Would you join me and bow your heads as we pray.

Lord, we thank you, Lord.

I know that for a lot of us and maybe even all of us,

whether we're tuning in online or here in person,

we are needy of some rest, Lord.

But let us not rest at this moment, Lord.

Would you keep us up and our ears open, Lord, and focus on

you as we dive into your ever-living word, Lord. We thank you for this time. Would you protect

it and protect our minds from wandering, Lord? Continue to give Pastor J.D. the strength,

Lord.

Encourage him. And would you love on him? Continue to lead and guide him, Lord.

We thank you for this time again in your word. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

Amen. How you guys doing tonight? Well, that's a good answer.

You can be seated now.

Those of you online, good night.

I don't know what time zone you're in, but if you're staying up, do you want me to put you to sleep? Because I can do that, you know. Hey, glad you're here.

Trust that you'll be blessed that you came. Let's get into the Word. Genesis chapter 4.

On Thursday nights, we're going through the Bible Bible book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by

verse.

And we finished Revelation, picked it back up at the beginning in Genesis, starting all over

again.

Last time we taught through or went through, studying through Genesis

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