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Well, howdy super excited to see you guys we kick off brand new series today pray like Jesus really

Excited and honored to have you good news. You made it through 2020. Congratulations. You did it

Bad news

2021 is pretty much the same. Amen. It's like the purge part one and the purge part two

It's hard to pick which one was worse and and this is where this time between last year and what appears to be this year

Is the perfect time for this sermon series on prayer last year?

It was prayer that God really used to super naturally lead me my family and our church family

It was about this time last year

I know many of you are new and I was thinking hey everything's healthy the economy's strong

You know nobody's wearing a mask we get to go outdoors crazy stuff remember the days and

And I thought you know

It's probably time to look at New Real Estate for the church and to take on some other you know more risky

Maybe opportunities and I prayed and God spoke to me and said son no

Something is gonna happen. He didn't tell me what probably because he loves me and he didn't want me to be anxious in the meantime

And what God said was no there there is going to be some changes coming and this is not the time to take rest

This is not the time to buy real estate. You need to hunker down

You need to focus on the Scottsdale campus and you need to make plans to do some facility and some technology upgrades

HVAC sound light video all of these things and I remember saying Lord. How can we do that? We meet every week

I don't know if you remember last year and so the Lord was like trust me son the money will come if you obey and prepare

So I told Grace and I told my kids and I told the team here at the church all right

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