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amen, glad to be here this morning! Come on, worship the Lord with us. We're going to declare the Lord is faithful and good. Amen. Come on, sing this out here. We go. Idols and rivals will try you. They have their eyes on your throne. Though they rise up like an army, they fall. Confessing you, Lord. Kings and their kingdoms will challenge, raising their weapons of war, but the fight is fixed in your favor. Victory has always been yours. What could dare to compare to your greatness? There is nothing. There is no one. Darkness obsesses with power; they see themselves with your crown. Demons can't help but to tremble. God, you're not done raining now. What could dare to compare to your greatness? There is nothing. There is no one. Who could dare to compete as your equal? There is nothing. There is no one. What could dare to compare to your greatness? There is nothing. There is no one. There is no one who could dare to compete as your equal. There is nothing. There is no one. Darkness obsesses with power. They see themselves with your crown. Demons can't help but to tremble. God, you're not done raining now. What could dare to compare to your greatness? There is nothing. There is no one. Who could dare to compete as your equal. There is nothing. There is no one. What could dare to compare to your greatness? There is nothing. There is no one. Who could dare to compete as your people. There is nothing. There is no one. What could dare to compare to your greatness? There is nothing. There is no one. Who could dare to compete as your people. There is nothing. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. There is no one. Giving a shout of praise. No one compares to you, Lord. No one. Great and mighty are you, Lord. Great and mighty God. Thank you, Lord. The name above all names of God. Thank you, Lord. The sun was darkened and the heavens thundered. And for a moment, death on God it conquered. But it wasn't over till you said it's over. Your word is greater still. A perfect sacrifice, your body broken. And to me, restored to us what sin has stolen. Once and for all, you tore the veil wide open. Your power is stronger still. All praise. All praise. To the name above all names, Jesus. You're the name above. You're the name above. You're the name above all names, Lord. You turned the grave into a new beginning. Our God is risen, you're alive and breathing. There's nothing that can rise against your victory. Your name is high, no sin. Oh, oh, oh. Your name is high, no sin. Oh, oh, oh. Your name is high, no sin. Oh, oh, oh. You're the name above all names, oh praise. Oh, oh, oh. To the name above all names. Blessings on your feet. You reign. You're the name above all names. The cross still stands. The blood still flows. The work is finished, and hell still knows that the grave is still empty. The stone is still raw. And you're still high, lifted up. You're still seated on the throne. The cross still stands. The blood still flows. The work is finished, and hell still knows that the grave is still empty. The stone is still raw. And you're still high, lifted up. You're still seated on the throne. And all praise to the name above all names. Jesus, you reign. You're the name above all names. Hallelujah. Every voice will proclaim that you reign. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Every voice will proclaim. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. There is no high name. Hallelujah. Each to each, we will sing. Praise and honor, glory to you, Lord. Praise. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I am the holy, I am the holy, in the heavens. I call it creation. I bow down in worship to the King of all beings, God Almighty, to name above all names. I am the holy, I am the holy, in the heavens. I call it creation. I bow down in worship to the King of all beings, God Almighty. I am the holy, I am the holy, in the heavens. I call it creation. I bow down in worship to the King of all beings, God Almighty. I am the holy, I am the holy, in the heavens. I call it creation. I bow down in worship to the King of all beings, God Almighty. I am the holy, I am the holy, in the heavens. I call it creation. I bow down in worship to the King of all beings, God Almighty. All honor, glory and praise, to the highest name, the great I am, his kingdom stands and ever ends. All honor, glory and praise, to the name of God who conquered sin, defeated death and rose again. All honor, glory and praise. To the one who always needs to come. Forever, he is lifted up. All honor, glory, and praise. And awesome is the Lord God Almighty. The name above all names. You deserve the praise. Now and forevermore. The earth and heavens roar. How awesome is the Lord. How awesome is the Lord God Almighty. The name above all names. You deserve the praise. Now and forevermore. The earth and heavens roar. How awesome is the Lord. How awesome is the Lord. Now and forevermore. The earth and heavens roar. How awesome is the Lord. How awesome is the Lord. To the King of kings. The Lord of lords. Who lives and reigns. Forevermore. All honor, glory, and praise. To the King of kings. To the highest name. The great I Am. His kingdom stands. And never ends. All honor, glory, and praise. To the Lamb of God. Who conquered sin. Defeated death. And rose again. All honor, glory, and praise. To the one who always needs to come. Forever, he is lifted up. All honor, glory, and praise. Almighty. To the name above all names. You deserve the praise. Now and forevermore. The earth and heavens roar. How awesome is the Lord. How awesome is the Lord. The earth and heavens roar. How awesome is the Lord. Oh, how awesome is the Lord. All honor, glory, and praise. To the Queen of kings and all who've gone before us, and all who will believe, will sing the song of ages to the Lamb. Your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all. All thrones and dominions, all powers and positions, your name stands above them all. And the angels cry, "Holy," all creation cries. "Holy." You are lifted high. "Holy." Holy forever. And so it goes. And since we've been forgiven, and since we've been redeemed, we'll sing the song forever to the Lamb. And since we walk in freedom, and since we bear His name, we'll sing the song forever to the Lamb. And oh, we'll sing the song forever, and amen. And the angels cry, "Holy," all creation cries. "Holy." You are lifted high. "Holy." Holy, holy forever. And the angels cry, "Holy," hear your people sing. "Holy." To the King of kings. "Holy." You will always be. "Holy." All the angels cry, "Holy," holy forever. Jesus, see it's your name that's the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all. All thrones and dominions, all powers and positions, your name stands above them all. All thrones and dominions, all powers and positions, your name stands above them all. Sing that again. Jesus, it's your name. That's the highest, your name. That's the greatest, your name. It stands above them all. It towers over thrones and dominions of powers and positions, your name. It stands above them all. And the angels cry, "Holy," all creation cries. "Holy." You are lifted high. "Holy." Holy forever. Hear your people sing to the King of kings. "Holy." You will always be. "Holy" forever. You will always be. "Holy" forever. You will always be. "Holy" forever. You know, almost every time I sing that word "holy", it reminds me that we are joining the angels in heaven, the 24 elders gathered around the throne of God, declaring the same thing over and over and over again. "Holy," "holy". "Holy," "holy" is the Lord God Almighty. Church, can you just lift your hands to him this morning? Just really, as a sign of surrender. It's more about the position of our hearts than it is our hands. But just declaring unto him, Lord, you're holy. Why don't you just take a moment out of your own heart there to just express your gratefulness to him. Just tell him how holy he is. Tell him how good he is. Lord, we bless you this morning. You are holy. There is none like you. You are not like us. You are set apart from us. We can't even comprehend. And yet we here on earth join those around your throne this morning, the angels, the 24 elders, Lord, the saints that have gone on before us. And we declare your blessing and glory and honor. You're worthy to be praised. Thank you, Jesus, that there is no other name like yours. Just as we've sung, there is no other name like yours. It's the highest name of any name. It is the name above every other name. And we thank you for it this morning. We bless you for it this morning. In Jesus' mighty name. If you believe that, say a good amen, would you? And just give the Lord a great big hand clap. Lord, we bless you. You're good. You're good. You're good. Well, why don't you give somebody a high-five as you're seated. We're going to release our upper and lower elementary parents. If you've not checked your children in, if you follow them out, that'd be great. And then make your way back in. Thank you for being with us this morning. I'm going to go ahead and transition this microphone, Dan. You in? Well, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We're excited that you're here this morning. If you didn't know, the summertime is on us. Hallelujah. You know, I like the seasons. That's one thing that I enjoy moving to Oklahoma. I enjoy the seasons. But I got to tell you, I don't like the extremes. I like cool, not frigid. And I like warm, not walking on the surface of the sun. So I like to just live right in between there. And we get five. Five days of it in Oklahoma. Glory to God. That's good. We celebrate in those five days and we enjoy it. So I'm just having a little bit of fun. My name is Jonathan. If I've not had the opportunity to meet you, my wife, Alicia, and I are part of the pastoral team at Destiny Life and part of the preaching team here. And we're excited here. We're working our way through the book of Second Corinthians. I'll just mention next week, you'll probably see quite a few people that you may not see regularly. We kick off our June conference, our ATI summer conference. We have every year, the first Sunday in June that starts every year. We've been doing that for 45 years. And man, it's just a great time. And I really always kind of promote it, for lack of a better term, to our local church here at Destiny Life, because it gives us an opportunity to see who we are beyond our local church. So it's just a wonderful time when guys come from around the United States and oftentimes internationally as well to just be a part. It's a part of the family of churches, ATIs. It's a part of the family of churches that we belong to. And it's a great time. And I know many of you know that. And those that don't come to the services at night, those are open to everybody starting next Sunday night through Wednesday night. We'll have a couple of guest speakers coming in here, and then you can register for the morning sessions as well. There's a registration for that, but it's a great time. And next Sunday morning is not officially or technically part of the conference, but we're going to kick it off with, I've been going back through this book. I think I finally have her name right, Marzia Amarizadeh. I should not have said that. Why didn't I brag on myself for that minute right there? I should have just not done that. Marzia Amarizadeh. I got to say it fast. I think I still messed it up, but y'all wouldn't even know the difference if I didn't say it. See? But she wrote that book, "Captive in Iran." We've got it in our bookstore. I've been going back through that book this last week. Incredible story of this woman of God and her friend that were... in prison for nearly a year in one of the worst prisons literally in the whole world. She's going to be with us. We're excited to hear from her. She is bold as a lion with the gospel and just appreciative of the ministry that God has given to her. Well, we are in this series called Holy Generosity. We don't preach a ton on giving in and around Destiny Life. I got to tell you, one thing I really love about preaching through a book of the Bible is it forces you to deal with things that maybe you, you would not typically deal with. It's easy to kind of preach the things that you like or preach the quote unquote easy verses. But then when you're preaching through a book of the Bible, you can't just skip over things that are in the Bible. Now, I know we live in, I like to call it a spiritual buffet world where we just kind of take what we want from the Bible. We kind of leave what we don't like, you know, whatever those things are. But when you're preaching through a book of the Bible, you really can't do that. And obviously as a believer, we shouldn't do that. We're in 2 Corinthians chapter 8. And, and just preaching through here. I heard a guy say one time, generosity, I think is probably one of the clearest evidence of the gospel at work in a human's heart, in our heart, really being generous. I heard a guy say one time, he said, I can take a look at your calendar and checkbook and tell you where your heart is. Now, I don't know who uses the checkbook anymore, hallelujah, but you get his point. I know, I know. All you boomers. If I use a checkbook, I'm not, I'm not going to get online easier. I'm going to write that check. I'm going to kill some trees. I'm going to, I'm just kidding. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I got way off there. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It is kind of funny though. Every now and then I'll like use a pen and I'll be like, why do I do this? My hand hurts. Like my hand's cramping. You know what I'm saying? Like all those years in first, second, third grade of learning how to write cursive, I don't even use it now. It's just, I'm typing on a keyboard or I'm, you know, and I got to be honest with y'all. This has nothing to do with the message. Okay. I just got off. Give me, give me about 15 seconds rabbit trail. Okay. I love to pay my bills online. I got to be, it radically changed my life because when I was first into adulthood, I had to write checks and all, and I, I hate paperwork. Even today, I'm going to take a picture of it and I'm going to make it digital. I can't stand paperwork. And when I transitioned to paying my bills online, I got to be honest with y'all, man, it was just glorious, glorious. And I got some of my bills on auto. Even better. Thank y'all for letting me have that moment. Okay. I appreciate, I appreciate, I appreciate. Okay. Our calendar and our checkbook. In other words, where am I giving my time and where am I giving my resources? That can really, it's a revealer, I think, of our, of our heart. And Paul really says this. And Paul's writing to the Corinthians and in this passage here, which you're going to read in just a moment, he's really encouraging them to complete a financial offering to suffering believers. He's encouraging believers in Jerusalem that he said, you know, you were eager to do this. Now I want you to walk this out to completion. And as we walk through this passage, you really see that it really is a lot, it's about a whole lot more than just money. It really reveals a heart, a purpose, and really a theology, if you will, behind a Christian generosity. Now, one thing I really appreciate about, I'm going to call it Paul's offertory. Y'all remember we used to call it the offertory back in the, in the day. Maybe I was saying that wrong, but that's what I used to call it, the offertory. And I've been in churches and in services where, you know, guys would get up and take 45 minutes to receive the offering. And, you know, you probably have been in a situation where there was high pressure to give, or, you know, if you'll sow this thousand-dollar seed, I'm going to send you some holy water or something. And it's like, oh, that makes me as sick to my stomach as it does others. And obviously we've seen a lot of abuse, but here's what I love about Paul. He doesn't manipulate people emotionally, right? He's not manipulating. He's not teaching. Guilt-driven giving, right? There's a lot of times that people will slide into that. He's teaching a real God-shaped, if you will, or gospel-shaped generosity. And it's a kingdom call, really, to a different way of living. It's this recognition that I, as a believer, have this open-handed trust in God and this sacrificial care for others. It's not just about funding what we would call, quote-unquote, ministry, but really it's reflecting the character of Christ. And I think we'll see this as we walk through it. It's one of the many times that Paul, he does this a lot. We call it at Destiny Life, acting in the opposite spirit. He makes this presentation about giving that would be in the opposite spirit of the culture that he existed in and the culture that we exist in. We exist in a culture that's very driven by, you know, accumulating stuff, our self-preservation, you know, consumerism. And God help us in the American church. We live in two different cultures. Ditches, oftentimes. I grew up in a movement of Christianity that anyone that had any sort of money was suspect. We thought they had compromised the gospel. If they had any sort of means, you know, if they weren't just broke, busted, and disgusted, they must not have been really serving God. I mean, you know, that is one ditch. But then we swing all the way over here and we, in essence, say the opposite, that if you were really serving God, if you were really trusting God, you'd have a lot of financial resources. Those are two ditches, right? Nobody in here... nobody in here has got the same of anything except time, right? So God entrusts different folks. He said, I wish that he'd give me a million dollars. I don't know. Could you handle a million dollars if he gave you a million dollars? Now, I know that we can handle in the sense that I'm going to buy a new house and a new car, but would we really make it work for the kingdom? Do we have to... if somebody dropped $10 million on you, would you have the connection and the means and the wherewithal to see that money work for the kingdom? Some in this room, yes, you would. Others, we would not. So why would God give you $10 million to just crush you? That's why the statistic, you know, say that people win the lottery, they win hundreds of millions of dollars or whatever, and five years later, they're broke again, right? Why? Because they did not have the means to be able to faithfully steward what had been entrusted to their care. So Paul really hits with the opposite spirit, and for us, you know, we live in the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to say to you boldly and frankly, I believe it's God's blessing. I believe that's what it is. I believe it is out of the founding of our nation, foundational thought in our nation, even though there was wickedness and sin that has existed in our nation. But there is a favor of God that has been on our nation, at least for a period of time, that has led to prosperity. But church, we cannot become materialistic right in the midst of that. So Paul says, as a believer, I'm not... I got to act in the opposite spirit. So he challenges him here. Let's read this passage, 2 Corinthians 8, 10 through 15. I'm going to read the whole thing, and then we'll come back and kind of break it down. He says, Here's my judgment about what's best for you in this matter. Last year, you were the first ones not only to give, but also to have a desire to do so. Now finish the work so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it. In other words, you started strong, let's finish strong. Let's follow through. Right? Don't just be well-intended, but be faithful to follow through. And then I love this part right here. He says, God does not have an expectation for you to give what you don't have. He expects you to give according to your means. We'll talk a little more about that. Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you give. You're hard-pressed, but that there might be equality. Oh, we're going to have a good time with that verse right here in a minute. At the present time, your plenty will supply what they need. So in turn, their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality. As it's written, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Let's get a few insights into true generosity and its purpose. Today, here's the first thing. True generosity reflects a willingness. Paul says there's a willingness. There is something that started on the inside. He said, finish the work that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it. If the willingness is there, then the gift is acceptable according to what one has. So I'm going to say if the willingness is not there, the gift is not acceptable, even though God will take money from a grouch. Glory to God. Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Generosity by willingness and obedience. Without willingness, there's no generosity. How could I be generous if I'm giving something begrudgingly? Right? One reflects the other. God looks at willingness, not the amount. He says, according to your means. We don't all have the same means. So it's not about the amounts of money given. I remember we were in, I was in a church years ago, and we were in a capital campaign, and one little tagline, the guy that was helping us walk through that kept using was, it's, equal sacrifice, not equal gifts. Right? A sacrificial gift to somebody who's got millions and millions of dollars, you know, it might even look like their gift is really generous, but is it? Because if you're just giving out of your abundance, we'll look at this in a minute, giving out of your abundance, is it generous compared to somebody who does not have those same means and yet gave sacrificially? See, the kingdom doesn't measure generosity by amount, but by willingness, and there's a grace of generosity that produces. Produces it and reveals it. Reveals the willingness in that. Now, there's an amazing passage of scripture that you probably have heard before. It's in a couple of the gospel accounts. You might have the little heading in your Bible that says, the widow's might. This is an incredible passage of scripture. I think it's in Matthew, and it's also in Mark 12. Let me set the stage for you. Now, first off, we'd be uncomfortable with this even today. You know something that's interesting to put yourself in the story, see yourself in the story? Here's Jesus. They're watching everyone walk by giving their offering, and evidently, they're looking at amounts because Jesus knows some people have put a whole bunch in. Can y'all imagine me and Glenn and James and the elders just standing right here on the stage, and y'all just walk through, dropping money in the baskets, and we're just watching how much you gave? Some of you that grew up charismatics, y'all remember even dancing to bring your offering down. Y'all remember dancing and bringing your offering down, and I'm just having fun. I'm not saying that's bad, but we'd be uncomfortable with that, but evidently, Jesus was okay with it because he's watching, and you got rich people that were throwing in a whole bunch and, you know, I guess probably feeling good about themselves, and then this widow comes, and she throws in these two mites, these copper coins that literally are a fraction of a penny, and Jesus makes this incredibly provocative statement. I mean, it's incredible. People are throwing in God's money, and this widow comes by, puts in less than a penny. He said, guess what? She just gave more than everybody that has given. Jesus, did you see the last guy? He just dropped 100 grand in, and you're telling me that less than a penny, and she gave more? How in the world could that be? Well, here's how, because Heaven measures differently. It's not about the amounts. It's a position of the heart. See, the wealthy gave from abundance, and she gave from trust. The Bible says she gave all she had. She was trusting. The position of her heart was so different. Now, here's the thing that's interesting to me. People say sometimes, oh, man, these churches, all they want is your money, da-da-da-da. I'm saying, you know, first off, at Destiny Life, as I said, I don't even remember. I've been here 12, 13 years. I don't remember the last time we did a series on giving, right? We don't make a huge deal out of the offering in the sense of, you know, again, a 45-minute message on the offering, even though, frankly, we want to equip people to be faithful stewards. But can I say to you, if churches, when we gathered, only talked about money or talked about money a majority of the time, can I make a pretty straight statement with you? We'd be in good company. You know why? Because Jesus talked about money way more than he did anything else, and it's not even close. I mean, like 16 out of the 38 parables, Jesus talks about possessions and the management of them. That's nearly half. Half of the time Jesus is teaching, he's talking about money. 2,000 times in the Bible, possessions, money is mentioned, and their handling of it. So if we're talking about money when the saints are gathered, guess what? We are talking about the Bible. Why is that? Well, it's because when you start talking about our treasure, what are we talking about? Where our heart is. And where our heart is, guess what we're going to put there? Our treasure. Again, my calendar and my checkbook. Where are those things, right? And sometimes people get upset in that. But I got to tell you, church, our heart is revealed out of our possessions. When we look around our heart, it's like we can be challenged in that. Again, there's nothing wrong with having things as long as the things don't have you, right? So it's like this, and I got to tell you, this is one of those things, this is Jonathan's opinion, but this is one of those things where I think we just continually come back to the Lord and submit our heart before him and just make sure, Lord, I'm holding this open-handedly. I think the older I get, the more I'm so aware of stewardship. You know, of really, because here's the fact. As believers, we don't own anything. Yeah, I know the deed. Your name is on the deed. But guess what? If you're a believer, it's not even yours. It's his. You're just managing his stuff. So am I being a good and faithful manager, right? Jesus said in Luke 16, again, pretty famous, he said, Therefore, if you haven't been faithful in unrighteous mammon, who will commit your trust to true riches? Now, when he talks about unrighteous, here'd be a clearer way to say that. If you're faithful in stewarding earthly wealth, then God can entrust you with greater spiritual responsibilities and true kingdom witness, true kingdom riches. He's not saying that money in and of itself is evil. Unrighteous mammon means worldly wealth, money belonging to the present age, often used unrighteously by mankind. The test is whether you'll use temporary resources faithfully for God's purposes. We misquote. This verse in 1 Timothy 6, a ton. You'll hear people say that money is the root of all kinds of evil. That's not what the Bible says. What does it say? The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people craving money have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. So it's not the money itself. God, I don't think God even cares how much you have. What he cares about is you faithfully stewarding. What's in trusted to your care, right? Dennis Peacock, many of you know, he's been here quite a bit and we've had a few classes with him. I like this. He makes the distinction between wealth and riches. In this passage, when he's talking about true riches, really he's talking about wealth. Here's how Dennis would define that. Riches is money, possession, assets, immediate financial increase. Riches can be inherited, won. They can be stolen. Consumed, quickly gained, quickly lost. You can have riches without wisdom, without stewardship, without character. I mean, you can have a lot of money. You'd be a drug dealer and have a lot of money. I mean, you know, so it's not like just the riches as opposed to wealth. On the other hand is productive capacity, stewardship ability, relational capital, wisdom, skill, generational thinking, covenantal inheritance, the ability to create and sustain over time. Wealth includes this. This character, discipline, trustworthiness, stewardship, culture. Let me say it very succinctly. Here's what I'd say. Riches is really what you possess. Wealth is really who you are. I'm not a rich man, but I'm a wealthy man. I have tremendous wealth in relationships and care. And I mean, just, I'm very wealthy in that way, right? So riches are fleeting. You know, when people say, well, you can't take anything with you. What is that little joke about? I've never seen the U-Haul behind a hearse or something like that. You know, you can't take it with you. Now, at the same time, we've used that. We've also used that in the wrong way, in my opinion, to where we're so temporal in our thinking that because we can't take it with us, we have bumper stickers like, I'm out spending my grandkids' inheritance. I got to tell you, that's wicked. That's an anti-bible wicked sentiment. I know it's a joke and, you know, we can laugh and it's fine. I'm not going to be a word cop in that. But the thought of that is wicked. It's not generational thinking. So just... Just because I can't take it with me, which is obviously true, doesn't mean that I can't give it to my children who can then build on it. That is called generational thinking and blessing. And God help us as believers that our children and grandchildren can start further down the financial road, if you will, than we did. That's biblical thinking. We're not talking specifically about that today, but that's biblical thinking. So true riches would include things like spiritual authority, eternal rewards, kingdom responsibilities, people. Ministry, revelation, the treasures of Christ himself. So generosity begins then internally before it's ever expressed externally. There's a willingness in the heart. True generosity is voluntary. It's not coerced. It's worshipful. It's not transactional. It's cheerful. It's not resentful. It's faith filled, not fear driven. See, God is after our heart before he's after the offering. So it matters the position of my heart before I give. I'll say from time to time, kind of tongue-in-cheek, but it's true. When we've received the offering, Elisha and I, we text to give. We have the opportunity here to text to give. It's so convenient to be able to do that. Again, I'm digital, so I love it. So convenient to be able to do it. But I have to be intentional to pause because it's not just throwing money in a bucket. It's not just sending a text. It's a moment of worship before the provider to say, Lord, first, thank you for your provision over my household. And second, I trust you for your continued provision. And I want to take this tithe and this offering, and I want to bring it before you in worship because I recognize that that's what it is, right? There's a heart posture and position that needs to be there as we give. So the Corinthians had a desire to do it, and now Paul calls them to complete what was in their heart. So that means love without generosity remains incomplete. I can say my heart is toward God, but is it, you know, is it really there? So true generosity reflects a willingness. Secondly, it reflects the kingdom. He says, See, generosity creates mutual care within the body of Christ that's representative of the kingdom of God. Jonathan, what does that mean? Kingdom generosity creates community. Kingdom care. When my heart is generous, I'm giving to God, and I'm also giving to fellow believers in need. That's what Paul is doing. He's receiving an offering for believers in need in Jerusalem, and he's saying, you're giving them out of your plenty, but there may come a time when they have plenty and you have lack, and now they're going to give it back to you. Now, let me just say this to you. This is not socialism. I'm going to ding on this for a second, so bear with me. Tune me out if you want to. This is not socialism. This is not communism. This is a soapbox for me. It riles me up because it's like, as Christians, we don't have this idea. We don't have this understanding that political philosophy is reasoned out of somewhere. It doesn't just come out of thin air. It either starts with God or it starts with us. Communism is the political outworking of an atheistic view of life. So if you're a communist, you're thinking like an atheist. My morning. Again, I'm going to heaven. That might be true, but your brain has not been renewed. Your mind has not been renewed. Okay, now let me ding on the other side. If you're a capitalist and all you care about is profit, you're equally wrong because you're not caring for people. Although I will say, and this is Jonathan's opinion, even though I feel like I could reason it from the Scripture, it probably is the best system that we have in the world today. Why? Because it comes down to individual stewardship. See, the difference here, he's not advocating. Paul's not advocating for forced socialism or government redistribution. He's describing. He's describing kingdom interdependence within the body of Christ. This is all directed, and this is a key church, voluntarily from the heart of God and not from man. Voluntary is huge. The early church understood this. Acts 4, and then we try to take this socialism. I've heard Christians try to advocate for socialism out of this verse, that there was no needing persons among them. First, it was voluntary. Voluntary. Second, who was the them? Them, other believers, not everybody. Now, I believe as believers, and again, I could say this from the word, we should care for the poor and give to the poor, right? The church should help in those means, and we need to be focused on that. And yet, you would think that the church has got to meet every need or that the civil government could meet that need better. Why do we think that the civil magistrate is any more holy than the saints of God? What is more greedy, me wanting to keep the money entrusted to me, or you wanting to spend someone else's money? Those old greedy billionaires, they don't deserve that much money. Says who? Nobody needs that much money. Well, guess what if somebody comes along and says, well, you don't need that $100 that you have. Give me 50 of it. Who is sovereign, church? Is it God or is it the state? It's a political outworking of an atheistic view of life. Can I just tell you? Forced giving is not giving at all. That's not giving at all. See, people held their possessions with open hands before God. They truly own nothing, possess nothing, control nothing. God was at work in the individual heart, not a socialist or communalist view from the state. Socialism is when we make the state sovereign. In the Scriptures, God is always sovereign, and he moves on the heart of man. If the state requires it, then it is confiscation and coercion. The government doesn't have any money. Well, the government should pay for that. You know what that means? You and taxpayers should pay for that. That's what you're saying. Now, let me just give you my opinion. This is Jonathan's opinion. Everything I've said, I believe, by reason from Scripture, this part is Jonathan's opinion. If we actually had to pay our taxes as a bill, like an electric bill, that it didn't just come out of our check and we saw that every month, I think there'd be a mutiny. What? But we don't see it. We get used to it. We get lulled to sleep. Now, I'm not saying that there's no place for taxes. I'm not saying that, right? There's a place for that. However, there should be a limit on what taxes are used for. Now, that part is not Jonathan's opinion. I believe that's Bible, a reason from the Scripture. Why? Because God has entrusted to our care stewardship. In fact, I'm gonna say to you, he uses that to mature us. He uses it to mature us. And when we take that piece away, we have a bunch of people walking around in immaturity. Immaturity. The state isn't sovereign. God is. Okay, that's enough. There's seasons of giving and receiving. And Paul says, your plenty will supply what they need. So in turn, their plenty will supply what you need. See, the church is meant to function as a family. When one part suffers, another supplies. And I love it. It blesses me so much here in the house here when people are in need and others give to them. And whether that's a meal or financial assistance or whatever it is, really caring for people. I understand. I understand that, you know, we live in a broad, we don't know everybody. We live in a broad place. I get that the logistics would maybe function a little different than they do in the New Testament. But there's a principle there of really the family ministering together. Here's what generosity does. It destroys materialism. Generosity is an antidote for the love of money. That's what it is. I remember the Lord really, I went through this season where I was really focused in on budgeting, our personal budgeting. Like really just, I can get overly, you know, like focused on something. I remember the Lord just really speaking in my heart, Jonathan, I want you to be very frugal with things and very generous with people, you know, to be attentive to people's needs around you and rally around people. Church, there's a place for that. And you do that. I commend you. Let's continue to do it. And let's bless abundantly, right? It's not frivolously wasting money on things. It's really caring for people. What does it do? It really reveals, the kingdom. It creates compassion, partnership, gratitude, and true fellowship. Again, nothing wrong with having things as long as things don't have you. Lastly, true generosity really reflects God's provision. Look at verse 15. He says, He quotes Exodus 16 there. You might remember when the children of Israel were in the land of Israel. They were in the land of Israel. The wilderness, he gave them manna to eat. Manna literally means, what is it, right? It's like, we'd come down and it looked like dew and they would go and collect it. Then they started murmuring around, having to eat the same thing every day. And he would bring quail in the evening. But here's what he does. He uses this story to reveal a kingdom principle. And here's the kingdom principle, that God himself is the provider for his people. And I say to you, and I know some of you have great jobs. Some of you want a better job. And some of you may be looking for a better job. But can I say to you, I'm grateful for provision. I'm grateful for employment. We should be the best employees. We should be the best business owners as believers. All of that is true. But at the end of the day, our provider is not our job. Our provider is God himself. And Paul uses this story from the Old Testament to show that. They were dependent on Him daily. I think it's interesting. Even the Sabbath, I remember again, when I grew up, we had all these rules. That we couldn't do on the Sabbath. Like I remember, I used to get spankings because I wanted to go swim on Sunday. And we couldn't swim on Sunday because it was a Sabbath. It was a day of rest. I'm saying, I'm swimming, bro. I'm resting, you know. We couldn't do laundry on the Sabbath. I mean, all these things, right? We lost the spirit of it and grabbed hold of the rule of it. And by the way, the reason I got spanked is because I couldn't swim. And my dad was like, all right, son, you can either get spanked or you can get grounded. I said, bro, give me that spanking right now. I'm not trying to be grounded. My dad's repented to me. We're okay now. I just, my parents were so young. You know, when you're a kid, you think your parents are old. My parents were so young and caught right up in the, you know, just the mindset. You just don't even know. But when you think about that idea of Sabbath here in Exodus 16, when he's, let me read that. Verses four and five, what Paul is quoting. It says, then the Lord said to Moses, look, I'm gonna rain down food from heaven for you. Each day that people can go out and pick up as much food as they need. For that day, I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instruction. On the sixth day, they will gather food. And when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual. In other words, I want you to go out the day before the Sabbath and get that. And it's gonna last you twice as long. Here's what I think is here. There's a principle of the Sabbath here that I think is really good. They were together the double the day before because when they, before when they, like on a regular day when they would try to gather because they didn't listen, they tried to gather too much, it was spoiled. So what's God teaching? He's teaching them to rely on Him every single day. And then He's also, I think there's a principle here for us. And again, in our Western, particularly American mindset of hard work, which I'm for, I'm grateful for that Protestant work ethic. So it's called, I'm grateful for that. And we should have a good work ethic. But can I say to you, there's times again, we go over to this ditch where we become workaholics. And here's what it reveals that we really don't trust God. The Sabbath is really more about trusting God than it is you laying around watching football on Sunday. It's saying, Lord, I'm gonna work hard six days a week and I'm gonna rest. Because how many know if God could rest, certainly we could, right? What you're saying when you rest on the Sabbath is, Lord, I trust you, even though I'm not physically working in this moment, I trust you for your provision. Now don't lose, I understand, a farmer would understand seedtime and harvest. There's gonna be times when you're planting or you're harvesting, it's seven days a week, 16 hours a day, and you're going after it for a short period of time. But church, can I tell you, if you're doing that all the time, something is amiss. And at its core, we might not identify it this way, but at its core, it's a lack of trusting God and His provision. Because I feel like I've gotta make it happen. Again, there's two ditches. You got the person that needs a job sitting on their couch praying and never putting in a job application. Put in a job application. Get on Indeed. Pray, trust the Lord to guide you. But then you got this other person over here putting in, you know, 500 applications a day, beating the streets and just, that's the other ditch. Surely there's somewhere in between that we're diligent and we're looking for jobs, we're doing our part, and we're trusting God for His provision at the same time. Right, there's a principle there in the Sabbath. Look at the Lord's provision. The Lord's Prayer. There in Matthew 6, the Lord's prayer, Jesus taught us to pray. He said, give us this day our daily bread. That Greek word there for daily, the only place in the whole Bible that it appears is here in the Lord's prayer. Some scholars think that Jesus liked made the word up. You know, He used a unique word there because it doesn't even appear anywhere else in the Bible and it doesn't really appear anywhere else in ancient Greek literature except the two gospels where He said this. So it really, it's more than just, give me the actual bread for the day, the literal physical bread for the day, but it's like a spiritual nourishment. And that would make sense, right? Because in the Gospel of John, Jesus said, He made this declaration. There's eight 'I am' statements in the Gospel of John, which Jesus declared about Himself. And one of those statements is, I am the bread of life. What does that mean? That means it's beyond just the natural physical sustenance that I need to live. It is actually the nourishment, from Christ. So now this manna image that is used in the old testament that Paul quotes and that Jesus declares over Himself in the Gospel of John is really fully realized that that manna pointed to Christ, that that daily bread pointed to Christ, that God's ultimate provision is found in Christ Himself. Give us this day, our daily bread, not just what I need to pay my electric bill, not just what I need to pay my electric bill, not just what I need to eat to fill my body, but what I need in nourishment from you, God, to be sustained in my life. See, the Lord's prayer teaches us not merely to ask God for provision, but to live in a continual awareness that number one, everything comes from Him. Number two, everything is sustained by Him. And number two, tomorrow's provision is still in His hands. Paul wrote back to the Philippians in Macedonia about their generosity. We're gonna go through Philippians later in the year, Lord will, and after writing this second letter to the Corinthians. So he probably wrote from Philippi to these guys in Corinth and then he writes back to the Philippians after this letter and here's what he says to them in Philippians 4. He says, Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out for Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only. For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent more aid than once when I was in need. You sent aid more than once when I was in need. Not that I desire your gifts. What I desire is that more be credited to your account. I have received full payment. I have more than enough. I'm amply supplied. Now I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are fragrant offering and acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God and my God will meet all your needs according to His will. Riches of glory in Christ Jesus. See, generosity flows, church, from a confidence in God's provision. What does that mean? That means I'm confident that God's going to supply for my needs. See, fear says, what if I don't have enough? Faith says, God is my source. Why? Because we're stewards, not owners. A generous believer understands that we're stewards and not owners. A steward in ancient, Bible times, worked under the Lord of the land, so to speak, right? He didn't own anything, but cared for and stewarded what the owner had placed in his charge. So resources are for kingdom purposes. They're not just to blow on myself. It's not for just a bigger house or a nicer car or whatever the case may be, even though there's, again, nothing wrong with a nice house and a nice car. But how am I managing what God has entrusted to my care? Where blessing is meant to flow through us, not stop with us. In fact, I would say to you, some of the people that I would know that are the most prosperous financially are fantastic conduits. They give and God gives back to them. They give and God gives. Why? Because He knows He can trust them to not be the terminus, if you will, of the flow, right? That it's constantly flowing through them. When we think about, about greedy people, again, back to that piece, I gotta be honest with you. I've seen some of the most greedy people I've ever met have been the brokest. Just because you're broke doesn't mean you're not greedy. And just because you have a lot doesn't mean that you're greedy. I've met broke people that aren't greedy and I've met rich people that are very greedy and vice versa, right? It has nothing to do with the amounts. Again, it's about the heart. See, people who believe that the Father will give daily bread tomorrow can freely, freely open their hands today. Why? Because I trust the Lord to provide for me. That's why it's a real, it's a heart issue. The world says you better hold on to all you have. The gospel says give generously. See, the gospel loosens our grip on earthly things because my security is no longer in possessions, but in Christ. I remember reading that, as I finish here, I remember reading in Matthew 6, that very famous verse that many of you know, Matthew 6, 33, seek first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these, these other things will be added unto you. And I remember reading that verse for years, almost subconsciously thinking those other things added unto you were like, you know, a car or, you know, different frivolous things. But have you ever, have you paid attention to what those other things that are gonna be added to you are? Food and shelter, essentials for survival. And He says, and what does He say about it? He says, your father knows that you need them. So God is going to take care of you. Can I say to you right here, maybe you're in the building today, you're watching online, and maybe you're walking through a real financial challenge. I've been there with you. I've been broke as a joke, right? Maybe you're walking through a financial challenge. I wanna say to you, God will take care of you. He will take care of you. He's your father. He knows you need it. May not happen tomorrow, may take sacrifice. He will take care of you. I want you to hear that. I'm reminded in that verse nine there of, Philippians says, though He was rich, yet for your sake, He became poor so that through His poverty might become rich. So the ultimate purpose, church, of generosity is really to reflect Christ. It's bigger than finance. It's bigger than money. It really reveals our heart. What's the position of my heart? It strengthens the body. It demonstrates trust in God and it reflects the gospel and glories Christ. Jonathan, why do you say that? Because God cares more about our heart than He does our wallet. But I gotta tell you, there's a real line between our heart and our wallet and it's a direct line and it's worth every believer in the house today to reflect on that and say, Lord, does my wallet reflect my heart and does my heart reflect my wallet? Is my heart positioned in generosity? See, here's the beautiful thing about God. He goes before us with provision that we're totally unaware of. Even before we're aware of, let me finish with this story of my own life. I remember years ago, 20 plus years ago, I'm sitting in early morning prayer and there was a guy in the congregation I was a part of that was a wealthy businessman. And as I'm praying, I feel like the Holy Spirit says to me, Jonathan, I want you to give him $20. And at first I rebuke the devil. I was like, God, that can't, $20. This guy's got a whole bunch of money, $20. So I'm like arguing with the Lord. I don't even think it was out of an unwilling, at first it wasn't even an unwillingness. At first it was like, is that really you, Lord? Is that just Jonathan? So as I continue to pray over, it's like, you know, you've been in a situation where it just becomes obvious. Okay, this is not me. This is God. Now, part of that for me initially was like, Lord, this guy's got millions of dollars. Why would I give him $20? I mean, that's like, so I just deduce, okay, it couldn't be the devil. You know, sometimes we argue with God. It's like, why would the devil tell me to do that? You know? So I go back and forth and finally say, okay, I need to get this. Give him $20. Well, I'll be honest with you. Now I'm battling a little bit of embarrassment. Now I'm like, I'm 28 years old or something. And I'm like, I'm going to walk up to this guy. He's got millions of dollars. I'm going to give him 20 bucks. I'm like, God told me to give it to you. I'm 20, you know, here's 20 bucks. So I give him the $20. I walk off really quickly. I get back in my car. There's two, I remember some of the prayers that I've prayed, but there's like two prayers that I prayed in my life that I really remember vividly. And I think it's because I use the word idiot in both of them. The first one was when I was in Cozumel and I got a jeep sunk on the beach with my six-month pregnant wife with the tide coming in. That's a whole story right there. And I literally walked up the street and literally my prayer was this, Lord, I know I'm an idiot. I know I'm an idiot, but if you will help me in this moment, I don't remember what I promised. I just remember. I remember calling myself an idiot and it wasn't three minutes until they call them green angels. They ride around Cozumel island for idiots like me that get things stuck and they pull the jeep out. I just, I'm thinking I'm gonna miss the cruise ship. I'm gonna have to pay for this jeep. My wife, to her credit, had told me to not do it and I did it anyway. And she did not even say, I told you so. So, I mean like, it's the most self restraint she's ever showed in her whole life. And she was six months pregnant. I mean, it was like, yes. Okay, so that was the first prayer. This prayer, I get in my car and I said, Lord, man, I feel like an idiot. I just feel dumb. I mean, you know, you can be honest with God. I really feel dumb, but I feel like I was supposed to do that. I wanna be obedient to you. So, all right, I just did my best to be obedient. Literally, I drove away. I did not give it another thought. Five years later, okay, fast forward five years, this particular guy that I gave the money to had walked through some hard times in life. He had lost his business. He'd been divorced. I mean, he had walked through some, hard times and he was coming back. He's involved in another business. He was coming back. And this is about the time that Alicia and I are going to Panama for missions. And we weren't like, you know, we weren't like hardcore raising money, but you know, people are where we were going. And this guy's sitting in his office and God speaks to him. He reminds him of the $20 that Jonathan gave him five years ago. And he said, I want you to give Jonathan and Alicia $1,000 to go to Panama. And I want you to give him his $20. So he calls our mutual friend and our mutual friend calls me and says, hey, Mike wants to meet with you. He's got something for you. I said, okay, great. I didn't think much of it. Go meet our mutual friend. Get it. He gives me an envelope with $1,020 in it. God knows about the provision you need long before you're even aware of it. What does He want from us? Obedience. It's not about 20 bucks. It's obedience to God. Obedience to God. God, Ecclesiastes 11 says, Cast your bread on the water for you will find it after many days. There's a little bit of a debate among scholars as to exactly what that is. Some people think it's like a maritime idiom of just like basically the idea that, you know, in the ancient world as they're sending ships full of cargo across the ocean, it's a dangerous endeavor. And, you know, as you send them out on the water that, you know, there's no, GPS tracking devices and all of that sort of stuff as there is today. So it was a real risk. But if you, as you send that, trust God, basically, that He would bring it back. After many days, the ship will return from profit. Some people think it's an agricultural idea that basically the waters would come up and you would throw seeds. They would overflow their banks. You would throw seeds on the water. And as the water receded back into its banks, the seed would be spread down. And the current would take the seed down. And so as you, you know, were walking, you would cast your seed here. And then, you know, in the future, basically, you're walking and the grain would be there and it would develop into something. But no matter what metaphor that Solomon intended by it, here's what he's really saying. The theological application of it is the same. Living by faith requires a willingness to release control. It requires a willingness to let go out of what's in our hand so that God can really release to us what's in His hand, so to speak. Again, what is this? It's not the amounts. It's a position of the heart. It's a real position of our heart. See, worldly logic would say, you don't know the future, so hoard everything you have for self-preservation. But here's what the Bible says. You don't know the future, so scatter your bread as widely as possible because you never know what's going to come back to you. Here's my question for us today, church, as we pray. What would happen if the church really embraced kingdom generosity? If we really, because stats say, and this is not true of Destiny Life, it's higher, but it's not true of Destiny Life. Stats say believers, Bible believing believers that are faithful even to tithe, forget giving generosity to other people, to just tithe is fractional, church. I mean, fractional, fractional. It's terrible, to be honest with you. What would happen if the church, if we just lived out of generous spirits, if there was just a real heart of generosity toward God and toward His people? I wonder what would happen. I wonder what would happen in our own life. Can I say that? I said to you, Glenn has made this challenge over the years, so I don't mind making this either. Maybe you're here this morning and say, Jonathan, I'm a believer, but I'm not a tither. I'm not a tither. God says to test Him in it in Malachi, test Me in it. And if you're not a tither and so you're well aware, this has nothing to do with DLC. Go give to another congregation in town. Be diligent to give tithe. That word tithe means ten percent. Ten percent. Go tithe to another congregation in town and see what happens to your finances. Now, we got to be diligent and good stewards. So the other ninety, but I got to tell you, it doesn't make sense. I don't know how ninety goes further than hundred, but it does. It does. My daughter are in young adulthood and I'm on them a lot. Girls, I want you to make sure that you're paying. I don't care how much it is. I don't care if it's a dollar, $100, $1,000. I don't care how much it is. I want you to learn that. I want you to learn the faithfulness of tithing because if you're not walking in that, man, that's, there's a curse. You can't, your finances are, I know that's heavy. I know that's frank. But go, test God in it. Test God in it, right? What is it? It's a generous heart. It's a generous, be generous toward one another. As you hear about needs in the body, man, be generous toward one another, right? Can I challenge us with that? Why don't you stand with me, would you? I'm going to pray over us today. What would happen if the church truly embraced kingdom generosity? I'm not even talking about the church corporately. I'm talking about us as individuals. I want us to examine our own heart. So I was meditating on this message and Elisha and I, even we had nothing. You know, we've done our very best. And by and large done this, been faithful tithers for our whole marriage. I can tell you story after story of God's provision in so many different ways. Again, it's not the amounts. It's a heart before God. But yet again, I just came up with a list of Lord. I want to make sure that the posture of my heart is generosity. I just turned the searchlight on. There's areas I'm not being generous. Would you show me? I want to live out of generosity. I want to live out of a giving heart. Well, what happened in our life? And now let me pray over us. Father, would you help us today? Or would you show us? Thank you for a house that's so faithful. We have so many people that really walk in generosity, that really care for one another. But Lord, would you continue to reveal it to us. Would you help us. Even as Paul gave the admonition to, to the Corinth church, Corinthian church there, that you started out eager. I want you to follow through with it. Would you help us? And Lord, there may be some here, they're in need of a job, a better job provision. I pray that you would guide and direct their steps. Lord, I pray for you. I pray for financial miracles. Even some may need a financial miracle. I pray for financial miracles for them. And thank you for health, faithful, biblical stewardship. Thank you for your kingdom. And thank you for the reflection of believers living in the opposite spirit with generous hearts, generous spirits, and generous minds toward you. We honor you in Jesus' mighty name. Believe that, say a good amen. You can be seated. Sterling is going to come. And lead us in a few other things of worship today. So good. Thank you, Jonathan. It feels challenged today. Such a great, really rich word. It's like the easiest message ever to transition to worshipping with our giving. Jonathan made it really easy for me today. So in that spirit, we'll just continue on. There's three different ways to give this morning. And you'll see that right up here on the screen. And as you're giving, you guys can be aware. We've got these black books. The ushers are. They're passing out on the end of each row here. And these are just a way for us to take some attendance and make sure you guys are up to date if you want to be with everything that's going on here. And if you'd like to receive our weekly email that gives you a snapshot of everything that's going on, you can actually check that box on the attendance sheet there. And hopefully, that'll help you stay connected. And we've got a few more reminders as we close today. But before we get to that, why don't you guys check out the video announcements and see what's happening this week. Hey, DLC fam. My name is Tricia. And we are so glad that you're here with us today. Let's check out these announcements. ATP Summer Conference begins next Sunday. While our evening sessions are free and open to all, our deadline to register for the day's sessions is June 1st. For all info on the conference and to register, visit apostolicteens.com. Parents, don't forget that our summer is for family, parenting seminars start Wednesday, June 17th. If you want to be poured into both spiritually and practically in the area of parenting, this is the avenue for you. Sign up at dlc-signup.com or visit dlc.tv /summer. Hey, our ATP Kids Experience is on June 8th through the 10th on the Owasso Campus. Any child aged five years who completed fifth grade can attend and bring a friend or neighbor with you. Thank you. And scan the QR code on your seat flyer to sign up. You can pay online or at the door. Hope to see you there. Don't forget, special guest Marzia Amirazadeh will be with us next Sunday, June 7th on both campuses. She has a powerful testimony of being imprisoned for Christ, and we are honored to have her with us. Invite a friend and we'll see you there. Well, that's all the announcements for this week. If you have a prayer need, please let us know. We would love to be in. We'll pray with you. Have a great week. Alright. Well, just to re-emphasize, like Tricia was saying, any of the things that she mentioned, our ATP conference kicking off next week, all the info about what's happening with the kids, and also the summer is for family seminars that are starting. Your seat flyer has QR codes with all the information about all those things. So we just encourage you, if you're curious, if you want more info, go visit the website. If you hate QR codes and that stresses you out, just go to dlc.tv/Events, and every single thing mentioned will be there. You can also find all of that on our app as well. Alright. Well, why don't we stand one more time? I'll just pray us out, and we'll conclude the day. But, Father, we just thank you, Father, for the Word. We thank you for the reminder, God, for the reminder, God, that you really own everything today, Father, and that you desire to use us as your church, Lord, as conduits, as stewards, Lord God. Just pray that that Word would be sealed in every heart today as we go out, that you'd bless us. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Y’all have a great week.
