Hello and welcome to Destin for Victory with Pastor Paul Shepard.

It's our pleasure to study the Word of God with you today.

Coming up in just a moment, we'll share three key ingredients to spiritual growth that just might revolutionize your walk with Christ.

But first, I want to share a conversation I had once with Pastor Paul.

I ask him about the power of partnership and also about what he would say to you,

our listening friends and partners, if he could visit with you in person.

And here's what he had to say.

I want them to know your partnership is very, very important and necessary.

When you think about it, starting way back, I'm thinking about Moses,

he could not have been Moses without the partners. God gave him. God raised up Joshua. The Bible

called Joshua Moses' minister before it called him God's minister. And Joshua was one of those key people.

Aaron, his brother, was one of his key partners.

Every man or woman of God since then, all the way into, of course, when you get to the

ministry of Jesus, Jesus himself required partnership.

Isn't that amazing that the God man needed partners?

He took Peter, James, and John farther into the Garden of Githemone, and he said,

just stay here and watch with me. And he cried and poured out his heart to get ready for that

moment when he would lay down his life

for us and he needed that partnership. He had Peter, James, and John. He also had Mary, Martha,

and Lazarus. Then when you look at the apostles, there is no Paul without Timothy, without

Silas, without Barnabas, and on and on, all of us need partners.

So the bottom line is, I'm so grateful for every man, woman, boy, and girl,

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