Heavenly Father, thank you so much, Lord.

Another year, and although we are excited for your arrival, Lord, when you can take us and we can

be together with you, Lord, in person in heaven, Lord.

Until that day comes, Lord, may we be faithful.

May we go out and preach the Word of God. Share the gospel with somebody, Lord. Thank you, Lord,

for this time of worship. And thank you, Lord, for this message. Lord, would you bless it? And may we

receive it, Lord. And may it give us strength to go out and proclaim your name, Lord. We ask this in

the mighty name of Jesus, we say.

Amen.

All right.

Thank you.

Please be seated.

Well, good morning to you all.

Good morning.

And on behalf of Pastor J.D. Farag, we'd like to welcome all of you, including our online

viewers as well as any visitors here to Calvary Chapel, Connoe here this Sunday morning, where

we will be teaching, preaching the Word of God.

Before we get started, our next prayer meeting will be this Tuesday on the 3rd of January, 7 p.m. here in the sanctuary,

and I would ask that anyone and all of you who are able to come, please come out so we can pray

as a church body. We really need to do this corporately. It's so important, especially in the times

that we're living in. We cannot pray enough. I hear somebody say,

you know, I'm prayed up. You prayed up? You're about to be played out. We need prayer,

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