Would you join me in a word of prayer?

Lord, thank you for this time, Lord, that we can get together and celebrate you, Lord,

and worship you and praise you.

Give you all the glory, Lord, for providing for providing for us Lord and allowing us to be here

this evening that we may be fed Lord by your word so would you teach us Lord would you speak to us

we thank you so much again Lord we ask this in jesus name amen amen amen good evening to you you can be seated

welcome welcome how's everybody doing tonight i think i got my answer

also want to welcome those of you that are joining us online. We're so very glad that you are because tonight we commence our verse by verse study through this amazing book of Ezekiel. And can I say it? I'm going to say it.

Yeah, that's right. What have I done to you, poor people? I'm going to say it.

Yeah, that's right. What have I done to you poor people? Yeah, that I mean it's my favorite book along with all my other favorite books, which are all the books of the Bible. But really looking forward to this book and this chapter, and I know I say that every week, and I'll probably just keep saying that every week.

So that's your lot in life.

And why don't we pray?

And let's just ask God to bless our time together tonight in His Word.

Father, thank you so much.

Oh, Lord, we love you.

We love your word.

Oh, Lord, tonight we're just with great eagerness and desire and anticipation, even expectation,

looking forward to what it is that you have for us as we begin this amazing book. And it's an amazing book.

And Ezekiel is an amazing man.

And we're going to get to know him starting tonight.

So Lord, he's going to teach us many things.

And we need for the Holy Spirit to bless that to our hearts and

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