Would you join me in a word of prayer, Lord. We thank you, Lord. We thank you that, well,

you've given us another year, Lord, to celebrate your birth, Lord. What a great time, Lord,

to go out there and just share the love that you have for us with others.

Would you speak to us tonight in the Bible study?

Sometimes very tough to hear.

Tough to receive, Lord, but we need it.

I know I do.

Lord, so we thank you for this time in your word that is living, Lord.

Calm our hearts, Lord.

Calm our minds, our thoughts, Lord,

draw us near to you this evening that we might not miss anything that you have for us.

This evening. Jesus, name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Good evening to you. Welcome. You can be seated.

Glad you're here. Glad you're watching online. Hope you'll be blessed that you did. Hey, before we get started I got a couple things I

want to mention actually more than a couple but but first, Tuesday night, we're going to have a special prayer meeting.

I just sensed that I was to share briefly, famous last words,

that at the beginning of the prayer meeting,

Lord's just kind of put it on my heart to share candidly

what he's ministered to me over the years concerning

some of the reasons that prayers seemingly and inexplicably go unanswered.

So I'll have you know I'm working on that and looking forward to that.

So we'll start the prayer meeting off that way.

I have 18 reasons I'm just wait I'm narrowing it down to seven I'm being very

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