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Hey everyone, welcome to First Works Baptist Church. Let's all make our way inside and find a seat To find your seat. Let's grab a song book open that song book up to song number 43 We're marching to Zion and if you are able let's all stand together for our first song song 43 we're marching to Zion Song number 43 we're marching to Zion everyone nice and strong on that first verse Come we that love the lord and let our joys be known Join in a song with sweet accord join in a song with sweet accord And us around the throne and us around the throne We're marching On beautiful beautiful Zion We're marching upward to Zion The beautiful city of god Let those Refuse to sing who never knew our god but children of the heavenly king but children of the heavenly Speak their joys abroad may speak their joys abroad We're marching to Zion Beautiful beautiful Zion We're marching upward to Zion The beautiful city of god The hill of Zion Yields a thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly films before we reach the heavenly Golden streets or walk the golden streets We're marching to Zion Beautiful beautiful Zion we're marching upward to Zion a beautiful city of god To let our songs abound and every tear be dry We're marching through emmanuel's ground To bear Two Marching to Zion Beautiful beautiful Zion Marching upward to Zion Father thank you God Lord for allowing us to be here tonight Lord and hear your word preached unto us God We thank you Lord for your word. God. We thank you for this church and for pastor Lord We pray now God that you would bless him and fill him with your Holy Spirit God as he preaches to us Lord and help us God to be edified by the preaching Lord that we would Apply it to our lives Lord and we pray differently than when we came in God. We love you Lord It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen You may be seated Song 167 All Hail the power of Jesus name Song number one hundred and sixty-seven All hail the power of Jesus name everyone all together nice and strong All hail the power of Jesus name let angels prostrate fall bring forth the Royal diadem and crown Bring the royal diadem and crown Chosen seed of Israel's race he ran some from the Hail him who saves you by his grace Hail him who saves you by his grace And Let every kindred every tribe on this terrestrial ball To him all majesty a strike and crown Him To him all majesty a strike and crown Lord Oh that with yonder sacred throng we had his feet may fall May fall will join the Everlasting song and crown him Will join the everlasting song and crown him Lord All right, great singing thank you for being here this evening just a few announcements here before we sing our next song Which will be song number 37? There'll be no dark valley song number 37 if you want to get that ready in your song books If you did not get a bulletin Go ahead and raise your hand one of the ushers can get one for you some important information on there as well as our prayer Sheet our Sunday morning service is at 1030 Sunday evening at 5 p.m And then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock We are currently going through the book of Matthew on Thursday evenings So glad to have you tonight for a midweek Bible study You see the Sony teams and times the list of expecting mothers if you can keep them in prayer And of course the important reminders there at the bottom Please make sure you give heed to that and some of the upcoming church events Friday September 29th We have the homeschool field trip and that'll be a kids based Children's Museum meeting there at 9 45 a.m If you'd like to participate in that if you are homeschooling your kids Of course, the activity is free for anybody who participates You can see my wife for more details in that regard and then we have a lady's prayer breakfast coming up on Saturday October 7th Meeting at the building at 10 a.m And if you have any questions about that, or if you want to be of a help you can see mr. Now Gonzalez She's the one who heads that up When they have the prayer breakfast there and then on Friday October 27th is the homeschool park day one announcement That's not on here that I'm going to talk more about in detail This coming Sunday is our fall program our falls right around the corner. In fact Paul is here on Saturday I'm kind of ready to say goodbye to the summer and those Darn mosquitoes. Okay. Hopefully they go back to where they came from. I'm just kidding those bloodsuckers I'm ready for the fall I'm ready for the winter But I'm ready for the fall program and a little something we're gonna do a little different this year is actually we're pushing it back a couple weeks And so the fall program with that will actually begin at the end of October leading into November and of course concluding with the banquet and so I'll give you more details about that on Sunday, but we're looking forward to a great fall program We're still gonna have a push for visitors and so looking forward to that You see the regular reminders there at the bottom no food or drink allowed in the main auditorium except for water and coffee Please make sure you're not Lord hearing in the foyer fellowship hall during the preaching service And of course, please make sure you silence your phones During the preaching so as to not be a distraction during a service So everyone's not looking at you and wondering where is that worldly song coming from? Who's who's the owner of that phone, you know things of that nature? And so just keep that in mind go ahead and pull out your prayer sheets there I'm not gonna go over this but the G is gonna come up in just a bit I just want to encourage everyone of course as we near the end of the year to pray for some specific things, of course pray for our missions trip to Belize and We're looking forward to going there having a preaching service and and also evangelizing the the nearby city known as San Jose and so pray that we would be able to get a lot of people saved there and That it would be very fruitful But then also that we would get a lot of people saved during the fall program and we're gonna have a push for visitors And in my opinion, it works really well I mean we've had there's people in our church right now who actually reach through the fall program their first time visiting was as a visitor during the fall program and They got saved they got baptized. They became faithful to church started reaching people and so Pray that we'd see that again this year It's it's exciting to see new visitors come to church and so being prayer over that and just for the for the conclusion of The year, of course We concluded with one of the biggest things we have in our church is The Christmas program and we're gonna be meeting with some of the leaders on Sunday night in that regard But pray that that goes as that goes well as well And then just for the conclusion of the year that we'd finish strong as a church and that God will give us a great 2024 to come as well and that's pretty much it If you have an additional prayer request you'd like to be mentioned You can place that at the bottom Tear that off put into the offering plate and we'll make sure that it gets on there for the following week for the Jew Why don't you come on up and pray with these needs? All right, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer Generally father. Thank you for this day Thank you for keeping us all safe as we traveled here And we also want to thank you for this church that we have and the blessing has been I'm sure to all of us Lord and we just pray that you continue to bless our church continue to use our church in a great way we reached a lot of people with our Sony marathons and just you know our Sunday soul-winning Lord We just thank you for all the people we've reached so far and we just pray that as you reach new people as you grow Numerically Lord, we just pray that they get plugged in to the Christian life Lord and they can start serving you Start coming to church more often Lord and and hopefully become a laborer and start sowing in Lord for themselves Lord we just pray to continue to bless our church and help us to grow in that way Lord I just want to pray for the missions trips, especially a mischief to Belize that's coming up Lord We've obviously labored there for some years already Lord So we have a lot of converts that we already know and we just pray that the converts Show up to this the preaching service Lord and we can stay in touch with them And that ultimately that door remains open unto us Lord So we can also get a lot of people saved while we're in Belize as well as having a great Turnout for the service Lord and we can just have a great work done for you over there Lord We just pray that you you keep us safe while we travel and you just help us to get a lot of work done We also want to pray for the new people in our church Lord and like I said already Lord as we get a lot of new people We've been seeing a lot of new people coming in on Sundays Lord and just throughout the weeks Lord We just pray that as they come in That they're not say that they can get saved Lord and that they just get plugged in and you know Bring their friends and their family and we could just get a great work done for you here over over here Lord We also want to pray for the salvation of our unsaved family and friends Lord Obviously there's people in all of our lives that we that we know are not saved Lord whether that's because of pride or whatever That is Lord. We just pray that you soften their hearts that they can come to the to salvation Lord that free gift And Lord we just pray that that That all the families that we have as well continue to grow obviously a lot of expecting mothers Lord and We just that's obviously a blessing on our church though that we have a lot of New mothers and we also have a lot of existing mothers have new new babies on the way Lord And that's obviously a sign that you've been blessing our church Lord, and we also just want to pray for the fall program That's coming up Lord. It's obviously been a great work for you in times past So we just pray now that this this one coming up this year can also be a great work for you We can see a lot of new people a lot of souls saved and we could just have a great work done for you There as well Lord and lastly I want to pray for the Christmas program Obviously, we're ending the end of the year. We've had a great year so far Lord a lot of souls saved A lot of people reached we just pray that we continue to reach new people and that the Christmas program turns out to be Great as it's always been Lord and we just pray that you're you're with the leaders of the Christmas program with Pastor Mejia and Whoever's running that up Lord. We just pray that you're just with them and they could do a great work for you Lord and Last we just want to pray for Pastor Mejia right now You fill him with the Holy Spirit help him to preach unto us what he has prepared in his heart Lord Help him to guide him through the scriptures and we also just pray for the congregation that you give him ears to hear and pray this Now in Jesus name. Amen So our third song is gonna be song number 37. There'll be no dark valley All right song number 37 there'll be no dark valley song number 37 There'll be no dark valley everyone all together on this first verse There'll be no dark valley when Jesus Comes there'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes there'll be no dark Valley when Jesus comes together His love To gather Together his loved one's home There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes But a glorious sorrow when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home Together his loved one's home Together his loved one's home There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes But a blessed reaping when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home Together his loved one's home Together his loved one's home There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home There'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes There'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes And a joyful meeting when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home Together his loved one's home Together his loved one's home There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes Together his loved one's home Amen. This time the ushers will collect the offering. Tonight will be in Matthew chapter 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Good evening. We're in Matthew chapter 22. 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