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And now here's Jenny. I'm going to give you guys a little secret that all of you that are if local leaders are going to love.

It's always a big moment when we reveal the theme of if gathering and here you go.

I'm going to read to you the passage and we're going to talk about it today that we are going to use as

a theme of if gathering. When I was imagining what we needed to do

this year I was actually at an event and I was singing a song and I was about to go up and

speak and many of you know the song.

It talks about the mountains and shadows and that God is coming for us

and he is coming into the places of darkness and he is overcoming the darkness and

that the mountains can't stand before him and the lies don't hold before him.

You probably know the song. I don't know how much trouble I'll get in

for using the lyrics right now but you get the idea and when I was singing it I was

about to go up and speak and I was nervous because I actually was singing the words and I was like I don't know if I believe this right now God it feels like the lies and the shadows and the mountains and the darkness is winning. It feels like it's winning.

Why are you not coming through the darkness

and showing your power?

And so I got up on stage and and I was honest about that.

I said this is this is my fear like this is this is in the back of my mind as I

begin today this is what I worry about but you know what changes everything is

being in the midst of believers and singing that song with each other.

And so as we head into this year of If Gathering, if 2022, which is March, 4th and 5th,

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