If you have a Bible, Genesis chapter 24 is where we're going to be for this weekend and the next

four weekends as well, the six weeks from the kicked off, really Valentine's Day week is going

to end the Sunday after St. Patrick's Day. And so if you're going to do a series that goes from

St. Patrick's to Valentine's Day, what better could you call it than Lucky and Love? So that's

what we did. Thank you while you were sleeping for a great sermon series. He said,

you've never, you've never been very, very lucky when it comes to cards, but you have been lucky

in love. And I want to challenge you to believe that there is something much better than luck when

it comes to your romantic relationships and to all of your relationships. And that is providence,

providence, God's providence, God's leading in your love life and in your relationships.

If you have a Bible, like I said, Genesis 24, the title of this message is four keys to avoiding

relationship wreck, four keys to avoiding relationship wreck. When I got my first Bible, I mean,

I had an illustrated Bible that was an adventure Bible that I read till both covers were gone and

pages were falling out, but when I got my first Bible that was like imitation leather and I remember,

you know, I got to choose to emblaze in something on it, to engrave something on it at the bookstore

and they said, what do you want to put on it? And I picked my name, but then I also picked a Bible

verse because they said, there's two lines. You could put something under it. And I knew exactly

what I wanted to put on it. I put Proverbs 3, 5 and 6 on it. These have been some of my favorite

verses in Scripture that have marked my whole Christian life following Jesus, have marked

for sure my relationship life and marriage and ministry and have been one of the two or three,

I guess you could say, verses that have just really out of all the verses in the Bible really meant

a lot to and marked my spiritual journey. If you've ever gotten a book signed by me, chances are,

I've written one of these three references and the one that I probably go to second most often is

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