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GYC Southwest

Andre Waller

The Desire of Nations

In your hands right now you are receiving something that I that I treasure very much.

You're receiving a short snippet of what Toccoa Missions is about.

Toccoa Missions is a missionary training school, yet really it's an outpost center in New Hampshire.

And God has blessed us with a group of young people that have dedicated themselves to missionary service for a year, at least a year, dedicating themselves to serve God in and out of the city.

And in your hand, you could read it through.

We have a media center that we're putting up.

We have a health program that we're developing.

And we have an agricultural program that I'm excited about.

You know, we have an agricultural specialist that can make things grow out of rocks.

I mean, he's an excellent, excellent agriculturalist.

And what you have in your hand is an answer to prayer.

My wife and I started to co-omissions in our house.

It was me, she was 1 of my students, and 2 other young people.

And from that embryonic stages, God has developed it and he's grown it and it's going all around the world right now.

I'm just going to give you my little prayer request.

My prayer request is within the next month that Toccoa Missions will own its own property.

Toccoa Missions wants to own its own property.

We're looking to establish this center in the Northeast.

There is nothing like it there presently.

In the Northeast, like I said, we need help.

My prayer is that we can establish this school and the funds can be raised so we can purchase this property in the next month.

I know somebody in here can write 1 check and we can get our goal.

If you would like to donate to that cause, whether it's a dollar, 2 dollars, 10 dollars, 5000 dollars, Please write your pledge or put your donation right inside that little envelope and you can give it to me before you leave.

You don't have to wait to melod in it but if you want to go home and move some funds around and write that check for 50, 000 and then send it we'll wait for that too amen.

But God is gonna bless us and when he does I'm gonna make sure that he gets all the praise, the honor, and the glory.

How many of you believe that we're living in the last few hours of Earth's history?

Do you know that we're told that if we're going to finish this work, that the medical missionary work connected with the outpost centers in our schools, she calls it the mystic stone.

Did you know that she called the sanitarium work the mystic stone, as if connecting it with that rock that is cut out without hands that smites the image at its feet?

We're not going to finish the work without outpost centers.

So I want you to prayerfully ask God what he would have you to give to help support and establish an outpost center in 1 of the most populous sections in this country.

But enough about that, let's study the Bible.

Father in heaven, Lord, I want to thank you for your grace and your mercy.

I want to thank you for never giving us what we deserve, but giving us what your dear son does.

And Father, as we're about to open the Bible, we ask for wisdom that is beyond our years.

We ask for clarity of thoughts and feelings that reflect your own and I pray father that when we leave this place we will not leave the same but we will leave here empowered to finish the work in this generation we pray this in the name of Jesus and claim the merits of his holy and most precious blood.

As I told you, it's normally a whole semester at my school.

It's usually a week of prayer, 7 days, an hour and a half per session, but we're gonna do it in 4 days.

So apparently I'm gonna leave something out.

But what I want you to do, don't believe anything that I say, Is that okay?

I want you to take pen and paper, write down what is being stated, and be like the Bereans and go back to see whether or not what I'm saying is actually true.

Now, we're dealing with the subject matter of the glorious holy mountain, and today's specific subject is the desire of nations.

Our key text is found in Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and verse 9.

Please open your Bibles to Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and verse 9.

And again, we're going to sing the verse, not because I have any singing abilities because that is not the case, but it's because it helps us remember the principle subject matter of what we're covering.

If you remember it, go ahead and sing it with me.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be.

And that which is done, is that which shall be done.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be, and that which is done, is that which shall be done, And there is no new thing under the sun.

I already know that you're wonderful Bible scholars, so I'm only going to ask you the question to bring it to the forefront of your mind.

The thing that hath been, is that past, present, or future?

The thing that shall be is that past, present, or future.

The thing that is done is that past, present, or future?

Now, I want us to go to Ecclesiastes 3 in verse 15.

We are simply laying the foundation for our continued study.

Ecclesiastes 3.15 says, that which hath been is now, and that which is to be hath already been.

And God requireth that which is what, my friends?

So here's a very simple, If I want to understand what is going to happen in the future, then all I need to study is that which has happened in the past.

And if I need to understand what is happening presently, what I really need to study is that which has already happened in the past.

Because if I can understand the past, I can understand what God requires of his children today.

I want us to go to Revelation chapter 1 and we're looking at verse number 8.

Revelation chapter 1 beginning at verse number 8, please notice here what the Bible says.

Revelation chapter 1 beginning at verse 8, the Bible says, I am Alpha...

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, say of the Lord, which is, is that past, present, or future?

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