Guest Speaker - Rich Kao - Practical Is Powerful: The Ministry Of Multiplication

Well today we have a special treat.

So this weekend we had a prophetic conference, an extraordinary God for extraordinary times, and it was really powerful, uh, really thankful for all of the messages that were brought very impactful.

Um, and so rich gal is, it was one of the speakers that came down.

So it was Clem Ferris, Steve fatto, rich gal, Chuck and Chuck porta, and a guy named big country.

I don't Dave, I think his name is Dave Hughes.

Uh, yeah.

So, uh, anyway, it's too much to explain right now.

so, but, um, rich and I, I, I met rich about 25 years ago.

Um, we were a little younger at that time, although we're still, wouldn't you say we're still very young.

I mean, I, I feel like that we're, we're still in the, the prime of our lives is what we're believing for right.

50 is the new 40 is what I've heard.

So, uh, but rich, uh, has been mildly used of God and his family has been used, uh, throughout time in China, Taiwan, Japan, um, and, uh, rich, when I met him was a part of a church in Minnesota that Jim McCraken, I don't know if some of you may remember Jim McCracken.

So Jim, the Kraken, so Jim McCraken and Chuck porta and, and rich were serving together at this church city on a city, on a hill, right.

Or city hill.

And, uh, and then rich became the, the lead pastor of that.

And then out of that church, they planted a church in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.

And he said, it's just now warming up there.

And I said, wow, I, we may need to take a trip because it's been, have, have you noticed this year, it's been warm.

It's been almost hot.

So, uh, but we give God.

It's good.

It's all good.

Right.

So, um, I, when we were praying about cuz normally we would have Clem come because he's connected to our church, but we really felt as an elder team that rich needed to come and speak to us this morning.

Um, he's written some books and the Lord used him over time to help plant churches.

He's planted churches himself.

And we just really believe that the, the principle of multiplication is a biblical principle concerning uh, God's people and how he wants to work in his kingdom.

And so we want to, without any further ado, we wanna welcome rich, go to speak to us this morning.

Can you please give him a hand and welcome him?

Thank you so much, Tyler, for that introduction, it's been great to be in Knoxville and to be at the conference here.

It was a, a coming together of, of three different churches.

And so, uh, if you weren't part of the conference, no worries.

It's great to just be with God's people.

You know, one of the exciting things when you travel around the world is to see how there's a kindred spirit, wherever you go.

Yeah.

And it doesn't matter what tribe, what nation, what people, what ethnicity, the spirit of Christ just brings us together.

And so I can be in the deep south, I can be, uh, in Asia, I can be in Europe and, and Jesus is there and it's so precious.

Uh, there's no other organization in the world that has that blessing.

We come together and, and the Lord is the focus, you know, as we sang about this morning, just, um, just maybe a couple quick additional comments.

Yeah.

Uh, I've been pastoring for 30 years and my wife and I, we just passed a really important milestone.

Two weeks ago, we turned our church over, uh, to a new senior pastor.

And so we are now embarking on church planting.

We're very, very excited about that.

Uh, originally I was ministering out of Minneapolis.

We have four kids, they're all adult children now 30, 28, 25 and 23.

And so we're empty nesters and free to go as the holy spirit moves us.

And we are really, really grateful for that.

So as, um, pastor mentioned here, he just asked me to focus my thoughts on the ministry of multiplication.

And I wanna come at it from a, a little bit different angle, maybe a sort of like navigate the plane from 30,000 feet down to 5,000 feet.

And I wanna offer up this phrase to this morning, which is practical is powerful.

The ministry of multiplication practical is power and powerful.

And we're gonna look at two, relatively unknown people in the Bible, but they are so dynamic.

And I think as we look into their story this morning, hopefully it'll be encouraging to us.

And those two people are Tabitha and archist Tabitha and archist maybe you don't even know their names, but hopefully after the message today, you'll be better acquainted.

So I wanna jump into acts chapter nine and read, uh, this section of scripture, which introduces Tabitha to us.

So in verse 36, it says in Joppa, there was a disciple named Tabitha who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.

At that time, however, she became sick and died and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

So we're not talking.

Okay.

It just instantly happened.

She's already been dead for a while.

They're sort of going through the funeral preparations since, uh, Lydia was near Joppa, uh, Lida, pardon me?

The disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to urge him come to us without delay.

So the great apostle Peter was in the area.

Tabitha had died and they're like, oh man, we gotta go grab the great apostle.

So Peter got up after the appeal, came to him, went to them, verse 39 on his arrival.

They took him to the upper room.

All the widows stood around him weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Tabitha had made while she was still with them.

Then Peter sent them out of the room, knelt down, prayed, turning toward her body, said, Tabitha, get up.

She opened her eyes and seen Peter.

She sat up, Peter took her by the hand, helped her up.

Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.

What a moment?

Right?

Just this precious woman that was in the church.

And all of a sudden the prayer was prayed and she was resurrected from the dead.

This became known all over Joppa and many people believed in the Lord.

So God, we just bow our heads before you, as we come to the word of God, we thank you that the holy spirit is the one that quickens life to us.

You take the word of God and you make it real.

And you penetrate our hearts and we ask, holy spirit, you would do that this morning.

We give this time to you.

We give you praise in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So as I mentioned, I'm gonna focus on this woman called Tabitha.

But my starting point is with a man by the name of Archus.

So you might be asking who is Archus.

I didn't even know that he was in the Bible.

Well, in FA Leman chapter one, Paul states this writing to his friend, Paul, a prisoner of Christ, Jesus and Timothy brother to FA Leman our beloved fellow worker to AIA our sister to archist there he is our fellow soldier and to the church that meets at your house, we can back it up there.

I'm not gonna sh yeah.

Archist was someone that loved the Lord.

He was motivated to make his life count for Jesus.

And this verse tells us that he was involved in church planting.

He was involved in a church planting scenario with FileMan and AIA.

And you can't be involved in a greater ministry of multiplication than church planting churches are God's organizational servant in the earth.

Church.

Planting is God's viral method for multiplying his glory and bringing transformation in the earth.

Whether it's in the smallest of villages or the biggest of mega cities, the church is the apple of God's eye.

Did you know this morning that you are the apple of God's eye and archist was involved in this startup situation, helping the house church get off the ground.

He was faithful.

And Paul referred to him as a fellow soldier, not just a soldier, but a fellow soldier.

And we know what a kind of soldier Paul was.

He was vigorous.

He was determined.

He was tough.

You read about all the things that he went through in terms of being beaten persecuted.

And Paul says arch Capus is that kind of soldier.

He's a fellow soldier with me.

So we're not talking about sort of a low grade believer.

We're talking about someone who stout someone who's strong and committed rugged doesn't complain.

Cuz that word soldier is a very powerful descriptor.

Takes orders.

Well is dependable, responsible and trustworthy.

So we have this little nugget, this little bio of Archus and who he is.

But somewhere along the way, archist lost his zeal.

He lost his fervor.

He lost his zip to the point that he was just a pew sitter, inactive taking in messages, but not doing anything anymore.

He wasn't fruitful or serving.

Maybe not unlike many of us in our churches where we've lost our passion in these days.

So in Colosians four 17, we read Paul says to Archus take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord that you may fulfill it.

So Paul had interacted with Archus.

He was in the house church that FileMan had started.

He saw the zeal, but somehow it just ebbed away.

And so he writes to the Colosian church, but he has this little verse at the end.

Hey, remind Archus to take heed to the ministry and the calling that God has given to him in these last days, we cannot afford to be arches.

We can't afford to be on the sidelines.

We need every worker on deck.

The days are dark.

We need to be active.

The church needs to rise up.

We need to be the city on a hill.

We need to be the salt of the earth.

We can't be sitting in the pews and letting our calling in ministry waste away.

We need to take heed to the ministry that God has given to us.

Are you an archist this morning?

Do you feel like that?

You've let go of the rope.

Have you let go of your call and service, have the can of worm and locus been eating at you that you've been learning about in the book of Joel can of worm of bitterness or unforgiveness or anger or jealousy or regret the enemy comes in and he just eats away at you, takes away your vitality, SAPs your energy and SAPs your vision.

And you just feel passive.

Now you feel like the energy has been drained out of you.

You're out of commission and you're not helping in the ministry of multiplication.

Every church has their arches.

And part of what the spirit is doing in this hour is reawakening and reactivating the arches.

Amen.

Every single one of us has a call.

God created you before the foundation of the earth.

We read Genesis and our breath is taken away.

The trees and the mountains and the birds.

And it says that Adam was created on the sixth day.

But actually the Bible says you were created.

You were in the heart of God before the foundations of the earth.

He created all of this for you and me.

He created you with purpose and with a calling.

And so these, this word that comes to Archus from Paul is so timely.

We have to take heat to the ministry that God has given us.

And this is where Tabitha comes in.

If she were to have a heart to heart talk with Archus, she would have some keen wisdom for him on how to get going again.

Because the last thing we want to do is bury our talents and waste our calling.

And here is what Tabitha would say to Archus.

Practical is powerful.

Sometimes the most powerful way to be spiritual is to be practical.

When we read this passage in acts chapter nine, it's easy to focus on Peter.

Yes, right?

Typically, if we wanna focus on just the power of God and the glory of God, and we wanna elevate Peter and James and John and Elijah and John, the Baptist, that's the ministry you want, let's have an altar call and the holy Spirit's gonna fill all of you with signs, wonders and miracles.

Of course, that's exciting.

And God is gonna give you some of you that kind of anointing.

That's the kind of ministry of multiplication that I'd like to have, but that's not the person that I wanna focus on in this story.

Put the spotlight on Tabitha and not on Peter.

She's the Herald that I wanna zero in on few years back when my kids were still young, God sent a Tabitha to my wife and I, and she was my mother-in-law I've always admired my mother-in-law.

She was an honest, hardworking person, good to a word, gone through a lot of difficulties in her life.

And she never complained.

And so as we started to grow our family and she would come from Canada, I was living in, we were living in Minneapolis at that time.

And she would come from Vancouver and live with us for months at a time and help us with the babysitting and, you know, just keeping the chaos down.

And she would teach our little babies to smile.

And my wife had a, um, a condition of eczema.

And so she could not put her hands in the dishwasher and the dish water, um, very often cuz it would just inflame and, and exacerbate her conditions.

So I always did the dishes, but when my mother-in-law came, she just chewed me outta the kitchen.

She goes, I'm doing the dishes all the time.

It's like, wow, what a blessing.

I actually enjoy doing the dishes.

It, it kind of is a time for me to decompress and it's kind of a bit mindless, but I enjoy it.

But here she came, she says, Nope, I'm doing the dishes.

And uh, I have a sweet tooth.

Uh, I grew up in, in Minnesota where the Scandin evenings made just great pastries.

The Danish pastry fame is real.

And uh, so I love my pies.

I love my cakes and I, and I would have this cookie jar and my wife would never refill it because she'd say rich, I don't want you to get fat but every morning when I got up, my mother-in-law would've refilled that cookie jar.

It's like, oh my gosh, an angel has come into our home.

I would go on a fast, it'd be bread and water and I'd, I'd get to the kitchen.

And my mother-in-law would've sliced thick slices of fresh baked bread for me.

I go, man, this is amazing.

Everywhere we turned, we were reminded of her presence.

We were reminded of her good deeds.

And when it came time for her to go back to, to Canada, we all cried.

I cried and, and, and balded like a baby because my Tabitha was going home.

Her presence was so powerful.

And why is practical?

So powerful?

Well Lydia's life tells us why.

And I wanna draw out a few points here.

The first is that practical is endearing.

It says that the widows were weeping.

I knew how the widows felt of all the charity that I experienced from my mother-in-law.

These widows experienced that same charity.

There's nothing like a deed which meets a need.

Now there are deeds that we do that bless people, but they don't necessarily meet a need.

But when you reach out and you meet a need, it truly blesses in a deep way.

When I was in graduate school, I was living with my roommate and I was praying one morning.

And the Lord said, I want you to make your roommate's lunch every day.

I thought, what guys don't do that for guys.

That's just not macho, right?

I'm not gonna make a sandwich and pack.

'em a bag lunch every single day.

That's just weird.

But it was so clear to me that I was to do that.

So every single day he would go off to work.

I would go off to my classes and he he'd go out the door.

I hand him a sack lunch.

I go, here's your lunch.

The first day that happened.

He goes, what is this?

I go, it's your lunch.

He goes, what?

I said, God told me, I'm supposed to make you your lunch.

Every single day.

I did it for a whole year.

There were a couple days in which he had left the house without picking up his lunch.

And the God said, drive his lunch to his work and give it to him.

it was character developments learning about servanthood.

I, I didn't know all that God was doing, but I knew that I had to be faithful to that fast forward finished my graduate years, got my first job moved into this, um, family that was at the church that I was going to.

And on my first day of going to work, as I was going out the door, the mother house handed me a brown bag.

And I said, what is this?

Wow.

She said, it's your lunch?

I said, what?

She says, we have five boys in this house.

What is it to make another lunch here?

It is for you.

Wow.

You so kindness.

You reap kindness.

Yeah.

I wasn't looking to have bag lunches made for me.

I was just trying to be obedient to God, but here it happened.

Came around full circle.

God, you're amazing.

Practical is endearing.

Practical is also powerful because it's concrete.

The Bible says that Tabitha made tunics and garments like tangible stuff that you can hold.

Yes.

We love to receive prayer.

Yes.

We love to send out emails and, and get the little Prairie emoji back that someone's praying for us.

but practical is concrete and there was tunics and garments that were made and not everyone can relate to spiritual things, but everyone can relate to concrete things.

Part of the reason why the multitudes in Israel followed after Jesus was because he was so concrete.

He multiplied the bread for 5,000 men.

Yeah.

Commentators say that actually it was over 10,000 people that were there.

They were hungry.

They were under the hot Israeli son.

It was time to have lunch.

And the apostles did not do their administrative job.

They didn't order in the food trucks.

They didn't prep any meals.

So Jesus, okay.

I gotta make lunch for them.

Multiplies the bread, endless fed every single one of them.

The Bible says they ain't until they were filled.

That's such a kingdom value.

I always tell my staff never run out of food.

Ever.

Jesus was always make us, make sure that we are filled.

And here is the object lesson.

If you didn't notice this little detail, it says when they fed the 5,000, there were 12 extra baskets left over every single apostle got to hold.

One of those extra baskets.

That's my care.

That's my love.

That's my provision.

The kingdom is that practical.

Wow.

What an object lesson God gave to them, had a missionary friend in Japan and Japan is very prone to earthquakes.

And um, as part of just his outreach to some of the families in the neighborhood, he bought some locks for the cabinets so that when the house would shake, they wouldn't open and the dishes wouldn't fall out.

So he bought these locks that you could just clip on to the cabinets.

The kids would not get hurt.

Wasn't a big deal.

But the lady said every time an earthquake came and the cabinet doors stayed shut, we thought of you, just a simple little thing.

Practical is concrete practical, also communicates thoughtfulness and care.

It says that Tabitha ministered to those who were especially in need the widows.

There's two groups in the Bible that God particularly looks out for orphans and widows.

They're the most vulnerable.

They don't have their normal covering.

There's a sense where they're disconnected.

They don't belong.

The family is not there.

And God is a special heart for the orphans and widows.

And Tabitha captured that heart from the Lord.

And she went and she provided clothing for them, kni him with her own hands.

One of the last things that Jesus did on the cross as he was hanging there on the cross and his mother was there and the disciple was there.

He said to the apostle John, this will be your new mother, woman, behold, your son, John behold, your mother, John 19.

He transferred the custodianship of his mom to the apostle John that must have melted his mother's heart.

While back my wife had purchased some new furniture and she was thinking about how to lay it out in the living room.

And I don't know what got into my daughter.

She didn't wait for me.

She started moving the furniture for her mom so that she could put it in the right space, in the right place.

There was this new rug and, and she just did that.

And it just so touched my wife's heart three years ago, just before COVID I was flying into Taiwan for a ministry time and I had a kidney stone attack.

I got off the plane and I was in bad shape.

In fact, my kidneys were already failing.

Um, the doctor said, really, we should be having you on dialysis, but I, I really felt a peace from God to just go.

So I went, unfortunately, when I came off the plane, I experienced this attack and the church that I was going to was a large church.

And the chief surgeon of the, one of the most famous hospitals in Taiwan was going to that church.

So they said, no worries.

We'll get you into this hospital.

This surgeon is renowned throughout the country.

He has so much, I mean, this had like 2000 doctors under him.

And they said, when he looks at water, it freezes.

I mean, that that's how much authority he has.

so he actually took care of me.

And I literally got the V I P treatment.

I got into the hospital at 10:00 AM in the morning by 6:00 PM.

I was in the, or, and they were removing my kidney stones, full test of blood ultrasound, everything.

And they had a, a big group with all the specialists.

And they got me into the operating room, took out my kidney stones and it was all taken care of.

I actually was able to preach in the conference in 36 hours after that.

But here's the thing that touched me as I was recovering in my room, the chief of surgery came in and brought me slippers toothbrush, a washcloth wash, a wash cloth, and a cup of Starbucks for me, the way they minimize cost in Taiwan, medical cost is they don't give you all the extra stuff.

Your family brings it instead of being charged by the hospital.

And of course, I didn't have any family, cuz I was just there for this ministry trip.

And in the midst of his busyness, he went and bought all this stuff for me and gave it to me.

I go, I can't believe you did this.

So touched that such a powerful busy man would take time out of his schedule to do that.

Practical communicates that thoughtfulness and care practical also creates advocates in verse 38.

As we read, it says that Tabitha's friends sent these two men to Peter in treating them.

How many of you want friends and advocates in your life?

A lot of times we feel lonely.

We just sit there and we're hoping for someone to come to us and reach out to us.

And yeah, that's, that's part of community is to be reached out to, but sometimes we need to take the initiative to lay a foundation of friendship and fellowship in our life to start serving and multiplying and giving yourself away so that you are building your own community.

Vancouver is one of the loneliest cities in north America where we planted our church.

It's one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

If some of you have been there, you know what I'm talking about?

Pacific ocean, the mountains world class mountains, the 2010 Olympics was in Vancouver because of world class skiing.

We've got the Pacific ocean right there.

In fact, you look out our church, our river that's we can see from our church building goes straight into the Pacific ocean.

I mean, it's crazy beautiful, but it's one of the most lonely disconnected places in Canada.

And what's the cure.

Get out there and serve, multiply yourself, give yourself away, start your own community.

Do it by serving just one and two and three.

And then watch the people in your circle grow.

You will have advocates.

You will have people that will have your back.

And this is what happened to Lydia.

When she died, verse 30, eight and 30, it says they Interceed for her.

They got the attention of the busy apostle Peter.

They were not to be denied.

And of course Lydia was resurrected in, in verse 40.

It's so powerful.

It said where sea here that the effect of Tabitha's Tabitha's love was so powerful that Peter King had this massive testimony in verse 42, many believed in the Lord.

Just think she started out just knitting stuff.

And it ends with multitude of people getting saved is that multiplication or what?

She wasn't an evangelist.

She didn't have the gift of healing, but somehow in the economy of God, in the chain of God, it all led to this harvest.

We do our part.

We walk in our calling, we get off our Duffs.

We say I'm not gonna be an Archus anymore.

I know there's a call on my life.

I need to get out of my own passivity and I need to be reactivated by the holy spirit by golly, I'm gonna take up Tabitha's advice start practically.

And then we see in verse 39, that practical is the evidence of active faith.

You know, we talk about information overload.

The world's knowledge is doubling every week.

That's crazy.

The prophet Daniel prophesy that in the last days, men will travel to and fro and knowledge will increase.

We have so much knowledge.

We are putting man on the moon.

We have medical technologies vaccines.

Don't think of it in a negative sense right now.

But I tell people the creation of vaccines is a similar human achievement, like putting man on the moon.

Yeah.

And here's why, how do you discover something?

That's invisible viruses and bacteria are invisible.

How do you study something that's invisible?

And then once you actually discover something that's invisible, how do you know that it creates an illness in you?

And when you find out that it creates an illness in you, how do you come up with a cure for that?

That's the invisible realm.

And somehow God has given us the power of discovery and ingenuity to go into that world.

And we have the world of medicine.

We have the world of vaccines.

That is a common grace that God has given to humanity.

It's powerful stuff.

When we talk about this evidence of faith and there's this overload of information that's coming to us, there's also an overload of spiritual information.

That's coming to us.

We hear, and we listen and we hear, and we listen, but where is the demonstration of faith?

Where is the activation of faith?

And Lydia did not have a shortage of faith.

She did not have a shortage of activation and the tunics and the garments represented the fact that she was fully engaged.

Jesus said in the last days, one of the signs of the last days is that there is a shortage of faith.

Luke 19, Jesus taught them this parable how to pray and to never give up.

But then he says this in verse eight, will he find faith on earth?

When the son of man comes, we cry out to the Lord, save me, rescue me, help me.

But then we walk away and we're not continuing on in that faith.

Matthew 24, the Lord says that many will fall away.

Betray one another and lawlessness will increase.

Therefore most people's love will grow cold.

It's hard to stay hot for Jesus.

It's hard to stay warm for Jesus.

Do you know in the original language that world word for cold is refrigerate.

That's a powerful picture.

Our hearts will get so cold.

It'll get so distant.

It gets so passive that in the church context, we end up becoming like arches, but Lydia had no shortage of faith.

She would not be an archist.

She understood that to show her faith.

She had to get practical and the widow showed Peter the evidence of that faith.

Let me end with this story.

It's a story about a lady by the name of Sonya.

And it's an illustration of Isaiah 58, where it says that when we step out in obedience to the Lord, our light will shine as the morning sun when we stoop to serve.

So soya tells this story that she was going through the, the checkout stand at the grocery store.

And she said, as I glanced out the window, a mother and her two children caught my eye.

Their poverty was obvious, thin, bony hands, sunken, eyes, tattered, clothes, underscored, their acute need.

They clung together, outside the store.

All I could think about was that they needed a decent meal and some warm clothes.

And my heart was tugged towards them.

I picked up my two sack of groceries, walked out the door and handed this dear mother and her kids, my groceries, their face lit up.

We made small talk and I left.

By the way, I just heard a testimony of a guy who was at the gas station.

He saw this lady filling up the tank and God said, we're pay for her gas.

Yeah.

She broke down and cried.

Sonya goes on.

She says, the Lord prompted me to pray for these dear folks.

So I did several year.

Several weeks later, I spotted them again, followed them home.

Now I knew where they lived.

I continued to pray.

The Lord prompted me to buy some woman's shoes.

Take them to her, but I didn't know her size.

I figured the Lord did purchased the shoes, hiked over to her house, gave it to her.

Didn't say anything about Jesus.

Then the Lord prompted me to buy the children.

Some sweaters purchased them, made my way to the house.

Kids were delighted.

I didn't say anything about Jesus.

Then God told me to take some handker chips over no big deal.

But apparently it was part of God's agenda.

We visited again.

I returned home and I continued in prayer.

Finally, God prompted me to buy some woman's underwear, kind of an unusual prompting.

I prayed about it a little longer to understand if I really heard from the Lord, but I made the purchase showed up at so at my friend's doorstep and delivered the package.

The dear lady looked inside and was elated, but became very upset.

How is it?

She said that you were able to listen in on the conversations between my husband and myself.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Sonya said, well then how do you know our needs?

Well, God tells me, well, he must, because several months ago I was waiting for the bus.

The street was muddy.

I stepped into the bus, as it was pulling away and left a shoe in the mud.

It was the only pair that I owned.

When I got home, I explained to my husband what had happened, turns out he's an alcoholic.

He drinks up everything.

He brings home.

He told me if I was dumb enough to leave a shoe in the mud, I could go without shoes that afternoon, you showed up with a pair of shoes.

Several weeks later, the weather started getting cold school was soon to start.

I asked my husband, if I could get some sweaters for the kids to replace their rags, I got cursed out for even suggesting it.

Then you showed up with the sweaters.

The kids caught cold.

And I asked if I could buy them Hanks.

It was just a little thing, but my husband said no.

And then you showed up with Hanks.

And as you know, I've been looking for work.

I finally found a perspective employer who thought he might have a place for me.

He told me I'd have to have a physical to get the job.

I knew I'd feel a lot more secure about the physical.

If I had some decent underwear.

And then you showed up with some new underwear, is it any wonder that this woman came to faith in Christ?

So my message this morning is super simple, but I hope that you really take it to heart.

That practical is powerful.

It's a ministry of multiplication.

It's a cure for the archist that might be inside of us.

The Greek, their root for Tabitha means gazelle.

And it means that God wants us to run with this idea.

Dear Jesus, we looked to you this morning.

We thank you that our faith can be so real.

And so concrete.

We're believing for signs and wonders in these last days.

But we know God that you've given us so many passages that talk about being charitable in a practical way.

There's some of you right now, as you've been hearing this message, you were prompted to some things that you could do.

There's some things that were, you were reminded of by the holy spirit ways that you can reach out in a very tangible way.

I encourage you to act on it, to not let it go.

And God is going to open some doors for you in the similar ways that you've heard from the scriptures here, there's gonna be some salvation.

Yes, that will happen in this church because of your charity.

Thank you, Lord.

There's gonna be some families that will be healed because of your charity.

And there are some of you who are arches and you're thinking, nah, that's not for me.

But the holy spirit is going to keep putting sort of this, the hound of heaven on you, because you have so much to contribute and you are robbing this church by not rising up and being reawakened to walk in the calling that God has given you father.

There are so many ways in which we can serve in the ministry of multiplication.

Thank you for this little lesson and this little jewel that you show us through the life of Tabitha.

We bless you now in Jesus name.

Amen.