This then is how you should pray. Our Father in Heaven hallowed be your name. Your kingdom

come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread and

forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors and lead us not into temptation

but deliver us from the evil one. This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Yeah Lord, we open up our hearts to you now. We pray God and just thank you for everything

we've gotten to celebrate already today. Thank you for the beauty of this community

and all of its diversity. Thank you for a growing team. Thank you for the work of Jesus

on our behalf to make us into one new humanity and thank you for your word. Thank you Jesus

for teaching us to pray. But Lord, we pray that you would do that thing that only your

spirit does, that you would take what could threaten to just be knowledge in our heads

and you would move it to a new revelation in our hearts today. So come holy spirit and

speak to us, your children, in Jesus name. Amen. Once you have a seat, so I was sitting

in the back seat of my mother-in-law's SUV just a couple days after Christmas and we were

circling the parking lot now for a second time. We apparently weren't the only people

that were making a few exchanges from that Christmas morning gift exchange that had

just happened. And so we're circling, looking for that elusive parking spot in the shopping

center a couple of days after the holidays, looking just for the first card to click the

reverse lights on so that we can pounce on that vacant patch of concrete. And it was

in that second time circling the parking lot that she set it to no one in particular.

Technically it was to someone in particular but the way she said it sounded more like an

afterthought than something meant directly. She said, please Jesus, help us find a parking

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