Would you join me and bow your hands in a word of prayer?

Lord,

who, thank you, Lord.

I just pray for those who don't know what it's like to have you, Lord, in their life.

What a blessing, Lord, and almost unexplainable.

Lord, just thank you, thank you, Lord, and almost unexplainable.

Lord, just thank you. Thank you, Lord.

Would you be with us this evening, Lord, as we dig into your word, Lord.

Would you calm our spirits, calm our hearts and our minds, Lord?

They give us a focus and attention, Lord, on you that we won't miss what it is that you have

that would bless our lives this evening, Lord. Be a pastor J.D. Lord as he stands up here and delivers

your word so faithfully, Lord. Watch over him and his family. And thank you for this time that we can come together and study

a word in Jesus name we pray this name amen amen amen good evening to you hey before you're seated

if you haven't got the elements for communion at the conclusion you might want to come up hi

Melissa good to see you go ahead and come on up. Those of you

that are joining us online, we're so glad that you are. If you would like to partake with us,

you might want to have the elements ready as well, as we will partate together. We always look forward to the communion table at the conclusion

of tonight's bible studies so isecchio chapter 18 we're making our way through we're taking

our time and so just one chapter tonight and uh for a couple of reasons one of which is I never like to rush

through communion so we'll just take the one chapter and there's another reason and I

think you'll see why here shortly this chapter actually it's an interesting chapter

and it really is kind of stand alone.

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