Conference Sunday w/ Bianca Juarez

- Hello church, ah, welcome or so glad you're here. Whether you're live in this room, watching online, go ahead and grab a seat. We're gonna dive into God's word in a second. Well, what a privilege and honor it is, I have been too unique before, but this is my first time being with a Vangel family on a Sunday morning and I'm honored. I'm privileged and I'm humbled to be here because we stand on the shoulders of men and women, saints and aunts who have gone before us in this community. If you're new to a Vangel, this church is a 98 years old, 98 years old and yeah, give it up, absolutely. (audience applauding) And though this is not my home community, let me tell you about this community. This community is full of people from different backgrounds and different ethnicities and have different stories and even different faith backgrounds. And yet we've all found our way to this community today. If it's your first time, welcome, we're excited that you're here. And if you need to know a little bit about this community, what I have seen is that people have walked in and experienced healing in this space and have experienced God in his most realest form. And let me tell you that I haven't, I'm not saying this because I've watched it. I've saying this because I've experienced it. If you're new to this community, let me know about, let you know about this church.

There are people in this room that do not have a perfect past, maybe even a past that they wanna forget, but they are people who have been forgiven much, so they forgive much. They've been given grace and so they allow others to experience grace. Vangel isn't afraid of pain or even scars because scars are living proof that God still heals. And if you are walking through a mess, your mess is welcomed here. If you've ever felt like your whole world has fallen apart and you feel like shame is covering you like a heavy, dirty jacket. Let me let you know that in this community, there are high standards, but we encourage people to hold their head even higher because shame has no place here. I tell you about this community because I've experienced it for myself. Four years ago, my life radically imploded. I walked through a very, very hard season, one that was marked with tons of betrayal, emotional betrayal, spiritual betrayal, marital betrayal, financial betrayal, and if I'm honest with you, it felt like the only way that I could describe it. It felt like I was licking the floor of hell every day. There were moments that were so dark and so heavy. And in this year of healing and restoration, I gathered around not just the church board, but a life board, some counselors and some therapists,

and I began putting the pieces of my life back together. During this time, I had been invited to unique and I was very forthcoming with Pastor Estrash and Janae and I said, this is my life. I have walked through a season of betrayal. I'm living through a very public divorce and this season has been one that has filled, been filled with people rejecting and I wanna let you know right now that if you don't wanna bring me in or you don't feel like now is the time I understand. They opened up their arms and this community and I was welcomed in this place. And so if you are here today and you feel maybe disillusioned, maybe you're in a moment of despair, maybe you feel like you're walking through depression or even a divorce, there is a space for you here. Today I am going to share not a sermon part of a series or some parable, no, no, today I wanna speak to the person who feels like nothing but despair surrounds them. Today I wanna speak to the person who's walking amidst destruction and yet still wants to build. Today I wanna speak to the person who feels unseen, unknown or overlooked. Today in the pages of the Old Testament, we learn about a biblical character who most people have never even heard of. But this character will teach us that you don't have to be famous to be found faithful in the eyes of God.

Now this service, I wanna let you know that I am a daughter of a preacher. My dad is a preacher in East Los Angeles, California and at Daddy's Church, they talk back. And at Revere Church in Orange County, California, we talk back. Why, you're not trying to gas me up or hype me up. What you're doing is you work confirming externally what the Spirit of God is doing internally. So here you could say, amen, if God speaks to you. You could say, you can say, preach it girl. You could, if you have a church background where you like to sing in church, you get to say, take me to Zion. Today in the house of God, I wanna teach you how to preach at a preacher. All right, so that next week when Pastor Josh comes back, You guys are gonna gas him up. He might even finish earlier, you know? Hey, serve with me in your Bible's to first chronicles, chapter seven, verse 24. First chronicles is about one fourth of the way into the Bible. Genesis is the first book and you're gonna hook a right. You're gonna keep on going until you get to first chronicles. It's in the Old Testament. If you take notes on which I encourage you to please do, you can jot down the title of today's message that is built to build, built to build. The Bible contains stories of characters

that fill verses and chapters and even books. In fact, Moses gets chapters and chapters on chapters. Abraham gets chapters on chapters. David not only gets chapters, but he writes chapters and Psalms and poetry that we see. Ruth gets an entire book, Queen Esther gets an entire book, and then the character that we're about to read today gets one verse. That's it, one verse. First chronicles, seven 24 says this. His daughter was Sheerah, who built both lower and upper Beth, Horan, and Uzin Sheerah. That's all that we know about her. Scripture does not tell us her age, her appearance, her personality, or even the details of how she has accomplished what she did. Keep in mind, this is a patriarchal society where women are known by their marital status and by their children. They had no intellectual capital, they had no financial rights, they had no property rights, and yet, nothing about this woman, including a husband or children, are mentioned, but the Bible tells us one extraordinary thing. She built three cities, and that's all that we know about her, and yet the Holy Spirit found her story worthy of preserving for thousands of years, and in studying this story and becoming friends with her over the last year, I've discovered that the size of your story

does not determine the significance of your faithfulness. The size of your story does not determine the significance of your faithfulness. I love discovering this biblical baddie in this pages of Scripture. In fact, I have never in my life ever heard a sermon preach about this woman. In fact, I spoke to my father, and I called my daddy, and I said, "Daddy, have you heard about a woman "by the name of Shera?" Now, keep in mind, my daddy teaches exegetical Bible studies, meaning it is line upon line, verse upon verse of book by book. He has taught through every book in the Bible multiple times over even the boring ones, and he didn't know who Shera was. I said, "Daddy, let me teach you a little something, all right? "Your child's gonna rise up and call you blessed "and also educate you because Shera was a baddie, all right?" Some of us might feel discouraged because maybe you don't feel like your life is spectacular. Maybe you're not preaching to thousands of people, maybe you don't have a platform that you get to post on Instagram or TikTok, maybe you don't have a title, maybe your name is not on a building, maybe you don't own a home, maybe there's not a ring on your left finger, but in heaven's economy, it's different from our economy. God does not measure your faithfulness based on your Instagram or TikTok following.

Her story demonstrates that though people might have not know you. God sees you and God sees what you're building. So let me tell you something you are built to build. Shera, that was a great place to say, "Amen, Church, I'm a teacher, all right?" Shera's story begins in a place of brokenness. Now, before we get to Shera, we need to understand biblical context, and we understand biblical context by reading details before and details after. So we'll read the details above her story and below her story. In 1st Chronicles 7, it traces the descendants of Ephraim. Ephraim is the son of Joseph, the prince of Egypt, the one with many colored coats, this is his son, and this is his lineage, this is his story, and something tragic happens here in this story. So let's pop up a few verses to verse 20, and we read about the descendants of Ephraim. The descendants of Ephraim, Shuthala, Beretta, his son, Tahoth, his son, Elidah, his son, Tahoth, his son, they're running out of name, so they're just naming each other after each other at this point. I think the Bible's funny, and you laughed, so I'm on the right track, great. The bad, his son, Shuthala, his son.

Ezer and Eliad were killed by native born men of Gath when they went down to seize their livestock. Now, pause, if you brought your Bible, I want you to circle the word Gath, why? Because Gath was where Goliath was from. Remember the Goliath, a giant who went up against David? Yes, so giants came down into this land and seized the livestock and killed all of the males in the lineage of Ephraim, verse 22. and his relatives came to comfort him. This is a genealogy. What is a genealogy? A genealogy is basically a Hebrew phone book of your daddy's, daddy's, daddy's, daddy's, daddy's. So in first chronicles, you'll find things like so-and-so had so-and-so, so-and-so, birth so-and-so, so-and-so, begat so-and-so. And yet, we see here that in this genealogy, it suddenly becomes a funeral. Names become people, numbers become families, and behind this genealogy is death and grief and sadness. And then there is a statement that's made, a light maybe at the end of the tunnel that we read in verse 23. Then he, Ephraim, made love to his wife again. If you don't know what that means, ask Pastor Josh, after service, he'll tell you everything, everything. And she became, "Hey, man, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha." That's a man who wants something, amen.

(congregation laughs) And she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Bariah because there had been misfortune in his family. Now, during this time as is Hebrew culture, you were named either a prophetic foretelling of what you were to accomplish, or named after a situation surrounding your birth. So the name Moses means pulled from water, and he was pulled from the Nile. The name Jacob means the planter or shady make shady, and we know through scripture he was shady, right? So Bariah means something associated with calamity or disaster. In other words, Ephraim names his son according to the tragedy that just entered his family. But then, almost immediately, scripture introduces Shira. Verse 24, "His daughter was Shira, "who built lower and upper Betharon as well as Uzzan Shira. "Don't miss the contrast. "The family experiences deep devastation, "but the story does not end with devastation. "There is grief in this genealogy, "but there's also building in this genealogy. "What happened to you may explain part of your story, "but it doesn't get to right the end of your story. "There are people in this room watching online "or even sitting incarcerated in prison cells "who have lived through things "that they might have never chosen to live through,

"loss, destitution, desolation, disappointment, betrayal, "failure, family dysfunction, sickness, closed doors, "seasons when God feels silent." Have you been there? Now, then the temptation is to build our identity around something that's happened. Well, my family's broken, so I'm very broken. I'm failed, so I'm a failure. I've been abandoned, I'm unlovable, I'll never recover. This is just how my life is, it is what it is. But scripture gives us a different picture. F.R.A.M.'s family have experienced tragedy, but tragedy was not the final chapter then, and it's not the final chapter now. Out of the same family that experienced death comes a woman who would be known as a builder, which shows us that God brings builders at a very broken places. She restory is particularly powerful because it doesn't appear in a vacuum. She appears after grief, she appears after loss, she appears after death, she appears in a genealogy marked by suffering after suffering. And then scripture says in verse 24, "His daughter was Shira, who built." Notice the verb built, not complained, not retreated, not merely survived. The detail of scripture is delicious, she built. Shira's life reminds us that God can take people who have inherited brokenness

and make them instruments of construction. You may come from a broken house, but don't let that broken house break you. What happened to you may explain part of your story, but it doesn't get to right to the end. God can redeem what came before you and use you to establish something different because Shira didn't just survive Shira built. First Chronicles, chapter seven, verse 24, gives us three places, lower Betharon, upper Betharon and Uzzan Shira. Now the text used this in particular phrase, this word built in the original implies labor and construction. Shira wasn't simply a woman who was mentioned as like a patron who funded it. She's not the patron, she is a city planner. She is a construction contractor. She manages teams of people that she's responsible for. This girl is a biblical baddie, okay? In North Dakota, when I say bad, that's good, all right? She is bad. Beth Horan, the cities of Beth Horan were strategic. Beth Horan was actually in a very significant area. Beth Horan, both upper and lower, were situated on important trade routes in the hill country of Ephraim, connecting the central highlands that were used for trading and military outposts, meaning Shira wasn't building meaningless monuments. She was building places that would provide

for God's people, the trade route, and protect from the outposts. Shira was protecting and providing for God's people. And those two cities exist even today. Thousands of years later, over 3000 years later, 12 miles outside of this old city of Jerusalem exist upper and lower, Beth Horan. I read her story about a year and a half ago when we were about to launch Revere Church. I was so moved by this woman, reading her story on the heels of the devastation that I walked through because these cities were meant to protect and provide for God's people. And I felt like God was inviting me to do the same. I wanted to do the same. She taught me that faithfulness asked not only what can I build, but where can what I build serve a purpose for God and for God's people? And God has placed you somewhere for a strategic reason. He placed you in your family, he placed you in your community, he placed you in your church, he placed you in your cubicle, he placed you in your C-suite, he placed you in your school, and the question isn't merely, what am I supposed to accomplish? The better question is, God, what have you placed me here to build? Oh, in the kingdom, there are room for builders.

Mothers are builders, fathers are builders, grandparents are builders, lawyers are builders, doctors are builders, teachers are builders, community group leaders are builders, people who preach, build, people who teach, build, people who pray, build, people who give, build, people who quietly serve, build. And she built something that outlived her. And here's perhaps the most beautiful details, the third place is called Uzin Shira, a name connected to Shira herself. In other words, she built something that would outlast her for generations, but theologians believe that she built this city, or that the city was not completed until after she passed, and so she didn't get to name the city. The people of God named the city after her. Do you wanna know what the name Shira means? For the one person who said yes, thank you, yeah. The name Shira means survivor, a remnant, someone or something that survives past devastation. And you might have never heard about this woman who's buried in the pages of scripture, but what she built remained 3,000 years later. So your greatest legacy might not be what you accomplished for yourself, but what remains for others because you served God faithfully. So the question we should be asking ourselves

is not what will remain because I was here. The question is, isn't, who will remember my name? No, the question is, whose life was strengthened because I chose to follow the Lord and serve others through faithfulness? Whose faith was strengthened because I prayed for them? Who found healing because I believed with them? Whose marriages were stronger because I spoke into them? Whose children do I get to spiritually feed in Sunday's school because I said yes to serving on the serve team. I'm a dream team member whose life was changed because I opened up my house before a connect group. The truth is God remembers what people forget. Think about the irony. Thank you, my Spanish speaking brother. He said, glory to God, I got the spirit of translation up in me, yes. Shira is one of the most least known people in scripture. Most Christians have never heard a sermon about her, but God per her name in his word. The world may never notice your faithfulness, but God does. God sees. Hebrews 6, 10 says this. God is not unjust, so as you overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints. There's people who fill this church, the Dickinson campus, the online campus, those incarcerated.

There's people who you might never know their name. People like Candace and Brad. Candace was my host here for a unique conference. (audience applauding) And she was so incredibly, and has been so incredibly kind. and picking me up from the airport and making sure that I am okay. In fact, she overheard me and my travel assistant, Amy, talking about our hotel doesn't have a full-length mirror and so we're figuring out how to stand on the toilet so that we can get a full-length assessment of the outfit and all the guys are like, "Well, I want you to do that "because we're vain, all right?" Well, Candice had called Brad her husband and instead of a hunting trip, he brings a mirror over to the hotel to make sure that we're taken care of. Yeah, they're so kind, so kind. Their hearts for serving and maybe you're here and thinking, "Oh, well, they did it for you "because you're a travel or you're a guest here." That's why. No, because they have opened up their house to 60, 70, 80, 90 young adults for people to encounter the spirit of the living God. Yes, let me tell you something. God doesn't overlook faithful work. Heaven keeps records that earth never keeps and you don't need applause to obey God.

You don't need a recognition to be faithful. You don't need a platform to be fruitful. You don't need people to remember your name. God knows your name so you are built to build. And sheer a story called me out, me out of choosing easy. I had excuses, legitimate excuses to walk away from ministry. In fact, well-intentioned people and pastors had said, "Hey, you know, the church is gonna split, "people are gonna quit. "Men aren't gonna wanna be led by a woman. "Hey, you're a divorced woman. "You're a brown divorced woman. "Women like you are not gonna win at building a church. "I had excuses. "I stood before the Lord very honestly "before launching revere and I just openly admitted. "I don't have the resources and the finances "that other pastors have. "I don't have the degree and formal theological education "that maybe others pastors have. "I don't have the wealth of others. "But I know that if I show up to build, "God would supply my every need." And here we are over a year later, and I get to testify that revere church has seen over 1,000 people say yes to Jesus, and we've baptized 372 people who have gone in public with their faith. I wanted to tell you about my friend Sheerah

because she calls all of us men and women, young and old, rich and poor, black, white, Asian, Haitian, Eurasian, Croatian, Croatian, out of passive Christianity. Don't just attend, build. Don't just complain about the next generation. Build into them. Don't just criticize the church. Build the church, oh, I don't like where they put me to park. Then you get outside in the freezing cold and you join the serve team. You are helping people park. Can we give it up for the parking attendants who are out there when it's like 12 below? Oh yeah, there's a special place in heaven for them. Don't just talk about your spouse, build them up. Don't just pray for revival. Begin to put seeds of faith into the environment so that revival can hit. So the question I'm asking builder is what are you building? I wanna make this personal 'cause we're all building something. We are. In your marriage, you could be building trust or you could be building judgment and skepticism. What are you building? What are you building? What are you building in your children? Are you building up faith and character? Or are you dumping them off to watch YouTube

or social media or believing that the Sunday school teacher who has them for one hour is going to be building them up spiritually? Hey, are you building the church? Are you asking what could this church do for me? Or are you saying, what can God do through me in this community? But there's a deeper building, a deeper building that is going on because Jesus is the true builder of this church. And at this point, we move from moralism to gospel because this message is not, hey, be like Shira and build something great. The gospel is so much deeper because ultimately we are not the great builders. Jesus is. Psalm 127, one says this. "Unless the Lord builds the house, "those who labor..." Book a remix, let's do that again. "Unless the Lord builds the house, "those who build it labor in vain, "unless the Lord builds a vangel, "those who build it labor in vain." So we can build our businesses. We can build our careers. We can build our ministries. We can build our families. We can build our reputation. But if Jesus Christ is not at the center of it,

we can spend our lives building something that cannot last. That's why Jesus said in Matthew chapter seven, wise men build his house. she or his picture becomes the gospel story. Her family have experienced death, but she was a builder. On the cross at Calvary, everyone watching Jesus thought that he had been destroyed. His body had been destroyed, his reputation had been broken, his followers have scattered, his ministry apparently has finished, and the enemies on earth and in hell thought that they had won. But what looked like the greatest destruction was actually God's greatest construction project. Because through the cross, Jesus was reconciling sinners to his father, and through his resurrection, he conquered death, and through his spirit, he empowered the believers then, and even now went through the gospel he's still building. And that's why Jesus says in Matthew 1618, "I will build the church. Not you will build the church, not Pastor Josh or Pastor Janae will build the church." Jesus said, "I will build the church," and that is good news because it means that the future of God's kingdom doesn't depend ultimately on our strength. Jesus is a builder, but we are privileged to build in his wake because we are built to build, and God can take the place of greatest destruction and allow it to be the beginning of the greatest construction. Your brokenness does not frighten God, your past does not intimidate God, there's no sin that God cannot forgive, there's no failure where you could exhaust the grace of God, there's no family history that will overcome God's sovereignty. God who raised Jesus from the dead can build something beautiful on the remains of what is ruined, and I'm living proof. She, her entire biblical account could fit on a small portion of a page, and what does her verse say, "She built." If God summarized your entire life in one sentence, what would it be?

Here lives someone who accumulated, here lives someone who complained, here lives someone who was always busy, here lives someone who wanted everyone to notice them, or here lives someone who built a home where Jesus was honored, someone who built children who knew scripture, someone whose life was characterized by grace, someone who bridges, builds bridges to unbelievers, someone who disciples, someone who brings in hope, someone who brings in faith, someone who brings in love, she or his name was nearly hidden in the pages of scripture, but God saw her, and God felt it fit to tell generations she built. And perhaps that's what some of us need to hear today, that you don't have to be famous, you don't have to be impressive, you don't have to be powerful, you don't have to have this massive platform, you simply need to be faithful, you simply need to say yes. And when God puts a building assignment in your hands, don't spend your life wishing that you had someone else's assignment, build what God has placed in front of you, so build your homes and build your marriages and build your church and build your community and build your family and build the hope, but most importantly build all of this on Jesus Christ. Because if we build anything apart from Him, it will eventually crumble, but if we build it on Jesus Christ, it will stand forever. And there's some people in this room watching online or at other campuses where you're thinking that your best is behind you because of something that happened to you, your story is not over. And I'm living proof. There's some in this room watching online who've been waiting for someone to notice you. God notices you. Some of you have been comparing your assignment to their assignment. God isn't asking you to build their city. He's asking you to build yours. Your story isn't over. The broken part of your life isn't the whole story. And maybe the thing that God wants you to write next isn't simply that you survived it. I believe that when people talk about your life, I believe that they could say He built that. She built that.

They built that. And some people in this room and online have been building everything except a relationship with Jesus. Today is the day that you get to meet the greatest builder. Are your arms tired of building things that just feel like they're falling? Guess what? There's one who is stronger. There's one who is wiser and what I put in God's hands He will take and He will help me and empower me to do the things He has called me to do and He wants the same for you. So today I'm going to pray two prayers. I'm going to pray a prayer of faith for those who feel like I know I'm called to build, but I'm tired. I don't feel like I have the strength to rebuild my marriage after broken trauma. I don't know if I have the strength to build a life of integrity. I don't know. Or maybe there's nothing wrong, but maybe you just feel like you're spiritually tired. I'm going to pray that the Spirit of God give you an extra dose of the Holy Ghost today, a spirit of strength to do what He's called you to do. And then I'm going to pray for those that don't have a relationship with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but right now in this room, can we have a moment of honesty? If you're here today and you are feeling tired and weary, you feel like you need supernatural strength. I'm going to invite you with every head lifted, every eye open to be honest in the house of God, whether here online or in a different campus, we raise your hand and say, "That's in the eye. I need strength in this next season." Amazing hands going up all over, all over, and believing there are campuses, even online. You can put a hand emoji in the chat box. The Lord sees you. The every hand that's lifted mine included for the season of what I'm building.

I am praying over a spirited living God. I just pray for your Holy Spirit to give us strength to do what we cannot do in our own strength. We need your strength. And so we steady our hand, we quicken us, we give us encouragement, Lord God, would you fill us overflowing today so that we could step into and build again, not just for this generation, but for generations to come. For the next 98 years of evangelism, we be people who say we built a foundation where others encountered you in Jesus' name, amen and amen. And if you're here today or you're watching online and you've never said yes to Jesus, or maybe at one point you were walking with the Lord, but you've turned your back on the Lord. You're living a life of sin. And no, I'm not saying you said a bad word or you got into a fight with your spouse. I'm talking straight up. You know that you're not living the life that would make Jesus proud today is the day to say yes to Jesus or to come back in faith. And so if you're here today, I want to create a moment of sacredness. Will you do me a favor church because people are going to make a powerful decision. We bow your head, will you close your eyes, believers, will you pray in faith because there are those who are about to put their faith in Jesus Christ, the great builder. If you're here today, I'm going to count to three in a second and you're going to raise your hand up to say, I want Jesus, but let me give you some understanding about this decision. One, by raising your hand, you are saying that I want Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. Two, by raising your hand, you are saying that my mistakes and my failures with the Bible refers to a sin could be forgiven because of what Jesus did in the Cross Act Calvary. And three, by raising your hand, you are declaring what Romans 10 says that the same spirit that resurrected Jesus from the grave will live in me and that his Holy Spirit will take residence in your life.

So if that is you, for you are saying yes to Jesus for the first time or you're coming back to faith, one, two, three, will you boldly raise your hand? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. Hands are going up all over. God bless you. God bless you. Dickinson campus. There's people that could see you for our incarcerated brothers and sisters. There's people that can see you. You are not alone in this decision. We are so excited. God bless you. Way in the back. We are so excited that you are putting your faith in Jesus and to let you know that you are not alone in this prayer or decision. We're going to pray a prayer of faith together as an evangel family. And this is not a magic prayer, but this is a prayer that will put language around this decision. So church, will you repeat after me, believers, sayings and names right now as you put your faith in Jesus. Can you just say, Jesus, today I choose you as my personal Lord and Savior. Cleanse my heart, cleanse my mind, cleanse my body, fill me with your spirit to do what I cannot do. In Jesus' name, amen and amen, amen, let's celebrate church. Absolutely. Let's dance to our feet and may we worship God who is, yes, we're not going to worship, we're going to do something different.

Okay. We're going to respond in a different way. What a great message. Can you appreciate Pastor Bianca? We love you. Stay here one second. I was just like texting board members in the middle of that and we just feel like that was a word for our church. We're at capacity in some of our campuses in Dickinson and we're praying about what to do next and you're talking about building and faith and I know that you're asking God for building. So we're going to do everything we did for legacy makers already, but we're going to send $25,000 to Revere as well. As we believe in it, we believe what God's doing. We also just believe that you reap what you sow and sowing into you is faith building for us as a church and I know that you need way more than $25,000 what, but God is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than you can think Come on, will you appreciate her? So is the pastor who carries an iron fist inside a velvet glove holding a tin cup. If you want to sew into what God is doing in, in revere and in our church and in Les Bolivi and TLI you can give before you go today. I also just want to take a pastoral moment because I feel like Bianca represents something that's really important for our church to understand. And that's that you can cherry pick a few scriptures in the Bible that say women shouldn't do what Bianca just did. But the Bible is also filled with women who did what Bianca just did. And for her, for her to minister as a woman who's walked through what she's walked through because we believe divorce can be disqualifying but it's not for everybody depending on the circumstances that we believe that the fruit of your life qualifies not only you but other people with a story and with a past that you're not done, that if you're in a, if you're in the state penitentiary right now. Or you're in a correctional facility. That does not mean that God is done with you, that he is a restorer. Come on. Either we believe in restoration or we don't. And we believe in restoration. We believe in it. And I thank God for it in my own life. Amen. It's fun being the church. It's awesome. What God is doing. Jesus, we give you all the glory. We thank you for what you've started and what you're going to bring through to completion, completion. God, I believe that you're going to meet our needs as a church. You're going to meet the needs of Ruby because you are Jehovah, Jaira, the God who provides. Well, Ruby, the God who sees us. And so we trust you today. Come on prayer teams. If you're here today and you need prayer, prayer teams would love to pray with you.

It's going to take you a while to get out of the building and out of the parking lot anyways so you might as well stop and pray. But we love you. This service is over. But church is never over. So go be the church. (upbeat music)