Hey, this is Pastor John Ryan Cantu from PNEUMA Church in Houston, Texas.

Thank you for listening to the message today.

I hope that it blesses you and all those.

That you share it with.

God bless you.

God is good.

Come on, give me give me like a Pentecostal all the time.

God is good.

All the time.

Come on, man.

Y'all gotta say that with your chest, man Y'all gotta say it to where the devil believes that God has been good to you.

All right?

God is good sometimes.

Let him know man.

He's been good to you.

Praise the Lord, man.

Um look, we're gonna get into the word, but this is the last week to register.

For our serve conference, which is next Saturday.

If you haven't registered, please, please register as soon as possible.

And let me just say, you know, the heart, the heart behind the serve conference when we first started it a couple years ago was to provide a resource to our church, to you guys.

Um and you know we invite other churches as well, but this is really this really began as an initiative to equip our church for serving In this ministry, our community, our people, the people that walk in, we want to equip you to serve because we believe that we all have a part to play in the kingdom of God.

See you know.

Right?

We do.

And so it's it it's our job as as pastors to equip the saints for the work of the ministry.

And that's what this conference cease to do in one one day.

And so we got four power powerful speakers.

I'll be bringing the the the the word the main word towards the end of the day.

We have five breakout sessions uh for you to choose from.

We got three in English and two in Spanish.

We'll be serving some light breakfast at 8 30 and then we'll be kicking off our service at at 9 a. m.

We'll be providing uh lunch to those who register.

If you don't register, then I can't promise you free lunch.

But and then we'll wrap around we'll wrap up around 2:30.

So come and and prepare yourself.

Let's prepare ourselves for next year, right?

If we believe that God has much in store, well, we we gotta do our part.

Amen.

So um we're gonna be in Jeremiah chapter 29 today.

And I'm gonna pray before we actually get into the word.

Heavenly Father, I pray over this word.

I pray over your people, my God, as As we listen and as we receive this word that you have for us, my God.

I pray that you would be on my lips, my God.

I pray that every word that is said today would not just be From from Ryan, but from your spirit, my God.

I pray that you would bring healing, edification, my God.

I pray that you would build up the body, Father God, and encourage us with this word.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

And amen.

Me to this word that honestly I'm probably going to be speaking a lot more on this coming year.

Um it's a word that God has ministered to me over the past three years.

It's the word stewardship.

Um, you know, we've all been entrusted with this gift of life, right?

Life is a gift, it's not a curse.

Um, and so in our lives, no matter what we're going through, no matter the cards that we've been dealt.

We have an obligation as children of God to honor God with the best, the best way that we can with what He's given us, right?

Stewardship involves that.

It involves bringing God our best in any and all circumstances.

Now, what does stewardship have to do with Jeremiah?

In Jeremiah 27 through 29, there's a lot of uh There's a lot going on in terms of like prophetic voices.

Everybody's got a word from the Lord, and it's like this spirit, this um this feud between Yahweh's prophets.

And what makes it a little bit harder is that It's harder to discern when when you're getting too not just when you're getting two conflicting words, it it's people more are more inclined to Listen to a word that feels better to them, right?

You know what I mean?

Like if I were to prophesy something to you, something good, something edifying, something that was encouraging to you, and uh uh You know, blessing and hope and all of that stuff.

And then somebody comes behind me and prophesies to you something bad, something against you.

If you're not operating in discernment, you are more inclined to go with the word that feels good, right?

Because when we're not walking in the spirit, our default is the flesh, and the flesh wants to feel good.

Jeremiah wasn't a feel-good prophet.

Jeremiah was a prophet of doom.

That was his calling.

He was called to prophesy against the idolatry and the corruption that was happening in Judah.

This was during the time of the Babylonian invasion, where King Nebuchadnezzar captured the city of Jerusalem and he destroyed the temple and he took all the temple treasure.

The people of God were scattered, they were oppressed.

And and there were a people without a home.

And so Jeremiah spent much of his life prophesying that this would happen if the people of God did not repent.

So it's about this time, and there are other prophets who are prophesying the opposite of what Jeremiah is prophesying.

They are prophesying success and victory and peace.

And nobody really likes the word that Jeremiah is giving to them.

And so in chapter 27, there's this prophet, his name is Haniah.

And Haniah in the presence of Jeremiah and all the temple priests, he says that the Lord is going to deliver Judah from their captors in just two years.

You know how sometimes prophets come, they give you word with a date on it.

They're like this time next year.

Your church is gonna double and all that stuff, right?

Um, so that's what Haniah was doing, and and Jeremiah responds the way that we should all respond to words like this: He says, Amen, brother.

Um I hope so.

That's what he says.

Read it.

It's in Jeremiah 27.

I hope that everything that you're saying comes to pass.

And then he says, but when a prophet comes to prophesy peace to a nation, the only way to tell if that prophet was from God is to wait and see.

That's what he says.

Now, notice how some of us would have looked at Jeremiah and said, Bro, where's your faith?

Do you not believe that God will restore us?

Do you not believe that God can deliver us from this moment?

Sometimes we weaponize faith.

Against the truth, because the truth is too much for us to deal with in the moment.

And so instead of dealing with the reality of the situation that needs to be confronted, we think that faith can cancel out.

Stewardship.

So we just leave things as is.

I've learned this lesson personally several years ago.

I preached about it.

Go and listen to it.

The message was called Good and Faithful.

I talked about how the Lord had to slap me around when it came to my my stewardship of finances and how in a moment of brokenness and testing I was I was I I had so much faith that God was going to deliver me from this moment.

I I I was I was paying Almost $5,000 to debt payments, bad debts of a failed business every single month, not including my house. $5,000 extra dollars.

I was like, Lord, you see that I don't have this money.

And and every single day I was like, okay, this is this is this is faith.

God is teaching me faith.

I gotta I gotta trust that God is gonna provide tomorrow.

And I did I did some crazy things, man.

I I I played the lottery a couple times.

I mean I'm just being honest and transparent.

I was like, come on God, yes, I believe.

And um and so I I went through this this season of of of testing and I was like, okay It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay.

And then the Holy Spirit said, hey, faith isn't your problem, it's it's stewardship, it's the management of what I've given you.

That's your issue Stop trying to solve a stewardship problem with your faith.

And a lot of times we we do that.

We think that faith can cancel out bad management, bad stewardship.

And so in the story, there's another prophet, Shemiah.

He calls Jeremiah this crazy man because of the word that Jeremiah gives to the nation.

Everybody wants to hear a word of blessing.

But nobody wants to receive a word that is hard to hear.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time about discerning and all that.

We did that last week.

But what I do want to say is that very often we're not dealing with prophets.

We're dealing with life.

And and the things that we have to discern aren't voices, they're situations that we're going through.

Again, we're talking about stewardship.

And so many times when God has us going through some hard times, what do we do naturally?

We rebuke the hard times. because it doesn't feel good.

And then when we're in a moment of prosperity, we want to embrace that moment because prosperity feels nice.

But but what if hear me today?

Because I believe that some of you are are are trying to fight your way out of bad times.

Like it's like life is just a struggle.

You're always fighting something And you're rebuking or avoiding anything that comes your way that you perceive as negative because you don't want to accept it as part of your life.

You don't want to deal with it.

You don't want to confront it.

That's what these false prophets were doing with Jeremiah.

They rebuked his word because they didn't want to accept his word as fact.

But what if we stop caring so much?

Listen.

What if we stop caring so much about getting out of the bad times and staying in the good times and instead focus on stewarding our lives the best way that we can with where we're at?

Whether that be good or bad.

What if we stop trying to chase the good times, stop trying to get out of the bad times and look at what we have in the moment and say, God, how can I honor you with what I have today?

You don't want to hear that word.

You want a word of prosperity this morning, amen.

It wasn't that the people were gonna have to fight their way out of enemy territory.

It was to steward the moment the best way that they could. until God decided to bring them out.

This is what it says if you want to stand with me.

Jeremiah 29, 4 through 14.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

He says, build houses and live in them.

Plant gardens and eat their produce.

Take wives and have sons and daughters.

Take wives for your sons and give your daughters into marriage that they may bear sons and daughters.

Multiply there and do not decrease.

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Tak For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, do not let your prophets and diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream.

For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name.

I did not send them, declares the Lord.

For thus says the Lord, when seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you.

And I will fulfill to you my promise and bring to you, uh, bring you back to this place.

For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord.

Plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future, to give you a hope.

And then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me. with all your heart.

I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you.

Into exile.

Amen.

You can take your seat.

I I entitled the sermon Build and Plant.

Build and Plant.

Imagine if God came down to you.

And spoke directly to you in your sickness, in your disease, in your loneliness, in your desperation, anxiety, poverty, all that stuff.

And in that moment, he said, Hey, Pastor Brandon, God would probably not call you Pastor Brandon.

He'd probably call you just call you Brandon.

Brandon, in your sickness, in your situation, in your anxiety, I want you to build and plant where you're at.

Where you're at.

In your cancer, I want you to build and plant where you're at.

In your poverty, I want you to build and plant where you're at.

Would that not be a word that we did not want to hear?

Would would we not rather want to hear the word that says, hey, in two years, I'm gonna get you out of this?

I'm uh I'm coming to rescue you.

Now I'm not I'm not telling you that you that that God wants to keep you in your struggles.

That's not the message.

I'm not saying that that you need to simmer down your faith and stop believing that God is gonna have some good things for you.

I'm simply saying don't allow your faith to tie to take away proper stewardship.

The message is is to build and plant wherever you're at in life.

To build means to If if you're building, that means you have something to live for still.

If you're planting, it means that you're looking forward to some type of harvest.

Regardless of the situation.

In 2020, my cousin Bobby died suddenly.

And if you know Bobby, you knew that he was he was my best friend.

He was a brother to me more than a cousin.

And his death shocked the entire family.

And I remember visiting my aunt and my uncle on the day that he died, and it was like this This such a heaviness that it was so unbearable.

Every five minutes he would hear my uncle just loudly wailing at the thought of his youngest son no longer being here.

I remember they wanted like a total reset of their life.

They didn't want any memory of anything of that day.

They wanted to move out of the neighborhood that they had spent.

The past 30 years living in that they uh uh raised kids in, and they they wanted to move, they wanted a complete reset.

And about a year later or so, maybe a little bit less than a year later, I remember going to visit my uncle, my aunt.

And they had bought a brand new house.

It was a brand new house.

And when I walked in, I remember my uncle saying, Hey, come come and look at what I built back here.

Now, when he said that, I started to chuckle a little bit because if you know anything about Mateo, he's always building something.

I mean, he he will build a house inside a house, I promise And and every every week we I would go over to his house when I was growing up.

He was always doing something.

There was always a project at the house.

And so when I go to visit him Almost a year after his son died, and he says, Hey, look at what I built.

That encouraged me so much because it told me that even in his darkest moment, he was still choosing to build.

He was still choosing to plant where he was.

God has been teaching me stewardship the past few years.

Through through lessons that have not been easy, they've not felt the best.

Um, and like I said, it began with financial stewardship, but it has overflowed into so many areas of my life, all the areas of my life stewardship in my finances, in my home, and my ministry, and my personal life, and in health and wellness, though that that's kind of slacking a little bit.

Stewardship is simply about honoring God the most with everything that He's allowed you to have.

So if you were to take a look at your life right now, some of you are married Some of you are single, some of you are broke, some of you are wealthy, some of you are in the best shape of your life, some of you are a shape It was too quiet, I had to say I gotta say something.

When it's too quiet gives me nervous man um Some of you are parents, some of you are children, your sons and daughters, some of you are retired, some of you just kicking off your career.

How many of us can honestly say that when we zoom out and we look at every piece of our life that we are honoring God?

In every single area of life.

See, the thing about the thing that we have to learn about being in a relationship with God is that God is not just a part of your life.

He he he's he's not a s he's he's the source of your life.

I I I saw a really cool illustration uh of this like there was this dresser.

And and and it kind of depicted like the priorities that we have in life.

At the top, people have God, right?

And then they have family, they have ministry, maybe they have you know church and and And careers and all that stuff.

And he said, this is where we already get it wrong.

God should not be at the top of the of the dresser.

He's the whole thing.

So if you have God at the top, do you not have him way down here at the bottom?

Being in a relationship with God is not just a thing that you do For a couple hours a day or a couple hours a week on a Sunday.

God should infiltrate every aspect of your life.

Every aspect.

The things that you care about the most and the things that you care about the least.

See on no.

That's good stewardship.

Scripture says in Colossians, in all you do, do unto the Lord and not for man.

Christians tend to want to do the Christian things in a way that honors God, but not the secular things.

In a God-honoring way.

We want to do ministry well, but finances poorly.

We want to serve our church, but we want to slack off at work.

We treat scripture as if it should read in some things do unto the Lord and not unto man.

But God says do it all.

Everywhere, every time, whether you're a slave, a master, male, female, child, parent, honor God in every area of life.

So I've I've been on this journey um for like three years with intention, like serious intentionality.

And I very often I do this, I do this like once a week.

I swear.

I I look at my life and I look at every piece of my life.

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm a pastor, I've got a ministry, I've got a business, I've got a church, I've got this body that's like 20 pounds overweight.

I I I've got 24 hours in a day like all of us.

So I I I often zoom out and I look at my life and And I realized that if God has me here with what I have today, He is owed my absolute best.

He He is owed my all.

Now, now maybe maybe it wasn't God's will for me to be where I'm at today.

Maybe it's because of my own doing.

Maybe I made some mistakes.

Maybe I should have been a little bit further.

Maybe I made some bad decisions.

Maybe I procrastinated and I failed to plan properly.

I I can't do anything about the past, but I can do something about today.

God is deserving of my absolute best where I am today and where I will be tomorrow.

This isn't about being perfect in everything that you do, that's impossible, but it is about giving God honor in everything that you do with everything.

And this is what the Holy Spirit has taught me.

And I believe He's taught this to my wife as well.

And this hinders proper stewardship.

You listening?

We often wait for the better to come to give God our best.

I heard a lot of mms We often wait for better to come, for more to come, to give our best to God.

This applies to everything.

Everything in marriage.

The wife will say, Well, I'll respect my husband more when he loves me more.

The husband says, Well, I'll love her more when she speaks to me right When she respects me, like it is it's when things get better, then I'll give her my best.

And tithing and offering, I'll give God more when I make more money.

I don't make enough.

God wants me to give more.

I I gotta make more money.

But if I make more money, that means I have less time.

And if God wants more of my time, then I need more time And it's like we're always we're always waiting for the next level to give God our best.

Waiting for the next level to live better.

It's like this is why we always wait till Monday to start eating right.

Why can't you just start on the day you decide to eat right?

God forbid you get your life together on a Thursday.

But that that's that's that's that's how we are.

I've got no doubt some of us have got some goals for next year, but you know it's not even December yet.

Let's we ain't we ain't gonna get serious till January, right?

That's just our mindset.

But but it's a it's a it's a mindset that is anti-stewardship and anti-excellence because it delays giving God your best until circumstances are a little bit more convenient for you.

It's a mindset that produces laziness and excuses and procrastination and mediocrity How many of you can honestly say you don't have to you don't have to raise your hands?

But you got some areas in your life that you suck at right now.

Man, I'm sucking at being a dad right now.

I'm sucking at being a husband right now.

I'm a really poor financial steward right now I'm really poor as an employee.

I'm slacking off too much.

I'm letting myself go too much Look at some areas of your life.

What are you waiting for to get better, more convenient, until you can give God your best?

This is a hard this is a hard word.

Because this this has to do with everything.

This has to do with the spiritual and the practical.

Christians love it when we talked about the spiritual stuff.

Get on your knees, fast, do all of these things.

Spend some intentional time with your wife Take her on a date night.

Spend some time with your kids.

Yesterday I made a promise to my to my daughter Ellie that I would take her to Target And I I was fully ready to deliver on that promise.

The thing was, my mom took her to Target.

Earlier that day and she didn't buy anything.

So I just thought it was silly to take her again.

But I did it because I gave her my word Like there's there's things that we we have to we have to realize, man, I I I can honor God with the way that I'm raising my kids.

I can honor God with the way that I treat people. the way that I treat my wife, the way that I that I that I manage my employees at work, with with the way that I uh uh you know manage the household.

That's that's stewardship because God gave it to you.

And it's also, I mean, we're coming out of a season of gratitude, thanksgiving, right?

It's it's it's it's it's showing God gratitude for everything that He's given us when we steward it well.

Stop waiting for better to give God your best.

God deserves it right now.

This is what this this was a problem for the leaders of Judah.

They were waiting for God to save them from where they were.

And so when Jeremiah says, build and plant where you're at, the other prophets couldn't accept it.

What do you mean build here?

What do you mean plant gardens here and eat fruit here?

What do you mean we gotta stay here for 70 years?

The prophets of Judah cannot understand The fact that God wanted them to live their lives as people of God while He had them there in exile.

You might feel like you're in exile right now.

And you feel like like the people who are oppressing you deserve the devil in you and not God in you.

That's that's what the the is uh the the leaders of Judah felt They they thought like they were entitled to more.

And they don't want to give God more until more was given to them.

But I I'll remind you, man, that if if you can't be faithful in the little, you won't be faithful in the much.

Some of you are waiting for God to bless you with more, but you haven't even blessed him with the little you got.

If you can't even attempt to manage The little of what you have right now.

What makes you think that God wants to entrust more to you?

Don't you think that's kind of silly?

That's how I was I I'm speaking harshly to you because that's the way that I was living my life.

Lord, just fix my problem.

Just give me more, more opportunities, more business, more money.

And God was like, Well, why am I gonna bless you when when you're acting a fool with where you're at?

You want me to give you more so you can mess up?

I met I made a commitment to God when I first started to pastor.

And I'm afraid to say this out loud because you're gonna hold me to it.

Sometimes I I have to check myself Um but I I I told God, I said, Lord, I I want to lead this church with the same level of excellence whether we have a hundred people or a thousand people.

I told I don't want to reserve my best sermons for the biggest crowds.

And that that one challenges me very often.

Because sometimes I have a word and I'm ready to give it, but then I'm like, oh, this is a this is like a it's like a vacation weekend.

People are gonna be out of town. town.

This is flu season.

People are sick.

This is this I I I almost I the the word that I preached last week, I almost didn't want to preach it.

I wanted to save it to like January.

Or something when everybody's back at church and stuff.

Like I was serious.

Like I was like, you know, I was already done with it.

I'm gonna save it until we got more people in the room.

And then God said, Brian, you're better preach that word that I gave you today.

We can't wait for the more to give God our best.

Give God your best where you're at.

God forbid we give him the best today.

God forbid that we s that we serve and give to the best of our ability in a place that we don't want to be.

I believe, man, I believe that in this in this church we have people with high callings, leadership callings, pastoral callings, prophetic callings.

And but you're not willing to submit while you're here.

I don't know who I'm talking to.

But Some people just like to wait till they have a ministry to start serving I know leaders who struggle to submit to other people and their minds they they're made to lead and and so they they they can't submit to somebody else's vision They can't submit to somebody else's order or rules.

And so then they finally get to a place of leadership and then they become an abusive leader because they never learn how to actually serve.

How many of us often think, man, I'm meant for more than this?

I'm not supposed to be here.

God wants more from me.

I'm just passing through.

This is just a season.

This is just temporary.

I'm not meant to be single forever.

I'm not meant to be at this job forever.

I'm just filling in for a little bit.

This isn't forever.

And and we wait, we wait to give God more until He's given us more.

Listen, you may not be able to give God better, but you can always give Him your best.

I'm gonna say that again.

You're not always gonna give God better, but you can give Him your best.

See, because better depends on the situation, on the things that you can't change.

Better is a job that you want, but you don't have Better is the life you wish you had.

Better is more money.

It's better health.

It's better genes.

It's more talent.

It's it's hair, right?

That's better.

I I gotta represent the Lord with the best that I can with this bald head For Israel, better was back at home.

Better was freedom.

You don't always have control of the better, but you do have control of your best.

And so God tells the nation, he says, I want you to multiply there in this place of captivity, in this place of exile.

I want you to multiply.

I want you to keep going.

I don't want you to decrease.

Don't we do that sometimes in the moments and in the places where we don't want to be?

We we shrivel up.

And we decrease and we sit down and we go into a corner and and we don't want to make ourselves known because we're ashamed of where we're at.

God is saying, get up.

And keep going and keep multiplying and keep and keep growing in the place that you don't want to be.

Keep going even though you don't want to be there.

Some of you are at a job right now that you hate and you've been looking for the way out.

Don't throw in the towel yet Don't start slacking now.

Don't start showing up late.

Oh well it's because I only got this job because it was the only thing that was hiring.

That's fine.

Keep serving with excellence until God brings you out.

Steward the moment Can I tell you something personal?

I can't stand lazy Christians, bro.

I mean I love you.

But you annoy me.

If you're lazy Christians just they just annoy me But but but I you know I I have grace because sometimes I get lazy.

Sometimes I'm like man I I I really don't I don't want to do this There's not there's not gonna be a lot of people there.

And and we start to give God less of ourselves.

If I were to ask you, if I were to ask you to preach, preachers, I'm talking to preachers.

If I were to ask you to preach in front of a crowd of thousands of people, you would probably prepare a lot more than if I said, hey, can you teach a Wednesday class?

Why is that?

Why is it?

I think it's because we We fail to take the calling of God seriously by failing to treat the task seriously.

So if the task is small, then we don't put everything in it.

But the calling is the same whether the task is big or the task is small.

I don't care if you're a millionaire.

I don't care if you're negative million dollars in debt.

God God is owed our our best.

I love verse 7 and I'm almost done.

I'm gonna be quick today.

I think it's kind of quick Verse 7 says, but seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile.

And pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

I feel like we need to read that one again because we got to really soak this one in.

He says, but seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into what?

Exile.

And pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

This one had to be so hard to hear because God was essentially telling the leaders of Judah to embrace that which they despised And not just embracing it as acceptance, but but fighting for its good.

He says, seek the welfare of the city that you despise, don't seek its destruction.

Earlier I said that in life the things that we have to discern the most are situations, the things that we go through.

And so some of you today, I believe, are in moments, are in a moment right now that you despise.

You are wishing and praying and fasting that the Lord Would just get you out of this moment.

Get me out of this anguish.

Get me out of this spiritually desolate city that you have me in, God.

You're ready for the next season.

Some of you are ready for this year to be over.

You're ready for it.

And maybe you're looking for that word, that word of hope, that that sign where God says, I'm about to rescue you.

Listen, don't stop hoping, don't stop praying, don't stop believing.

But but the word that God has for somebody today is to keep building and keep planning in that desolate place that He has you in.

Seek its welfare.

Stop praying against the place that he has you.

Stop rebuking the things that God has you in.

And steward the moment that he has you in to the best of your ability because God is always owed glory.

It doesn't matter if you're in a good season or in a bad season, God's glory is always owed.

And so don't let your faith distract you from bringing God your best.

Because look, don't forget, man, God has not forgotten about you.

God has not forgotten about his people.

He says, he says this.

He says, when 70 years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you.

I will fulfill to you my promise and I will bring you back.

To this place, for I know the plans.

Can I tell you God knows the plans that He has for you, church?

Can I tell you that He has plans?

To prosper you, to give you hope, to give you a future.

I mean the story's already been written.

You already have it.

You already have it And sometimes we have to we have to look at ourselves and we have to tell ourselves and encourage ourselves that that God already got the victory, God already got the glory, and I I'm going with him.

I have the victory with him.

He says, I have plans for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Don't think that God has forgotten about you.

I don't care what season you're in.

Don't think that God doesn't care about you and what you're going through.

God will restore everything that's broken.

I promise you.

God will destroy everything that is evil, I promise you.

God will fulfill every promise that He's given to you.

I promise you.

But as for you You have to worship in this place.

You have to serve in this place.

You have to give in this place.

You gotta build.

You gotta plant.

You gotta edify.

You gotta walk.

You gotta keep going.

You gotta carry your.

Cross in this place that he has you in.

I don't care if it's lonely, I don't care if you're broken.

God says, give me your best today.

Steward the moment.

I want you to stand.

Prayer team, can you come up and help me?

Right there, every eye closed.

Every eye closed.

Oh Jesus.

Holy Spirit, I pray over that brother over that sister right now, my God, that is despising this moment that they're in.

Lord, my God, there is somebody in this place, my God, that is have That has had a prayer, that they have prayed every single day, my God, this year.

And they are waiting for you to take them out, Lord.

And they're waiting for you, my God, to get them into a better place before they can give you their all, Father.

Pray in Jesus' name that you would speak to that soul right now, Father God.

Convict that heart, Lord, that they would give you the best of what they have right now in this moment, Father God.

My God, I pray that you would remind them that you love them.

I pray that you remind them, my God, that you still have plans for them, my God.

I pray that you would remind them, my God, that peace is on their side.

I pray that you would remind them to have joy. for you are a good God.

I pray that you would remind them that you have saved them from the captivity of sin.

I pray that you would remind them, my God, that you are for them, my God.

I pray in Jesus' name, Lord, that you would call, Father God, them to give you their best.

In Jesus' name.

Because you are worthy of it all, my Lord.

You are worthy of every good thing, my God.

And every good season and every bad season.

You are worthy, Father And I pray that you would give us the strength.

Come on, lift up your hands with me, real quick, church.

Come on, lift up your hands as you receive this.

I want you to receive this.

My God, give every person in this room the strength to finish this year, my God. in excellence father god i pray that they don't wait till january 1st to start giving their best self to you father i pray that you would call them right now because as you have given everything of of yourself to them that we would give everything of ourselves To you in Jesus' name.

I pray, my God, for peace to be restored.

I pray for joy to be restored.

I pray for strength to be restored.

In Jesus' name, I pray against a spirit of weariness.

I pray against a spirit of tiredness, my God.

I pray, my God, that you would breathe new life into their lungs.

I pray that you would anoint them, my God, for the day tomorrow.

In Jesus' mighty name, that we would give you everything, my God, because you are a good God.

These altars. are open.

If you need prayer this morning, we want to pray with you.

Come forward.

Come forward if that's you.

If you need prayer, pray.

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