If you would find Matthew 14, we're going to look at that in just a minute, but isn't it interesting

how God creates us and then whom he pairs us with?

When I was in high school, I took a speech class

because my mother said I might need it someday.

So all of you students, you should listen to your parents.

But Robert on the other hand was entertaining thousands or a thousand people at banquets

when he was 12 years old.

He has always been very comfortable in a large group but it's not so for me.

So I am a little nervous.

But I love you and I'm honored for the opportunity to get to share with you today.

I have some exciting news that I want to share with you.

In our game changer series, we had 1,017 people accept Jesus as their award.

Is it that exciting?

I'm so grateful for you. You brought your friends and your neighbors and

they had the opportunity to hear the gospel so thank you very very much.

Robert and I've been married 32 years and today I'm more in love with him than the day we got married.

He still makes my heart pitter-patter.

I'm so honored to get to do life with him, but we've we've we've we've

we've we've we've we've we've we've gathered our share of storms.

Some of them have been hurricane strength storms and some have just been a little

summer rain showers that came and went real quickly.

I've watched other people who have had storms in their life and for some of them it shipped

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