🙌 Celebrate Jehovah Jireh

The God who sees 👁️ and the God who provides 🕊️.

We celebrate His faithfulness and provision.

2025 Vision: Engage with God + Engage our Faith

• We are going after the:
• Detached 🙃
• Drifted 🌊
• Those Who Don’t Know ❓

🟢 Engage with God + Engage Our Faith

This year, 2025, we are going after:

• The Detached 🙃
• The Drifted 🌊
• Those who Don’t Know ❓

We are not called to simply attend church, but to invest in church.

Many of us expect a return on attendance, but God gives a return on investment.

You can invest in three key areas:

1️⃣ Time ⏰

2️⃣ Talents (Abilities) 💪

3️⃣ Treasure (Finances) 💰

These are all important, necessary, and limited — which is why it’s vital to invest them in the Kingdom of God.

🟢 Church Is Not for Convenience 🏗️

Church was not designed for our convenience — it was built for our commission.

Investing in the Bride of Christ empowers you to accomplish your personal mission.

✝️ Serving Like Jesus

📖 John 13:12–17 (ESV):

12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

💀 The Lust for Power vs. The Call to Serve

📖 Isaiah 14:12–14 (ESV):

12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will make myself like the Most High.’”

Lucifer’s downfall began with a lust for power ⚡.

That same temptation lives in humanity today — from pulpits to politics.

🟢 Serving ≠ Subservient

📘 Definition:

Subservient — “useful in an inferior capacity.”

🚫 Serving does not mean you’re inferior; it means you’re strong enough to sacrifice.

It takes strength to:

💪 Make the investment of serving.

🙇 Stay submitted to the investment of servanthood.

🔥 Invest in the sacrifice it takes to serve.

🟢 Greatness in the Kingdom

📖 Matthew 23:11–12 (ESV)

“11 The greatest among you shall be your servant.12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

The world has philosophy, but the Bible has theology — God’s way of doing things.

🟢 Serving Comes from Identity 👑

📖 John 13:13 (ESV)

“You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.”

Jesus humbled Himself to wash the feet of His disciples —but just because He laid down His robe, it didn’t mean He laid down His identity.

• Jesus laid down the benefits of deity, not His identity.
• He said, “No one can take my life; I lay it down of my own accord.”
• When you know your identity, you can lay down your position.

🧺 Peter didn’t understand — he resisted being served because he saw position, not identity.

🟢 The Example of Strength 💪

📖 John 13:14–15 (ESV)

“14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.”

Jesus said, “I have given you an example.”

It takes strength to:

1️⃣ Make the investment of serving.

2️⃣ Stay submitted to the process of servanthood.

3️⃣ Sacrifice for the sake of service.

💡 The strongest people are those who serve.

🟢 Grace for the Humble 💧

📖 James 4:6 (ESV)

“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’”

When you humble yourself to serve, you receive a special grace that empowers and refreshes you.

Serving is not beneath you — it’s what builds you.

🟢 Serving Produces Blessing and Joy 🌟

📖 John 13:17 (ESV)

“If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”

💬 “Blessed” = supremely blest, fortunate, well off, happy.

📖 KJV: “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”

Jesus teaches that happiness is found in making things happen through serving.

• Joy is internal (Fruit of the Spirit 🍇).
• Happiness is external (depends on what happens).

But Jesus redefines it — happiness happens when you make things happen by serving others.

🟢 Your Happiness Is Tied to Your Investment 💞

If you’ve been struggling with joy or fulfillment in the Church —

👉 Jesus says your happiness is tied to what you make happen through serving.

🧩 What is the Holy Spirit asking you to lay aside so you can step into serving?

• Time ⏰
• Title 🏷️
• Talent 💪
• Treasure 💰
• Temperament 💭

🕊️ Surrender Leads to Service

Maybe the reason you haven’t stepped into serving is because you haven’t fully surrendered.

Today is the day to give your life to Jesus and begin serving from a place of identity and joy.

🎯 Final Call

• Don’t settle for being attendees — be investors.
• Serving is not subservient — it’s supernatural.
• True greatness isn’t found in position, but in participation.