Hey podcast family, Miles Fidel here, and I want to welcome you to the All Christ Church podcast.

If you have been following along with our church, you probably know that we recently

adjusted our name from Auburn Community Church to All Christ Church, still hanging on to our identity as ACC,

but we recognize that normalizing radical discipleship to Jesus in the American Church

required a name change at the beginning of a new year.

And so if you're new to this podcast, welcome.

We are all about Jesus, the truth of God's word, and living for his glory alone.

And we hope and pray these resources bless your life right where you are in your individual

season.

If you believe in what God is doing through this local church, consider supporting it financially.

There's so many different ways to go about contributing

to the life of this church. And you can go to all Christ.church and look up all of those ways.

Thanks so much for tuning in with us. Now let's prepare our hearts for this sermon from God's Word.

Well, if you're new or you're just joining us this Sunday, we started the new year in a series called 52.

And that number is taken straight out of the story in Nehemiah where the people of God rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

They rebuild the gates. There's a 52-day miraculous window where God

takes the ruins and brings a city back to life because Nehemiah, who had an influential position

in the Persian Empire, even though he was Jewish, prayed and fasted when he got the news that his city was in

ruins. And we said prayer and fasting is actually the doorway for God moving at an elevated and

expedited rate. That God's timing is what it is and he is going to move over the course of a

lifetime, sometimes slower than

many of us would want.

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