Amen and amen and good evening and welcome you can be seated

those of you online we're glad that you're joining with us as well

looking forward to starting the book of Joel tonight having completed

Josea last week three chapters in this book.

But don't let that fool you because there is so much in these three chapters.

I want to start by talking about the title that I chose and let you know that I usually

Yes, speak Lord, you're certain

Please tell me you heard that so that I don't think that I'm hearing things. Okay, thank you

So I usually try, keyword try to stay ahead because I can easily get behind.

So I'm already working on the Thursday night Bible Study teaching a week plus prior.

So I had picked this title about a week and a half ago prior to Hurricane Halene and now Hurricane Milton.

And then when I went back to, and I go over it several times,

and I don't know if you know this or not,

but on Thursday nights, I don't have notes. Some of you going, yeah, we mean to

talk to you about that. I teach extemporaneously. That's a fancy word for saying that, you know,

other than basically the introduction, I just as the spirit leads, I do highlight or underline certain parts of the chapter or chapters that we're teaching.

But I just, and it's so freeing too, by the way, and don't tell anybody too, too late.

But I actually look forward to Thursday nights more so than Sunday mornings, especially

the updates because the updates can be, you know, really involved, really intense. You have

to have notes and quotes and all the above. So I can't get away with, you know,

extemporaneously doing a prophecy update. And then the Sunday morning sermon

is not extemporaneous. That's more of a textual teaching. I didn't mean to get into this,

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