Welcome to the Jesus Image podcast.

Father, we love you.

Jesus, we thank you that you're in the room with us.

Holy Spirit, help us.

I need your help, Lord.

Let it be not by might, not by power, but by your spirit, Lord. Help me to lean on my own understanding to acknowledge you. We love you, Jesus.

We thank you that you're with us in this room.

In your precious name.

Amen.

You guys can be seated.

It's an honor to share just my heart with you guys tonight.

Well, the Lord has had me really for the last like three years, four years.

But aren't we thankful, though, that, you know, that our pastors get to rest.

And we as a church body get to come in and hold their hands up and hold their arms up and

that's who we are. That's what we're doing. We're a family. And so it's an honor to be able to

stand here. I know I don't take this lightly, Pastor Michael and Jess, seeing what God has done

over the years, seeing every sacrifice, every, you know, every attack of the enemy and see them

just plow through and walk and fight this good fight of faith.

It's been such an honor and a joy.

And so we love when our pastors rest and we come in as a church body and we love the Lord.

What would bring him the most honor is for us to love Jesus all the more,

if they're here or if they're not. Amen. Amen. I'm going to read, I'm going to read a lot of

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