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So we've been on this idea, this topic, this uh crucial, really crucial, crucial uh teaching or preaching from week to week about transformation, about understanding that the people of God are called to live different, think different, act different, speak different. We're called to be different. And through that, for that difference to take place in us, we have to have a what the Bible calls a renewing of the mind. So we are on part 15 of this still transforming topic, and and I want to highlight something that I told you last week that is important if we want to see this renewing of the mind in our life, if we want to live out this transformation that God has called us to live. Because hear me real quick and look at me. You claim to be a follower of Christ, if you claim to be a follower of Christ, our goal should be to be, our goal should be to be more like Christ. Amen. Look at your neighbor and say, You need to be more like Christ. Look at your neighbor, you need to be more like Christ. Find the one that's not doing a good job and tell them you need to be more like Christ. We all know one, right? Anyways, you need to be more, we all, but how does that happen? Through transformation by change. How does transformation come? By renewing the mind. And we're in part 15 of this, and and before I kind of highlight for you what I said last week that I want to highlight again, let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. Corona 2.42, your word is received gladly. According to Acts 19.20, your word will prevail. I pray now, Father, that even as I stand here, the Spirit of my Father speak through me, according to Matthew 10.20. And I ask you, Lord, now, you use these clay to speak your word without error and with excellence, according to your desire. For you, Father God, you today are the one we desire to hear. So, Lord, I ask you now, Father, that the seed of your word take root in the soul of our hearts, and we shall see the fruit of it in our lives. For we gather to hear, Father my God, all that you desire to pour into us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. So last week I made a simple statement, as a two-word statement, that I kind of want to just reinforce today. So let's show what that two-word statement is. Consistency matters. Consistency matters. Consistency in our fellowship with God and in our intimacy with God and our searching of God and our communion with God. Consistency matters. There's a consistent that, a consistent consistency that we are called to, a consistency that is something spoken to us even in scripture. Uh, because I'll tell you, put on the board, one of the consistent things that we're called to is we're called to God's word every day. Every day the scriptures call out to you. Every day the scriptures call out to you to search them, to seek them, to learn from him through the word. But I tell you today, and I'll be the first to admit, sometimes I lack consistency. If that happens to you, say amen every now and then. Don't leave me hanging up here. We lack consistency. And yet the word of God calls us to the word of God every day. The word of God calls us to time with God and intimacy with God and praying to God and worship to God every day. If we're church, if if you're alive today, you're called to God today. If you're alive tomorrow, guess what happens? Tomorrow you're called to God again. We're called to Him every day. Psalm 11 through 2. I showed you this verse last week. Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or stand around with sinners or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it, and today I highlight for you day and nights. Uh listen, you don't have to just read your Bible at night, you can read it during the day too. You know, you can read it in the afternoon, you can read it one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, you know, anytime you can open your Bible and read it. And the Bible tells us not just to read it, but to meditate on it. I told you last week, it's on last week, ongoing thinking, consistent pondering on what it's saying. And here we're being told to do that day and night. Joshua 1.8 in the message Bible, and and don't for a minute, from the message Bible, don't for a minute let this book be out of mind. That's an interesting thing. Don't for a minute let this book be out of mind. Ponder and meditate on it day and night, making sure you practice everything written in it. Then you'll get where you're going, and then you'll succeed. Ponder on it. Meditate on it. Let it be in your mind. Don't let it out of your mind day and night. I'll give you a practical thing. And it kind of ties into the next verse. Uh when I was in Bible school, they told us one time write down a Bible verse. Like on Monday. Put it on a sticky note, put it on a piece of paper, and put it somewhere you know you're gonna be at at some point every today of that week. For me, it just so happens I go to the refrigerator every day. Often. And on the refrigerator, before I opened the door, there was that verse. Whatever verse I was thinking about, whatever verse I was wanting to meditate on, there it was. When I worked with my dad, I would have a verse on my desk taped to it. While I'm pulling files, making calls, there that verse was. What was the goal? Ponder on it. Meditate on it. What does this say? Look at this other verse. Next one. Go ahead and read that for yourself right there. Just read it to yourself for a second. Job 23.12, Christian Standard Bible. More than my daily food. Some of you are already thinking about what you're gonna eat after church right now as I'm talking. Some of you have reservations that you're like, Pastors, we gotta move this thing along. Why? Because you know you gotta eat. You gotta eat. We need to take in the word of God. More than our daily food, Job says. And I look across this room, and as far as I know, everyone's eating daily. I'm not judging you. I'm just saying I assume, I assume you're eating daily. Say amen if you are, it's okay. Judging nobody or look anybody weird here. Amen. And you know what the scriptures tell us? More than your desire for natural food, you should desire the word of God. To be consistent and take it in. And I've learned, listen, that reading, hearing, and receiving what God says should be a listen, a repetitive part of our lives. It's not a repeat. I want to hear you today, God. I want to read of you today. I want to spend time with you today. I want to receive from you today, God. My kitchen table, my bedroom, my car for 20 minutes, away from things. God, I want to I want this time with you, consistent time. There's a repetitiveness that we need in our life. Why? Because put it on the board. Because there's power and repetition. Power and repetition. And with that thought that there's power and repetition, I want to read before you. I got like three short stories here, but they're not long, super long. But I got three short stories here that when I think of the power of repetition, these stories I think are a good example of it. And they're fun stories, they're they're not serious, and they're actually kind of an acknowledgement to mom today, too. And uh so let me read the first one for you. The first one's uh was a little odd to me, but I like I like the purpose of it because I've I've never heard of something like this before. So just just chime in here, you know, tune in here, like pretend like you're a kid hearing somebody read a story for you, all right? My dad, somebody wrote these by the way. Each per somebody different wrote wrote each one. My dad thinks that turning on the car's overhead light is basically a felony. Y'all know what I'm talking about, right? The little headlight over. My dad thinks that turning on the car's overhead light is basically a felony. Every time I turned it on at night, he would say, Turn it off, it's illegal, I could go to jail. Whenever he said that, I thought to myself, how can you go to jail for turning on a light inside your car? I often pictured my dad in an orange jumpsuit dramatically telling the judge, Your Honor, I kept telling my kid to turn off that light. Apparently, there's a backstory. You see, when my dad was little, his mom, my grandma, told him that the cops could pull her over and could take her to jail if the overhead light was on while she was driving, and my dad just never questioned it. By the way, the fact that he never questioned it shocks me because my dad questions everything else. He questions the government, the weatherman, his boss, expiration dates, and he especially questions his wife, my mother. Anyways, one night while he was driving, I flipped the overhead light on again in the car. Immediately he said, Turn that light off. I could go to jail. I responded to him and said, That's it, dad. I'm going to look this up on my phone. 30 seconds later, with a smile on my face, I said, Okay, dad, good news. You're not going to jail. It's not illegal, it's just disruptive. He just shook his head and said, That can't be right. I told him, it literally says it right here on my phone, it's not illegal. He looked at my phone for half a second, then back at the road, and with conviction, he said, My mom would never lie to me. I sat there holding back my laugh. I told him, Dad, I think grandma was just messing with you because she didn't want you to turn the light off, because she wanted you to turn the light off. Then there was a long pause. He was quiet. I could practically see my dad questioning his entire childhood. But finally, he reached up, turned the light off, and said, I'm not taking the risk. From then on, I never questioned my dad's convictions again. Another story a young lady wrote. I would ask my mom about it from time to time. I would say, Mom, what is the point of having this thing? She would respond with a statement that I have never heard anyone else ever say. She would say, Every kitchen needs a breadmaker. I would think to myself, where in the world did you hear that? She would not just tell me this. My dad would also pile on every now and then. He would sarcastically ask things like, Honey, why do we even need this thing? Of course, she was ready with her sarcastic response, and with a similar tone, she would say, Honey, every kitchen needs a bread maker. That was always it. There was no further comment, no further explanation. So naturally, my dad and I made fun of this constantly. I would even make jokes about it when friends and family was around. This would lead to them also asking her why she owned this machine. To every person who asked, she gave the same answer. Every kitchen needs a bread maker. Well, fast forward a couple decades, I had just gotten married, and a few weeks into the marriage, I was at the store with my husband. Suddenly, as I walked down the aisle with my husband, we are looking at appliances, and I found myself staring at a box, and I absolutely knew I did not need it. Inside the box was a bread maker. My husband stood there with me, surprised as I stared at this box and confused. He asked me, Do we really need a breadmaker? Then, without a single moment of hesitation, I quickly answered my husband and said with confidence and conviction, Every kitchen needs a breadmaker. The words came out of me like muscle memory. I didn't question it. Honestly, I felt kind of powerful saying it. I felt like I reached a milestone and I was about to make the purchase of a lifetime. It was like a rite of passage that I had been waiting for my entire life. My husband couldn't relate. With a concerned tone, he asked me, Okay, do you know how to use it? I told him, obviously, although I knew I was never going to prove that I did. Of course, years have gone by now, and this machine has done nothing but just sit on our counter. It holds unopened mill, sometimes a bag of chips, and maybe some produce. And of course, every now and then, my husband has to ask me, why do we have this thing? I simply look at him with a smile and say, every kitchen needs a bread maker. I guess I really am my mother's daughter. Now, this last one I can very much relate to, the overhead light one I can really relate to. I don't, I believe my parents do for the longest time. Uh, this one I can, and and and uh I just hear it with me. This isn't me. Again, somebody else wrote this. I used to think my mom was so ridiculous. Every single summer, every single pool day, it never failed. She would yell at me, you cannot swim after eating. She'd say it like it was a law. I would ask her why. And with full conviction, she would respond to me, because you'll cramp. And I would respond back, What will cramp? And she would answer back, everything, your whole body. This happens so often it became a ritual. I remember standing by the pool with a soggy sandwich, having this exchange with my mother time and time again. All I would think to myself is that this has to be fake. This is completely made up. I promised myself I would never say something so illogical to my own kids. Well, about 20 years later, I am at the pool with my own children who are running towards the water with popsicles in their hands and bellies full of the lunch they just ate. Suddenly, out of nowhere, it comes out of me. I yell, absolutely not! You cannot swim after eating. My children stop and slowly turn and look at me with confusion. My son asks, why? I hesitate and I stumble for words for just a second. Then those words that I once dreaded hearing came out of me. Because you'll cramp, I said. The words left my mouth, and I immediately realized I just betrayed myself. My daughter asks, What will cramp? And I find myself gesturing with my hand and saying, Your body, all of it. And my two kids just stare at me like I'm crazy. I felt it happening. The exact same way I once judged my mom is how I am now being judged. My son pushed the issue. He asked, But what actually happens? And the problem became clear to me. I really had no idea what actually happens. I just assumed something happens. Nevertheless, I stood my ground and I told my son, it's just not safe. Then my daughter speaks up and said, That sounds made up, mom. That's when it hit me. I have become my mother. Feeling defeated, I told my kids, fine, just wait 20 minutes. At the same time, they both yelled out, Why 20? I just answered my children with those words no child likes to hear. Because I said so. But the truth was, I said 20 minutes and not 30 minutes, just so I would not be exactly like my mom in that moment. My kids groaned and sat at the edge of the pool to wait, and I leaned back in my lounge chair and said to myself, Thanks a lot, mother. You turned me into a crazy person. Was anyone ever told the pool thing before growing up? Did anybody question it? I don't know. I was just like, I wait. Some people do, I guess. Uh my wife tells me a story that when they they were told when specifically when they ate watermelon, they couldn't go back in the water. Just watermelon, apparently. And because there was water in their belly and it would mess them up. I was like, I don't know where you got that. That's that's a good one. Um you know you know what all these stories have in common? Repetition. People being repeatedly told Don't you can't swim after you eat. Turn off that light, I could go to jail. Every kitchen needs a bread maker. And and and some of these things, us hearing them, sounds strange and weird and absolutely wrong. And yet, said enough, it starts to what? Be believed. Like you start to take on that mentality, and out of nowhere it it reveals itself. You see, because it's like a process. You hear something, listen, over and over, what does it do? Settles in your mind. Begins to like get relaxed in your mind. Like I like to think of it almost like getting comfortable in your own little home. Like it just slowly settles in in your mind because you just hear it over and over. I know what they're gonna say, I know what the response is gonna be, I know what dad's gonna say, I know what mom's gonna say, I just really know, I know what they're gonna say. It just settles in. And then the next thing you know, it becomes part of your belief system. Like you start to what? Believe it. And like a woman who hated being told you can't swim after you eat, somewhere along the way, she just believed it. I'm gonna make my kids do it too now. And it settles in and it plants itself, and and and you believe it, and it's it starts to become part of your belief system, then what happens? Like that woman at the pool, hear me, your life begins to align with what you hear. Like a daughter being told every kitchen needs a bread maker. First of all, that's crazy talk, I think. But second of all, she's told it enough that she actually has to have one of her own. That's listen, it's like her life began to align with what she was told, with what was what repeatedly, repeatedly fed into her mind. And I start to think how it's true, and and and how these statements, listen, that that they as they settle in the mind, become part of the belief system, and then suddenly your life aligns with them. And hear me, then you eventually find yourself expressing these same statements. You find yourself expressing these same convictions to other people now. So now poor you know, junior and princess and the grandkids now are being told what? The exact same thing. You follow the lineage in a way, you follow the line here, it's repeated, repeated, settles in, becomes part of your belief system, your life aligns with it, and you begin to tell it to others as well. The power of repetition. And it's funny because for these people in these stories, these things that they would hear sounded outrageous. They were crazy, but hear me. Isn't it interesting? That at some point what sounded outrageous became correct. Yeah. Every kitchen needs a bread maker. That's right. Yeah. Turn off that light. I don't want dad or mom to go to jail. Yeah. Don't go swimming yet. You got away. I'm a watermelon for you. Yeah. Sounds crazy. Sounds outrageous. Sounds weird. But in the mind of these people, it's correct. And I want to just kind of tell you today and encourage you briefly that you know what I've learned that there's times that God's word, especially in the beginning, when you first get saved or you first start reading it, can sound a little strange. It can sound a little odd. It can sound a little outrageous. But you know what I'm hearing. Tell you today, God's word is correct, and you need this word to be consistently put into your mind, repeated to you, repeated to yourself, spoken to you, spoken to yourself consistently, repetitively because God's word is always correct. Say amen to that. How many have read things in the Bible sometimes? You're like, that sounds a little strange. It may sound strange, but it's still correct. Things in the Bible that sound a little outrageous. That sounds kind of crazy, God, but you know what? It's still correct. God's word is always correct. And I tell you today that God's word, because it's correct, gives us a correct way to think, a correct way to believe, a correct way to speak, a correct way to act, a correct way to respond. It gives you the correct way to make choices. It always gives you what's correct, the correct way to worship, the correct way to love, the correct way to pray, the correct way to serve. God's word will only lead you in one direction, and that is the correct direction. Give the Lord a hand clap and thank him for the correct direction. And like these people in these stories, listen, you may have trouble believing it sometimes and understanding it sometimes, and you may question it a little bit sometimes, and may not even have uh like have some trouble agreeing with it sometimes. But I'm gonna tell you today, no matter what your struggle may be, God's word is still correct. And that people can try to doubt it, keep people could try to put it down, people could try to say the word of God is no good, the word of God is old, it's ancient, we need to get rid of the old testament or get rid of the new testament or add a testament. God help us that people are believing these kind of things, that people are believing things like is the Bible still relevant? Is it still true? Church, I tell you today, the Bible will always be relevant, the Bible will always be true. Nothing can take the place of the word of God, and that is why we need the word of God. Because when heaven and earth pass away, you know what will still stand? God's word still stands. And hear me today if God's word is in you, everything may pass away. But if God's word's in you, you're gonna stand strong as well for all of eternity in the presence of God. It's correct, church. Say correct. It's correct. You may not think so, and I'm telling you today, it is correct. What's that old saying people say you better come correct? I don't think people still say that anymore. God's word always comes correct. It always comes correct. You may have trouble with it sometimes. Listen, my heart goes out to you, and we can talk about your troubles and maybe some of your questions, but in the end, you're gonna have to believe this one thing that God does not lie. His word is always correct. Psalm 18:30. As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord's word is lawless. Psalm 119, 160. All your words are true, all your laws are right. Proverbs 35. Everything that God says is completely true. Church, since God's word is true, since God's word is flawless, since it is always correct, your mind, my mind, all of our minds need it every day of our lives. Repetitively, consistently. That's why we keep reading it consistently. That's why you keep coming to church to hear it consistently. That's why you spend time with God every day, consistently. We need his word, his presence. We need all of him consistently, repetitively, and hear me because consistency matters. And in the name of Jesus, eventually, consistency will impact us. Like the people in the story. It impacted them at some point. When they least expected it, walking down the aisle. I need that bread maker. Seeing kids run to the pool. I do kind of wonder if that lady just did it because she was mad at her own parents, but that's going into the psychological depth I don't want to get into today. No, you have to wait. Turn off that light. I don't want to go to jail. It just was it was hear me. The repetitiveness, the consistency was impacting them. And you know what I've learned in my life? And thanks be to God as we get ready to close. I I just I thank you, Lord. There's times where a scripture will come to my mind and I didn't even realize I had that scripture in my heart. Where something God said or something a pastor said will come to my mind, and I'm like, I didn't even realize that that was stored in there. I didn't even realize that that thing was being put inside of me sometimes. That's the power of God's word. Listen to me. You need to bank some time with the word of God because every now and then you gotta pull out something from there sometimes. You need to bank some time with what God says, like a money in the bank. Put the word in the bank of your heart because you're gonna need to withdraw from there every now and then. Because you're gonna need these words. Hear me, look at me. Consistency matters. When your children start going crazy, you need to have a verse to pray over them. As for me and my house, we are gonna serve the Lord in the name of Jesus. Train up a child in the way they should go, and they shall not depart. In the name of Jesus, your word shall be done. Doctor gives you bad news. According to Isaiah 53:5, by your stripes I have been healed. Jeremiah 33, 6, you'll bring it health and cure. They're saying we don't, we're not gonna have enough money. Lord, you provide, you meet, you get you meet all my needs according to your riches and glory in Christ Jesus. You gotta have some scriptures banked, deposited into the bank of your heart so that when bad news comes, you have a response ready. And little did you realize that that response was in your heart. You didn't realize that it was placed there, but why? Because consistency matters, and you repetitively hear it, and you're repetitively coming and hearing this crazy five foot-nine Mexican guy with a microphone trying to encourage you and build you up every day. Something will click, something will come to mind. Why? Next week we'll get into it because you have the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit remembers all truth. And when the Holy Spirit remembers something, he reminds you of it. And when he reminds you of it, it's so that he can help you keep going, help you keep moving, help you keep believing, help you to stand strong. The Holy Spirit will tell you don't give up. Let's not throw in the towel. Remember what God said. Don't walk away, remember what God said. Don't quit on your marriage, remember what God said. Don't quit on your kids, remember what God said. Don't hate your neighbor. Remember what God said. He will bring it back to memory. But it's our job to get it put into our heart. And when the enemy tries to come in, what we need to remember will come back to what? Our mind. And when it comes back to our mind, it can then come out of our mouth. And when we speak the word of God out of our mouth in the name of Jesus, everything that's not of God must flee in the name of Jesus. And we're gonna see the power of the word operating in our lives. Jesus was ready for the response, for a response. The enemy comes in and tries to talk to him. And Jesus was ready with the word, ready to tell the enemy this is what the word says. And I tell you today, you can be ready as well. I can be ready as well. Tell your neighbor you can be ready today. Tell your neighbor, tell three people around you you can be ready today. You can be ready. We can all be ready today. We can be ready. Have it in your heart, put it in your heart. Why? Because consistency matters. I told you earlier, I kind of folded it in. Let me say this and we're done. Put it on the board. Consistency in God's word. Allow God's word to one. Settle within you. Get comfortable in your mind. Get comfortable in you. The word of God, repetitive. I went to a school where for every test we took, there was a memory verse we had to write down. Math tests, there was still a memory verse we had to write down at the end of the math test. What that had to do with addition and subtraction, I have no idea. And guess what? You could have gotten every math problem right. And if you got the verse wrong, you did not get a perfect grade on the test. Trust me, it happened to me more than once. I was furious. This is a math test, I told them one time. It doesn't matter. English test, Bible verse at the end of it. Science test, Bible verse at the end of it. Social studies. The kids still here do social studies, I don't know. History, whatever. Bible test at the end of it. And did you know for about three weeks while we prepared, because you would study a certain subject for like two, three weeks, and then you take a test on it. And for those two or three weeks, you know what was happening? I had to learn that Bible verse. And in fifth grade manual, fourth grade manual, eighth grade manual, the Bible verse was settling in his mind more and more and more today. That's why I can tell you verses today just from my heart. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3 2. I learned that as a kid. Whatsoever is true, whatsoever is noble, whatsoever is pure, whatsoever is lovely, whatsoever is excellent, whatever is praiseworthy. Think on these things. Philippians 4. I learned that as a kid. Why? Because it would settle and just settle and settle. And now here's 40-year-old manual. I know that's what you're supposed to say. Oh my god, he's 40? Yeah, 40-year-old manual. Look at me. Here's 40-year-old manual sharing with you what settled in the mind of eight-year-old manual. But not only that, thanks be to God, these verses became part of my belief system. How many truly believe the word of God this morning? Like you really believe it. Like you believe all the word of God. Like all of it. I believe it all. From where I write my name to the book of maps, I believe all of it. Every part of the Bible I believe. And it has to become part of our belief system. Don't just read it for fun. You read it because you believe it. I need this thing. I believe everything it says. And in the name of Jesus, what? We're gonna start aligning our lives with it. Hear me? You can't really align your life with what you don't really believe. You can't really live according to something if you don't really believe it. You know, people do the craziest things because they believe crazy things sometimes. Say amen to that. Some of y'all are sitting next to some of those people right now. They do the craziest things because they believe the craziest things. And hear me today. Some of the words, some of God's word sounds kind of crazy, but we believe it. And we're gonna live this thing out with the help of Jesus Christ. Give the Lord a hand clap today. We're gonna believe it. And we're gonna live this thing out. Like people in these stories. Every kitchen needs a breadmaker. Turn off that light. I don't want to go to jail. Don't go swimming after you eat. We're gonna let these thoughts settle in our mind. Let them be good. Let the word settle in our mind. Let the word become part of our belief system and bring our life into alignment with what God says. But hear me. Can't give up on this thing. Can't. Look at me, and we're gonna we're done. Look at me. I'm I'm pleading with you today. You can't give up on this. You realize God hasn't given up on any single one of us today. How many are grateful that God hasn't given up on you today? Like he hasn't given up on you. And we can't give up on him. We can't give up on his word. We can't do that. And I say this in love and I say it to me first. Hear me. We cannot become lazy with God's word. We can't become lazy in time with God and fellowship with God and communion with God. We can't become lazy about this. I've been guilty of being lazy about it. I've been guilty of having laziness set in. And you know what I've learned? Put on the board as we close. Laziness never produces a renewed mind. Never. It'll never produce a renewed mind. Get lazy with it and you put it to the side. Then what? Nothing's settling in your mind that's supposed to settle. Nothing's coming become part of nothing's becoming part of your belief system that should be part of your belief system. You can't align your life with what you do not know. The renewed mind is not possible with laziness, and we're all guilty of it at times. And I tell you today, church, that God's word is not supposed to be an occasional exploration. It's not supposed to be just a celebratory read. It's not supposed to be something we just dive into at funerals or weddings or in church. It should be daily, repetitive, consistent. And I pray in the name of Jesus, lift up your hand today. That laziness flees from us in the name of Jesus. That laziness will go in the name of Jesus. That you know what? I sleep better when I read the word. My day goes better when I read the word. I'm more at peace when I read the word. So I have to have the word in me. Laziness, you gotta go. We're so hear me, lift up your hand. Father, I know we're so energetic about so many of the things sometimes. We're so excited about so many things in life. We apply so much effort to so many things in life. But I pray, Father, that your word, time with you, being in your presence, Father, surpasses them all in the name of Jesus. That we are more excited, spend as much energy as we can. I know we have schedules and I know we have responsibilities, but Father, may we always make your word, make your presence, make fellowship with you, make prayer the highest priority in our life, Father God. And I thank you today, Lord, that even though, Father, sometimes it boggles my mind, Lord, as we have our hands lifted, I pray this over every person. It boggles my mind how we may only read the word for 30 minutes, 20 minutes, and yet it can impact the next day we live, Father God. The math doesn't add up, Lord, but that's how powerful your word is, Father God. So I pray today, Father, renewing the mind is a priority and laziness. You are gonna leave our lives in the name of Jesus. We give you the honor and the glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Give the Lord a hand clap today.