Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Chris

Valet. For more information about this podcast and other resources, please visit iBethel.org.

Yeah, this morning I'm doing something that is quite different for me. It may not be

different for you, but it is for me. I did a whole series on empowering women. How many of

you were a part of any part of that? I did five weeks on empowering women. And I wrote a book,

quote, this book right here called Fashioned Arane, empowering women to fulfill their divine destiny.

If you haven't read that, it's a great book. Also, Danny Silk wrote a great book called Powerful

and Free, confronting the last ceiling for women in the church. These are both really good books.

You can find them in the bookstore. And what I'm going to share with you this morning is actually just

a part of, I'm going to share just a part of one chapter in this book. But I had the privilege

of doing a woman's conference in Australia. Last month, I think it was a month and a half ago.

This is my first woman's conference ever. There was tons of estrogen in the room, baby. I'll tell you what.

People were seeing things. I'll tell you, Holy Spirit loves women. And yeah,

I'm fat. Yeah, Solomon said, he who finds a wife finds favor with God. And like, hey, you want to have

favor with God? Get married. You know what I mean? It's just nothing else works. Just get married.

It'll work out for you, man. And so at the conference, I had five sessions at the conference.

I was the main speaker. There was seven other speakers. You can imagine, I was over four days,

you can imagine how many sessions there were a day. And this really interesting thing happened,

which I've never had happened in my life in a conference. When I got then speaking, the next

person session was up. And they would, and all the other speakers were women, except for me.

And they would come back to my seat and go, I think you're supposed to take my session. And they

kept giving me their sessions. Well, I ended up with nine sessions in this conference. So,

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