Let's pray together.

Father, before we're done with this life, I don't doubt that a good number of the folks in this room will wear chains.

And so I pray that you would sober us now and draw us close to you. I pray that the water and the cookies and the chips wouldn't be delusional. I pray that that little four taste of heaven would make us

willing to live on the earth without, like Paul did, what a testimony, Philippians 1 is. What a spectacular testimony. You taught him a contentment in prison and out of prison that I have just tasted. We hear what more of it.

We want to know how to be the kind of people that in the worst possible job or the worst possible

joblessness you are plenty You are sufficient.

And that our joy is not contingent upon our circumstance.

So come, get at us, get through us, get down deep into us, I pray, and teach us these things.

Make us experience yourself in this way. I pray in Jesus name, amen. Can I overstate the preciousness of memorizing scripture.

So if you get anything from these two recitations,

get an incentive, I'm going to do that.

G going to learn a whole chapter.

If you want to learn a book, learn Philippians.

So most of you think it's totally impossible. It's not impossible. Here's how you do it.

Every day, read a verse 10 times, close your eyes, and say it times, and ten times to stop.

The next day, recite that verse and read the next verse ten times,

and close your eyes and say it times, and you're done.

Next day, recite those two verses and go to the next one and read it ten times and say it ten times with your eyes closed and you can memorize an entire book that way.

It will take you a couple of months to do that for Philippians and your life will never be the same again.

I took a walk this morning and there's a connection between, it was called a bush walk by the guy who took me.

Bush is an adjective in my vocabulary that means bad, but this is really good.

So there's a connection between what I saw this morning.

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