All right, well, good evening. We want to welcome those of you that are joining us online. On Thursday nights,

we have our midweek Bible study, and we're going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter,

verse by verse. And tonight we find ourselves in Isaiah chapter 7, having completed chapter 6 last week. And so

Lord willing, we'll make it through just the one chapter

tonight. We'll invite you there online to join with us. And before we jump in, I want to give a shout

out to our online members. Many of you have been praying for us. We certainly appreciate that, very

grateful for that. As you might imagine, it's not good, a lot of damage, and a lot of people

have been displaced, and a lot of people have lost a lot, some losing everything. So we really do covet your prayers for the islands here.

And we just needed to stop raining now.

And I didn't check on the way here, but I'm pretty sure nobody is building an arc.

Did anybody see an arc? Anybody

building an arc? Okay. So we just need the this storm to pass over us in Jesus' name.

So why don't we pray and we'll begin if you would please join with me.

Loving Heavenly Father, we're ever so grateful to you that we can come to you at times like this and ask of you anything.

And this is one of those times where we just want to ask you for your grace for your

mercy just for your hand of protection over the islands and Lord this storm system that has

dropped a lot of rain on the islands would you just have it stop have have it move fast, and just minimize the loss of property,

the loss of, I know of at least one life that's been lost because of this, but I know a lot

has been lost in this.

But Lord, as only you can, you can take things like this and use it to bring people to you.

And so Lord, we would ask you for that as well.

Lord, thank you that as a church, by your grace, we've been okay.

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