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Good Morning. As we start off today, I have a question and you can answer it by a show of hands. How umpteen people in this room have ever started a fox that you knew you probably wouldnt ever finish? I mean, maybe you suasion to yourself, this would be really great and I should do it, but in the back of your mind, if you were being honest with yourself, you knew that you probably werent going to witness it through to completion? So only three people step to the fore of four hundred? (Pause, laugh) There we go ok, good, Im not alone. Over half of you have started a project that you had no spirit on finishing.Me too. When my daughter was born, I got into the common practice of reading her a watchword before bedtime. We read and read every night. And I realise something. Many of these childrens books are just not very good. later a few months of reading to my daughter I went into my bedroom and give tongue to to my wife. Thats it seriously.. Im writing a childrens book See ha d heard this kind of bravado from me before. But this time I wasnt joking around, in fact, the next day, I pulled out my laptop, in an effort to make bedtime a better experience for every dada in the world and I started writing. At the end of a mordant 2 hour writing session I had typed three pages to the highest degree a courageous carrot facing his fears. I saved the rouse and promised myself I would complete it the next day. My daughter is right away nine eld old and Im still working on completing that fourth page. There is good news for all of us that elevated our hands though. And that good news is this God finishes everything that he starts. Today, we start a brand new sermon series called Be The Church and the schoolbook for today is located in Acts 181-11. When I think close being the c... ... am here to announce that he can. He does. suppose it.Last night I received a text contentedness at 213am. Now, I of all time hesitate before I look at the phone when I rec eive anything after midnight. Its typically never good. It was from my aunt. We were raised in the same home and she is now 48 and she has never believed. Just about everyday of my life for the pop off 15 years I have prayed for her. That the Lord would fill her with the beatified Spirit, that she would discover Him. Let me read you the text that I received.. Chris, thank you for always praying for me. I woke up in the middle of the night and just submitted to Jesus. I want to live my life for Him. Thank you. Love, Jan.I know Im not the only one in the room that has been praying for a loved one for a long time. Keep being the church, trammel praying and remember that God always finishes what he starts. Amen.