(this video shares the full worship service)

Romans 4: 18-    We need to have a deeply- held conviction that our words in prayer have power. If we don’t believe, doubts will creep in; and our goals of loving the world and bringing the lost to freedom in the Lord will be thwarted. Our prayers make a difference. Have an unquenchable hope your words matter. Our battle is the struggle between our choice to believe or to not believe this promise: Our prayers are powerful. Be “fully persuaded that God will do as He promised.”  Trust. This is how prayer works. Our prayers help better happen.

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.  Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,  being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.  This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:18-22