And the All right, well hey, welcome everybody in the room,

everybody tuning in online at all of the

ports live locations. We are kicking off a brand new series tonight that we are so excited about and

praying God uses to address a really big need in this era and that is on

mental health and anxiety.

So for the next handful of weeks we're going to walk through what God's word has to say.

Let me start with this story that will give us some tracks for where we're going.

A couple years ago I was speaking at College Station at a ministry called Breakaway, which is an amazing ministry.

And I had committed to speak and that's on a Tuesday night at 9 PM 3 and a half hours away.

They're not from Texas and the problem was I had

also committed to speak the next morning in Dallas Texas at 8.30 a.m.

Now I realize this and began assuming, oh, I'll just drive back late after breakaway gets done at like midnight.

And then I did the math and realized I wouldn't get to bed till 3.30 or 4.

Now, I don't know about you. There's people that can run without sleep I'm not one of those people I like a good seven eight hours a night and if I get any less than that if I'm gonna speak in front of crowds it's hard for me to put sentences together.

And so I am seeing just, oh, this is not a good plan.

And so I am running through, should I cancel one of them?

What should I do?

And then it hits me.

A friend of mine, a couple friends of mine, had recently started a private plane business where they charted out private flights.

And this is not really my world, not really my thing, but I picked with the phone, you know, shoot your shot, and I was like,

hey, if I was going to use that plane, what would it cost

or how much would it charge?

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