One thing that's beautiful about having to face up with our inadequacy is just going like, I am inadequate.

Hallelujah.

There's something that just to go, I really, I actually am.

For the thing I was born to do, I actually am not adequate to do it.

That's the miracle of it.

So it's kind of saying back to the enemy, I agree with you.

I am inadequate.

And then all of a sudden it turns back around, but my God is completely adequate.

And he has made me competent in him.

Tonight, as we open up our Bibles, I want you to approach it like that is nothing else on this earth.

You will never hold anything in your hands, nothing that you can hold in your physical grasp that is like the Word of God.

Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing.

The only thing that would be more sacred to us would be to hang on to Christ himself in a real life, tangible form, to grab onto him with everything we've got and that day is coming.

Until then, what you hold in your hands is unlike anything else. And so when you approach it, I had this

opportunity yesterday to be on a radio program. And the host was asking me, he said, what is it

that you think? He said, I hear women say over and over again, her class is fun. Her class is fun.

He said, and I know you teach on serious stuff. He said, Beth, why do you think your class is fun?

I said, because we enjoy two things. We enjoy Jesus and we enjoy the word. Listen, I even enjoy it when it's a hard word.

But it was God and he spoke and I could sense it in my spirit.

I promise you this.

He wants you to love his son with everything you've got more than anything you could see, touch, or somehow encounter in a physical, tangible way on this earth, and he wants you to love his word.

And so I ask you tonight, are you praying for that which you feel like you so lack in the

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