I've submitted you and will continue to suggest to you that spiritual forces impact our lives

just as certainly as physical forces do. And we need a plan for that in the same

way you have a plan for physical forces. If you wear a seatbelt in your car, you

better understand how to put on the spiritual armor.

If you've taken, if you've made efforts to boost your immune system as we walk through a pandemic,

you need to know how to strengthen your spiritual immune system.

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Pastor Allen. Be blessed. I read an article this week that has stayed with me.

I have told you before, I love this nation.

It's where God planted me.

I understand that God is not an American. I know that when we get to heaven they won't be playing the Star Spangled Banner in the elevators.

I have no lack of clarity in front of the pearly gates. There is not a flagpole with the red, white, and blue

flapping in the breeze. And I would not suggest that. But I also know that God has uniquely blessed our nation.

We would not exist and we would not know the liberties and freedoms that we have apart from God.

That we're a nation of immigrants. We have come from the nations of the world.

We have come with different colors of skin and different shapes of eyes

and with different accents.

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