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I want you to open your Bibles, please, to Second Chronicles Chapter 7.

It's a very familiar passage, which I'm thankful for.

There are just some portions of scripture that should stand up more than others

because there seem to be things that the Lord is really breathing on.

And I feel it's so strong on this passage right now

in ways that are really hard for me to describe.

I've been looking forward to today.

I've, it's been an unusually busy season for us as a staff.

You would think with this slowdown, there would actually be a

slowdown, but I didn't notice it if it came. It went past me. It's been an unusually busy time,

but thankfully, Benny and I were able to take some vacation time this month, and that was just real

wonderful. The letdown, of course, is not being with you, but we did have some

wonderful time to rest and just enjoy being home, so we're glad for that. For the last several

weeks, I don't know exactly how long, but for the last at least two weeks, maybe three or four,

I've been waking up morning after morning,

often, not every morning, but morning after morning, sometimes in the middle of the night,

quoting this verse. You know, sometimes you find divine moments because you're saying something that you didn't come from here.

It wasn't a premeditated statement.

It was just something that came up from here, just that volcanic eruption.

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