Hello, and thanks for being with us on Destin for Victory with Pastor Paul Shepard.

Before we get going with today's teaching, the center of God's will, we have an important

message to share with you. As you may know, Pastor Paul devoted his life to reaching the lost

with the gospel and helping believers grow in their faith, but he never did it without help

because he knew he needed it.

We all do.

Many times over the years I had a chance to speak with Pastor Paul about the power of partnership.

I ask him then what he would say to you are listening friends and partners, and here's what he had to say.

I want them to know your partnership is very, very important and necessary. When you

think about it, starting way back, I'm thinking about Moses, he could not have been Moses without the

partners. God gave him. God raised up Joshua. The Bible called Joshua Moses' minister before it called him God's minister.

And Joshua was one of those key people.

Aaron, his brother, was one of his key partners.

Every man or woman of God since then, all the way into, of course, when you get to the

ministry of Jesus, Jesus himself

required partnership.

Isn't that amazing that the God man needed partners?

He took Peter, James, and John farther into the Garden of Githemite, and he said,

just stay here and watch with me. And he cried and poured out

his heart to get ready for that moment when he would lay down his life for us. And he needed that

partnership. He had Peter, James, and John. He also had Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Then when you

look at the apostles, there is no Paul without Timothy,

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