🎉 Celebrate Jehovah Jireh

Let’s take a moment to celebrate Jehovah Jireh—the God who sees and provides.

🔥 Vision for 2025: Engage with God + Engage Your Faith

This year we are going after:

The Detached ❌

The Drifted 🌊

Those who Don’t Know 🙈

We're called to be active participants—not just spectators—in our faith journey!

🟢 Engage Your Faith = Personal Evangelism

• You’re not inviting people to church ⛪ — you’re inviting Jesus into the moment ✝️.
• The goal: lead people into encounters with God → that results in LifeChange 🌱.
• Four categories of people to engage:
• The Dedicated 🙏 – Plug into Life Himself, not just “what gives you life.”
• The Detached 😔 – Once close, but P.A.I.N.S. (Problems, Attacks, Incidents, Negatives, Seasons) derailed them.
• The Drifted 🌊 – Diverted by distractions.
• Those Who Don’t Know ❓ – 90% of our region is harvest-ready! 🌾

📝 Action Step: Pray & Invite

• Pray for:

1. Who to invite (don’t exclude family, friends, neighbors you’ve written off).
2. When to recognize the God-moment.

• Motivation: Do it to give life 🌱, not get likes 👍.

📖 Luke 10:25-37 (ESV)

25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” 29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”30 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’ 36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” 37 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”

👀 Seeing With Compassion

• Luke 10:33 – “When he saw him, he had compassion.”
• The priest 👨‍⚖️ and Levite 📜 saw the man too—but did nothing.
• The Samaritan’s seeing wasn’t just with eyes but with the heart ❤️.
• Compassion moves you beyond sympathy into action 🏃.

🩹 Binding Up Wounds

• Luke 10:34 – “He bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.”
• Wounds = brokenness (physical, emotional, spiritual).
• Oil 🫒 = healing & comfort → symbol of the Holy Spirit.
• Wine 🍷 = purification & sacrifice → points to Christ’s blood and redemption.
• Question: Who in your life needs oil of comfort or wine of truth today?

🐎 Carrying Burdens

• Luke 10:34b – “He set him on his own animal.”
• He gave up comfort to carry another’s burden.
• 📖 Galatians 6:2 – “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
• Love isn’t passive → it requires sacrifice.

💰 More Than the Moment

• Luke 10:35 – Samaritan pays for the man’s care and promises to return.
• Symbolizes ongoing commitment, not just a quick fix.
• Points us to Christ, who rescues us, entrusts us to His Church, and promises to return.

🟢 Who Are You in the Story?

• Priest? Levite? Samaritan? Or the beaten traveler? 🤔
• Truth: We are often the broken traveler 💔.
• Jesus is the True Good Samaritan ✝️:
• He sees us 👁️
• He binds up our wounds 🩹
• He carries us 🐎
• He pays the cost 💰
• He promises to return 🔁

🎯 Application: Go and Do Likewise

• Jesus’ final command: “You go, and do likewise.” (Luke 10:37)
• Be neighbors who:
• See with compassion 👀❤️
• Bind wounds 🩹
• Carry burdens 🐎
• Commit beyond the moment 💍
• Recognize Christ’s love for you—and extend it to others.