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Psalms 23 is the very first chapter, very first chapter of a book that I ever memorized.

And I think right now we're seated, you know, after you go through the valley of the shadow

of death, then you end up at the table, Lord, where you're feasting while your enemy's watching.

So I believe that we're feasting while our enemies watching.

Well, I want to pray for just a moment. Holy Spirit, we just thank you for what you're doing all

over the world. And we thank you that you are, you transcend problems and challenges. Lord, that

you are in the mist. You're not the light at the end of the tunnel. You're the light in the tunnel.

And Lord, we pray today, as I

share, that people would be inspired. They, there would be an impartation for courage and wisdom,

and we thank you for everything you're doing in our lives. Amen. I want to talk today about Providence,

the divine X factor. God is the divine X factor. And I'm thinking about

Genesis chapter 12 when God spoke to Abraham and I was just noticing that the first word that

was ever given to Abraham was not where he was going, but where he couldn't stay. And I want to just

read you this chapter 12, verse one verse. It says, now the Lord said to Abraham, go forth from your

country and from your relatives and from your father's house. And listen to this, to land I will

show you. To a land I will show you, to land I will show you.

If you would have spoke to Abraham and Sarai, which later was changed to Abraham and

Sarai, later on changed to Abraham and Sarah, if you would have spoke to them a week into their

journey and said, where are you going? They would have had to say,

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