The Lord Is My Portion (Lamentations 3:21-25) | Pastor Kelvin Shaw (Sermon)

What do you do when life feels uncertain, painful, or overwhelming?

In this powerful message, “The Lord Is My Portion,” Pastor Kelvin Shaw teaches from Lamentations 3:21-25 and shows how believers can move from lament to hope by anchoring their faith in God’s mercy, faithfulness, and sustaining presence.

The book of Lamentations was written out of deep sorrow, loss, and brokenness. Yet in the middle of pain, Jeremiah makes a life-changing declaration:

“The Lord is my portion… therefore I hope in Him.”

This message will encourage you to bring your pain honestly before God, trust Him when life does not make sense, and remember that even when everything else changes, God remains enough.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

✅ What it means to say, “The Lord is my portion”
✅ How to find hope in seasons of loss and uncertainty
✅ Why God’s mercy is still new every morning
✅ How to move from lament to faith
✅ Why God is our source, sustainer, and satisfaction
✅ How to trust God when life feels overwhelming

📖 Scripture: Lamentations 3:21-25 NKJV
🎙️ Speaker: Pastor Kelvin Shaw
📍 New Life Pentecostal Church – North York
🎧 Podcast: New Life Now

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Transcript

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Lamentations, chapter number three, verse 21 to 25 out of the New King James Version says, This I recall to my mind therefore I have hope through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed because his compassions fail God. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Focusing on verse number 24, why don't we read this verse together? The Lord is my portion, says my soul. Therefore I hope in him. Verse 25 the Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. Again, focusing on verse number 24. I'm going to preach from this scripture. The Lord is my portion. Therefore, I hope in him. Put your Bibles down and let's just pray that the Lord will translate his word to us as He's given to me. And that the Word will go forth into our hearts and minds and that we can grow a bit further in Him today. Can we pray that? Jesus, we honor you for being here with us. Lord, we're careful to praise you and to worship you, for we know, God, that it's just a privilege that you enter into our atmosphere. It is a privilege, not a right, that you come and meet with us. It is a privilege, God, that we can feel your presence in this house even right now. Lord, let this word that you are my portion go into our depths of not only our mind but our soul, that we can realize that, Lord, when we have you, we have everything. Lord, bless the remainder of this service. Bless your people. Lord, let me just speak with your anointing, with your power, with your clarity, so someone can grow a little bit further in you. Lord, relief the gifts of the spirit in the house today. Let the Holy Ghost sweep through, Lord, the hearts and minds and the mouths of your people. Feel somebody, God, today, Lord, and let your spirit reign. Reign, Jesus, reign in this house, and we honor you for it in advance in Jesus' name. Somebody clap your hands unto the Lord. Come on, somebody, clap your hands like you love him. Clap your hands like he's the only one that is due. Worship, clap your hands. Come on, somebody. And we're thankful for him. In his name, you may be seated. The Lord is my portion. There are some statements in Scripture that are powerful, but don't really and truly release its full power until we understand where those statements are coming from. Because if you only read the words, the Lord is my portion, we might think that this statement is being said by someone that has been receiving great blessings. But when you look into the scripture and you see the backdrop of this statement, it is the contrary. It is not a voice of prosperity, but it is a voice of a man who's been broken by life, but yet still anchored by God. We see the words and lamentations, they are penned by a prophet. The prophet's name is Jeremiah. And the prophet is known for one thing: he is a weeping prophet. He's a man that's been called by God at a very young age. He's been preaching since his youth. He's been sent to preach to the people, and he's been sent to cry out what the Lord has spoken to him. But there is something in Jeremiah's ministry that is unique. That if we would only look at it from the natural, we would think that his ministry is a failure. Jeremiah is preaching, but no one is listening. Jeremiah is crying out, but nobody is coming to repentance. You would and I would look at his ministry and say, Jeremiah, wouldn't you pack it up and just forget about all this? In fact, it is told to Jeremiah even before he starts that he's going to preach to a people that does not listen. Jeremiah 7 and 27. God tells them in advance, they will not listen to you. Wow, what a ministry. What would that be if God said, Pastor Shaw, I want you to preach to people, but guess what? Nobody's gonna listen. Nobody's gonna hear you. Everybody's gonna go to sleep every time you speak. I would lose confidence after the first sermon. You would think that nothing is happening, but can I tell you this ministry in Jeremiah is not a failure. Because in the kingdom of God, success is not always measured by results, but success is always measured by obedience. Jeremiah is there to warn the people. He's there to let them know that God is gonna destroy everything. He's gonna allow Jerusalem to be destroyed. There's no revival, there's no repentance, there's no change, and the worst thing that can happen happens. Jerusalem is destroyed. The walls were torn down, the temple was torn into pieces, homes were burned, families were scattered, and there's a nation that now is reduced to rubble. Now don't miss it. Jeremiah is not writing this from somebody else's story. Jeremiah is writing in the middle of devastation. In fact, he writes a whole book about what he's feeling. Lamentations. Jeremiah begins to pen his lament. It's not a book of celebration. There's no victory in it. It's just a lament. Now, when I heard the word, many of you might think this, what does lament mean? Does anybody know what lament means? The book of lamentations is not just history of a city falling and not just a nation being judged by God, but it is a heartbreak in Jeremiah's life. And a lamentations or a lament is a collection of sorrowful prayers, cries, and reflections before God. Can I tell you, lament is not just complaining, but a lament is turning prayer to God from our pain. When one laments, the beauty of a lament is just not saying, God, why are you doing this? No, the beauty of a lament is I know who to bring my pain to. So Jeremiah is suffering sorrow, but he's not alone. Jeremiah is going through the worst of his life, but he knows where to turn his prayer to. And in the middle of his lament, he begins to cry out to God. Sometimes there are seasons in our life where we don't feel like victory. Has anybody experienced moments of pain? Moments where you can't shout. All you can do is cry. And the beauty of this text is the Bible doesn't ignore our cry. But God leaves space and room not only for us to shout, but if you have a cry in your spirit, God leaves room for you to cry to Him even this morning. Because there comes a point in all of our lives where we no longer can put the masks on our face. Oh, everything is good. A fake smile, hmm. Sometimes we can't dress our pain away. And the only language left is a shout and cry to God. Can I tell you when we get into those places, it's not polished, it's not pretty, but it's real. I'm talking about a trouble that turns into a cry unto God. That's it's not weakness. Don't don't don't mess it up. It's not weakness, but it's a beginning of something powerful. Has anybody ever been to that place where it's so grievous that all you can do is put your head down and say, Lord help me. If you haven't been there, it's coming soon. But can I tell you, if you get to that place, you have somewhere to turn. Don't turn to everything else in the world, but turn that cry into Jesus, and something powerful begins to happen. I realize when reading this lament that life doesn't always go the way we planned it. My goodness. And can I tell you that all of our prayers don't always get answered the way we expect them to? Uh-oh. Sometimes things that we are thought were gonna go so well fall apart, and we wonder, what is this? And in these moments, we can't keep putting on the fake smiles and the oh, I'm okay, everything's alright. Sometimes we just gotta turn to God and say, God, I'm in pain. God, I need help. God, help me. But here's we see where we see the tension in this text. Jeremiah is writing. This is the third chapter, so the first two, if you read it, he is complaining to God in prayer. He's saying, God, why are you letting this be destroyed? Why did you let the temple go? Why did and he's letting all of this pain out to God? He even says at one point, I'm a man of great affliction. It's it's so much pain in my body that I don't know what to do. There's bitterness and there's grief and there's strife. And everything in the text that we read before what we've read this morning is pulling downward. Everything is heavy, everything is broken, everything is gone without repair. And suddenly Jeremiah says something that I don't want us to miss this morning. As he's lamenting, he then says in verse 21, this I recall to my mind. He says, wait a second. In the middle of my lament, in the middle of my struggle, in the middle of my pain, I'm remembering one thing. I have a hope. What is he remembering? He tells you in the next verse, though the mercies of God were not consumed, his compassions are never falling too far. His mercies are new every morning, right? It's my faithfulness in the middle of his call, in the middle of his pain. Something switches in his mind and he says, I know, I'm finished with God. Come on, somebody. Do I have any body with the testimony? I'm talking about the blood. I know that He's done for me. Something in my spirit begins to get happy. Oh, I feel like preaching already. The Lord is my portion. And here's the tension. How do you declare that God is enough when life has taken so much? How do I say that God is my portion in the middle of loss? How do I proclaim that God is still faithful even when I'm broken? That's the question that I want us to wrestle with this morning. Because Jeremiah is not the only one that has this story. This is the language of people that have gone through much, but I've come to encourage somebody today that in the middle of your struggle, you're gonna realize by the end of this service that God is your portion. And can I tell you that his portion is never revealed in prosperity? Uh-oh. I can't see that he's my portion when everything is going well. No, I recognize that he is my portion when everything is under pressure and when everything is going wrong. That's when I can turn and say, That's what I have. That's what I want. This I recall to my mind. Therefore, I have hope. Look at your neighbor and tell them there's a power in what you remember. The text does not say that God changed the situation. God did not fix the temple back. At this point, he did not bring his people back together. He let them scatter. He let the walls be torn down. He let the homes be burned down to the ground. And in the middle of this environment, God is asking us to put something into our mind. Can I tell you we've preached about it before, but the mind is the battlefield, but our memory is also a weapon. Jeremiah is not in a good place. We see in verse 1, he sees he's seen affliction. Verse 5, he feels broken and bitter. Verse 8, his hope has perished. And this is not a man on the mountaintop. This is a man in the middle of a valley. There's devastation all around him, and in the middle, something switches. He brings back something to his mind deliberately. Doesn't happen by accident. He says, I recall. It's signifying that he does it on purpose. That means in the middle of a mess, I gotta think about the goodness of God. But isn't it like our human nature to in the middle of the mess to only think about the mess? Maybe this morning someone's in here only thinking about your bills, only thinking about the struggle. Only have your mind on grief. But God is trying to get somebody to understand in the middle of the mess is when you get power, when you turn and say, I know I've gone through this, but God, you are still gonna do something better in my life. And even if you don't do anything, God, you're still good enough to give you a little bit of praise. Come on, somebody. When life tries to fill our minds with fear, we've got to reach back and put something into our mind to start thinking about what God has already done. You see, he didn't remember everything, he remembered the right thing. Sometimes in God, we have to have a selective memory. Oh, I know they did this to me, but God is still good. Oh, I know they don't like me, but he likes me. And that's all that I need. Come on, somebody. Job would just say, though they slay me, yet will I trust him. I don't have it all together, but I have you. Jesus. Sometimes we have to have a selective memory. You know those types of people that have a selective memory? You try to remind them of what they did and what they said. You say, I don't, I never did that. I never said that. And you say, You you always remember what you want to remember. That's how we have to serve God. I only remember what I want to remember. Oh, yes, uh, my I'm I'm in struggle, but God, you're so good. That's where my praise comes from. That's where my worship comes from. Because when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me, it gives me something to shout about. Even when I'm supposed to be crying, I need to shout in the middle of my mess. I'm in the middle of my trouble. I'm stuffing, I don't stand on the myself. I can't see my I can't see what's happening. Because I'm focused on Jesus. Come on, clap your hands unto the Lord the middle of this, Jeremiah begins to declare what he's remembered, and what he remembers is highlighted in the verses in front. He said, The Lord's mercies are not consumed. Now think about that. He's saying everything else around me has been consumed, but his mercy is not consumed. He said, Everything else looks like it's about to be destroyed, and it is destroyed. But his compassion, he still cares for me in the middle of destruction. He says, The mercies are new every morning. It means although I go through many things, his mercy shows up in the morning. He declares. Great is your faithfulness. Don't miss it here. He stops looking at the stuff around him and starts seeing the character of God. He realizes that my circumstances don't have to change. But God is still the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yes, Jerusalem is destroyed. Yes, the pain is still real. Yes, the loss is fresh. But God is still good. Notice what he says in verse 21. If you can put it on the screen, this I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. Notice the language, remember what it says? It says, Therefore I have hope. The first level of what it brings to his mind brings him personal hope. When you think on what God has done in our life, it begins to encourage us. When we think of who God is, it gives an encouragement. David would tell us that he encouraged himself in the Lord. Thinking about God in the middle of trouble gives us a way to hope. But there's another level to this. It says, I have hope. Look at your neighbor and say, I have hope. It tells me that what we remember begins to shape what we see. And what we see determines how we live. What did he see? He saw God's faithfulness, he saw God's compassion, he saw God's mercy. It tells me that even if I've lost heart, I can still have something and someone to believe in. Psalms 27 and 13, David would tell us, I have lost heart unless I believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord. The first level of revelation is what you see. It doesn't say that he's going to see the Lord yet. He's saying that I'm going to see the goodness of the Lord. The first level of our encouragement when we are lamenting is just having hope that God is going to do something. This is having hope in God's action. But Jeremiah doesn't stay there. He moves to another space in him where he realizes, I'm going to get there in a moment, that even if God doesn't do anything else, God is still his portion. He's going to turn it from just a general idea to then a personal idea. When we talk to our own minds about the Lord, we essentially are preaching to ourselves. And can I tell you, before you come to church and hear Pastor preach, we first got to preach to ourselves. In fact, what we preach to ourselves before we get here will determine how pastor preaches to us. Uh-oh. If I say in my mind, I'm going to church and I'm not going to get anything out of that service. Guess what? You're going to come in and you're not going to get anything. Maybe you'll get a muffin or croissant. But if you come and it doesn't matter what the person or the pastor is preaching at that moment, you're not going to get a thing. But if you come into the house of the Lord, like Sister Wittuck. I know she's probably watching online, but it's been a while. I know it's warming up. Hopefully, we'll see her soon. I I learned something without even really knowing her at first time I was here. I'm standing right here. You don't know, maybe you do know. I can see right into the back. And I saw the doors open. And at first I didn't see anybody coming through. And then I saw her come around the corner. And she had a before she even walked in. And then when she stepped in and she started praising, and the closer she got, the more. And sometimes even if we can't move like we used to, we still gotta do what we we can do. And when she got to the door, she began to bounce and she had a cane, but the cane started getting a little bit looser. And I learned something. I learned something that it no matter how I think about what God is doing before I get here. I'm here to work. I'm here to get something from God. I'm here to see my miracle. Even this morning. I saw you, I saw you walking around. I knew you were doing this. Someone has something already in her mind. How good God is. Just come with an expectation. Just a wind. I saw you there dancing and singing. Just a winding. I saw you dancing and singing. Dancing an expectation! An aspect of God that does above! Beyond what I can ask! Oh sink! And that's easy to do when everything is going all right. But don't forget the context of the text. Jeremiah does this in the middle of devastation. When my mind is overwhelmed, David would say, Why are you cast down on my soul? Hope in the Lord. Sometimes I gotta talk back to my emotions. My emotions are saying, I don't feel good. And your spirit says, I feel alright, I'm alright, I'm alright. Oh come on, somebody. See, my feelings don't get my last word. That's the last word. Some of us coming in feeling afraid. You talk to Paul and Timothy when he says, God has not been spinning after and I'm a sound mind. Fear does not come from God. I take authority over my thinking. Some even feel condemned in the spirit. I can't, I'm not good enough. I can't serve God like this. Romans 8:1. Therefore, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Sometimes I need to silent my guilt, silent the shame, and stand with truth. Some of us in here don't know what to do next. Romans would tell us, and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. I don't know what my next step is, but I know who holds my step in his hand. And the righteous man just takes step by step in Christ. When my mind starts stalking, don't let it preach alone. You gotta open our mouths and declare what God has already said. I'm more than a conqueror. Because I realize victory never starts when the situation changes. It starts when my confession does. So in the middle of this turmoil, he begins to go through a series of memories. The first is that God's mercy is there and is not consumed. You know, sometimes believe people believe that God doesn't have enough mercy for them. Oh God, quiet. I'm touching somebody there. Sometimes God is forgiving us, but we're like, ooh, I'm still I'll never be forgiven. Actually, if you're like that, be careful. Remember the story of the 12 spies? There were 12 spies that were, God told them that you're gonna go into the promised land and take the promised land. Two of those spies were Joshua and Caleb. Out of the 12, two said, looked in the land, and we said, they said, we can take this land. There were giants in the land, but they didn't look at the giants, they saw the big fruits. They said grapes were the size of shields, mangoes the size of this altar pulpit. And Joshua and Caleb remember what God has said. So even when they're walking in the land with enemies that are supposed to be against them, they say, We can take the land. Not because they saw power in themselves, but they saw and knew what God had done and what God can do. But my point is not talking about them, my point is on the ten spies. In fact, to this day, nobody remembers the name of those ten spies. In fact, even if you go to the Bible and read it and read their name and you close the Bible, you'll forget their name. The Bible says that all they did was say, we can't go and conquer the land, for we are as grasshoppers in our own sight. Don't miss it. They never said the giants looked at us like grasshoppers. They said we are grasshoppers in our own sight. God declared on them, don't bring this evil report. He calls it a wicked report. Why was it a wicked report? Because when God says you can do something and you say that He that you can, you're saying that He can't. Did you hear me on that one? That's called blaspheme against the Holy Ghost. When God is saying, I want you to be an overcomer, and you say I can't do anything. Eventually you're gonna turn that wine into God, you can't do it. And God said, No, no, no, don't go there. So victory happens when I change my confession and not when the situation changes. And after Joshua, Joshua, Jeremiah remembers all these things, he then declares something that I want to preach today. He said, Pastor, you want to preach this just now? You have 15 minutes to go. Read what the text says. In the middle of his lament, he gets a revelation. The Lord is my portion. Put the scripture up for me, verse twenty-four. The Lord is my portion, says my soul. Therefore, I have hope in him. Let me say it again, don't miss it. The Lord is my portion, my soul says it. Therefore, I have hope in him. You see, whenever he first brought it to his mind, in verse, go put put 21 back up. I know we're doing musical chairs with these scriptures. This I recall to my mind. Therefore, I just have hope. But then when he starts declaring the things that he has hope in, something switches in his spirit. It goes from his mind and his intellect into the depths of his soul. Verse 24. He says, The Lord is mine. When I start to think about how God, good, good God is, it goes from my mind and into my spirit. And something from the depths of my heart. Verse 21, it just says I have hope. I want to get the revelation. That God is my portion. He says I have a hope. Come on come on, somebody. Don't miss me here. There's a shift in his soul. That says my soul says I have a hope in you, Lord. There's one thing about knowing things in my mind, but when my mind can't comprehend how good God is, the deeper revelation is when it gets to my soul. I look around me, and Jeremiah looked around me and he said, I don't know how God is gonna do this. I don't know. We've lost everything. I don't know. There's nothing left, but something switched in his mind. And he said, Wait, even though I've lost everything, I still have everything. I still not just have a hope that God is gonna do something. I have a God that does everything. Oh, I gotta preach this a little bit further. Hebrews 6 and 19. This hope we have as an anchor of our soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the presence behind the veil. There's a hope that begins to anchor the soul. It goes beyond the superficial things around us. That hope says, my situation doesn't have to change, but I got the one that I hope in, and he's on my side. So whether you change it or not, you are my portion. In the scripture, when we get the revelation of who God is, and not only who God is, but who he is to us, it means our situation begins to lose authority. You see, when we think about trouble too much, trouble stands up. When we think about our pain too much, our pain controls our lives. When we think about our grief all the time, and there's a time for everything. But when we think about it all the time, our grief takes control. But in the middle of that, I'm saying, God, everything is destroyed around me. I'm not even asking for you to fix it. I just realized, Brother Davis, that you are my portion. You're more valuable than what I lost. You're more valuable than the pain I'm going through. You're stronger than whatever is trouble, is coming in. Lord, you are my portion. You see, when he's our portion, that's what we live from and not from our circumstance. Too many times we live from our circumstance. Oh, if things are going good, then I'm happy. When things are going bad, then I'm sad. Who says life is supposed to make you happy? I said, me. He said, Are you crazy? He realized something. That life is not to be lived based on my feelings. If I live on my feelings, then I'm I become what the Bible says, an unstable in all my ways. God, you're good, then you're good. You've done this for me, then you're good. Oh, things go wrong. Oh, God, you're bad. Don't we live like that? Okay, you you don't have to admit it. I've lived like that. I'm praising God when I get that check.

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And then when they get the bills, nobody knows the trouble I've seen. Nobody knows my sorrow. But he's the same God with me in the mountaintop that he is in the valley. It's the same God when things are good and when things are bad. The Lord is my portion. Sometimes we live based on the portions that we see. If I have enough money, then I'm good. If I have good relationships, then oh I'm a friend of God and everybody else. If I have all the positions, then I'm right on time. But what if God ships away the money? What happens when the relationships break? What happens when the positions get removed? The question is, where are we living from? What portion do we live from? The portion that we can own, inherit, and gain, or the portion that is his? When God is our portion, we can draw from something that never is depleted. When God is my portion, my relationship can never, it's a relationship that will never break. When God is my portion, I can live from a place of victory. Not because everything goes well, but because he is my victory. The first portion, if you're gonna write something down, this is where you write down. God is my source. It's not about what I have, but it's who I have. Psalms 16 and 5 and 5, it says, Oh Lord, you are my portion and my inheritance and my cup. This means that when my life is not built, when my life is built on him, it doesn't matter what I possess, it doesn't matter what I earn, it doesn't matter what I can produce. God is the source of my strength. If God is the source of my strength, then we never are limited by what's in our hands. But we're we're given everything that he supplies. My God shall supply all my needs. It doesn't say all my wants, by the way. According to his riches and glory. Number two, God is my sufficiency. That means he's enough even when it doesn't feel like he's enough. There are many seasons in our life where we feel like things are missing, where we feel like prayers are delayed. And if you admit, there's many times when it feels like it's an emptiness. But if God is sufficient, he's always enough. He fills the space that nothing can fill. Not with things, but with him. He is enough. Don't miss it. When we say he's enough, it doesn't mean he's going to give us enough all the time. It means that he is enough. It means I don't have it, but I got it. Oh, y'all didn't hear me. God doesn't always give us what we're looking for. But he always gives us what we need. Even if it's him. Last thing, number three. So what's the first one? The second one? The third one is God is my security. When everything remains uncertain, God being my portion means that he remains. Numbers chapter 18 and verse 20, I am your portion and in your inheritance. In other words, everybody else can receive land's inheritance, but he is my inheritance. Basically, what he says is you don't get everything what everybody else gets, but you get me. Is that good enough? So when God is my portion, our life is not secured by what we have. But it's secured by who holds what we have. The Lord is my portion. I'm coming to a close of music, you can get ready. In the Bible. And whenever the twelve tribes were prophesied to go into the promised land. And whenever they got into the land, the Lord determined to them that each of the tribe was going to get certain portions. The tribe of Dan and Judah and whatnot, all the different tribes. All of them were going to get certain proportions of the land, certain percentages of the land, certain types of wealth. And if you read through the Bible, you'll see that the different tribes were numbered, and based on the size, they got certain lands, they got certain inheritance, etc. All the different tribes received proportions other than one tribe. The Levites or the tribe of Levi were not promised any land. But the Lord told them in Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 2, and there's several other scriptures. Deuteronomy 18 and 2, the Bible says, Therefore, they shall have no inheritance among their brethren. Because what the Lord is their inheritance, as he said to them. If you were to put it this way, they were the line that went to church, they were the line that served in church, they were the line that were there always. And unlike all the other tribes, they didn't receive stuff from God, but they had the greatest blessing because they had what Jeremiah had. They had an understanding and a reality that the Lord was their inheritance. And when Jeremiah thinks about all the things in his life and all the things that he's going through that have lost, he resurrects something in his spirit that comes all the way back from Deuteronomy. He realized, like I feel somebody has realized today, that even those things I don't receive like everybody else, I have something that's greater than anything that people can receive in this earth. Oh, come on, somebody. It tells me that you can have your stuff, you can have all your happiness and this, that, and the other. And you know what social media does this. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost here. Social media, where everybody's on social media, and I'm not against social media, I have social media, but everybody's on there telling me I'm living my best life. Standing beside a Ferrari, taking a picture, and then going back to their whatever. Oh, I I met a celebrity and I've done this, and look at me, and look at this, and look at that. And we we live in a world that we compare ourselves with ourselves. Oh, I don't have a nice suit like Brother Lee. I oh man, I I didn't I didn't make it. Yeah, your shoes are better than mine. He even has more hair than me. Caleb said, that's okay. We're not supposed to be worried about anybody else. And can I tell you, even if Bill Gates and Elon Musk were in the room and they said, I have everything, I can turn around and say, Heaven and earth will pass away. But his words shall never pass away. Oh, I don't got the Ferrari that you got, Elon. I don't have the spaceship. I have a way to get up here one day. You can go to the moon all you want. But when the trumpet sounds, I'm gonna see my savior. Oh, you can have all the money in the world, Bill Gates. But I know the one thousand him. He says the gold is mine. The sound is mine. You can have it all you want, but I have you. Oh, all the all your celebrities, you can you can have all the relationships that you you want, all your perfect relationships, but I have a relationship with the master. The Lord is my portion, and guess what? Even if it looks like I have nothing when I have him. Does anybody know what I'm preaching this morning? Why don't you stand to your feet? You're not alone when you have Jesus, He is your portion. You have an anchor, you have a security, you have a sustainer. Because God is your portion. And this morning, if you know that God is your portion, I want you just to come to this altar and don't come begging for anything, but just come say, God, I'm declaring in my spirit that you are my portion. You are my portion, you are everything that I want and everything that I need, and you've been faithful. Lift your hands in this place. Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness. Oh, yes, I have you grab the hand of your neighbor and make this prayer if you want there's still room at this altar. Everything that I need is a Jesus Sing that one more time, sing it like you mean it all.