Would you join me as we pray?

Lord, thank you so much, Lord.

What a prophecy update.

Thank you for speaking to us and for your faithfulness.

So we are seeking you out this morning, Lord, as we get into your word,

speak to us loud and clear Lord that we

would understand what it is that you have for us today Lord so we bless your name and

Lord we can't pray for our pastors enough so we lift up Pastor Laito Pastor Mac Lord

and Pastor J.D. continue to

use them mightily, Lord, for your glory and your glory alone. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Amen. And amen. And good morning. A welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here today. So glad you came. Those of you online,

we're glad that you're joining with us real quick before we jump in though. I do want to let

you know, particularly here locally, that our all church prayer meeting is coming up this Tuesday,

7 p.m. here in the sanctuary and that is May 5th.

Really hope you're able to come and join with us. So we're in as you know the gospel of

Mark verse by verse. We're making progress. We made it through chapter one. Took us a while, but we

weren't in a hurry. Were we? Okay. So we made it. Actually, we're making progress in chapter

two. We got all the way through to verse 17 last week. No, we should get a badge or a button or something for that. So we're

going to pick it up in verse 18 today and make it all the way through to verse 22. Again,

we're not in a hurry, right? Okay. So I want to read it. You can stand and follow along if you want to.

If not, no problem. Where you're seated is fine. But this is a, remember now, a contiguous or continuing narrative written by Mark inspired by the Holy Spirit.

So there weren't verse breaks or chapter breaks.

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