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Apr 2024
8m 43s

Your Father Gives Good Gifts

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This week we’ll start a new series, making space to simply stir up our affections for God every day.

Today, we’re going to look at the reality that our God loves to give us good gifts. May God empower us to live with open hands and an open heart, ready and willing to receive all that he longs to give.

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