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Here's a powerful message from our lead pastor, Pastor Nathan Lee Wynan's Anabe. Let your heart be open, your spirit be stirred, and your hope be renewed. This is IPC Hope Temple, your place of divine encounter.

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So for this month, we chose the topic God in all. And we said we're going to look at this topic in three aspects of our lives. God in all simply means as believers, we want to be able to experience or understand that God is in everything that we do. And we started with God in us, where we examined our relationship with God. And it was very clear from the text, and I'll go back to the text, very clear from the text we read that our relationship with God sort of does not really balance out well. It seems that one person is carrying a lot of the weight. And so what we said was in most religions, almost every religion, if I'm I should say that, every religion, including secular space, what happens is you have to perform in order to be loved. Alright? And then we examine the scriptural basis of that, and we said it's only in Christianity that that is flipped around, that you only perform because you are loved. It is the love that God gives us that causes us to perform, to please him. And so we understood from scripture that we love him not so that we can earn his love, but we love him because he first loved us. And we examine the scripture also to find out that this love is not one to be assumed. It is not one for you to just conjecture and say, God loves me. I did make the argument that if you ask the Muslim, does God love you? he will say yes. And if you ask him how do you prove that, he's going to go a very long route to try to make that point to you. But for the Christian, it's pretty much simple and straightforward. That demonstration was done in the person of Christ. His birth, his life, his death, his resurrection, and also the promise of taking us back. That he was made sin, even though he did not sin, that we might become the righteousness of Christ, of God. And so it's an interesting thing. You don't go back and say, hmm, does God love me? How does he love me? He demonstrated that for us to see. And in the Old Testament text, Ezekiel 36, that we used, we realize that this love was not also a passive love. In Jesus, we see the full fulfillment of it. But in the Old Testament, we see something even more dramatic, uh, you know, for the attire. He says, I'm coming to you, I'm going into your chest, I'm taking out the hardened stone, a heart you have, and I'm going to put a heart of flesh in there. And we did explain that a hardened heart simply, or a heart of stone simply means you're not responsive, you cannot appreciate God, there's no way you can have any meaningful relationship with God. And so, how how is there ever going to be a relationship if your heart is a stony heart? The only way is for you to get a heart of flesh, and that is how we see God's love very in this sense, I put it in quote, aggressive towards us. He pursues us in ways that we would not even do for ourselves. And then what we also understood from that text was he's not doing this because of us, he's not doing this because we've pleased him, he's not doing this because we are so special. He said, I'm doing this because of my holy name. God is loyal to himself, he is so loyal to himself, it annoys the charismatic to think that he has to live for a God who thinks about himself. But basically, that's what the Bible is about. That he is so mindful of his holiness that he would do things to even make us benefit. And so that's that's the kind of God, that's the kind of relationship we have. So, God in us, I said, do not walk around condemning yourself because there is no way you're going to please God. The only way you please God is to believe in Christ. And now that you believe in Christ, you're going to perform and be diligent in your life. You're not going to walk anyhow and try to please God, but you're walking so diligently because you've experienced this love. And I gave you an example of how in relationship, you don't really owe everybody the same level of responsibility. It is dependent on how deep the investment is. And if God has invested so much in your life, it is incumbent on you to give it back to Him. It is called worship because you've come to a place of adoration. And then last week we said, if only we can carefully on the same text, carefully examine what God did, and He says He's doing it because He is holy, and the Bible enjoins us to be holy, then there are certain attributes and characteristics of God that we as Christians would have to learn. Now we said we are in no place to create a new heart, we are not in a place to put in our spirit into other people. God only can do that. But then we saw from Scripture that it is possible to wash people by his word. Because that is what he tells the husband to do for the wife. So, in other words, the Christian life in terms of relationship, whether with your spouse, with your children, with your parents, with your siblings, with people at church, people in your workplace and everywhere, cannot be dependent on a tally relationship. Where I give you one, you give me one, two, two, three, we get to four, and then we cross five, that is one set. We're squared up. Next time, who is going first? I'm going first. It's like having a date match. Oh, last you paid, I'm paying tomorrow. It does not work like that. The example God showed us is such that we're always given. And the interesting thing is we're given so the person becomes what we want. The relationship has always been, we're always observing people to perform to please us so we can return it. And we are learning from God that we are not supposed to do that, we are supposed to be the ones working to freshen people up and to turn them around so they become pleasant to us and pleasing to God. Today we're looking at the same text, and we're going to talk about God in work. So God in us, God in fellowship or relationship, God in work. So let's take the text to remind ourselves. Ezekiel 36, I read from verse 22. A very powerful, very one that I'd want to describe as intense communication, intense prophecy from the prophet Ezekiel to the people of Israel. Now we know the background, I've given you the background already. The people sinned against God, and instead of God just staying and watching them change and come to him, he went to them and almost, should I say, orchestrated entirely their change of heart so they can love him back. And then he makes this pronouncement about their land becoming fruitful and their crops yielding more and turning their desolate places into something as beautiful again as the Garden of Eden and rebuilding the ruins of the land. And so you may want to pause there and ask yourself, how did God do this? Now, if you were in those days, the question you would ask is, how is it going to going to do this? How is it going to replant all the vegetation? How is it going to rebuild the real buildings and the walls and everything? How is God going to do this? If you want to tickle yourself into history and sound a lot more like a modern-day charismatic um uh spiritualist, you would think about the day that the Lord promised his children when they were traveling and say that, well, didn't he provide manna? Didn't it rain? When they woke up, there was fresh manna, and just after a while it would disappear. Like God is able. Didn't he patch the Red Sea into two? God will do a miracle. I have a feeling that if I was in those days and they made this announcement, I'm just going to think about a certain plot on the land. And assume that when I wake up the next morning, there's going to be a mansion based on my specification on it. And I'm going to think about a very nice mechanized farm. And you know, beautifully just springing up one day because the Lord said He will do it. But, ladies and gentlemen, when you read the history after this particular pronouncement, no miracles happened. Buildings did not come from the ground. Plants did not just start showing up. Crops were not just coming up everywhere, and people were not at home with manna. It so happened that the people of Israel needed to do their own planting. That the people of Israel needed to build the walls that fortified their nation. That the people of Israel needed to rebuild their destroyed buildings. So literally, God made a promise and used the agency of the people he had promised to bring about what he had promised. What this tells us is that work is vital in the life of a believer. Work is at the core of who we are as humans, but even more important as believers. That when God speaks and intends to deliver on earth, barring the fact that God miraculously shows up sometimes and does not need the agency of humanity to bring about the things he has promised, most often God will use the agency of other people. So we learned from the prayer time that Elisha was taken care of by a widow. Because God has used that widow as an agent to bring about his prophecy. In this particular text, that the Lord said, I am going to prosper you literally, I'm going to make your crops grow and everything. God was not looking at assembling angels to come to Israel to start planting. That would have been lovely. Because angels definitely would have been so advanced that it would make work very easy. But God used them to bail. So here's the thing before I get into the meat of what I want to talk about. Working is as important to your faith as prayer is. From what I've seen in scripture. It's called work. What about the aspect of getting paid? That's for you to fight for. If I work hard, it defines my purpose in life. If I work hard and make more money, it gives me a status in life. If I work hard and I'm promoted, it's an indication of how skillful I am. So for the unbeliever, work is pretty much a straightforward identity issue. It comes at the core of it. And so people do all, and when you listen to all these motivational speakers and all these people on YouTube about work and how they do it, it always comes back to who you are. So what work sort of defines who you are. What is becoming almost like a cliche now that we talk about mental health? Because if your entire identity is built on your ability to perform and to have status and to be accepted, then constantly you're under pressure to want to keep that up. And so you will constantly build in within your system anxiety because you're afraid to lose that which you have envisaged and maybe been able to partially achieve. For those who in the process begin to lose grip over what they are achieving, they fall into a deep, endless pit of depression. Because suddenly all that they believed has just fallen flat before them. If only I got work to do, and I'm in this position, my life, I've attained what I want. I've gotten everything I want. And then you get there and you realize, no, there are other people ahead of me and they are better than me. And every time you strive it, and as you try to rise, something happens and you collapse. And suddenly everything you believed in comes to a crushing halt. And mentally you were damaged for the rest of your life. I think it's more damaging for the believer. Because at least for the for the unbeliever, like I said, it's a very straightforward working out. Everything they believe is themselves. And so their downfalls and their abs, it's easy to map it out and say yes, because everything is you and you collapse, and therefore everything around you collapses. But when you have believers who sort of partially imbibe some of these traits from the secular world and garnish it with some form of godliness and spirituality, it becomes a very dangerous concussion for life. So this is how it plays out in my understanding, and I may be wrong, but not too far from being right. A lot of us see work in categories. We have what we call working for God, and then what we call our corporate jobs. Does that sound familiar? So you ask the Christian, what does it mean to work for God? It is being like Pastor Uh Nathan, like he's a pastor, he works for God. Look, this preaching demonstrates no one better than myself. As I look right to the auditorium, there my in quote corporate office is. And right here is the church. And so I sort of you know embody that. So all those professions, once they apply within the forecorners of the church environment, we classify them as working for God. Or somebody who it could also be outside of the church. It could be going on missions, it could be preaching in a bus, it could be uh doing street side evangelism. We call this working. For God. And then the other aspect is what we call my corporate job. Now, I know you're so saved and very sanctified that you don't call it circular job. Because by now you understand that circular means God is not in there. But you know that God is with you. And so you would not dare call it circular job, but you would want to call it the corporate job or any other job aside it being God's work, right? Okay. So that's how we try to work it out. I'm going to a space and I'm inviting God to the space. And so God is in that space because I am there. Alright? So I'm the carrier of God into that space outside there. But the reason why I like God to accompany me to that space is that I'm going into that space to earn something, either a reputation or money or something that is worth the time and my effort. And whatever that thing is, when I get it, I now bring it into the house of God and use that to petition God for a blessing. That's a lot. Let me break it down. So we see work. Right? Now you see that as something God did for you. And so when you're going to work in the morning, you pray to God and say, God, I'm going to work. Go with me and help me to succeed. And then you go there and then you go and succeed. Let's say that you're paid money. Now you come to church and you give that money, part of it as okay. I'm trying to be careful. So we come to church and we give offering and tithe. But most often you and I know that we do not give tithe and offering. These days it's very common. We we're not very thoughtful about the offering we give. We just walk to church, whatever we feel like we we give it. Um when I was growing up, it was different. In Sunday school, it was different. You were so programmed in to give with a certain currency color that the day your mother changed it, even if it was more, you were like, No, you changed my money. And so you're very thoughtful about giving. Here it's not too much like that. The only time we're very thoughtful about giving is when we're using that giving to petition God for something. Correct? All right. So your workplace becomes like the place you go to engineer stuff. Either you get promoted and your status changes in society, and you come to church and say, Hey, I've been promoted. Praise the Lord. God is good. And people look at you like, oh wow, so promotion. And then you get a lot of money, and then you come and you give oventry. Now you soon realize that your importance in church also changes by how much money you're beginning to make in life. Why are you acting like you don't know that is true? Okay, you don't know it because in this church it doesn't really matter. I get that. But in a lot of churches, it does matter because you can be the best accountant as long as you don't work for a certain company, you're not on the board of finance at the church. Because your status is just too low. You know, and suddenly you you gain a certain status and then you come in. So our relationship with work is not very different from how the unbeliever is. We go there because we want to earn money, we want to earn status and everything. But yeah, some ways, somehow we think about God and we come back to the church and say, God, this is your portion of what I went out there to get. The other aspect of what we think about work is the other category is that we think about category in terms of hierarchy and status, right? So there's some jobs we think that when we get them, this is the doing of the Lord. There are other jobs when we get it. It is not the doing of the Lord. Maybe even if it's the doing of the Lord, is the crumbs from the table. Alright? So, so those ones don't come with testimonies. Just like you finish university, you want to work with KPMG, but then no opportunity, two years, nothing. And guess who really wants you desperately? That small provision shop next to your house. Realize that you did accounting at school, and the woman comes in, hey, Kwame, hey, can you help me do my accounting? And you go back to your way, you wonder, oh, she's just gonna worry me. Because again, in our minds, we sort of categorize work by status, and so that kind of job, nobody will come to check. I I can bet you, even in this church, the way I love you and everything, I can bet that none of you is gonna come to me and say, Pastor, can you imagine what the Lord did? He gave me a job. What job? Does this woman buy provision shop? She wants me to do the accounting for her. How much does it sell monthly? Oh, hey, Pastor. I said, This woman, hey, she's doing business. How much does it sell? It's about 3,000 CDs a month. Oh, Pastor, but I'm excited. None of you will do that. That's not testimony. Because in our minds, we we've categorized what God will do and what we can casually do. Am I coming home? All right. So I'm trying to create a problem, and then after creating the problem, we look at the biblical way of resolving that, all right? So that's another category. So the first category is that yes, we have something we call church work when we are directly doing things that sort of help the church community. And then we have the other work where we believe God is in it, but we just go in there to do things, get resources, and come back to do church work. And then the other thing is that we think that work is different categories. There's the high value work, and there's the low value work. And so usually we seek the high value, the low one is not from the Lord, the high one is from the Lord. And so we're we're in that problem, uh, you know, uh, and we go. And and that is where I told you I'm trying to create a problem. It's like I'm writing a thesis. Um, so the problem there is the believer is also going through depression and anxiety, just uh like the unbeliever. The methods are different, but the outcome is the same. The unbeliever says, I'm I'm I'm responsible for who I become and what I become and everything, and he does everything and it crashes on him, and then he he loses faith and goes into depression and walks around with anxiety. The believer says, God is with me, and all of that, but sort of God is a distant actor and you are the main actor, and God is a facilitator, and you are the main thing, you know, that kind of thing. And so you you've created a mix where you do not know how far God goes with his responsibility, we do not know how far you go with your responsibility, and and the only time we know how far goes with the responsibility, if something bad happens to you, God takes the blame. I know people who've stopped church because I've been praying to God for so long and I don't, I'm not getting what I want. Meanwhile, others are looking for you. Alright? So that's that's that's a problem. And and I I'm confident about some of these things because as a pastor and uh someone who works in the corporate space, you see that you see the definition, you see the categorization. Even for me preaching, now I'm making that categorization because that's the only way you can understand what I'm saying. I have encountered a lot of people, and especially Christians, who are going through depression and and heartbreaks, not from relationship, but from what they expected God to do regarding work. A leader can be effective and soon start sliding because they expect something from God relating to work is not happening. A choirist can just slide, a pastor can just slow down. Because something else he's working out for for work is not working out for them. So if if we are on the same page, and I want to assume that you understand the problem we've created, both the secular person and the believer all ends up because of the expectation and how they see work in a place of depression and and anxiety. Also, there's another side to it, it can't always be bad. When the unbeliever is successful, work becomes his or her God. And so he knows, you know, your God is what you are you admire and worship and give all your time and resource to. That's your God. And so your work becomes everything, and they are not ready to surrender any aspect of your work for anything, not for family, not for friends, not for nothing. Nothing. We have believers in the same space, they pray for stuff, and God gives them a job, and suddenly the job takes over everything. And I I know people when I when we're going to start this branch, and and I knew they used to say they were Christians, don't go to church. I said, Look, I'm starting a branch of our church, I'll love for you to come. You know their response to me, and that's the most insulting thing you can hear. Well, for me, it was very insulting. It was like, no, no, don't worry. Uh at the end of the month, I'll be sending you my tithe. Pardon me, it's not your tithe I'm asking for. I'm asking for fellowship, and I want you to come around. And so you have some Christians who get to the ladder of the work, high ladder of no, sometimes not even up there in the middle or below, but they get so busy with work that God is sort of out of the place. Because work has become their God at that moment. So it's not always ending up in depression. Sometimes you are flying very high, but work becomes a different thing in your life. All right? So there are two sides to that. Then I'm looking at that and I said, okay, the world, the Christians may use different methods, but they end up in the same way. So, how do we resolve this problem? Now that we've created a problem, we understand what the problem is. What will the solution be? And so I want to make a suggestion to you based on scripture and say that the biblical way of looking at work is very different from how even we the Christians have conceptualized work. The biblical way of looking at work is that work is not a human invention. And work is not to be categorized in the way we do it. You can categorize work based on profession and industry, that is fine. But not this broad strokes of working for God and corporate work and coming in later after working for God and all. It's not. Work is an invention of God. We understand from Genesis 2.15 that he put man in the garden and then he told man, tilt it and keep it. In other words, work it out and maintain it. There's there's no mentioning that God created Adam and Eve, and they were there and they were like, oh, we're bored. Hmm. What can we do that is exciting? No, we've been riding horses, we've been we've been shooting dots, we've been doing everything, but it's still boring. You know, let's cut some trees and make some chairs. No, God said, till the land and keep it. So that's the first thing. So work for the believer is a command from God. So I'm gonna poke some people here. Laziness cannot be justified by spirituality. Work is essential. And when I say work, I'm talking about something you're actively involved that honors God and serves humanity, not something that you do that makes you feel good in yourself. When God said work, he said, till and sustain it. In other words, sustain my creation by working. It's a command. Too many times we have Christians who literally are doing nothing and are busy praying for whatever reason, but somebody needs to feed. Paul is more daring than I am. He says, the hand that does not work should not eat. We understand church welfare, that is a good thing, but Paul says, as good as church welfare is, even him, as a preacher and an evangelist who was moving from Paul, moved around more often than a diplomat, career diplomat did, and sometimes his trip was not planned by him. Oh, he will have a shipwreck and end up somewhere, and that is his new station. But Paul said that when I came to you, when we came to you, we had the right to be fed by you as people, men of God. But we didn't. We showed by example, by working with our hands, so we will not be a burden on you. I wouldn't be a burden on you. That's Paul's position, and they worked, and and so you're beginning to ask. So, Pastor, you're talking about work only means the corporate one? No. What did Peter do when he met Jesus? He left his fishing and followed Jesus. But what was he doing? He was working, he was actively working. Therefore, Paul would ask a question what is the difference? Male or female, Jew or Greek, whether you're a fisherman or a minister or whatever, what matters is are we working in honor of God in the service of other people? So I'm not talking about money here, I'm talking about what you do. So God said, till the land and keep it. So the first thing I want you to learn the biblical understanding of work is that it's an instruction from God. And in the Garden of Eden, God didn't specify anything called working for God and working for corporate. In fact, if there is anything like working for God and working for corporate, then working for God probably came after the corporate one, because He said, Till the land and keep it. So there is no distinction for you, the believer, working means working. How does that help you as a believer? Here's the hook. If working is an instruction from God, if working is an invention from God, then me working is as good and important as me obeying God, do not eat from that tree. Because in my obedience to what God has instructed, what I'm literally doing is that I'm worshiping Him. So for the believer, your understanding that work is an instruction from God puts you to the next level of what I want you to understand from biblical understanding of work is that work is a form of worship. So whether it's within the forecourt of the church or within the forecourt of a corporate institution or your shop or the marketplace, what you're literally doing every day when you wake up at work is that you are bowing and singing praises to God. Because your work is a response to who he is. Who is he? He's the God who created all things, he's your Lord. So then you begin to think, oh, is that it, Pastor? Yes, that's it. So we do not go to the workplace with God, we go to a workplace where God is. So I don't care if the owner of the business is not a Christian. If the business you're in is a legitimate work and you're qualified for the job, and you are in there, you're working in honor of God and in serving humanity. Work becomes worship. So we're not just going into a place to show people that God is in us. We're going to a place to activate God's presence in that place. God says, till the land. I'll give you a more uh gospel-related text to explain this uh later, but let me just continue making my point on that. The other point I want to make clear, and that's why I'm not talking about money, and it's important for you as believers, please pay attention. God didn't create work for survival. The essence of work is for worship, the benefit of work is the fruit of what we labor for. The only time, no, no, let me put it, let me backtrack. Chapter 2, Genesis 2, 15, till the land. He didn't say till the land and eat the crop. Because God is your provider, he wants you to work it out and keep what he has provided. The only time that working for survival became a thing was when man sinned against God and God cursed the land, and God said to man, you will now only be able to feed after you have worked so hard and had a sweat. And so it is okay for the unbeliever to work so hard to attain money and to have status in life, because in the definition of what it means to be a fallen man, the self is what rules. But in the space of the redeemed person, God rules. So when you are redeemed of God, you Then become exactly what Paul admonishes us to do. Can you help me? Let's go to Colossians chapter 3, the verse 22 to 25. This is Paul telling the redeemed church, telling the people who are regenerated who are no longer sinful people. Paul says to them, slaves, obey your earthly matters and everything, and do it not only when their eyes is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for for no, come on, church, help me out. For let's move on. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord. This is basic English. This is not do it as if you're working. That is not what it's saying. It didn't say work as if, as if means pretend it is for the Lord. Correct? Work as if it's for the Lord means work pretending you're working. That is not what the scripture is saying. It says, work as for the Lord. In other words, reform your mind and know that you're working for the Lord. In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were supposed to work for the Lord. The sin against him, the Lord said, You're going to work for yourself. Now you become saved. Paul comes back and says, Remember that you're supposed to be working for the Lord and not for yourself. So work is not a survival mechanism for the believer, work is a place of worship for the believer. And that is why Paul says to them, Whatever your hand, whatever. So this suddenly dismantles the whole idea of categorizing work. If you're a pastor, work for the Lord with all diligence. If you are an MD of a bank, work for the Lord with all diligence. The pastor in this case is not working better for the Lord than the MD of the bank as a Christian. Your calling is one. Your calling is to serve God, whether as a pastor or as an MD. Your calling in terms of status, in terms of work, is one. Whether you're cleaning toilets for a company or cleaning somebody's house, or you are a senior executive in a company, or you sell at the marketplace, you have one duty. You are to work as serving the Lord. And so it does not matter what you do as long as it's legitimate. It doesn't matter, my friends. The reason some of you are not working is that you're looking for a certain dream job and praying and fasting for that dream job, and yet there's so much work to be done to serve humanity and to honor God. And you're waiting. And you're waiting. It is for your own good. And that's why you're still stuck there. You see, Paul was talking to slaves, and the challenge at this moment was they have become believers. And suddenly they've been told that they are free by their salvation. Suddenly they started having messages like, if if the Lord sets you free, you are free indeed. And then they go, hallelujah, praise the Lord. And then they go back to their homes and realize that they are servants and slaves. And the confusion is that if I'm truly free, do I still continue to serve this guy who who is lording over me? Paul said, Yes. Serve him wholeheartedly. The only difference is he is not your Lord. He is your boss on paper, not in life. It is God who is your boss. So serve God diligently. Serve God diligently. So whether you are a nurse servant, a driver, an accountant, a policeman, a soldier, a fashion, an HR executive, the tech guy who is building all the things to solve the world's problem, you're a farmer, you're a janitor, whatever you are. Work us serving the Lord. It is the only time we will come to church and not feel jealous of each other. Because we both serve the same master. In the house, there are many vessels. There are vessels of honor, there are vessels of dishonor, they are vessels that are used when guests come, they are ones that are used for everybody in the house. The Bible says it doesn't really make any difference. For we all serve in the same household. You are broken and depressed because you think I'm I'm praying for a miracle. No, God has provided. But no, that's not what that kind of agreement you have with God. You were saying, I want the fruits the way I want it done. Now, why I'm saying this to you is before I became a pastor, I have a very stubborn understanding of my relationship with God. That I'm willing, even when I didn't understand the Bible, I I'm willing to take a fall for my faith in Him. And it's not in every space that you say you're a believer that will get you the job. It's not in every space. But the question is, are you willing to at least try? To lose so that you can believe him who said I will restore the place of desolation. And that's what we've lost as believers. Everything we do is shadow boxing. We go to somewhere, we make money, we come to church, and then they call for the biggest donation and we give it, and they lay hands on us so that God will go and bless us. And I'm like, that work in itself is the blessing. It's not what you gave right now. What you gave now should be appreciation to God. You see, we should stop saying, I want ten people to come and I want to lay hands on them for a special blessing to ten people who believe God has been so good to them to come forward to give this amount of money. In conclusion, what is work? It's what we need to define. And the definition for me is anything that honors God and serves humanity. So don't use money as the yastic for doing a diligent work. And it's important because some of you ladies are going to marry a successful man if you're already not married to, who would tell you by agreement do you mind raising our children so they don't go away? What? And you're gonna say, Yeah, I think it's a very diligent thing to do. And you will sit at home and work so diligently, and one day some feminist is coming to tell you you're wasting your time. And I wish you turned to that person and say, I'm in God's service, I'm honoring God, and I'm serving humanity. Everything is not money. You should be able to accept the woman with a container by your house whilst you wait for that job and do that job for her, even for free. Because you're honoring God and you're serving humanity. If God has made a promise, he said, I have said it, I will do it. My short message to you is do you believe God enough when he says, I've said it and I'll do it? That I will increase you. If you do, then nothing is little in his hands. He's the God who took two fishes and five loaves of bread and fed 5,000 people and had excess. Take those little jobs. Take the big ones. If you want to serve fully as a pastor in the church, serve fully as a pastor in the church. If you want to be fully in the corporate world, serve fully in the corporate world. But it is the same calling because we serve the same God and watch him perform miracles for you. In our boardroom, we always start with an opening prayer, and I don't care who sits on the board, and we'll end with an open prayer because we will plant, we will water, but the increase is of God. Amen.

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