We're going to go ahead and get started here with the message. I trust that you all had a wonderful Christmas and just enjoyed celebrating the incarnation of Jesus, and, and also reflecting upon the fact that he came into this world so that ultimately he would die on the cross, and Christmas is, it's a wonderful season of the year inside of which we can take the time to really meditate upon that truth a little more intensively. I am trusting too that, that you all will have a great new year on behalf of the, the staff and the elders. Happy New Year to everyone.
I just pray that, that God would bless your year with gospel blessings, that he would grant to every single one of you that spirit of wisdom and of revelation and the true knowledge of Jesus, that you would behold the beauty of the Lord and that he would strengthen you, every single one of you, that he would strengthen you with power by His Spirit in, in the deeper part of who you are, in your inner man. that you, you will find yourself over the course of the year continuously and increasingly conformed into the very image of Christ. One of the things that we anticipate over the course of this year is a geographical move. Lord willing, this time next year, we will be in a new church facility, not too far away from here, Maybe about 1 mile down the road, so we're still pretty much in the same neighborhood, but, but we are anticipating this move.
We believe that part of God's provision for us over the course of this next year is going to be a larger facility space, and part of the desire is that, we would in that space, be able to reach out to more people. And so the message this morning is entitled Outreach in the Place of God's provision. Outreach in the place of God's provision. We're gonna be addressing, this topic with two questions, and before I, present those questions to you, I would like for us to take a minute to pray.
Would you pray with me, please? Lord God, we just come before you this morning. We thank you for the time that we have here. We just ask Lord that you would see fit to minister your word to us, Lord, I pray that, that you would open the eyes of our understanding, that you would illumine the eyes of our heart, Lord, that you would just help us to behold you and to behold your heart, Lord, that you might draw us into worship of You, Lord, even as we take the time to hear you speak to us through your word....
