Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Morning Mindset and Happy New Year.

It is January 1st, 2023. I'm so thankful that you're here.

As I've been thinking about the Morning Mindset going into 2023, I've been spending some time

praying about what we should start studying beginning on January 1st and what I've landed on

is that we are going to work our way through what is known as the Sermon on the Mount.

It is Jesus teaching directly to His disciples, beginning in Matthew chapter 5 through

Matthew chapter 7, and is teaching about the kingdom of heaven, what the kingdom of heaven is like.

So I'm excited that we're going to dive into this together over the next month or so.

And friends, I want to ask you here at the beginning of 2023. If you would consider

making a commitment to become a financial partner with the Morning Mindset for the year of 2023,

at the very least, and you could do so for as little as $2 a month, $5 a month, that means small

amounts. It doesn't have to be a huge amount. Every little bit helps and every little bit

frees me up for my other business concerns so I can do more for the Morning Mindset and the different

forms of media that we're putting out there. For example, we have Digging Deeper, which is a

podcast I send only to those who are financial partners, which is more in-depth spiritual teaching,

spiritual insights and thoughts from my own life. You could receive that if you're a partner,

but also we're producing a parenting podcast called God Fearing Kids and the Parents Who Raised

Them. My wife and I are going to be starting on a marriage podcast very soon. Perhaps

others are in the hopper for this new year. Would you become a partner to enable us to bring

those things about? Okay, let's dive into the sermon on them out. Now, as we begin here in Matthew

chapter 5, verses 1 and 2, kind of set the stage for us. Jesus was with His disciples and a

crowd of people had gathered and he's kind of up on the hillside. He says, seeing the crowds,

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