How is everybody?

It's a good morning.

It's a really good morning because we're not running a snowplow.

I was thinking about that when I woke up this morning.

I thought, you know, I didn't shovel any snow.

I didn't put any salt down.

I didn't have scrape any windows. Oh, glory to God. And I'm sure Ben is excited right now because he's not

doing it either because they didn't have service. So God is good to all of us. Amen. It's a good, good day. And we are about a week away from

greater faith. And so a lot of what I'm going to talk about today is just to encourage us to get ready,

encourage us to lay aside other stuff and just get ready for the word that's coming forth,

for the people that are coming in, to get us ready.

Because once we're ready, all those other people that are coming and joining,

it'll be an atmosphere ready for them to come and receive. We create that atmosphere. The Lord,

through us, creates an environment where they can come in and feel loved, come in and feel welcomed, come in and feel at home,

and we can hook with our pastor and draw on the anointing that's in him and pull out

revelation and wisdom and knowledge beyond what he studied, beyond what he planned, we can draw

that out.

And all these pastors and ministers that are coming from everywhere, they receive it. Not only that, they take it home. And they

minister to their congregation. Oh, it's a great opportunity for us. Glory to God.

I want to start out in Matthew chapter 13, and we're going to go to verse 18,

and I think most everything, unless I say something different,

there's only a couple that'll be in anything but King James.

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