before I'm happy again to invite up to the pulpit our guest speaker Russell Takeezu please come up Russell

he wasn't joking. I do have a notebook in here.

How are you guys doing tonight? You've braved the cold, the weather, and everything else to be out here. I commend you guys out here worshiping the Lord this night. And again, it's such a blessing to be here with you folks today. Why don't we pray and as we begin our study. And Father God,

we do want to thank you for this evening, Lord. We thank you, Lord, for the joy and the privilege

it is that we might enter into worship, Lord, you, Lord, the true and the living God, Father.

And we thank you, Lord, that by your faithfulness and love you draw us, that we might gather,

that truly we might worship you in spirit and in truth, Father. And we pray, Lord, that by your faithfulness and love you draw us, that we might gather, that truly we might worship you in spirit and in truth, Father.

And we pray, Lord God, a special blessing upon the body of Christ here at Calvary Chapel,

Kanioha, Lord.

We pray, Lord, God, that you might pour out richly all the fullness of your spiritual blessings,

Lord, for each and every one who call this church home

and all the visitors that come and just are touched and moved and ministered to by the moving

of your spirit, Father God. And Lord, we want to remember Pastor J.D. and his family, Lord,

and during this time of respite, during this time of refreshment, Lord,

during this time of just seeking you, Lord, that you might richly pour your love and your comfort

and your leading and your guiding into his heart and life, Lord, and that it might just genuinely

overflow onto his wife and onto his children, Lord.

We thank you, Father. We praise you, Lord, for your refreshing work, Lord. And even as the deer panted

for the water brooks, Lord, so our soul longeth after thee, Lord. And I'm sure that Jady's heart

is just there longing after you, Lord. And we pray just all the infilling of your spirit, Lord, all the comfort, all the leading, the guiding, the wisdom that we all need, Lord.

But especially for Pastor J.D., Lord.

We thank you, Father.

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