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Tonight I'm going to do something really different tonight. It may not be different for you,

but we've been doing this for a lot of years and I, or Dano, usually open with a foundational

teaching. That's what we've done every single year for, I don't know, been doing this. I think

we've been doing this for 14 years and over 16 years. We missed two years. But tonight I was

really praying this week. I felt really unsettled. I had prepared all the messages for the week

in the last couple of weeks, been working on them every so often. And I felt so, I think most

of you will know that if you publicly teach, like you get a message all prepared, but you just

don't feel like it's the right message. And I'm like, it's not that it's not a good message.

It just doesn't feel right. And I woke up this morning and I was going over in my spirit,

that message that we use the open with, which is a teaching about what is a prophet and we'll

obviously be teaching that. What's the difference between the gift of prophecy and the office of a

prophet and one of us will be doing that probably tomorrow. But that's what we always open with.

And I really think it's a wise way to open. But I just didn't feel like I was supposed to do that.

And I felt like the Lord gave me kind of a prophetic inaugural address. So this is obviously

going to be a teaching, but it's more than that. It's to me. It's kind of a call to action.

And so I want to just begin by saying this, that about a year ago, Ish, is anyone else

have a problem measuring time? I don't know. Is it an age thing? It does probably get worse with age.

I'm often preaching, I'm like, and eight years ago, and then when I get home, Kathy's like,

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