What open hands can hold

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, good morning, everyone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Good to see you, morning, everyone, joining us online or out in the parents room.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's great to be together today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the first thing I want you to do is turn to the person next to you and tell them the first car you ever drove.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first car could be the first car you ever owned or the first car you ever drove.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is if you're at driving age.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you guess you could say a dodging car or go car or something like that?

[SPEAKER_00]: The first car, I'm just here to bring up happy memories, guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just here to remind you of the good old days.

[SPEAKER_00]: And our hands up if you're still driving your first car.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone?

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a few down in this corner.

[SPEAKER_00]: A few still driving their very first car.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'm going to show you a photo now, not of my first car, but of one of the funnest cars I've ever driven.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a 1979 mini-moked Californian.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a four-speed manual.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Jody and I were in holidays in the sunshine coast in Queensland, and we picked up this little baby, and we drove it all day out past Australia Zoo, said wave tide, a stever went on the way all the way down,

[SPEAKER_00]: to Caloundra through the UMundi markets and then down to Caloundra and then mid-afternoon, mid-afternoon Queensland Tropical Things happened, which was...

[SPEAKER_00]: Torrential, tropical downpour.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now we are so lucky because in the bottom of this California, there are holes drilled in the floor so that any dust, dirt, sand, and rain can filter out and drain out the bottom, so that you're not sitting or driving a bathtub.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we pulled over at Caloundro, got those two dollar ponchos, put them on, sat on a couple of our, what became soaked towels, and drove all the way back up towards to where we picked the car up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it took a long time.

[SPEAKER_00]: This thing does about 80 kilometers and our top speed downhill.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so it was a slow drive back, and we sat there in the traffic lights, sitting next to other cars, just sitting there in the pouring rain as it lashed us in the face.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd put my sunglasses on, even though it was very cloudy, but just because the rain was hitting me in the eyes, I couldn't drive.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we made it all the way back, and I'll tell you what, it was so much fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: We had the best day ever and it was way more fun than if we had had been in some really fancy, really nice car.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I think that God has designed the church to be more like a mini-moke and less like a limousine.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's called your life and my life, the life of a Christian, should be more like a mini-moke and less like a limousine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: In this kind of thing, you're exposed to the elements.

[SPEAKER_00]: All of that stuff that's happening on the outside world comes in, but as well, all of the good stuff that's happening on the inside gets to go out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus lived an incredibly open life.

[SPEAKER_00]: open to interruption, open to generosity, open to changes, open to changes of plan, open to the elements open to people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yet his life was incredibly open the other way, lived openly to others, where all of the good stuff on the inside goes, gets to go outside, more like a mini-murcan less like a limousine.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Christian life has learned with open hands, and to say the title of the message is what open hands can hold.

[SPEAKER_00]: Open hands receive from God, release to others, and trust Him with their future.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to read today from the Book of Philippians, one of the Apostle Paul's letters to the church that we have recorded, preserved, and that we still read and encouraged by today.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is a book, a letter that was written from prison under Roman God and yet curiously the word rejoice turns up more in this one letter than in any other letter that Paul wrote.

[SPEAKER_00]: In one of the most difficult circumstances created the most joy.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to read this together.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to make some observations about the text then we're going to apply it to our lives as we finish this vision offering series from here to everywhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's read Philippians 4, verse 10 to 20.

Philippians 4:10–20

[SPEAKER_00]: And he says this, I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity, not that I'm speaking of being in need.

[SPEAKER_00]: For I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound in any and every circumstance I've learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yet it was kind of you to share in my trouble, and you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving except you only.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even in Thessalonica, you sent me help for my needs once and again, not that I seek the gift.

[SPEAKER_00]: but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've received full payment and more.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm well supplied having received from a patriotist that gifts you sent a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: to our God and Father be glory forever and ever, and the church said amen, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is one of Paul's most efficient and personal letters.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have, by way of context here, a letter that is written to us from AD around AD 60 to AD 62, somewhere in there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Paul is writing from House arrest in Rome.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's writing to a church that he deeply and dearly loves.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Philippi in church was the first church that he planted in Europe, and it was a wild collection of people.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can read about it in Acts 16 when Paul first visited Philippi, and he meets a girl called Lydia, a lady called Lydia who is a businesswoman, and the first church in Philippi is planted in her house.

[SPEAKER_00]: Later on, when Paul is imprisoned in Philippi, and an earthquake shakes the doors of the prison open, and the Philippian jailer thought, oh no, I'm in big, big trouble, and he's about to end his own life, Paul says, stop, tell us him the gospel about Jesus, and the Philippian jailer and all of his family, baptizing, come to faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's a slave girl who's being exploited in Philippi, she comes to faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: And all of these people end up,

[SPEAKER_00]: in the church in Philippe, I want a glorious mess.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so this letter was written by Paul to Philippe, to say thank you, because over at least 16, 12 years,

[SPEAKER_00]: They'd been supporting, helping, sharing in Paul's ministry.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they'd sent gifts again to him in Rome, by a man called a Paphroditas, who takes the gifts from Philippi, makes his way towards where Paul is and nearly dies on the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: He makes it there and then spends some time with Paul and then takes this very letter that we're reading today, back with him from Paul, back to the Philippi and church.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's saying thank you as a missionary, thank you for your support, thank you for all that you've given, thank you for partnering with me and in such a deep way you can sense and feel as you read this letter, the deep affection and care and love that lives inside of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the first thing that we learn from this passage about living with open hands is that

[SPEAKER_00]: Think about this, Paul's writing this letter under House arrest in Rome where he's guarded every day.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't know what each day will hold, but the friends in Philippi who been met 12 years earlier have been financially supporting him from this day to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, I want to thank you for your gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to thank you for everything you've given, but I want you to know this, that in any and every season I've learned to be content.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now the first interesting thing there is that he uses that word learned, learned to be content, which tells us something, a human does not naturally slide towards contentment.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't drift towards contentment.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to get older and grumpy up, you know what you have to do, nothing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just live.

[SPEAKER_00]: and you will age and you will get grumpier.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you want to age and become more content, you need to learn it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It takes time, it takes discipline, it takes effort, it takes someone saying, Lord Jesus, I want you to remind me of the blessings in my life, I want you to remind me that it's not what I have, but who holds me and I want to be thankful for everything you've given me with it be a little

[SPEAKER_00]: You will not drift there.

[SPEAKER_00]: No one wakes up next day and goes, I just feel more content about my life accidentally.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I've learned to be content in any and every situation.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the other thing that he says there is that he says, I learned the secret.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is a subtle little dig that he's having here to the stoic philosophers of the time who lived in and around Philippi, who said, oh, there is a secret to life.

[SPEAKER_00]: And only a few of us know it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so Paul hears using their language and saying, yeah, there is a secret.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the secret is Jesus and it's the secret is about how to be content.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do what I love is that I love reading this verse.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can do all things through him who gives me strength.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love reading it in context.

[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it nice?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because it wasn't, you know, usually we have this verse, it's in an Instagram bio, or it's tattooed across some athletes' chest, you know?

[SPEAKER_00]: And we hear them, it's a call to victory.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a call to triumph.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds very victorious, and yet we read it in context and pause writing it from prison.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's writing it in the context of being content.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the all things that Paul is talking about is whether he's got a lot or not much, he's learned to live holding on to Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the all things.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not standing on a podium holding a trophy.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's sitting under guard in prison.

[SPEAKER_00]: Paul is not saying Christ helps me achieve everything I want.

[SPEAKER_00]: but he's saying Christ sustains me when life takes away everything I've wanted.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about how much you hold, but about who holds you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, every ad, every advertisement is preaching the same sermon to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every billboard, everything that pops up, all the things that the algorithm knows about you and speeds to you, oh, that's exactly how did they know?

[SPEAKER_00]: They were listening to you, that's how they know.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what they're saying to you, every ad says the same thing, you're not enough, you are incomplete, but lucky for you, here's this product which is going to make your life better, you're going to be complete and happy after you better, after you click on that link.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every ad does the same thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: You are incomplete, you are not enough, but by this product, and you will be more complete, and you will be more enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, we need things.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying we don't need things.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying, are we content with a lot?

[SPEAKER_00]: Or with little, there is a secret to be learned.

[SPEAKER_00]: Paul says, I've had abundance, I've had hunger, I've had plenty, I've had need, and I've learned the secret and the secret is Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not self-sufficiency, Christ's efficiency.

[SPEAKER_00]: Christ is my treasure, not my circumstances.

[SPEAKER_00]: Secondly, open hands, give freely.

[SPEAKER_00]: Paul says, I'm glad that you've revived your concern for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, I'm thankful that you've given to me, but I also see that there is something coming back the other way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Paul Unashamedly says that there is a reward that comes for their generosity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know careful, it sounds like you're preaching a prosperity doctrine or something.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm just reading to you what the passage says where he says, there is going to be a credit applied to your account.

[SPEAKER_00]: He uses

[SPEAKER_00]: Accounting language to talk about the way that God notices their generosity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do we see that anywhere else in the text?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we do.

[SPEAKER_00]: In Acts chapter 10, where Cornelius, the soldier who is a God-fearing gentile, who, where told, gives generously to the poor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the angel appears to him and says, your generosity has come up as a memorial before God.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is a flag that is run up in the heart of someone who is generous, where God looks towards it and is pleased why, because it models his own character.

[SPEAKER_00]: God notices generosity, because it's what he himself is like.

[SPEAKER_00]: Heaven keeps better records than any accountant, and I'm not saying in a dollar's and sense kind of way.

[SPEAKER_00]: it's because what the generous heart represents, it's worship.

[SPEAKER_00]: What else does he say here in this passage?

[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about their gifts to him, their support to Paul as a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice and pleasing to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of language is that?

[SPEAKER_00]: What does that remind us of?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's temple language.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's worship language.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is something in the heart of someone generous who has priorities in such an order that there is worship that flows from their heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know what you value, we know what you love, we can see what you love by the things that you give your time, energy, and finances too.

[SPEAKER_00]: An indicator of where we place our love of value and our worth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who do you believe is truly securing your future?

[SPEAKER_00]: You can be as wise and as diligent as you can, and I would encourage you to be wise and diligent with your life.

[SPEAKER_00]: Budget out your life, your time, your energy, your resources, budget it out, be wise and diligent with it, but who at the end of the day is securing your future?

[SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately,

[SPEAKER_00]: When you give, and when you're generous, you preach a sermon to your own soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: How many times do you need more than one sermon a week?

[SPEAKER_00]: You need a sermon that's preached to you every day, and you get to be the preacher, where you remind yourself, soul, it's time to worship, soul, it's time to praise, soul, it's time to give, soul, it's time to love.

[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to preach that sermon to yourself.

[SPEAKER_00]: And every time you're generous, you preach that same sermon, God is not, my God is my sufficiency.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every gift whispers the same truth, which is God is enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, open hands are dangerous in a fearful world.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone who's a roller coaster buff will know as that roller coaster, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick sticks up to the top.

[SPEAKER_00]: And your hands on that bar,

[SPEAKER_00]: That bar gets the squeeze of its life.

[SPEAKER_00]: As you crest the top of that rail and you head, head down would spiraling into doom, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: The world feels like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are gripping on so tight, open hands are dangerous in a fearful world.

[SPEAKER_00]: But open hands receive from God, open hands, give to God, open hands trust God with the outcomes.

[SPEAKER_00]: A life is held together by the faithfulness of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you know that generosity stops feeling reckless and starts feeling like worship, thirdly open hands trust God's provision.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love this and this is where we get this personal touch here from Paul, where he says to them at the end of this passage and my God will supply all of your needs.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now if I'm Paul in this place, I'm trying to appeal to the biggest thing possible.

[SPEAKER_00]: The God of Heaven and Earth, the God of God who owns a cattle on a thousand hills, the God who flung the stars into place will supply your needs.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he doesn't say that he says, my God will supply all of your needs.

[SPEAKER_00]: According to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs says that the gift opens the way for the giver and usher them into the Presence of the Great.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't say here that God still supply every want, but instead every need.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is not a vending machine.

[SPEAKER_00]: He cannot walk up to it like at the train station A3, put in the Mart Mars bar drops out at the bottom.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is a faithful loving father and any good parent knows you do not give your children everything they want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because most of what they want will destroy them, but every loving parent knows you give your child what they need.

[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes those things are different, but let's be honest, how good has God been to us, He's given us everything we need, and let's be real a lot of what we want.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of what we want.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's provision is always sufficient, even when it's not excessive.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Philippians were an exceptional church.

[SPEAKER_00]: No one had supported Paul faithfully like they had.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in so doing, they were part of hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of lives being transformed by the gospel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine the Philippian Church of Imagine 2,000 years after writing, after receiving this gift to Paul and receiving this letter back that somewhere in a country they'd never heard of, in a place that had never heard the name of Jesus that we'd be talking about this text, and we'd be talking about this letter 2,000 years later.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's hands, though, are never empty.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's hands are always faithful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, fourthly and finally, open hands invest in what they may never see.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what makes the Philippian church so extraordinary.

[SPEAKER_00]: For 12 years, they're supporting Paul not knowing the places he was going to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Only hearing scan information back over time about what was going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: the conversions that they would never hear about or celebrate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Churches that were planted that would never ever go to.

[SPEAKER_00]: They funded ministry, they would never personally witness.

[SPEAKER_00]: But every great movement of God is built by people willing to invest in outcomes they may never personally enjoy.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Antioch is.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what church planting is.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've set ourselves this huge vision guys of being a church that sends our best, that releases leaders, raises people up, pulls into them and then sends them on their way to plant new locations on new churches, on new ministries, both in our own city and across the nation and maybe even around the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: We wanna send and sacrificially give, not just our time or our money, but our best people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that naturally means that there is going to be ministry that happens that we will never personally enjoy and fruit that will be hidden from us.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's happening, but we won't always see it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll tell you what, it won't be in this age, but in the age to come.

[SPEAKER_00]: In the age to come, a new meet someone, and they say, oh, are you part of discovery church?

[SPEAKER_00]: And you say, yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they say, well, thank you because Visionoffering 2026 raised money which meant that I was able to hear the gospel for the first time and now I'm here too, and I say, thank you for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe someone received food right at the right time that they would need it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe there was a kid who had a really, really tough and went on a camp that just completely changed their perspective and changed their outlook on their own life.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe there's a church that's planted somewhere far off that gets off the ground because kingdom people learn to love harvest that they may never personally enjoy.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a biblical principle we see it over and over again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Abraham was promised a great nation and did he ever see what it would become?

[SPEAKER_00]: Moses was promised to land the promised land and did he ever enter into it?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: David was promised a temple to build for the glory of God and did he ever see it?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: The prophets promised a Messiah that they would prophesy about and did they ever see him?

[SPEAKER_00]: The Philippians never saw most of the fruit of Paul's ministry and yet they invested anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: And every church stands on sacrifices made by people whose names have long been forgotten.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're sitting right now in someone else's answered prayer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone prayed.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's some time before now, before this day, someone prayed.

[SPEAKER_00]: They might have prayed for you specifically.

[SPEAKER_00]: They might have prayed for you generally, but you are sitting here because someone previous to you, prayed and gave.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, Lord, we're going to invest in something that we may never personally see or enjoy, and yet here you are.

[SPEAKER_00]: Think about the amount of people, just the people that you know who've invested into your life.

[SPEAKER_00]: They invested time, they invested energy, they invested resources.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them generally, they might not have pictured your face, but they saw a group like this.

[SPEAKER_00]: They saw a church like this and they prayed and they gave.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so you are sitting in someone's answered prayer.

[SPEAKER_00]: But not every story God writes has our name on the cover.

[SPEAKER_00]: We don't, we won't get personal, we won't get personal credit for every great thing that happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: We invest in things that we will never personally enjoy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Open hands, think beyond their own postcode, beyond their own state, beyond their own nation.

[SPEAKER_00]: And 2000 years later, from this passage, believers on the other side of the world are reading words written from a Roman prison.

[SPEAKER_00]: team, one should come and join me."

[SPEAKER_00]: See Paul writes from a prison cell and says as another way to live, open-handed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Content when the sun is shining, content when the storm arrives.

[SPEAKER_00]: Generous when there is abundance, generous when there is little, trusting not in what is held in our hands.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where the gospel begins, isn't it?

[SPEAKER_00]: Before we ever gave the Father gave to us a son.

[SPEAKER_00]: Before we ever loved Christ, first loved us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Before we ever loved just one sinner.

[SPEAKER_00]: We were the sinners who were first loved and accepted and died for by God Himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: He poured Himself out.

[SPEAKER_00]: He stretched out His hands and gave Himself for the life of the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's stand to get the church.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's stand.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, we bring this to a close today.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've got an incredibly exciting future ahead of us church and it will not always be easy and it will not always be comfortable in fact it will rarely be so But I like it because it's many more life.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not limo life You know, it's 80Ks an hour down a hill with bumps in the rain And if you're up for that journey, so am I

[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to push forward and see leaders raised up, see church, planted, see new ministries established, see people right around the world, come to faith in Jesus Christ, see communities established of love and a faith and of compassion and of hope.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because a little place in Mount Evelyn and a little place in Frankston decided to give a baffron beyond.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the story of the open hand of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every act of openness that we have is simply a response to the great generosity of what God has already done.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, Church, let's be a people with open hands.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's find our containment in Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's give freely, let's be open to God's provision in our own lives.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be open to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's be open to investing in a harvest that we may never personally see or enjoy.

[SPEAKER_00]: So far, thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We give our lives a fresh tea, we commit ourselves a fresh tea.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to pray, Lord God, for those who are

[SPEAKER_00]: We even just personally are feeling that talk to a great level of contentment.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray for those who are with us for the very first time today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you've never been in church before or maybe just checking out faith or Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to thank you that you've given us the greatest example of giving without guarantee.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, you loved us, even before we loved you, while we were still sinners, you died for us, you were the attorney sacrifice.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there are sins might not count against us, but that we can live eternally with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: that heaven is not just for later but you've called us to become part of building and leaning towards a greater world now and we can participate in that by living open handedly trusting you relying on your provision, your grace, and your goodness, which is the way you've always been.

[SPEAKER_00]: So Jesus, we thank you, I pray, blessing on my friends today.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we go in faith, I hope a lot of the Jesus name, and everybody's said, Amen.