Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters.

Where we devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

It's just me today, folks, sweet tea.

Maybe Mike had needed their sleep, so I let them sleep.

If you have a moment, please say a prayer for them as they're just kind of trying to figure out the sleep routines.

That would mean a lot to our family.

Don't forget that this is the second day of our Christmas giveaway.

So we'll be announcing the winner at the very end of this podcast, which is very exciting.

And you can still enter, by the way, we've had thousands of people enter,

but you can still enter for a chance to win one of the 10 additional prizes that will be announced

between tomorrow and Christmas.

But without further ado, we're picking up with day two of our anticipating Christmas devotion.

The Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description of the podcast.

If you guys want to follow along, and as always, I'm going to read the scripture.

And I'm also going to read the Divo, the scripture is Isaiah chapter nine, verse two.

And it says this, the people who walk in darkness will see a great light.

For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine.

The devotional is titled, the thrill of hope.

And it says this, imagine it's a dark, silent night, and you're in a field surrounded by sheep.

Suddenly, a host of angels appears in proclaims that after 400 years of waiting,

the hope of the world has arrived, a baby called Emmanuel, God with us.

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