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[Music] [Music] Faithful girl, you are faithful. [Music] [Music] Praise to the holy, faithful one. Hallelujah. [Music] Your presence. [Music] So holy, Father, You Are Holy. Thank you. [Music] [Music] [Music] Your presence. Hallelujah. We praise in Your presence. [Music] [Music] Praise the Lord, everybody. Make your way back to your seats. Hallelujah. I'm excited to see what God's going to do this afternoon. Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. I heard good things about this morning. Jackson told me he never sat down in the seat, so that means it's pretty good stuff. Hallelujah. I'm excited to see what God's going to do today. Worship with them as they sing. [Music] Thank you.
[Music] [Music] [Music] You were with me through the night, Lord. I'm thankful. I'm not there any longer. I can see Your faithfulness. It is all around me. It's You're not finished. I've never seen a midnight that wasn't followed by the sunrise. I've learned to live by faith when clouds are darkened in the sky. And there's never been wrong that's didn't lead me back to You, Lord. I've never seen a storm. [Music] [Music] Lord, Your hand is. [Music] Jesus. [Music] When clouds are dark and in the skies. [Music] What I've never seen a storm see me through. Through. [Music] Out the standing higher. I'm so glad You found me in the blood and in the fire. Lord, Your hand has led me to the Rock and standing higher. I'm so glad You found me. I can see Your faithfulness. It is. Thank you. I've never seen a midnight that wasn't followed by the sunrise. [Music] Have faith when darkening lead back to You. [Music] But I've never seen a storm. Oh, Missy storm. Oh, that You won't see me through. [Music] You won't see me through, my God. You can make your way back to your seats. Please remain standing. You know, the thank you, the crazy thing about a storm and trials or whatever you're going through is God puts you through those to see how much He can trust you. He's trying to take you from where you are to another place. He's trying to see just how much you can take. [Music] So He can give you some more. Hallelujah. And I know the trials seem like they're tough when they're on your back. But on the other side of the storm, on the other side of the trial, there's a blessing. There's a potential. And God wants to do things through us through those trials and through those storms. And I'm so thankful that every trial that I've been through, every storm that I've been through, He's always, without fail, brought me through. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If we could get some ushers, I'm going to give you an opportunity to be blessed this evening. God, I pray that You'll take these tithes and monies and use them for the furtherance of Your kingdom. I pray, God, that You have blessed this church and let the Holy Ghost continue to move in Jesus name. Worship with them as they seem. Thank you. [Music] In my sickness. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Economy and I'm sorry. [Music] [Music] Just dance. [Music] [Music] [Music] In the morning. [Music] [Music] Is. [Music] Foreign. We go to the greatest church in the world, you know it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I know it's only 12 after three, but Brother Copeland seems to need all the time he can get. So I want to ask him to come to the pulpit and teach us this afternoon. Do you love your pastor? [Music] Hallelujah. Thank you, my brother. Thank you. Thank you. Aren't you ready to go to the word? I, uh, I'm honored to pastor the greatest people on the face of planet. This is a great church. [Music] And, uh, I want to thank each and every class teacher and class that's going on on Wednesday nights. I don't believe there's anything I've done that has garnered more compliments and more thanks than the classes. I'm having people text me, call me. I'm just telling you, what we're doing on Wednesday nights and these classes is awesome. We're doing classes on Wednesday nights for the saints of God, and then through the week, small groups are going on. And I'm just telling you, those two things are the small groups is that's the reason we're having so many guests. We have between 55 and 60 guests last Sunday. I believe we might have topped that this Sunday. And it's the small groups. The small groups are responsible for that. So thank you so much. Thank you so much for that. Colossians chapter 4, verse 5 for your consideration for a few minutes. Colossians chapter 4 and verse 5. Colossians chapter 4 and verse 5 says, "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without." Redeeming the time. Friends, with you that, that's a, that's an important verse of scripture. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man. Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 16. And then I'm going to let you be seated. Ephesians chapter 5. In verse 16. Welcome to every guest that's here. We're thankful for every guest. Brother in Hall, good to see you home. He's been out doing choir clinics and setting up church books, and that's a very, very needed, needed thing that he's doing. Redeeming the time because the days are evil. Redeeming the time because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. God bless you. You can be seated. I want to talk to you for a few minutes, staying in keeping with what I've been doing on Sunday afternoons. I want to use one word to teach from, and that word today is time. I want to talk to you for a few minutes about time. I read some amazing quotes concerning time, and I want to select a few and and read them to you. An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but you cannot buy that inch of time with the inch of gold. Hmm. There is never enough time to do it right, but there always seems to be enough time to do it over. Some of these I feel like I need to read twice. There's never enough time to do it right, but there always seems to be enough time to do it over. A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Time moves slowly, but yet passes so quickly. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Life will just give you enough time to do it. Time is free, yet you can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can invest it. And once it has been lost, it will never be retrieved. Although we try to control it in a million different ways, there's only two things that can really be done to time. It are wasted on your time, or your time will own you. It is true that time flies, but you're the pilot. Yesterday is today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. So control today. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. The best thing about time is that it keeps everything from happening at once. I'm talking to you today about the single most valuable thing that you have at your disposal, not that you possess, because that would be a wrong word, but that you have at your disposal, and that is time. God has loaned you so many units of time, and you have no, you have no idea how many units that there is. Now, it will probably do me no good to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. It will probably do me no good to say this, but yet I'm going to say it anyway. I can't imagine someone wasting their time on gaming stations. I can't imagine that. You know, when I, when I was growing up, you had to have a bunch of quarters or a bunch of tokens, and you had to go down to a, to a gaming depot, or sometimes they had several of them set up in a convenience store, and you could only play depending on how many quarters you had. But I'm so thankful for a dad that would not let me go to a game room. I can remember a man in our church opened a huge game room. Of course, y'all don't know anything about that in today's time, but in the '80s, man, that was the deal. You go down to a game room. They still have them in Pigeon Forge and Brampton and places like that. But when I was growing up, every, every town that was over about 50,000 people had a, had a game room. And I'm just telling you, my dad would not let me go in a game room. I was only in a game room a time or two as a teenager, and that was just because I figured out a way to go without my daddy finding out. I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful for that because when I was growing up, there weren't cell phones. They didn't exist. If you, the way you stayed in touch with your parents is you found a pay phone and you called them and told them where you at and what you were doing, or where you wanted them to think you were at and what you wanted them to think you were doing. You actually had that option back then. You don't have that option today because parents today will put a tracker on your head and track you. But I can't imagine with the units of life that you have, wasting those units of life gaming. It's too valuable. You can use time to make money, but you can't use money to make time. No amount of money is going to buy you an extra unit of life. You have too many people that's tried it. The reason that I'm, I'm saying this is not to put you under conviction, because I'm just going to tell you, it's like I preached last, last week. If that's what you're hungry for, I'm not going to change that hunger. If you're hungry, hungry to waste your time gaming, there's nothing I can say that's going to change that hunger. But you can change it. You can change it. You've only, you've only got so much time available, and you don't know how much time that you have at your disposal. I got an uncle that died, Brother, Brother Nicholas Cardwell's father died way too early. But yet, apparently, he died exactly when God wanted him to. If I'm not mistaken, he was the age that I am now when he passed away. 56. Is that correct? I can't imagine knowing that my life would end this year. I can't imagine that. I feel so young. I feel so vibrant. I feel so ready to conquer the world. I can't imagine knowing that I would have to quit right now. But how much more would I feel that way if I could look back and find that I wasted precious years on a stupid Xbox or something? I can't imagine that. None of this would be here if I, if I had been a gamer. None of this would be here. I'm blessed that I was raised in a generation that didn't have that stuff. And so the, the option that I had, and also you, you, you know, when I was growing up, you didn't, and I don't know that my dad was focused on just time wasting, but somebody asked me the other day, what did you enjoy doing with your dad when he was growing up? I said, working. I'm not saying I enjoyed it. I'm just saying that's what we did. We worked. When I got in from school, I knew the thing that I was going to do when I got home. If I wanted to spend time with my dad, is I was going to be pulling wire, or straightening the fender on a car, or vacuuming a car out, or washing a car, or buffing a car, or fixing up security, security lights so that we could sell them. A new, that something industrious was going to be going on. When I can't count how many attics I crawled through, or houses I crawled under, pulling wire, Romex wire, but it was conditioning me to pastor church. Because if you guys think pastoring church, it's just getting up in the pulpit with a suit on and hollering, what I'm doing right now is maybe five percent of what pastoring, what's involved in pastoring church. It's amazing to me that you guys are so limp. Some of you, I shouldn't, I shouldn't wrap you all in one. I shouldn't paint you all one brush. Forgive me. I, I can't imagine the people that think I can preach good. When am I going to pastor a church? I'm preached good. That's the same thing as saying I, I learned how to send emails. When am I going to run my own company? Same idea. Preaching really is the least qualification that is needed to be in the ministry. It's the very least. That's the minimum. In fact, I hate to bust your bubble, but some of the greatest pastors that I've known in my ministry could not preach a lick. You couldn't preach, but they had developed the skill of handling people. They knew how to deal with people, and that's what built their church. Sometimes I preach in places where I can see that a guy sitting there with his Bible, just getting so bitter. And when you talk to him, I just, I can just tell, I'm not going to be used in this church. Pastors are never going to recognize my ministry. Let me just tell you something. That I'm getting off subject. So I'm going to quickly say this and get back on the subject. But it does not matter if your pastor recognizes your ministry or not. That has nothing to do with it. Nothing. Let me tell you something. If God recognizes your ministry and He's ready to use you, the pastor can't stop it. And if God don't recognize your ministry and is not ready to use you, there's nothing your pastor can do to, to, to get you started and get you going. It is totally out of your pastor's hands. So too many preachers moved to six churches in 10 years trying to find a pastor that affront their ministry, totally missing the fact it has nothing to do with it. It has nothing to do with it. And I'm not off my subject of time because I want to go back and tell you that that I'm very thankful that I lived in an era that what I spent my time doing was reading. I developed a tremendous appetite, hunger for the written word. And reading has been the greatest boon to my ministry that I can imagine. Even though I was reading sometimes in my younger years, even though I was reading Louis Lamour, it still helped develop my, my, it gave me a vocabulary of words that made people actually desire to listen to me talk. Because if you don't read, you're going to have 150 words in your vocabulary, and after about five minutes of you repeating the same 150 words over and over and over, you're going to lose your audience. My point is, what are you spending your time doing? You've got so many units of time, and you don't know how many you have. I have an Uncle Tim Copeland that, while he is still alive, his time of usefulness has expired. Outside of a God's a miracle from God, his time expired at 65 years old. So if my time was to expire at 65, I've got nine years left. Nine years to be useful. I can't imagine that. I can't imagine what I would do, how I would respond if I knew that was all I had left. What would I do? What moves would I make if I, if I was like Wayne Cardwell and my time was to expire this year? What would I do with the rest of the units that are left? If I had six months or nine months, what would I do? Well, I'll tell you one thing I wouldn't do. I wouldn't buy an Xbox. I'll tell you what, what I would do. I would probably delete Instagram and Facebook. I would look at the time wasters in my world and say, I've got to get rid of that. I've got to rid myself of those things because I do not have enough time. See, for you to, for you to not have a limit, a time limit on Instagram. I've had a time limit for on Instagram and Facebook for two years now. I'm limited to 30 minutes on each per day. So an entire day, I limit myself to 30 minutes on each one of those platforms. 30 minutes on Instagram, 30 minutes on Facebook, and nothing else media-wise do I spend my time on because I haven't got time for that. Every once in a while, I'll have, I'll have a, I'll have a preacher contact me and and say, man, where do you, where do you come up with your content to preach? You preach some of the most outstanding ideas. Where do you come up with that stuff? And I don't want to hurt their feelings, but but I actually read. Believe it or not, my books are not for decoration. I have people come to my house, house and offices. You have the most decorative books. They're not decorative. I'm reading them. I'm reading those books. [Music] I have people that come into my office and they're like, how many of these books have you read? All of them. Every one of them. I do not have come. I do not claim to have read every one of them completely through because, just quite honestly, if I get 10 pages in and I'm bored, I'm done with that book. Because I don't get bored easy reading. I like words. But 80 to 90 percent of the books it's on my bookshelves, I've read all the way through cover to cover, unless they're an encyclopedia or a, or a reference book. If those, there's some books that you go to to look something up. There's other books that you just read. If they're books that you go to to look things up, like an encyclopedia or thesaurus, I cannot claim to have read those through. I'm telling you, the reason that people drive one hour, an hour and 50, some some two hours to come to this church to hear someone preach is because not only do I not get up and preach cliches, I've taught the preachers that fill this pulpit not to get up and preach cliches. Pentecost is weary with God's going to walk you out of your trial. We serve a good God. God's good all the time. Can I, can you repeat me, church? God's good all the time. There's some churches that's all they hear every Sunday is the repeating of the same cliches in different ways. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Can you repeat me, church? Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. We serve a good God. God's good all the time. And they have 45 minutes of that, and they wonder why they struggle with faithfulness. What are you spending your time? Time is valuable. It is the most valuable commodity that you possess. What are you spending time doing? I pray with everything that's within me that we are raising a generation that is reaching higher than spending their time on a good Facebook page. I pray with everything within me that the people at Pine Grove Pentecostal Church has a desire to do more than make their Instagram look good. [Music] It is my hope and desire that we are producing entrepreneurs in this church that want to spend their time building a business instead of an online reputation. [Applause] I pray that Pine Grove Pentecostal Church is putting in the heart of our young people that time is valuable. It's too valuable to waste. It's, it's too valuable to just. [Applause] Hmm. Time. What, what about your time? So at 3:37, I need to redeem the time. Ecclesiastes chapter 3, 2-7. Ecclesiastes, the third chapter. Let's look at the second through the seventh verse. Time can acquire money, but money cannot acquire time. One person said, there's only one thing more precious than our time, and that's who are you willing to invest it in. I, I'm going to say that again because that went over your head. There's, let me go back and read it one more time. There, there's only one thing more precious than our time, and that's who we decide to invest it in. Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Verses two through, two through seven. Who are you willing to invest your time in? The wisest writer says, there's a time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up that we just planted. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together. In a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to rend and a time to sow. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. There is a time for all things under the heavens. And you don't learn about time and the value of it on Facebook or Instagram or gaming. They are time killers. They are time destroyers. They're time thieves. So if the most valuable thing in your world is time, and you can't buy it, you can't purchase it, you can't figure out a way to, to extend it, then who you spend or who you invest your time in becomes the most valuable commodity in the world. So I started out reading a verse where Paul tells you where Paul tells you that you do not need to spend too much time with the unsaved. That's not a good place to play to put your time. Why don't we go back and look at that one more time real quickly? Let's go back and look at that one more time real quickly, because I'm, I'm running out of this precious commodity called time. Colossians 4 and 5. Let's look at Colossians 4 and 5 one more time. "Walk in wisdom toward them that are without." Who's he talking about? Those that are not in the body of Christ. Now, you can't win them not spending any time with them at all. That's not the point. I want to go back to a concept that I've taught over and over and over. Someone said that if you've been at Pine Grove for any length of time, you know that there, there are these subjects that we're going to always revisit. This is a safe place. This must be kept a safe place. This must be a place of safety. We're very careful in how we deal with people who come to Pine Grove because it's got to be kept safe. Number two, balance. You're going to hear balance over and over and over and over again. It's a concept that you've got to get hold of. What is that balance point? Well, we don't, we don't not spend time with the unsaved because you can't win them, but you've got to have a balance in how you approach people that don't have a desire to live for God. If you spend too much time with them, they're going to zap you and turn your light out. Once they do that, you have no ability to win them. So how do you deal with the unsaved? You deal with them with balance. You, you spend a little bit, just enough time that you're affecting them. If they're not affecting you, you got to keep your witness. You got to keep your testimony if you're going to win them. Sister Jacobs, it's so good to see you here. God bless you. I love you. I love it when you're here. So walk in wisdom. What does this mean? It means that you, you've got to have wisdom in dealing with the unsaved because you, you got to win them without them winning you. You got to be careful in how you approach all that. All right. And so then, let's, let's real quickly look at the second verse that I, I read as a launching pad, and that is found in Ephesians. Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 16. Ephesians 5 and 16. "Redeeming the time because the days are evil." Once you realize we live in the last days, then one of the most important things that's got to constantly be in your mind, no matter how young you are, because the problem with youth is you think you think you're going to live forever. Time is not important to young people because they think they got all the time in the world. Well, let me, let me, let me bring a very important subject to your mind right quick, and that is that I got to looking at it, and I've buried as many young people since I've been a pastor as I have old people. That's startling to me. It's startling to me that I've preached just as many funerals of young people as I have elderly people. That means that death doesn't care how young you are. Death had just as soon take you at 16 as he had 96. He, he, he is so. "Redeeming the time because the days are evil." Once you realize that we're in the last days, the most important thing you need to focus on is I haven't got any time left. So you may not die, you may be raptured. I got to, I got to thinking about it the other day. I would hate for the Lord to come back and me be found on Facebook or Instagram when the Rapture takes place. I don't want those kind of odds. I'd hate to get to the glory world, they said, man, what happened when, when you, when the Rapture took place? What were you doing? Well, I was right in the middle of a game of Black Ops. Let's look at Psalms 90 and 12. Psalms chapter 90 and verse 12. I'm preaching to you. I'm talking to you. I'm teaching to you about time today. Time, time. Psalms 90 and 12. "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto." Instagram? Teach us to number our days, so we must be wise Facebook users. Teach us to number our days, so we'll be real good at Xbox. No. Teach us to number our days so that we will apply our hearts unto wisdom. That's not even knowledge. So that we will apply our hearts unto wisdom. James 4, verses 13 through 15. James 4, verses 13 through 15. James, the fourth chapter, in the 13th through the 15th verse. "Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain." Okay, what, what's the subject here? Well, first of all, let me tell you, the subject is not going to a city and continuing there a year. The subject didn't even buying or selling or getting gain. None of that is the subject. Those are illustrations to the real subject. Okay, he's illustrating that that we're doing this thing of life. Okay, so he's saying that as you go about doing the things that are involved in life, next verse, verse 14, "Whereas ye know not what shall be on tomorrow. For what is your life?" The subject here is that your life may be real short. So as you're making your plans of the things that involve life, remember that it is a vapor, and that you only have a little bit of it. It appeareth for a little time, and then it vanishes away. Life is as water spilled on the ground. Life is a flower that appears in the sun, and the sun withers it. The subject here is, you don't have much time to buy and sell and go into cities and spend time with people. So you better be very careful and choosy about the things that you do and who you spend your time with and what city you spend your time in. Verse 15. "For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that." Okay, here's the deal. If you decide to spend some time on Facebook, you better ask yourself, is this Your will, Lord? James said, every decision you make, if it's going to work, go into visit someone, going to spend time somewhere, deciding to spend a little time gaming, sure, you should ask yourself, Lord, is this Your will? I'm telling you, most of what we do would stop in its tracks if we asked ourselves before we did anything, Lord, is this Your will? There's a lot of places we wouldn't go if we would ask ourselves, is this Your will, Lord? There's a lot of things we wouldn't do. There's a lot of people we wouldn't spend time with. There's just a lot of things. I'm just telling you, the nonsense would end if we would obey the scripture of asking the Lord, is this Your will, before we did it. Now, let me cover this right quick about time, because I got 10 minutes and I'm going to quit. Let me just tell you, there's a lot of things that we would reconsider. It is the will of God for you to work. God does not want to spend you to spend all your time praying. For those of you that are so super spiritual, God don't want you spending all your time praying. Number two, God does not want you to spend all your time reading His word. You know why? Because it's His will that you support your family, and it's His will that you pay your bills. So let me get on a candy stick that you're going to hear a lot of times if you hang around Pine Grove. Balance. He wants you to get up and go to work. He wants you to earn a living so that your children can have macaroni and cheese and cereal and all that in the cupboards. That is His will. He said, if you don't want to do that, don't get married. That's what Paul said in His word. Paul said in His word, if you want to spend all your time praying, don't be dating. If you want to give yourself to prayer and fasting and reading the word of God, you have no business going out with girls or going out with guys. You're headed down the wrong trail. Don't waste your time dating if you're so spiritual that you just want to pray and fast all the time, because you have no business getting in a relationship that's going to give birth to children. Because if you get in a relationship and you fall in love with that girl and you marry her, then guess what? 40 to 60 hours a week, you go, you, you, you're going to be working your finger to the bone because it's not up to the bad administration to pay your bills for you. [Applause] Let me just tell you, at Pine Grove Pentecostal Church, we don't believe in government support. We don't believe it's up to food stamps and disability to support you. We believe you ought to work and earn a living for yourself. There is no one's business to support you but you. Now, let me again go back to balance. There are certain situations to where people have no other choice, but we believe that's what all that's for is people that have no other choice, not for people to actually go to school to learn how to work the system to support you. We believe in all that is for people that just have no other way to make it. So there are certain situations where people just, they just, they just got to have all that. But Paul warned, and here's what he said, if, if you're going to eat, guess what? You're to work and earn it. So you, you need to ask yourself, what am I going to do with time? I need to make my choices early on. If I want to spend my time praying and fasting and seeking the Lord and just reading His word, then the best thing I can do is not get married, not have a family. Because if I create a family, then God wants me to chisel out a bunch of time each week focusing on supporting that wife and family that I created. I made a choice concerning what I was going to do with my time, and now one of the most spiritual things I can do is earn a living, and God's going to bless that because I made that choice. Now, He does not want me to be a monk. He wants me to be a bread earner. And you know what He's going to do? He's going to bless that time. And boy, when I do pray and when I do fast, He's really going to bless it because He understands that's valuable time. Am I making sense to you all today? In other words, God is going to repulse at spending a lot of time with me in prayer if I'm doing it and not taking care of my obligations. You know what He's going to say? Get your hide up, son, and go to work. You need to be supporting your family, not laying around the altar talking to me, because you made some choices. And now He's not going to bless me laying around the altar reading my Bible. He wants me to go to work and support the family that I created. It's about the proper use of time. Am I making sense to y'all today? The other side of it is that you've got to carve out time for relationship with Him. The most invaluable, the most valuable time that you can spend is in prayer and reading your word. Nothing is going to give you wisdom to live life like praying and reading the Bible. Nothing at all. So you got to carve out time for that. Because if you're going to have a successful family, you're going to run a successful business, you're going to be a good husband or a good wife or a good mother or a good father, the best place you can be investing the time that you have is in reading your Bible and praying, because that's where wisdom comes from to do life properly. That's why we got a prayer log out there. And the people that live close to the church, if they live within five or ten miles, or some of them 15 miles of the church, you know what they're doing at five and six o'clock? Man, I got the Ring camera on my phone, and I love that. By the way, is Brother Parker in the auditorium? Brother Parker, for some reason, when I go on that Ring camera to see who was there, it says, it don't, don't have, it's not recording video anymore. We got to fix that. We need to fix it. Whatever we got to do to fix it, I don't know what we got to do. We got to fix that. It used to be that I could punch that thing and go back and and watch it, see who that was that went by there and come in here and prayed. I said, who was that that came in and prayed? Go a video and says, it's not recording video. We got to get that video recorder fixed. Why are you doing that right now? Because I, if I don't do it right now, I'll forget. I'm a busy man. I got to do things when the time's right. I'm redeeming the time. Brother Parker's the most awesome guy for all that in the world. He's, that's a bless, that is a great blessing to this church. Tommy Parker is a great blessing to this church. Yes, he is. He's awesome. My phone starts going off about four or four thirty every morning with people signing that prayer log and praying. If you're trying to run a business, run a family, be a mother, father, business owner, entrepreneur, or whatever, the most valuable time you can spend, if it's not but 30 minutes, is signing that prayer log and bowing your knee and saying, God, I got to have You today. If you live within five to ten miles of your, this church, and you're not doing that, you're cheating yourself. You're cheating your family. You're cheating your spouse. You're cheating your business out of the most valuable thing. Redeem the time in prayer and the word of God. Let me tell you, a good plan to sleep real good is fall asleep reading your Bible. Somebody said, I'm having nightmares. Then start falling asleep reading your Bible. You're not going to have nightmares if the last thing you're thinking on when you go to sleep is the word of God. Man, if the last thing that you're, you're reading before you go to sleep is the Psalms, "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." You ain't going to have nightmares. That's the last thing you're thinking on before you go to sleep. You're not going to struggle to sleep if the last thing you, you read is, "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies, and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: the war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Because one thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple." What do you think about that, quiz team? [Applause] Y'all can't sign me up. I'm too old. You rest easy doing that. You know, you sleep good at night, read the word before you fall asleep. And you know how you have a good day? Sign that prayer log and walk these aisles and pray before you start your day that the Lord is going to bless you. It's time well spent. I'm, I'm done. The most important thing you can do is in, is is spend your time with the Lord. Spend your time with the Lord. You're never too young to learn how to pray and read your Bible, and you're never too old that it's not important anymore. But once you have a family, this is the most important thing I can say to you. Once you have a family, God understands that, and when you redeem time with Him, He redeems time with you. I, I'm, I'm, I'm closing with this, but I gotta, I gotta tell you this. Stand together. I gotta tell you this in the, in the, in the last moments. Let me tell you what God does with time. II Peter 3 and 8. I'm finished. It's four o'clock. Second Peter 3 and 8. Could you, could we go there on the screen? God does the same thing with time He does with finance. When you give a wonderful portion to Him sacrificially, He gives it back to you, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. He does the same way with time. Time, He does with money. If you'll invest a good portion with Him, He'll give it back to you, pressed down, running over. "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is a thousand years, is a thousand years is one day." What's He saying there? Well, the wonderful interpretation is, is if you'll give it to Him, He'll multiply. [Applause] You're never wasting time praying and reading your word. But you'll pray and spend time with Him, He'll give it back at the end of the day. [Applause] You say, man, I can't come up here and pray. Time gets away from me. I can't read my Bible. Time. I hadn't got time to pray. Your study, not when you got a God that one day is there's a thousand years, a thousand years a day. You know what that means? That means He multiplies your time. He can make you avoid that traffic jam if you'll come pray. He'll make things work out better if you'll come pray. Your car won't break down. The tractor won't break down. You won't have those problems. The plans will work out better. He'll make your day go better. You won't have those complications if you'll pray and seek Him with Him. He'll figure out a way to make your day go better. I love you. God bless you. Thank you for being. Thank you for coming to this second service and being a part of teaching. Shake hands. Be friendly. You're dismissed. Don't forget church. Everybody say church. Tuesday night, family prayer and breakout sessions. Wednesday night. God bless you in Jesus name.