Pastor Skip Heitzig: Let’s pray together. Lord, we feel that we need to pray before we open the word of God because we simply believe it to be the word of God and that we need the spirit of God to really help us grasp the meaning, the significance, the application of your truth to our lives. We thank you that we live in the country where we can gather freely and worship you, that the government does not dictate what we believe in or how we worship, that we are free