Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found for

transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here, and wherever you're listening from,

we believe God will transform your life through today's message.

Welcome to Transformation Church, and it's a beautiful Sunday to be in God's house, and I just want

to welcome everybody who is online today. Maybe you're at your home, maybe you're gathered with your friends.

My hope and my prayer is that you are staying warm, that your family is safe. I know it's been a

crazy couple of days around the nation and I'm grateful that you are here. We are here at

Transformation Church. I got a couple of my friends in the room.

Y'all can make some noise. Shout out to my people. And listen, it's going to be such a great time.

We're about to gather around God's Word. But we are in week two of our series called Forward.

And you can type forward in the chat and it's a beautiful beautiful time because we

announced our word of the year just a few weeks ago and we're in our series called forward

and last week pastor michael did an incredible incredible job leading and guiding us into that

and so we're going to continue that thing this week. So we're going to jump right into it.

I need you to get out your notes, get out your phones. As Pastor Mike always says, your smartphone, your dumb phones. It's always a great joke. It always works. But here we go. We're going to jump straight into the word. We are jumping into the book of Philippians. So if you got your Bible, go to the Book of Philippians, that's what we're going to be today. And the book of Philippians is a great book.

It's written by Paul, And it's written to a church at Philippi, which is a place in Rome. They're part of the Roman kind of government and structure. And so they're run kind of by these ideals. And Paul is speaking directly to them. And just for fun, because we all here today, and we're just going to go for it,

we're going to read a little bit of chunk of Bible. Now, I know, I don't know if you've been reading your Bible. Hopefully you have 21 days of prayer and fasting, beginning of the year. You're starting some good habits. If you haven't, you're about to get this word today. God bless you. Okay. chapter number one this is what the bible says chapter verse number one and chapter number three it says

this paul is writing he God bless you. Okay. Chapter number one, this is what the Bible says.

Chapter, verse number one and chapter number three, it says this.

Paul is writing.

He says, whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord and never get tired.

I never get tired of telling you these things.

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