Thank you, very, very, very, very much.

I was excited to be here today.

This is the day the Lord is made.

We will rejoice and what and be glad in it. So this morning

our the message is on the prisoners of hope.

And I know that that sounds just a little negatives sometimes.

You think of prisoners being negative.

But prisoners can be very positive as well.

Paul in his writing even talked about being a prisoner of the Lord, even being a slave of

the Lords. I feel like that when he captures our hearts, we're forever

a prisoner of his. And it's good to have a hope that we're a prisoner to that particular hope.

Because we're prisoners of the hope.

The hope is what will get us through. Now I know we have all kinds of seasons in our lives.

We have football season, basketball season, flu season, spring, fall, winter and summer. But there's really only two kinds

of seasons, the kind that we like and the kind that we don't like.

And sometimes we're going through the seasons that we don't like and we don't quite understand

them.

So let's read this passage together or you can read it overhead.

In verse number 11, he says,

ask for you also because of the blood of your covenant.

I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope, even today I declare that I will

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