Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

If you don't know, we found out when my wife was 18 weeks pregnant, we found out that Samuel had a pretty significant heart condition.

And at about 30 weeks, our 30- week appointment, we found out that his heart

condition was even a little worse than we originally thought, a little more complicated and

complex. And it rocked our world. And we, Samuel was born and he was beautiful. He came in one hour and all natural, eight pounds, five ounces.

Shout out to my wife.

I told the service yesterday, shout out to all the crunchy people.

Respect.

We personally love epidurals.

And she didn't get one. So,

a guy, he came out, he looked amazing, and he spent 10 days in the, in the NICU, and then he went in to have his first of what will be several open heart surgeries. And our surgeon, who is amazing, incredibly kind.

And I just got to say this, if you're in here and you work in the medical field,

I have watched God work through our medical professionals over the last month.

And so I honor you today.

Thank you for what you do.

Our surgeon, he brought us in, and he listed out everything that Samuel had.

And we asked him before, we want you to be honest with us.

Like, tell us what we're looking at.

And he listed out everything that Samuel had.

And he looked at me and

Hannah and he said, I want you to know, it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be his story.

But what we see globally statistically for babies like Samuel is that he'll have, based on his

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