Build By Giving Ep #1

this year of course 2022 we are building last year if you recall we we talked about foundation fundamental things that the church that as individuals and families that we establish our lives on continuing in that same vein now this year we are talking about building okay this could be applied to building yourself building your family your home building the church building ministry anything building your finances building your bank account building up your prep food for the apocalypse i'm joking some of you are like what joke i got 45 000 pounds of mres in the basement but anyway we we are talking about building last month the month of january we talked about dedication anybody remember that that was like a few days ago dedicating ourselves to the lord had some fasting prayer bible reading some daily devotions hopefully you are you developed habit to continue that ball moving forward all right uh the month of february there's something that's very very vitally important with being a part of the family of god being a part of your own personal family being a part of your job being a part of of any club or anything like that okay we're going to talk about that in the month of february we are going to build by giving giving all right we are establishing in our studies on midweek service we are establishing god's capacity to build something within us and in the church the time of dedication hopefully you took time to be put some blocks in place establish some borders and boundaries and decide that building your life with god your life with your family the things of god the things of the church were very very important i believe that as we align ourselves listen carefully with the things that god has for this hour then we can indeed see the outpouring the revival the blessings of god working in our midst amen we all want to be blessed don't we how many of us want to bless look at your neighbor and bless them right now do that i didn't say bless them out come on bless them how do you bless somebody how you bless somebody carly how do you bless somebody oh yeah how do you bless somebody by sitting there give them give them three seconds and bless them you smile yeah you be nice that's a blessing right i bless you tonight huh somebody sneezes what do you say kazoon tight no bless you right when we read in the scriptures and we are obeying god's word we are reminded that god has the power to do all things we understand as we study the word of god that his word definitely is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path his word leads and guides us we just have to simply figure out a way to apply the daily lessons out of the word of god into our daily living we're going to build this month every wednesday night we'll talk in the month of february about giving now i realize that some of you will probably plug your ears you'll probably turn it off because you're afraid that i'm going to get into your wallet i assure you i have no desire whatsoever to get into your wallet unless you stole something of mine that's in your wallet giving is not just attached to money that okay in fact if i may there's not a person in this room a person online that's watching tonight i'm pretty sure that can give enough to somebody to save them you understand you can't you can't give somebody a financial blessing big enough to bless them to where they never have a financial need again if i gave you five dollars would that serve you well sure at least through the starbucks line if you got the small but then it's done and over correct but i might be able to teach you how to make a cup of coffee at home and then you'd be better save your five things that we're talking about here's a couple of questions i want to start off tonight with if i could what are some things that you as individuals what are some things that you give shout it out what do you give time how so you you expense the time because it does cost it's time cheap sometimes you got to step across the aisle go out of your way good one time somebody else energy how do you how do you give energy to someone change a tire oh sorry this is this is southern you change a tar what we meant to say right yeah and then what is that doing for them being yeah it's hepping them that's the other southern term very good what else what are some things you give yes so what do you give good yeah or cookie and kool-aid y'all still drink kool-aid probably not okay so is it worth it so you have to decide if you're giving time energy a sunday school lesson a cookie or whatever what else you got to decide the value of what else is something that you give how we're probably going to need to not go and i'm joking you give of yourself in what way every way because i'm a mama and i know yeah okay do what by loving people by loving your children like the bible says oh that's right see there sis go see sister ethel the teenager yeah you're giving her what time something to talk about right with everybody else thank you what else what are some other ways you give or some things you give you give what advice good how much does that cost no it costs a lot because typically you got the advice by the experience you know anybody here ever buy that car you shouldn't have bought and then somebody says i'm going to buy this car you go wait a minute or well you know what i heard this restaurant's good i'm gonna go come on hurry we can't lose a meal you know what i'm talking about very good someone else what else is something you give help me out what kind what name something christmas birthday just pick wait dakota do you get just because gifts why you're not answering are you code to help me out here he has no idea what you're talking about he's like whoa we want to talk about this a little bit wait wait i get it i always miss this with that couple right there you gave him you and that should be look at the code he's all he said look how do you give of yourself time energy are you with me what else what's something else one more somebody else give what do you give a what ability and availability is that right what is ability talent how do you give that by cleaning the toilets so for the next five minutes we're gonna demonstrate if y'all gently get up and follow sister sarah clean okay aside from clean and tall it's vacuuming floor whatever all right very good here's my point here's my point i realize what you guys are doing is you're trying to steer clear of the money thing right and i thank you for that for right now we'll get to that in a moment but you're realizing that even if it's stuff that you do all the time for an example when you give of yourself to your children you don't think twice of that when someone has a flat tire and you want to help them you don't think about that really when somebody wants to get i'm not sure dakota how to you may want to ask why but anyway here's the point let me ask it this way attached to that question a moment ago what are some things you give how do you decide what to give how much how little how do you decide the giving because you're supposed to give sacrificially do you have to weigh out the sacrifice how much is the sacrifice worth because the sacrifice when we get to that side of giving thank you for saying it there's a whole lot to consider an example a prayer chain just an example three to four o'clock in the morning we have a time slot i know right now that for 98.5 of us that would be an incredible sacrifice to come to the church and pray at three to four a.m for a prayer chain anybody disagree with that now we used to do those 24-hour prayer changes michelle and i first came uh we would have them once a month and uh there was about 20 of us in the church so if you take 24 hours and you got to fill it up with 20 people invariably what happens somebody's got two and then if the one before you canceled you couldn't break it because that was the law you could actually be a chur i'd come to church for my early morning prayer because typically those men would take those spots and uh brother austin would be here in the church in his jammies in house shoes and i'd walk in and he's praying and walking and i'd go i don't know i've ever gone to war in my jammies well brother sloane i've just got to be ready when i get home gotcha gotcha makes perfect sense now all right so to decide what to give how much of it to give sometimes you don't consider it and then many times you have to think about it you have to you have to kind of weigh out some options not that you don't want to be a giver of your time or your energy or your advice or whatever it's just you've got to make the decision of how attached to that let me ask this how do you determine to whom to give how is that determined in your mind to whom gets the gift or whatever you're giving again sarah if i may she she holds her two would you give to those two the same that you give to those two you give to those two sacrificially would you give to those two the same as you give to those two i'll see well the point is this why does it depend no i know but but it does i mean really why does it depend and well yeah there's a lot of things to consider if i may y'all hang on to me i've got time here you've got youngins if if if someone else in the church has sick youngins would you volunteer sacrificially to go take care of the sick youngins when you've got young's at home that could very easily get sick you would lie about it right oh i couldn't make it no i understand but you understand come on sometimes it is very easy for us to say the world needs jesus go give them jesus and then an opportunity come up to give somebody jesus and then we weigh it out i don't want any show of hands you don't have to turn left or right you don't have to elbow nobody around you but i'm sure that some of you have been you know what no they don't want jesus i can tell by the way they're dressed oh you see pants on the ground we could in ourselves past judgment y'all laugh because you know it's true as the lord ever prompted you or something inside of you prompt you to give somebody jesus and you turn and with all willingness decide you know what i'm going to do it until you came face to face with it and then you had to decide what happened what if they asked me a hard question or or worse what if they don't want jesus but they want twenty dollars so how do you decide with whom you give for me i only give to those people i like that are like me that are the same faith as me that understand me that's all that i give to my family already knows they ain't getting nothing now they got their own y'all think pastor's joking don't you every one of you the same the authors didn't say it now i was joking but we say it listen carefully we have to decide one of the greatest challenges as a christian is to decide if we're going to or not going to give to someone to whom we're going to give i i can almost promise you if you thought for a moment that you would get something in return it would probably change the way you considered that person wouldn't it one more question is there a level or a limit to the giving again we we talked several several ways to give our time talent treasure uh our advice or whatever ability change tire whatever is there a limit or a level in that giving anyone or is the sky the limit they can do whatever you'll take you'll do it forever you know sister sarah mentioned cleaning the commodes at church or at home all of the above so why is it then that cleaning the commodes at church or at home are the greatest challenge how many enjoy cleaning commode at home go ahead raise your hand sorry maybe you didn't understand the question how many of you okay okay how many of you clean your commodes at home um all right we're probably gonna have to have a class on cleaning um you know it's necessary right because you're the one using it there will come a point to where it becomes so utterly gross that you'll decide you know what it's now or never and i have a cold so i don't smell a lot so here we go you know it's always funny to me that when people clean they turn music on in the background and i'm sure that helps he got it going right in the background you're like now i know what most y'all do is anybody here as thrilled as i am that fabuloso comes in a gallon come on you can just walk away it's a clean because it smells good hang on to me hold on to me you have to decide then at what level or what limit you will give you've got to set that now we are beginning for four lessons on building by giving let's look at the bible that's a good idea luke chapter 6. if you've got your bible let's go there luke chapter 6 verse 38. y'all aren't going to your bible oh well we better be glad huh ready give and it shall be given unto you good measure press down shaken together running over shall men give into your bosom for with the same measure that ye meet with all shall be measured to you again okay all right now some of y'all are catching on that you need to go to your bible that way at home you can get this out or you could call the church i'll call the church and see what where's that verse um what's it say the first word is give shall be given it's interest interesting that this almost sounds like there's a prerequisite in order to be given first thing you gotta do is what give now hold on a minute if we've already decided there's a lot of ways to give but yeah we've already also decided there's a limited level to it we've also decided that there's some things that were easier to give depending on the person or the situation or who it is or who's not the bible still stands to be true anybody here have a king james version what color is that it's what red indicates what that for emphasis and understanding these would have been words that jesus would have spoken so here's the question here's here's here's the question does anybody here believe acts 2 38 anybody believe acts 2 38 anybody who who said acts 2 38 who peter we believe it don't we but when jesus says it depends on if it fits or not how am i giving in order to be given to you first of all you've got to do what you've got to learn to give but it says that if you'll give it will be given to you and then it gives this description good measure press down shake it together running over man those are four things that every single one of them wouldn't be great if you could justify and qualify giving away five minutes of your time and somehow you just gained five hours or giving away five dollars of your money and you received fifty dollars back it would look good if you knew that that was going to be the case but here stay with me mom y'all know i love you a lot of times because we're humans christian humans we have to qualify and justify it by saying lord i give you my time today because i have it to give tomorrow i am not certain but while i've got a moment here i'm going to give it to you and all the while we wonder why doesn't god give us something back it's because basically what we have done in the good southern vernacular is we have squeezed him in instead of giving to him first fruit we are giving to him a fruit and there's a great difference understand anybody like meatloaf oh come on hang on to me meatloaf what's your favorite part of the meatloaf all of it no there's a favorite part that i have of the meatloaf i want the ends oh the ends of it yeah i want that because it's all burnt it's got all the fl come on that's me my wife i'll go now i'll make my cut out she'll say you want oh it's ugly now i know i got the ends and they're on my plate you're going to get that because what do you do with the leftovers that's in the middle oh come on the next day sandwich church here's the point jesus talking luke wrote the words the doctor wrote the words give it shall be given four different ways good measure press down shaken together running over the problem here again if i may y'all stay with me a moment is we are expecting for god to give it back to us but it's not what the bible says because we know god owns a cattle on a thousand hills god has unlimited resources but scripture is very very precise shall men give unto your bosom so probably like most of us we all kind of looking for demand we just need that man that one how do you get that man you give and then let god take care of the rest because it even said can i continue here it's in red letters in your bible for with the same measure that he meet with all shall be measured to you again wait a minute that means for us accountants that are not accountants if i give five i get five the same the same so is that is that right and what it says the same the same so what we're looking for is we're looking for god to help us pay the phone bill that's 312 dollars and so we slipped three dollars and 12 cents in the plate now i realize verbatim what jesus was saying here is he's using an understanding to get folk to realize that giving has to be more than something that you get in return it has to be the giving part first that's a four-letter word that's got a comma after it because everything bases itself on the give how many know that you cannot out give god have you tried try write the four million dollar check out of your banking account go ahead ethan we'll wait we don't want your credit card because it's probably got a limit huh we realize that god returns to us much more than what we give to him do you understand that the the quantity of it then is not the point the point is is that you understand the principle god i want you to bless therefore i give some of us wondering here why we're still struggling with issues and our families in our finances in our health maybe it's because you don't understand yet if you'll give god will give it to you again i'm not talking your dollars if if you need a if you need a better job then go to your job and do all you can do on your job and watch how god will bless your job i've told y'all before when i go out and do an install or something or a job i i don't mind at all telling i am not doing this job for you well i'm the customer you may be the customer that means you get the end result but i do all i do as unto him because he's the one at the end of the day that i have to give an account to huh that's why you and i are frustrated in our current culture when you go to a store to try to buy something and you got the employee sitting there on his phone or she's leaned up against the take out window and not even paying attention to you today lord don't get me started my lovely wife is so kind to bring me food on wednesday nights she stops on her way from work to bring it in and invariably almost always 99 and a half percent of the time she'll bring food into my office and we'll sit and eat for just a moment and there ain't no fork tonight am i right zaxby salad i hate to eat a salad with no fork huh you gotta squirt the ranch in your mouth because i mean long time ago my parents told me not to eat with my fam and that's rude tell his culture that come on you put this you put that and put what napkin and a fork you know what makes me madder no straw oh see i'm oh y'all oh that makes me mad because now i got to take off the lid and then that ice in there gets hauled down my oh lord jesus and now i got to go into the sanctuary lord i got to go early help me lord the the coke zero has made me mad y'all hey y'all with me if we could honestly understand the reason we're receiving that is because our culture has generated that if i can get by with this well i waited on you you know i've often i don't know i'm gonna get sick i better quit i've often wondered okay i tell you what i'll give you my money if i'm happy i'm gonna sit here in the drive-thru and i'm gonna open it up and see my wife got home one time for zaxby salads and guess what guess what was not on the salad chicken well my honey i told her i said baby that's the first time they ever made this alley they never made them before brand new on the menu she's like oh they make it all the time exactly i didn't forget chicken how do you forget chicken on a salad so she marches herself back down there whoo anyway second corinthians i'm gonna the bible's gonna save us second corinthians chapter nine watch this this is paul writing to the church at corinth verse number six again we're in the word all right i have yet to touch your wallet have yet to touch your bank account second corinthians 9 and 6 but this i say he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for god say it loveth the cheerful giver now this is paul writing to the church it's interesting that it came out the latter part of his second letter to that church at corinth what he was telling them was simply this it doesn't matter what it is if you are sowing it sparingly you can only expect one type of harvest and that is what sparingly if you're sowing bountifully you can only expect one type of harvest and that is a bountiful harvest you know what he says the problem is here is that many times again we don't understand value of what we are sowing what we are giving what we are investing question how many of us parents in here think that it's a wonderful thing for our children to suffer to hurt and to have pain and sorrow for the rest of their life anyone anybody want that come on you want your kids to have pain sorrow suffering hurting how many want that none of us do right because in our right mind we don't want our children to suffer do we anybody here ever heard of hell i mean you believe in heaven but do you realize as real as heaven is that hell is described as well and that is a place of what torment pain suffering falling no stopping fire brimstone hurt weep gnash cry or all these words are biblical words used for that bottomless pit used for that place called hell if as parents we are not investing in our children to make heaven their home guess what we are doing to them we are guaranteeing a place in hell talking about giving so mom and dad when you are hard on your children you're going to church and you're going to sit still and you're going to learn something you know what you're doing you are giving them the opportunity not to go to hell now i know what i know what's in your mind yeah pastor but then they get to the age of accountability to where they have to decide you're right raise up a child the way should go when he's old what happens there won't be a separation there it will be a part of who they are does that mean pastor that everybody who's ever been to sunday school is going to go to heaven i don't know i know what the word says and i know the misconception is if we truly believed in a place called heaven then we would truly believe in a place called hell and it would rise us up in anger and in utter madness to think that your children are going to go there because you haven't invested and given to them now hang on to me i love you as parents we'll do everything we can to make our kids comfortable play on that team play that sport have that playstation have this vacation have this and that but when it comes to an altar time we won't ask them to tell them to get in the altar may not ought to be that ought to be the first thing in your mind snatching them up by the back of their neck you ain't got a choice come on well they'll be resentful good be resentful but you ain't going to hell you stand a better chance on the carpet if you will in an altar of having an encounter with god you realize that i was a young man when god began to deal with my heart i i didn't understand it all didn't comprehend it i realized i'm fourth generation pentecost it's a it's a huge blessing for me some of you are first generation listen carefully there has to come a time when you realize the investment is worth the giving so can i on a sunday when teacher pastor whoever when i'm standing here i say come on you ought to run to this altar mom and dad it does not need to be a question it needs to be the first thing on your mind we're going to the altar get on your knees you're going to pray man you can't make them pray tell me you can't ask my kid i'll tell you i talk about all the time and i'd whip him yes long did you ever get a whoopin look at her what happened after the whipping she had to pray you better know it and if i didn't hear it she was going to sit there now you ask jesus to forgive you i don't want jesus to know that he already knows but dad daddy went outside had to talk with him while i stood there jesus jesus jesus that's me no it's not uh i could hug her then and love her and not come back up in any conversation and i'd say i'm so thankful that you understand talking to jesus is the most important thing in this act of discipline hang on to me talking about giving you so sparingly reap sparingly you sh so bountifully you'll reap bountifully god is going to meet you with what you're investing does not talk about dollars and cents it talks about sowing and reaping one more acts chapter 20. i'm looking at the clock acts chapter 20 verse 35 acts 20 and 35 i have showed you all things how that's so laboring he ought to support the weak to remember the words of the lord jesus how he said what did he say it is more blessed to give than to receive wait a minute let's read that last part again it is more blessed to give than to receive does that make any sense whatsoever as humans we understand the power of receiving don't we we get it i mean everybody in here would want that thousand dollars you'd want to receive it wouldn't you if it were offered huh and what would you say if somebody here here's a thousand dollars i want to give to you what would you say huh you'd be i know you know what i don't need that no no you know no i don't you just go ahead and keep it give it to somebody else we'd say that if we wanted a testimony later wouldn't we yeah somebody's trying to give me a thousand but i was so connected to the lord i gave it away i'm so spiritual hang on to me hang on to me again the point is not the money i i know what it's like to have to have folk that haven't have a need and and i try to step in and help with money only to find out that the week the next week guess what they needed more money and then help them again in the next week guess what they needed that's not always the case but we understand that that is a great possibility therefore many times we back away we're shy if it's true here what is written in the book of acts and 20 it is more blessed to give than to receive then there has to be an exchange if you will of understanding of the power of receiving and giving you see if you give somebody something doesn't matter what it is money time talent treasure doesn't matter if you give them something then within yourself you can decide how that listen to me how it bettered and changed your life if you are the receiving end of that they now have to decide how much it has bettered or helped them in their life i stated again if i have a 20 bill or if i have 20 minutes or if i have 20 shirts to give whatever it is i have to decide if i give this to someone they will receive it reality the joy of receiving it the contentment of getting it from somebody is going to last about that long but if i truly have the mind of christ and i truly have the heart of god then when i give i can understand lord you blessed me so that i could bless them now that's a reciprocating thing i i've explained many times to the church here that uh we were deputizing out in the texas area a pastor i asked him how is it that you baptized over 100 this year how is it that over 100 have received the gift of the holy ghost and he was very very forthright we were missionaries traveling through the state and we had a service with them it was a great service man they're just blowing up stretching i mean it's just an incredible church and he said i'll tell you how it's with this hand staying open and this hand's staying open i said excuse me he said god showed me the ability to hold both hands you give it i give it you give it i give it you give it i give it the problem is as humans when we have a need we close this hand or this hand god will give it to us and we'll hold it and then we'll kind of trickle it out a little bit and god said i'm not going to bless you not going to do it you need to be the conduit in and out in and out i looked at him he said listen to me carefully i learned a lesson that day he said if we could understand at church level individual level family level if we could ever grasp the understanding of calvary that was exactly what that was father forgive them they don't know what they're doing father do not hold this to their account this has to happen so that i can save all the investment jesus gave hanging on a cross was for the power to save all of humanity many times we have to qualify and justify it i can't i can't give an extra hour at church this week i can't go help with a work day man my schedule's busy i got several things to do i mean pastor will understand that department leader will understand and all the while god's saying the point is not that you gave the point is is that i want to give back to you brother john would you come here's the issue that a lot of us face we're talking giving okay we'll be talking about this all month many times what we face is we'll we'll give to where we're comfortable time talent treasure capabilities whatever we'll give as long as it's comfortable because we can control that but if we truly understand what jesus was saying do you think for one moment that jesus would have died on the cross if he knew that people would come to know him and then backslide you think for one moment that he would have died on the cross if he knew you know what some people are not going to accept what i'm giving them you think for one moment jesus would have been happy to give up all of his life hang on a tree only to watch people laugh at him mock him and walk away i've come to tell you he would because he understood it was more blessed to give than to receive so beginning this month of february sparingly bountifully depend much or little depends on you and we want to receive right we we we like to get things from god you know you don't think it's true then i challenge you the next time you're praying listen to what you say lord i need you to give me this lord if you'll just give me this lord i'm really you know i need this if you'll just give me that ignored i pray you'd give them this and give that other one that don't we do you think that he already knows your petition before you ask and so how should we ask that's a perplexing question i i can give you a little bit of insight when you pray pray like this our father which are in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will you're with me when he says give us this day our daily bread attach comma but what what'd he say forgive what what'd he say give us our daily bread and forgive us you understand the power of the giving was attached to forgiveness because if you can't give forgiveness daily bread is going to be questionable maybe hang on to me for just a moment longer church we want to receive from god but i want to change a little bit of our mentality if you'll allow me to in this month of february we spent january dedicating ourselves february i want us to challenge our minds lord help me to be a giver lord help me to be a giver to give of my talent to you to give my finances to give my family to give help me god to be a giver let me understand the principles of giving there are some people that i know personally in my life that i am personally connected to that i am convinced they have learned the gift of giving they've learned it they give no thought for opening their hand their home their whatever to share with someone to give was to someone no thought and i talk to that person or that family or that individual and i say man you know what god's been good to you and they said well yeah why is that i don't know and then you begin to look at it you're like well they they give they give and they give and now they don't have a house payment their health is good their finances are stable all these things that you look at with them and you're saying wow they just made right financial choices that they made they made investments that were right listen friend god knows you ain't smart enough to make the right financial bless or investment he knows that but if you'll give to him guess what he'll do he'll make sure that the investment's right i've invested a lot of really dumb things but god honored it because my heart was right i'm gonna challenge us this month to spiritually and scripturally find the power of giving and see you know the prayer we pray on sundays the giving affirmation some of us it's just simply become wrote it's just simply become how we pray it's just here there every god in better jobs and and raises and all we just but i want to challenge you this month to not pray that prayer but to first believe that prayer because everything in that prayer is in your word if you'll spend some time getting in the word to figure out what it is to give what it is to give then god will begin to illuminate those things some of you sitting here right now you have given sacrificially you have given above and beyond and you know what god's been good to you god has provided for you there's others sitting here maybe you're online you're struggling you can't make ends meet you can't get it's just always a battle and always a fight and always a fuss and how come i can tell you why because the lord loves a cheerful giver he wants to see you blessed but if he were to bless you without you giving then he would simply become santa claus and every day to you would be chris stand with me i love you guys and i believe that the future of cornerstone is going to be based on our ability to truly comprehend giving that's why this is one of our monthly building blocks this is what we are building giving more than just again the numbers the details but lord in every aspect of my life i want to be a giver i want to invite all of you on this wednesday night to this altar would you come come on you're going to pray just in just a while asking the lord lord help me to be sensitive to giving lord let me comprehend that god i pray you would speak into my life the power lord and the possibilities of giving come on come on this altar is open now lift your hands to him and pray lift your voice to him and pray lord i know that you're a provider you're a waymaker you're a healer you're a protector you open doors you do great things you're our banner you are established god in all things lord you're the voice you're the word you're the power you're the wonderful the counselor the mighty god all of those things that's you but god right now i'm asking you to reveal to every heart that's here lord every heart that's here god revealed to us the power of giving lord when we give whatever it is we're giving if we do it understanding it is the law of the harvest reaping what has been sown help us god to understand it is worth the investment every prayer that we pray lord it's worth giving that every dollar lord god that we give lord it's worth it every every testimony that we give lord there has value every time lord we we are examples to those around us lord there is value there in a glass of water handing it to someone lord with a proper heart there is value there i believe you lord you're going to help us in our culture very selfish very self-centered culture god you're going to help us lord as the church to break that cycle to get a hold of you lord in this hour and to realize revival in chattanooga depends on us giving depends on the church giving i love you lord come on church would you lift your voice to him come on make it praise right now lord i love you i love you i love you and i praise your name come on let him know i bless you lord i honor you and i thank you to god be the glory to god be the glory you are wonderful in wisdom in whom all things are made you are the fullness of the godhead model of your lord savior and redeemer we love you lord go go with us the rest of their sweet god keep your hand on us i pray let your word be a lamp to our feet and light our pathway that we may see it leads us to you i pray for every family here lord i pray god that your glory lord would rest upon the church let us be the church of the hour lord help us god give us the wisdom knowledge and understanding lord we pray for it we ask you for it lord as we move forward help us god to follow after you to be disciples of christ in jesus name we'll come back this weekend loving you blessing and praising you and lifting you up you are god alone and we love you in jesus wonderful name we pray somebody say amen