I want to thank Brother Kenneth Copeland, Miss Gloria, and the Copeland family, and the

Pearsons and all the great staff. It is just one of the high honors of my life to be a part of this great meeting.

I say that with the utmost sincerity.

It just, I was thinking 45 years ago, I was out trying to round up the cows on our tiny little dairy farm and knew nothing about the ministry or or any of that and how the

Lord has been so gracious to me and to us and add to you.

And one time I asked him about this because I Phyllis and myself, my wife and myself,

have been so blessed and privileged and favored to be in so many good meetings,

to hear so many good messages.

I mean, thousands of the best messages you've ever heard.

And there are people on the planet that have never heard one good faith message,

which is why thank God for ministries like this that are sending it on every available voice.

That is the great commission.

But I asked the Lord, I said, you know, why us?

We were just young, ignorant, little country people.

I mean, why have we been favored so much to even get to know some of these great men and women of God and being around such

and I didn't get the answer that day but the Lord brought back to me the first words we heard

about faith and being redeemed and I got so excited about it and I tried to share it with our

friends and they they wondered what the

big to do was about they thought you know they wouldn't listen to it at first and then they said

well uh they listened to part of it and they didn't know if they went for all of that and you ever

heard that before and uh the Lord's because I's answering my question, I said, why us?

And the Lord said to me, and he spoke to my heart, not an audible voice, he said,

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