Plan, Vision, Dream | Pastor Rob Ketterling

Today we have a special treat because Pastor Rob Ketterling

who is the founding and lead pastor of River Valley Church in

Minneapolis, MN is with us in the house today.

Now here's the deal, Church family.

Pastor Rob pastors a multi site church just like our church.

They, we have 4 locations. They have 11 locations all

across the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Saint Paul.

But Pastor Rob is not just a pastor, he is a friend.

And so Sarah and I have been doing life with Pastor Rob and

his wife Becca for almost a quarter of a century. 23 years

ago we met at Rob's church in Minnesota.

And I'm just so thankful for your friendship.

Friendship, your mentorship to me.

He's been a Big Brother in ministry to us and so thankful.

But he's also an author. And about a year ago he released

what's this book called, The Generous Life, or we'll say The

Generous Life. And man, oh man, oh man, as soon

as I saw this book and the concepts inside of it, I said,

Pastor Rob, you have to come to our church.

That was 14 months ago, you guys.

That's how in demand this guy is.

He literally just got back from teaching these principles in

Australia. God has an anointing on Pastor

Rob's life to minister to us. And so man, we are pumped that

in the middle of this financial series, I said, Pastor Rob, come

on, don't just teach us, challenge us.

Somebody say challenge come on every location, put your hands

together for my friend pastor. Rock, come on.

Amen. Amen.

You can be seated. You can be seated.

It's a joy to be here. And like your pastor said, Matt

and Sarah have been friends of ours for almost 25, which is

hard to believe. Before we had Gray hair.

And it's a joy. And I just want you to know

this. We've admired your pastors as

they multiply. I you have no idea how many

churches were on the brink of closing and they coached them up

or those that were struggling and they coached them up like

your reward for sending them on the road and letting them

minister and to help these churches.

Their heart is for pastors and when they're out from here, they

are multiplying the effectiveness of what God's

doing here. And if you love your pastors,

can you show your love and appreciation?

Just give them a handclap like love, love, love them.

When he asked me to be here at this time of year, I said yes,

it's 4° in Minnesota. Praise God, when it's seven,

it's 76° warmer here than back home right now.

That was an easy prayer to answer.

All right. Oh, man, it's a joy.

And as he said, I have a book on the generous life, and I can't

believe that God has allowed me to do that.

I'll be honest, we started our whole church on credit cards.

Nobody would give us a loan. I went to seven different banks.

They all said no, there was no church planning group that gave

you money. And I had five Visa Gold credit

cards, each with a $20,000 limit.

And I said to my wife, I think the Lord provided with Visa

Gold. So we did.

We put $100,000 on credit cards at 21% interest.

OK, the first time I met Dave Ramsey, financial peace guy, I

said, forgive me Dave for I have sinned.

I mean like, that's all I said to him.

Our our conference room, true story.

Our conference room is named the Visa Gold conference room.

And people like, were you sponsored by them?

I said, no, I sponsored them. You know, like, and it's just to

remind people that like, look what God did, Look what God did.

We, we gave our first offering away.

We got our first offering. I gave it all the way.

And my wife said, like, you know, we do have bills.

Like, do you plan on? I was like, I don't know, I

didn't think that through. So I just, I look at where we

are and what God has done. And, and I can just tell you,

I've learned lesson after lesson after lesson.

And in 2008 we started doing Kingdom builders like a lot of

churches do you do. And we raised 800,000 over our

tide, which was incredible. And over the years, this very

last year, our church raised 12.5 million over the tide.

Something supernatural has happened.

Yeah. And it also let you know we gave

$10 million to world missions gave away.

And, and we have a our church is obsessed with missions.

We want to send 500 missionaries out from our church and right

now we're at 299 that we've sent out into the world and we're

just like God take us on this generosity journey.

Let us be generous with the people we send with the money we

give. And so he's asked me to steward

this and and so I at least likely, least likely guy to do

it, but it gives God all the glory.

OK, so we're going to get into generosity, but I'm going to do

a little mini sermon after I show you my family.

And it's not the generosity sermon, but take a look at my

family. Take a look at this picture.

You'll see our family up there. You'll see my wife Becca up

there and my our oldest son Connor and his wife Alexia on

the far right. And he's holding Beckham and

Anastasia, first two grandchildren, then our youngest

son Logan, his wife Mac, and then our little Enzo.

They just adopted Enzo. And we're so excited to have

three grandkids. And here's where the little mini

sermon comes in. Connor, our oldest son, was born

with autism, OK. And we didn't know it at the

time. We just noticed each little

idiosyncrasy. He'd only sleep in the car seat,

buckled in. If we laid him in the crib,

cried all night, put him in the car seat, He would sleep.

And how many sleep deprivation? You're like, bring that car seat

in, you know, and we're putting it in his room like he likes the

car seat. We're going to do that, you

know? But that was a sign of autism.

And then we noticed that everything was a train.

He lined everything up. So we bought him trains.

And then we noticed that he didn't make eye contact.

And he. Yeah.

And we thought, oh, he's shy. He's very shy.

Father's very outgoing, but he's very shy.

And then we noticed that he only parroted back to us.

Where are we going? Where are we going?

To the mall. To the mall.

So you anywhere. OK.

And we brought him to the doctor, and they said your son

has autism. And we didn't know that.

And they said you need to put him into special Ed and get him

some schooling and help. So we did that.

And we, as we saw him, we just thought we could pray for a

miracle. Let's pray for a miracle.

So we started praying for miracle.

We said, God, we love our Son where he is, but we know that

you're a miracle working God and there's a miracle waiting for

him in heaven. So we're going to pray for that.

And and nothing happened. And I just want you to know that

we loved our son like he was, but we knew a miracle was

possible. And if you have a child with

special needs and you've never read this, there's a poem or a

little story called Welcome to Holland.

Says all your friends are going to Italy and you dream of going

to Italy and your plane gets diverted to Holland.

Don't get bitter. Love Holland.

So we're like, OK, God, we love him.

But you know, we'd love to see heal.

It didn't happen. So after two years of praying, I

gave up. I'm just going to be honest, I

gave up. I said, God, you're a kind God

and a loving God. But I'm not seeing very much

power right now. So I'm not even going to pray

for it. I don't even know how I'm going

to have faith for anybody else. And can I tell you that's a

terrible way to live. Don't let your reality go

against God's word. God's word is true no matter

what your reality is. So I'm living.

Yeah, that's that's somebody needed to hear that.

And so one day this visiting pastor is there and he goes,

hey, is there anything we can pray for?

And I was just about to say church growth or better

offerings or some pastoral prayer request.

And my wife goes, our son has autism and we want to see him

healed. And I'm thinking we kind of gave

up on that one. But I'm not getting in front of

Mama bear. How many, you know what I'm

talking about? You're just not.

She's kind of tenacious in that moment.

And, and he goes, OK, so he lays hands on our son.

And he goes, the Lord has heard that you've called him a good

God and a kind God. But now to show you that he's a

powerful God, he's going to heal your son for his glory.

How many of you got my attention now?

Word of knowledge going on right there.

And he lays hands on Connor. And Connor gets done, the

prayers finished. Connor looks up.

He goes, hey, dad, where are we going?

He starts to play with all the other kids.

He starts to run. Miraculously healed 100% of

autism just like that. We, we bring him to the teacher

at special Ed. We bring him in teacher Pam.

We're like, look, she goes, Oh my goodness.

She gets her supervisor. She goes test Connor and she

goes, what am I looking for? He's he's, I don't see anything.

She goes, he had autism. He got miraculously healed in

church yesterday. The supervisor goes, I don't

believe in healing. I don't believe it happened.

I believe you've been putting a perfectly normal child in

special Ed for two years. How dare you steal from Special

Ed? And I said, yeah, it's every

parent's dream to RIP off Special Ed.

You know, I said, no, God healed my son, and he gets all the

glory. Yeah.

So now I share this with you. And.

And I can't show a family picture and not give God the

glory. Do you see what I'm saying?

So let me just show you how your miracle is possible.

All right? I just want to show you

something. Put this slide up on the screen.

I want to show you where you're at.

You're living in your now. But the Bible says in first

Peter 24 that by his stripes you're healed, that Jesus Christ

has already paid for your healing.

The Bible also tells us in Revelation 21 that whatever is

wrong on this earth will be righted in heaven.

It's going to be fixed. OK, so go ahead, put the next

slide up. What we're doing when we're

praying for this right now, we're acknowledging where we

are. We're saying, God, I know I'm in

this sickness. I'm not denying it, but I am

asking for what you paid for on the cross.

And I'm asking for what is waiting for me into heaven to be

pulled into my now. And you see the line with the

miracle. That's all it is.

So we can have faith to pray for this.

It's waiting for us in heaven. And you're not crazy to say I

believe I'm healed. Well, in heaven, I'm healed.

I know my reality right now, but I'm aligning with heaven's

reality. And you say, can we do that?

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in

heaven. Do you understand?

You're just saying I want heaven's reality in mine now.

Now you don't control the release date.

Some people make us feel guilty, like if you had faith, you'd get

it. Otherwise, you know, how about

me? I had given up.

How about the man at the pool of Bethesda?

He didn't even know who Jesus was.

So don't live under any condemnation.

Just realize we serve a loving God that releases miracles into

our now. Can I just share something with

you? When my kids were little, they

used to ask for ice cream. This way.

They go, dad, you're probably not going to do it.

And I go, what am I not going to do?

And they're like, well, you're probably not going to get us ice

cream. I said, don't ever come to me

and ask for ice cream like that ever again.

Do it like this. Hey, Dad, you're the best dad on

planet earth. Wouldn't today be a great day

for ice cream? How many know they got a lot

more ice cream that way? We go to God for a miracle.

We say, God, you're probably not going to do it.

Why don't we go to God? God, you're a loving God and a

Thai God. Wouldn't it be just like you?

They say wait, wait. Sometimes I'd say to the kids,

it's not the time for ice cream. It's 4:00.

Dinner's coming, trust me. Ice cream's coming.

Just trust me. I'm a loving dad.

Ice cream's coming after dinner. So we got to trust our loving

heavenly Father. He releases it at the right

time, but we're allowed to ask. So if faith is rising up in you

right now and you want me to pray with your prayer, maybe

you've prayed against the disease, the sickness, something

you didn't want to know in the name of, and you just want to

say, God, one more time, I want to pray for a miracle.

I want to join your faith in my faith.

Let's pray together. Raise your hand here at all the

campuses, East downtown Cape Coral.

Come on, raise your hand if you're believing, Lord, you see

these hands. We are believing for miracles.

We are believing for miracles. Lord, forgive our just giving

up. Lord, I just said you're kind

God and loving God, but you are a powerful God.

And so God, I pray that you would still do miracles.

You would do breakthroughs, things that they've been waiting

for. I pray with them, their 100th

prayer, their thousandth prayer. I pray Lord Jesus and come to

agreement they're one day closer to their miracle and today would

be a great day for a miracle to be released.

Lord, we trust you. We trust you with the timing,

but we will not stop asking for what is waiting for us in heaven

to be released into our now. And when it does, we will give

you all the praise and all the glory and all the honor because

you are a powerful God and it's your name, Jesus, that we lift

up and pray in. Amen, Amen, Amen.

Come on, let's thank God for what he has done, what he will

do. Thank you so much.

Appreciate that. That was awesome.

I said if you keep going, I'll go to the altar call right now.

We're here to talk about generosity and I want to read

the Scripture, 2nd Corinthians 9/11.

Apostle Paul says you'll be enriched in every way so that so

that you can be generous on every occasion and through US,

your generosity will result in Thanksgiving to God.

I want to talk to you about living out your so that you've

been enriched in all these ways so that you can be generous.

Now you say, well, I, I don't feel rich.

I didn't say you had to be rich. I said you could be generous.

I've seen rich people that are not generous and I've seen poor

people that are like take the shirt off their back, give it to

you. There's something about this

living out the so that, and I want to let you know that where

we live, it makes this verse really apply to us.

In the Bible, we have been enriched.

Where we live right now, we have been enriched.

If you make $50,000 in America, 50,000, you're one of the

richest 1% on planet Earth. Now we compare to millionaires

and billionaires, but 50,000 means you're the richest 1% on

planet Earth. We better get this right to live

out the so that and so I want to talk to you about a few things

that we've taught to our church and combat a couple lies that

keep us from living out the so that to be generous.

Now, the first thing we teach at our church is generosity starts

with understanding. Like we're going to start with

tithing. And I love that your church does

that. Tithing has come under a lot of

attack. That's giving your first 10th to

the work of the Lord saying God, I honor you and you're my God

and I'm on mission with you. I live differently and I honor

you with this. OK, people say like, well,

that's law. Well, it's in the law, but you

know what? It predates the law, it predates

the law. Abraham before there was law,

there was relationship and Abraham tithe.

Little bit later we see Jacob and Jacob says, God, if you Get

Me Out of this mess, you will be my God.

And what will I do? I'll tithe.

I'll tithe 10% of everything. So I look at that and say a

heart touched by God wants the tithe way before there was ever

lost. So we start there at our church

and we say, if you're not doing that, start there and watch what

God does. And I love that you're in this

series, but then when it comes to living out the so that you're

like, how am I going to live this out?

How am I going to do this? I want to tell you one of the

most important things to do for your Kingdom builders and you're

over and above this to live out the so that is to give your very

first gift, your first gift. Some of you watch Kingdom

builders and you watch these offerings that are received and

you're like, oh, that's for other people.

That's for them. That's not for me.

We're barely getting, we're just going to do the tithe.

We're we're barely getting by. We're not going to do that.

That's for other people. And sometimes you're in a

service like this and you feel a little tinge of like, you know

what? I want to do something.

I want to, I want to, I want to step out and do that.

And then you know what the enemy does.

The first lie that he says to us is your gift won't matter.

Your gift won't matter. Just just keep it.

Don't worry. It it's so interesting to say

it's it's only $50, you're going to get $50.

Don't give it. That's so long, so little.

You know what, just go to bass pro shops and spend it there.

It's better over there at Bass Pro Shops.

The enemy says to the other person that's like, oh, I'm

going to give $500 and the enemy says don't, don't do that.

That gift won't matter, $500 what?

Just go, go to Dick's Sporting Goods and buy that new driver

that that'll be best. Don't.

It won't make a difference for the church.

Isn't it interesting the enemy wants to stop you from giving

your first gift? I had a guy come up to me after

church. True story.

He said I was going to give today, but I don't know it was

only $5000 like that would make a difference.

I was like that, that would that would help.

That would that would work, that would that would really move the

needle. You know it, it is interesting.

Same lie, different amounts, same lie.

The enemy knows that generosity is so powerful as a weapon to

build the Kingdom of God and to do this that he doesn't even

want you to get started. Now, Matthew 621 gives us a

little insight into this. It says for where your treasure

is, there your heart will be. So where you put your treasure

and where you put your money, your heart follows it.

And so when you start giving money to Kingdom builders, you

say, I'm going to live out the so that I'm going to change the

world. This church has vision and I

want to do this. You start living out the so that

and you put a little money there.

Then you're like, Hey, how's it going with the new campus?

Hey, how's the expansion coming? How's the land thing coming?

Because your money is going there and so your heart follows

behind it. And So what the enemy wants you

to do, the enemy says, don't give it.

Keep living selfish, keep going, don't go that way.

Keep spending it on yourself. Don't worry about that's for

other people, not for you. And he doesn't want you to

change your direction because the first gift changes the

direction. Now I had a bill collector come

up to me after church. I was preaching this years ago.

He goes, that's so true. I said, what do you mean?

It's so true. He goes, I collect money for

bills. I collect bills and I'll call

people and they might owe us $10,000.

And he goes and they're walking away from their debt.

And I call them and they answer and I say, can you pay off your

debt? I can't do it.

Can you pay me $20? And he's $20 like 20.

That's that will make a difference.

And he said just send us $20. And as soon as I get them to

send $20, you know what I've done?

I've turned their direction and now they're facing towards their

debt. All $20 did is change the

direction they were living their life.

So the enemy knows if I can keep you from giving $5.50 dollars,

5, whatever it is, I just want to keep you in that direction.

And the Bible tells us where your treasures there, your heart

will. That's why it's so important.

Can I just tell you as you do your Kingdom builders year after

year, as you expand, as I've heard the vision that your

pastors have, the vision is gigantic.

And so as soon as you can get one gift in, it changes your

direction on this. And then God's like now you're

on the generosity journey. Now you're living out to so

that. All right.

So I just want to speak to somebody.

You've never done it before. This is the time to do it.

This is the time to get in. There's something happening in

your church and you're going to go to the next level, as people

say, for the very first time. We're in, We're in, and our

little added up with everybody else's little is going to add up

to a lot. And we're going to move

mountains. And then here's the thing that

we've taught our church. So first lie is won't matter.

Then there's a tool that we've taught our church and it's in

the book along with different teachings like giving is a

muscle. Who's your source?

But this is a teaching that we've done at our church.

Like now that I'm on this journey with Kingdom builders

over and above living out the so that give me some practical ways

to live out the so that generosity and it's planned

vision dream. That's what we've done at our

church. Planned vision dream.

Here's where I learned that I was in Kenya with this couple,

Clive and Mary. Go ahead and put them on the

screen. Clive and Mary are here.

They could be in your church. They're just a older couple.

They were in Kenya and they started an orphanage.

And I said, this is amazing. You got multi site orphanage all

across Kenya. How did this start?

They said we saw the need of the orphans and we said, God, what

can we do? And so we just said, well,

you've already put this money into our hands.

We're just going to work a plan and buy a little house and start

an orphanage in the house. I said it just started with a

little plan. That's it, I said, But then how

did it go bigger? Because they have this whole

complex in Nairobi. They said one day we're doing an

adoption ceremony and this guy says, Clyde, that's my best

friend and you just gave him and his wife a little baby boy.

I wish there was a way I could say thank you to you for doing

that. Goes, Do you have a vision of

what you want your orphanage to be?

And he goes, I do. Clive goes in and lays the

blueprints down. He goes right over there.

I want a boys dorm right there. I want a girls dorm right there.

I want a baby building. And the guy goes, Clive, I'm

going to build this for you for free.

I mean, I'm like Clive, That's how it happened.

He goes, yeah, it goes. He goes, it's even better.

He goes, he wasn't even a Christian.

He was a Buddhist. A Buddhist guy built his vision

for free. Can you imagine that?

Only God. Only God, I said, but wait,

Clive, you're multi site all across Kenya now you have

orphanages all over. Like how that happened.

He goes, same guy came back three years later and said,

Clive, are you a dreamer? Do you have a dream in your

heart? And Clive said, I do.

He said, I've been praying for these three cities.

I want to do multi site orphanage across Kenya.

And the guy goes, Clive, you're never going to believe this.

I own buildings in those three cities and my company is leaving

Kenya. We're going to give them to you

for free. Imagine that all from planned

vision dream. This guy has multi site.

And by the way, one of the orphanages in in in in Nairobi

is on the road where all the consulates are, all the

ambassador like embassies are right there.

And then there's the orphans right in the middle of it.

Only God could put, you know, orphans right next to

ambassadors, you know? Yeah, incredible.

And as I'm leaving there, wow, that's pretty cool.

Plan, vision, dream. I felt God say that's how you

should teach people to live out the so that they can be

generous. Plan, vision, dream.

So it starts with this a plan. What?

What's your plan to give? What is God already placed in

your hands? Just like Clive and Mary, a lot

of us say, oh, I want to do this way out here.

God's like, no, what have I put in your hands already?

Plan, vision, dream. So the plan is Psalm 20, verse

Psalms 20:4

4. May He give you the desires of

your heart and make all your plans succeed.

He's already put resources in your hands.

All you have to do is decide how much you'll give over and above

your tide to keep blessing the Kingdom of God $50.00 a month

$100 a month 505,000. I don't know what God's put in

your hands already, but you just worked the plan.

But you don't stop there. Then you have a vision.

A vision, Habakkuk Tutu. And the Lord answered me.

Write the vision down. Make it plain on tablets so he

may run Who reads it? Write down a vision amount every

year. God, here's what I'm going to

do. Because you've already kept me

alive and you put it in my hands.

But I believe there's more in your hands and I'm going to

write it down. And if you put that amount into

my hands, I'm going to give it towards the work.

It's called a faith promise. It's just living what Hebrews 11

talks about. Without faith, it's impossible

to please him. So you're just believing God.

You, you have more in your hands than I have in my hands.

And so I'm going to trust you to put it in mine.

And when you do, I want to live out the so that I, I, I live in

such a generous place and such a wealthy place, I'm going to try

to live out this. So that, and then the third one

is to have a dream. Have a dream of what's the

greatest gift you could ever give to God.

See, you simply work the plan and you write the vision down.

I tell everybody, hold on to the dream.

Just hold it. Don't tell anybody.

Like when I see people sharing dreams too early in their life,

like I see their brothers getting jealous, throwing you in

a pit, selling me into slavery. Some of you know that story

about Joseph. So just hold the dream.

Hold the dream. All right, hold it, hold it, all

right, hold it. And you just hold on to it and

see God, could you let me ever give that amount of money?

Wouldn't it be incredible if I could do that?

And you say, can can we do that as Christians?

How come the world gets to do it?

Think about all the athletes when they signed the big

contract, they've been dreaming of the day they and they signed

that contract. And then they say it's always

been a dream of mine to buy my mom and dad a house.

And the day I'm buying them, how come they get to live like that?

But I can't live like that for Jesus.

And so everyone in our church just is working the plan,

writing the vision down, saying God, we're going to write it

down. We're going to pray for it.

And then we're going to have that dream.

You're going to do like Ephesians talks about,

immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine.

And we're just going to hold on to that dream and see what

happens. Now, let me give you some

practical ways that this works in our life.

Park is a young man in our church, 14 years old.

He's an youth group. Here's this message.

And so he goes, I like this. I think God has more in his

hands than I have in mind. And he says to his mom and dad,

I'm going to give $500 this year.

God's going to put $500 in my hands.

And they're like, Park, you have $50.00 in your dresser drawer.

And, and the dad said this on the way out of church, he said

to his wife, looks like we're going to write a check at the

end of the year so Park can reach his goal.

That's what he said at the end of the year, Park didn't give

$500, Park gave $1200. And his mom and dad sent me a

text. They said forgive our lack of

faith. Our little boy had more faith

that God had more in his hands than we did.

And here we are. So it worked for Park, another

family in our church, young married couple.

You know, again, remember, this is for everybody.

This is not for rich people. It's for generous people.

During COVID, they, they had their bills just like everybody

else. But he kept his job and so he

got the stimulus check. So he got the stimulus check and

he said, you know what? I kept my job.

Why do we give that to Kingdom builders?

So each year they're given the stimulus checks right over to

Kingdom builders. Like this is awesome.

Each year we pray planned vision dream as a church and they

prayed and they're in church and he says, honey, I, I think God's

got a bigger number for us this year and the stimulus checks are

over. I don't know how this is going

to happen. She goes, I have a big number

too. He goes, what is your number?

She goes $7500. He goes, that's exactly my

number. So they write it down like God,

we're believing for $7500, it's in your hands, put it in ours.

OK, This is Sunday. On Friday, she looks at their

bank account. There's $7500 from his company

in their account. She calls them up.

She goes, honey, there's $7500 just deposited today.

She goes, go talk to your boss. He goes in there and he goes,

hey, there's like some money in my bank.

If it's a mistake, can I keep it?

You know, like he's like, what happened?

And the boss said, you know what?

I came in on Monday and I just felt so guilty.

We've done so well during COVID and we haven't done bonuses.

So I told our CFO, get everyone a bonus check by Friday.

How many know? You can pray on Sunday?

Your boss can feel guilty on Monday and the check can be

there Friday. How many know?

So you're like, not my boss, not my boss.

OK. Prayer and fasting for your

boss. Sorry, prayer and fasting.

All right, And please, some. I know.

Here's what happens. Some of you right now like that

happens. OK, Wait, wait, wait, wait.

The God we serve when his disciples need to pay their

taxes, he said go catch a fish. And in that fish, there's going

to be a gold coin. The God we serve fed millions of

people every day. Mana came out of the ground

every day. Do we believe that or not?

The God we serve took a little boy's lunch and fed thousands of

people. He can make a boss feel guilty

on Monday in my own life, my wife and I we've lived this up.

We want to lead the way. So we're like playing vision

dream Lord we're just going to work the plan you love it

desires of our OK but we have a vision and six years ago God

said go up $10,000 this year you're going to give 10,000 more

to Kingdom builders than last year.

OK Lord where's the money It's in your hands.

We start to pray. Two weeks later, I get a phone

call and this guy says, hey, we'd like to know if you'd like

to join our board. And I was like, no, I'm not a

lot of boards. I'm so busy, I don't have time.

You know, he goes, well, that's too bad.

We got your name from, you know, my brother-in-law.

He said, you're pastor the loves missions.

We give away money on this board and and each board member gets

$10,000 to give to their favorite charity.

And I said, does Kingdom Builders count as my favorite

charity? And they said, Oh yeah.

I said, when's the board meeting?

You know, here's a board in Indiana.

I live in Minnesota. I've never met this guy.

I've met his brother-in-law. They call me and say we want you

to join us. How many know the money was in

God's hands and I just needed to have faith to believe God that

he would do this. He puts it in my hands.

I bring back the $10,000 check. And by the way, the board that I

joined, it was a group in Indiana, a couple guys at

breakfast that said we want to start a business just to give

money to missions. That's all they did.

They started a business and when I joined the board six years

ago, they gave away 890,000. This last year, we gave away $4

million from that. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, and it gets better. They said every board member now

gets 50,000 to bring back. I brought back a check for

50,000 to Kingdom Builders from a prayer I prayed 6 years ago.

It's in his hands. That's the God we serve.

I mean you, when you think about when the Israelites left Egypt,

it says that the Egyptians threw money at them when they were

leaving. Like take our money, take our

gold. If you put that in a movie, you

wouldn't believe it. That's the God we serve.

All right, one more because there are some business owners

here and I want to speak to you for just a minute and then we're

going to address 1 more lie that attacks us.

OK, couple in our church, business owners.

OK, they're they hear plan vision dream.

I'll tell you they sent me their giving report from years ago

when they joined our church. The first year they joined our

church, they gave 70,000 to Kingdom builders.

They'd never heard planned vision dream.

And he looks at his wife. He said, honey, let's go on this

journey. Let's do this because we could

give a quarter million because let's just do what God put in

our hands. So they start doing it.

They start praying for their vision.

Their vision was a half a million, 18 months later, their

company is exploding and growth. They're giving half $1,000,000,

eighteen months after that. So three years on the journey, 3

years. He calls me up and says pastor,

your wife and my wife and I, we all need to go to dinner.

So we go to dinner and he says it's our joy today.

He said we thought this would take 10 to 15 years to get to

our dream number. We thought it would, but we're

here today to give our dream gift, and it's $1,000,000.

And as he's doing that, they're crying.

My wife and I, we're all crying. And this is what I really did

say this. I go, what's your new dream?

That's what I said. And he goes, I'm not supposed to

tell you. I'm supposed to keep it secret.

And I said, I'll pray for you. I'll cheer you on.

And he said, I want to do it every year for the rest of my

life. And then I said, I pray you live

to be 100. And at the time, he was 39 years

old, and he and his wife have done it every year since.

Matter of fact, the tagline on my book, Giving Meaning to Your

Money came from him, he said. You've given meaning to our

money. Planned vision, dream from Park

as a high schooler to a business owner and everybody in between.

We can live this way, we can live this adventure, we can make

a difference and live out the so that being some of the richest

people on planet Earth. But there's one lie that attacks

the backside of this that I want to address.

The first lie is your gift won't matter.

This lie here is just in case. Maybe we shouldn't give so much

just in case. I know God whispered something

to me to do this year and it felt like a stretch.

But now that I get closer to giving that large amount or

following through with it just in case the economy changes, I

should hold Just in case my retirement portfolio doesn't go

all the way. Like I just in case I live to

100. Just in case you get see what

I'm saying? It's not unique to us.

It's all over the Bible. Abraham was promised you're

going to have a son. He said my wife is old.

Like, I don't know how that's going to happen.

I'm old. So he says, God, just just in

case you can't have a son through us, here's my servant

Eliezar. He could be my son.

God's like, no, don't want him. OK, God, just in case Sarah and

I can't have a baby, here's Hagar.

We'll have a baby here. Isn't that interesting?

It's all over the Bible. Children of Israel when they

were told manna, it's going to come up every day and you just

take enough for one day. That's all you need.

Don't take any just in case God doesn't show up tomorrow,

because he's going to show up. And if you take any extra, you

know what's going to happen to it.

It's going to turn to rot and it's going to turn to worms.

And the Bible tells us that some of the people took a little

extra just in case God didn't come through for him and it

turned to rot and the maggots. It's all over the Bible and it's

an attack that the enemy says. So I want to speak to anybody

right now that feels a whisper of a gift that's bigger than you

thought. That feels like God's prompting

you to do something. You need to break that lie of

Justin Case off of you in Jesus name.

Jesus is your source. He knows what he's doing.

His promises are true and I know this.

In 2020, God told my wife and I, you will give your dream goal,

you will do it. You've been praying for over 10

years for this dream goal, you will give it.

And that year I'm telling you, royalties came in, inheritance

money, unexpected blessing, and we are sitting with the largest

amount of money ever in our life.

A dream goal to give to God was right there and it's the end of

the year And I said, wow, just in case you think we should hold

like Covid's still going on. It's not over and there's been a

change in the presidency and I don't know, just in case.

So we went to bed that night. We couldn't sleep, couldn't

sleep. Woke up the next morning, my

wife said we can't believe the lie of just in case.

And we Dave it and we shared that with our church, very

vulnerable and transparent that we almost believed the lie of

just in case and held back something God told us to do.

And when we share that with our church, it broke the lie of just

in case off of our church. And our giving was 6.6 million

for Kingdom builders. Now it's 12.5.

We're the exact same size church, exact same size church

as 2019. But something supernatural has

broken off. And some of you need that broken

off in Jesus name. You have enough resources.

You have enough. God's your source.

He will never let you down. If he can make manna grow every

day, He can take care of you. He can take care of you.

The Bible says he knows the number of hairs on your head.

He doesn't see a Sparrow fall without noticing it.

He can take care of you. So Lord, I pray right now for

next level. I pray that they would live this

out. They're going to the next level.

The dream, the vision in this church is so big, they want to

reach the Southwest Florida. So God, we just pray in Jesus

name that people would break Amen.