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Breakway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakways executive director Timothy Ateak.

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Such a great time of worship. It's great to be back with you and for everyone watching online so glad that you're jumping in with us i'll just start by sharing this with you i talk about my boys a lot

but in the last month all three of my boys have had a birthday so noah just turned 11 Andrew just

turned 9 and j Jake just turned 3.

And if you become a parent one day, you will experience this. But whenever your kid has a birthday,

you automatically think back to the day that they were born. And your parents might even do that

with you. They might call you on your birthday and be like, I still remember at 746, you shot out.

No, that's not what they say, but they just, they remember that day.

And so I still think back every time one of my boys has a birthday,

I always think back to the day they were

born. And there's specific memories that come to mind. So I think about when Noah, my firstborn,

was born man. My wife and I, we were just so overtaken by the moment, and I have all the feels

in that moment. And so Kat and I are there with Noah, and our two nurses are right there. And I turn to the nurses. I'm like, man, we believe in Jesus. And if you don't believe in Jesus, I just want you know Jesus loves you and wants to have a relationship with you. And they're like, okay, yeah, you're a dad that just had their first child. And so you're sleep deprived, but thank you for telling me about Jesus.

And so that was Noah.

And then when Andrew was born, I remember that Andrew came out and I remember the thought

that I had just as tears fill my eyes, the thought that I had was I just love him so much.

That is literally the words that were flowing through my mind.

And then when Jake was born three years ago, I remember the first five minutes that he was

with us in the delivery room.

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