I want to talk to you today about enjoying the life that God has given us, you know, as we got ready to give today, we heard the verse, John, chapter 10, verse 10. I want to read this verse from the amplified Bible. It says, The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. These are the words of Jesus, he said. But I have come that they may have and enjoy life and have it in abundance to the full till it overflows. Think about this contrast between the enemy's plan and God's plan. The Devil's Plan. The thief comes. He's a thief. He comes to steal. He comes to kill. He comes to destroy, to steal your joy, to steal your peace. To steal really the abundant life that God created you to experience. He comes to steal, to kill and to destroy, to destroy your dreams, to destroy your health, to destroy your relationships. And really, the center of everything that I want to talk about today is all about relationships, but not what you think we some how we we reduce relationships just to people. But I want you to see this verse. He says the thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy. But I've come that you would have and enjoy life. He wants you to have it and enjoy it, have it in abundance to the full till it overflows. That's God's plan for your life. Why aren't people enjoying their lives? Because we have unhealthy relationships. And I'm not talking about unhealthy relationships with people, although that's certainly one of those relationships. But we all have relationships. We have a relationship with ourself. We have a relationship with our body. We have relationship with food. We have a relationship with money. We have a relationship with God. Obviously, we have a relationship with people. And what we have to understand is the health of one relationship will spill over into the health of all our relationships. And that's what I want to talk to you about, because it says in Psalm chapter thirty four, verse eight, it says Taste and see that the Lord is good. You know, I notice a lot of Christians are not enjoying when they're not enjoying their life, they're not enjoying their relationship with God because they have perhaps a distorted relationship with God. God tells us here not to be mistaken about what our God is really like. He says taste and see. So often we've been told. Take me down a little, if you guys could, so often we've been told that God doesn't operate in our senses, but here we have in Psalm 34:8, the first two words that are used in this verse have to do with two out of our five senses. He says taste. And he says, See, I think God's very interested in our senses. I'm not saying that we should live by our feelings, but we're supposed to experience the enjoyment of God, he says. Taste and see. We're supposed to experience the flavor of God and we're supposed to actually see that the Lord is good. We're supposed to taste the goodness and see the goodness. David said I would have despaired unless I believe that I would see the goodness of God in the land of the living. God wants you to taste and see that he's good. He wants you to taste and experience. Look, God is all about enjoying life, enjoying and every relationship that we have is broken and distorted. If our relationship with God isn't properly understood and valued and appreciated and tasted and experienced. See, some people think that their relationship with God is completely based on what we do. A lot of people, a lot of Christians have been deceived into thinking that their relationship with God is completely regulated by our behavior or our holiness, that we simply come in and out of this relationship with God. But that's a lie. We don't come out of our relationship with God. We don't come out of our relationship with ourself. We don't come out of you know, you'll always have a relationship with food. Whether it's a healthy relationship or not is something you can control. But you will always have a relationship with food. You know, you will always have a relationship with God. Now, whether it's healthy or not, it's depends on what your understanding is of God. And I want to clear up the misunderstandings that so many people have about God. The biggest misunderstanding that people have in this world, the biggest problem in this world is a wrong concept of God. Only a wrong concept of God would cause you to have to beat yourself and blame yourself and shame yourself and punish yourself and and Martin Luther, six hundred years ago, whenever it was when he lived, was. As a priest so condemned in living in such guilt over his sins that he had to walk up, he walked up the the steps of the church that he was a priest in. He walked up the steps on his knees, he crawled up the steps on his knees, hoping that God would recognize his penance, his humility, and that's and and that's when he finally realized that God spoke to him that season in his life. Ephesians, chapter two, verse eight, that by grace, are we saved through faith and that not of ourselves, but it's the free gift of God. Now the result of works, lest anyone should boast. And that became the reformation in the a revolution that came into this world because one man finally woke up to the goodness of God he tasted and he saw that the Lord was good. That the grace of God was for him, that a relationship with God is not based on the promises that we make to God, but our relationship with God is based on the promises that he makes to us. Your happiness in life won't come from the promises you make to God, your happiness in life will come from the promises that he makes to you. And you have to decide, are you going to be a works based Christian that is always trying harder to please God? Or are you going to be a grace based, love based, faith based Christian that realizes you've got your approval from God so that you can now enjoy your relationship with yourself? We all have a relationship with ourselves. We have a relationship with food. We have a relationship with money. We have a relationship with people. We have a relationship with our body and and the health. The question is, how healthy are those relationships? And in order to have a healthy relationship with yourself, healthy relationship with your body, a healthy relationship with food, a healthy relationship with others, a healthy relationship with money, it's by having a healthy relationship with God. And there's only one way to have a healthy relationship with God. And that's discovering the gift of righteousness. Discovering the gift of righteousness now for those that might say, I already know this, I'm ready to graduate on to something else. There's no graduation from this. This is the way to live. This is the way to pray. The prayers of righteous surveils much a righteous man falls, but he gets up seven times in favor of God surrounds the righteous. There's laid up for the righteous wealth. Every promise that is in the Bible is built upon an understanding of this gift of righteousness. The old covenant relationship with God was based on our obedience to have these blessings in our lives, but and our obedience to be righteous with God. But the new covenant. Is totally different. We're not righteous or in right standing with God because of something we've done, we're in right standing and righteous with God because of what Jesus did for us. You see in Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse twenty one, it gives it explains it so perfectly in second Corinthians, chapter five, verse twenty one. It says he who knew no sin Jesus. The Father made Jesus. He the father made him Jesus who knew no sin to become sin on our behalf. I think I read that to you from the new King James Bible. It might make more sense. Makes sense in this version as well. But it says he who knew no son, no sin. Jesus knew no sin. He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, the father. May Jesus to be sin for us, he didn't sin, but he became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. So now that's the exchange that's made. We were the ones who were sinners. We weren't righteous. We weren't in right. Standing with God. But God made him who knew no sin to become sin for us on the cross that we would become the righteousness of God in him. And from the moment you're born again, Satan is attacking your heart to accuse you of being guilty, to point out your sins, to point out your mistakes from the moment you're saved, the devil goes into a condemnation warfare with you to get you condemned, to get you accused, to get you to feel bad, to get you to feel guilty, to get you to lose your joy, to get you to lose your peace, to get you to not enjoy your relationship with God. Because when you can enjoy your relationship with God, you can't enjoy your relationship with yourself, you can't enjoy your relationship with others. You can't enjoy your relationship with food. You can't enjoy your relationship with your body. You can't enjoy your relationship with money. Every relationship becomes broken, every relationship becomes dysfunctional. Every relationship becomes messed up because we have a messed up view of our relationship with God. So many Christians are feeling guilt and they feel condemned and they sometimes have been and they've been told for years and years, you've got to get this sin out of your life. You've got to get that sin out of your life. Then God will be pleased with you. Then God will be pleased with you. You've got to live pleasing to God. Well, we can live pleasing to God. Twenty four hours a day by living by faith in his righteousness, he became sin for us that we would become the righteousness of God. The Bible says in Hebrews, Chapter 11, verse five four, it is impossible. To please him without faith, without faith for six, I think it says, without faith, it's impossible to please him without faith. Well, what is our faith in our faith? He says without faith, it is impossible to please him, for he comes to God must not believe he who comes to God must not believe he either comes to God. What believe not do believe without faith is impossible to please God. So what is he saying? Faith is for he who comes to God must believe that he is that he is what he is everything. He said he was his righteous, and yet he became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God that we must believe. He said he who comes to God must believe that he is, that he is what he is. Everything he said he is, and that he is a rewarder. Of those who seek him, in the words seeking him means those who look to him as their only source. Our faith is not in our faith. Our faith is in his faithfulness. Our whole relationship with God has to be rebuilt upon his faithfulness, not ours, upon his righteousness, not ours. He became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God. You are something. You are the righteousness of God. And He comes to God must believe that he is. And I believe this verse is saying a couple of things here. He is and you are what he is, because as he is, so are we in this world. Jesus is the righteousness of God. Yet he became sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God. Now the word righteousness. Listen to what this means now. It literally is translated as having God's approval when he says. Where the righteousness of God. And he says, put on the breastplate of righteousness in Ephesians chapter six, verse 14, in God's word, translation, he calls it the breastplate of God's approval, put on God's approval as your breastplate put on God's approval as your breastplate, the living translation says. Put on. As a breastplate, God's approval. God's approval, the living Bible, I should say, put on God's approval. Think about that. The thing that protects. Our heart is the breastplate, and the Bible tells us to put it on, not because we're putting on our works, but he's saying you have to wake up to the fact that you have God's approval and that's the only thing that will protect your heart. My approval won't protect your heart. Your family's approval won't protect your heart. Only God's approval will protect your heart. And God's approval is his righteousness and righteousness is a gift. So put that verse up again. Can you can you put the living Bible? It calls it the breastplate of God's approval. Also, in God's word. Translation, the breastplate of God's approval, the breastplate of God's approval put on God's approval. That's the word righteousness put on righteousness were made the righteousness of God. So we need to protect our heart and our vital organs, how we operate, how we think, how we feel, how we decide we have to protect that with righteousness, God's approval. If you are born again, you are made approved, you are made righteous. You are now the righteousness of God. If you're born again, you're the righteousness of God. But you got to you got to put that. You got to protect your heart with that reality. You've got to protect your heart with that truth. You see? The key to all relationships is built upon our view of God and our relationship with him, and I'm going to go through this because. There's there's something very powerful about the idea of enjoying life. So many Christians have been told that Christianity is not a life of enjoyment. It's a life of sacrifice, a life of. Giving things up, dying to things, and while there is a sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice and the only sacrifice to give you God's approval is the sacrifice Jesus made, the only sacrifice that gives you God's approval and sacrifice Jesus made on the cross. Any sacrifice we make is not give us God's approval, any sacrifice we make will help others, but it doesn't give us God's approval. We've been given that as a gift. The Bible says Enrollment's chapter five, verse 17, through the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, we reign in life. We are masters of life rather than life mastering us. There's something about. Having a right relationship with God, leading into a right relationship, everything that's broken in people's lives is because of a wrong relationship with something. We have a wrong relationship with food, so we abuse it. We have a wrong relationship with our bodies so we don't treat it well. We have a wrong relationship with others. So we hurt them or we expect too much from them. We have a wrong relationship with money. So it's constantly we're constantly flying away from us. A bird seems to somehow carry our money away. How many knows sometimes feels like that? It's like, why am I keep making money, but it keeps disappearing. Obviously there's some practical wisdom and common sense to having a budget, and that's so vital in an important in anybody's life. But also we have to understand the spiritual side of money. The Bible says the love of money is the root of evil. It doesn't say the presence of money is the root of evil. It says the love of money is the root of evil. That word love means to have a wrong relationship with money. A wrong relationship with money leads to all forms of evil. Or a wrong relationship with food will lead to all forms of bad habits with your eating and your diet and nutrition. See, why why does it seem like they're there, keeps we keep seeing more and more people with new ideas on how to diet, new ideas on how to lose weight, new ideas on how to get healthy, why is it seem to continue to come out and new buy this product or eat this or digest this or take these pills or start eating this or stop eating this and know become a member of a gym and or don't become a member of a gym workout at home and follow these 90 steps. And all of that is changing things from the outside. But until you change your relationship with food, you're never going to treat food properly and actually enjoy it until you are enjoying your relationship with God. When you start enjoying your relationship with God, when you start enjoying being the righteousness of God and truly living as a son or daughter of God every day of your life, when you realize that you're not in this in and out relationship with God, but you are in this intertwined, loving relationship with God as your father, then what ends up happening is that that sense of right relationship with God spills over into your relationship with yourself, with others, with food, with money, with no time, with your body. There's so many people right now. They hurt their bodies, they injure their bodies. So many kids that injure themselves, that hurt themselves. They have such a bad image of their their body. It's not that their body is bad. It's that they have a view of it that's distorted. And people many people in this world, they hate what they look like. They hate their body. They hate themselves. And you see a right relationship with yourself is so important. And I'm going to get to that in a moment. But what we need to start with is truly understanding every bit of joy and happiness in our lives. Hinges. Every bit of joy and happiness in our lives hinges upon our understanding. Of the righteousness of God, everything. The ability to enjoy and have happiness in our lives all hinges upon having God's approval. You know, people do so many things to have others approval, people jump through hoops to get somebody to like them, they change themselves to get somebody to like them. A girl might find out her boyfriend. Or this guy. Likes blond hair. But she's a brunet, finds out he likes blond hair, so she changes her hair to blond and as soon as she changes it to blond, he decides he likes brunets. When you live your life to get somebody else's approval. You're going to be unhappy. But when you understand you have God's approval, your life is marked by God's approval. Jesus said and I think John 5:41, he said, your approval means nothing to me. He said to the Pharisees, he said to the people, your approval means nothing to me. Your approval means nothing to me. I don't need your approval. Why? Because I got God's approval. Your approval, I don't need it, so I'm not going to live for the proof, the approval of somebody else. I'm not going to live for the approval of anybody else. Look at that in the new living terms of your approval means nothing to me. Jesus said, wow. Why does man's approval mean nothing to him? Because he has got to prove. Why should man's approval mean nothing, because you have got to prove. Boy, you get a hold of this, as I know it might sound very simple, but in. It is because it is, you know, in. First, Timothy, Chapter six, I want you to see this in verse 17, he says, and struck those that are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. I think we missed that part. I think most Christians have read the first part of 1st Timothy 6:17 and struck those that are rich. Not to be conceited. Don't fix your hope on the uncertainty of riches. But he tells us what to put our hope on. But put your hope on God, fix your hope on God, who does what, who richly supplies us with all things. You know what? That would be good if it just said he richly supplies us with all things. You know what? That would be great if it just said he recently supplies us with all things. If the sentence ended there, that would be awesome. He richly supplies us with all things a the supplies you with all things which supplies me with all things. Hey, touch your neighbors. Hey, hey. Maybe don't touch him, but tell your neighbor hey, he richly supplies you with all things. That's great news. Which supplies me with all things, which supplies you with all things. But he doesn't just say he richly supplies us with all things. It says he richly supplies us with all things to enjoy, to enjoy. But the reason why we're not enjoying the things he supplies us with is because we're not enjoying our relationship with him. And the reason we're not enjoying our relationship with him is because we're constantly living in a world of in our head of accusation. Our heart condemns us. Our heart beats us up, our past haunts us. Our mistakes seem to define us. We seem to be stumbling and struggling all the time. And our prayer life isn't very good. And so we think we're not very good as Christian because we don't pray much. God doesn't need you to pray much to have his approval. You have his approval. See, the reason that I pray about a lot of things is because I know I have access to God. I know I can go to him about anything. And by knowing that I can go to him about anything, by knowing that I'm never asking too much. The Bible says that we can come boldly to the throne of his grace to receive mercy and find grace to help in our time of need, mercy and grace. Mercy is being delivered from the judgment that you deserve for your wrong actions. And Grace is being given the blessings that you don't deserve. And we can go to God any time for both of those things. So that's why I, I, I don't pray more to have God's approval. But when I understand I have God's approval, I end up paying more because I know I can go to him about anything. Boy, when you get a hold of that, you're no longer limited in life because you know, you have a heavenly father that richly supplies you with all things. And I would go so far as to say he actually gets a kick out of blessing you. He actually is happy about blessing you. How do I know that? Because in Luke chapter twelve, verse thirty two, Jesus said something amazing to his disciples. He said, Your father. Our heavenly father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. Don't be afraid, little flock for your father. Has chosen gladly, it would be great if our father just chose to give us the kingdom, but he didn't just choose to give us the kingdom, he chose gladly. He's happy about it. He's excited about and it would be great if it just said if Jesus just said, my father has chosen to give you the kingdom, but he doesn't just say my father has chosen to give you the kingdom. He says your father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. You see, the next verse talks about giving, sell your possessions, give to charity. How can you do that? Go back to verse. How could we even get to the point? Christians have it so backwards. We think when we sacrifice, then God will give us the kingdom. No, he gives us the kingdom. And that's what empowers us to have a right relationship with our possessions so that we don't stay attached to our possessions. God says I've chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. So it's all yours now. Now that you know, it's all yours now, you feel the freedom to sell your possessions and give to the poor. You see how Christians have got it backwards. Sell your possessions and give to the poor so that God will give you the kingdom. No, he already gives you the kingdom in advance. And the only reason why he's saying once you know what your father has done, what you know, once you know what your father's happy to do, he's chosen gladly and happily to give you the kingdom. You see how that gives you the confidence to be able to sell your possessions? I can sell my brother. I can give I can give anything that has asked of me because I'm no longer afraid. Why am I no longer afraid? Because my father has chosen. How has he chosen? It's not just that he's chosen, which is a decision he's made to give me the kingdom, to give you the kingdom. But he's chosen gladly to do it. He's happy to do it. I wonder how many of us think of God as. Yeah, he he's going to help you out. But it's because you pray hard enough and it's because you try hard enough, because you've been praying all this time and you've been standing, you've been believing and you've been doing this and you've been and we think that's what causes God to to act. No God acts because he loves and he's already chosen and he's chosen gladly to do it. He's not stingy about it. He's not he's not regretful about it. He's not in any way taking any of it back either. Wow. The Bible says in Romans, chapter 11, verse twenty nine, it says, The gifts and the callings of God are irrevocable. Without repentance, it means he doesn't give you a gift and then take it back. He gives you a gift and it's irrevocable. He calls you and it's irrevocable. It's without repentance means he he will never change back to not giving. He gives you the gift and he never takes it back, ever. It's a beautiful thing about God. That's why so many people are confused about their salvation. Salvation is a gift, according to Ephesians 2:8 right by grace. We saved through faith that not of ourselves. It is the free gift of God. It's the free gift of God, not a result of work. So no one can boast if salvation is a free gift from God, free and gift is redundant. It's the same thing. It's free. What makes it a gift is that it's free. If it's not free, it's not a gift, you see. But if it's a gift, he never takes it back. Your salvation is not fragile. Know, I was thinking about this the other day. The cross. Your salvation is not fragile. It's so solid. That the cross is so solid, the finished work of Jesus, they just finished, all of that is what the cross means. Your sins are forgiven. Blood has been shed. Jesus himself was the son of God, and, you know, the Bible says that while he was carrying his cross. To the Golgotha Hill, where he was going to be crucified, they made him carry his cross himself to the hill and the Bible says he struggled. And he buckled. And then Simon, the Cairene, came and helped him. Carry the cross. Now, he didn't help him be on it. Nobody helped him beyond. He was the only one on the cross but the son of God himself. Wasn't even able to carry. It all the way to the hill because of the beatings that he had suffered. Him who carries the cross has nothing to do with your salvation, who died on it has everything to do with your salvation. My point about carrying the cross is that even the son of God couldn't carry the cross all the way. It was so heavy. My point is, it's so solid. There's nothing fragile about the cross. There's nothing weak about the cross. There's nothing flimsy about the cross. There's nothing that the wind can blow about the cross. It is settled. This is God's gift. Now receive it and be done with it and know that you never have to live in defeat and depression and sadness. Another day in your life when you understand that your father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom. When you have a relationship with God that is completely dependent on the promises that God makes to you, rather than the promises that you make to him, you become a happy person. You begin to enjoy your relationship with God. And then what happens is there's a domino effect. When you enjoy your relationship with God, you start enjoying your relationship with people. Boy, we have to learn to enjoy life. And it starts by enjoying this free approval from God. And when I enjoy this free approval from God, now, I can enjoy my self. You have to learn how to enjoy yourself, how to. Be happy with yourself, how to approve of yourself, God already approves of you, you need to approve of you. You need to know how to enjoy yourself. One of the ways that you can enjoy yourself in life, enjoy your life, is by stop expecting other people to make you happy. The moment you stop expecting anybody else to make you happy and your happiness is a choice that you make. I'm going to trust God, you'll be happy. I'm not expecting anybody to do anything to make me happy. My happiness doesn't hinge upon anybody doing anything for me except what Jesus did for me. Now, I can enjoy my life because I'm not expecting and extracting from somebody else the thing that is going to cause happiness in my life, the only person that can make me happy is Jesus. And he has chosen gladly to give me the kingdom and give you the kingdom. And therefore, that's where happiness comes from, that's where joy comes from, that's how we can enjoy this life. So we can see. Any emotional damage and self-abuse? Comes from. Trying to sanitize our lives from enjoyment, so many Christians think that enjoying life is unchristian. They think that being in misery somehow pleases God, but being happy that he approves of you is what pleases God. You bring him great joy, Mark, 1:11, is the new living, translation says. The voice of God spoke over Jesus, said, you are my dearly loved son and you bring me great joy and as he is, are we in this world? You know, the moment you get born again, you bring God great joy for the rest of your life. You bring God great joy for the rest of eternity. You bring him great joy because you exist so you can enjoy your life like that. You make God happy. You realize that you make God happy by accepting his son. You make him happy. By trusting his son, you make God happy. That's why it's so simple, and then, you know, what happens is you're happy with yourself. You enjoy yourself. You have a right relationship with yourself. And then you know what ends up happening. You begin to have a right relationship with your family. You know, to have a right relationship with your family is to just realize. Every family has dysfunction. Every family has some weird moments and awkward moments and awkward, embarrassing things about all, we all have that about our families, but we can enjoy our family when we realize and accept the fact that we're all a little dysfunctional. And you just learn to have fun with that rather than being ashamed of it. You know, you can enjoy your relationship with people when you stop. Expecting from them, you have to limit your expectation from people and start seeing people. As people to enjoy rather than people to get something from. See, the whole concept of enjoying your relationship with God, which you can only enjoy your relationship with God when you understand you are approved by him as the righteousness of God, then you can enjoy your relationship with yourself. Then you can enjoy your relationship with your family. Then you can enjoy your relationship with people in general, and then you can enjoy your relationship with your church. You know, the Bible says we can enjoy our relationship with our church family. We need our family, we need church, we need our family. We need to stay connected online or in person or both. Whatever situation you're in, stay connected because the Bible says in Ephesians 5:19, we should be speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns, spiritual songs and. Making music in our hearts to the Lord with each other, speaking to one another, having fellowship and relationship with one another. Well, I got to pick this up next time because I want to talk to you about how to enjoy your body rather than shaming it, how to enjoy food rather than feeling guilty all the time. Before we close, though, today. The key to everything. The key to spending eternity in heaven instead of hell. The key to having happiness in life, it all hinges upon one thing, our relationship with God. So I want to ask you to do something right now. If you've never been born again, if you've never prayed to to come into a right relationship with God, pray this with me. Right right now, Heavenly Father, just pray that Heavenly Father, I invite Jesus Christ into my life. I invite Jesus Christ in my life as my savior and Lord, just pray that out loud. I invite Jesus Christ into my life as my savior and Lord. I believe Jesus died for my sins and rose from the dead. And from this moment forward, I'm a child of God, just say that from this moment forward, I'm a child of God. That's it, you have just begun a new relationship with God. You are the righteousness of God. You're not saved by your works. You're saved by God's grace through the blood of Jesus. Free gift of God, you'll never take it back, you might put it down and not enjoy it, but he'll never take it back. You might not be enjoying it, but you'll never take it back. David said, Restore to me the joy of my salvation. I know that you didn't take my salvation, Lord, but restore to me the joy of it. You can have you can have joy and enjoy this beautiful relationship with God, let's enjoy it and finally, let's share it. You know, we're going to receive a special offering at this time because there's a group of people that have suffered more than anybody through the pandemic over the last 15 or 16 months, and that's children. We've seen hospitals and suicidal rates jump 50 percent during the pandemic. Children that have been isolated, children that I know many schools are back now, but it's summer. So they're not at this point. But so much suicide, so many. Fears, anxieties that children have developed, compulsions, obsessive compulsive, compulsive behavior and injuring themselves and hurting themselves. The young generation has not been able to process all this, all the. The isolation that has been created by the covid and so we're spending the summer celebrating children and giving them an opportunity to come to church and have more and more opportunities to play, to socialize, to experience special events. And so we're devoting and investing in the next generation. And I want to ask for your help. The Bible says the children Zacharia Chapter eight. Let the children play in the streets. There's got to be play. There's got to be celebration. There's got to be our streets got to be filled again with boys and girls and playing and having happiness and joy and and learning and finding out about Jesus learning how to have relationships with God, relationships with each other. And so we're pouring into the next generation. And I want to ask for a special favor that you would give to our special summer kids outreach to reach young people both in our communities, in our suburbs, in our community and our city. So this should be on your screen, an opportunity to give you context to the number on the screen as well, seven seven nine seven seven. And you can see all the ways that you can give. But thank you. I just bless you and I bless the seed that you're sowing. Thank you for making an extra effort to give towards this special project to reach children. And I bless you. And I declare happiness and joy. Peace restored to you in Jesus name. Amen. You are proved by God. Believe it and let it make you smile. We'll see it our next service. God bless.
