Philippians, chapter three, and I don't know about you guys, I always need encouragement.

All that's going on in the world around me, every day when I get into God's Word, I look

forward to, in the very first thing in the morning, getting up, getting my coffee and getting

in the Word.

And I don't know what your daily routine is, but I would say this, if you, I mean it's

always good, if you at least get into the Word before you go to bed at least, but the best

thing you could do is get up, get your cup of coffee, I don't like coffee.

Start drinking coffee, and open your Bible and get into the Word and start your day off

with Jesus, because I'll tell you what, it makes the world a lot easier to deal with.

I'm not saying it, I didn't say it made it easy to deal with, it makes it a lot easier

to deal with all that's going on in the world around us, because each and every morning,

as I open my Bible, I'm reminded that God is on His throne, amen?

When I'm reminded that God's on His throne and that I have a purpose for being here and

I have a direction, then it makes everything worth it.

So join me as we pray and we'll get into God's Word tonight, Father.

We just thank you for the entirety of your Scripture from cover to cover, from Genesis

to Revelation.

Lord, your Bible is inspired, infallible, inerrant, holy spirit, inspired, men wrote it, yes?

But God's straight from your throne room, you moved in the hearts of men and they penned

the Scriptures.

And Lord, we are going to look at a passage tonight that I hope will bring great encouragement

to each and every one of us.

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