Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Whether you're in this room in any of our campuses or following online whether you were a planted part of our

gateway family or you're a guest we're so excited to celebrate Jesus with you today. And Gait me let me tell you I've been missing

you so much. Honestly, it's been a few weeks now since I've been here speaking a weekend and after that last service of the last time I spoke

Maria and I got in the car we headed out to the airport. I was going to Europe for for a ministry trip

and I I looked at her and I I teared up and I said baby if I could cancel this trip I would do it in a second.

I don't know what God has done to my heart but he's just attached it to this place and to this

house. This is my church you are my people and I'm so honored to be with you for

this season for sure. Now before we get into the word of God

can I just testify to the goodness of a great Lord? Can I just share a testimony

that shook our world just last week?

You see, apart from being here a certain number of weekends throughout this fall,

I'm also working with the gateway staff to provide pastoral care

and support so I'm here quite a lot in the mid weeks as well and last week I was for a few days

and then headed out to the airport to DFW again to go back home.

And all of a sudden I was sitting there waiting for my flight.

All of a sudden all my devices just kind of exploded

and started acting crazy. They started making amber alert sounds and

emergency texts popped up saying that Maria's iPhone

an Apple watch had indicated that she had been in a car crash and if you ever heard, like, received an information like that, message like that,

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