First of all I want to say hello to my Gateway Church extended family. I am so

grateful for Gateway and what it means to the kingdom of God, what it means to the

membership of this great church, and to all of the multitude of people that you serve throughout this nation and beyond and leaders.

But on a very personal level, I want to thank you for the way you have loved me and my family.

The way Pastor Robert and Sister Debbie Morris have walked with us as a family through our ups and downs.

As you know, 2020 was quite the year for us in terms of losses.

On behalf of my late wife Lois, thank you so much for the way you loved

her and loved me and loved us during our time. And so I could not begin to go further without letting you know how

appreciated and how much loved and valued you are for all that you've meant to us and our ministry and beyond.

So God continue to bless you. Thank you also for allowing me to be part of this special week of

ministry that you're starting the year off with and to allow me the the

privilege to be a part of it.

All of us knows what it's like to be awakened suddenly out of our sleep

by an alarm clock of some sort going off. There has been a disturbance that moves from

our unconscious state to a conscious state of reality. It means this time to get up. We no longer are going to be

allowed by the noise of the clock or the radio to sleep and slumber.

It is to shake us from one reality,

the reality of sleeping and the subconscious state,

to a new reality of getting up, getting going, and beginning our day.

Well, there is another kind of alarm clock.

It's God's alarm clock.

It is designed to wake God's people up from our sleep and our spiritual slumber in order that

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