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An Opportunity for Significance | Pastors Matt & Sarah Keller

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  1. Well, today we are wrapping up our series that we've been

  2. calling from here to there. And we've been talking about

  3. specifically moving our money in our heart from where we are to

  4. greater significance and peace and really looking on at our

  5. lives and saying in faith, wherever we are, God, we want to

  6. be where you're calling us to wherever, wherever our here is

  7. God, you have a there and we've been taking a lot of ground in

  8. the series. So if you've missed anything, be

  9. sure to go back catch up on YouTube because we've been been

  10. hearing testimonies about how God is moving in individual's

  11. hearts. Yeah, and as you can tell,

  12. Pastor Sarah and I are team teaching today.

  13. And the reason why is because we want to talk about the there

  14. everyone say there there that God has next for us as a church.

  15. Because, you know, you hear us say it often that our purpose

  16. around here is that we exist as a church.

  17. We exist. We exist to lead people to

  18. become fully engaged followers of Jesus.

  19. And can I just tell you, we're committed to that.

  20. We're going to keep doing that across Southwest Florida, across

  21. our nation, around the world, Cape Coral, we're going to keep

  22. doing that in Cape Coral. We're going to keep reaching the

  23. lost and the hurting and the broken ones downtown.

  24. We're going to keep doing that. We're going to keep reaching the

  25. next generation of children and young people.

  26. We're going to change the city from the inside out.

  27. East family. We're going to keep doing that

  28. in Lehigh. We're going to keep doing that.

  29. In the neighborhoods of Gateway and Alva and Buckingham, We're

  30. going to do it. Fort Myers location, we're going

  31. to keep doing that. Gods called us to Southwest

  32. Florida, We're going to do this. So of course, we've been talking

  33. about finances and how we move our finances, as you just said,

  34. Babe, to significance and peace. And so financially, it's the

  35. tithe. When we return the first fruits,

  36. the Bible says the first of our increase to the church, the

  37. storehouse where we're fed. It's the tithe that allows us to

  38. do that here locally. And we like to say that the

  39. tithe keeps the church alive, but we also have what Pastor Rob

  40. talked about last weekend, which is Kingdom builders.

  41. Everybody say Kingdom builders and see, see Kingdom builders

  42. allows us to keep advancing the Kingdom of God through above and

  43. beyond giving and generosity. And our Kingdom builders here at

  44. Next Level Church focuses on 4 strategic initiatives reaching

  45. the lost. And so we have ministry partners

  46. around the world, around the nation that are reaching lost

  47. people. And it is awesome.

  48. We have ministry partners that that are equipping the church.

  49. I think about our relational network that we oversee and run

  50. our that was in town this week that we were just celebrating.

  51. We have over 2. We reached it.

  52. We're over 200 churches now. 202.

  53. Churches, 202 churches, that's amazing.

  54. What a milestone. And we're equipping the church.

  55. We're empowering the next generation.

  56. I think about our student conference every summer that

  57. gets underwritten by our Kingdom builders, giving and generosity.

  58. And we bring healing to the hurting.

  59. And we partner with ministries around the world that are

  60. bringing healing to the hurting, rescuing young girls, young boys

  61. from from from human slavery, sex trafficking around the

  62. world. We have ministry partners that

  63. are doing this. So when we tithe, we keep the

  64. local church alive. And when we give above and

  65. beyond to Kingdom builders, it helps us fuel all of these

  66. things for the Kingdom. And so if you're taking notes

  67. today, the title of this message that God has given us is an

  68. opportunity for significance, that we believe that we are

  69. positioned for an opportunity for significance.

  70. And each one of us have a part to play in that significance and

  71. in that impact that he has called us to to make and to

  72. continue to feel forward. So let's pray.

  73. Father, we thank you, Jesus. What an opportunity you gave us.

  74. We thank you, God, even as we received communion today, we're

  75. just reminded Jesus of the sacrifice you gave to give us

  76. all significance. What an opportunity.

  77. And so, Father, I pray that as we share today, God, that ears

  78. would be open to hear what you, Holy Spirit are saying to the

  79. church. God, we just say today, we're

  80. listening, we're listening, we're leaning in.

  81. God, we want to hear your voice above all.

  82. And everyone who agreed with that prayer said Amen.

  83. Well, it's hard to believe that it was 24 years ago this week

  84. that we had our first Bible study as Next Level church.

  85. And my goodness, when we reflect on all that the Lord has done

  86. over 24 years, we actually kind of want to do that today.

  87. We actually want to we want to talk about our there the next

  88. there that God's called us to, but we also want to kind of go

  89. back and and and take all of us on a little bit of the journey

  90. of next level church. And as all of you know, we have

  91. a vision to reach all of Southwest Florida.

  92. And the way we do that is we use a multi site strategy to

  93. accomplish that around here. We like to say we are one house

  94. with. Come on, stay with me.

  95. We're one house with. Many.

  96. Rooms, yes. And so you hear us say often

  97. right now there's a whole bunch of us worshiping Jesus all

  98. across Southwest Florida. And so we have our four

  99. locations. And so if you're sitting inside

  100. of one of those locations right now, you know right where you

  101. are. OK, so, so that's the outside of

  102. our locations. But let me show you what it

  103. looks like on the inside. Because again, as you know, one

  104. of the methods, one of the tools, the mediums that we use

  105. is video teaching. And we use video.

  106. So teaching as a tool to allow us to reach more people than we

  107. ever could in just one location. So, so I was thinking about it

  108. this week, We have 10 services across our four locations now as

  109. a church, every single Sunday we we have 10 services and at least

  110. every Sunday, at least seven of those services are video, our,

  111. our video teaching. And it's, it's a medium that

  112. allows us to multiply. So here's what that means.

  113. That means that there's a whole, a lot more people that are

  114. watching us on video right now then are watching us in person.

  115. And so we just thank God for the ability for us to be one house

  116. with many rooms. I was thinking about it that we

  117. have families that live in Northwest Cape Coral and if

  118. that's you, you know, you know who you are and, and it's

  119. beautiful out there. Like there's a whole lot of

  120. development going on in Northwest Cape Coral.

  121. It's awesome. But I was thinking this week we

  122. also have families that live in East Lehigh.

  123. So think about it. Those families live like 2

  124. hours, especially this time of year with traffic 2 hours apart.

  125. But they're all a part of the same church, isn't that?

  126. Aren't you thankful that you don't have to drive 2 hours to

  127. be a part of what God's doing at next level church?

  128. That's the power of a multi site strategy.

  129. It's amazing, beautiful, it's amazing, and you know this, this

  130. is incredible to think about. 10 services for locations, all of

  131. that video technology, It did not start this way.

  132. Come on. You just need to know that this

  133. has been a faith journey with miracle stories every single

  134. step of the way. We started Portable on May 11th,

  135. 2000, 1002 or sorry, May 12th. My son was born on May 11th.

  136. So I merged those dates together, May 12th, 2002, and we

  137. had 35 people in the bell tower. Anybody remember what the Bell

  138. Tower used to look like? Yeah, We were in the Bell Tower

  139. movie theater for four years. We had 35 people on that first

  140. Sunday. We had 19 on the second.

  141. How many know from here to there?

  142. That is the wrong direction. That's like, but we didn't give

  143. up. God was just so faithful to us

  144. through those beginning years. And then we moved to South Fort

  145. Myers High School and we were portable in South Fort Myers

  146. High School for another five years.

  147. Miracle Stories started serving our city in those years, and God

  148. just continued to allow the church to grow.

  149. And then it was 15 years ago next month, April of 2011 that

  150. we moved into our first permanent location, what we call

  151. now our Fort Myers. OK, look at that.

  152. That's what it looked like back in the day.

  153. Look. At the little bitty trees.

  154. And so that was 15 years ago. It's hard to believe.

  155. And then three years later in 2014, we bought land and built

  156. our E location launched that March of 2014, which was

  157. incredible, built from the ground up and God has been

  158. moving east of I-75 for over a decade now.

  159. And then in 2016, we launched our Coconut Point movie theater

  160. location. Some of you may know that we had

  161. a movie theater location there and then due to the hurricane

  162. that ripped off the roof there, we called that our Bonita

  163. Springs location because we had to move to another location and

  164. God just moved there. We did end up closing that

  165. location in 2020 right before the pandemic.

  166. And and yet so many of you, your story began by meeting Jesus

  167. through that location. So then in 2018-2019, we had a

  168. church lighthouse fellowship in Cape Coral that was given to US.

  169. And so then the pandemic slowed down construction.

  170. But in 2021, five years ago, come on, Cape Coral, we launched

  171. our Cape Coral location. And yeah, that's awesome.

  172. And next Sunday, Cape Coral family, we're coming to party.

  173. March the 8th next week, we are going to be partying to

  174. celebrate our five years of Cape Coral.

  175. And then a lot of, you know, fall of 2024, we launched our

  176. downtown location. And what God is doing and has

  177. done downtown is simply miraculous.

  178. And so that's a little of a story.

  179. So, so rewind back to 2018-2019. God gave us the opportunity as a

  180. church to purchase 10 more acres of land here at our Fort Myers

  181. location. That gives us a total of 20

  182. acres. Yes.

  183. So there's the present Fort Myers location and then that's

  184. the ten extra acres that God gave us.

  185. And we were able to pay cash for that in 2019.

  186. And so God gave us a vision at that time to build a large

  187. auditorium that gives us the ability to grow at our Fort

  188. Myers location, as well as a facility large enough to

  189. accommodate all of the of the events that we can come together

  190. like student conference or like network events like we just had

  191. this week or beautiful conference.

  192. Like, like we need a facility to do that.

  193. It was also during that time that the Holy Spirit spoke to us

  194. that we weren't supposed to build a large auditorium right

  195. away, but we were actually supposed to launch Cape Coral

  196. and downtown first. Like we had a word from God that

  197. we were supposed to launch Cape Coral and downtown 1st.

  198. And can we tell you like to most church consultants or like

  199. church growth, you know, strategist, that makes no sense.

  200. They literally they would tell us like you need to build a

  201. large auditorium first. But we knew we knew we had heard

  202. from God. So listen, if you're sitting

  203. right now in a Cape Coral or downtown location, look at each

  204. other. Come on, look around the room

  205. for a second. Cape Coral and downtown,

  206. literally thousands of lives have been impacted because of

  207. how the Holy Spirit spoke to us to to not build the building

  208. first, but to to launch Cape Coral in downtown.

  209. Which by the way, church, This is why it matters that as Christ

  210. followers we are praying and we are seeking the voice of God and

  211. we are listening to the Holy Spirit because we have to obey

  212. God in every area of our life and worldly knowledge is not the

  213. same as godly wisdom. Say it.

  214. Let me say that again, worldly knowledge is not the same as

  215. godly wisdom. So often times what makes sense

  216. to us or what somebody, what makes sense to somebody else, or

  217. this is the way it's always done.

  218. If we will pause and say, God, I don't want to just go through

  219. the motions. I don't want to assume that what

  220. they're saying is what I'm supposed to do.

  221. No, God, I want to hear from you.

  222. I need your wisdom. I need it more than godly

  223. wisdom. Like that is, that's what

  224. happens. So we launched downtown in

  225. October of 2024, and then five months later we began the next

  226. steps to expand Fort Myers because God has said Cape Coral.

  227. Then downtown, then you can begin to expand.

  228. So we started to take those steps for the Fort Myers

  229. expansion. And that was when we found out

  230. that FedEx on Metro Parkway, which is right behind the land

  231. that we already owned, who had been there for 14 years, had

  232. just moved out and that building was empty for the first time.

  233. Oh my goodness. So yes, this is that building,

  234. this is the inside, this is what it looks like, and here's what I

  235. want us to understand. Church family.

  236. This is what God had in mind. This is what he was doing when

  237. he told us eight years ago that we were not supposed to build

  238. this first. He had Cape Coral in mind, He

  239. had downtown in mind, but he also knew that this building

  240. would get empty and it was going to be key to the expansion that

  241. God had for us on this property. And this is what happens when

  242. you hear the voice of God. You obey him and you follow Him.

  243. This timing is always perfect. So, so let us explain why this

  244. matters that see, in order for us to develop and build a larger

  245. auditorium here at our Fort Myers location that allows us to

  246. serve honestly, about 2000 people per service will be able

  247. to serve on a weekend. On Sunday, we're going to need

  248. another way off of the property. And so this building gives us 2

  249. lanes in and two lanes out that connect to the land we already

  250. own. There's a little, there's a

  251. rendering of it. You can kind of start to see it.

  252. OK, so Metro Parkway is down there and then our churches up

  253. there, we'll we'll zoom out here in a second, but but this

  254. building gives us that as well as a 31,000 square foot building

  255. that's essential for us to have before we build the larger

  256. auditorium. So if you're new to next level,

  257. if you're a snowbird, this is kind of the first time you're

  258. here in any of this. We want you to know last

  259. November, we told the church at Christmas last November, we went

  260. under contract to purchase this building.

  261. Come on, somebody so awesome. So we're scheduled to close in

  262. just 30 days. Yeah, yes.

  263. So which is exciting. So we've been working with a

  264. church design specialist on what the potential for the entire

  265. property could look like. So check this out.

  266. So this first picture is from Metro Parkway.

  267. So again, this is Metro Parkway. This is the FedEx building.

  268. And just follow those two roads. That would be a new parking lot

  269. that we would build. That would be a new building

  270. that we would build. The blue roof building is our

  271. current building. Let's flip it around and look at

  272. it from Plantation Rd. Now you see, right?

  273. OK, so from Plantation Rd. this will become a new kids and

  274. student building. We will renovate that for just

  275. kids and students. We could build a brand new

  276. auditorium, 600 more parking spaces that then leads to that

  277. Metro Parkway building. Isn't that exciting?

  278. So a couple months ago in January, during 21 days of

  279. prayer and fasting, I woke up 1 morning and I felt the Lord say,

  280. Matt, it's time to take, it's time to take possession of the

  281. land. It's time to take possession of

  282. the land. And I knew that was scripture.

  283. So I got up and I went to my grey chair in my office at the

  284. house and, and, and I started to pray and I looked up Deuteronomy

    Deuteronomy 1 chapter mention

  285. chapter 1, which is where God tells Moses and the children of

  286. Israel after 40 years of wandering the exact same thing.

  287. I want, I want you to see this because I believe this is a word

  288. for our church in this season. Deuteronomy chapter one verse 8

  289. says this God speaking to Moses, See I have set the land before

  290. you go in and take possession. I want to say take possession.

  291. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your

  292. father's. Then look at this part to

  293. Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. Do you see the multiple

  294. generations here to give to them and their offspring after them?

  295. So what's happening here? God is speaking to Moses, saying

  296. Moses, you've been wandering for a long time.

  297. You've been where you are for a long, long time.

  298. It's time to go in and take possession of the land that I

  299. promised your ancestors generations ago.

  300. I promised this land to them and it's a multi generational

  301. covenant promise and church family.

  302. We believe this is a generational project that

  303. positions our church to impact Southwest Florida, our nation

  304. and the world for generations to come.

  305. We believe it. So if you if you back up five

  306. verses to verse three, you see where God gives Moses this word.

  307. I want to show you look at verse 3 says in the 40th year.

  308. So they've been wandering for 40 years.

  309. On the first day of the 11th month, Moses spoke to the people

  310. of Israel, according to look at this part, all that the Lord had

  311. given him in commandment to them.

  312. In other words, what was Moses doing?

  313. Moses was essentially the pastor of the church back then, right?

  314. The children of Israel, God was. God gave Moses a word.

  315. Moses spoke that word to the people and said this is what God

  316. wants. This is the direction we need to

  317. go. And church family, we believe

  318. God's given us a word for the future of our church.

  319. We believe God's given us in the same way God's given us a word

  320. for the future of our church. This is our next step.

  321. This is our, this is our next there.

  322. It won't say there. God wants to take us from here

  323. to there. And the word is take possession

  324. of the land, take possession of the land.

  325. And we were on sabbatical for 50 days in August and September of

  326. last year. I was praying one morning and I

  327. was journaling and I felt the Holy Spirit just speaks so

  328. loudly to my heart. And the Lord said, Matt, get

  329. FedEx like church. I heard the Holy Spirit say we

  330. need this building. This is our next step, get

  331. FedEx. And when we came home, when we

  332. got off sabbatical, come on, Pastor Charles, when we got, it

  333. was a, it was a war, it was work, but we had a word from God

  334. and it took us a few months to negotiate that thing.

  335. But God was good and God is kind and gracious.

  336. And so we went under contract. And as you just said, we're

  337. scheduled to close church family on March 31st in 30 days.

  338. Let's go, let's go. I love this all right.

  339. Look at verse 6. The Lord our God said to us in

  340. Horeb, you have stayed long enough at this mountain.

  341. Anybody in your life ever been in the same place?

  342. And all of a sudden God's like it is long enough to move like

  343. long enough. Been there long enough.

  344. He says you've stayed long enough at this mountain.

  345. Turn and take your journey. Church family, we believe it's

  346. time to turn and take this journey.

  347. This is the next phase of the vision of Next Level Church.

  348. So let us just slow down because this is a $12 million prize

  349. project. We'll just wait for the gasp or

  350. the gulp, whatever response we might have.

  351. It's easy for God. But half of that I just, we just

  352. want you to know, half of that is the purchase price.

  353. Come on. So this is prime real estate off

  354. of Metro Parkway in a building that exists, but it does need

  355. renovated, built out, and this won't be a church building.

  356. So some people have said so is this another location?

  357. Are we having church in there? So we will not have Sunday

  358. services in there, but it positions us to have a larger

  359. church on this property and to serve all of our present

  360. locations and our future, our future locations.

  361. We believe again, for generations to come.

  362. We actually had someone look at us and they said, wow, you guys

  363. are already getting old and you're still like moving forward

  364. and building all of this. First of all, thank you very

  365. much. I think I look great anyway.

  366. Say it girl, girl, you do look great.

  367. You were talking about how everyone's watching us on video.

  368. I'm like just so you know, the video does add 10 lbs that looks

  369. better in person but. That needs to be said.

  370. Video ads, yes. So we expect when we see you in

  371. persons for you to say you're skinnier in person and younger,

  372. younger. How much younger?

  373. But I thought it it was awesome. They looked at us like, wow,

  374. you're getting old and you still have vision.

  375. We're like, right, Because this isn't about us.

  376. This is about the generations that are to come.

  377. There is more people who need reach.

  378. There are generations that we believe are going to be reached

  379. through this. So so here's what this Metro

  380. Parkway building does for us. It gives us, as we've been

  381. saying, it gives us access to Metro Parkway, which is a major

  382. 5 lane Rd. in our that goes all the way South to Estero, all the

  383. way N to downtown Fort Myers. It gives us a new video and

  384. production studio things like freedom curriculum videos,

  385. podcasts, all of these ways that resources to the nation's will

  386. be able to create there and some of you're like well how do we do

  387. it now Well we're. Renting an Airbnb?

  388. Yeah for yeah for freedom. We had to rent an Airbnb but but

  389. honestly, our presence studio is like a 10 by 15 little X office

  390. room in our trailers Outback. And we're not ungrateful, but we

  391. have replaced the floor twice because it rots in Florida and

  392. it's literally we'll come into the studio sometimes and there's

  393. giant green red tape X's that we tape over holes and it's like

  394. don't stand there because you'll fall.

  395. You'll literally fall through the.

  396. Floor, our staff can tell you absolutely, US women, we're not

  397. allowed to wear heels because we will fall through the floor.

  398. So we are not ungrateful. But those trailers will not last

  399. forever, although they have lasted through several

  400. hurricanes and we're very thankful for that.

  401. It will also give U.S. central offices.

  402. So all of our central staff will be able to office out of there.

  403. We'll be able to resource and serve all of our locations even

  404. better, in addition to a distribution center.

  405. So because this was a FedEx distribution center, now we're

  406. going to be able to distribute to the nations from this place.

  407. But it's got the garage door, it's already built in.

  408. And so we are so excited about that.

  409. We're going to be able to serve our cities even better because

  410. we're going to be able to keep things on hand like we never

  411. have before, and we're going to be able to be positioned to

  412. serve after a crisis like never before.

  413. Food, water. Just immediately we'll have the

  414. distribution ready for. Maybe the thing I'm most excited

  415. about we're going to be able to house our SU at NLC Ministry

  416. Leadership Program in there. Listen to this church.

  417. We're going to be able to have 80 students trained students, 80

  418. students a year through our SCU. Matter of fact, one of the

  419. rendering pictures they gave us is a picture of what that could

  420. look like. So they're they'll students will

  421. have their own entrance. There'll be a whole section of

  422. the building that'll just be for ministry training students, this

  423. outdoor area where they'll be able to to sit with their

  424. laptops and do homework. We're so I think we have a

  425. rendering of just the building. There you go.

  426. That's like from metro what it could look like.

  427. So church family, it's happening, it's time.

  428. It's time to take and we'll say take possession.

  429. So here's what this means for for all of us as a whole church.

  430. This is our next there and now is the time.

  431. So let us explain financially how we get from here to there.

  432. So Kingdom Builders, as most of you know, but we just want to

  433. slow down for all of us. Kingdom Builders is our one

  434. fund. It's a one fund where we give

  435. above and beyond our ties and our offerings and that allows us

  436. to fuel forward the vision of the church locally, nationally

  437. and globally. So our goal for 2026 for Kingdom

  438. Builders is to raise $4 million, which that 4 million will fuel

  439. forward all of our partners, all of our initiatives, all of our

  440. missionaries, things like student conference, our network,

  441. all of the things that we are able to do with compassion and

  442. one hope and Bibles and everything will be within that

  443. as well as then 2.5 million that we'll be able to dedicate that

  444. will go toward this metro project this year.

  445. So let us so show you a strategy for the whole 12 million and how

  446. we we feel like we can get there.

  447. So we'll actually we'll kind of move out of the way.

  448. So it's a $12 million project. And so at the by the end of last

  449. year because of your generosity, we have already, we saw over a

  450. half million dollars come in already, which is how you.

  451. Celebrate that. So then the the first real

  452. milestone as we mentioned is March 31st, March 31st.

  453. So in order for us to close and purchase the building, we need

  454. to to raise at least $1,000,000. But let me say this, last week

  455. as we were casting this vision to some leaders in our church,

  456. we had a couple come forward and they said to us, Pastor Matt and

  457. Sarah, here's what we feel LED in the spirit to do.

  458. We want to to provide a matching fund through the month of March

  459. between now and the close closing of the building to

  460. purchase a matching fund that for every dollar that's given,

  461. dollar for dollar, one to one, we want to match up to

  462. $1,000,000 that's given this month.

  463. Come on church family, let's go, let's go.

  464. What could God do? What could God do?

  465. So that's the first one is March 30.

  466. First, yeah. So everything that you give,

  467. just think it's twice. It's just doubling.

  468. It's literally doubling when you're giving it.

  469. So that first benchmark, March 31st, 1,000,000, the second

  470. benchmark then will be December 31st by the end of this year to

  471. raise another 1.5 million. Then in all of 2027 to raise

  472. another 2.5 million. That then leaves this gap and

  473. you can see where the orange line is.

  474. That is a $7,000,000 loan. Now great news is we have

  475. already secured with our partner Wesleyan Investment Foundation

  476. alone to be able to finish this project.

  477. They've already said they will give us $7,000,000 to finish

  478. this out, which is incredible. But we have a faith goal.

  479. Come on, they all 12 million could be debt free in Jesus

  480. name. So that's our real faith goal

  481. because again like you said, this is easy for God.

  482. And so, and This is why this matters.

  483. The faster we fund this first part of the project, the sooner

  484. we can move on to Phase 2, which is the new auditorium in the

  485. parking and finishing out the entire property.

  486. As a matter of fact, I think we have that aerial view.

  487. Yeah. So this kind of would show.

  488. Plantation. That's Metro.

  489. So the faster God supplies for this phase, the quicker we can

  490. move on to this phase and see more and more people say yes to

  491. Jesus and dedicate their lives and see the greater impact that

  492. God has for us as. So God spoke to Moses and said,

  493. take possession of the land. It's time to go in.

  494. It's time to take possession. And through Joshua, they did.

  495. God moved them into a whole new season, into a whole new place

  496. and church. We believe that's the season we

  497. find ourselves in now as well. So what does that look like?

  498. What, what are what are the next steps for all of us?

  499. Well, for some of you, as we've been talking through the weeks

  500. of the series, some of you, your next step is to get into the my

  501. God, my money class and really start to get a handle on your

  502. personal finances. Some of us it's to get out of

  503. debt and to to live on a budget. Stay focused on that.

  504. Some of us, it's to begin and to tithe, to begin to put God first

  505. in your finances. For others of us, it's above and

  506. beyond giving to to giving to Kingdom builders, which fuels

  507. forward all of our initiatives, including this project.

  508. And this is for all of us, whether you're a teenager,

  509. whether you're retired, a business person.

  510. This is what Pastor Rob was talking about last week, that we

  511. can have a plan, we can have a vision, we can have a dream.

  512. We can work that plan. We can say, all right, God,

  513. what's already in my my hands? What have you already put in my

  514. hands? What are some things maybe we

  515. could sell or get creative on to say I want to be a part of the

  516. Kingdom. What is in my hands and what is

  517. the plan and then write the vision down.

  518. What's in God's hands? What does he have he owns at

  519. all. Oh God, would you take what's in

  520. your hands? Put it in my hand and if you do

  521. God, I won't use it for me. I will fuel forward the Kingdom.

  522. And then what is the dream? What is the dream?

  523. What can we hold on to in our heart that say, Oh God, in a

  524. radical kind of generosity way, how could I make a Kingdom

  525. impact? How could I give meaning to my

  526. money? We can have a plan and a vision

  527. and a dream and we can each go from here to there because this

  528. is what Jesus said that we each should do when he looked at his

  529. disciples and gave us all the Great Commission found in

  530. Matthew 2819. Jesus says, therefore go and

  531. make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of

  532. the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

  533. And he gave this to all of us as our Commission, to say you need

  534. to go from here to there, you need to go and you need to

  535. continue to make disciples. So there's a young man in our

  536. church named Jayden Humphries. And Jayden was high school

  537. student in Cape Coral and was lost and discouraged, depressed.

  538. His life revolved around football.

  539. This Yeah, this is Jayden. He was on the news earlier

  540. today, and he's one of our SEU and NLC students.

  541. We took a picture of him this week.

  542. And Jayden got invited to the first service of our Cape Coral

  543. location five years ago. And in those early weeks of

  544. coming to Cape Coral, Jayden surrendered his life to Jesus.

  545. He said yes. He raised his hand to Jesus and

  546. God radically transformed his Yeah, he got baptized the next

  547. Sunday. He's in his pictures of his

  548. baptism last night. And he wanted to go play college

  549. football. And the Holy Spirit interrupted

  550. his plans and said, I've called you into ministry.

  551. And for the last four years he has been in our SEU at NLC

  552. ministry training program and he graduates in in two months.

  553. He graduates and guess what? He's ready.

  554. He's ready to multiply the gospel.

  555. He's ready to reach more Jaden's in his generation.

  556. He's ready. He's ready.

  557. And I think about when I think about what God's called us to

  558. this mountain he's called us to climb, this land he's called us

  559. to take possession of, I think to myself, how many more Jaden's

  560. like how many more hundreds, literally church, how many more

  561. thousands of Jaden's are across Southwest Florida from Northwest

  562. Cape to East Lehigh to South Naples to porch truck,

  563. everywhere in between. This is the territory God's

  564. given to us. This is the land.

  565. And he said, let's reach you. This is our next.

  566. This is our there that God's called us to as a church.

  567. So we're going to go from here to there and we all have a part

  568. to play in that significance. But maybe you're here today in

  569. one of our locations are online and you would say you're more

  570. like Jayden. All of those years ago, someone

  571. invited you. You ended up here.

  572. Maybe you've been battling depression or feel lonely or

  573. lost or like, what does what meaning does my life have?

  574. Does it even have significance? We believe that maybe right now

  575. you're here is that you're separated from God because you

  576. don't know Jesus as your Savior. But the good news is you don't

  577. have to stay here. You can go there.

  578. You can have life abundant here on earth.

  579. You can know that heaven is your home because God loves you.

  580. He sent his Son Jesus to die on the cross.

  581. That's what we were doing when we were taking communion, just

  582. celebrating that. And he did that for you.

  583. And we want to give you an opportunity to say yes to Jesus.

  584. So with every eye closed and every head bowed, let's just

  585. just invite the Holy Spirit into this moment.

  586. And if, if that's you, you don't know Jesus as your savior, you

  587. can today, it's as simple as admitting that you're a Sinner

  588. and, and knowing that Jesus died for your sins and wanting to

  589. place your life and follow him. So if that's you and you want to

  590. say yes to Jesus today, I just want to, we want to pray for

  591. you. So you can do that.

  592. Whether you're online, you can put it in the chat, but in this

  593. room, we're going to have you raise your hand on the count of

  594. three. Just raise it up really high so

  595. I can know who we're praying for on the count of three, just say

  596. that's me. I want to know Jesus as my

  597. savior. 123, Just raise it up really high.

  598. I see that hand. I see those hands at our

  599. locations. Just go ahead and raise those

  600. hands. I see that hand.

  601. I see that hand. Anyone else online, you can put

  602. it in the chat. Say that's me.

  603. I want to say yes to Jesus. Take that hand that you just

  604. raised and place it on your heart.

  605. Let's make this personal. Jesus, we thank you and we

  606. believe Jesus, that you died on the cross for our sin.

  607. We admit today that we are a Sinner.

  608. We've messed up and we do feel separated from you.

  609. But God, today we turn and we say we want to follow you.

  610. Would you place us in the family of God?

  611. Would you change our life? Would you send the Holy Spirit?

  612. We surrender our life to you today and we want to follow you

  613. for the rest of our life. We pray in Jesus name, Amen.

  614. Amen. Hey, many people just said yes

  615. to Jesus. Can we come right now?

  616. That never gets old. Never get thank.

  617. You Lord. If that was you, we want to help

  618. you. We have a free Bible we want to

  619. put in your hands. So before you leave, we want to

  620. put this in your hands. When you leave the property,

  621. you'll be able to find the connection stent to say, hey,

  622. can I get that Bible or hey, I just said yes, we want to

  623. celebrate that and give you some next steps in the best decision

  624. that you in your Amen. Amen.

  625. Isn't it good to be in the House of God?

  626. You know what? We're not done yet.

  627. Let's stand up. Everybody come on.

  628. Every location. Let's stand to our feet.

  629. Whoo. God's got it there.

  630. Somebody say there and it's not here.

  631. We're going somewhere. God's taking us somewhere.

  632. God's taking us somewhere. The team, I want us to sing.

  633. Come on, let's sing. That I trust.

  634. See God every location. God, trust God.

  635. And I trust in God, my Savior, the one who will never fail all.

  636. We think. Maybe you've come in today to

  637. one of our locations and there's there's a need that's staring

  638. you down. I just feel in my spirits to

  639. pray that faith would rise up in your heart today.

  640. Father, you see across each room, Lord, you see and you know

  641. right where each one of us are. God, you see marriages, Lord,

  642. they feel like they're on shaky ground.

  643. God, would you move in those marriages?

  644. God, you see where people are feeling insecure about their job

  645. and, and maybe someone you just lost your job and in Jesus name,

  646. God, I pray you would supply a new job, you would open a new

  647. door, you would give them faith, you would let faith rise up in

  648. our hearts. God give us wisdom.

  649. Father, you see what's going on, Lord in a health issue and we

  650. pray healing in Jesus name, Holy Spirit, we pray your power, your

  651. blessing, God, your provision, Lord Jesus across your sons and

  652. daughters today. God, we don't put our eyes on

  653. the wind in ways we put our eyes on you.

  654. I trust in God. Lord, we seek you and you

  655. answer. Come on, let's sing that out.

  656. I saw the Lord. Why?

  657. I trust Him, That's why I trust Him.

  658. I saw the Lord and he heard, and he answered, and I saw the Lord,

  659. and he heard, and he answered, and I saw the Lord, and he heard

  660. and he answered. That's why I trust Him.

  661. That's why I trust in God my Savior, the One you will never

  662. pray, you will never pray. You not trusting God you must

  663. sing. God, you will never pray.

  664. We thank you God, we thank you for the vision that you have put

  665. before us. I just like you did with the

  666. people of Israel when you said turn.

  667. Take this journey God in every area of our lives.

  668. I pray God, we would hear your voice, not the not the worldly

  669. knowledge, but your wisdom. God give us wisdom.

  670. Father, you see God, the future of our church.

  671. God, you see this 12 million, we were laughing and saying it's

  672. easy, but God it is, it's easy for you.

  673. So God, would you allow us to be a part of it?

  674. God, would you give us steps of obedience?

  675. God, would you give us faith? God to, to have the plan, Lord

  676. Jesus to write that vision down to start to dream about how we

  677. could be a part of the significance.

  678. And God, we pray for the next generation.

  679. God, we pray for the nation. Lord Jesus, we thank you God,

  680. that you are the God of generations.

  681. You are the God of the nations. And so, Father, would you

  682. continue to allow us, God, to advance and be a part God of

  683. your church. You said in your word that you

  684. would build your church and the gates of hell would not prevail.

  685. So God, we are thankful to be a part of that today.

  686. We pray all of this and I pray blessing and favor over your

  687. people today. And everyone agreed, said Amen.