And glory to God. Open up your Bible's at 1 Corinthians 9. We'll start there.

I was talking to, me and Kim were talking, actually even yesterday, and I was asking us,

what is it that is memorable in our life?

And not just in our life together, but in our life, but more so in our life together.

And the things that we remember the most are the times

when God used us. Are the times when God took us and helped somebody and made a difference in

someone else's life, when he used us to bring someone into our home, even when she didn't like it,

that's still what she remembers.

And there was a time or two. I may have missed it, but they still came to our house,

and God graced us to help them. And glory to God, they're doing better today because of it.

Thank you, Lord. And, you know, God had us do a lot of things and changed our lives

when we committed our hearts to do the things that he wanted to do. And that was the thing.

We were committed to do the things that he wanted us to do. I remember, and I may have told

this story even recently, the first time Kim came home and said,

you want to go to a Bible study?

And I said, absolutely not.

Thanks.

And she goes, well, it's my boss doing it, so it might be good for us to go.

And so I said, yep, we might want to go ahead and do that one.

And you know, I went to that Bible study, and the things of God, the gifts that were in me, got stirred up.

And as they stirred up in me, I began to run a race. And I began to get on fire for the things of God.

And I came home. I remember we used to come. I'd come home from Bible study with Rick, and I'd call him, and we'd talk about Bible study for another two hours. Amen? And then, and then we'd go the next day, and we'd say, hey, can we do

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