🙌 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 ❓

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.

II Corinthians 9:6-12 

6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 9 As it is written, 

“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; 

  his righteousness endures forever." 

10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. 

Treasure – What does my treasure determine? 

Your treasure is a roadmap to show you what your heart truly has allegiance to. 

Matthew 6:21 “21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” 

Most people misquote this verse and say, “For where my heart is, there my treasure will be also.” 

Matthew 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 

Tithing in the New Testament. But the point is heart motivation not law implementation. 

Matthew 23:23, Luke 11:42, Luke 18:12, Hebrews 7:5, 7:6, 7:8, 7:9 

This is why tithes and offerings are essential. It is not that God is broke or his economy is struggling with inflation. Tithing, putting God first in your finances, is to break the curse over our finances, lest money become our God. Every time I give, I disavow my covenant with money and reaffirm my covenant with my Maker. 

I am saying to God, nothing you gave me will become more important than the one who gave it to me. 

When I tithe and give offerings, I am showing my money who my boss is by putting it at the feet of the one who supplied it.  

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money [mammon].”

What is Mammon? 

Scholars disagree about its etymology, but it is theorized that Mammon derives from: 

Late Latin Mammon, from Greek "μαμμωνάς mammonas", Syriac mámóna (“riches"), mamon ("riches, money”), a loanword from Mishnaic Hebrew ממון (mamôn) meaning money, wealth, or possessions; although it may also have meant "that in which one trusts".

Many translations of the Bible define Mammon as money. That definition is not incorrect, but it is incomplete. Mammon also describes a wicked spirit that operates through an amoral object, money. It causes people to bow down to money, worshiping it. People replace God with money by allowing it to rule every aspect of their lives. 

Tithing will break off the spirit of poverty, but generosity will break off greedorosity. 

Luke 21:1-4 

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she had to live on." 

I Dare You to Decide 

“but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” 

This was not an emotional decision in the moment; it’s a decision that Jesus decides to monument. If it was all she had to live on, she decided before she ever came into the room what she was going to give. 

Then Jesus makes a kingdom statement on how God measures generosity. “I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.” 

We don't know how she became poor. We don't know how she became a widow. Knowing the culture of the time, her poverty probably stems from her being widowed. Even though we don't know how she got in this position, all the people probably did. 

But where people pitied her, Jesus prioritized her. 

Most people live their lives by the philosophy "Bigger is Better," but according to Jesus, "Biblical is Better." 

It is not about how meager the amount, or even how much the amount. It is the motion of the amount. $5 in motion is more valuable than $500 with no meaning. 

I dare you to decide on an amount of money you are going to give this week. 

I Dare You to Deposit 

Faith is not in the decision; it is in the Deposit. 

Many of us have, at some point, decided to go on a diet, but we never changed what we ate for dinner. 

We made a snap decision under inspiration, but never invited God into the conversation. 

If we are not careful, our unchecked inspiration will negatively impact the next generation. 

Once it is deposited, it is devoted. When the Deposit enters into Devotion, it breaks off the power of emotion. 

I Dare You to Deliver 

Your preparation prepares you for a presentation.  

Acts 20:35 “…remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give 

than to receive.’” 

Because we are consumed with our need, we never see what we are called to notice. The preparation eliminates our need and prepares us for the presentation. 

Proverbs 18:16 “A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.” 

God Dared 

God dared to decide. He made preparations for the ultimate presentation. It was the presentation of the Gospel. 

Revelation 13:8 “the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.” God made a decision that He delivered upon. That delivery is still available for you today. 

I dare you to decide to trust Jesus today and see what God has in store for you.