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Let's pray.

Gracious Father, you are a kind and patient persevering, preserving, delivering, delivering God. I thank you that I have been granted the grace to stand again here.

What an awesome privilege.

I thank you that you deliver from death and that you deliver through death.

And so I pray that you would deliver Congressman Gifford from death

and that you would deliver Marge Anderson through death.

And now I pray for help in this moment that I would deliver your word faithfully, that it would

accord with the intention of Jesus in these words, that it would be anointed by the Holy Spirit, that it would bring about

salvation for those who are outside, and that it would strengthen the Saints for the glory of Christ.

In his name we pray, amen.

What an unspeakable and undeserved privilege and gift to be able to stand again before you. Thank you so much for your gift of those eight months. We don't

Noel and I, Talitha, we don't take them for granted. God has been very good to us and manifestly good to you.

The report of the finances takes my breath, and so do many other reports.

So I'm filled with gratitude to God.

I don't know how long I will be granted life.

10 o'clock this morning, Congressman Giffords, 40 years old, full of life, and now she hangs in the balance with a bullet in her head.

So we don't know, do we? this is what I do know though that as long as I live those eight months

will bear fruit.

In my soul, in my family, in my marriage,

and I pray in this church.

I pray that the spillover will last as long as I do and that you

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