Hi, friend. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast, and I hope what you're about to hear

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Now please enjoy the program.

Here are some of the news headlines we're watching. The conference was over. The president won a planet. Americans worshipping government over God. Extremely rare safety moved by a nation. 17 years, the Palestinians of the Israelis negotiated. We hear a lot of time. We hear a lot of time. We're going to run. We're going to run. We're going to see.

How are you how you feeling on your commute home or as you're standing in the kitchen with Janet Partial. I am so glad we're going to spend the hour together. What kind of a day did you have

today? How you feeling on your commute home or as you're standing in the kitchen and preparing

dinner for the family? Do you feel like you're all alone that you're in the midst of some horrific

circumstances? And quite honestly, if you could tell somebody the truth, you'd say, I feel like God

has just walked away. He's not there anymore. Well, what about

this? What if you flipped your thinking around and you began to remember what we read in the book

of Romans where we hear this declaration? It's a declaration of comfort and of hope. If God

before us, who can be against us? And when we start thinking that God can be bigger than any set of circumstances

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