Today is the 25th day of May.

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I am Brian.

It is great to be here with you today.

Honestly, favorite place to be.

Safest place.

This oasis that we come into and just let the Bible speak.

And we're just here together, but all on the same page moving in the same direction.

Man, it's just a beautiful thing to be able to do that.

At least have that one place in life where things actually kind of make

sense and keep going in the same direction. I'm really grateful for you. Grateful for you to be here.

Grateful for me to be here. Grateful for us to take the next step forward as we continue this journey.

Today, 2nd Samuel, chapters 7 and 8.

The king settled into his palace, for the Lord gave him relief from all his enemies on all sides.

The king said to Nathan the prophet,

Look, I am living in a palace made from Cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.

Nathan replied to the king, you should go and do whatever you have in

mind, for the Lord is with you. That night the Lord's message came to Nathan. Go tell my servant David,

this is what the Lord has said. Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in? I have not lived in a house from the

time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them

and living in a tent. Wherever I moved among the Israelites, I did not say to any of their leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,

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