 This morning, I wanna invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 28. I'm continuing on in the fall series that I exclusively in teaching this fall called Flourish. And the reason why I have decided to just teach every one of these sessions in between times that I'm traveling or doing something else, because this is something that as a pastor is near and dear to my heart. This is a revelation that God gave me years ago about the significance of the local church as the environment that we plant our lives in. And so today I wanna share a message, this is part three of this series entitled Flourish called the revelation that changes everything. The revelation that changes everything. Think about this for a moment before we read. Think about the power of just one revelation. Revelation means something that you learn where the lights go on in it changes and shifts the whole direction of your life. So think about the power of one revelation. Think about the young mother who has an autistic child who goes through all the battles of raising a child who is diagnosed on the spectrum. And then one day realizes that music is the outlet in which her child thrives and even excels. Think about the power of that moment. Or think about the moment that a man who has lived his whole life wondering how or why he didn't feel like he fit into his family. And then he realizes that he actually was adopted. How that shifts everything. Or think about a revelation of a young man who says to himself, you know, I'm never getting married. I'm gonna be a bachelor until the rapture. Why would I ever get married? And then he meets the one. And everything changes. Just one moment, one revelation can change everything in your life. And today, we're gonna look at the story of Jacob. And through his revelation that changed everything in his life, my prayer is that for many of us, this becomes a revelation that also changes our lives. Look with me here in Genesis chapter 28, beginning in verse number 10. It says Jacob left Bathsheba and he went towards Heron. And he came to a certain place and he stayed there that night because the sun had set and taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head, he laid down in the place to sleep. And he dreamed and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached into the heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham, your father and the God of Isaac and the land on which you lie. I will give to you and to your offspring. Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you back to this land for I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you. Then Jacob awoke from asleep and he said, surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it. And he was afraid and he said, how awesome is this place? This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven. So early in the morning, Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and he set it up for a pillar and he poured oil on top of it and he called the name of the place Bethel. But the name of the city was Luz at the first. And then Jacob made a vow saying, if God will be with me and will keep me in this way and I will go, he will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set up for a pillar shall be God's house. And of all that you give me, I will give a full 10th to you. This for Jacob was the revelation that changed everything in his life. You see, Jacob, if you know the backstory of Jacob, Jacob's name means subplanter. Another way of describing what the word subplanter is, one who tries to step into the place or the role of someone else. Another way of describing it is someone who uses self-motivating tools like manipulation to see fakery in order to get what they want. This was Jacob's story. If you know the backstory, Jacob was not his father's favorite. Jacob was more of a mama's boy and he lived his whole life striving for one thing which was his father's approval. And so he tried to, the two things that were the most valuable in a Jewish family or an ancient Hebrew family was the blessing or the inheritance that went to the firstborn. That was not Jacob. And the blessing, the spiritual blessing of the father. So his brother one day, you know, the story where he comes in, Esau comes in from out of the field, he's starving, he's dad's favorite, Jacob knows it. And his brother is starving. And so he says, hey, I'll give you some of my soup, some of my bean soup, some of my lentil soup in exchange for your birthright, which means your inheritance. And so his brother Esau did not value that birthright. And he says, well, if I starved to death, you know, what good is an inheritance gonna do me? He says, so sure, give me a bowl of the, give me a bowl of your white chicken chili. And so he took that bowl and in exchange he gave Jacob his birthright. And then later on, just before this encounter when it looked like his father was about to die, his mom came to him and he said, here's what you need to do. If you want the blessing of your father, then you need to go into him. And your dad's eyesight is not what it used to be, he's pretty much blind. So here's what you need to do. Your brother is hairy and you are smooth. And so he says, take some animal firm, put it on your, you know, strap it on your arm, go into your father before he dies and have him lay his hands on you and impart the blessing. How many know Esau had some real issues if a venison pelt was similar to the feel of his arm? But that's exactly what I mean, that's a hairy dude. But Jacob did it and his father released the blessing. So he stole from Esau his inheritance and his blessing. He was trying to stand in the place of Esau because what he was really searching for is very similar to what all of us are really searching for in our life. Number one, he was trying to find his identity. Who am I? Who am I? You know, if you've grown up in a family where you didn't necessarily didn't feel like you fit, you understand Jacob a little bit because Jacob never felt like he fit. There was something on the inside of Jacob that felt like he had destiny attached to his heart. There was something in him that knew he was creator for more. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to belong. He wanted the father's blessing. But it eluded him. And so that's why he became manipulative and deceptive. And that's why he did the things that he did. And you know, if we stop and take a look at our lives, oftentimes some of the things that we do that don't make any sense that are illogical, the relationships that we get into, the decisions that we make, it's because really at the core of who we are, we're all trying to find who we are. What's our identity? Where do we fit? And all of us want a father's affirmation. All of us want to hear the words of a father, say, I love you, well done, good and faithful son. This is my beloved son or my beloved daughter and who I am well pleased. We all want to hear that. And really the way that God has designed us is that we need that. It's essential to us. It's amazing when you look at our culture today that is plagued by such fatherlessness that you can dump all kinds of money. You can dump all kinds of programs. You can reorient your whole system of education. You can do all kinds of things, but at the end of the day, you cannot replace what only a father can impart. And as we see fatherlessness, just like a plague on our society, we see the breakdown of the nuclear family. We see a whole generation, a lot of generations to be honest, that are walking around trying to get a sense of affirmation and identity because they have not received from their father what God designed for us to only receive from those who are leading the way. Fathers were created to affirm identity. Father is created to protect. A father was created to give a model, an example and to affirm and to give identity. That's what a father is. And Jacob was searching for that. And he was also looking for a blessing. He was looking for a blessing. He was looking for his place in God's purpose that he knew started back with his grandfather Abraham. And he knew that Isaac carried. God had spoken to Abraham in Genesis 12 and then made a covenant with him in Genesis chapter 15 and said, through you and through your descendants, your family is gonna bless all the rest of the nations of the earth. Well, Jacob grew up knowing those stories and there was something on the inside of him that was like, I believe I'm part of that story, but I don't know where I fit. I want my dad, I want my father, I want God, I want somebody to help me find where my place is and this grand narrative that God is writing for the history of the world that my family is connected to that I'm part of, but nobody's helping me to identify that. And it was these things, his place in the plan of God that Jacob was searching for, but he was looking for it in all the wrong places. He was looking for it in his brother's weaknesses. He was looking for it in his mother's overcompensation and he was looking for it in his father's tents. Now, think about your story. Think about our need for identity. Think about our desire to be affirmed, to belong, to receive blessing and favor and success in life. And think about the need that we all have to know that God knows who we are and where our life fits into the purpose of God. And think about all the places that we search for that at. We search for it in academia. We search for it in the corporate ladder. We search for it in relationships. We search for it on the internet. We search for it in all kinds of places, just like Jacob. And his search for all of these things in all the wrong places ended up putting him in a place of conflict and on the run. He had to leave home because his brother was gonna kill him for stealing everything from him. So he's on the run. His mom says, pack your bags and get out of here before your brother kills you. You need to go. And so Jacob finds himself wandering out in the middle of nowhere. He comes to a place called Luz. You could probably pronounce that same city Luz. How many know, when you end up in a place that's nothing but a wasteland and its name is Luz, just keep going. He comes to a place, he's on the run. He doesn't know where he's gonna go. He doesn't have anything. He comes to the middle of a wasteland wilderness and the only thing that he has is a rock to use as a pillow. I've slept in that hotel. And he lays down and he goes to sleep and in his sleep, God gives him a revelation. Opens his eyes, gives him a vision and he sees what is not seeable in the natural. He sees a staircase or like an elevator, a ladder, Jacob's ladder where he sees the angels of God ascending and descending in the very place where he is at. He sees what is unseeable in the natural but is God's presence there in his midst. And it's this revelation that when he kind of comes to, he says, this is God's house. This place where I am at right now on the run where there's nothing in the natural that looks beautiful, nothing in the natural that would draw somebody to this place, but there's a spiritual habitation and there is a spiritual reality that I did not know and it's this, that God is with me and that God has declared that this place that I'm at, this moment in my life, this spiritual habitation is God's house. God is here and I did not know it because God's at work. And Jacob has a revelation about the house of God and it's this revelation about God's presence in God's house and God's purpose around him that actually changes the trajectory of Jacob's life. It changes everything. The Jacob that we know as the one who, God changes his name to Israel, which means you have prevailed with God who becomes the patriarch of the 12 tribes, the carriers of the Abrahamic promise and the source from which Messiah, David's seed will come forth, who will not just come as a savior once, but will return as a king to rule and to reign forever to make all of the enemies his footstool to overcome Satan's sin, death and the grave and to make all things brand new is gonna come out of Jacob's life. That's a powerful revelation and it changes Jacob from the supplanter, one who's trying to be somebody else to somebody who now is named Israel, the one who reigns and rules and has prevailed with God and it changes his identity and it changes his life. That's a powerful revelation. The revelation that he receives is the revelation of Bethel, the house of God. And it's the same revelation that with all of my heart, I wish I could just get every single person who goes to church or really even whether you're a Christian or a non-Christian to understand that the environment, as we've said in the first two weeks of the series, the environments that we plant our lives in determine the kind of fruit that comes out of our lives. And there is no other spiritual environment, no other environment that we can plant our lives in that will change the trajectory of our life, our future, our family and our legacy more than the church. But in order for us to see it rightly, we can't just see the church as that which is outward because if we judge it just by that, we're gonna become critical, we're gonna become jaded, we're gonna become skeptics, we're gonna become consumers, basing everything on our own preference. Jacob didn't show up at Bethel because of what was external. He had a revelation that God was there before him because of what was spiritual. And if we could just get a revelation that the church of Jesus Christ that Jesus said in Matthew chapter 16, he would build out of living stones, of people, of members being jointly joined together in the body of Christ that are becoming according to Ephesians 222, a spiritual dwelling place for him. And if we could get a revelation of the church, the house of God, the spiritual environment, it would change everything in our lives, I promise you. That your identity is found in the house of God because in the house of God, you find your identity as a child of God. That there is ministry between heaven and earth that takes place in the church. That our inheritance is in the church. That our purpose is in the church. That destiny is activated within the local church. And a couple of weeks ago, I talked about being potted and being planted, the difference between putting your roots down into the soil and just kind of carrying your palm tree pot and sitting it down in the chair or a pew and a lot of it came to church and then going home with it. But you never put your roots down into it. What helps you go from the pot to being planted is this revelation that God is here even though we don't know it. Listen, right now, if God were to throw open the sliding glass door between the natural and the spiritual realm, and we would see what happens when God's people gather together in his presence around his word, under authority, in Jesus' name, as local churches, if right now we could just see into the other realm, that realm that is invisible to us, but is very, very much even more real than the physical natural realm that we see with our naked eyes. In this room, we would see angelic activity. We would recognize that there's also demonic activity and we would recognize that Jesus, the son of the living God, the Messiah, is present with us by his Holy Spirit and that there is no separation between heaven and earth. They are very much aware of us, they're engaging with us, we're just blinded to that. But that's all happening in this very room at this very moment. Imagine if we had a Bethel revelation where our eyes were open and we saw that going on and we're just like, God's here, I didn't even know it. It would change how we worship because we wouldn't worship an idea named Jesus and we wouldn't worship a distant messianic figure named Jesus. We would worship the king of kings who Psalm 22 says is enthroned upon our praises when we gather that Hebrews chapter two says he worships and he sings right along with us in the midst of the congregation. It says in Revelation that he's the one who walks in the midst of the lampstands. The lampstands are the churches. That means when we gather together and worship, Jesus himself walks up and down the aisles and examines each one of our lives. That'll change your Sunday morning routine right there. It's like, you gotta get ready. Jesus is gonna walk by me, yeah. And not only does he walk by you to examine you, he walks by you to bless you, to root you, to activate you, to speak to you, to comfort you, to heal you, to save those who are lost, to heal those who are sick, to comfort those who mourn, to set free to those who are captives, to open blinded eyes, to unstop ears, to cause those who cannot walk, to actually leap and to dance. Jesus is here, even if we don't know it, it doesn't change the fact that Jesus is here. I don't know about you, but I want a revelation of his presence. I want to know that he's here. And I want to do, in response to that revelation, the very things that Jacob did that have the ability, listen, have the ability to activate more than just knowing something, but have the ability to activate change and transformation within me so that when I leave church, the overflow of what I've learned and experienced here in church actually ripple effects into the other areas of my life. Well, how do we do that? Well, Jacob did three things. He set his stone, he poured his oil, and he paid his tithe. These are the three things that Jacob did in response. He said, God's here, I did not know it. This is the house of God, this is the gateway of heaven. Look, there's angels ascending and descending. He's like, here's my response. And so this is the response. If you want to shift gears in your life, if you're just like, I've been going to church for years, but I don't know that I have a real revelation of the significance of this. Then listen, this morning, if we respond the way Jacob does, then God will move in our lives the way that he did in Jacob's life. Let's look at these three things. Number one, Jacob's response was the first thing that he did is it says that he set his rock. He set his rock, the very rock that he had been sleeping on. It says he took that rock that he had put under his head and he set it up for a pillar and he poured oil on top of it. What does it mean to set your rock? Well, the rock that Jacob set up as a pillar was the place of rest. And a place of rest means when we come to a place in our lives that we set the stone of our commitment and we say, God has called me here. And we set the stone of our commitment and the stone of our rest in the house of God. We say, no, this is where God's called me. God has not called you to be a rolling stone. God has called you to be a set stone. And the stone that Jacob set represents our commitment. And listen, in our day and age commitment is a four letter word. We belong, listen, we are connected to everything in this generation, but we belong to very little. How many of you have a wallet in your pocket? Guys, if you have a wallet in your pocket, raise your hand. Wherever you're at, portage two. Okay, you got a wallet in your, ladies, if you have a wallet in your purse, raise your hand. Okay, if you have 14 wallets in your purse, raise your hand. I have two wallets. I do, I have two walls. Number one is I have the wallet, I don't have it on me right now, but I have the wallet that I carry around and it has the essentials of things that I do, that I use all the time. Credit card, driver's license, insurance card, a piece of paper with all my pass, no, I'm kidding. All my passwords on there. I then have a second wallet that I keep in the console of my car. In that wallet, I have all of my membership cards. You know what I'm talking about? Back in the, not anymore, back in the day, I used to have my blockbuster card. I used to have my GNC gold membership card. I had my discount card, you know, the member of the punch cards that you got at every coffee shop. It's like 10 drinks and you get a free one. I had like 14 of those in that. All the membership cards, because you know, we are members of all kinds of things. So I had a second wallet that I kept all my membership cards in. Here's why that's significant importance, because if you were to ask me, are you a member of any clubs? My first answer of it, not really. Well, are you a member of the gold club at GNC? Oh yeah, I guess I am. I have a card in my console. It's all these things that we have because we want the benefits of it. So in other words, we're connected to it, but we're not committed to it. You see, I was a member of, you know, the Joe's coffee, whatever. And technically I was a 10 cup club member, but I wouldn't go to battle over that 10th cup. I kept the unimportant things that I was connected to in my console. I think I keep the things that I'm committed to in my back pocket. If church is something that we keep in our second wallet, then we're not planted. We're connected to it because it serves some benefit occasionally. Occasionally we reach into our console and we get that second wallet up because we're gonna go to church or we're going through a crisis or we need some help or it's been a long pandemic and we need to get out of the house or we need, you know, our kids need to go to daycare. So we get a two hour break from our kids or whatever, that's second wallet Christianity. What does it mean to set the stone of our commitment? It means to shift our commitment to God's house from our second wallet to our first wallet. That means that we're not gonna be just connected to the house of God. We're gonna be committed to the house of God. Think about it. This was not some little stone that Jacob set. This isn't a rock they carried around his hand. This was a stone. You get tired, you get worn out if you are lifting up a big, heavy rock and carrying it around all the time. Imagine all the places you go throughout your day if you had to take a big old 50 pound rock with you every single day. By the end of your day, you would be completely worn out. And this is why so many Christians are worn out because they're carrying their commitment and they've never allowed their heart to be connected to a house and said, I'm gonna be a living stone. I'm not gonna be a brick that's uniform and just like a robot and like everybody else but God has called me a living stone which means I've been uniquely shaped and crafted by my life experience just like a stone in a riverbed has been shaped by the currents. Your life story, your experience, God's work in your life has shaped you to be who you are so that you fit perfectly into the wall of the temple that God is building called the church. But your life will never make sense until you set the stone of your commitment. As long as you keep dragging that commitment around going, well, I'm gonna find the perfect church. Well, it's not here, so I'm gonna go over here and I'm gonna go. Listen, I know there's times where we need to shift and God calls us from one place to another next. That's important, but it's not what's really going on in our world today. Today we have people going, I love Jesus but just not the church. You know what, that's like somebody saying to me, it's like, Lee, I really like you but I can't stand your wife because the church is Jesus's bride. I love Jesus, just not your church Jesus and Jesus is like, that's my bride and guess what, I laid my life down for her. Well, I'm looking for the perfect church. You know, it's got the music that I like, that's exactly 18 minutes and they sing the right proportion of songs, the decibels never go about 67 degrees, 67 DBs and you know, the pastor, he's not too young, he's not too old, he's kind of right in the middle and he preaches messages that I really want and you know, every week I email him, tell him this is what I'd like to hear, it's like putting a spiritual quarter in the jukebox and every week he kind of preaches to me and they've got small groups that are accustomed to me and you know, my youth group is contoured to my kids, it's like, no, that's consumerism. You're not gonna find the perfect church. If you do, do not go to it, you will wreck it. It was perfect before you got there and now it is no longer perfect because somebody else went there when it was perfect and then you show up and all of a sudden there's like, yeah, I don't like them and then they, we're not called to be consumers, we're called to be the consumed. Consumed by his presence, consumed by his glory, consumed by the fact that here we are, we've been called out of darkness church into the light of his family. We were not a people and now we are the people. We were enemies of God, now he calls us friends. We were on our way to hell, now we're on our way to heaven. We didn't have any name and any recognition, we didn't come from any place noble. Now you are a co-heir with Christ and we are brothers and sisters. Listen, if you don't like people in church, you're gonna hate heaven. So I just don't like Christians. It's like, what do you think heaven's gonna be like? Solitary confinement for, this is where God works out our salvation through the imperfection of the body of Christ. We have to learn to set our rocks. Number two, Jacob didn't just set his rock but it says he poured his oil on it. He poured oil out upon it. Oil in the Bible is always a picture of anointing, of energy, of passion, it's gifting. The oil of the Holy Spirit was poured out on the priests, anointing them to serve in the house of God. It prepared them to serve. What does it mean when Jacob pours his oil out on the rock? It's his commitment that he is gonna give his time, his talent, his energy, his resources and everything he has to this revelation that God's house is the single most significant and important epicenter on planet earth. He says, I'm gonna pour my oil, I'm gonna pour my anointing, everything I have, my intellect, my wisdom, my talent, my gifts, my treasure, I'm giving it to God for the building up of his kingdom. I'm gonna give everything that I have. You see, we gotta stop asking the question when we come to church, what's in it for me and start asking the question, what's in me for it? What's in me for it? What is it that God put on the inside of you for everybody else to be blessed by? When we see musicians who are up here who lead our worship teams and help lead us in worship, these are people, we don't know their backstories but they have become skilled musicians and I can't even play the radio rag. I have great appreciation for musicians but you know it's a beautiful thing when you look at musicians who have taken the time to learn the music, go to rehearsal, take in their life experience and they say, God, I wanna serve you with what I have. And you know what, we all receive a blessing as a result of that. Same with those who serve our kids down in radiant kids at all of our different locations. It's like, they get here early, they stay late, they're not just childcare, they're making resilient disciples of the next generation. And you know, it's not always glamorous, it's not always wonderful, it's not always easy. You know, especially if you're serving in nursery because that scripture out of 1 Corinthians 15 is true. It says, behold, we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed. That is a scripture for nursery. And so you're taking care of babies and you're changing diapers and you're just like, how is this advancing the kingdom of God? Let me introduce you to that same young person when they're 25 and says, you know what, I grew up in the house of God and Nancy Wright was my Sunday school teacher. She taught me the foundational Bible stories. I went to camp and I know that people at Radiant Church poured their oil of their time and their vacation time to be a cabin leader and I encountered Jesus at 10 years old at camp and it changed the trajectory of my life. The parking lot, making coffee, serving, leading, hosting a home group, being an usher, running sound, running graphics, running video, parking cars, all these types of things that we do that in and of themselves are us pouring our oil out with. There's a cost, there's a cost to pouring your oil out church but as we pour it out on the rock of our commitment there is a supernatural blessing that God attaches to that. And you know what, it's easier, I'll just be, it's easier to just come to church and say, I'll let everybody else do that. But every single one of us has something on the inside of us that God has put there whether it's just our willingness to fill the gaps, whether it's put us where you need us or whether it's you have a specialization, you invest your time, your giftings, your energy, your passions, your experience and you say, how can I serve the body of Christ? As soon as you lean in like that, listen, there's not only a blessing that comes through you, there is a blessing that heaven releases to you. There just is. And so to those who serve, thank you. To those of you who serve, thank you for pouring your oil out. And the last thing that he did was this. You know, Jacob makes this vow to the Lord and he says, this is the vow that I will make. This is the vow that if God will be with me and keep me in the way that I go and give me bread to eat and clothing to wear so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God and the stone which I've set up for a pillar shall be God's house. And of all that you give me, I will give a full 10th to you. A full 10th is what the word tithe means. It was Jacob saying, I'm gonna put my money where my heart is. God, if you will bless me, if you will take care of all of my needs, in other words, give me food, give me clothing, protect me, lead me in, bring me back, then I will recognize that you are my God by covenant. And I will not just honor you with my words, I'm not just going to honor you with my heart, but I'm gonna honor you with the first fruits of my increase. I'm gonna give you a tithe of everything that I have. And if you've read the whole story of Jacob, his end was far better than his beginning. His end, he was blessed. In the end, he had far more than he gave up. When he left his father's house, he left everything. When he came back to his father's house, he brought way more, way more than he could have ever imagined because he served the God who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think. He gave God a tithe of everything. And in the same way that Jacob made that commitment to set his stone, pour his oil out and to give God his tithe, I would challenge us that in a world that is controlled both through fear and greed connected to money, one of the single greatest covenant decisions we can make that will change the trajectory of your life is to break the bonds of the control of this world's economy, both through fear of what could happen and of greed of what I could do if I kept it, say, God, I'm going to give you the tithe of everything that you give to me. This is the economy of God. Not because God needs your money, God doesn't. God could just go, he could print money faster than Washington, DC, Kenny. He could just go, whoop. There is no inflation in the kingdom of God. There's only increase. God could just do that. Why does he ask us to take the first 10th of our increase as covenant believers and say, God, I could spend that here. I could put it in the savings to protect me from that. I could build this with it, but instead I'm taking the first before I do anything else. I'm taking that and I'm taking 10 and I'm saying, God, it belongs to you and I'm bringing it to your house and I'm letting go of it. Why does God call us to do that? Why does he call us to do that in the life of Abraham? Why does he call us to do that in the life of Isaac and the life of Jacob? Why does he call us to do that in the book of Malachi? Why did Jesus call us to do that in Matthew? Why did the writer of Hebrews call us to do it in his epistle? It's because when we have a revelation of the house of God and we put our 10th there, God says he opens up the windows of heaven. The same windows of heaven where Jacob saw the ladder drop down and angels ascending and descending. And we begin to experience the supernatural favor, protection and provision of God because we're saying, God, nobody will provide for me. I'm not looking to the economy. I'm not looking to the strength of my own hand. I'm not looking for anybody else to provide for me. You are Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides for me. And I'm saying, Lord, I look to you and God says good. Now watch what I do. He opens up the windows of heaven and he puts supernatural favor and blessing on our lives. Listen, favor ain't fair, but it sure feels good. I would rather have one moment of God's favor than a lifetime of earning. Just one moment, one moment of God's favor. When we honor him by setting our commitment, pouring the oil of our anointing out and honoring him with the tithe, what happens is the blessing of God that changed Jacob's life begins to move in our lives. This is the revelation that changes everything. You get this? I promise, it will change your life. It will become a legacy for you and for your kids and your children's children. A legacy of faith, a legacy of value. This is how God builds the kingdom of God. But if it only becomes information and never becomes revelation, if it's just information that we hear and we say, oh, that's nice, but I'm gonna live what we've decided is I'm gonna live, not by revelation, but I'm gonna live by default. I'm gonna live like everybody else. And listen, here's what you can expect when you live like everybody else. What everybody else gets. I don't wanna live in a fallen economy. I wanna live in a divine economy. I don't wanna live where it's all about what I can get. I wanna live a life of sacrificial giving and pouring my life out the impacts other people, the serves other people. I don't wanna live where I'm carrying my stone of commitment around. I wanna live where I've planted myself. I put the stone down and said, this is the house of God. This is where God's called me and I'm gonna build for my children someday my children are gonna build for their children and it's gonna be a pillar in our community, a pillar that upholds truth, a pillar where there's prayer in this house that results in praise in the streets. If there's gonna be any change that's gonna take place, it's gonna be through the strength and the arm of almighty God working through his house because we're flourishing and we're different. We're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation called out of darkness into his marvelous light. And it can change today can change in your life just like it did in Jacob's life. Would you stand with me wherever you're at? I want us to pray all over the room together. I want you to pray more than just me praying. I want you to ask a significant question this morning. And here's the question. It's dangerous, are you ready? It's dangerous question, little warning label, holy spirit, what are you saying to me today? Because that's the most important thing. It's not what is, what is Lee coming saying to me today? No, the question is, holy spirit, what are you saying to me today? Just bow your heads with me right now all over the room. Lord Jesus, the one who gave everything, the one who called us, the one who knew us before the foundations of the world, the one who stepped into this room, the one who's Lord of all, holy spirit, what would you say to us today? What would you say to me? Are you whispering to us today about commitment, about serving, about giving? Are you trying to untangle knots of injury and harm? Are you trying to break us free from sin and self? Are you calling us to step closer in towards you today? Holy spirit, what are you saying to us? What area of our life today as you examine us and you see whether there's anything that is unpleasing to you in our lives today? What are you speaking to us? Because we know you're speaking, you always speak. And today we stand not just in any environment, but we're standing in the house of God and we're saying, this is God's house. How awesome is this place? Holy spirit, I'm praying that you will speak to us as only you can today. I'm gonna invite our prayer team to make their way down to the front, if they would. And here's how we're gonna dismiss. Whatever it is that as we prayed, maybe you're just sensing a nudge from the Lord, a little divine nudge. Or maybe he's made very clear to you an area that he's wanting the Lordship over. Or he's calling you to take an action step. Maybe he's calling you to join radiant. You're just like, I need to take the next B radiant class. Or maybe he's calling you to join a group, step into a radiant group where you can develop relationships and really belong and find your place. Maybe he's calling you to serve and to honor him and to being a part of what God's doing. And maybe he's calling you to honor him with the tithe. Maybe that's something you used to do and you're not doing any more. Maybe you've never done it. It's a huge step. Whatever it is, not what I'm saying to you, but whatever it is that the Holy Spirit's nudging you today, here's your action step. I want you to obey him. I want you to obey him. I want you to go from hearer to doer. Just say, today I'm putting my stone down. Today I'm pouring my oil out. Today I'm giving God my tithe. And as you obey him, here's what's gonna happen. There's gonna become a shift that takes place in your heart and in your life. I believe it's gonna change everything. This morning, before we pray and dismiss and say yes to God on that, I just wanna say this. As we dismiss, if you need prayer, maybe you just, maybe you need God to intervene in an area of your life. Maybe you need a healing in your body. Maybe you know your first step is to get your life right with God. Or maybe today you just need courage. Whatever it is that you have need of, our prayer team is down here in the front. And when we dismiss, you can come and receive prayer. We would love to pray and agree with you. There's power when we pray over those things. God meets us because God is here. But let's just pray one more time. Would you just close your eyes and bow your head? Lord, today, give us courage, give us faith, give us obedience to respond to you. Make us a house of prayer. Make us a dwelling place for your spirit. Give us a revelation, Lord, that changes everything in our lives of the significance of your house so that we might flourish in the courts of our God, in Jesus' name. Amen. And amen. God's good, amen? Amen.