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Welcome to Monday. It is January the 12th, 2026. Sounds of everybody doing today. Hope you had a fantastic weekend.

Let me look at you guys there in the chat make sure you're alive and well i see you jumping around there in the rumble live

chat with those dancing bananas if you're on the rumble live chat look down at the bottom

we got those little happy bananas man it just became a thing and i uh i love seeing you guys here man i'm so happy

that we can enter into another week together i had a goal today we were going to finish

axe chapter 16 here i don't think we're going to today i don't think we're even going to get

into it uh if you're just tuning in welcome to to Before the Noise. My name is Chad and Prather. These are my devotional thoughts. You're just going to long for the ride. You're sitting in with me this morning. So if you guys can hear me, okay, throw those dancing bananas, those dancing party fow ste, those sparkly chads of American flags,

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the noise it helps the algorithm all right what are we going to do today well first of all

before we get going let me just say i i want to tell you what happened to me yesterday morning

uh when i went to church when i at church, when I was with the people of God, okay, Sunday morning.

I'll tell you what happened to me.

And then I think we're going to get into some of some thoughts that I have in regards to that.

And we'll just see where we wind up.

We've been working our way through the book of Acts chapter 16. All of my notes here are pointing and telling me that we need to finish Acts chapter 16. But I just don't think that's going to happen today. I'm probably going to have to wad those notes up and we'll come back to it tomorrow, which means all of the description, everything that's in the below this, it's going to be null and void. None of this, none of the stuff as advertised is going to matter. So we'll just

see where we go together. We'll let the Lord lead us and we'll pray about that in a minute. But before

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