Sunday Morning Service 01/04/2026 - Multiplying Our Efforts

So what I want us to be about this year is moving from just this understanding of multiplication to actually practicing it. And so the word intentional is gonna be something you're gonna hear me say a lot this year. You're gonna hear me talk about being purposeful, being intentional, doing this stuff without just sitting back and going, okay. Great. That was a great sermon. That was a great message. I love that I learned something, but I'm not gonna act on it. I want us to be very purposeful about what we're doing. [00:23:37] (32 seconds)  #IntentionalAction

He promises here in his word that if we're generous, he will bless us and he will pour more out. Now I'm not trying to create this name it and claim it mentality. That's not what this message is about today. That if you give $10, God's gonna give you an extra 100. Or if you give a thousand, God's gonna give you 10,000 in your checking account tomorrow. That's not that's not what I'm preaching or speaking to you. [00:35:07] (26 seconds)  #GenerosityNotGimmicks

I love it. You know, there is never a Sunday that we don't have a guest in the room. And I love being able to go over and say hi to him and introduce myself and talk to him, but I'm normally, I have to knock one of y'all out of the way. I love how you're there. This past week, we had some people that had needs. They really needed someone to sit with them in a loss. I heard about it. After I would get to the place, there was already another church member sitting with the person that I was going to be with. I love that. [00:36:18] (35 seconds)  #ServeOneAnother

What if that transformed Woodhaven this year in how we pray? God, thank you for our youth group and the teens that we have that have been growing. God, it's been amazing to see us add a few here and a few there, and it's grown. God, we pray over our youth group this year, and we ask that you would double it. God, would you give us 40 students? Would you give us 60 students? It's possible. God can do those kinds of things when we pray those kinds of prayers. [00:39:38] (39 seconds)  #PrayBoldForYouth

God, would you develop our ministry here to the to the Filipino community, to the Hispanic community? Would you let these amazing things happen? Would would we see some depth and some growth in that this year? Not even really giving a number to it because we're kinda nervous. But instead, as we pray, all of a sudden, we find this year that we're starting new churches, that these churches are expanded beyond the doors. [00:40:17] (35 seconds)  #PrayForChurchGrowth

The second thing that I believe that he wants us to do that we have to practice isn't just expectant prayers, but we also need to be striving for faithful stewardship. Stewardship, that's that's kind of a word that we toss around in the Baptist world a whole lot. You may or may not have even heard it before. It's one I heard growing up. Stewardship was the go word when you talked about money or finances or anything like that. And really what stewardship means is anything that God has given you, you should be faithful in how you use it. So it kinda really falls into that story with the talents that we were talking about earlier. [00:41:27] (42 seconds)  #FaithfulStewardship

You might say, but I got that college degree. I work hard. I work fifty, sixty hours a week. I'm killing it. I've put in the extra effort. Great. God still is the one that's giving it to you. God is still the one that is blessing you. And God wants you to be faithful with what he has given you to use for each and every person. [00:42:46] (26 seconds)  #FaithfulWithWhatGodGives

``God gave it to me so that I could use it for whoever needed to use it. And that's the kind of mentality that we need to have. We need to be good stewards of what God has given us. It's only what we put back into the hands of Jesus that he can multiply. If we hold on to it and we say it's mine, then God's not gonna be able to give it away the way we want him to. God says, give it away and then I'll multiply it. I'm not gonna multiply it first. [00:45:12] (38 seconds)  #GiveToMultiply