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Thank you, thank you, thank you. My love, you can be seated.

Well, I'm happy to be here.

I get to come here twice a year now and do the services on Saturday, both on Sunday, and I just, I love it here.

It's a great church. They live what they preach. Amen. Well, we have, you saw the, bring me up here. Dave's awesome. We've been married 56 years.

We have four children, of course, all grown, and 12 grandchildren, lots of money, and six great grandchildren.

And so, lots more money. And we have so many birthdays that my secretary has to send me notices on whose birthday it is today, so I make sure that I call him.

But the youngest one is going to be four in July, and he is quite a character. His name is Brody, and he, he screams.

Is anybody ever had a kid that screams like these real, shrill screams, you know, and he does it sometimes when he's happy, but he does it when he's upset.

And he was having a bad day a few weeks ago, and he was out with his mom, and he was just acting up and crabbing and complaining about everything, and nothing was making him happy, and so she's just a wonderful mother. And she said, Brody, come here, we're going to pray.

So, she hugs him and says, Father, we ask you to help Brody be happy today, and be a sweet boy, and I have a good attitude, and she went on, and when she got finished, she said, not amen.

I think maybe sometimes that's what some of us say to God, not amen.

Well, this weekend, I'm going to do a little three-part series on dealing with stress, and so tonight, first service tomorrow, second service, it'll all be different messages, so if you just want to make it a little weekend seminar on stress, I'm sure none of you probably really need that.

Just like you don't need any teaching on anxiety, but you're welcome to come, and I always get to get tested on what I'm teaching on.

So, we got here, and they had given my hotel room away, wasn't that sweet? And the church here paid for it in advance, they even paid for it last night, and I wasn't even in it, just to make sure they didn't give it away.

And so, I don't know who was mixed up about what, but they told us they were cleaning it, and then they told us that all that was left to do was far the manager to inspect it, and then they told us the people that were in it hadn't checked out yet.

So, we got here, and we ended up with four single rooms, I was in my company's room, Dave was in somebody else's room, somebody else was in somebody else's room, and Lord only knows where we'll be, who we'll get back tonight, but we're just, we're believing and we'll get to sleep.

So, for a while, Dave was in the room I was in, where I was going to study and pray and be somewhat spiritual, and he gets the ball game on his phone.

So, I'm like, thank you, Jesus, strike one. I said, this is not going to work, you got to go somewhere else. So, anyway, I am qualified to teach on this subject.

Alright, let me start with a question, do you ever complain about all you have to do? Always, well, she's very definite.

Okay, well, you know, I was complaining to God one time about everything I had to do, nobody can be expected to do all this, I don't know how you think anybody can do anything.

And the Lord spoke to me, He said, you made your schedule if you don't like it, change it.

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