Bucks and Stuff Week 4-Pastor Kipp

Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Life House turn to somebody to give them a high five.

Tell them it's good to see you in God's house this morning.

It's good to see you in God's house this morning.

Man, it was like three high fives.

Turn somebody seriously.

Turn somebody.

Tell them it's looking good.

Tell them it's good to see them on a Sunday.

Yeah, come on.

Hey, listen, I appreciate so much hearing you all worship God together.

I hear the voices.

I see the hands go up.

Just continue to do that.

I can't tell you how important it is to come into God's presence and to acknowledge Him,

to let Him know He is Lord and He is God.

We come together to sing.

We don't do that just strictly out of tradition.

We don't do that just because that's what you do when you go to church.

You sing a song unto the Lord.

For some people, they just want to hear the song.

You sing and you step into God's presence.

Here's what I do sometimes.

You can do this if you want to, but sometimes I just close my eyes and I pretend that I'm

in heaven and I'm walking right before God and I'm singing to Him.

It changes your whole perspective when you're singing.

I'm not checking the coffee, those kind of things.

You watch all those kind of things.

You're on your phone.

You're just coming into God's presence.

You visualize yourself there because you are when you're coming in before the Lord.

I appreciate, I hear the voices.

I see the hands.

Just step into His presence because it is in His presence that everything changes.

It's just true.

I've seen it over and over again over the decades that I've had the opportunity to be

in ministry.

I've just watched God do that.

So just a little word of encouragement this morning.

Please step into worship.

Continue to do that.

Continue to press through because God meets us truly there.

Amen?

Listen, this is the last message in the series called Bucks and Stuff.

You can see it on the wall on both sides.

Bucks and Stuff.

And there's so much more that I could talk about when it comes to money and possessions

and in God's Word because the Lord has a lot to say about our money, about our possessions.

And I've only done this for four messages.

This is the last one.

And if you've not got a chance to educate yourself and what God's Word has to say, I'm

going to challenge you to do that.

Please find out what God's Word has to say.

Spend some time, right?

Study God's Word.

Get resources.

I tell people all the time, don't depend on just a message or sermon.

You know what a message or a sermon is like from a pastor?

I call it an appetizer.

I'm going to give you a food analogy right now.

A message is like an appetizer and it should make you hungry for the main course.

The main course you've got to dig in and study on your own, right?

How many of you live on appetizers, you're going to get sick, right?

You're not going to be healthy.

Don't just live off of messages.

Get into God's Word.

Find out what it has to say about bucks and stuff and you can check and make sure I got

my theology right when I'm preaching.

Amen?

Check it for yourself.

So, 2 Timothy 2, 14 says this, remind them of these things, charging them before the

Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers, but be diligent

to present yourself approved to God.

Some translations will say study to show yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need

to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.

Get into God's Word.

Find out what it has to say about bucks and stuff and anything else that you need to know

about in life.

It's there.

Study and find out what it says.

And before we kick off this last message, before I really get into the meat of this

message, I just want us to go in prayer.

And I want you to pray, not over God's Word, because God's Word is already blessed, but

over your hearts and your minds so that you take in what God's saying this morning.

You do that with me this morning?

If you bow your heads.

Father, we come to you just grateful and thankful for your Son Jesus.

We thank you for the Holy Spirit.

Lord, we thank you for the Word of God that we go into on each Sunday and Wednesdays and

Thursdays and God in our life groups.

And Lord, we just dive in to see what your Word has to say.

And Lord, as we come today, God, I pray, God, that your Word will permeate our spirits and

our hearts and our minds and God, that it would be fruitful when it lands in those places.

And Lord, we just give you praise and we give you glory.

We know your Word's already blessed.

Lord, help us, Lord, to take it in and apply it.

We just give you praise and everybody say it together.

Amen.

Amen.

Well, how many of you know this?

We experience increase later because of what we're doing right today.

We experience increase later because of what we're doing right today.

What I save, what I invest today will have everything to do with increase at a later

date.

Now, if I eat a bunch of food now, how many know that's going to increase my waistline

later?

Come on, it's true, right?

I'm living proof.

If I study in school today and I increase in knowledge, I'll pass the test later.

I'll get the diploma later.

I might even be able to get a job with that diploma later, right?

If I get the job this month, I'll get the increase and I'll be able to pay my bills

next month.

When it comes to our bucks and stuff, what we experience increase later because of what

we're doing right now.

If I save now, I can expect to experience increase later.

If I save some bucks on the expected day, I'll be prepared for the unexpected day.

If I set some seed back this year, it will become my provision for next year.

Farmers understand this.

They get this.

They understand.

They understand saving seed, right?

From today's increase, from today's harvest, so they experience increase in provision for

tomorrow.

A farmer will harvest corn.

Let's say, how many know what corn is?

Raise your hand if you know corn.

You've eaten some corn.

Thank you.

All right, just checking if you're still with me, right?

They'll raise corn and they'll raise field corn.

I grew up out in the country and a lot of farmers around our area had cows and they

would raise field corn.

Do you know what they do once they raise the corn and they get ready to harvest the corn?

They harvest the corn and they don't have their cows eat all the corn in one month.

They don't feed all the cows and say, let's just eat this all up in one month, right?

They don't sell all of their harvest.

They don't give it all away.

They don't dump it on the back of a field somewhere because they know that they got

to save a portion of that corn for next year.

They got to save a portion of that corn to put into the ground, right?

Saving a portion of the harvest today brings an increase tomorrow.

If a farmer does this every single year, right?

If they've got a place in their barn, they might put the corn in a silo somewhere that

we used to put them in years in a corn crib.

If you put that, they put it somewhere and they store it away.

They feed their animals all winter long.

In the next year, they've got seed to put back in the ground.

If they put it back in the ground, they grow another crop.

They repeat the cycle again.

They put some seed away, right?

They say some.

And guess what?

You got this perpetual increase that's taking place because of what they say today.

They've got harvest tomorrow.

It sounds super easy.

It sounds completely obvious, right?

It sounds like we should all understand this, but do you know that one in four Americans,

28%, have savings below less than $1,000 in their account, right?

This is the case for 32% of Gen Zs, followed by millennials at 31%, Gen X 27%, and baby

boomers at 20%.

Our ability to move into the future God has for us may very well depend on what you're

saving up today.

That's with our bucks and our stuff and in so many other areas.

When Dixie and I were called into full-time ministry, and that was 20 plus years ago when

we were called into a full-time position, I took a 50% pay cut to take that ministry

position.

I was called to be a children and youth pastor.

I was over children and youth.

I was much younger back in that time.

We could only make that move because we had seed in the savings account.

We didn't eat all our seed previous to that.

We had done youth ministry on a volunteer and part-time basis for a decade plus before

that.

During that time, I was working a job and we were putting money away.

We had money in savings.

When I got the opportunity to take a position that was in Camp Hill as a children and youth

pastor, we were able to make that leap because we had saved some money.

We had seed set back.

I'm not sure we'd have been able to make that move into full-time ministry if we'd have

eaten all our seed.

If we'd have used up everything we made previous to that point in time, I don't think we'd

have been able to make the move.

If I wouldn't have been able to make that move, I wouldn't have went on staff as a children

and youth pastor.

We wanted to serve there for four years.

In the last year of that calling, God called us to plant Lifehouse.

We came to Carlisle and we started out of our house with two families and began to grow

and went into a skating rink.

We bought this place.

We're now at two gatherings a year.

All that wouldn't have happened if we wouldn't have had seed set aside.

Our ability to move into the future that God has for us may very well depend on what you're

saving today.

We get ourselves into all kinds of trouble if we eat our seed, all of our seed, in the

time of harvest.

If we consume all of the bucks the Lord has blessed us with and saved nothing.

And even God's smallest creature, some of His smallest creatures understand this bucks

and stuff principle.

Proverbs 6, if you've got your Bible, if you want to go to Proverbs 6, chapter 6 is going

to be verse 6 and it says this, go to the aunt, you sluggard.

I love that phrase, I don't know why.

It's just funny.

Go to the aunt, you sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain,

overseer or ruler provides herself supplies in the summer and gathers her food in the

harvest.

Aunts don't have rulers, they don't have bosses, overseers, they're self-disciplined.

God's put this innately in them.

Now listen, I don't understand aunt culture.

I know some of you are looking at me like, did you study this?

No, I did not.

If we got any science teachers or people that are outdoorsy that understand it, you can

talk to them afterwards.

But listen, the word of God says they save up.

And verse 9 says, how long will you slumber, oh sluggard?

When will you rise from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep?

So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler and your need like an armed man.

A bug, say a bug, a bug, an ant knows better than to eat all their seed.

They don't consume all their bucks and their stuff.

They hide some away in the time of harvest to sustain themselves in the winter.

They gather in the summer.

They're not lazy, they don't sit on their backsides hoping everything just works out

someday.

They don't just sit and munch and munch and munch and forget everything.

They gather in the time of increase so they've got something in the time of lack.

Our ability to move into God's future that he has for us may depend upon what you're

saving up today.

It's true.

It's in your bucks, in your stuff, and in just about every other area of life.

And this little description of the ant teaches us a thing or two from God's word about what

saving up really should look like in our lives.

Things like this.

Things like when is it the right time to begin to save?

When's a great time to begin to save for your future?

Well it's the right time.

Is it early in life?

Is it when you're eight, nine, maybe 12 years old, right?

Get your first chore to pay somewhere along the way?

Is it that early in life?

Or is it maybe in your early 20s where you begin to save?

And you get that first job or you begin to launch your career.

Maybe it's when you're in your middle age.

How many know?

Well middle age, right?

I just stay in middle age.

No matter what age I am, I just stay on middle age.

All right?

I'm middle age.

I'm 50ish.

Okay?

So yeah, maybe a couple extra issues on there.

All right?

But you know, so is it in that mid-life time?

Is that when you begin to save?

Is it late in life?

Do you just wait until you're in your 60s and 70s and figure life's almost over so I'm

just going to start packing money away?

No, right?

Come on.

What should we save?

We save any time we're harvesting or realizing an increase in our lives.

That's what we learn from the end.

Any time we're harvesting or we're realizing an increase in our lives, that's the time

to begin to save.

Any time we see increase in our bucks, right?

That's the time that you start saving for the future.

There's not a particular season of life when it's okay or when it's proper to begin.

It's not an age thing.

It's not 10.

It's not 30.

It's not 60, 70 or 80, right?

Or 90 even.

It's not when I'm making a bunch of money or a little bit of money.

How many of you can make a little bit sometimes and sometimes you can make a bunch, right?

It's any time.

Say any time.

Any time the Lord's bringing increase into your life should be a time when you're saving

for the future.

My grandfather was great with managing money.

He did not have a high paying job but he was incredible at saving money and managing money

and he used to pull me aside even as a kid and he'd say those little sayings that grandparents

do sometimes that I do with my kids and grandkids, right?

And he'd say, Kip, you need to save some bucks for a rainy day.

He pulled me aside, puts on, you need to save some bucks for a rainy day because he says,

Kip, it's going to rain.

It's going to rain.

It's going to rain.

How many know it's going to rain?

Yeah, I don't talk about the wet stuff we had last night, right?

The car's going to break down.

The kids are going to need braces.

The dog will have to go to the vet because he dug up a soup bone in the backyard and

bit down and it's flipped over his eye teeth and you're going to have to pay, oh sorry,

that was a little story of mine.

All right.

And you're going to have to pay the vet lots of money, right?

You're going to break or destroy something.

Something's going to blow up or cave in, right?

It's true.

It's going to fall apart when you don't expect it to.

It's going to rain, people.

It's going to rain.

Tell your neighbor, prophesy for the person beside you right now.

Tell them it's going to rain.

It's going to happen.

Tell your kids, right?

It's going to rain.

So when's the right time to save up for a rainy day?

Any day God's given you increase in your life.

That's the time.

Anytime harvest is coming into your life.

Proverbs 10, 5 says this, a wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who keeps or one who

sleeps during the harvest is a disgrace.

Anytime there's harvest, anytime there's increase, say something up.

When I was a kid, one of my first paying jobs that actually paid me some money was I went

and I worked for a dairy farmer who lived up the road and we brought in hay.

Now back then we didn't have all the fancy equipment I see around the farms here today.

They had an old baler just dropped it down and we had to load it all by hand.

We had to chuck it up into a wagon somebody was stacking, right?

And then you had to drag it over to the barn and you had to throw it up into the hay mow.

And that was one of my jobs.

And one of the things that I learned that principle I learned just watching all that

is is that you store up for the winter time, right?

They brought in a lot of hay for the cows that they had and they made sure that the

barn was completely full.

They gathered in the harvest time so that there would be seed, right?

Or there would be provision when the time of lack came in the winter times.

Even at 14 years old, right?

I understood I started to see that you need to save in the day of increase.

Anytime there's increase in your life, it is the right time to save.

If you're a farmer, you save during the harvest.

If you're self-employed, whenever you send out the invoice and the pay, right?

And the check comes back in in the mail, that's increased.

That's the time, right?

If you got a job and you're employed and you receive a paycheck every two weeks or every

week or every month, once you get paid, that's the time you do it.

If you receive income in any other kind of way, it's harvest time.

Set a portion back.

Can I make a little statement?

Don't eat all your seed.

Don't do it.

It happens in the United States at an alarming rate.

If you're looking for a simple plan, a good biblical plan to do this, something that you

can remember in your mind and in your heart, I'm going to give you a little phrase.

Give to God first.

Okay, say it.

Give to God first.

Right?

Save second.

Spend third.

All right?

Give to God first.

Save second.

Right?

Spend third.

All right?

Say it again.

Give to God first.

Save second.

Spend third.

All right? Save second. Spend third.

You can start applying a little principle, and this is the starting point, right?

A 10-10-80 principle.

Ten percent to God, right?

You tithe off your income and you give ten percent to God, then you pay yourself ten

percent.

You put ten percent of your money into a savings account and you save up.

Then the 80 percent's for spending, right?

And I even alter that sometimes.

I make it a 10-10-10-70 rule, right?

Ten percent to God for tithe, ten percent to give and to be generous with, ten percent

to save and live off of the 70 percent.

It's a way to begin.

Any time there's increase, be like those pesky little ants and capitalize in saving up when

increase happens.

How many know ants are opportunists?

Amen, they are.

You drop a half a hamburger bite on the ground at your picnic, right?

Come on.

How many know there's a five-second rule?

Yeah, right?

Dixie actually read something online the other day.

She said the five-second rule has actually changed to 25 seconds because of the increased

price of groceries.

So many know there's a 25-second rule now, right?

Because they just cost too much.

Would you drop that half a bite of hamburger down onto the ground, and what happens at

half an hour later?

You come back, right, and there's 14 ants carrying your bite away.

It's just going, you don't even know how, you look down and your bite's moving across

the ground.

Because the ants are taking it back, right?

They got it going on.

They move, they get engaged when there's increase to be had.

This little ant passage in scripture teaches us about bucks and stuff, and it teaches us

an additional principle, too.

And it's this.

There's nothing to save if we never do anything about creating increase in our lives.

There's nothing to save if we don't ever do anything about creating increase in our lives.

We cannot save if we're not working towards creating some kind of increase.

We cannot create increase unless we go to work at something.

Tell someone sitting beside you, some of you want to do this for so long, turn somebody

beside you and tell them, go to work.

Come on, go to work.

Go to work, all right?

Go to work.

Oh, you engaged in that one.

Yeah, go to work, right?

And if you're married, if you're married in life, this might be a team effort, right?

One of you might be going to work and if you've got small children, one might be staying back

and working at home and taking care of the kids.

One's going out and earning some bucks, and you're doing this together in a joint effort.

You might be in a household where there's two people working.

Sometimes it's the husband and the wife working together.

You might be engaged in business or investment ventures of some kind to create increase,

right?

You might be independently wealthy, and if you are, we're a little jealous.

We'll just say that right out loud, all right?

We got to pray about that, but you might be managing a portfolio.

You might be retired and living on a fixed income, right?

And again, if you're retired, we're a little jealous as well, all right?

But you're working, you might be working a job independently wealthy.

You might have fixed income.

You might be retired or receiving all the provision you need in some way, but go to

work at something.

It might not be physical labor.

It might be physical labor.

It might be spiritual labor.

You might be praying or encouraging or exhorting somebody, right?

I mean, no, we need some exhorters, some people that are willing to lift other people up and

speak into their lives in a spiritual manner, right?

It might be that you write well, whether God, whatever God's given to you to use in the stage

that you're in, use it for His glory and go to work.

Work is biblical.

It is.

It's biblical for us to work in whatever capacity that I'm able to work, whatever God's given

me, right?

And as I thought about this, I thought about some people in history that were special at

this that kind of really took away any excuse I might have about not working.

And the first one I thought about, I remember learning about in school when I was a kid,

and that was a long time ago, right?

But how many know who Helen Keller is, right?

Helen Adams Keller.

All right.

What are they teaching school these days?

Come on, like five of you know, right?

She was born June 27th, 1880.

Helen Keller was an American author, a disability rights advocate, a political activist and

lecturer.

She was born in Alabama.

But the unique thing about Helen Keller is that she lost her sight at 19 months old.

She lost her vision and her hearing.

She couldn't hear or see at 19 months of age.

And she went to work.

She's known she's written in the history books.

How many of you have ever heard of Johnny Erickson Tata?

Anybody heard of her?

Johnny Erickson Tata.

If not, you need to look it up.

Google it.

Not right now, but do it later.

All right.

She was born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, the youngest of four daughters to John and

Lindy Erickson.

Her father participated in the 1932 Summer Olympics as an alternate for the United States

wrestling team.

And he was also honored at that.

He's a distinguished member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in the museum.

But with her example of her parents, Johnny lived a very active life all throughout her

years growing up.

She enjoyed riding horses, hiking, tennis and swimming.

But on July 30th, 1967, when she was 17 years old, she drove to she dove into the Chesapeake

Bay and after misjudging the shallowness of the water, she fractured her fourth and fifth

cervical vertebrae and became a quadriplegic, tetrapolegic, paralyzed from the shoulders

down.

During her two years of rehabilitation, according to her autobiography, Johnny experienced anger,

depression, suicidal thoughts and religious doubt.

However, say however, during occupational therapy, she learned to paint with a brush

between her teeth and began to sell her artwork.

She also writes this way, although most of the time at this point, she uses a recognition

software to write.

To date, she has written 40 books, recorded several musical albums and started an autobiographical

movie about her life.

She starred in it and is an advocate for people with disabilities.

She founded Johnny and Friends in 1979, an organization to accelerate Christian ministry

and disability communities throughout the world.

In 2007, Johnny and Friends International Disability Center in Agorah Hills, California

was established, led by Tata and John.

Johnny and Friends International Disability Center runs a multi-faceted nonprofit covering

a number of program outlets.

The longest running program is Johnny and Friends Radio, a five-minute radio program

that began in 1982 and still runs to this day.

It's five minutes in length and it's over a thousand different broadcasts that put it

out.

Paralyzed from the shoulders down, she goes to work.

The Lord designed us to work, to create increase, no matter what your age is, what your abilities

are at this point, right?

It's biblical.

Genesis 2 wants this, so the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them

was completed.

And on the seventh day, God had finished His work of creation.

So He rested from all His work and God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy because

it was the day when He rested from all His work of creation.

God worked six days and rested one, right?

Increase took place because of God's work.

You're here, right?

It's creation because of God's work.

Do your children a favor.

Teach them to work.

Teach them to love their work.

Teach them the satisfaction that comes along with work.

All through Proverbs, it tells us in Proverbs 13 and 11, wealth gained by dishonesty will

be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

Proverbs 12 and 11 says a hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies

has no sense.

Proverbs 13 and 14 says lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will

prosper.

Proverbs 12 and 24, work hard and become a leader.

Be lazy and become a slave.

Proverbs 14 and 23, work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty, right?

If we're conscious, if we're awake, we can work at something to bring increase into somebody's

lives and even into your own lives.

If we create increase, we can save now for someone's future.

I love the story Mark Patterson tells in his book Circle Maker.

He says this, Hony the wise one was also known as Hony the Circle Maker, and by drawing a

circle and stepping inside of it, he would recite special prayers for rain, sometimes

even argue with God during a drought, and the rains would come.

He was indeed a miracle maker, a wise, but as wise as he was, Hony sometimes saw something

that puzzled him.

Then he would ask questions so he could unravel the mystery.

One day Hony the Circle Maker was walking on the road and saw a man planting a carob

tree.

Hony asked the man, how long will it take for this carob tree to bear fruit?

The man replied, 70 years.

Hony then asked the man, and do you think you will live another 70 years and eat the

fruit of this tree?

The man answered, perhaps not.

However, when I was born into this world, I found many carob trees planted by my father

and my grandfather, just as they planted trees for me, and I'm planting trees for my children

and grandchildren so they will be able to eat the fruit of these trees.

Psalm 1322 says, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth

of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Pastor Eric is coming at this time at the East Shore campus.

I'm going to ask you to all stand.

We're going to get ready to pray in just a moment.

If you're listening online, thank you for being here with us and worshiping, and I want

you to find a place as well to get yourself aside to pray, to prepare your hearts.

But this message leads us at the end of this message series of bucks and stuff.

Work at something to create increase.

Work at something.

Maybe your monetary needs are covered and you can volunteer.

Maybe you need to provide for your family and you've got to work to create that increase.

Maybe it's not a monetary increase we're even talking about in somebody's life, but get

prepared.

It is what you are saving up now.

It's what you're doing in the increase that has everything to do with what God's going

to do in the future in your lives.

Do it now.

In the time of harvest, in the time of increase, set aside who knows what God's preparing for

you.

As I prepared this message and I thought about this moment in the message, I thought about

all the people that are in this house, and I think about all the, and I know a lot of

you, and I know some things that you're engaging in, and places you're going, and general directions

you're heading, and I'm thinking who knows, right?

God might have you saving up back here for where you're just about head to right now.

Maybe He's working something out in your life.

In the moment of increase, start saving up, start thinking, because He's got a future

plan for you, right?

This isn't just for one person or two, this is for all of you.

For anybody that calls on the name of the Lord, and if you're here this morning and

you don't know the Lord, you can.

He can set your steps.

The word of God says that the righteous steps are ordered by God.

But if you're in a time of increase right now, set something aside, because who knows

where God is taking you.

Follow that 10, 10, 80, the 10, 10, 10, 70.

Follow it and see what God does in your life.

Amen?

I believe that for the people that are in this house.

I believe that for those who are at East Shore.

I believe that for the people that are online this morning.

God wants to, God is always about launching us forward.

He's always working.

He's working back here, because He's going to do something out there.

He's working in the present, because He knows your past and where you're headed.

He does all that, all the time for you.

He's not like us, right?

If I stood on a chair, all I could see was four walls in this room.

He sees it all, in real time.

Actually, beyond time.

That's a whole other subject.

That's an awesome subject.

He knows it all.

How many of you want to be ready when the time comes?

When the time comes, when God launches you, just like He did Dixie and I, when that opportunity

came and He said, now's the time.

You can go full time.

Somebody made the offer.

If we wouldn't have been ready, we would have had to say no.

Who knows what God has for you?

I'm asking you to bow your heads this morning.

Lord, you know who's in this house.

God, I'm stirring in my spirit.

I know you're speaking to somebody.

God, I know there's different ones out here right now.

They need to acknowledge this.

God, whoever it is, young, old, somewhere in between, you're speaking to them right in

this moment.

I just want this just for your acknowledgement.

The Holy Spirit's speaking to you right now about something.

He's tugging on your heart.

If that's you, just raise your hand up, put it right back down.

Be honest.

Be honest.

Sometimes it's in the acknowledgement.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's in the acknowledgement that God speaks.

Lord, I pray for each one in the house.

I thank you for the hands that went up and God, for the ones that didn't.

Lord, I pray right now.

God, you're stirring in lives.

God, some of them, they're in a moment of increase right now.

God, they need to be setting aside because you're getting them ready to launch.

You're getting them ready to launch them and they're going to need the provision.

God, some of them, Lord, are in the launch spot.

Lord, they've already, God, been in a place where they've set aside.

God, you're getting ready to launch them forward.

God, they're stepping into new things.

Lord, I pray right now.

God, be with them, Lord.

Let them know that you're in the middle of their mix.

God, you're in the middle of wherever they're going.

God, you're in the middle of what you have for their future.

God, give them ears to hear, Lord, as they get ready to step through.

Give them a step-by-step plan as they go through.

God, even show them the small things, like what they need to do in that moment, what

they need to spend in that moment.

Right now, Lord, is a way of closing this message series out.

God, I pray your hand would be upon them.

I thank you for this.

In Jesus' name.

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