Hello and welcome to another great week here on Destin for Victory, where we feature the preaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

We're so glad you're here because we've got a great message to share with you today.

Before we get going, though, I'd like you to hear a conversation I once had with Pastor Paul.

We were talking about the power of partnership, people working together to reach a common goal.

So I ask him what he would say to you, our listening friends and partners about the subject,

and here's what he had to say.

I want them to know your partnership is very, very important and necessary.

When you think about it, starting way back, I'm thinking about Moses,

he could not have been Moses without the partners. God gave him. God raised up Joshua.

The Bible called Joshua Moses' minister before it called him God's minister. And Joshua was one of those key people. Aaron, his

brother, was one of his key partners. Every man or woman of God since then, all the way into, of course,

when you get to the ministry of Jesus, Jesus himself required partnership. Isn't that amazing that the God man needed partners? He took Peter,

James, and John farther into the Garden of Githemone, and he said, just stay here and watch with me.

And he cried and poured out his heart to get ready for that moment when he would lay down his life for us,

and he needed that partnership.

He had Peter, James, and John.

He also had Mary Martha and Lazarus.

Then when you look at the apostles, there is no Paul without Timothy, without Silas, without Barnabas.

And on and on, all of us need partners. So the bottom line is,

I'm so grateful for every man, woman, boy, and girl, who has become a partner for our

ministry so you can keep on providing this platform so that we can reach even more people for the Lord Jesus Christ.

Pastor Paul always intended for destined for victory to keep advancing the gospel even after

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