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Just we've been in a unique time as a leadership.

Well, just some of you don't know, and those you that are joining by Bethel TV, I've been here Bethel since 1991, and so it's been my privilege to be the dean of the school of ministry and work in that environment. And just more recently, I've gotten the chance to work with the church leadership team and lead that team who were leading the environment and so Bill and I are running together trying to sort through what the Lord's doing with this church of 10,000 people. So that's fun. New stuff, new stuff. But we've been

able to meet together and in our management meetings, the Holy Spirit is falling

in power and in authority and in joy, and just a thick presence of the Lord. I think you were

described it as just the kind of the blanket, the glory of the blanket, the weighty presence of the

Lord. Before weight blankets got in vogue, the Holy Spirit used to do that in meetings.

They're in the book of judges.

Leslie has a scripture for weighted blankets and judges.

All right, so you'll preach that.

She's going to preach on weighted blankets at some point in the future.

But just the weighty presence, the Lord has been on the team,

and it's been just such a wonderful time.

And then if you haven't been to the prayer meetings and the tents, there's one tonight at 4 o'clock. They're happening every single night of the week from 630 to 8.30. Tried it for the neighbors. Turn it off there about 830 or so. But 630, 830, we invite you to come and just enjoy the presence of the Lord in the tents. It's been a tremendous time. Super, super exciting.

All right. Well, I'm going to speak to you out of a parable of Jesus today.

And let's see what the Lord has for us with this.

I'm at that season where I've got to make sure I'm bringing my reading glasses up to the pulpit. So that's been a fumbly bumbley, hassily time. Several times I've walked up and go, oh, all right, I can no longer read my own writing. That's amazing. So, hey, let's jump in with prayer. And then I'm going to read to you out of Matthew, Matthew Chapter 13, okay? Holy Spirit, we love your

ministry. We love, we love, we love your ministry. And it is all right with us, with me especially,

if you interrupt us, if you just have your agenda for this morning as you minister to your people,

I just ask for a grace to speak, a grace to just teach the word,

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