tonight. We're making our way through this book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

We've been doing about a chapter a week, and so again, no hurry going through this book.

And here again tonight is another chapter that I'm really looking forward to.

I know I say that about every chapter in the

book of Proverbs, but in particular tonight we're really in for, I believe, a real blessing. So

why don't we ask God to bless our time together in His Word, if you would join with me.

Thank you, Lord, so much.

Lord, thank you that concerning this coronavirus you've not given us a spirit of fear, that we

have nothing to fear, that you are in control, that you take care of your own, that there's an angelic protection, and you've given

us prudence and discernment and wisdom and understanding.

So Lord, I pray for anybody that might be given over to fear or be experiencing anxiety concerning this outbreak that many believe will soon become, and maybe in some ways already is a pandemic.

Lord, I just pray that you would settle their hearts.

And Lord, use this this use this to bring

multitudes into your kingdom Lord as only you can as something like this is

prone to do so Lord thank you I you. I, Lord, I really believe, and we've talked about

this, that we as the church today have before us perhaps the greatest and grandest

opportunity we've ever had concerning the urgency of the hour in which we live. And so, Lord, thank you. I pray that we'll be found faithful, that we would seize every opportunity, give to everyone an answer of that hope that we have when they look at us and say, why aren't

you freaking out like everybody else over this? And then we can give them that answer of that

hope that we have, Lord. Thank you. Lord, bless our time tonight together in your word. Lord, thank you for

the book of Proverbs in this chapter that we have before us tonight. Will you help us to focus

and concentrate so that we don't get distracted and so that our minds don't wander.

Lord, we want to give you our undivided attention so you can speak into our lives in

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