Father, I thank you for the love that you give to us. I thank you so much for The fact that we can count on you and and that we know that you are the God who works, works his plan and, and makes these things come to pass and that we can trust in what you're doing. As we look into this study in, in Malachi, Lord, help us to have open minds and hearts to understand. And help me to communicate it clearly and to make it understandable.
Lord, I just ask your blessing upon our time in Jesus' name. Amen. How does God assure us of His love is going to be, fundamental to our study today. Because, As we talked about last time in our last meeting, that, that was a question that came up at the beginning of, that's how the Book of Malachi opens up with this idea that That man needs this, this reassurance.
And so, we'll be looking at that today. Nehemiah 9:6 really underpins our relationship with God because it helps us to understand Him. It says, you alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.
You give life to all of them. And the heavenly host bows down to you. And so Nehemiah in writing this is, this is the understanding that is there that of God. This is the God that we worship and that everything is in his hands....