Thanks for joining us for the Church of the City, New York podcast.

At the start of the year, we did a series called God Comes Where He's Wanted.

And honestly, the feedback's been overwhelming.

We have seen such an increase in hunger for prayer and the manifest presence of God in our church community.

So rather than switching to a new series, we thought we're just going to keep this going.

So we're about to start a six-week series leading up to Easter that is on Jesus' teaching about how to interact with God through prayer.

And we're simply calling this God comes where he's won at 2.0.

So I hope this stirs your faith even further and inspires you to seek God like never before.

Now let's get back to the podcast.

Teaching text today and it is from first chronicles, verses 1 through 14. David conferred with

each of his officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. He then said to the

whole assembly of Israel, if it seems good to you and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send

word far and wide to the rest of our

people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them

in their towns and pasture lands to come and join us. Let us bring the ark of our God back to us,

for we did not inquire of it during the reign of Saul. The whole assembly agreed to do this because it seemed right to

all the people. So David assembled all Israel from the Shohor River in Egypt to Libo Hamath

to bring the ark of God from Kiryath Jirim. David and all Israel went to Bayla of Judah,

Kiryath Jirim, to bring up from there the Ark of God the Lord, who is enthroned

between the cherubim, the ark that is called by the name. They moved the Ark of God from

Abidinab's house on a new cart with Uza and Ohio guiding it. David and all the Israelites were

celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps,

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