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- Hello, everybody myname is Simisola Okai

and I'm here with my beautiful family,

all of my boys, my husband, Samuel Okai,

our firstborn, Emmanuel Okai

and our lastborn Nathaniel Okai, whoo!

We are celebrating thefirst week of Advent

by lighting the candle of prophecy

and what does that mean?

It's prophecy, it's allthe prophecies foretold

of Christ long ago

being fulfilled rightbefore our very eyes.

- Amen.- So it's the anticipation

of not only His birth, butthe fact that He's the Messiah

coming to this world tosave us from our sins

and so we're gonna light the first candle

what candle are we lighting?

- Purple.

- Purple, let's go ahead andlight the prophecy candle.

- This one, this is the big one.

- Yes, wow that's beautiful.

So I'm gonna be reading from Isaiah 40:3

and it says this.

- Can I read?

- "A voice of onecalling in the wilderness

prepare the way of the Lord

make straight in the deserta highway to our God.

Every valley shall be raised up

and every mountain and hill made low

the rough ground shall become level

and the rugged places a plain.

- Amen.- And the glory of the Lord,"

can you say that, Nathaniel?

- Glory of the Lord.- Glory of the Lord, yes.

- "And the glory of theLord will be revealed

and all people will see it together

for the mouth of the Lord has what?

- Spoken.

- Has spoken," yes

Prophecy being fulfilledand our Emmanuel...

- I'm gonna be reading Mathew.

- Yes, you're gonna bereading from Matthew.

Our Emmanuel is gonna bereading and this is special

because Emmanuel was bornright before Christmas

and he's our...

- Five days before.

- Five days before Christmas,so go ahead and read.

Emmanuel's gonna read Mathew 1:23

- "The Virgin will conceiveand give birth to a son

and they will call Him Immanuel

which means God is with us."

- Yes, and this is, it'sso beautiful because

even as we celebrate asa family, it's a reminder

because before Emmanuel was born,

God actually gave me a dream

and told me that I'vewould give birth to a son

and He told me to call him Emmanuel

and so for us, it's really special.

It's special for Emmanuelits special for Nathaniel

and we hope as you celebrate Advent

and the anticipation of theprophecies being fulfilled

right before your veryeyes you remember this

that Christ has come for you,He's come for your salvation

for your family.

He's come for all of us

and so it's a beautifulseason to celebrate Advent

and so we hope

you have a beautifulseason doing that, right?

- Yes.

- You think my name is beautiful?

- It is so beautiful, Iknow your name is beautiful

and your name too.

So we just wanna wishyou a Merry Christmas.

- [All Members] Merry Christmas.

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