River of Life Christian Fellowship
RLCF Praise Live — June 16, 2024 http://rlcf.church
River of Life Christian Fellowship
1306 N Lincoln Avenue
Loveland, Colorado - 80537, USA
Summary The speaker encourages the congregation to focus entirely on God's faithfulness, drawing inspiration from Isaiah 41, which assures believers that God has chosen and upheld them. The message emphasizes that believers should not fear, as God promises strength and help. Ultimately, the core message is to keep one's life and heart clear of all distractions and sin so that the intimate relationship with Jesus can remain unobstructed.
Transcript 0:01 [Music] I was reading this morning in Isaiah 41 if you have your Bible you can look at it with me I'll just read a few verses Isaiah 41 before we begin to sing Isaiah 0:18 41: 8 says but you my servant but you Israel my servant Jacob whom I have chosen descendant of Abraham my friend that applies to all of us children of Abraham by faith you whom I have taken from the ends of the Earth 0:36 and called from its remotest parts and said to you you are my servant I have chosen you and not rejected you do not fear for I am with you do not anxiously look about you for I am your God I will strengthen you surely I will help you surely I will 0:54 uphold you with my righteous right hand verse 13 for I am the Lord your God who upholds your right hand who says to you do not fear I will help you do not fear you worm Jacob you men of Israel I will help you declar the 1:12 Lord I will help you declar the Lord and your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel behold I have made you a new sharp threshing Sledge with double edges and listen to this you will Thresh the mountains and pulverize them is there a 1:28 mountain in your way mountain of unbelief a mountain of defeat you will Thresh the mountains and pulverize them and will make the hills like chaff you will winnow them and the wind will carry them away and the storm will scatter 1:42 them but you will rejoice in the Lord you will glory in the Holy One of Israel that's why we sing you will rejoice in the Lord you will glory in the Holy One of Israel so let's sing thank you Lord you have been faithful 2:06 indeed to us here we are this morning and your mercies are new great is your faithfulness we've seen new mercies this morning and there are many more we haven't seen yet or may never even realize until we stand before your 2:22 throne but we want to praise you you've been good you've been faithful and greater things are in store Lord than even what we have taken tted and seen we believe that with all of our heart so we praise you I pray that every one of us 2:34 Lord will be able to set aside any other distracting thought any other thought of what's happened in the past what's happened today or what might happen this week and focus our thoughts on you set our affections on things above we praise 2:48 you and glorify you thank you Lord that you know our ways other people may know our deeds and our words and some may even know our how we think but you know our ways those things that are hidden from everybody else and though you know all our ways 3:06 yet your love for us endures thank you we praise you help us Lord to sing fill out fill us with your spirit I pray you'll pour out your spirit in in great measure in our midst this morning that the praise we sing will not be something 3:20 we manufacture but praise that begins in heaven through your spirit we don't know how to pray we don't know how to sing but you holy spirit will do it because you cry out within us with groanings too deep for words so sing through us holy 3:34 spirit we are your vessels we are your instruments thank you you will do it in Jesus name amen I praise you for your faithfulness sing to him he's been faithful praise you Lord for your 3:52 father's love that ever who am I the king of love my sheer who am I that you should call me 4:11 friend lower than the angels for a Time suffer death for only you alone are my 4:30 high priest my only sacri and my before the oh lift your head up sing to him though you know all my 4:49 ways let your love for me and when I all these 5:05 wastings oh I love you more and praise you for your faithful the top it for your Father's Love For Your 5:23 Father's Love That Never Fails whoever I the king of love my sheer who am I that you should call me be lower than the angels for 5:49 [Music] a suffer death for only you alone [Music] my one high priest my only sacri and my before 6:13 the though you know on my [Applause] way with your love for be [Music] end when I think all these 6:35 things I love you more and more oh you know all the 6:50 r let your love for be [Music] Endor when I [Music] on all these oh I love you GL 7:12 and praise you for your faithfulness praise you for your faithfulness to Lord 7:30 Bible says to those who believe he is precious I'd Rather Have Jesus Sil or gold I'd rather be his than have riches 7:48 Untold i' rather have Jesus than houses or land I'd rather be l by hisil then to be the king of 8:09 the and the hell [Music] in i' ra have Jesus thaning world of 8:28 [Music] you know before we move on it's so easy to sing it I tell you even as I sang that verse I was like Lord is that true I'm examining my heart was that true this last week that I'd rather have you than anything else any success or any 8:44 blessing or Ministry or reputation I'd rather have you and be led by your nail-pierced hands oh that it may be more true increasingly until he comes and these are the ones who he's coming for those who eagerly look forward for his coming 9:01 because Jesus has meant everything to them let's sing that first verse again I'd Rather Have Jesus and silver or gold I'd rather be his than have riches 9:18 Untold I ra have Jesus lands I'd ra be l by his to be the king of 9:37 [Music] a or the hell in sin [Music] Dr i' Ra have Jesus [Music] 9:53 than this world of course today i' ra have Jesus and Men I'd rather be faithful to his dear 10:14 Cross I'd Rather Have Jesus and worldwide Fame i' ra be true to His 10:27 holy name and to be the king of the last all we have in I'd ra have Jesus 10:49 and this world [Music] ofday I'd rather have Jesus and he's Fair than Li 11:11 he from out the he all that my Hunger I had Jesus let him 11:29 to be the king of the V for beh h s and I rather have Jesus this world 11:53 of [Music] to here's an old chorus sing with all together love he is all together love and the fairest of 12:13 10,000 this wonderful friend Divine gave himself to save now he in to oh TR today is all together is this wonderful Sai all 12:37 together lovely sing from your hearts all together love he is all together and the faest of this wonderful friend of 12:59 gave himself to save now he in to keep and all together love is this wonderful 13:16 savior of as you read the book of Song of Solomon that speaks about the love for the bride between between the bridegroom and the bride and how often the bride sometimes lets things come in 13:36 between perhaps she's tired perhaps she's made plans already and her bridegroom is calling and those other plans she's made have distracted her what's the distraction that's in your way today dear brother dear sister dear child dear friend is 13:50 there something something in your thoughts something in your affection something in the way in your ways that are hindering this close intimate relationship that Jesus longs to have between you he did everything that was 14:07 needed to remove that which was blocking your relationship with him when he took your sin away now don't let anything come back in between so that his precious blessed face may be seen nothing 14:25 between my soul and the God of this world it's delusive I have renounced all sinful 14:42 pleasure Jesus is my L nothing between nothing between my soul and the Savior so that his Blessing face may be 15:02 SE nothing preventing the least of his favor keep the way clear let [Music] nothing nothing between my quing 15:22 pleasure habits Alik though harmless they see I thought my heart from him ever s he is my all there's nothing between nothing between my soul and the 15:47 Savior so that his blessed face may be seen nothing preventing the least of his fa keep the way clear let nothing nothing between like briide or 16:16 station friends shall not in me it may cost be much tribulation I am resol there's nothing between nothing between thy soul and the 16:41 Savior so that his BL and face may be seen nothing reting the least of his 16:54 faor keep the way clear that nothing between nothing between many hard 17:11 trials though the whole world against [Music] be watching with prayer and myself Den I'll try with nothing 17:36 between nothing between my soul and the Savior so that his bless face may be see nothing preventing the least of his even the 17:56 least keep the way clear let nothing keep the way clear let nothing we stand before you Heavenly 18:17 Father mindful of Your Love what faithfulness you've demonstrated towards us though you know all our ways yet your love for us endures thank you you are altogether lovely to us Lord we've sung that that's not always been 18:31 true we acknowledge that in the past but we want it to be true increasingly you are altogether lovely You Are My All and then we shall Triumph at last this is triumph where Jesus is everything Lord do it let it not just be words we've 18:45 sung these words before Lord and we've fallen short so often but Lord make it true we sing it in faith we sing it in Hope we've not let go of it Lord You've not let go of us but we believe that that will be the characteristic of Our 18:58 Lives that we want nothing on this Earth except you and there's nothing that's hindering us no resentment no bitterness no discouragement no self- condemnation no beating ourselves up over the past no grudges no bitterness no unforgiveness 19:12 towards others no jealousy no Envy no lust no anger thank you Lord let it be nothing at all open our eyes to see what it is that's been hindering us Lord today that we might forsake it we lay it on the altar here we are Lord we lay our lives 19:30 aresh on the altar this morning we really mean it Lord Jesus from head to toe we are yours and what a difference this week will be everything that has hindered us Lord up to this point we lay it on the Altar and you take it away you 19:42 say cast your burden on me we do it Lord Jesus and you will sustain us you will uphold us so we do Lord I pray for any that are here carrying some burden whatever it might be a burden perhaps they're too ashamed to acknowledge to 19:55 anybody even their closest companion Lord Jesus you are a friend like no other thank you that you are the closest friend and you long to be close to us to carry our burdens to be intimate with us Lord Jesus as a bridegroom is with his 20:08 bride so we invite you Lord we we accept your invitation you stand at the door and knock and you said that if anyone would let you in you would come in and dine with us and we'd have Fellowship Lord make this week that's coming up a 20:21 week of dining with you in every situation will you do that Lord we are opening the door to you AR fresh this morning come in IND ually with each one of us in that secret place of our heart come in and dine with us Lord dine with 20:33 me I long for that I know it will change you will prepare a table for me even in the presence of my enemies and though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death we will fear no evil because you are with me you're dining with me your o 20:46 and your staff they comfort me thank you Lord thank you you are Our Shepherd surely goodness and mercy will follow me this week wherever I go and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever make that our real reality Lord and I pray on 20:59 behalf of anybody that's been in a battle any who's discouraged whose head is hanging down something that's besetting them Lord some sin that's entangling them oh Lord I pray in the name of Jesus you will break that that 21:12 entanglement you will break those bonds you said that we could ask for anything in this on this Earth in your name we could ask the father directly and we would be it would be granted according to your will and we could bind on this 21:23 Earth and it would be bound in the heavenlies we could loose on this Earth and it would be loosed Lord Jesus I pray that you will loose those that need to be loosed who are bound in sin even today bound with old habits addictive 21:34 behavior whatever it might be discouragement self- condemnation break those Bonds in the name of Jesus we pray thank you thank you you've called us to be free Lord and oh Lord that we won't let another day go by missing out on our 21:47 responsibility to further your kingdom and to make our lives all about your kingdom to invest in your kingdom to invest in you and your church and your people Lord to make our lives about that mission that mission alone because 22:00 you're coming is soon Lord we know it's sooner today than it was yesterday and help us to redeem the time we won't don't have a minute to waste we don't have a day to waste Lord help us to redeem the time and to walk with joy oh 22:11 that you will pour out a spirit of joy in our midst that we Rejoice over you because you're rejoicing over us we thank you I pray for every marriage will you knit the hearts of husbands and wives together in marriage Lord in a 22:23 world that's so full of divorce and separation and bitterness even in homes Lord I pray that we will be a testimony of your kingdom by being a people of peace that will be Sons and Daughters of peace that there will be peace and 22:34 fellowship in our homes I pray you'll restore the hearts of H fathers to their children mothers to their children and children to their parents Lord because your day is coming Lord you said that this would be the testimony of the last 22:46 days that the hearts of parents and children would be back to each other would you do that father do a miracle send your spirit to do that unification that Unity Lord thank you thank you Lord and we commit our Earthly needs to you 22:58 as well we pray first for those that need healing there are many in our midst who deal with constant pain sickness others that have disease or other things Lord health concerns that have that are that they deal with or have come up I 23:10 pray Lord even right now we unite together as your body a local expression of your body here on this Earth and we ask that you would lay your hands Lord we ask that you will move and touch each body whether it's a person standing in 23:22 in this room right now or somebody listening to this prayer will you lay your hands even at this moment Lord and let your healing power flow through our bodies through everybody that's in need of healing and touch those parts that 23:33 need that Miracle Lord Jesus and bring healing we pray thank you Lord and even our children as many of them struggle with different sicknesses and illnesses will you heal them Lord I pray touch their bodies and heal them we thank you 23:47 for the jobs you've given us thank you that you will provide all our needs I pray for any who are un are concerned or unsure how they will make it through this week Lord with enough to make it through you're the god God who supplies 23:59 all our needs thank you you you are God shall supply all our needs because Jesus Christ is rich thank you Lord you have all the riches you will not allow us to waste away Lord we trust you you will provide all our needs our eyes are not 24:12 on our bank accounts or our employers our eyes are on you you own the cattle on a thousand hills all that we see is yours you put it here in the first place you placed us here on in the first place and you Lord will meet all our needs 24:23 thank you thank you Lord we cast all our cares I pray again that anybody who's car carrying any care any burden we'll cast it on you this morning and see the miracle of your grace and your power the Fulfillment of your promise who said 24:37 cast all your cares on me for I care for you thank you you will do that Lord we know you're coming as soon you've done so much for us Lord and we owe Our Lives to you when you ask us to give our bodies as a Living Sacrifice it's not a 24:52 choice we have Lord we owe it to you you paid that price for our lives you paid the price on Calvary for today that I would give you today it belongs to you Lord doesn't belong to me you paid the price on Calvary for my marriage and for 25:08 my home for my life from start to finish you paid the price on Calvary Lord forgive me that I tried to use it for myself and be and been so self-occupied and self preoccupied that I've spent my life for for myself Lord forgive me forgive us 25:25 Lord and today we say we owe you our lives the time is coming when you will wrap up all of this that we see the world is passing away and everything in it the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh the boastful pride of life and 25:38 anyone who loves the world the love of the father is not in him Lord we want to love you so free us from the love of the world from the love of self thank you you will help us help us Lord open our eyes even as we sing this 25:52 last song to the debt of love we owe we don't want we want to know an increase in measure only when we see you we'll we'll realize how much we owe you Lord but I pray that that will be a journey of increasingly seeing and 26:07 knowing how we owe you everything and how we live this way teach us Lord on Earth to show by our life and our love for you how much we owe when this passing world is when 26:25 has your great when I stand with Christ on high looking on life's history then Lord shall life 26:45 fly not till then how much I [Music] hope when I stand before the TR in Beauty not my 27:04 own when I see thee as Thou Art love thee with uning heart but I I fully know not till 27:24 then how much I know when the praise of heav I hear loud as th to the loud 27:43 as the waterers sweet as melious then more shall I fly know not till then how much 28:03 [Music] I on Earth has through our dark thy Glory pass make 28:20 forgive feel so sweet make thy Spirit help so be on earth Lord make me know something 28:37 off the de I chosen God for good oh thank you Lord thank you God from R to 28:55 flee here it is the savior's side by the spirit Sanctified teach me Lord on Earth to show by my 29:14 love how much I all hidden in the Savior side by the spirit sanctified teach me 29:31 Lord on Earth to show by my love how much I love teach me love H Earth to show I my 29:49 love how [Music] much amen
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