We Fund the Room, God Sends Revival | Robby Gallaty | 2 Kings 22

got to preach live to them. Before we did that, we served them a steak dinner. And the same guy from last time came back and said, "This is the second steak I've eaten since 1998." When I went to Germany, I was done with pork schnitzel in five days. I mean, I'm just concerned about it. We preached and we worshiped and it was unbelievable. We saw 60 or 65. We lost count. Men get baptized on the spot spontaneously. It was unbelievable. So shout out to those guys. We're excited. Thank you for supporting that as well. What I want to talk about today is this. When we fund the room, God sends revival. Our job is to fund the room. God sends revival. Now, I've said this before, but I want to do it again as we lead up to next week. I want you just to look around if you're here, Gallatin as well, those who are online, just kind of look around the room for a second. And I want you to be aware that the chair you sit in and I sit in every Sunday was provided by somebody before us. The lights that give us light to see the message in the video projection were provided by somebody before us. The roof over our head, thank God, from sun and rain, provided by somebody before us. The parking lot that we drive on, most of it was provided by somebody before us. Somebody else did that. God gave somebody a vision years ago before anybody ever walked through these doors. And here's the reality. Most of us here don't even know the names of those people, but God does. And that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to go back 2,600 years to a group of people. We don't know their names. They're not famous. We don't have their names in the Bible. And yet God moves in their heart to give financially to an initiative to fix the temple. And through fixing the temple, they find the book of the law, which hadn't been found in years or hidden in years, and they see revival. And here's the point I want to make. They simply obey God for the repair. God sent the fire. And I'm praying, long hollow, that we see a nationwide revival that starts in Sumner County. What could God do with your obedience, your simple act of obedience, it has the potential, as we'll read, to spark a nationwide revival. If you have a Bible turned to 2 Kings, chapter 22, and we're going to learn about a young man named Josiah. 2 Kings 22, this is part of our reading, by the way, we're reading the Bible planned together. What's crazy is, I was calling, I was talking to our guy, helps us think through the campaign, the initiative, the planning, all that. And I

said, if I could have planned these sermons myself, I couldn't have planned them any better for the vision and the leading. Listen, this message today, this text, we read this week. We planned this series back year ago, August the year ago. Okay? But then we, if you remember, we didn't start the plan in January because we pushed it back four weeks. We did a prayer book. But Candy and I planned this plan five years ago. You ready for the other way to this? And this text lands the week before the initiative. You'd almost think God's in this day, right? I mean, like almost. Think God's in, watch this. This is insane. St. in Kings 22, verse one, if you dare say word. Thank you. Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned 31 years in Jerusalem. His mother name was Jedidiah, the daughter of Adiah. She was from Bosech. He did, watch this, what was right in the Lord's sight and walked in all the ways of his ancestor, David. He did not turn to the right or to the left. I want to give you two insights here from the text. One is our response. One is God's return. Number one, give obediently. That's the principle we see here in this text. Give obediently. Now, let me frame the story so you know what's happening. Destruction at this moment in the text is looming over Israel, over the nation of Israel and over the city of Jerusalem. Why? Because two corrupt kings have led over Israel for almost 60 years. The first one is Manasseh and his son, Amun. Manasseh is a wicked king that reigned for, get this, 55 years, the longest reign of any king of Judah at that time. And what his to tear down the high places and the altars and the pagan worship, he actually rebuilt it. He brought it back in. And he brings in the high places. He puts up Ashera poles. He starts to offer idols or worship to idols in the temple and during his reign, he decides to kill his own son. If you don't believe me, read chapter 21, the chapter before.

Safe to say he is corrupt. He's out of office and his son, Amen, takes his place and picks up where Dad left off. He starts to worship idols and follows his father's footsteps. Well, the people have had enough. After two years, they're like, all right, we're done with this and we need reformation. So what do they do? They assassinate him and then they say, oh, okay, wait a minute. Who would he put in office? This eight year old boy. Eight year old boy named Josiah. Now, before I tell you what Josiah did, notice this. Josiah's dad is Amen. His grandfather is Manasseh. That's his lineage. However, this boy is not like his daddy and his daddy's daddy. Why? Because this boy loves the Lord, follows the Lord, Lord has a heart for God and obeys God when he tells him to do something. And let me just pull over and park for a moment. Don't miss this. Here's the principle. What makes a person great in God's kingdom is the same thing that made him great back then. It's not based on the platform that you preach from. It's not based on the depth of your bank account. It's not based on the possessions you've acquired.

It's not even based on the platform you have online. It's based on hearing the word of God and obeying it. That's what makes you great in the kingdom of God. Amen? You hear God when he speaks and you obey. And here's the principle I love. God is going to use an unlikely king to reform who came from two scoundrels, father, grandfather, an unlikely king to reform the entire nation. I know what you're thinking. But Robbie's eight years old. What can an eight-year-old, what can a teenager do? I wanna speak specifically to the young people in here if you're watching online, but really all of us. When is it time for a person to follow the Lord? When's the best time? When they're young, why? Because statistically, when a person seeks the Lord intentionally when they're young, they're more likely to follow him later than if they wait until after 18. The statistics drop off considerably. I'm an anomaly at 26. That normally, and some of you know this, if you're older, it doesn't happen. So if you're young, look at me. The best time to seek the Lord is now. David Livingstone, we talked about him last week. When he was a teenager, or actually, before he was a teenager at the age of nine,

he memorized the entire Psalm 119 and committed its memory. On two occasions that says in his biography, he recited, and by the way, Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Old Testament, in the Bible really, long. He recited it to his class on two occasions, and out of that entire Psalm on two times, he only had five errors at nine. Billy Graham, you ever heard of him? Billy Graham committed his life wholly to the Lord at 16 years old. My favorite is Fanny Crosby, the hymn writer. She set a goal when she was young to memorize five chapters of the Bible a week. Some of you can't do one a week. My group, am I talking to my group over it? No, I'm fine. Some my group, no, but no. Fanny Crosby, five chapters a week. So what did that do? When she became a young adult, get this. She could quote, from memory, the entire Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, she could quote, "Proverbs, all four gospels, "song of Solomon, and most of the Psalms." It shows us she got into the Word to the what? Word got into her. Look at me, young person. Do not let anybody tell you you're too young to serve the Lord. Students, you are not the church of tomorrow.

You are the church of today. And you can have an impact today and an impact where you serve, where you go, where you give, where you preach today. Amen? Just sorry, yeah. Thank you, brother. But Josiah notices there's a problem. At a young age, he notices there's a problem. He notices that the temple, the house of God is in ruins. So what does he do? He starts an even greater edition on play. (congregation laughs) He starts an edition, I'll just do that then. Okay, he starts an edition. to give financially, verse three. In the 18th year of King Josiah, the king, so he's basically in his mid 20s. The king sent the court secretary, Shiphon, son of Azeala, son of other names, she can't pronounce. Mess of them to the Lord's temple, saying go up to the high priest, Hylkiah, so that he may total up the silver brought into the Lord's temple. The silver, the doorkeepers, have collected from the people. It is to be given to those doing the work. Those who oversee the Lord's temple, they in turn are to give it to the workmen in the Lord's temple to repair the damage. And they believe there was damage to the roof,

so they couldn't do anything with the temple, so they're building the roof. They are to give it to the carpenters, the builders, and Masons to buy timber and quarry stone to repair the temple, watch this. But no accounting is required from them for the silver given to them since they work with integrity. So here's what I want you to say. The sign decides in order for us to really have an impact, we have to restore the house of God. We've got to rebuild this building, and he encourages the people to give financially toward the project of the damaged temple. Now notice in those five verses that I read to you, we have literally all the mechanics of the project, the mechanics, right? Notice what he says. He says we're gonna take in the money, we're gonna have an offering. Then we're gonna count the money. Then we're going to do the work that needs to be done. Then we're gonna hire the workers to finish the job. In all five verses, you have all of these mechanics, but you never have a picture or an idea of what they're gonna do. It may be nice, Josiah, if you could have had an even greater campaign booklet. You know, so people, really nice. So what the temple's gonna look like, and this is what the new entrance, right?

They didn't have that. Here's the point I want you to see. The, watch this, the people didn't even really know what it was gonna look like, and it really didn't matter. Why? Because God spoke to them, and they gave. Here's the principle, God spoke they gave in response because they weren't interested in what am I gonna get? How am I gonna, it's not how they live. Josiah said, the Lord said, we're gonna expand this ministry, we're gonna build it. You give, and the people generously responded in faith. And little do they know, God is about to send revival to the nation, which is number two. Give generously, expect revival. Look at verse eight, as they're cleaning the temple out, the high priest, Hylkia, told the court secretary, Shiphon, I have found the book of the law in the Lord's temple. He gave the book to Shiphon, who read it. Then the court secretary, Shiphon, went to the king and reported, your servants have emptied out the silver that was found in the temple, and have given it to the, doing the Lord's work. Those who oversee the Lord's temple. Then the court secretary, Shiphon, told the king, the priest, Hylkia, has given me a book, not just any book, the book of the law. And Shiphon read it to the, in the presence of the king. Watch this, when the king heard the words

of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. And what it doesn't say is, he wept. To tear one's clothes is to weep, to be overwhelmed. So here's what's happening. The people, when they gave the offering, as a simple act of obedience, they had no idea, God was gonna respond with revival. They had no idea that this one single offering locally would spark a global revival. When the people rebuilt the temple, they were just looking at the temple, and they were cleaning the temple and they're like, "Oh, wait a minute, what is this thing right here?" And they take this book of the law. Now, there's a question, is it the entire Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, or just Deuteronomy? Because sometimes in the Old Testament, the book of the law is just Deuteronomy. Regardless, it's the Bible. And here's what I mean. Whether it's one book or five books, here's the point I want you to see. The same words that they found in that temple, 2,600 years ago, are the exact same words you read in your Bible today. Feel the way to that. Do you realize what that means? What that means is the same book that brought revival to the nation of Israel

can bring revival to Sumner County today. Do you believe that? No, not actually. Do you believe that? I believe that, amen? It can bring revival. Hendersonville, Beach, Gallatin, Davidson, CCS, station camp, JP2 and Liberty Creek. This book right here can bring revival to your workplace. Do you believe that? It can bring revival to your neighborhood. It can bring revival to your home. It can bring revival to the ball fields you coach at. Now here's the problem though. The problem for us in Western America is not that we've lost the Bible. The problem for us is we don't open it and obey it. You all okay? We don't open it and obey it. Let me give you a line. The Bible was never meant to be stored on a shelf. The Bible was meant to be hidden in your heart. You see the difference? It's nice on a coffee table. It looks great when guests come up. It's really cool on a shelf, but it's never meant to be stored on a shelf. It's meant to be stored in our hearts. And they're faithful. You're gonna love this.

They're faithfulness to fund a restoration project of God's hout brought revival to the nation. Now I wanna be careful before I go further 'cause I don't want you to hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying repairing a roof saves anybody. Okay, like remember they repaired the roof and God, I'm not saying that. A building has never revived a nation, okay? Let me be clear. However, the power in that room is based on the book that is opened in the building, the Bible. When that book is opened and preached in the room, revival, we know that from Isaiah 55, 11. God says, my word, word will not return to me void, but will go out and do what I intend it to accomplish. Do you believe that? Romans 10, 14, Paul says, how can people believe unless they have what? Heard, heard the word of God. Friends, it's in the rooms where people hear the gospel. And we're building buildings as part of the project. It's part of, we're expanding and we're repairing buildings. But here's the thing. The building is for building you to go out and make a difference where you live, work, and play. The building is not the end of the building initiative. The building is so that people come, so we can build you up to send you out to make a difference. So here's the million dollar question. What is the room or the building for Long Hollow?

Here's what I'm praying for. I'm praying in a year or two in a worship service on Main Street, a father comes to church for the first time and surrenders his life to Jesus Christ and leaves and changes his family legacy for generations to come because of one decision. I'm praying for a man or a woman in a jail cell who has lost complete hope that they will ever get out or their life is over of what they think of it, but they haven't met the one who gives life and gives life eternal, Jesus Christ, and Jesus can change anybody. I believe that. I believe there's gonna be a new person moving in Gallatin who comes to Legacy Park Gallatin and doesn't even know it's a church. They just see the park there. And one of our church members invites them to a service and they hear the gospel and they surrender to Jesus Christ. It's when an alcoholic or an addict gets out of recovery or rehab and they say, I can't imagine a day sober, much less a lifetime, and we introduced them to the only person who can break every chain of alcoholism and addiction, Jesus Christ. That's what I'm envisioning. I'm envisioning 52 schools with 36,000 students who are gonna be exposed to the gospel all over Sumner County because here's why. The next Josiah is sitting in a classroom in Sumner County right now and you and I get to fund the room.

Amen? We get to fund it. (audience applauds) What a privilege. I heard a story this week of a man in our church eight to 10 years ago. He said, he heard a sermon at Long Hollow on Tylen. And it was from Malachi III and it was by the preacher. It wasn't me, but I didn't preach the sermon. By the way, I had a guy email me this week on Monday and he said, leaving the church, all Robbie wants to do is talk about money. I didn't respond to him, but if I would have responded, I would have said, this is my 12th year, if you've all been here since I've been here, finally 12 times, I've ever preached all money in 12, it is my 12th. But anyway, I didn't say that, but I wanted to. That's a joke, I'm playing. But seriously, but seriously, we're two weeks out by the way. After next week, we're back and locked it. But here's the point, but I didn't preach it, okay? So I didn't preach the Malachi sermon, somebody else preached it. And he said, which is even cooler 'cause I didn't preach it, he said when that pastor preached, He never gave 10% 5% anything. He said, and honestly, and we met him last service. He came up and he gave me permission to share this. He said, "Money was tight.

We actually couldn't afford to give much less give 10%, but we decided to trust God anyway." To the church, 10% to the church. He said, "Three days later." He said, "You're never gonna believe this. Three days later, my employer called me in his office instead of got something for you." He said, "I walked in the office and he gave me a check." He said, "That was not odd because every now and then the company would give checks. Some like 2,000, some 2,500." He said, "But this was the biggest check I'd ever received, bonus check. $6,500 check three days later after he started tithing." He said, "Robbie, this became a spiritual marker. We put a spiritual stone down of God's faithfulness." Now, he said, "You would hear that story and think we've been faithful tither since then." He said, "We weren't." He said, "I'll be honest, over the last eight years we fell away like some people do." He said, "A few weeks ago, Dr. RT Kendall preached on tithing." He said, "And God stirred something inside of me that we needed to go back and start where we left off." And he said, "We didn't like limp in. We started right back with 10% a few weeks ago and we started consistent." And he said, "We stopped debating. Should I give on gross or should I get on that?" He said, "We just trusted the Lord and said,

God, I'm gonna trust you to provide for us." Now, here's the point of that story. I'm not saying, if you start giving generously to the Lord, you're gonna get a $6,500 check, okay? Not saying that. So don't hear it on record, I'm saying that. Maybe, but probably not. But here's the promise I want to make to you. When you give to God financially, take this to the bank, no pun intended. Take this to the bank. When you give financially, God always take care of those who trust in him. Now, it may not come back in finances, okay? But it will come back some way in relationships with your health, with your children, with your marriage, at your office, in your community, most importantly, with your intimacy with God. Friends, the only place, I told my son this. He said, really? I said, yeah, right? What the Bible says? The only place in all of scripture where God says, "Test me, test try me." You don't believe me? Try me is money. And here's the line, write this down. God always takes care of those who put their trust in him, period. Now, some have asked me this week.

Okay, well, how does giving work? Which should I do, how should I give? I made this little chart for us here. This is just a simple chart, and again, it's random though. It's just whole numbers, but I give you the idea. Let me just clarify what we're asking you. For even greater, we're not asking you to take what you already give and just move it to the even greater. If that's the case, we won't be able to have service. We'll see you next year, maybe, or never. So we didn't joke, but we need you to keep giving with you. This is on top of the giving, okay, what you give. So some of you, some of you, let's say, give nothing. 70% of you, which is statistics, right? So here's what you may do, let's just take 50,000. So for you to give, you give nothing, but you may wanna go to 5% to the church. 5% if you make 50,000 a year is $48 at 5%, $96 a week at 10%, 144 at 15%. Friends, I don't know about you. That's two door dashes and three caramel macchiatos. Can I get an amen? Or seven brew, which is a little more, but you can see what I'm saying. We're not talking about investing in temperature. We're talking about eternity here, okay? Talking about making a change for three years, sacrificial. But let's just say you make 100,000 a year, okay? If you give 5%, you make 100,000 a year,

you're giving $96 for 5% every week, you're giving 192 at 10%, and you're giving $288 every week at 15%. Now, is that doable? Absolutely for all, but here's the point. I want everybody to give, I said last week, I'm praying for three or four million dollar gifts, which I am, but I'll be honest. I can't give a million dollars, okay? And most can't, but everybody can give generously. Here's the point. You don't have to be rich to be generous. You just have to be generous, to be generous, okay? And let me just share with you, this is way bigger than an offering. I want to speak to the room because I think, I think it'd be tone deaf not to address what happened this week in the midterm elections. A lot of people I've talked to, a lot of you, a lot of you online, have been on edge a little bit. If you're honest, you're like, "Wow, which just happened?" And I wouldn't expect it or not, didn't see that coming. You know what that did as I was praying through that this week? The Lord just reminded me, what God is doing is, God is reminding us as born again Christians, where our trust is right now. If we believe that God is going to bring, quote, "lasting change" to America through Congress or electing a new senator or state representative or a local person or the president of the United States of America, friends, listen to me, buckle up, you're in for an anxiety-ridden life every two years.

Amen? I'm 50 years old. I'm old enough to see this thing. It goes like this, every two years. So what do we do now with people in office? Let me just remind you, last week we read, "Manasseh, for fifty-five years, is a wicked corrupt king in office." The nation's like, "What the," God's like, "I got this. He may be in office. I'm still on the throne." Amen? I'm still on the throne. Remember what Job told his wife, I love this line, Job 2-10, somebody needs to memorize this one. Job 2-10 is here. We accept only good from God and not adversity. She got only blessed, friends, you got to remember. Why would God allow darkness to prevail? Because light shines the brightest in the darkest situations. Revival will come to our country, don't miss this, our city, our community, Sumner County, when people individually get right with God. That's the answer. That's always the answer. It's not electing our way in. Paul never said to the Romans, "Overthrows Caesar now." No. We've got to get the right people in. I'm not saying you should run for office and make a difference. We need more Christians in office, I'm not saying any of that. What I'm saying is this.

The way we're going to see revival is when people, individuals, are born again. When people meet Jesus as their Lord and Savior. So what do we do with these people who don't agree with us? Democrat, Republican, liberal, communist, whatever. What do we do? We pray for them to meet Jesus. That's what we do. Because here's the reality. We've got a half-clap on that one. Somebody like, "But you don't understand this, country's going to Hades." All right, Dad. I got one too. I got one too. Donald Trump, Dad. I got one too. Here's my point. Look at me. I want to speak this into your life. Let us agree today. We're going to stop worrying about the things out there. We can't change. Somebody needs to hear this. And we need to worry about the things right now that we can change. Friends, we can't change Washington right now. We can't reverse the election results, okay? But what we can do is we can impact Sumner County, the place where we live, work, and play right here, right now. And whether you're in person, whether you're online, you can enact lasting change today. Why? Because next week when we come with this offering, we're actually making a declarative statement

that we're ready to change the spiritual temperature of Sumner County. Not on our watch. They can do what they want out there. Not on our watch. We're going to change it here in Jesus' name. Do you believe that? I believe that. I want to make a promise to you as your pastor, and then I'm going to ask you to make a promise to God. And we're going to close. I was looking at the spiritual temperature climate changing. It's going to change you more in the next couple of months, years. And it just reminded me, once again, my role as the pastor of a church, as long as I'm the pastor of Long Hollow, here's my promise to you. And by the way, God willing, it's okay to do the next move we make is me and a box leaving the hotness. But it's the reality. God willing. As long as I'm your pastor and preaching on this stage, I will unapologetically and unashamedly preach the Word of God from this platform. If the world, yeah, listen to me, if the world changes, it stands on the tolerance of sexuality or transgenderism or gender in general or salvation or morality, I am going to be unwavering and what I've always preached here. And there may come a day. I mean, that's the reality. There may come a day when I will go to jail or be censored for what I'm preaching. And I've already told my family and I've told the Lord that I'm willing to go to jail for what I believe. Regardless of what a government tells me to preach or a Congress or Washington says is tolerant.

And by the way, I'm becoming intolerant with the tolerance I've got to have. But anyway, I'm going to say, I'm just sick and tired of the talk. But anyway, and listen, I'm not trying to say I'm sanctimonious or pious. Here's the reality. That's what I signed up for. That's what I signed up for. To be a pastor is to preach God's Word faithfully. Now, the good news is I told Candy that if I ever go to jail, I can join one of long Trials down, baby, I'm coming, you know. So under county, I'm there. She doesn't like that, but. (congregation laughing) Just go there. All right, so here's my ask of you. Ask you to promise it. It's all I'm asking you to do. I'm not asking you to do anything we're not doing. I'm asking you to just pray and seek the Lord this week and just ask the Lord, what should we give? Because here's the point, the givers in Second Kings didn't realize they were giving to fix a roof. Little did they know God was sending revival. And not just locally, watch this, this is so cool. They did something locally in Jerusalem and God revived nationally the whole nation. And here's the point, we fund the room, God sends the fire. We fund the room, God sends the fire. Do me a favor, if you came in and got one of these cards and even greater.

If I came in and got one of these booklets, you might probably have one, but if you don't, if you have this booklet, I want you to tear this card out with me. If you don't have it, you can look on the screen. But I think, I want you to do this with your family. We're gonna do this with our kids as well. I want you to take this card in a moment. We're gonna pray over this card together. Because this is way bigger than a piece of cardboard. I'll tell you last week that Candy and I are praying about giving the largest offering we've ever given to the church in our life. You just feel like the Lord's lean is to do that. And so, she's praying like we normally do. She'll pray, and then I pray for a number. And then last week after the first service, we were standing in line greeting. And she leans over to me when we're talking to people in between, she said, "Hey, what's your number?" (congregation laughing) I'm not telling you the number in line. We're gonna wait till we get home, babe. It's like, no, one of them, you're not. I say, "I'll tell you we'll get home." So we got home, after service, pretty worn out, but there she is waiting on the couch. You know what I'm saying? (congregation laughing) Show us.

Ready for football? I told Jake, she watched football as all she does. White football, all Sunday. She's ready for a bubble. She's like, "I want to know your number." Now, I'll be honest, I thought I had a pretty big number. I was pretty proud of that number. I thought it was a pretty big sacrifice. So I told Candy, my wife, that number. And then she told me her number. (congregation laughing) Which was bigger than my number. But to be honest, it always is bigger than my number. Now, for the record, let me just say this. When my wife told me the number, and I'll just tell you what I was thinking, it struck something in me. Because here's what I saw. I saw my wife, a woman, a believer in Christ, excited to be a part of something bigger than herself. And that moved something in me. So here's what I want to do. For just a moment, allow me to do that. I'm gonna take my pastor hat off for a moment. And I want to put my long hollow church member hat on and I want to speak to you as a fellow church member, which is what I am. (gentle music) I want you to know, I make nothing off this campaign. Somebody said, Robby, I don't make anything.

In fact, I don't make a percentage of the giving. In fact, I'm giving sacrificially like you. This campaign's costing me money, okay? So don't think I'm making something. I say that to say, we're in it like you. And here's our posture. We're giving cheerfully to this thing. Now, because we have to, we get to give to this. Why? Because we're anticipating God to do something so amazing, to send revival, not just to our county, but the nation in the same way Josiah and the people gave 2,600 years ago. Do you believe that? I believe that. I really do believe that. And I know some of you listen, so I do give generously. I give to every other ministry, but the church I'm a part of. I get that. I do too. We give all the time. I get asked all the time. I get letters all the time like you. But we have never neglected giving to the local church we're a part of. So here's what I'm gonna ask you to do. I want you, praise God. I give to what you want, but give that on top.

I'm asking you to pray with your family, in person, online, in prison, prisoners, well, out of your commissary, God may lead you to give. Everybody can't give the same amount that everybody can give generously. So I'm gonna ask you to pray with me. Take this card. If you have your spouse, take her hand. I really want you to pray with me. And if you're online, you don't have a card, just look at the screen, we're gonna show you that. But here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pray and then I'm gonna let you pray. And this is what you're praying, three prayers. God, put in my heart what you want me to give. God, let my husband be in agreement. And I'm playing, if it's bigger than him. Now, just say, let us be in agreement. And then number three, give us the courage to trust you. God, that's what we're praying today. And God, honestly, I've said this from the beginning. I don't know how this is gonna happen, but I do know this, God. If our people give above and beyond what is expected, God, we're gonna continue to take this ministry to Springfield, and that's my prayer. Greenbrian Springfield next. And then Mount Juliet, Lebanon, after that. you're just saying how I wanna do exceedingly above even greater than what was initially planned.

And you could do that God. And I just pray right now for those we're praying about giving, giving students and children and college students and young adults and single men and women, moms and dads, senior adults, senior saints, God, we're all gonna do and be a part of this together. God speak to us now, we're listening. Give us the courage to respond in Jesus' name.