It's so great to have you with us today. We love you guys. We're praying you're going to have a beautiful month of March and just speaking blessings in favor of each one of you.

This time of year is just new beginnings, new spring seasons. And so we are believing that this will be a newness of joy in your heart. So know today we are praying for you and we love you.

Hallelujah. We love you so much. Thank you for being in the house of the Lord this morning.

You may be seated. You guys not only sound good, but you look amazing. You look like champions.

My friend had foot surgery, and the doctor told her that she would have to stay off of her foot for about a month.

So after a month of recovery, I saw her, and immediately I wanted to know, how is your foot. She said to me, I'm now going to physical

therapy. And then she began to tell me a little bit about her physical therapy sessions.

And she said to me, when I first got to physical therapy, my therapist said this, does your foot hurt right now? And she stopped and said, no, I'm not in any

pain right now. And she said, she looked right at me and said, if you're not in pain, why are you

limping? It kind of took her a back for a minute. And she said, well, I'm trying to

protect my foot. I don't want to hurt it again. I don't want to do anything that'll cause me any more

pain. Can you understand that line of thinking today? I certainly can. You know,

when you're in pain, the last thing you want to do is start acting like you normally did.

The last thing you want to do is step out in boldness. The last thing you want to do is go out

on a limb because you certainly don't want to

hurt yourself again. That physical therapist looked at her and she said, I need you to quit limping.

She said, if you don't begin to do and walk like you normally do, your foot will not strengthen.

Those ligaments will not go back in place.

And you won't be able to do what you want to do.

You won't be able to walk like you did before.

You'll always walk with a limp. I just want to encourage every one of us to not allow

pain, hurts, discouragement to cause us to walk with an emotional limp. Pain comes to all of us. Discuragement is a part of life,

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