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Open your Bibles, if you would, please, to Isaiah chapter 60.

A very, very familiar portion of scripture for us.

I have taught on it so many times.

But I'm going there today because I had a very strange night

and a very unusual experience with the Lord in the middle of the night.

Excuse me, I've got... you can't know the brand. So this is Bethel brand water. There we go. Sparkling, but nobody knows what kind.

I had a very unusual experience about one o'clock this morning.

I had this phrase going through my mind and then what seemed to be like a hundred different

scriptures.

I mean, it was a whirlwind of mental activity, which is not good for me in the middle of the night.

I can hurt myself doing that.

But I believe it was a God moment, a divine moment. And I had so many scriptures going through my mind, concepts, ideas,

things that he was, I felt like he was impressing on my heart, showing me. And thankfully,

it only lasted about an hour and I was able to go back to sleep

until my time to get up.

But this is the phrase I heard,

and then we're going to unpack it,

and I'm going to kind of walk you through this little journey.

I heard this phrase,

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