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The Lord makes everything work together for good.

For those who love God and are called according to His purposes. So we have this promise that

God works everything out for good in the end. So it's not good, it's not the end.

And I want to say that this season we will tell our children and our grandchildren about the

season that we live through and the Lord has prepared us for this season. So we are the light of the

world. And we're a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden. Isaiah 60, we've been reading and preaching

Isaiah 60 for more than 40 years. Isaiah 60 says, a rise in shine for your light has come.

The glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Behold, deep darkness will cover the earth, deep darkness

of people, but the Lord will rise upon you. His glory will be seen upon you. Nations will come to

your light, kings to the brightness of your rising. Look all around, they all come to you.

Your sons will come from afar, your daughters will be carried in arms. Then your heart will

your heart will thrill and rejoice as abundance of the sea has turned to you and the wealth of

nations will come to you. Well, let's just begin by praying this morning. Lord, we thank you for

this time that we get to be in this season as light in the midst of darkness. We get to be hope

in the midst of hopelessness. We get to be healing in the midst of sickness. We get to be prosperity

in the midst of poverty. In the Lord, we get to be joy in the middle of morning. In Lord,

I just released right now joy for morning and a mantle of praise instead of a spirit of

heaviness. Lord, I pray that you would take ashes and that you would give us beauty for ashes.

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