Lord, we thank you that your joy is our strength, Lord.

We thank you that you gave us the straight this morning to get up,

to fight against the temptations and distractions that want to keep us away from hearing and receiving your word, Lord.

So we praise your name and we give you all the glory.

Would you bless and protect this time that what we received today, Lord, will be a blessing to our lives, Lord.

Lord, continue to give Pastor J.D. the strength, Lord, the courage, the boldness and the love that he has for you, Lord.

To stand up and take one step forward every day.

We thank you, Lord, for this time again, Lord. Would you bless it. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Amen. And amen. And good morning and welcome. Oh, you all look marvelous today.

You can be seated now.

Those of you online, you're probably already seated or doing other things.

That's fine.

But we welcome you as well.

We're glad that you're joining with us.

And for those of you here, we're glad that you are here.

Now, as you know, this is our first service. It's our prophecy update. And second service is the sermon.

And it's a verse by verse teaching through the Bible. And for those of you online online it will be live streamed on our

website at 1115 of pardon me 1045 a.m. on our website for the worship but on social media

platforms because of copyright issues it that the live stream doesn't start to 1115.

That's Hawaii time.

And we're currently in Mark's Gospel.

And we're going to pick it up where we left off in chapter 3, starting in verse 7, go through

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