Man, so, so grateful, and we're excited about all that God's doing.

I want to honor your time today.

Whenever we start a little late, just know that me pastor preached a little too long

at the last service.

So I want to get right into this lesson.

There's something on my heart, and Mother's Day is a very complex day.

It's a day of mixed emotions, and for some it's celebration, for some it's grief, for some it's

missing a mom, and I always want to pray through, Lord, how do I stay at this moment? How do I best

serve the people? You're going to put me in front of. And today, there's something that just

really arrested my heart, and I want us to look at a story in the serve the people you're going to put me in front of. And today there's something that just really

arrested my heart. And I want us to look at a story in the book of 1st Samuel chapter number

25. And I want to read a couple of verses. And we're going to jump right into the lesson. And it reads

like this. Verse 32 says, David said to Abigail,

praise be to the Lord,

the God of Israel,

who has sent you today to meet me.

May you be blessed for your good judgment

and for keeping me from bloodshed this day

and from avenging myself with my own hands. Otherwise, as surely as the Lord lives,

who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to

Nabol would have been left alive by daybreak. Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought

him and said, go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your requests. Now, I know

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