get to it got so much that I want to share been looking forward to this and I made the decision

actually this morning when I woke up to wait until next week before we start back in Philippians

where we are on Sunday mornings before the prophecy update we're going through the epistle having completed

Ephesians. We're now in Philippians and we completed when I was here last chapter one.

And so Lord willing, next week we'll start in chapter two. And for those of you who read ahead

to stay ahead, we're going to be in verses 1 through 11 it's a really good study

on the power of humility and that's what you're going to see in those first few verses of

Philippians too so what we're going to do today because I didn't want to be rushed. I wanted to share everything that the Lord

has done and put on my heart to share. And also I didn't want to rush through the communion service

where at the end of the service we partake together of the Lord's Supper. So we're just going to talk about what God

did in my recent trip, starting with my time in New York, and then after that our amazing,

and that word doesn't really even begin to describe it but our amazing Israel tour.

I have to say that this particular trip had a powerful impact on my life as your pastor personally.

And after I returned, the Lord ministered to me as I was it was so much to process it was just

so packed and God did such amazing things that I kind of had to just quiet my heart

and decompress and and just really inquire of the Lord and sit before the Lord and spend time with the Lord.

And as I did, he just ministered to me out of the letter to the church in Philadelphia

in Revelation chapter 3, verses 7 through 13.

And specifically, that of how God has opened up doors that no man can shut

and this because of staying true to God's word and not denying his name in spite of having little strength, which is striking

to me in that letter to that church in Philadelphia.

Even more specifically, the promise to keep his people, his remnant, if you prefer, from the hour of tribulation

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