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Mayor Harkey.

Here.

Vice Mayor and Cenas.

Here.

Councilmember Poston.

Here.

Councilmember Ellis.

Here.

Councilmember Orlando.

Councilmember Harris?

Councilmember Hawkins.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you so much.

Our indication tonight will be brought by Pastor Dim Jim Grimm of Desert Springs Church.

And our Pledge of Allegiance by Councilmember Ellis.

Pastor.

You guys would all bow your heads.

Father, we thank you for the opportunity that we have tonight to come before your throne to come into your presence and to bring these petitions to you.

And I want to first start tonight by acknowledging who we are praying to.

We are praying to our Heavenly Father, who is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Great I Am, the Creator of everything seen, the creator of everything unseen.

And he didn't just create it, he owns it, he maintains it.

So God, we just acknowledge who we are coming before tonight.

And I didn't come here tonight to pray an eloquent prayer full of fancy words.

I came here tonight to pray our dependence, our understanding of our dependence on you, our dependence on you in our personal lives, our dependence on you in this room here tonight, over the council members who are leading this city and guiding this city.

So, God, I pray that your wisdom would rest on them, that your understanding would rest on them, that your council would rest on them.

And Lord, that they would make decisions as they lead this city based on the anointing of God, based on the wisdom of God and not on their own intellect.

And as they do that, God, that this city would be blessed, that this city would prosper.

In Proverbs 29, it says that when the righteous rule, the people rejoice.

And I pray that over this community right now, that again that your blessing would be on this community and it would be evident to everyone around us.

And God, we thank you for that.

We praise you for that.

I also pray, God, I think we'd be remiss if we didn't pray for our nation as a whole, especially given it's a 250th year of the birth of our nation.

So I pray for our president, I pray for our vice president, I pray for all the leadership in our in our nation.

Lord, that they would also be guided and directed by your wisdom and that your anointing would rest on them.

So, God, we thank you for these things.

We praise you for these things.

I pray for this meeting tonight.

Lord, that this meeting tonight would bring glory to you and glory to your name.

And the last thing I want to pray, I just want to pray a verse over us, and it's Ephesians 3.20, and this is what it says.

That God is able to do infinitely more than what we ask or think according to his power that is worked within us.

And God, I pray that over the council members and over the mayor, because I know there's a lot of praying members on this council that what you're what you're praying for, what you're what you're wanting to do in this community in the city, that God would do exceedingly more, exceedingly abundantly above what you're thinking because he's able to do that because of who he is.

So, God, we thank you for these things and we praise you for these things.

In Jesus' name and everybody said, Amen.

Thank you, Christopher.

Pledge, I believe.

To the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic.

One nation, under God, individual justice for all.