There's a God and you can ask him ultimately. I'll give you my opinion. He's sovereign and he doesn't reveal his purposes to the casual inquire.

I have found that if you will seek God sincerely and persistently that God is remarkably faithful to give you the inside and

understanding you need to navigate what is before you.

But he will never surrender his sovereignty to us throwing a temper tantrum because we don't like our circumstances.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen.

Be blessed.

I want to talk a little bit about Israel and what's happening.

And some of it isn't is not great news.

But I wanted to start on a little lighter note with an email I got this morning from a friend in Israel.

He's a businessman, but he also pastors a church, a man of significant influence, but for several years we have shared

a bit with them and they have done youth camps in Israel for the Christian young people.

And that's, those are, it's a limited number of people and they're very, it's the only opportunity

I know like it in Israel

and very unexpectedly this morning this email was in my inbox and I'll share a bit of it with you

it says dear pastor Alan and the brothers and sisters of world outreach

Shalom from Jerusalem.

Last week I prepared this thank you letter to send to you.

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