What Time is it? - Made for More Series

Sowing and reaping aren't jut farming principles. They are principles of God's Kingdom.

In this episode, PastorJon shares from Galatians 6. He reminds us that whatever we sow, we will reap. Each season has a bountiful harvest waiting but it requires that we not get stuck on the good old days or the negative experiences of the past. A new season is coming, it's time to step into it!

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Everybody anybody at Galatians 6? Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. I'm gonna pray for us before we jump into God's word today, if that's okay. Uh Father, we love you, and I'm I'm thankful for your presence. I'm thankful for your heart, I'm thankful for your hope. I'm thankful for your word. Uh God, I pray today that it would equip us, encourage us, uh, stir us to be the people you've called us to be, and to reflect the God we love. So, Father, I do pray our Father who is in heaven, holy is your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us, and lead us, Jesus, not into temptation, but would you deliver us from the evil one? For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen and amen and amen. Uh Galatians chapter six, let's read together, says this do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows his own flesh will reap from the flesh discorruption. But the one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life. And today I want to talk to you for a few minutes from this subject. What time is it? What time is it? What time is it? I'm curious in the room, uh, are there any like night people, anybody that's like a night owl? You come alive at 8 p.m. The darker it gets, the more alive you are. You're just like, some of y'all are like, the reason the night owls are not raising their hand is because they're still half asleep. Like the coffee hasn't kicked in all the way. You're still like, I don't even know. Our church, not mad. This is the right church. Okay, cool. Uh, how many of y'all are morning people like me? Amen. Aren't we the chosen of God? We wake up in the morning and we just go, nah, like we're just awake before it needs to be awake. The sun wakes up and goes, Why have you awake before? I am uh I am the most annoying morning person that you could ever meet or know. I I am this way, and I don't even drink any coffee, y'all. I wake up and I just look at the sunrise and I look at the birds and I look at the sky and I just thank God that I'm alive. And God tells me to go back to sleep because it's too early. I am a morning person, and of course, because that's the way it works, I am a morning person, married a night person. And I remember when me and my wife got married and we uh moved in together. Uh I woke up at 5:30 in the morning one time, y'all. And some of y'all are like, that is a sin, Pastor. And I remember waking up and I'm like doing things around the house, and I remember one time she came out of the bedroom and she said, If you want to be married to me a long time, you need to be real quiet for the next two hours, or you need to learn how to make coffee. Uh, and so I have to haven't learned how to make coffee, I've just gotten quieter over the years. Uh man, some of us are morning people, some of us are night people. Anyone here a summer person? Like you're just excited for the summer. Let me wait, you see me. Okay, y'all are already planning your 17th beach vacation. You're already ready. You have a different swimsuit for everyone you're going to. You're planning your pool days, your beach days, your lake days, your ice cream days, your back to the beach days, your final vacation beach day, your your vacation beach day in the morning, uh pool day in the afternoon day. Like, you already got it planned and worked out. Like those are your anybody, um winter people. Y'all need to repent. Man, like winter to me is the worst. Because you especially like I'm from South Florida, so I used to think winter was like 70 degrees. I was like, ooh, boy, did I have that wrong until I moved up here. Uh I moved up here, and it's like I walk out and I'm like, here's why I think this is my opinion. Like, this is not Bible. We're about to get into the scripture. This is my opinion. I think summer is better than winter because I can walk out in a hundred-degree weather and live. I walk out in 20-degree weather and there is a clock on my life. I can some of you winter people are so excited about winter and Christmas. Some of y'all still have your Christmas trees up in your house. You just want to survive through summer long enough to get back to Thanksgiving and jingle bells and eggnog. I will say eggnog is legit though. Can we give it up for eggnog? Uh man, we have summer people, we have nighttime people. Uh, in the scripture here, it talks about two different seasons, though. Uh, it talks about harvest season and it talks about sowing season. Somebody say harvest. Harvest. There's a harvest season. Harvest is when you receive what you have sown. Harvest is when you go out and you you you gather. My right now we are in my my wife, is my it's my wife, mostly, uh, is doing uh, she has a beautiful home garden and raised beds, and we have tomatoes and habanero and uh and cucumbers, and I think we tried to get watermelons last year, but it didn't work out. Uh, we're trying all those things. And y'all, I love harvest season because uh one, it saves me money, praise God. Uh, and then two, well, I think it saves you money, but I think we spent like $45 on the habanero plant, so I feel like that that kind of washes out. Uh, but I walk in my house and there's a beautiful green salad, and we're eating fresh tomatoes, and we're eating strawberries, and we're eating all these things, and it's great. You know, I love harvest season, but how many of y'all know you can't have harvest season unless you have planting season? And planting season is the worst, y'all. Planting season is we got to go to the store and spend an ungodly amount of money buying plants and shrubs, and uh then we put it in the ground. And my wife uh this year, last year, was requesting you busted your back doing this, uh, but it was like we had to shovel dirt from one side of our property because the dirt wasn't good enough. Did y'all know that there was such a thing as dirt that's not good enough? Okay, I did not know that when I moved here. I just thought you threw stuff in the ground and it grew up. I didn't know that. Um, and so we're we're we're doing all these things, and uh y'all she didn't tell me because I'm I'm I'm I'm kind of a city slicker, so she's like doing her garden. She says, Hey, can you get me some fertilizer from there? And I'm like, I'm seeing that's plant pot. So I just dig my hands in there and I'm grabbing fertilizer. Do y'all know that fertilizer is not just dirt? Do y'all know that there's a couple of extra ingredients in the fertilizer that I was just digging in and pulling my if you don't know, do some research later, go to Home Depot, ask them about it. But I'm just digging into the fertilizer and I didn't find out. Here's here's what I know. Uh, you don't experience your harvest unless you're willing to go through the sewing season. You don't experience the thing that God has for you unless you're willing to sew into it. And I want to encourage us to not fall so in love with harvest seasons that we try to skip the sewing season. I know for me, that's the way I'm our man. I want to, God, I want to skip past the sewing season. I want to skip past investing in the relationship. I want to skip past, man. I want to skip past the new church season. I want to skip past the kid and diaper season. I want to skip past the saving money. I want to get to vacation season, not saving money season. I want to get to the end of the journey, not pass through the very beginning. But can I tell you, you don't experience the harvest unless you go through the very, very beginning of the journey. That's why Galatians 6 says this, do not be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that he will also reap. And I love the scripture because the scripture isn't just talking about earthly things. I want to tell you that there is an eternal aspect to the scripture. Here's what God is also saying in the scripture is that if we are willing to sow into his kingdom, if we are willing to bless people, there's not just a reward for us here, there's a reward for us then, but not just eternally. But can I tell y'all, even right now, there's a reward for you, there's a blessing with it. And he identifies two kinds of seed because we can sow according to our own flesh. So we can sow our selfishness, we can sow anxiety, we can sow depression, we can sow fear, and we will reap corruption. But if we sow according to the spirit and we sow love, man, we'll reap a harvest of love. If we sow joy, we'll reap a harvest of joy. If we sow peace, we'll reap a harvest of peace. If we sow, if we sow these things, we're gonna reap a harvest. And here's what I love about sowing and reaping. I love that you plant a little, but you reap a lot. I love that you plant a little. Like my wife throws a couple of little packets of tomatoes, and plants come out of the ground. I love that we can reap a harvest. That's what I love about even the picture that we showed about those kids. Uh, that was us as a church choosing to sow and encourage a generation. Can I tell you, we're not just sowing for the sake of sowing? Here's what we are believing. I'm believing that as we sow encouragement, as we sow love, as we buy just some simple snacks, that we're gonna see revival break out in our schools, that there's gonna be a turnover that happens, that the culture is gonna shift because we're not gonna back away from the table, we're gonna sow into the table. Man, how many of y'all know our teachers at the elementary schools, the middle schools, the high schools need our help and our support? And all the time, unfortunately, I see I'm gonna dog on the Denwiddy community board for a little bit. Anyone go on Facebook? If you're not on the if you live in Denwiddy, you gotta go on the community board, y'all. Like, it is it it's like Jerry Springer on crack sometimes. It is awesome. If you're just looking for good drama, like it's just woo. And every once in a while, somebody will come in and they'll they'll start criticizing the schools and criticizing teachers and criticizing bus drivers and all that stuff. And listen, like, can we be honest that everybody could do better all the time? But then my favorite, my favorite is somebody will be criticizing them, and then in the comments, somebody will go, hey, the PTO is looking for help. Would you like to help? And all of a sudden, their phone loses sell signal and they can't post no more. Can I tell you? Here's here's what the person that's complaining is saying. I want a harvest of an amazing school, I want a harvest of an education system that is filled with the hope of Jesus. I want a harvest of my kids getting poured into you. And then somebody goes, Will you throw a seed in there? And they go, No, I just want the harvest. I just want to receive, I don't want to sow. And God is saying, Listen, you're not gonna get the harvest unless you sow the seed. Uh and so here's my question for you: wherever season you're at, whatever you're experiencing, what harvest do you have? Are you looking around at your community at your and going, there are things about my community, the people that I'm around that I'm not loving what I'm experiencing, I'm not enjoying what I'm seeing? What are some things that in your own mental health, in your mind, and in your thought life that you're looking at and going, I don't know why I'm depressed all the time, anxious all the time, hurting all the time, sad all the time, angry all the time, addicted all the time? What kind of harvest are you experiencing in your mental health? What kind of harvest are you experiencing in your personal relationships with your family with your kids? Do you look around and go, man, this is this is controversial, dysfunction, hurt, and pain, betrayal all the time? Like, how can two people find this much anxiety or beef with each other? Here's my question, my other question for you. What kind of harvest then do you want? Do you want to see the hope of Jesus lived out in your heart and mind? Do you want to see the peace of God in your relationship? Do you want to see the hope of God be poured through your life? And I want to ask you, what are you sowing into that harvest? See, here's what I've noticed about people, here's what I've noticed about myself, here's what I've noticed about my experience. I've noticed that if I'm walking in a spirit of bitterness and anger, and typically what I've been doing is I've been sowing unforgiveness towards a person. Like I've noticed that about myself. I'll wake up in the morning and I'll just be and Kia's like, something's wrong with him. Somebody done crossed them off. Like, I don't know who it is. And because here's what's crazy because somebody else did wrong and I'm starting to sow unforgiveness, I'm the one that has to walk with the bitterness of the offense. And they might have done the thing six months ago, a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago, they might not even be alive anymore. But because I'm sowing the unforgiveness still in my heart, I'm walking around with the bitterness, the anger, the regret, the shame. I'm walking around with all those negative things. Can I encourage you? If you're walking around saying, Man, I just, I'm just unforgiving, I'm just bitter, can you ask yourself, have you been sowing unforgiveness? I mean, I know some places uh and some people that are like, you ever meet somebody that walks around, they're like, I don't understand why drama finds me all the time. People just tell me things, and man, I just can I tell y'all, if you're walking around and drama's finding you all the time, it's probably because you're sowing drama everywhere. Man, if you if you're like if you're looking around the family, you're like, I don't know who stirs all this trouble. I'm just praying for people. Listen, pray with people, stop praying for them. Stop calling the prayer meeting, telling the whole family, hey y'all, I just want to take a second to pray over Betty Sue because Betty Sue's been her marriage has been really, really struggling. Can we all hold hands? Stop doing that. Go to Betty Sue, ask her if you can take her kids for her and her husband can go on a date night. Amen and amen. I picked the most random Betty Sue name, so I'm hoping there's no Betty Sue's here. Uh if you're Betty Sue, this was not a call out to you. I just, may the Lord bless you. Uh here's what here's what I know, here's what I know. There's a lot of places in in where where people are are reaping, harvesting division, and it's because people have been uh sowing gossip. Man, there's places I go to and I'm like, y'all, this is just a job. Can we like I'm here for my nine to five, my paycheck, and my little like my health insurance, and I want to go home. Can we, why are we doing all this gossip, backbiting? Did you hear that so-and-so? Can I just get paid and calm down and go home? I should not need to be taking medicine from the job I get a job, I get a paycheck from, amen. But if we're not careful, we start sewing gossip, we start sowing slander, we start sewing lies. Uh here's here's the other thing I know. Sometimes we look around, we go, man, why why am I why am I so lonely? And I know I know some people that are saying, Man, I'm I'm all by myself, nobody knows me, nobody cares about me, nobody likes me. And can I can I say sometimes the reason why you feel lonely is because you are thinking all about yourself. If we sow only to ourselves, then then what happens is we walk into a room and instead of going, hey, how can I can I meet you? Can I connect with you? We go, Wow, how come nobody said hi to me? Man, I see that all the time. I have there's a family member that I have, and I was having a conversation with them, and I was like, dude, like you are, it was literally about I can't tell you what it is because then you know who it is. Uh, but it was literally about the craziest, like, it was and I literally told him it was about grass, y'all. It was about grass. It was I got grass clippings on his yard, and y'all don't tell him that, okay? Like, if he ever comes to visit the church, y'all be like, Oh, that's you, the family member. We're glad you're here. Praise God. Um I got glas grass clippings on his yard, and he was so mad that I got grass clippings on his yard. He literally, this was that's literally all I did. I didn't burn his yard. I got grass clippings on his yard. He he looked at me and he said, Tell your wife to lose my phone number. And what I told him, I was like, Man, here's Bro, you're you're gonna live a life of loneliness because you're sowing a seed of selfishness. And here's what I want to encourage us on. I want to encourage us to to watch what we're sowing because you are gonna reap what you sow. Because, see, as believers, we have received the kingdom of God. We've received the grace of God over your life that is unmerited favor. The love of God has filled your soul, the joy of God is available for you, the power of God is here for you to do miracles. Can I encourage you? What you have received, don't just receive it or hold on to it. We are called as believers to sow what God has given us. We're called to sow miracles, we're called to sow hope, we're called to sow grace, we're called to sow joy, we're called to sow his love. And we're called to make a difference in the lives of people. But the truth is, the truth is, the truth is that sowing sometimes is less fun than harvesting. But sowing is necessary if you are gonna harvest what God has for you. Uh, here's what I'm some things I want to encourage on. If you want to sow re uh have a harvest of good relationships, you need to sow time with people. I have two kids. Uh, they are seven and uh three going on four slash going on seventeen is what it feels like. Uh and my kids are super, super fun. And uh it's the end of the school year, so like their little bodies, y'all are worn out. And uh every like, I'm like, I know you're not demon-possessed because we pray over you a lot, but man, like, can we just whoo? Um, and I I noticed I was doing this thing for my child the other day where uh I was I was correcting a lot. I was like, stop that, stop that, stop that, don't do that. Why are you doing that? Oh my gosh, why are you doing that? Stop that, stop that, stop that, stop that. Now, I want to make this very, very clear before some of y'all jump me because you all love him and he's super cute. He was doing terrible things, and he needed to be corrected. But I got to the end of the night and I felt the Holy Spirit convict me, you're spending more time correcting him than you are connecting with him. All the seed I was sowing into my relationship with my kid was you're doing bad, you're wrong. Stop doing that. Can I tell you that isn't even the posture of God towards you? See, God corrects what we do wrong, but God also reaches out to us to restore a relationship with us. God wanted me to pour out a seed of connection. And so here's what I did. This might sound crazy to some of y'all, and my knees were hurting from it, but I got on the floor and we started playing Legos, y'all. We started playing Legos. When he started coming home from school, I was like, buddy, let's go feed the rabbits, let's do some chores together. You know what's crazy? He his behavior has gotten way better for me connecting to him than me correcting him. Man, can we just as parents and as family members and as the church, can we get uh here's what I want us to do as we get these students and we invite them into our church? Can I tell you, it'll be so easy to be the church that goes, you there, teenagers, stop doing that. But can we not be the church that corrects more than the church that connects? Can we be the church that reaches out, serves, loves, and cares for people? If you want to reap influence, you have to sow time. If you want to reap joy, you have to sow gratitude. Man, it's so easy to walk around life. Can I tell y'all there is plenty to complain about? There is plenty to complain about. If you don't have anything to complain about, I'll go go fill go to the gas station, put some gas in your car. I will give you something to complain about. But how many of you know that even though there's much to complain about, there is much to be grateful for? Man, we have received the love of God, the grace of God. We are surrounded by church family that loves and cares for us. We have people that are praying for us and with us. Man, we get to be an emotion. Like, can I just tell you, if you're looking for the bad and you're just sowing into the bad, then all you will see is the bad, and then the harvest you receive will just be bad. And I want to encourage us as well to be a church that sows into prayer. See, here's what I know. If you want to reap miracles, then you have to sow into prayer. Something we're we're leaning into two places that we want to sow. Uh, we're leaning into our next generation this this summer, but another place, here's what here's what I know, what I'm learning the more I'm here. How many of y'all know? We sing this song a lot, it's one of my favorite songs. I think it's an anthem for our church. How many of y'all know we need a move of God in our church in our community? We need a move of God in our community. Uh, we also need a move of God, y'all, in our church. Like we need, can I tell you? I said it a lot, I'm gonna say it again, I'm gonna say it till it gets in our soul. If if the presence of God is not here, this is just a TED talk preceded by a really good concert. But if the presence of God is here, all things are possible. If the presence of God is here, addictions can be removed. If the presence of God is here, breakthrough can happen for relationships. If the presence of God is here, salvation can happen for souls. If the presence of God is here, people can be transformed, changed, made into the likeness of Jesus if the presence of God is here. And so what we want to do is we want to invest into the presence of God, and that's called prayer. So every single week during the summertime, we haven't just most likely be a Wednesday night or a Thursday night. We're gonna be investing in prayer. Just gather and spend an hour together. You don't have to come every week, but man, I'd love for you to come some of the weeks. Here's what I know I know our our church needs some miracles. There are people in our church that need miracles, our community needs miracles, our schools need miracles, and miracles are the thing that follows after prayer. So we're gonna invest in prayer. Uh here's what I know about me and you and the people on the Dinwiddie County Community Board. Uh, here's what I know, here's what I know. You can complain about the harvest you have, or you can sow into the harvest you want. You can complain about the state of your relationships, or you can pour into your relationship. You can complain about the state of your faith, or you can pour into your faith. You can complain about man, look at how my kids are doing, or you can pour into your Your kids. And here's what I love. Isaiah 43 and 6:18 says this, but forget all that. It is nothing compared to what I'm going to do, says the Lord. For I'm about to do something new. Somebody say new. See, I have already begun. Do you not see? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers and the dry wasteland. Here's what I know about new seasons, harvest seasons. New seasons need new things. And new seasons bring new things. Here's something else I want you to do for me. I want you to let go of the past and to step into a new season. James 4 and 7 says this. So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Ephesians 5 and 8 says this. So live as you will live a light. For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. What what time is it? Here's what here's something something I love about harvest and planting. You will harvest what you sow. So if you show up to somebody's front yard and you're like, they planted tomatoes, but they got oranges. They got lied to. Like you you're gonna harvest what you sow. So if you're planting or sowing dishonor, you're gonna read. If you're showing anger, you're gonna read anger. If you're sowing disrespect, you're gonna read. That's what I tell my kids all the time. If you sound if you sound hard to get rid of the time. I went to a conference recently and uh the pastor was speaking and sharing, and uh y'all, y'all, I've told you that I said this a couple of times, but y'all ever notice that whenever you try to get closer to the presence of God, the enemy does everything he can to get in the way of you doing that? Like getting phone calls from schools, like uh Catherine was watching our kids and her animals, she fell down the stairs while we were out of town. I was like, sorry, the devil attacked you while you're at our house. Uh the devil tripped you literally. Um And something I've been asking myself is God, if the devil is fighting this hard, this is this is what the revelation I got in the conference. I really I was like, man, the devil really believes in our church. I started realizing can I tell you some of you are going through things you're experiencing or harvest? But the devil believes so much in the seed that is on the inside of you. And he knows that if you would cast that seed, he can use it to make a difference in the lives of people. I God started asking me to dream again. God, what what would it look like? See, we're already a miracle, we're a Jesus-focused, Bible-based, spirit, empowered, multi-generational, multicultural church in the heart of Dinwiddie, where stuff like that don't happen all the time. And I was like, God, I'm I'm good. Like here's here's here's what I here's what I here's what I was trying to do. That I was like, God, that was a good harvest. Can I just uh just kind of chill back for a little bit? Can I can I just relax and take it easy? And and God started pointing out to me, man, like don't you know that there are more people that you need to sow your seed into? And God started talking to me about not our church, but man, things he wants to do in this community. I was I was talking to somebody about the casino. How many of y'all know that casino is coming? Uh not to Dinwiddie, to Petersburg, but man, it's coming. Everybody's like talking about it. And um, how many of you know that there's some good things that are gonna come out of that, but don't you know that there's gonna be some people that are gonna struggle with some addictions that that's gonna be difficult for? What if we could be a church that before the addiction ever comes, we're already ready to pray, to provide programs, to bless the person that's going through addiction? What if we could be the church where the student is walking through middle school and high school and they feel bullied and beat up and they they're full of anxiety or fear? Man, what if God had a heart for that not to be their destiny? And what if what if there are people that are going through marital dysfunction and they're saying, I don't know how we're ever gonna make it, how we're gonna survive, how we're gonna break it through. Can I tell you what if what if God wanted to establish a church that would provide resources for them? Can I and this is what what God started speaking to me during that conference, John, Vision Church is still just a seed. See, we're not done doing what God's called us to, we're just getting started. And I I preach this a lot, and I want to preach it specifically here. When I say vision church, we always think of the organization. Can I tell you you have a seed inside of you? It's a seed of freedom, it's a seed of hope, it's a seed of the presence of God, it's a seed of the power of God. See the story that God has done, the harvest that He's allowed you to experience was not supposed to finish with you. See the miracle that you've been rejoicing on about man, look at what God has done. Can I tell you, God didn't just do that miracle so you could do what I've been doing, which is sit on it and think, man, look how good the harvest has been. Can I tell you God wants you to sow that seed of hope, sow that seed of joy, sow that seed of purpose, sow that miracle seed into somebody else, so that what God has done in you, He can do through you, so that what God has done for you, He can do for somebody else. What time is it? It's still sewing time. Can you, uh Teresa? I know this is at the very beginning for the giving talk, there's that um picture of those kids. Can you throw that up for me one more time? We are sowing seed because there's still a harvest to come. This wasn't about snacks. This was about seed, it was about hope, it was about love, it was about encouragement. It was it was about putting in these kids' minds and hearts when I'm struggling and when I'm hurting. I don't know much, but those people that gave me the talkie said, there's a God who loves me, there's a God who cares about me, there's a God who's for me. And I want to encourage you today, that is not a church thing, that is a believer thing. That God has a seed inside of you that will pour hope, pour life, pour purpose, pour change. I believe that our nation will be saved, I believe our county will be transformed. I believe that we will see revival in our land, and I believe it doesn't start with an organization, it starts with a person like you choosing to sow seed of hope and love and purpose. Vision, can you stand to your feet for me today as we get ready to close? Uh if we have members of the prayer team, y'all can get in position. Um if we have members of the prayer team, y'all can get in position. Thank you so much. Uh here's here's how we're gonna end today. If one, uh if you're here today and you're saying, when I was talking about harvest, and there was a you're like, dude, we are not having a good harvest in whatever area it is. Hey, we're we're struggling in our finances, we're struggling in our marriage, we're struggling with our kids. I'm struggling at work. Um, I'm gonna pray for you in a couple of seconds, but I want you to actually come up and receive prayer. Uh we do this every Sunday as best as we can, and we know we're not gonna embarrass you, dog on you, shame you, none of that. Uh, but we want to pray with you, want to believe God for you. Uh the second is this there's some of us that we're resisting sowing our seed, and uh I want to say this plainly. Some of us are even resisting because we feel like this message is like, is he talking about money? I'm not talking about money, I'm talking about your calling in the Spirit of God, the encouragement that He's called you to give, the forgiveness he's called you to give, the grace he's called you to give, the joy he's called you to give, the prayers he's called you to pray, the worship he's called. That's what I'm talking about. And you've been afraid of sowing your seed because you're wondering, is that seed gonna be enough? Can I tell you the seed is your part, the harvest is God's part. So I want to encourage you today to even for you to come into prayer. God's been putting something in your heart. You've been saying there's something I'm supposed to do, but we've been talking about it through the series, but you're afraid of doing it. And God has a calling for you. And we want to come in agreement that He's gonna seal it and call it today. I want to pray for us, and then I'm gonna dismiss us and receive prayer. Lord Jesus, we love you. God, I thank you. You didn't leave us, God. We we're literally the harvest of the blood of Jesus. God, you gave your life as a seed so that we can have hope, so that we can have life, so we can have newness, so we can have purpose. So, God, today I I just ask that you would give us the grace to sow. God, if there's anybody here today that's experiencing a harvest of difficulty, a harvest of shame, a harvest of division, a harvest of exhaustion, a harvest of trouble, Father, I pray that you would give them fresh seed today. I pray that you would give them the seed of your presence, the seed of your peace, the seed of your power, the seed of fresh prayers. God, I pray that you give them fresh seed so that they'd be able to experience a fresh harvest. God, we believe that new things are coming. So, Father, I declare over our church, God, do a new thing in us. Do a new thing through us, do a new thing for us, God. We will see this community change because of the power of Jesus at work in us. Would you do that in it for us in Jesus' name? God be most God. One more time in Jesus name, God's most God. Okay, I'm gonna just got you all fast. You can some prayer and receive some prayer today. Can I pray for a blessing over you before you head on out? Is that okay? Father, I pray over my friends today. They signs and wonders surround them, may goodness and mercy follow them, bless all the things their hands touch, bless all the places their feet go. In Jesus' name, one more time, God's people said. Hey, y'all have a great week, Vision Church. We love you. We'll see you next Sunday.