Linda Heilder – I’d like to give a testimony this morning. Most of you know, we’ve been going through some struggles with Robert with his health, but even before that, at the end of January, we both got the flu. And so before any of this other stuff happened, we had spent a month being miserable with the flu. Well then, Robert fell and he was in the hospital, and then he was gonna go to the physical therapy place. And I said, “God, I am used up. I feel like I have used everything I have. I’m at the end of my strength, you know, physically, emotionally, mentally. I just feel like I am done.”

And so my daughter, Lindy, had come into town and we had made plans to go away for three days. And we were gonna go to a spa and we were gonna get massages and we were gonna get restored ’cause it was her spring break. And she said, I feel like I need this, too. But instead, the day we were supposed to leave to go to the spa, I got a call that they were sending Robert back to the hospital. And instead of going to the spa, I got to go to ICU, with my husband not knowing if he was gonna make it through that day. The doctor said, It’s gonna be touch and go. We don’t know if he’s gonna make it. And I thought, God, I was already used up. What am I gonna do? And I wanna tell you, the Lord, the Lord was what I needed. I did not need to go away. I did not need to go to a spa. I did not need a massage. I needed the Lord. And everything we’ve been singing this morning, and especially when Leanne said, He is holding the door open for you. There are some of you here in this room, there are some of you on the web, and you feel like, I am used up. I have nothing left. I don’t know how I’m gonna go another day. I wanna tell you, there is a depth of strength in the Lord. There is a depth of grace and favor in the Lord. It is accessible to you. It is available to you.

Now, I can’t tell you how many times over these last three months I’ve come to that place again, and I’ve said, “Lord, I really, really am used up this time.” And I can remember one day, walking down the hall just saying, “God, I don’t know how I can keep going. What do I do?” He said, When I was weak, I was strong. And I saw him carrying his cross. And he said, That was my finest hour. That was my strength. That was my strength. And I felt his strength come in me. Lindy and I scheduled one more time to go to the spa. And again, I felt like I am really used up this time. Lord. And she called me the weekend before, and she said, “Russell has to go in the hospital. He’s had a bad reaction to medication. It’s affecting his breathing. I can’t come.” And I thought, “Okay, Lord, I give it up. You, you, you are what I need.” And when that man that Michelle was singing about stirring the waters, he said, “Nobody’s there to help me. I can’t get in.” Jesus said, the healer is here! The healer is here! When Martha said, if you had been here, he would’ve been raised. He wouldn’t have died. The resurrection is here! The resurrection is here. I’m telling you, if you feel like you’re at the end, there is another depth you can go to. There is another depth of the Lord. There is another depth of strength. There is another depth. And until he says it’s done, it’s not done. And until he says it’s done, you have the strength you need to get through it.

So, Jesus, we declare today, you are what we need. You are all we need. You are everything we need. We honor you, we glorify you. We thank you. You are the God above all Gods. You are the king above all kings. There is nothing that can substitute or satisfy for what you provide for us. Now, God, we today, we turn from anything else that we think is gonna help us, is gonna soothe us, is gonna give us strength, and we say it is all you. Everything is you, and we will not turn to anything else and we will not try to be satisfied with anything. And I just can say, I would never exchange what the Lord did in me and has done in me over these last months for any massage anywhere. It could not compare. Thank you, God, that when you put us in those times, you are doing a work in us and you want to show yourself to us in a way that we probably would never seek you for had we not been in that position. So, God, we declare today, it is you. It is all you. You are sufficient. You are more than enough. And we thank you, God, for being our God and for pulling us, drawing us, compelling us into those places where we find out how great you are.

LeAnn Squier – Linda, don’t move yet. Just stay right there, ’cause you’re just such a picture. So, when you said the Lord said, and on the cross is my finest hour, like, that just shot through my entire body. And I was like, “Oh, my gosh.” When I got here and we began worship, projected in front of us was this image on the floor, and it truly was a crown of thorns. I saw a crown of thorns right in front and then it went away. But I felt like the Lord said this, this is important because that was his finest hour, it is our finest hour. It is our finest hour when we have to go deeper. We’re in places of hard places, of suffering, whatever. It’s like we have to go deeper. We have to find the deeper place.

And truly, the Lord wants us to see. We’re gonna go through it, and it’s going to become our finest hour. So, Lord, I just agree. And I agree with what Linda said, Lord. I agree with the depth of the revelation and what she began to draw out of you in that place, Father. And I just say right now, Isaiah 53 is a great meditation. Get into Isaiah 53, where it talks about the scribes of Jesus, you know. He’s carried our griefs and sorrows, but it’s that moment of suffering that he was releasing all the water, the waters of God, the spirit of God, the blood and the water that flowed from his side. So, Lord, I just say right now, don’t let us miss this moment that you were holding the door open. I saw the Lord standing in a tent earlier and he had the tent door, was pulled back for us to enter in. So, Lord, I just say, whatever you have for each one of us, today, we will not miss it. Today, we will not pass by. Today, we will pay attention. Today, we will meditate on your word on Isaiah 53. Today, Lord, we will say in the hardest place, “This is my finest hour.”