Hey everybody, Justin here. Two things before we begin. First, so that you're not distracted when you get to this part in the episode, I wanted to let you know ahead of time that you might be surprised by a couple of details in my telling of the story, specifically who sells Joseph and who delivers the news to Jacob. I won't get into it here, but I will say I have reasons for this. And if you're wondering why I tell it that way, I'm sharing that and some other really interesting things about this story in this week's edition of the latest. An email I send out to several hundred of you every other week. If you want to hear about how I, too, was surprised by those details in this story, you can sign up for the latest at holy ghost stories.org, holy ghost stories.org, or by clicking the link in the show notes. And if you're listening after November 8th, 2021, you can just head to

the archives of the latest and check out the issue from November 8th. All right, second thing,

thanks to you in October of 2021, just nine months after its beginning, Holy Ghost Stories

had reached 50,000 downloads.

That is amazing.

When I think of someone listening to one of these episodes, spending that extended moment

with their Heavenly Father by way of one of his stories from Scripture, 50,000 times,

I just don't have words. And you're everywhere. You're

listening in Colorado and Washington and Tennessee and New Hampshire, Florida, and Montana and Michigan,

and Texas, Vietnam, and New Zealand, and South Africa, and Peru, England, and Spain, and Hungary,

and Ireland, all 50 states in America and 50 different countries

around the world.

I just, it's amazing.

Now, here's why I tell you that.

I'm gathering patrons to support this show financially as we close season two.

And I want you to know that when you partner with me and give some of your hard-earned money

to enable me to create more

Holy Ghost stories, you're not just funding a podcast you like.

You are taking the life-changing stories of Scripture and sending them across the world.

God is using this podcast to connect with person after person in ways that are changing them,

giving them time to look at him, get to know him and love him more deeply.

That's what you're enabling when you become a patron of Holy Ghost stories.

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