Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

So I want to read one verse

in the scripture in the gospel of John, chapter 10,

and verse 10.

And this is what it says from the New International version

of the scriptures.

It says this, the thief comes only to seal, kill,

and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

I want to take this scripture and use as a subject in our time together tonight very simply

I'm not full yet. I'm not full yet if you believe God's got more in store in 2024, let's give him a hand clap of praise. So I live in Georgia now spent some time in Jersey but I was reared and raised in a small town called Killmichael Mississippi.

According to the last census,

it's a population of under 500 people.

There were about 32 people in my graduating high school class. There are no stoplights in my town

There is one doctor in my town and there is there was when I grew up one full-time police officer who covered the day shift and my bus driver named Dooney covered the night shift. But I love being reared and raised in that area and as a result of that I became

familiar with and exposed to what we would call Mississippi legends.

And there was a Mississippi influencer from a town not too far from me called

Yazoo City, Mississippi.

And his name was Zigiggler and so and and I got introduced to some of

Zigg's work at an early age and it really piqued my interests not just in the spiritual development

space but in the personal development space and I was recently doing some reading and I came across this concept that I think is

important when it comes to what I'm attempting to articulate tonight and it is

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