Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning indeed.

We're picking back up with new morning mercies so Tori just can take it from here.

Yes, let's do it.

Today's devotional says this.

You obey not to get God's attention but because you have been the object of his attention

since before the world began.

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something but rather in recognition

of what you have already been given.

Ephesians 1 says this.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with

every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation

of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him.

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose

of his will to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the beloved.

In him we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according

to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight making known

to us the mystery of his will according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as

a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things

on earth.

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