of the wrinkles. Oh, let's change my
eye color today. Right? Let's change the background.
It's like, oh, I don't like the part of my belly.
So let's just crop that out. And they're editing
and they're changing it. And they're making it
look totally different than how it started. And
then they're posting it. I got one friend. I
worked at the hospital. She's really bad about
this. I love her to death. I don't think she's
ever posted a picture without spending at least
30 minutes editing the thing. But we have a term
for this because it's become so prevalent, especially
people who are on dating websites, right? But
now it's carried over into other types of sites,
Instagram, Facebook, and everything else. It's
called catfishing. And that's plain and simple.
That's all it is. People are taking the original
product, the truth, they're twisting it up and
changing it into what they like, the lie, and
they're posting it out there. Ooh, that's going
to sting someone, huh? Huh? Sometimes it's good.
Sometimes you want to change up the background
or whatever. Brian and I were a while back. I
took a picture of him and we were playing with
a new app and we changed the whole background.
I think I put you in Disneyland? Yeah. I was
like, hey, look, when did you get to Anaheim?
You know, just goofing around. We're having a
good old time with it, just playing. Sometimes
it's good to play, have a little fun. But when
we present things to other people, we need to
make sure that we're presenting the truth. When
you're funny and you're going to put somebody
on the moon with a set of Mickey Mouse ears,
okay, cool. They're going to know, all right,
this is a goof. But then when you're presenting
something else over here where it looks like
it's probably real, ooh. You're committing a
sin. You're lying. You've got to be careful.
Unfortunately, why do people change these images,
though? Pride? Vanity? Take that picture and
say, oh, I don't like that. I need to change
that. Why? They don't like the truth that's in
front of them. They don't like the truth that's
in front of them. Does this sound familiar? When
we look at the Bible, what happened with Jesus?
Jesus spoke the truth. The Pharisees and the
Sadducees, they didn't like that, did they? The
people who should have known better than anybody,
who knew the word better than anybody, who interpreted
the scriptures for everybody else. And here's
the truth coming to them. Smack them across the
face. Right? They didn't like it. So what did
they do? They bribed people. They used influence.
Tried to change the narrative in their way. Even
after Jesus went to the cross and was put in
the grave, what did they do? Oh, let's make sure
nobody goes in and tries to steal his body. Let's
keep going because we ain't done yet. They kept
twisting. They kept changing things. And it backfired.
Because ultimately that's what happens. Those
lies come back to haunt us. And we have to pay
the piper, right? We have to answer to God. So
going back to the whole picture thing with the
catfishing thing, you know, people go out and
they'll meet up with somebody for that first
date, and they're like, oh, you don't look anything
like your picture. You said you were a 5 '9 with
blonde hair, blue eyes, and a six -pack, and
you were 4 '6 and 5 feet wide with brown hair
and makeup that makes a clown cry. And you're
a dude, not a girl. What's up with that? Right?
A little exaggeration, but, I mean, you get the
point. That's how it works. I mean, there's plenty
of people who have gone out there and had something
happen, like, nope, out the door. So having that
in mind now, I'm going to have you think about
some relationships. When it comes to the nation
that we live in, right, here on earth, what are
you willing to do for it? What have you done
for it? It kind of sounds like a JFK moment,
doesn't it? But it's true. Now, in comparison
to that, how much are you willing to do? How
much are you willing to give for another nation?
Hmm. Boring on the edge of politics here, aren't
we? We're just talking about people. Now coming
down a little bit, we're going to funnel it down.
How about your state? How much have you done
for your state? How much are you willing to do
for your state? How about your city, your neighborhood?
If somebody comes up here, say you're just outside
here, right? I'm going to pick on Marvin for
a second because I know he's parked out here
on this side of the building. All right? So Marvin
goes out. He's getting ready to leave, and somebody
walks up to him. What's $10? Maybe, maybe not,
right? If you had it. But it's still a maybe.
You know, you get somebody come up stumbling,
they're drunk. Probably not. Like, no, go get
your fix somewhere else, right? I think that's
most of us, if we're honest. Now, let's change
it up. Let's say Molly here. It's a relative.
It's somebody you love. Somebody you know well,
somebody you have an intimate relationship with
comes up, hey, can I get 10 bucks? If you haven't,
you're probably going to pull that lot up like,
okay, yes, here you go, right? Right? That's
how all of us are. Brothers, sisters, whoever,
right? We need help with something, we go to
somebody, we're a little bit more willing. And
that's how it changes. And you're thinking in
that perspective, here's somebody you know. Here's
somebody you have an intimate relationship with.
You have made them a promise. They're going to
take care of this. And in return, you're going
to do this. Right? Now here comes somebody else.
I've just made this promise with Mike, and here
comes Brian. Now Brian wants to claim that promise
for himself. No, that's my promise too. How's
that going to work? Is that going to go over
real well? Someone's probably going to get a
little upset, huh? Like, who do you think you
are? Get out of here. That's what people do when
they misquote 2 Chronicles 7 .14 like this. That's
exactly what they do. But they try to take it
on a national front. As a nation, we speak for
everybody. No, you don't. Because as a nation,
you want to kick my Jesus out of courts, out
of schools, and everywhere that's important.
You don't speak for me, and you certainly don't
speak for him. I turn to him, and I speak because
of him. So we have to be careful. We have to
look at the context. We have to look at how it
applies. The context is so important because
we need the real Jesus, not the fake Jesus, not
the celebrity Jesus, right? Some of us have seen
the Kevin Smith movie, Your Buddy Jesus. Nope,
none of that. We need the real biblical Jesus
in our lives. And in doing so, in reading his
word, and coming into a relationship with him,
we find out what the true promises are for us.
How they apply to us individually. No longer
is a nation, we don't have a king speaking on
our behalf. Most nations that still have kings
and queens, that royalty doesn't even speak for
their nation. They're there in a celebrity status,
right? We come, we make the decision, not as
a nation on earth but as individuals because
those promises that are made apply to us individually.
And we start to find that out because we learn
from the Bible, we understand it, and we begin
to see how trustworthy it is. How much we can
have faith in Jesus. How our relationship with
him grows. How the Holy Spirit comes into us
and changes us from who we were. into who we
need to be. And it's a daily process, right?
It's gradual. So we have to do this in order
so we can find out where we stand with Jesus,
where we stand in this world as a follower of
Jesus. And we start figuring out this stuff that's
preached that just doesn't sit right now. We
know why it's not right. And we can fire back
like, no, that's wrong and this is why. Look
at the full context. See, the beauty is all this
comes to play. We figure out where we stand.
We find our relationship with Jesus. And that's
not part of a nation here on earth. It's individually,
right? Because when you accept Jesus with your
heart, your mind, and your soul, you become part
of something much bigger. And when that happens,
those promises run a little bit deeper than they
did. They mean something a little bit more than
what you thought they did. And when people try
to interfere with that, it's upsetting. So you
take a stand. And it's because you become part
of the family of God. You're adopted back into
the family. You now have a place. place in heaven.
You have a place where treasures are stored up
for you. You have a place at the table with the
Father. You're put back in a relationship. Your
sins are covered by the blood of Jesus on the
cross. And you begin to have that relationship
with Him. And it's important to know this. It's
important to know that it's not as a nation.
It's important to know this as an individual.
Because that relationship means so much more.
And in eternity, it's going to mean even more.
These promises are made to you as an individual
for a reason. And it's because Jesus loves you.
He wants a relationship with you. He wants to
be able to help clean you of your sins, wash
your feet, bring you back into the family. And
he wants to be able to reach everybody, which
is why he's given us the great commission to
go out and share with others what he's done for
us so that they can come to know him as well.
Ultimately, it's to be a part of the family.
So we have to be very careful, not misquote things,
not take things out of context. And as we end
today in prayer, I'm going to do something a
little different. I'm going to ask everybody
to join me. here in just a second of praying.
And we're going to pray the Lord's Prayer. I'm
going to put it up here on the screen. This is
the New King James Version, so I know most of
us know it by the King James Version itself,
but it's okay. It's not that different. All right,
so let us pray. Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this
day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses.
We forgive those who trespass against us. Do
not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from
evil. For yours is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever. Amen. See, there I am.
I'm going back to the King James while I have
the new King James behind me because we typically
go out the new King James in here. So I kind
of mix it up a little bit. It's like, wait, that's
not right. See, that's what I get trying to be
helpful. And when I put things up on the screen,
it backfires because I start looking at that
and going off of what I know. But anyway. I did
this. It's a little different for a good reason.
Sometimes we get away from it as a church. We
start praying and we forget things. So it's just
one last thing I want to go over here real quickly.
I do mean very quickly and we're going to get
out of here. I'll get you to lunch, I promise.
We should all look at this, which is why I put
it up with the scripture, Matthew 6, verses 9
through 13. Even when we're alone, we should
pray this by ourselves. We should do it regularly.
And the reason why we do that is because it's
a reminder. This is a blueprint for us to follow
because this is a blueprint given by Jesus himself
of all the things that we need to include in
prayer. Sometimes we get caught up in things
and we just go to him for the things that we
want or the things that we think we need. Sometimes
we go to him on behalf of others to intercede
for others, right? But we forget the first thing
is we need to acknowledge his greatness, who
he is, and we need to give him praise. We need
to thank him for who he is and what he's done
for us. So a little bit of homework for everybody.
Reflect on this. Meditate on this. Pray it and
start using it as a daily part of your life.
And you'll see that your prayers will start to
change as well. All right, on that note, as promised,
I was going to keep it brief. So remember, you
are loved, you are blessed, so go and be the
church. God bless. Thank you for joining us at
Healing Scars with Pastor Burton. Until next
time, take care and God bless.