What The Bible Says About Chaos

I love that song. And um I'm just going to give you a sneak peek. That song and that psalm is in my word tonight. And I believe that God is trying to speak something tonight that he is wanting to show that he is here for you in your time of distress. when you walk through that valley, he has that comfort that you're seeking after tonight. He is here to meet with us tonight. Um, we are all good. You guys can Thank you so much. Thank you for the worship team for bringing us into the presence of God.

Um, what a marvelous job that they did today. You are all free to take a seat. Um I want to start here on the outset giving honor and thanks to who honor and thanks is due. Um first thing first is my family, my parents, my brothers, my brother. Don't have multiple brothers. My brother for helping raise me up in this thing for helping bring me here and when we moved to APC for um walking together and always being faithful to the house of God. Um, next I want to thank Pastor Peter, youth pastor Peter for um, asking me to be up here to speak tonight.

Um, thinking of me to um, bring the word tonight. And I am most definitely not honorable for it, but I thank you for your thought for it. Um, and I thank you for the opportunity and all that you've done in my life, bringing me up, not only here, but at everything that you've done and invested in my life. And on the heels of that, same thing goes for Pastor Brad and everything that he's done for me, guidance and direction, not only for me and my family and my me and my wife.

Um he's ever since we showed up here at APC, you've invested into me and my family and all the camps that you let me tag on to and all those experiences. I am indebted for those experiences. I truly am. Thank you for allowing me to be up here tonight and speak. And last and certainly not least, my wife Brooke. Um, we are closing up on a year. It'll be a year in less than a month. Um, and couldn't imagine doing it with anyone else. I am so thankful that I get to call her my wife.

I'm so thankful for everything that she does. Um, not only in front of the scenes and everything that you see, you guys see, but also for everything she does behind the scenes and every all the hard work that she puts in to her work. And if she wasn't with me, if she wasn't at the place I lived, nothing would really get done. Our dog would not have any toys. Our dog would not have any food. I wouldn't have any food. Um, I would just be getting fast food or air frying the next frozen thing.

Um, but she's there for me um, in every situation. You guys see not even half of it. And I'm thankful for her. And lastly, I want to thank everyone here for believing in me, helping me and my family and welcoming my family as we've come into APC. I want to say around 2020 and 2021. Um just welcoming my family in and also believing in me and believing in um guiding directing me as I've grown up here since moving here. And on the heels of that, I want to welcome everyone to our youth service, our youth takeover.

Um, we received and experienced an amazing worship set, an amazing worship time, and I appreciate them for what they did here tonight. Um, in our youth services for the past year, we have been going into and doing a season and a series of what the Bible says about blank. We've been doing what the Bible says about money, time, identity, who we are, who Jesus is, who God is, what the Bible says about relationships, things that are practical, things that are spiritual. We've been going through each week and just seeing exactly diving deep into what the Bible says about that certain topic.

And that's been fruitful. And we've been receiving great words. And we've been having great services back there. So, your kids and your youth are experiencing mighty moves of God back there on a weekly basis. That brings me to a a rough transition and a question. Has anyone been to like an orchestra like concert? Maybe been to like the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra or even just like a band concert like instrument band, not like elevation worship concert like where it's like instruments lined up and you have like your first chair and your second chair.

Those things like that. Went to a band concert. I've been to a couple. My brother did band all throughout middle school and high school and I've been to a couple there. But most recently, we had taken um a trip to the theater to watch the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. And one of the first things that caught my eye or just really caught my ears was the horrific sound of them warming up. Like I don't know if anyone's experienced this. Um, what being showing up early to a show and hearing the band warming up, it scared me and I was worried that we were in the wrong place, that we were we wasted the money, that we weren't experiencing what we had paid for.

I thought that we um went to visit the Walmart St. Louis Symphony instead of like the actual St. Louis Symphony. Um, no shot on Walmart brand. We buy Walmart brand. We we love it, but it's not that name brand. So, we thought we were getting that I thought I was getting that Walmart brand St. Louis Symphony. Um, and I began to get worried that we wasted the money, that this was just going to be how it was. I never really been to an orchestra before. Um, after a few minutes of them warming up, I saw a man walking up to the podium up front, stepping on top of the podium and lifting a stick.

And all of a sudden, the band fell into complete silence. The chaos silenced. Everything went silence. And there was like a still hush in the room. And with that hush came an anxiousness of like, what's going to happen next? We just heard a bunch of not great things. What's going to happen next? And as soon as at the order of the conductor that anxiousness became a joy because as he began to direct the orchestra all in one accord they began to play beautiful music um that was once a chaotic noise became beautifully orchestrated and ordered by that conductor.

And in that moment it led me to the thought of what the Bible says about chaos. And that's what I'll be speaking here tonight. And immediately going into the Bible, you are faced with the first instance of chaos. In Genesis 1 verse 1-5, it states, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light, and there was light." And God saw that the light that it was good.

And God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. So the evening and morning were the first day before creation. The earth is described as formless, void, covered by a deep uh dark ocean of water of chaos. Um there was nothing to be desirable. Nothing was seen. There was no ornaments. There was no trees. There was no order. There was no um direction. And in the Bible, water, especially deep waters and untamed waters like the ocean, is a symbol of chaos, symbol of the unknown, the symbol of death.

We see this as a symbol of death as with Jonah and in the whale. They he went down into water for three days in the belly of the whale came out of it and Jesus went down into his death and was buried in his death. And we now replicate that in getting buried underneath the water baptism. So there's some kind of idea that there's a water sort of death sort of things that are happening in the Bible as a theme. The image of the waters here in Genesis 1 being without form, untamed, deep leads us into the idea that these waters were chaotic.

There was no structure to them. It wasn't like they were hitting it up against the pier of the beach or hitting the the sand of the beach. There was no order. It was just waves crashing up against waves. No structure, no direction. But the Bible opens up with the image that the earth was filled with that chaos. Just like the orchestra was warming up and it sounded so chaotic. That was what the earth was happening. That's what was going on on the face of the earth and the waters lacked guidance from their creator.

But the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. God was there in the midst of that chaos. He stepped up on that podium just like the conductor did at the band and began to speak beautiful order into the world that was once chaos and he said that it was good. As we go through the word tonight, we will see and use this as a foundation. We will see that biblical texts portray God as sovereign over these waters over times of chaos bringing effortlessly order creation and life out of formless deep and chaos.

There are many ways that the Bible depicts chaos in our life and depicts how we go through it and then how God is sovereign over these situations. The first we will meet is chaos that is present around us that is surrounding us. Many times in our life we experience a sense of chaos in our situations. We may be going through a life situation. We may be going through a hard time. So many things are happening at once. The calendar's booked. Just this chaos that's around us.

It may have been something that we did that placed us in that chaos or just we were just going about life and we got caught up in the midst of a storm. This happened to the disciples in Luke chapter 8. It states in verse 22 to 25. Now it happened on a certain day that he got into the boat with his disciples and he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." And they launched out. And as they sailed, he fell asleep.

And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in jeopardy. And they came to him and woke him, saying, "Master, master, we are perishing." Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and ceased, and there was a calm. But he said to them, "Where is your faith?" And they were afraid and marveled, saying to one another, "Who can this be? For he commands even the winds and water, and they obey him." Again, going back to the idea in the Hebrew culture that it is chaos.

So, seeing that Jesus was able to command the wind and the waves, they had to understand that something different was about Jesus. As they were traveling to the next place, Jesus even told them, "We're going to go across the lake. We're going to go across the ocean, and we're going to go to this other side." They found themselves in the midst of chaos, fear, and dangerous waters. They were just following after the foots of Jesus. Maybe you're just following after the will of God, and that's all we want in our lives.

But we get caught up in a chaotic situation, following after the directions of Jesus. Sometimes in life, we get surrounded by chaos that is our own or isn't our own. But however, scripture tells us that the Lord will never leave us, nor he will never forsake us. In Psalm 23, it states, "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul and leads me in the paths of righteousness.

For his name's sake. Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Many parts of that psalm point to the fact that we ourselves will be walking in valleys of the shadow of death.

We'll be in the presence of our enemies and but God is in the midst of it in that verse in that psalm God is always there in the midst of it. It even states that you lead me upon the paths of righteousness and then the very n verse it talks about walking through the valley of the shadow of death. Sometimes the path of righteousness may be through a valley of the shadow or death. When we find ourselves in the midst of our chaos, we feel like we are being surrounded by the trials of life.

Take heart that Jesus who is able to calm the wind, the waves in an instant is as close as the mention of his name. Going back to our passage in Luke, when the disciples found themselves in the midst of a storm, they saw that Jesus was sleeping on the boat. They interpreted that like Jesus didn't care. They were going, they were working tirelessly to get water out of the boat. And Jesus is just back there sleeping, not a care in the world. And they interpreted it as Jesus just didn't care if they lived or died.

Sink or swim, he's just going to keep sleeping. They interpreted it as Jesus didn't care. But church, I will tell you this right now. Do not view Jesus's action or lack thereof as a sign that he does not care about you. Jesus cares for you more than you could possibly imagine. And his lack of action is not a lack of compassion for you. Just because he has a lack of action does not mean that he is not walking through it with you in the midst. If the disciples had never gone through the storm in the boat and cried out to him for salvation, how would they have ever learned that Jesus was the one who even the wind and the waves obeyed?

How would they ever know what he is able to do if they never go through it? Jesus was in them and with them in that moment. How can we see our miracle or his mighty hand if we never go through a storm or a trial? But I want to tell you right now, if you are in that chaos, I am not belittling that chaos. And if you are in that storm, I'm not saying that you are not in a storm. But I want to tell you right now, to whoever that is, just in a moment, he is able to step onto the scene, raise up his hand, and begin to speak peace into your storm and into your situation.

The conductor of our chaos is able to step onto the scene, and bring a peace that passes all circumstances. He will step onto the scene and once that happens everything will change. I believe it and I know that that can be most of us in this this room that we're going through situations in our external life. But also the Bible talks about chaos that's happening internally with us. Sometimes the chaos isn't around us but we start to feel lost. We start to feel confused or like we can't control our thoughts and our feelings.

Chaos is in our minds and this is a true and real struggle. Mental health is valuable and taking care of our minds is very important. Church, do not believe that the chaos in your mind is abnormal. Um there's something wrong with you. If you're experiencing it, that there's something inherently off about you. If you're experiencing some of these this chaos in your mind, I'm an advocate for mental health. I'm going into school for it. We have counselors here. It is true and it is helpful. I'm an advocate for it for Yan and for old.

And I want to say on the outside of this section, if you are struggling with thoughts, emotions, mental illness, anything like that, please reach out and talk to someone. We have support. I have support suggestions. We have celebrate recovery here on campus. We have people like the pastor pastoral care team. We have the pastoral team. We have people who are able to speak to you and talk to you. So please do not think that there is something wrong with you if you are experiencing it. It is real and it is okay to come and speak.

But most importantly, above all those things that are great, we know a God who is the great counselor and that can take care of our chaos in our minds. Again, going back to Luke 8, we find another situation of Jesus stepping onto the scene of chaos. In Luke 8 26-39, it states, "Then they sailed to the country of the Gatherines, which is opposite of Galilee. And when he stepped out on the land, there met a certain met him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time.

And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house, but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell before him, and with a loud voice said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, son of the most high God? I beg you, do not torment me, for he had commanded the unclean spirit, to come out of the man, for it had often seized him and was kept under guard, bound chains, and shackles, and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness." Jesus asked him, saying, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered him.

And they begged him that he would not command them to go out into the abyss. Now, a herd of swine was just across the way over on a mountain. So they begged him that he would permit them to enter the swine, and he permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned. When those who fled them saw what happened, they fled and told um in the city and the country and they went out to see what had happened and came to Jesus and found the man who whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid.

They also who had seen it told them that it means he who had been demonpossessed was healed. Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of gatherines asked him to depart from them for they were seized with great fear and he got into the boat and returned. Now the man who had the demons had departed, begging him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away. Return to your own house and tell him, tell them what great things God has done for you. And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

Here we see Jesus interacting with a man who was possessed by demons in his mind. He was dealing with these demons um in his mind for a long time. dealing with this chaos in these voices that caused him to do harm to himself and to others. This passage we also find in Mark and I think it gives a little bit more of a clearer picture of the state of this man in Mark 5 2-5. Immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with unclean spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs and no one could bind him not even chains because he had often been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles broke in pieces.

Neither could anyone tame him. And always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying out and cutting himself with stones. This was a man truly dealing with severe chaos in his mind. The number of voices that were in his mind was to the point that they took over a herd of pigs and tossed them off a cliff. Gives you an idea of what type of demon that he was facing in his life. that immediately after they went into the swine they the instant thought they had was this has to be better than what I'm living with.

Look, I worked in the schools. I am going to school to be in a school and I am often in classrooms of 20 to 30 elementary kids daily and when all those kids get going, all those kids are talking at the same time getting rowdy rowdy, I can't think straight. I I can't do anything. I love kids and I love being at the school, but when it hits 20 kids talking at the same time, I'm done. I've got to take a step out of the room.

I'm not coherent. I have no idea what is going on. You try to speak louder to them, you have no chance. You try to do anything to get their attention, you have no shot. So, this 20 kids is my limit. This man had 2,000. It says that 2,000 pigs were in the herd. So, I couldn't imagine what this man was going through. The Bible says that there were 2,000 pigs in the herd. This means that at least 2,000 demons were in this man's mind. And during those times in the Roman army, um, a legion was about 3 to 6,000 soldiers.

So, the Bible, always being intentional about names, called him Legion, points to the idea that there could have been up to three to 6,000 demons in this man's mind. You know those cartoons where there's like the devil on the one and the uh angel on the other? Well, he didn't have an angel. He just had devil devil and then 3,000 more on top of him just all saying the same thing at the same time. All saying the bad things about him at the same time. Three to six thousand of them.

And while we may not experience this level of possession or this level of demon activity in our own lives, we can experience this level of mental struggle in our life. Mark states that this man was always restless, shouting, bound, and even hurting himself. This is what chaos can look like in our minds. Chaos in our minds comes in many different ways. Um the enemy knows what you struggle with and attacks it very intentionally. This can look like depression, anxiety, suicide, stress, fear, self-image or inferiority complexes.

This enemy knows how to come in and create chaos in our minds. We go through times in our lives where we are faced with mental, emotional, and spiritual battles. It happens. They come and they go. And to go through these times are completely normal. Do not believe, again, do not believe the lie that it is abnormal that you are dealing with that. It is normal. But I do not want to believe that it is a normal to live with it and accept it. You can have it and you can go through it, but do not live that lie that you just have to accept it.

You can just take this thing every day or you just have to accept it that that's who I am. I deal with this. No. God did not create you to just deal with it and to accept it. But he created you for something more. For God did not give you the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. Neither did he give us the spirit of anxiety, spirit of depression, spirit of suicide, or inferiority. Paul states, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ." God did not come for us to live with these things. But just like the demon-possessed man, when Jesus shows up on the scene, he is able to step on and command peace in the chaos of our minds. And in a moment of an instant, I've come to tell you someone tonight, if you are dealing with that struggle, that chaos in your mind, do not believe that it's just okay.

Do not believe that it's just something that you deal with. But I want to tell you that the conductor of our chaos can step onto the scene, step into this room tonight and show you that there is something better in store for your life. He can silence those thoughts in your mind. He to bring a peace that passes all understanding. He to protect and guard your minds through Christ Jesus. All you need to do is call on his name. Seek after him for he is close beside you.

He's close. He's in this room tonight. That conductor of our chaos is in this room tonight and he is here for you. We He did not create you to live in the state of mind. He did not create you to deal with those things, but he created us to live in his peace, love, and confidence. Lastly, I want to talk about how Jesus walks with us in our chaos. Sometimes we live through our chaos and have to learn to walk with God during these times. We are called out into these times to trust in the Lord even in the midst of the storm.

Peter experienced this challenge in Matthew 14:22. Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side. While he sent the multitudes away, and when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up to the mountain by himself to pray. Now when evening came, he was alone there, but the boat was now in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary or rough. Now in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went to them walking on the sea.

And when the Jesus saw when the disciples saw Jesus walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It's a ghost." And they cried out for fear. Want to note at the beginning of Genesis, God hovered over the face of the chaos. Hovered over the face of the waters. But Jesus came and he walked on the chaos. He walked on the waters. He's there to do even more than what we can imagine. He's there to show up and walk on our situation and walk on our chaos.

So Jesus spoke to them immediately saying, "Be of good cheer. It is I. Do not be afraid." And Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water." So he said, "Come." And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid and began and began to sink. He cried out, "Lord, save me." And immediately Jesus did stretch out his hand and caught him and said to him, "You of little faith, why do you doubt?" And when they got on the boat, the wind ceased.

In this instance, Peter and the disciples were once again found in the middle of waters. Once again found in the middle of the ocean, being tossed around by the chaos of the sea. However, this time Jesus was not with them. Jesus was not present on the boat sleeping this time. He was gone. And for all their knowledge, he was out on the mountain. All he said, he had sent the disciples off and told them that he was going to meet them up with them later. In our context, yeah, you go ahead.

I'm going to catch up with you guys later. They had no idea how he was going to do this. They don't have like a train and the disciples were like on a car, so they got like met up at the same time. They had no idea how Jesus was going to meet them on the other side, but they just took the step and they went out on the sea as Jesus commanded. Then they saw Jesus walking out to them on the seas, commanding his control over the chaos of the waters.

So Peter calls out to Jesus. Peter being confident, being himself, called out to Jesus to bid him out to the waters. And Jesus calls him out onto the water with him. And he calls him into the midst of the wind and the waters. Jesus called Peter out into the midst of the chaos. Sometimes Jesus will call us out into the middle of the chaos around us. the chaos in our minds. Sometimes Jesus will call us into the times of chaos because he has something marvelous for us in store.

Peter stepped out on the boat and in that moment he was surrounded by the sea but was walking with Jesus in the midst of it all. Jesus had never told us that we would go through life easy. Um in John 16:33 he says, "These things I've spoken to you that in me you may have peace in the world. You will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world. James 1:2 says, "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." When Jesus called Peter out into the waters, he didn't calm the waters. He didn't make it look like glass, or he didn't make it solid, like a plank to walk on. He didn't do all of that. Um, I remember growing up, we had a boat for a time and we would go out in the mornings or late at night and you would see that the waters were completely like glass. You would you would be able to see the the sunset or the sunrise and the reflection just looked like you were like gliding across glass.

Has anyone experienced that on a boat? It's pretty cool. If you haven't looked it up, it's really sweet to just see like you're you're moving across across glass. When Jesus called Peter out of the water, it was not like that. It was not like this calm water. It wasn't like this road of glass. It was the ocean. It was chaos. It was stormy during that time. But Jesus still expected Peter to walk on that water. And Peter did. He still walked on that chaotic water of the surroundings.

When we are going through trials in our life, sometimes it is Jesus calling us out into the waters to walk with him and trust in him. Sometimes he doesn't calm our storms to walk with him, but in he helps us walk in the midst of our storms. Jesus called him out into the waters to experience the miraculous. If he just made the waters um like glass or made the water like a plank, it would not be miraculous. But Jesus wanted to show off the miraculous through this storm.

Sometimes he calls us out into the chaos to experience the new level that he has in store for us. If we never take the next step off the boat and into the waters, we may never experience the amazing things Jesus has in store for us. However, the moment Peter took his eyes off Jesus, he began to be overwhelmed by the waters. As soon as he began to lose faith, trust, and focus on Jesus, that was when the chaos was too much for him and he began to drown.

When we are in the midst of our storm walking with Jesus, the moment we lose heart and trust in him, the that is when the chaos will begin to overtake us. The moment you let go of Jesus is the moment the chaos becomes too much for us to bear. If usage would like to come, Jesus commanded the disciples each time in every part of the story that we went through tonight. Each time he commanded them to cross over into the water. He called them to enter the chaotic waters.

And as we go through this life, we ourselves will find ourselves in the midst of chaos. But the most important thing is where are your eyes during the storm? The disciples were only focused on the storm in the first story which caused them to have fear, doubt, and not trust in Jesus and feel like he was just sleeping for on them. He was just letting them die because they took their eyes and focus off of Jesus and on the storm. As soon as Peter trusted in Jesus and placed his eyes on him, he overcame the storm around him.

He was able to walk on that waters. But as soon as he took him off, that was when he began to drown. And as we all stand tonight, I want to open up this altar for all those who are walking during a season of chaos. Maybe you're walking during a time of chaos in your surroundings or in your situation that you're you're going through and you don't know what's up and what's down, what's left or what's right. You're just going through it. You have no idea why.

You have no idea what's happening around you, but you're just walking through a season of chaos in your situation. Maybe you're going through a season of chaos in your mind. You can't think straight. You have a hard time focusing. You are always anxious. You're always fearful. You find yourselves at night depressed or sad about yourself. Maybe you're going through a season of chaos in your mind. And as I I call you guys up to the front to this altar tonight, as you begin to come, if you want to see the Lord make his way into your life, if you want to see him begin to enter into your story and conduct your chaos, I pray that you would come up to the front tonight.

I ask you tonight, where are your eyes placed? Who are you looking to during your struggle? Are you trusting in the God who commands the winds to cease and the waves to calm? Are you trusting in the God who's able to walk on the waters in your life? Or are you seeking after other things? Are you looking at the storm that is placed in your life? We ourselves may even try to calm the storm in our life. Do it ourselves, take control. But when we try to replace the true conductor of our chaos, the true person in our life, when we try to replace it, it only makes matters worse.

We become to feel overwhelmed. We start to feel like we're wasting our time. Not only is it not working, now we've wasted time and wasted our energy. We start to feel like it's made it worse. That is what happens when we try to replace the true conductor of our chaos. If you are feeling that situation, if you are in the midst of chaos, if you're feeling overwhelmed by your storm and feel like you're already drowning, give it to God. Stop working it out on your own.

Stop trying to do it on your own. Call on the Lord who even in our time of sin, even in our sin, pulls us up out of the waters and places us back onto the boat. Call on the Lord in the midst of your chaos tonight and the conductor will step onto the scene. And in a moment, in an instant, beautiful peace and order will begin to be played in your life. Beautiful pieces of music are going to be played in your mind and in your heart.

He's going to begin to orchestrate the band in your life. He's going to be the conductor of your chaos. You just have to trust in him. All you have to do is come to him and seek after his face. All we need to do is trust in him and take our eyes off the storm and place them back on him. Lord, we come before you tonight, God. I pray that your peace would be upon this place. Lord, we give you the glory, God. We give you the praise.

I pray that your peace would enter into this house tonight, God. God, that you would conduct the chaos in our hearts and in our minds, God. That you would begin to step onto the scene and create beautiful out of chaos. that you would bring order into our situation. God, that you would bring order in our lives, in our situations, in our hearts and our minds, that we would not believe the lie, that we just have to live in the midst of our chaos, but knowing that you are able to save.

You're able to deliver us out of that chaos, Lord. I thank you, Jesus. Thank you for what you are doing, God. I thank you for your order. Thank you for your peace, Lord. Hallelujah.