Living Out Our Mission: Trust, Serve, and Transform

My food is to do the will of my father and to finish his work. What satisfies him, what satisfies him, what satisfies him, what satisfies him, what satisfies him, what satisfies him, what gives him everything he craves is that one thing that that was that James talked about earlier. And that is to to do the will of my father and finish his work. [01:01:19]

We have missions that are taking the gospel to risky places. They're spreading the gospel where where it's as as our brother saw here said when he was here, technically everything we do is illegal. I, I want to support people that wake up every morning and do illegal things for Jesus. That sounds like a good way to live and maybe a good way to die. [01:02:33]

We want to give we want to give till it hurts because that's good for our soul to realize that eternity is all that matters. None of this matters ultimately. OK, so we want to continue to give. OK, so we want to continue to give. One of the international and practically we want to continue to go. We want to go to one seven. [01:04:27]

We want to build out more of an infrastructure where we we know that our ministry partners are being prayed for, that we're getting praise, praise reports. We're getting prayer reports. We're getting requests. We're finding out what's happening. There's nothing like there's just nothing like me sharing. I'm going through my my father's health is failing pretty rapidly. [01:06:09]

When you get missionaries praying for you by name, I'm telling you, the God of the universe listens. OK, we. We want to be known by them and we want to know them. And that's why we're here and that's what we're going to continue to do. There may be a couple of other things here. Continue giving. Yeah, we want to give the prayer request. [01:05:31]

Some of the people in this room right here, I know who you are, your natural leaders. When you go in a certain direction, people are going to follow you. We need to do that with with pointing people to Jesus in mind. We need to we need to develop that out so that one of the elders doesn't have to go on the trip for the trip to occur. [01:06:53]

And the first thing he says is we're getting ready to do a conference. The women are going to go do a women's conference. I mean, there's there's stuff to do. And he says, what we're going to do on the first night is we're going to wash their feet. That's what we're going to do, because God doesn't need us. And so I washed a guy's stinky feet. [01:07:46]

And I've never been the same since then. I mean, it just changes things. So we want to develop leaders. OK, but there's a difference when you come in going, I'm good at this. Put me in this spot because God, quote, called me and come in and say, and here's my qualification. Here's my experience. What do you need? And we might say we need you to wash feet. [01:08:36]

And that's a litmus test. If you don't want to wash feet, you're probably not going to serve. Hopefully anywhere in the church. But if you're but everything I'm this, the the sanctification life. Is a constant test of God wanting to go with to. To live out jobless or is he increasing and am I decreasing or is this about my time to shine? [01:09:17]

I mean, it's easy to be cynical about the church. People love taking pot shots at the church, but that's your bride. We're going to give an account. For how we treat the bride of the God of you of the universe. And so I pray that you help us to experience the beauty of living in community the way you designed it. [01:11:52]

Where we realize and are conscious of the reality that we have more in common. With the widow or the orphan that doesn't speak our language that we've never met. We're closer to them from an eternal perspective than we are the relative we grew up with. That's an agnostic. Our true family is your family. That's it. [01:12:31]

And I pray that you help us and show us and teach us and cause us to become people that die to everything else. We found the one thing. Everybody wants to know who am I? Your answer is you are mine. And that's as good as it gets. And so we pray that you would change us in this moment here and throughout 2025. [01:12:52]