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Introduction
All right, there is nothing more pow
erful than an idea. And that’s the premise of a movie that I rewatch. It’s one of my favorite movies. Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s called Inception. It came out like 15 years ago at this point. The main premise was that there is nothing more powerful than an idea, and the main character says this about ideas. Even the smallest seed of an idea can grow to define you. And the plot of this movie, it follows these characters where they go into dreams, and they’re trying to implant an idea into in someone to kind of get them to do what they want them to do. They know that an idea can change a life.
And I know it’s a very worldly thing, this movie, but it reminded me that spiritual ideas have indeed been implanted in me and in you by God himself. Here is one idea that I believe God has put into our hearts. And minds. It’s this, God’s grace is enough. That’s the title of my sermon today. God’s grace is enough.
And in the Bible passages that we are going to examine together today, there is a confusing character presented. It’s the poor widow who It’s a woman who does something so extraordinary that Jesus takes notice of it. She gives all that she has to live on to the treasury offerings box in the temple. It provokes curiosity, speculation. It defies a logical explanation. Because she makes this offering to the temple treasury that does not look like very much, but in actuality, it’s all that she can give. That seems impossible to me. How could a person that’s just trying to survive ever make a choice such as that?
And when I read this passage, it provokes my conscience with many questions. What does the story mean for my life? What is Jesus asking me to do? And of course, a conviction that comes into my mind is, is Jesus telling me that I need to do this too? We must all give everything into the offerings box? Because obviously he is pleased with this widow as she does this. I want Jesus to be pleased with me.
Many sermons have been given on this passage during the building drives, you know, like we’re getting a new building. We’re going to bring out the poor widow passage to get these people’s wallets open, get those checks written. So I know how this could get preached. But I promise you right now, there’s no building campaign. There’s no end of fiscal year budget shortfall that I’m trying to manipulate you into fixing.
When I see this passage and I actually start to think about it in light of the rest of the scriptures, the full counsel of God, it starts to take away some of those speculations that we have. We can see something deeper. We can see a message that I believe Christ is giving his disciples and us through the story of the poor widow. And it’s so much more than a call to sacrificial giving.
When I contemplate this woman in scripture, I know instantly she is thinking differently than I think. She must have an idea inside of her, an idea that has grown to define her. That’s the only explanation that I can find for these actions. And it’s something that I’ll just admit to you right now, I do not yet know. She understands something that I do not yet have a full understanding of. It’s like she has a whole different perspective on reality than I have.
This widow obviously has deep faith, and when I noticed that, I remember, well, who is it that gets the credit for this deep faith? Only God? Only God can put this kind of faith into the heart of a person? It can’t be self-generated? No one on their own could possibly ever have the notion that to give everything they have to God and trust in Him alone. God has to put that idea inside of His people that His grace is enough for us. But once implanted, that idea will certainly grow in a believer to eventually define all about them. And it’ll show itself in dramatic outworkings. Outworkings that have many different visible signs. But yes, it includes things like giving away a lot of your money.
Giving to the Lord, it’s not an action that the secular world understands. It’s not an action that the secular world can ever understand. They love to give to charity. That makes them feel good about themselves. But giving to God? That’s crazy. What’s the point of that? But making an offering to the Lord… It is a visible outworking of an idea that a believer has in their heart. God’s grace is enough for a believer. And Jesus is looking for these visible signs, these outworkings among his people. He is looking for the fruit of lives that he has changed, and he’s excited when he finds it.
My main point of the sermon is this. Giving reveals… A heart that trusts in God alone. And I promise you right now, this is not going to be a lecture about giving. This is instead a sermon about how you will be living as a believer because he’s changing the way that we live, the way that we think and act. Do not hear any words today telling you something that you have to do. I’m telling you about the things that changed heart frequently does do. Yes, it’s a sermon about giving, but your giving isn’t your action, it’s a reaction. It’s a response from a changed heart, and God is watching for it.
Point 1: God Is Watching
Mark 12:41a
Point number one, God is watching. Here’s what is clear to me from the first bit of the first verse. We’re just going to look at 41, the first sentence here. God is watching over his house. God is watching over his people. God is watching over his resources. I’ll read it again to us.
And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offerings box.
Okay. Here we see the Son of God, the Most High. He’s taking a seat in his temple courtyard. Okay. And he’s looking over the people of Jerusalem, their comings and their goings. They’re making their offerings. And to set the scene here, there were 13 different boxes in the temple courtyard. This courtyard, it was called the Courtyard of Women. And that’s not because only ladies were allowed to be there. It’s actually called the Courtyard of Women because that was the furthest into the temple complex that a woman was allowed to go. That was the closest that a woman could get to the presence of the Lord was this courtyard where the treasury boxes were. And there were 13 of them. Each one of them had a plaque on them with a different thing that that money was going to be used for, like charity or salaries or temple supplies. I’m sure that there were more. But they were all shaped actually like trumpets. That’s why they were called shofarot. So these offerings boxes were called shofarot, from the word shofar, shaped like a trumpet, probably a big mouth to receive the coins so that it’s easy to put stuff in, hard to reach in and get something out.
So the people, they’re doing their temple duty. They’re coming in. They’re bringing in their different offerings, all while Jesus is discreetly watching them. For a Jew, giving was a mandatory part of their life. When something is mandatory, it is difficult to do it with joy. I have found that in my own life. Mandatory and joy don’t frequently go together, but they were here doing with the Mosaic law mandated upon them. For many temple worshipers, I’m sure that this giving had become completely perfunctory, just a ritual. Just their religious duty, just doing what the law requires in order to maintain their standing.
But giving, just like all of the activities of life, it is not done in the sight of men. Now, giving, as in all life, is done in the sight of God alone. And in this story, God is indeed watching. Jesus is the one who is fully God and fully man. He is watching. He’s right there in their midst. He’s right there in our midst, in our life activities. And he’s watching not as a schoolmaster. He’s watching because he cares. He cares deeply about his house, his church. He cares deeply about his people. He cares deeply about his resources. These are the things that are under his responsibility. He certainly is the head of his church. And he has given his life for his people. And everything in this world, every single created thing, it has been made subject to him and put under his dominion. Jesus answers to no one except for the Father, and every created thing is under his authority.
So do you care about the things that you have authority over? Of course you do. Do you not think that Jesus cares about the things that he has been made to be the head over? Jesus is indeed watching over all things. And that includes the activity of our giving. Let us remember as we contemplate the topic of giving that Christ, he already owns everything. It’s already his. He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. The world is his in the fullness thereof. So any resources that we have, they are the Lord’s resources first. When you make an offering at church, you aren’t giving anything to the Lord. No, you are just releasing something. Something out of your hand that was already his.
King David speaks of this in 1 Chronicles. He says, Who am I and what is my people that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you and of your own we have given you. Amen. We are just giving to the Lord what is already his. And what you give at church is truly just between you and the Lord. We have safeguards in place to protect the anonymity of your gift. We don’t know what your offering is. Pastor Ben and the elders, we have protections. We want to protect the anonymity of the offering box. Because at its spiritual core, giving… And watching over giving, that’s a responsibility reserved exclusively for Jesus.
I don’t know what you bring. You can’t impress me with it. It’s the Lord’s resources. And so that’s why it’s private between you and him. All the other acts of worship that we do here are corporate. We’re meeting together for prayer. We’re singing together. We’re hearing the word together. But then this is the one act of worship where God says to us, let’s keep this one private. Let’s keep this one just between you and me. And the reason for that is because he knows the heart behind your gift. He’s not just watching over. He’s seeing deeply. He’s seeing deeply into your heart. And it’s the heart behind your giving. That is what determines whether your gift is is pleasing and acceptable to him. It’s not the amount of it. I’m not trying to get you over a certain threshold. It’s the heart behind it. The spirit in which you give is what matters to God.
So as God is watching, we come to find out in this text that Jesus sees clearly what man cannot when an offering is made.
Point 2: God Most Values the Secret Things of the Heart
Mark 12:41b–43
It’s point number two. God most values the secret things of the heart. Mark 41, we’ll do the second half of that through 43.
Many rich people put in large sums, and a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more money
How is that possible? More. Okay. As Jesus is watching these people coming and going, putting in their offerings, we’re presented here with a contrast. Two types of people. The rich and the poor. And the poor. It’s a false dichotomy, obviously. There’s a broad spectrum of wealth and poverty in the world. When we contemplate this, we ask ourselves, well, who am I? Am I a rich person or a poor person? I guess it depends where you are in the world. Whether I feel rich or not, I can drive through neighborhoods. They look rough. Makes me feel pretty rich. Two streets over, you got the big houses, the shiny cars, the nice lawns. Maybe I’m not doing so hot anymore. There’s always someone that’s going to be richer than you. There’s always someone that’s going to be poorer than you.
And it’s easy to say when we read this, well, I’m not like these rich people. But let me tell you, in my travels, going to Djibouti, Africa, seeing… A naked guy skittering around on all fours, picking through trash to get food. Like, ever since I saw something like that, I’ve realized I am a wealthy man. And we are living in suburban America. So, in many ways, I know you don’t feel it, but in many ways, we are wealthy.
And who has an easier time giving away some of their money? Is it the rich or the poor? Did you know that lower-income people give proportionally twice as much of their money away. I think that is remarkable. It’s the rich folks, the high earners that should have the extra money, a lot to give. Those rich folk, they only give 3%. And the lower earners, they give away over 5% of their income. It’s easier for them to give. I don’t understand why that is, but I could explain it in this way. The more you have, the tighter you hold on to it.
Reading about the rich people in this passage, it makes me think they should have no problem giving more. But sometimes when you have a lot, it’s hard to give more. When you have a lot, you forget about grace. Why do you forget about grace? Because you think, I’ve earned it. This money is mine. I earned it. Don’t you understand how much I had to do and sacrifice for this paycheck? It is mine. And it belongs to me. And I forget about God’s grace. So don’t forget about grace. We’re called in the word to remember God’s grace. Deuteronomy 8, 18. You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth. And if the power to earn your money comes from God’s grace, then the income is not your entitlement. The income is grace also. So don’t forget about grace.
These rich people in the text, they were giving less, but it was still large sums of money. I’m sure they were getting a lot of attention. They’re putting in piles of big, heavy coins, sending out this big noise, telegraphing to everyone who’s hearing, I’m doing my religious duty. I have given out of what I earned, what I owe to God and to the temple. I’ve given an impressive sum but they were just giving what they had to. And Jesus is not impressed by that attitude in giving.
The rich in their offerings, they were getting attention from men in the temple courtyard, but Jesus barely noticed them. Instead, his attention was on a poor woman who makes an offering that no one else but him sees. Jesus calls his disciples over to him. He says, “Guys, come here. Come look at this. I want you to see.” And as the widow puts in her two small coins, which were the smallest coin denomination in all of Rome, he says, “I tell you the truth. This poor widow has put in more than all the rest.” Jesus sees what man does not see. The men in the courtyard could not have seen this gift. And Jesus values what man does not value. He didn’t care about the amount. He was looking for the heart behind the gift.
This poor woman, she would have come and gone completely unnoticed by the disciples if Jesus had not called their attention to her. But Jesus sees her gift. He sees her situation. He sees her motivations. He sees her heart. He’s not just watching. He’s actually seeing, seeing deeply. I’m reminded of Hagar in the wilderness, Genesis 16, 13, when Hagar in her destitution says this to God, you are a God of seeing. Truly, I have seen the one who sees me. We do have a God of seeing. He knows everything about your heart. There is nothing inside of you that God does not know. And the quiet, anonymous widow in this story by no means escapes his seeing.
In the hearing of man, those two pathetic coins hitting the offerings box must have been completely silent. But the Lord heard it above all the rest. And then he memorialized her, telling his disciples that her offering was greater. How could this be possible? that these two microscopic coins could be better and greater than heavy gold and silver. In a man’s eyes, a penny is worthless. I would not bend down to pick one up. I tell that to you true right now. But somehow in the eyes of God, it was more valuable than everything else.
Here’s why. God already has all the money in the world. Money might be exciting to you. It is boring to God. God puts his highest value on the human heart. He sees the secret things, the hidden things. He sees the things that he’s planted in us. He’s pleased by them. So the idea that he’s put in there is an awareness of grace. We have been given eyes to see grace. We can see it all around us. We understand that his grace is enough. And I believe that that poor widow had a heart that understood grace and saw the sufficiency of it, put her trust in it.
A widow was usually supported by the charity of family members. It’s the people who live off of the mercy of others that understand mercy. The ones that work long hours for big incomes, they forget about grace because they’re earning it. And when we forget about grace, it makes our fists tight and clenched. It makes us feel entitled. But remembering grace, it makes us thankful. It puts our attention onto God. Remembering grace makes the poor feel rich in the Lord. Jesus saw that the widow’s heart was motivated by this understanding and a trust in the Lord to provide for her. Only a changed heart can see life through that lens.
We’re going to explore that idea a little bit more. Because giving is just an outworking of our regeneration and our faith in Christ. Jesus is looking for these outworkings, these demonstrations. He’s looking for the works that come out of a heart that has been made right by him.
Point 3: Giving in Spite of Obstacles Is a Demonstration of True Faith
Mark 12:44
My third point is, Giving in spite of obstacles is a demonstration of true faith. Mark 12, 44.
For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.
This was truly a sacrificial gift, was it not? Giving all that you have to live on? That’s the opposite of the rich man who Jesus told, go and sell everything that you have and give it to the poor. But he could not do it. He was holding on tight. He was thinking, I earned this.
But I think it’s a mistake to think that this verse is telling us only sacrificial gifts count to God. That is not what he is saying. That’s what my works oriented mind. That’s where it takes me. What can I do to please the Lord? I want to be a good person. I want Jesus to be happy with me. But Jesus is telling us something different, I believe, as he calls our attention to this woman. Verse 44 cannot be about works. Works are the things that God has actually commanded us to do in his word. And I want to remind all of us right now that God never ever in his holy scriptures tells us we must give all of our income to the church. There are examples in the word of people doing that. That does not make it a law for you. He doesn’t command us to do it. Are you relieved? I am. I can feel it. Oh, my gosh. Thank you.
Our confession actually says that when we go above and beyond the works that God instructs us to do, it creates bad works. It creates works that are blindly zealous, pretentious works. And not pleasing to God. So if any one of you comes to church next week and they say, I’m putting my whole income in the offerings box and I’m going to earn God’s favor by that work, you have not done something that God counts as good.
Elder Lance frequently reminds the men that there’s nothing good in us. There is nothing good about what you do or what you give to this church. The only thing that can possibly be good in anyone here today is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God. That alone is good. So what can be the explanation for this work that the widow does, which obviously it pleases our Lord, it pleases Christ as he looks upon it. It has to be the Spirit of God dwelling inside of her, enabling her to do something actually spiritually good when she makes her offering. It’s called an active influence of the Holy Spirit to work in us, to will and to do his good pleasure. And Jesus was pleased here.
He looks upon the poor widow’s act of giving and her works, and the only way that he can be pleased is if that giving was coming out of a heart made new. It’s coming as a response, an outworking of faith. The act of giving is that is supernaturally enabled by the Holy Spirit, it has supernatural power to overcome our obstacles to giving. Giving is not easy. I don’t have to tell you that. I feel that deeply. Giving is not easy. It does not come naturally to my old man. It has to be supernatural because my flesh is always looking for a reason not to give.
Have you ever felt that tug of war between the spirit and your flesh when it comes to making your offering at church? I know I have. The spirit will convict me, prompt me to make a gift. I will purpose in my heart to do it. I say to myself, next Sunday I will make this gift. And I’m excited to do it. But then, in the intervening time, my flesh starts to go to work. I start to create some obstacles to giving myself. I love our online giving platform. I can just short circuit that whole process of my flesh getting in the way of my gift. The Holy Spirit prompts me. I conceive it. I execute it. Click, click. Done. Take away my flesh’s opportunity to talk me out of it. Because that’s what my flesh will do if I don’t make that offering right away.
The Two Obstacles: Fear and Desire
Anyway, here’s some obstacles that our flesh puts in the way of our giving process. Really just two things, fear and desire. The fear factor, what if I need my offering back? That would be an awkward conversation for me to have with Jesse after the fact. Jesse, can I get a refund on the, Jesse’s our treasurer, in case he didn’t know. Jesse, can you give me a refund on that offering that I gave on Sunday? Change my mind. I change my mind. I’m going to be needing that because that comes from fear that, you know, the fear that says I might need this later. That’s an obstacle that our flesh puts in between us and our spiritual giving.
And the other obstacle, it is desire because our flesh, it really wants to spend this money on something else, does it not? And one of God’s laws in the Old Testament was actually designed to fight this human inclination that we have. It’s the tithe. The law said to tithe your first fruits, to set it aside, the first tenth of what you produce and bring it into the Lord’s storehouse. Now, I’m not saying you have to do that. Because it was a Hebrew law. The whole law has been fulfilled in Christ, has it not? It is not binding upon us. But it’s still useful as a guide. And I want to just explain to you what the point of the tithe was in my mind. It was to guide God’s people in two things.
First of all, the Lord gets his first. He is higher. He is worthy. He is above all. The government, he is above the bank. He’s above the electric company. He is worthy to receive his portion first. And the second purpose of tithing is that it sets a pattern for God’s people and how he wants us to order our financial lives. A tithe is 10%. And here’s what that tells me. God wants each of us to be living 10% more humbly than our income would otherwise allow us to do. That is mortifying the flesh right there. Not allowing your lifestyle to grow into its true financial potential. That goes against everything my flesh is telling me to do. Everything the world is telling me to do. It’s actually purposeful deprivation.
So if the obstacles in the way of making your gift to the church are that you struggle to have the things that you want, my gentle suggestion to you would be re-evaluate your lifestyle. Ask God to make you desire Him more. If you can’t give to God, but you can give to Starbucks every day, maybe it’s time to cut down on the Starbucks a little bit and remember God. That these perks, this lifestyle that we enjoy here, this is not our human right. It is grace. We have to have eyes that see what we have as God’s grace and not our birthright as American suburbanites enjoying all these things, okay?
The Widow’s Offering and No One’s Excuse
So the widow in the story, she did not let fear, she did not let desire stand in her way of bringing her offering. And she did not just bring in a tithe. She brought in all that she had to live on. And what’s curious about that to me is out of all of the people in the temple courtyard that day making offerings today, She of course had the best excuse in the world to not give anything. Not only did she not really have anything, she really didn’t earn an income. She was living on the charity of others. But in this time period, in the temple period, the temple was supposed to be in the business of supporting widows. Widows weren’t supposed to be in the business of supporting the temple. It was completely backwards what she did.
This woman is not included in scripture to show us that we have to live up to her example of giving everything. I think it’s a message to us that no one has an excuse to skip giving completely. No one is too poor to give something. We live in a country where only the wealthiest half of the population pays anything in income taxes. Let’s not bring that mentality into Christ’s kingdom, into the church. And I’m not telling that you have to give all your income. I’m not telling you you have to give a tenth of your income. I’m telling you that there is no Christian that is exempted from giving something to God.
And Paul mentions this in 1 Corinthians. He tells the churches, on the first day of the week, each one of you should set aside something for the collection. And for those in the church that have absolutely no money, the offering that you bring can be time, It can be talents. It can be interceding for this church and our people in prayer. These are powerful offerings. Remember, God does not see the amount of your offering. He sees the heart behind what you bring to him. We all have been given much grace by the Lord. And I believe that we all have something to return back to him. Things that are his first and foremost gifts.
And the reason I tell you this, it’s not because our church needs a new building. It’s not because we’ve got a big project coming up. We don’t have any gap in our finances. The Lord has been so kind to this church. Our bank account is completely fine. But I want to know, how is your heart doing? Giving is powerful in its ability to test what our hearts value. It’s also powerful because the Lord uses the act of giving to strengthen our faith. Giving, it’s a tangible way that we demonstrate our faith. It costs us something. And praise the Lord that our giving is enabled by His Spirit. That’s the only way that I would ever be able to give. It’s only by the supernatural prompting that I have of the Lord.
And here’s an application for you today. Make an offering. It could be Money, time, talents make an offering as an outworking of God’s grace, but also as a means of God’s grace. Really, our whole lives should be an offering to our God. Is he not worthy? But we give our whole life a piece of the time.
The Greek Words: Her Whole Life
I want to finish this up. By looking at the last phrase of verse 44. So the verse says,
This last phrase, all she had to live on, the Greek words here are open to different interpretation. It’s the words holos, bios, atos. Whole life her. So instead of being translated as all that she had to live on, these Greek words could just as easily be written thus, her whole life. Doesn’t that change the impact of this verse here?
Out of her poverty, she put in the offerings box her whole life. That is what Jesus saw when she made her offering. The appearance, of course, two smallest coins in the entire realm. But Jesus saw it for what it really was. He saw that she was putting her whole life into the box. God is not looking at the amount of your gift. He’s looking at the faith he has put into your heart that prompted the gift. He sees the immeasurable, eternal value of a heart that values him above all else. He loves to behold a human heart that is devoted to him in that way.
And that’s the only explanation for the story. That Jesus delights to see the outworkings of the faith that he has put in the hearts of his people. It’s the faith that God gifts to us first. He put that idea of faith in our heart that was never there before. Our corrupted minds could never come up with it. The idea that his grace is enough. It was planted into the widow. It’s planted into us. It grows to define us.
And this woman did not give bitterly, under compulsion, religious duty. She didn’t have to give. She gave out of joy. Joy that had been put in her heart in the midst of her poverty, in spite of her circumstances.
Conclusion and Application
When God’s grace is enough for a person and that actually penetrates deeply, when it actually becomes sufficient for them, they start to do amazing things with what they have. They do things that will defy the logical, natural explanation. A person who sees and lives by God’s grace is They feel free to open their hands, to release. That’s what the widow is doing here. Isn’t that how we want to come to the throne of God in worship? With hands wide open, not holding on to things? You guys don’t hold out clenched fists to God when you guys do your singing. We hold out open hands. Open hands that have been emptied out of these world’s goods. We come with hands wide open because we’re full of expectation that we will receive every good and perfect gift from the Lord who provides us with everything to enjoy.
This passage from Mark, it’s not about changing your whole perspective overnight. It’s about moving the needle just a little bit. And when we see these open, empty hands of the widow, the Spirit uses that in his word to move me, to just release my clenched knuckles just a little bit more at first, and then hopefully one day completely. That’s sanctifying power. It’s all of the Lord. He’s helping us along the way, setting down these burdens of finances, setting down the cares of the world, receiving into our hands his glorious grace. Giving us eyes to see the things that we have as not our entitlements, but grace, the grace of shelter, the grace of food, the grace of clothing, the grace of being able to gather here and worship in peace together this day. This is grace, grace upon grace.
Your God sees your needs. He’s watching over his people, his house, his resources. He’s not just watching. He sees deep. He knows what you need and he will graciously meet your needs. That’s how the Lord glorifies himself. He glorifies himself by showing himself faithful to meet the needs of his people. He gave us the son. How much more will he graciously give us all things?
So by his spirit, let us unclench these fists of ours. They’re tightly holding on to the goods of the world. I know mine are. The widow left the temple that day with empty hands, but empty hands, they have the room to receive the better things of Christ.
I believe that giving is a means, an ordinary means that God uses. It’s unmistakable that from his word, he is constantly prompting us to give to the needy, to give to church. Does God need me to give so that he can achieve his purposes? Absolutely not. But giving teaches us to trust. Giving trains our heart in grace. It gives us eyes to see his grace. As we give, the Lord uses that to train us up. And the widow, I don’t think that her whole life gave her whole income to the Lord. She built up to that. The Lord met her needs every day. And through her giving and through his faithfulness of meeting her needs, it built her up to that moment where she could put her whole life in.
If you have a hard time trusting God to care for you, giving to the church and to the needy are works that the Lord does call each Christian to. It’s because they’re used by him to mature us, to form Christ in us. And so in that way, the act of giving, it’s both an outworking, a response to grace, but it’s actually also a means of grace also. As the Lord separates us, from the bondage to the material riches of this world and replaces them with the eternal riches that he has promised us in his word.
Closing Prayer
Dear Lord, help us to understand your goodness and your grace. Open our eyes to how you’ve sustained us along the way and brought us to this moment. Pray that you would help me, help us to see our lives rightly, to see ourselves as bondservants of righteousness purchased by you at a great price. Give us eyes to see our spiritual riches in you. An inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, unfading, Lord. I pray that you would put the eyes of your people onto these promises you have for them. Help us all to rely on ourselves less, trust you more. Thank you for your word. Lord, Please use it to bless your people. Let us receive these things with open hands. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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