Hey, welcome Gateway Church. I want to bring you greetings from your most southern

campus here in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, but Pastor Robert and Debbie, we love you what an honor

it is for us to be with you in your first conference and we're excited as we

face this new year together. You know, this past year, 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for all of us.

It's almost like there was a spirit of anxiety that was released over our nation. I mean, listen, I'm a guy that doesn't deal with

anxiety very much, but I'm gonna tell you I felt the heaviness and the weight at

times in 2020. But as I looked to the word of God, I kept finding my comfort in a voice that echoed

down through the ages of time. Actually, 1,959 years ago, this voice pierced the darkness of that hour and declared,

I have found the secret to peace and confidence in times of crisis.

I don't know if you realize this or not, but the crisis hotline here in America had an increase

of over 890% in his calls. People were in this state of crisis.

I don't know if it was the uncertainty of our times, the isolation that came because of COVID-19, but I know this,

there was a spirit of anxiety that was loose.

But there was one voice that said I found the secret how to have peace and confidence in these times,

in these difficult challenging times.

And of course that voice came from a prison in Rome when he declared I can do all things

through Christ who strengthens me. Now this is a very familiar verse to all of us

Philippians 413,

that the apostle Paul was writing to the church at Philippi,

why he was imprisoned in Rome.

And he writes to them and tells them, hey,

I found it, I can do do this and so can you. When I was

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