Tools & Treasure | Foundations | Josh Leake

My name is Josh, I'm the lead pastor here at Allison Park Church, and we are getting into, thank you very much, we're getting into the third week of the series we started called Foundations. The idea of this series is, oh, you know what? I forgot to say, shout out to God behind bars in Somerset. We love you guys, welcome them, can't forget that. This series Foundations is if we get our foundation wrong, it throws off everything else, right? When you're building a house, if the foundation is messed up, it's gonna mess up everything. So Jesus used this at the end of his famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, to say if you put the teachings from this sermon into practice, you're like somebody who builds on a strong, stable foundation like a rock. And if you don't, it's like building your house on sand. So we're talking about what are the things that Jesus taught leading up to that analogy of building your house on a strong foundation. And really what this series is about, it's about a couple things. It's about the heart, not just external behaviors, but it's also about we want to be a community of radical disciples of Jesus. That is what the Sermon on the Mount is all about. He's talking to disciples to say, if you're gonna follow me, this is what it means. And this is what it means to be disciples in the kingdom of God. Disciples of Jesus treat others differently.

They view the purpose of their life differently. They make decisions differently than everyone else. So we want to build on that foundation, and we want to be this kind of community. So the theme verse for today, what we're gonna look at, was actually also the theme verse from Kitzkaboom. If you were serving at Kitzkaboom, or if you were one of the kids that attended or youth students, you will recognize this verse in Matthew chapter six, verse 19, here's what it says. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moths and vermin destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moths and vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. And here's the really famous verse. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. So he explains here that your heart, your emotions, is going to follow whatever you choose to value. It will trail after it. And he's setting up a section about finances and wealth and money. And a normal response for us, anytime really, we hear about a topic like money like this, I feel like a normal response is to say, okay, what's the angle gonna be here? Like, where eventually is this gonna go? Because they're gonna try to persuade me of something. And with the topic of money, I think it is normal

to right away be a little bit on edge because money is deeply important and personal. It affects everything we do. So our kids or what school, college, university you want to attend, it affects your health, it affects whatever future you're planning, maybe retirement down the line. Money is important. And so when this topic comes up, some of us can feel probably a little guarded, especially in church. Because sometimes the feeling is gonna be, the feeling is, are they gonna say something about money's bad? Sometimes Christians have even sent that message. Money is bad, we should get rid of almost all of it. And that's the goal. Or is it gonna be, is the church gonna say, give me your money, and if you don't, you're a bad person, right? If you're a guest, maybe in the room for, it's one of your first couple times here, maybe you're joining online, you might be feeling like, oh man, I got the money message. Picked the wrong week to be here. So I wanna clarify, what is Jesus talking about here in this section? Because Jesus' teaching on money is aiming deeper than money guidelines. Money is the subject, but it is the avenue

to get deeper to what the whole Sermon on the Mount is about, which is the condition of your heart. So money is a subject, but it's really to get deeper than that. And if you're in the room and you're saying, I want to be an all-out follower of Jesus, I think this message is gonna be really good and challenging in a good way. It doesn't have to be in a super heavy way. If you're in the room or you're watching and you're like, I haven't really decided if I wanna follow Jesus, then this may not apply to you yet. Because the first step is always to say, I want to give my life to Jesus. So for those of us who are in that position to say, Jesus, I want you to be my full master, we have to pay attention to what he says about this and what he's aiming for. So how? What Jesus starts it is he says, you have to see the whole picture. Don't just focus on storing up everything for here because this is not all there is. Why would you build everything here when there's an eternity? So don't store up here. And this is a principle that we try to pass on to our kids. So my dad passed this on to me of not just burning a hole in your pocket. I remember when I would cut the grass

and I would get 20 bucks, it would disappear instantly. Growing up, it was just like I always had 11 years old, a video game that I wanted to buy. And I would just instantly use that money. So I've been trying to teach my nine-year-old son this principle about not just instantly giving away all your money on whatever you see right in front of you. And last year we ran into this because my son Ben, nine years old, found a video game that he wanted. So we love to play video games together. It's a way that me and my son connect. He found a video game, he saw a clip of it. He got obsessed with it and it was called Octodad. If you're a gamer in the room, last service there were some people who were like nodding their heads, they know what this is. If you don't know what this is, let me just catch you up to speed real quick. You play as an octopus wearing a three-piece suit, blending in as a dad in normal human society by cutting the grass and doing the dishes. And if you're thinking that sounds weird and dumb and boring, you would be right. It is all of those things. It is weird and dumb and boring. But Ben, it was all he could think about. I mean, he was asking me 25 times a day, Octodad.

Please, dad. And I was like, listen, this, you're getting your hopes up on something. This is not going to be as great as you think it is. So we had this conversation 50 times. And eventually I said, okay, listen, I'm gonna let you play this game. You can buy it and we'll play it, but here's the catch. If you play this, because you're not gonna listen to what I'm saying, you are gonna only play this game and nothing else for two weeks. And so he had sat with it and he was like, absolutely, I'll take the deal, Howie. And so I was like, okay, we're gonna do this. Then I'm holding you to this. So he started playing Octodad and I left the room. And five minutes later, he came to me with tears in his eyes and he was like, I made a mistake. And at this point, you're wondering, did you hold them to that two weeks? Absolutely, every second of that two weeks. We heard Octodad's music haunting us in that house for two weeks because I wanted him to learn this idea, right? When you get your hopes up on something that's right in front of you and you don't see the whole picture, it's not worth it. Jesus is doing this on a bigger scale. So he's saying, don't just focus on the immediate

and the temporary and anything that keeps us preoccupied with the immediate and the temporary is gonna conflict with where Jesus is leading us. One of those things is money or finances. But again, his goal is to get deeper than that. And here's where I think his warning is aiming to us. A warning, loving warning to his disciples. I'll put it on the screen. Money becomes dangerous when it moves from being a tool to a treasure. Sometimes I think Christians send mixed signals about money, so let's just clear some things up here. Money is not evil. Money is not wrong. Having it, saving it, earning it. The Bible actually commands us. Work hard, make a living for yourself, be discerning, save. Those are good biblical principles. So none of those things are wrong. Being wise with your money is good. So that being said, what is the warning that Jesus is giving here? His warning is money is hazardous because of how quickly it can take a place in our lives and in our heart that it was never designed to. It infects us and it corrupts us when it moves from being a tool to a treasure. And it can really quickly do that. It moves from being a tool in our hands

to a treasure in our hearts. So let's talk about what's the difference now between a tool and a treasure. A tool is something that's useful, but a treasure is precious. Tools are used to build things, but treasures are kept to protect. Tools can be released and let go of without devastation or pain, but treasures feel impossible to give up. Tools are powerful resources, but treasures become places of security and fulfillment. Money really quickly moves from a tool in our hands to a treasure in our hearts. And how does that happen? How does it move so quickly from our hands to our hearts? is anything that you want can quickly become something you need, and when you need it, it has power over you. This applies to more than money, by the way. Let me just say this again, because this is good. Anything that you want can quickly become something you need, and when you need it, it has power over you. So money is something that we can become dependent on, and we, in that sense, become a slave to it because we need it. So whether or not we admit it, if we grow to need money and always need control over it, it becomes our master.

Money has that seductive kind of power, and it's the first on the list of things that people build their lives around. All over the world, for all of history, there's three primary things that people have made their ultimate meaning in life, and that's money, sex, and power. Money's first on that list of things. It's the ultimate desire. The thing about each one of those things is that money, sex, and power are all good things created by God that become problematic when they become the most important. Quickly, each one of these things, without even us realizing it, we become dependent on them, we need them, and they become our master. And when money becomes our master, we stop seeing clearly. So this is what Jesus continues to elaborate on in the next verses here, Matthew chapter six, verse 22. It's immediately after where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. He says, the eye is the lamp of the body. And if your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? Let's pause. If we just read that section out of context,

we would have no idea that he's talking about money. But he's talking about money right before, and he talks about money right after. So we know what he's talking about here is directed at our money. And specifically what he's saying, it's a little bit of a confusing analogy that he's using, but he's basically saying, if your eyesight is bad, you won't be able to see correctly, duh. But he's comparing that to a generous attitude. If we have a generous attitude, it's like we can see correctly. If we are stingy, if we have a controlling, protective, money is my treasure attitude, it's like we can't see it clearly. It's like we're in darkness. And then he wraps up this section on money in verse 24, really sums up this whole section well. He says, no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you'll be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. No one can serve God and money. This teaching was not for people who had to make up their mind between the decisions of who to serve. It can seem like that for a second, like for people who have not decided what they want to serve, God or money or something else, he's explaining that you have to pick.

No, what Jesus is saying is, there are those who say they follow God, but their heart already belongs to a different master. So this is Jesus' call for disciples to fully devote themselves to God. And he's specifically saying, some of us will say we want to serve God, but have deceived ourselves because our heart already belongs somewhere else. Or to phrase it a different way, some of us will say we want to be disciples of Jesus, but we have deceived ourselves because we are already disciples of money. Money has an ultimate place in our heart, a grip that we can't let go of. So let's just pause for a second here. I know that this topic can feel heavy because money is such a sensitive and important thing. I think it's also possible for us to read into Jesus' tone some things that maybe we are worried about. We can read in irritation into Jesus' tone, or judgment or frustration. Like Jesus is saying, get your act together. Serve God or money, pick, and then stomps away. I think what we actually need to read into Jesus' tone here is concern and sorrow. Because we have a maker who crafted us, who desires to know us, to care for us, to lead us. And when your heart is mastered by.

Anything else other than him, it will ultimately destroy you. Good things that God created, when they become the most important thing, they destroy us. And money and sex and power often get into that spot. And so Jesus' warning with a tone of concern for his disciples is, be careful that you don't let money become your master because it can deceive you. Jesus is after our heart. It's less about money. Although money is important, it's more about the heart. And so here's the main idea here. Whatever owns your heart orders your life. Whatever owns you will order you, it will direct you. Everyone lives for something. Even people who don't believe in the supernatural. Everybody is owned by something. It's not a question of, does something own your heart? It's a question of, what owns your heart? Because everybody lives for something. Everybody has chosen something that gives their life ultimate meaning or that they desire most. And that essentially is what worship is. The thing that you desire most in life. The thing that gives your life full and complete meaning. Andrew Carnegie is a really famous guy in Pittsburgh. One of the most successful industrialists in American history.

And in Pittsburgh, again, the name Carnegie is everywhere. Andrew Carnegie built a massive fortune in steel. And much of it was tied to the rise of Pittsburgh as an industrial powerhouse. He was one of the richest men in the world during his time. He was also an atheist. But when he was 33 years old, he said a few things about money that I think are so interesting. So this is before he built his whole massive fortune. 33 years old, he's an atheist. Here's what he said. He said, the amassing or the gathering of wealth is one of the worst forms of idolatry. No idol is more degrading than the worship of money. It's a very interesting language for an atheist to use. Using religious language to communicate, really the heart, I think, of what Jesus is saying, which is money, when it becomes too important, we need it too much, we control it too much, can corrupt you and destroy your character, your soul, your integrity. So back to what Jesus was saying, it's a call to recognize our own self-deception, which is saying our heart belongs to God, but it really belongs to something else, which is our finances. We can say that we believe in God. We can even say that we surrender or that we're a disciple, and yet we can fail to actually surrender our heart to him.

So let's talk now about three different ways we can view money. This is ultimately where we wanna get to, is allowing the Holy Spirit to work on our heart and put into practice what Jesus is teaching, so we're building on that foundation that's solid, and that we're becoming a community that really looks like what a community of disciples of Jesus should look like. So three different lens for how we can view money. And before we get to the first one, I'll also just say one thing. This is regardless of where anyone is at financially. Jesus was not addressing people of certain financial status. No matter how much money you have or how little money you have, Jesus recognized the ability of the appeal of money to affect our heart. So this is for everybody in the room. So here's the first lens we gotta view money through, based on Jesus's teaching. Number one is the lens of eternity. Everybody say eternity. One of the things we struggle with is to think beyond our life here. It breaks our brain when we start trying to think about our existence beyond this life here. I mean, just think about it for a second. Because conceptually, thinking about the fact that there have been so many people that have lived on this earth before us.

You have no idea their name, their accomplishments, their failures, nothing about their life. And after we leave this earth, it won't be long before no one remembers us. It is so hard for our brains to grasp this concept that there's existence after death, not just life on earth, but after death, there is an eternity. And when you view money through this lens, it starts to look a lot different. Because saying you believe in eternity and living like you do are worlds apart. And when we start to look at money with the lens of eternity, we start to see. is some of the false promises that it offers us. Let me give you a parallel object that offers us false promises. It's this thing right here. So I'm not gonna pivot and preach a message on the evils of a smartphone, as much as I'm tempted to do that. I'm not gonna do that. My point is, for most of us, these things offer us comfort, security, a sense of connection, productivity, and it's always accessible. There's so many ways on this thing to zone out, or to get stuff done, or to connect, or to relax. And every time you check it, it's promising you, if you check me, it'll be worthwhile.

Some of you, even during this message, you have this bad habit like me, where you pull it out and you look at it, and you're like, nothing's there. But it's just a habit. It's kind of been built from that false promise. Being on your phone also, it's one of the only things that we have in the world, where you can set out to do one quick task, and then you end up on a completely other side of the universe. You know what I'm talking about? So you can go to, I've done this before, I go to check a text, and then an hour later, I'm watching carpet cleaning videos on YouTube. By the way, if you want carpet cleaning videos, I've got a great guy I love to watch. It's super relaxing. But we have moments of sobriety, where we realize, what the heck am I doing? This, I just spent a bunch of time on this thing. Or we watch how our smartphone affects kids. It affects people around us. And we have these moments of sobriety, where we realize, we don't just see it as a normal thing, we see it as something that's designed to capture our attention, or to track our habits, or to train our impulses. And we don't despise it or see it as evil, we just start to see it as a little less attractive,

because we see it through a lens where the false promises that it offers becomes a little clearer. So this is the lens that we gotta look through. The lens of eternity helps us to see the false promises that money offers us. It's what Jesus calls the deceitfulness of wealth. So this came up in a teaching moment for Jesus, because in Luke chapter 12, there was a crowd gathered, and one guy just yelled out from the crowd, hey Jesus, my brother won't split the inheritance with me, can you help him, help us work this out so we split the inheritance? And Jesus responds and says, who am I to figure this out between you guys? Work it out amongst yourselves. And he says, be careful of the attitude of greed, and how it affects you. And then he illustrates that warning with a parable, with a story. Here's what he says, Luke chapter 12. And he told them this parable. The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. And he thought to himself, what shall I do? I have no place to store my crops. And then he said, this is what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns, and I'll build bigger ones. And there I will store up my surplus grain. And I'll say to myself, you have plenty of grain

laid up for many years, take life easy. Eat, drink, and be married. But God said to him, you fool, this very night your life will be demanded from you. And then, who will get what you have prepared for yourself? This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves, but is not rich toward God. Our money offers us false promises of gratification and of security. The wisdom of King Jesus is, think about how vulnerable everything you own is. Not only that, think about how vulnerable your life is. None of us know when our final breath will be. And someday, we will enter into the next life, where everything here will have seemed like a breath. It's there and it's gone. And we can't take anything from this earth with us into the next one. So as we're looking through this lens at our money, lens of eternity, a question we can ask is, Lord, how am I viewing my money as a sense of security, fulfillment, gratification, in a way that you want me to begin to let go of? Lord, help me not to buy the false promises that money offers of security or comfort or fulfillment. Lord, help me to find those in you as my master. So the first one's the lens of eternity. Here's the second lens. The lens of generosity. Everybody say generosity.

So this starts by remembering that God has been so ridiculously generous to us, blessed us, been good to us. to us, been kind to us, saved us. I love how Pastor Rob Ketterling puts this. He says, we have been blessed to be a blessing. So our tendency, even as disciples of Jesus, can be when we are blessed, we look inward, like black hole, we protect our interests, we guard. But one of the marks of being a disciple is that you start to look out for the needs of other people. And when money has a grip on our heart, generosity, all that it feels like is a threat or a loss. But when you see through the lens of generosity, you see it as an opportunity to bless others in the way that God has blessed you. Not only that, you see it as an opportunity to partner with King Jesus, who is looking to build his kingdom in the world around us. It's not just reluctantly like, oh, it's an adventure. Lord, who around me do you want to bless through what you've given me? Because as disciples of Jesus, we should start to care about what he cares about. And we know that dear to Jesus's heart is those who are suffering, poor, overlooked, outcast, hungry. Those are so important to Jesus that he says, anytime you care for one of those people, it's like you're caring for me, is what Jesus says.

So as disciples of Jesus, in his kingdom, we should look like a radical community of people who are more interested in caring for others, especially those who are broken or overlooked, than for protecting our own interests. And people who trust that God is gonna bless and provide. So as we're looking through the lens of generosity, the question is not, so how much do I give then? Because what can happen is, we can say, okay, it needs to be this much. I'll give that and we'll be done. And consistently, what Jesus warned about throughout this message is, you can religiously follow the rules and have your heart all the way over here. Jesus is after your heart. So the question is not, what's the amount that you're giving? The real question is, am I consistently ready to bless others and to have a spirit of generosity towards others as I partner with my master in everyday life? Because when Jesus is your master, you start to think like him and see like him. Okay, final lens. Number three is the lens of availability. Everybody say availability. So it starts with seeing everything I have comes from God. It all belongs to him. When we look through availability, we say, Lord, you're my master and I know you're gonna take care of me.

So my world and my finances, everything is open-handed to you. This is where it gets a little hard for us because there are certain areas of our life that we prefer to be untouched. I'll give these things, but not this. Availability is actually where this gets really good and powerful when we shake off the heaviness for a second, because here's the truth that we sometimes forget. You and I have the privilege of knowing the creator of the entire universe. We overlook that pretty quickly, or it just, it becomes common, or it becomes hard for us to grasp. But when we really think about it, the very hands that crafted the universe, the words that spoke the universe into existence, we get to know that being. Not only that, he wants to know us. We get to know him deeper. And he has promised that when we surrender to him, he will bless us and take care of us. That's the best news in the world. I'm right there with you, that when we approach a topic like this that affects our lives so deeply, it's not always easy to see this. But our goal is to say, not, I just need to get rid of this much money, or I need to give this much money.

Our goal is to say, Jesus, I want you to be my master. I wanna be your disciple. And you have full access to every part of my life. Because I know that if you ask me to be obedient and give you this much money, or to look around me and be generous with other people, I know you're gonna take care of me. This is what it means to be radical disciples of Jesus, is we say, you are my primary master. So I look through this lens to say, everything is available to you. Looking through the lens of availability also means we look to see Jesus on the cross. When you remember, you come back to that place of salvation where you remember how lost you were and how broken you were. And you remember Jesus on that cross, God himself descending to the earth to live a perfect life, to go through agony to take our place so that we have hope. It makes it a lot easier to be like, God, you have everything. Everything is yours. Everything is yours. I don't want to be tight-fisted about anything in my life, looking through the lens of availability. And part of why this breaks God's heart so much when we get off is because the desires that you have for security or for gratification or for fulfillment, they are good desires, but it breaks God's heart when money redirects

those God-given desires into a source that can't fulfill them. Everything that your heart truly desires is found in Jesus Christ. Everything else is temporary. Everything else is vulnerable. So we got to look through this lens to say, Lord, thank you that everything I have comes from you. Every single thing in my life is a blessing from you. And so, Lord, I trust you as my master. Everything is available to you now. So I'm not going to teach as we close here on specific amounts. We could talk about what the Old and New Testaments say about tithing. We could talk about kingdom builders. We could talk about four years of faith. But before this becomes a number, I think Jesus wants to deal with the lens of how we see our finances. Because if money still has our heart, then any number becomes a threat. And if money is still our treasure, generosity or partnering with God feels like a loss. If money is our security, then obedience feels unsafe. So the first question when we end this message is not, okay, how much do I need to give? That will come in the coming days as you pray and you're saying, Jesus, I want you to be my master. The question right now is, Holy Spirit, how do you want to change the way that I see my money? Because when the Holy Spirit changes the lens, money starts to lose the grip. It becomes less precious, less ultimate. We start to buy those false promises less.

We start to surrender to God more and say, Jesus, I want you to be my only master. So a couple of reflection questions as we wrap up here is, when you think about giving God full access to your life and especially to your money, if God was to ask you today, I want you to give this amount of money. You felt that prompt. I want you to be generous with this amount of money. What would be the emotion that would come there? Is it fear? Is it a desire for security? Is it frustration because of something you're working towards or building or wanting to purchase? Is it frustration? What's the emotion that would come when the Holy Spirit asks for that? My next question would be, Holy Spirit, where has money become more than just a tool? Where has it started to become something that's precious or that I'm looking to for security or satisfaction or fulfillment? Holy Spirit, where does this have a grip on my heart? And then the last one would be, Holy Spirit, I want you to start to show me how I can let go of this grip so that you're my master and so that I can fully trust you. Take a minute and just close your eyes, bow your heads. We're going to worship in just a second here. But before we do that, remember, this whole series is about putting into practice the words of Jesus. So if we just hear the teaching and leave and we don't pray on it, we don't worship, we don't let it ruminate and allow the Holy Spirit to speak, we're missing it.

So what we're going to do is the band is going to lead us in a song in just a second. But before we do that, if you're in the room and you have not ever surrendered to Jesus, you maybe believe in God, you may believe in Jesus, you may attend church, but you've never asked for forgiveness and you've never asked for him to be your king. This is the most important decision you'll ever make. No other decision actually really matters because everything else at the end of the day is going to pale in comparison to this which affects your eternity. Listen to me, every one of us in this room, we are going to breathe our last breath. That's a non-negotiable. And whether you're building your life on an unstable foundation of money or sex or power, or you're building it on Jesus. That is the most important decision that you're ever gonna make. I really believe, there's some of you in the room, you've been feeling this inward stirring of, I know that's me, I know I need to give my life to Jesus. I wanna be a radical disciple, but I've never made that decision. Listen, today is your day. This is your moment to say, Jesus, I wanna live for you. Lord, I need forgiveness for my sin, for my idolatry, for living my own way. Jesus, I want you to be my master. Okay, if that's you, listen, I want you to be bold, okay? Our eyes are closed, our heads are bowed.

If that's you in the room though, don't think about anybody else. Today, this is the most important decision you'll ever make because it's what you're building your existence on. So when I count to three, I want you to raise your hand because it's an act of the will. It's not just something you're thinking. You're saying, yeah, that's me. I'm gonna give my life to Jesus. Ready? One, two, three. Slip it up and say, today I choose to follow you. Yeah, that's awesome. And as you're stretching it up, you just feel yourself saying, Jesus, I want you to be my savior. I want you to be my king. That's beautifully. Put your hands down across this room. And now let's pray a prayer of dedication together. Repeat after me. Say, dear Jesus, thank you for loving me. Thank you for dying on that cross. Thank you for shedding your blood. So that I can be forgiven. Lord, I ask you to forgive me. Cleanse me of my sin. Make me new this morning. Be my savior. Be my king.

I surrender to you. In Jesus name. Everybody said, amen. Amen. Come on, give it up for those that made that decision. Awesome. Okay, let's all stand to our feet now as we get ready to close. Okay, this right here, we're gonna take two minutes. We're gonna worship. This is a really important part of the message. Why? Because now we act on it. We're not acting by saying, now we're gonna go give this much. We're acting by saying that we're gonna sing this song to say, you can have it all. So if we wanna be radical disciples, this is a moment of worship to say, I wanna build my life on the foundation. Before we sing, I just wanna say, there's hands all over the room where you said, yes, I wanna follow Jesus. If that was you, we want to help you take some next steps. Okay, we have an area called our salvation corner. Pastor Matt is in the back waving his hand. One of our pastors back there, right outside these doors. We have some information, some resources to help you take some next steps

as you give your life to Jesus. It's a journey, okay? So stop by there after service. But now let's just take two minutes together. Put your hands out in front of you as a way of just representing to God, I surrender. Jesus, we are ready to build on your foundation. We're ready to say we're available to you. Let's worship, and then I'll be out to close us in just a minute. You can have it all, Lord. Every part of my world. Take this life and breathe on. Breathe on this heart that is now yours. You can have it all, Lord. Every part of my world. So take this life and breathe on. This heart that is now yours. Come on, let's make that our prayer today. You can. You can have it all, Lord. Every part. Every part of my world. Take this life and breathe on. This heart that is now yours. You can have it all. You can have it all, Lord. Every part of my world. Take this life and breathe on.

This heart that is now yours. There is no greater call than giving you my all. I lay it all down. I lay it all down. There is no greater love, no higher name above. I lay it all down, I lay it all down. There is no greater call than giving you my all. I lay it all down, I lay it all down. There is no greater love, no higher name above. I lay it all down, infant have it all, Lord. Every part, every part of my world. So take this life and bring on this heart that is now yours. I lay it all down, I lay it all down. I lay it all down, infant have it all, Lord. I lay it all down, infant have it all, Lord. I lay it all down, infant have it all, Lord. I lay it all down, infant have it all, Lord. I lay it all down, infant have it all, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Now just stretch forth your hand like this. Let me pray a prayer of blessing over you. I pray this week, as you learn to trust Him deeper, that you would sense His closeness, that you would hear the voice of the Spirit speaking, leading you forward with clarity, for how to live with wisdom. I pray that His favor would rest upon every area of your life. And I pray that His grace would bless you, bless your family. In Jesus' name, everybody said, amen, amen. Awesome.

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