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Hey, guys, good morning. It's Thursday, March 19th, 2026. I don't know why I feel like we have to tell each other the year, but I just feel like we need to do that every day. welcome to Before the Noise. My name is Chad Braither. If you're new here, I appreciate you guys being here so much.

I just brought a big smile across my face last night as I was just studying through some notes

and just thinking about you guys and just how good these moments are that we have every morning.

So I'm thankful that you choose to join us. Welcome to those of you who are up bright and early, especially those of you out on the West Coast or Mountain Time. God bless you for getting up and doing this live with us. Thank you so much. You know, our numbers a little bit from where we were when we were an hour later, they're down a little bit. That's okay. Like I said yesterday, if we got 7,000 or 7 people watching, we're going to do this. And I'm so thankful. These are my devotional thoughts as I work through the scripture each morning. And yep, we're working through the Bible and just different books of the Bible. We're in 1st Corinthians right now. And I'm thankful that you guys choose to sit in on my devotional time.

And thank you. I want to say thank you for keeping me accountable to this.

I was just reminded. I was driving in my truck yesterday, running an errand, and was just reminded

and how good this has been for me. And I hope it's been good for you as well.

You can go over to beforethenoise.com, click the blog link in the menu and get the notes for the episodes.

I don't necessarily stay with the notes.

In full disclosure, I've told you guys this before.

I usually take my notes and run them through chat GPT just to

provide that outline. It's very skeletal with bullet points. So I don't always know if it sticks with

what we do or not, but it puts them out there and it's a good little guideline. At least the

sections are accurate. But anyway, hopefully they help you. A number of you have sent me

messages saying that they do. And so anyway, hopefully they help you. A number of you have sent me messages saying that they

do. And so anyway, I was praying this morning. Can I just say this while we're jumping on here?

I want to talk to you men for a second. I was praying this morning and this phrase, this thought,

this concept just kind of dropped into my heart. And I said, I don't know if this is

something that the Lord's wanting me to tell other people or if it's just for me. I know it was

for me. But one of the things was this phrase, real men don't deny their creator. They don't disrespect their creator.

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