9 Benefits Of Helping Others

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Share a moment from your life when someone served you sacrificially, whether through time, talents, or treasures. How did that experience impact you, and did it inspire you to adopt a more servant-hearted approach in your own life?

The Blue Zone project highlighted the importance of belonging and purpose in promoting longevity and well-being. How does the concept of belonging to a faith-based community, as mentioned in the message, contribute to a sense of purpose? In what ways does serving others within a community enhance both belonging and purpose?

The message draws parallels between the body of Christ and the diverse roles individuals play. Reflect on the analogy of the body in 1 Corinthians 12. How do you perceive your role in the body of Christ? In what ways can recognizing and valuing the diversity of roles within a community lead to a healthier and more vibrant community life?

The message highlighted several biblical characters like Paul, Ruth, Joseph, Mary of Bethany, and Stephen, who demonstrated sacrificial service (1 Corinthians 9:19, Ruth 1:16-17, Genesis 50:19-21, John 12:1-8, Acts 6-7). Which of these examples resonates with you the most, and how can their stories serve as practical inspiration for leading a servant-hearted life today?

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”John 13:34-35

How do you apply this verse to your life in relation to living generously with your time, talents and treasure?

TRANSCRIPT

A few years old, those of you who know Nick, and Nick could probably be dying if he knew that we played it again. But it's just, it captures everything. I said to Chris before I came this morning, I really don't need to say anymore, because he's just done it, in that.

Yeah, it was just... That's so great. I wanted to start this morning just with a quote that we've been talking about each week of this series. And it is this one, Christ has no body, but yours, no hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world.

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands. Yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. And I just think that quote really captures what this series, The Heart of the Matter, is all about.

And Pastor Kev has unpacked the heart of the matter in love the heart of the matter in giving. And this morning I get to unpack the heart of the matter in serving. So looking at radical servanthood. So, I am very nervous today, as always, when I get up here on a microphone, it is not my comfortable spot, so I hope that this morning I can communicate what God wants to say to all of our hearts as I wrap up this series today.

When someone acknowledges their gift and talent before God and then offers it back to Him to be used in service, similar to what Nick talked about in that video there, it's breathtaking and I believe it can literally change the world. Living a servant hearted life as Jesus did can have a profound impact on ourselves, our own hearts, and also on the heart of the community in which we live.

When we choose to serve, we do a number of things. We model humility. JeSus demonstrated humility through his actions, living a servant hearted life. And when we model humility, we also inspire others to prioritize that in their own life. The second thing we do is we build stronger relationships. So we foster community when we put a focus on servant hearted living.

We promote compassion and empathy. When we model servanthood in our own lives and even to our children or in our work. places. We promote compassion and empathy. When we choose to get alongside someone and serve them, we are saying, I see you, I can connect with you. We also encourage generosity. We foster a positive influence.

We address social injustice. when we choose to stand up for those who are marginalised or oppressed and come alongside them. We promote healing and reconciliation. We enhance personal fulfilment. So bringing a life, like living a life of service can bring a real fulfilment in our own lives and we can create.

positive change. So Servant hearted individuals contribute positively to their communities. I'm going to unpack a few of those things today. So the video you saw of Nick just then Nick is just one of our team here at our church who serve sacrificially. He surrendered his natural gift of being a chef, being able to make.

great food. And in our startup months of the cafe here at the junction quite a few years ago now I should have looked it up, but I think it's about three and a half years ago now. He really He was here day and night coming up with recipes, figuring out the food, setting our systems and processes in place, all done as a volunteer here.

And he was able to sow his practical gift in, in the startup of our cafe. And everything you see today, what we do seven days a week now with our cafe open, reaching the community is because of what he invested in those early days. We now have an awesome team who has taken it from there and run a great experience for people from the community during the week as well.

So when we choose to serve others and we give of our own natural gifts, which may seem insignificant, like being a chef or how can God use that? We actually make a difference because we sow it in and in a practical way, but it has. spiritual rewards and we reap spiritual rewards. Generosity in the form of service is the expression of God's overflowing love and grace from him through us to others.

So we can serve others and be generous because God first loved us. In my own life, I have had many experiences where I have been served in lots of different stages and phases of my life. As a small child, it was my parents serving me. Parents of small children, you know that parenthood is an act of service.

You are always serving your kids, doing things for them, making lunches, making beds, teaching them training them. But my parents did that for me as a small child and they modelled to me what it looked like to work hard and provided for me. I read a, a meme online this week that said, said there's a small person watching you and learning how to be a human.

And I thought that is impacting, right? We are modeling to our kids every day through what we say and do, whether we like it or not. They are watching us learning how to be a human. I hope they're learning how to be a good human from what they see. I found that challenging. I'm thinking, Oh, they're watching me.

It's one thing to go out and be something, but it's who you are at that really impacts. How are you relating to your kids, responding and they're learning from us. So that is a way of serving in our own family. As a teenager, I was served by teachers in a school setting who really sowed into me, loved me saw my need for family in a difficult season of my life, came alongside and were able to really just care for me.

So as a teacher, I think it really influenced me because I ended up becoming a teacher, probably because of the influential teachers I had in my own life. But I think it can be said that a student doesn't care how much you know until they know how much you actually care for them. And that was a reality for me.

I knew my teachers cared for me in high school. school because it wasn't so much about the grades I was achieving or what I was doing. It's about whether I was okay as a person. They would check in on me and, and that made a huge impact on me. Their act of service, they didn't have to do that really.

Their job was to teach me the educational things I needed to know, but the impact that it had on my life because they chose to go over and above and serve was huge. And then as a young adult. I experienced servanthood from Kevin and Anne when they opened their home to me. And they, basically that act of service of them saying, Hey, you can come in, join us, join our family, changed the direction of my life, the course of my life.

It really impacted me. So radical servanthood can really change lives. I've experienced it personally. Maybe you have too. I wonder if you have experienced radical servanthood in your life. I was going to do a Slido, but it take a bit long in the message here. So I just thought I'd do the good old show of hands and those of you who are online, maybe you can type into the chat, Cassie is hosting you today and she would love to hear from you.

Have you experienced radical servanthood in your own life? So. Have you, some of those stories that I shared, have you experienced those? You could maybe up or down, yes, yeah, a fair few of you have. That's good. So someone, I wonder if you could also have a think now, if I was in a classroom, I'd tell you to chat to the person next to you, but we won't do that.

We'll keep it moving because otherwise we might be here a little while. Think pair share, but we won't do that either. Think in your head and you can chat about in the cafe afterwards, who is someone in your life that you would recognize as being a. Living a life of radical servanthood, someone who serves over and above.

It could be someone well known like Mother Teresa. In my research for this message today, I did look at lots of people in the world who were known as radical servants, people who impacted. But then I thought, no, it's, it's about. Also, the people in our own circle and our own lives and looking at those people and how they have impacted us.

So have a think about that today and you can share it later over a coffee in the cafe. So radical love, radical generosity, and radical servanthood will equal for us a radical Christmas. That leads me to the foundation verse for our series in John 13, verse 2. 34 to 35. It says a new command I give you, love one another as I have loved you.

So you must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. So they will know us by our love for one another. I love that scripture because all I have to do is love. All I have to show to people around me is a genuine love and care for them. We all have the tendency to underestimate.

the impact that we have being part of a community, but God doesn't. He knows that there is a vital part that each person plays. And I want to read to you this morning from 1 Corinthians 12. The apostle Paul in the Bible uses this as an example to show us that It's really important, the part that we play.

We can sometimes sit in an environment like this and feel like unseen, or who am I and what part do I play. But I just want to read you, it's quite a long portion of scripture, but it's called One Body, Many Parts. It says, The body is a unit, though it's made up of many parts. And though all parts are many, they form one body.

So it is with Christ, for we were all baptized by one spirit into one body. Whether Jews, Greeks, slave or free, we were all given one spirit to drink. Now one body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, it would not for that reason cease to be a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body. It would not, for that reason, cease to be a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But, in fact, God has arranged the parts of the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

If they were all one part, But where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I don't need you, and the head cannot say to the feet, I don't need you. On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem weaker are indispensable. And the parts that we think are less honourable, we treat with special honour.

And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty. While our presentable parts need no special treatment, God has combined the members of the body and given greater honour to the parts that lacked it. So there should be no division in the body, but its parts should have equal concern for each other.

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honoured, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is part of it and in the church God has appointed first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, all those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration and speaking in different kinds of tongues.

Are all apostles, all prophets, all teachers, do all work miracles, do all have gifts of healing, do all speak in tongues, do all interpret. Eagerly desire the greater gifts. I wanted to read you that this morning just to remind you that we are all one body and many parts and everyone has an important role to play and that often comes about in service when we work together as a team.

and recognizing that you matter. I wonder this morning, if you feel like you are part of the body, if you feel planted in that you have a significant part to play. We really, if you are part of the, our church family here and even if you're visiting, we recognize that you have an important role to play in the body of Christ.

We are all part of. One community that loves Jesus and if we work together and serve and love people in our community, we will have an impact beyond the walls of this place and out into the general community as well. I wanted to make a point this morning just to say also that I know sometimes people struggle to come into this place and just be in the room.

There's many reasons for that. Maybe you're unwell at home. Maybe you struggle with anxiety or it's a difficult to come into a room like this. Maybe you have past trauma that makes engaging really hard. We want you to know that being part of a community means that we see you and we see that you can you have a significant role to play, even if it means that you're not.

playing in an instrument or making coffee out there. Just you being in the room, your presence here makes a difference to the people around you. When we come and we gather together and we share story and we engage in conversation and we share a smile with someone across the room, that is having an impact on the community around.

It's not about what we do when we come together, it's about who you are as a person and what God can do in and through you. So that was something that God's been speaking to me a lot about. I didn't want this message to feel like a list of things you have to go and do because serving in our minds often equals doing.

It's actually more important for us to land in a place of being with Jesus and out of that being and knowing who we are in him. the doing flows out of that. So perhaps you're you, perhaps you haven't discovered the joy of serving in community. Perhaps you haven't joined a team or found your tribe. Perhaps you're just sitting thinking, Oh, I'm not sure about this.

We would love to help you engage not. because we want you to do things because we want you to experience the joy of being in Christ and being in community and having that relationship with others. I wondered if you've heard of a documentary called the Blue Zones on Netflix. If you're a Netflix watcher, you might if you're not, it's recommended viewing from me for the holidays.

If you get a chance to watch it, it's actually a national Dan Buttner and the National Geographic team joined together and did research over many different countries across the world. And he looked at the lifestyle habits of the world's healthiest and longest lived people. You probably can't see this super well, but basically the documentary shows that In all of the communities they looked at across the world, there was a blue zone power nine.

So there's nine things that all of these communities had in common where they found pockets of people in the world with a high life expectancy, generally people who lived over 100 years of age. Now, some of you will be encouraged to see that wine makes it to the list. Wine at five. There's also plant slants, so eating a vegan or plant based diet makes it to the list.

Okay, so there's, there's, I won't go into them all, it's actually super interesting to look at all of those things, but there were two particular power nine things that related to the message today that I wanted to highlight. So one of them was purpose. So it's, it's in this connect phase over here.

So there's belong, love, ones first, and the right tribe. But one of the things that Okinawans call it Ikaigai and the Nakoians call it Plandavida, but both of those things translate. to why I wake up in the morning. So it was found amongst all of the research that they did that knowing your sense of purpose, why you wake up in the morning, added up to 7 years of extra life expectancy to your life.

So knowing your purpose. The other one that I wanted to highlight for you today is belonging. So all but 5, 5 people of the 263 centenarians. That they interviewed. So people who lived over a hundred that they interviewed belonged to a faith-based community. Now, in this research, they found that denomination didn't matter.

The research showed that attending a faith-based service four times per month will add four to 14 years of life expectancy. Isn't that amazing? So, and having one at five. Those two and having, okay. In community. Belonging, with purpose. Okay, so. The Blue Zone project revealed that in those communities of people who lived over 100 that they were valued, they live life of purpose and they belonged to something.

It was actually fascinating to watch. One of the things that I loved the most was about movement, and it's up the top all on its own, but But it, yeah, I could spend too much time going into it. But it's amazing to look at just get, getting moving every day also makes a massive difference. And there's a whole lot of research around what that does also for our mental health and our ability to have purpose and belong to something when we can make sure that we are moving as well.

So all that to say, That living a life of servanthood and having purpose and belonging can really make a difference in our own lives and in the lives of others around us. On Friday night Megs has been operating in the role of organising our youth ministry for Friday nights. We have an awesome young youth team who show up every week and make it happen.

Megs is the organising brain behind it. during the week, but Friday night we had opportunity to serve another youth group in town who is without a church building of their own and they came and joined us on Friday night. It was so much fun. It was actually crazy. I stood to the side and said to Megs, I don't have enough energy for this.

It was chaos. I said, I said to Megs, I'll do a plug for help with youth ministry, but we won't show that video because no one's signing up, all the teenagers running around this room. It was nuts. But it was such a great, we left tired and going, Oh, that was a lot, but we left full. because we knew that we had served with purpose and created a space for teenagers to belong.

And it was so good. It was really good to be able to serve another ministry in town and just join in, have them join us in our building. We're so blessed to have a building with lights and sound and air conditioning when some faith communities don't have that. And just to be able to give and serve in that way was really great.

that sacrificial service of, it's easier just to do your own thing, but when you open wide and encourage that connection, it's really good. Several people are written about in the Bible displaying sacrificial service towards others. I'm just going to Skip through a few of them, and then I'm going to focus on the story of Dorcas.

Or you might know her as Tabitha. She goes by two names. I think Tabitha's the nicer name, right? Shall we call her Tabitha? Dorcas. I read this story to my kids last night as I was putting them to bed. I said, I need to tell you a story about Dorcas. They're like, Dorcas? What? I said, oh, shame. Poor thing.

We'll call her Tabitha. Dorcas is the Greek name. So let me read to you from Acts 9 verse the story about Tabitha in Joppa, there was a disciple named Tabitha in Greek. Her name was Dorcas. She was always doing good and helping the poor about that time. She became sick and died. Her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room.

Litter was near Joppa. So when the disciples heard that Peter was in litter. They sent two men and urged him, please come at once. Peter went with them and he arrived and he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him crying and showing him the robes and clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

Peter sent them all out of the room and then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning towards the dead woman he said, Tabitha get up. She opened her eyes and seeing Peter she sat up. He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive.

This became known all over Joppa and people believed in the Lord. I wanted to highlight that story because Tabitha was someone in the scriptures who was commended for her acts of kindness and charity towards people in need. She was a seamstress. She took her gift, which was sewing, making clothes. She made clothing for the needy.

And when she died, she had such an impact on her community that the widows that had received the blessing from her in clothing, the practical need that she met, were so distressed that she had passed that they sent for Peter, who was probably quite far away, or far enough away, and said, we need you to come because we need her.

They were so impacted by the fact that she'd made such a difference in their lives in serving with her gift. The fact that so many gathered to mourn her highlights that she must have been really respected and it was the widow's affection for her that caused them to send for Peter and ask for help. So Tabitha knew that the heart of the matter was to serve others and through using her gift of service she was able to reach and impact so many people.

So much so that they arranged for Peter to come pray for her and raise her from the dead because they couldn't be without her. Isn't that cool? I think That's amazing. When I talked about it with the kids last night, they were like, did that really happen? I'm like, well, it was written in the scriptures, and I think it did.

Imagine having such an impact on a community of people that they begged for her to be raised from the dead. And Luke... obviously recorded that story about her life and thought it was worth noting in the scripture there, and looked at her act of servanthood, her servant hearted living, the way that she lived using her natural gift of being a seamstress, so that she could reach the hearts and serve those in need.

There are other a couple of other women who I said to Kev, I have the microphone, so I get to talk about the girls in the Bible, which is sort of good, sorry to all the men, but there are some amazing women in the Bible and young girls. I want you to hear this, that you can serve and run businesses. and provide for families and do things.

And it's awesome. There's lots of great examples in the scripture about this. The other two I wanted to highlight was there was Priscilla. She ran a tent making business with her husband in Corinth, but her greater contribution was as a teacher of the gospel. And she was also part of Paul's missionary team.

And then there was Lydia who ran a lucrative dye business from her home in Philippi. And she was wealthy and a good deal of her resources went to supporting Paul in his ministry to preach the gospel. And there's, there's others, but I'll focus on those two. When I was chatting with Kev through this message too, he said, well, that's why you and Ruth are there to make me look good, right?

So I think maybe that's why we're here to make him look good as well. The girls make the boys look good. Am I treading on ice here? I'm okay. All right. I'll move on and I'll I have to mention in a message on servanthood that our ultimate example of a servant hearted leader, of course, is Jesus. He is our His entire ministry leading up to the crucifixion on the cross was marked by selfless service.

His sacrifice was the epitome of love and selflessness and He died for the redemption of humanity. Jesus was the servant of all. We serve, or we can serve, we get to serve because Jesus first served us. One of our family values at our church here is protect and serve, protect the unity of our faith and sacrificially serve each other and those in our community.

I wonder today what You might have listened to some of the stories I've talked about from Scripture or my own stories that I've shared from my life. You might have thought about how you have been impacted by service. But I wonder if you can think about how this message of talking about radical servanthood might impact you and change something that you're doing.

you do today. Serving changes us on the inside and it also changes the community around us. And also, I wanted to highlight servanthood is not something I do once, so if you're a type A personality, I'm a bit type A, like I like a list and get it ticked off, and then I've done that. If I'm looking at radical servanthood, it's not something I can just put on a list as something I tick off on a Sunday.

Oh, I came, I, greeted at the door, done. That's my servanthood done. It's actually part of who we are, of the fibre of our being, of what we bring to every day, is to live a servant hearted life. It's not something I can tick off once every three weeks. It's, it's, It becomes part of practice of who I am. I had an awesome conversation in the school where I work.

I was in the senior school doing some relief work and I was in the staff room at lunchtime one day and one of the senior teachers came and sat with me and we had this great conversation about his job and what he does and how he serves the kids that he teaches every day. And it really impacted me because I thought we can look at people on a Sunday or in church and think, Oh, they don't do very much with our judgy thinking.

But then you chat to someone in their workplace who is taking what they believe about who they are. And they ask. serving. They are radically serving on their rhythm and routine of life. And I think this is amazing. Like he is living a life of servanthood through his job. And we talk often here about work is worship.

Our work is the way we serve. as if we're serving the Lord in our jobs in every day. And he is doing that. He's impacting the students that he's teaching. He was telling me about how he's helping them practically with some things about when they are struggling. to connect in different circles and he was talking about just what he does to help connect that.

He spends lunchtime with kids, helping them understand the content of what he's teaching. He is taking his job and his skill, which is a skill of teaching, and you could tell that just from having a conversation with him, everything he's all about. teaching, teaching them to be better or teaching them to live life better or to be successful.

And he is applying that whole idea of servanthood in that setting as well. So that is what we are called to do. We are called to be servant hearted people who carry that into our daily lives. How do they know us? By our love for one another. And how do we love them? We love them by serving them. John 35 says, And you come, ma'am, and I give you love one another, as I have loved you.

So you must love one another. By this they will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. I wonder what part you play in connecting people to Jesus. You know, the quote I shared at the start about being His hands and feet, we actually, there's no plan B. There's, we are, we are plan A, God's hands and feet on this planet.

There's no plan B, we just have to get it together and be the hands and feet of Jesus in our circles that we're in so that people will see Christ through us and know Him. I wonder if God's been whispering to you today about the role that you play in serving with your gifts. Maybe it's at work or in your family.

Maybe it's in your marriage. What would happen in our marriages if we out served each other? We wanted to serve our partner more than our partner was serving us. It would just cause this. It's, it's love. It's generosity of heart.

Today might feel like, I hope it doesn't, but it might have felt like a list of to do things, things I have to get done. But I want to remind you that it's not about what I do, it's about who I am. And God calls us to this, but he also equips us by his Holy Spirit and guides and leads us. And that's what I want to just wrap up with today.

The heart of the matter is living a spirit filled life. is knowing that through Christ, we can do these things. Through Him, I can serve others. It's not about me and my flesh and what I want to do, it's about His Spirit in me. And it's about opening our hearts to what is the guiding and the leading of the Holy Spirit in my workplace.

It's waking up in the morning and saying, Lord, who can I serve today? On our drive to school in the mornings. You know, getting out of the house with kids is sometimes stressful and tense. And I always try, all the parents in the room are nodding, if you have toddlers it's even harder. But I will often pause in the car amongst the fighting about who gets to play their song on the radio and the Taylor Swift that does my head in on the, you know, the whole way there and all of that.

I will say, usually driving up the hill to our school as we're going. to drop off. What are you going to do today? Who are you going to serve? Who, and my other question to them is, who can you be kind to today? Because putting it into context for kids, it's kindness is really important. Teaching them to be kind, to see the need of a friend or someone who's lonely.

Or sometimes I'll say, I wonder what opportunities God will give you today to show kindness to someone. Just trying to reorient their thinking around. where they're going today and who they might get to see or do, but that applies for adults as well. Asking ourselves, who can I serve today? Lord, who do you want me to serve today?

Who will be on my path? Who I can be an encouragement to? I wonder. We, we would like to see our villages, which are our small groups here at our church, develop into being everyday disciple villages where we serve and have connection with the community. I wonder if that's something God's calling you to do, to get in and gather and facilitate a group of people who want to get together each week and think who can we serve, who can we love.

I wonder how you can be servant hearted in your work every day and make your work more worship. Or in your family or business, how can we impact the community everywhere that we go? When we do our shopping at the grocery store, how can we have a Kind word to say to the person who's putting our groceries through at the checkout or you know, those experiences we have in shopping centers where we walk past and actually smile at someone or have that connection.

The places where we go, I wonder where God wants you to connect and how he wants you to serve today. Can you imagine how much faster the gospel would spread across our city if every part of the body of Christ was intimately connected? Where we all live with purpose. We had belonging and we approached our community in that way.

There would be a radical revival because revival, the scripture actually never instructs us to pray for revival in our city. Did you know that? Revival happens as a byproduct of who we are as Jesus followers. When we live the way Jesus lived, serve and love and give the way that Jesus did, there will be revival in our city.

Because it starts with us. I need to worry about who I am and who am I being to those in my world. And out of that will flow a revival, a connection of people who don't yet know Jesus, who will get connected to him through what they see in us. Ultimately, the heart of the matter is that when we love, give and serve others, they see Jesus in us.

And it is our hope that through that, they will get to know him, the Jesus that we love and serve. Generosity is the expression of God's overflowing love and grace from him. To us, through us to others. So radical love, radical generosity and radical servanthood this year Should equal a radical Christmas.

I'm just gonna pray now And then the team's going to lead us. As they do that, as they sing a song We're gonna just give you a moment to connect with what God is saying to you. Because each person in this room you have the ability to just have a conversation with God. That's what prayer is. Just asking God to guide and lead you or to speak to your heart or highlight to you what area is it that he wants you to change.

And sometimes when we have a reflective song at the end, it enables us just to do that. Because once we walk out here, it's busy, busy, and we're on with life. But I just want to give that moment. So let me just pray. Father God, I thank you that. You first loved us, that you were generous to us and that you served us and out of that place we can serve you.

Lord, we get to serve you. Father, I just thank you for the opportunities we have to gather in community, to live with purpose and to belong. And Lord, I pray that this morning. You would help each one of us to just recognize what is the next step? What is the next thing? How do you want us to serve more, to love more, to give more in our own rhythm and routine?

And Lord, I just pray that it would not feel like a heavy burden, but it would be spirit led. Holy Spirit speak to our hearts, guide us and lead us. We thank you in Jesus name. Amen.