 He will change the atmosphere now. I want you to declare these words with me, one to another. For greater things, there's no power like let faith arise all across the room. Let all agree, there's no power. This is a place of transformation. This is a house that's turning around. The darkness would tremble. The fear would be overcome. Jesus, whoo, by the power of Jesus. Come on, church, let's lift our hands and begin to declare that there is none like you, Jesus. You are worthy to receive all the glory and all the honor, those that you redeemed, those that you have forgiven, those that you've saved, those that you've delivered. Receive all the glory and honor. Lamb of God, you are worthy this morning. You are worthy of all the honor and all the praise, God. All the glory and all the honor today. From your people, God, from hungry generation, from the church, God, be exalted on high. We adore you, Lord. And we thank you for all that you've done for us. We thank you for all that you're doing, God, and for all that you're about to do in our lives. In Jesus' name, in the mighty name of Jesus. Come on, let's put our hands together and give some praise to the King of kings. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. We're going to pray right now for the vision of the house, which is to see millions impacted globally. And through our media, through the streams, through Wednesday's stream, through Thursday's stream, through Friday's stream, through Sunday's streams, through digital deliverance that just took place this Saturday, we are impacting and bringing the gospel globally, to all, literally to all four corners of the earth. And we're going to pray right now that God is going to grace us with this grace to bring the gospel to every corner of the earth and to impact millions around the globe to hear the gospel, to be saved, healed, and delivered, and to be empowered to do the mission of Jesus Christ. Not just to be saved for themselves, not just to be delivered for themselves, not just to be healed for themselves, that as well, but not only that, but go into their communities, into their families, go into their society in the countries and the respective places where they're at and bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the dying world. Amen. Before we pray, we have an online member, her name is Atissi, and she's going to share a testimony of how an online church and how our live streams have impacted her life. And let's see what she has to say for herself. And then she's going to lead us into the prayer for this division of millions globally. Forgot to use us to impact the world in Jesus' name. Welcome. What's your name and where are you watching us from? I am Latiti Dazman, and I'm watching from Liverpool's in Germany. It's evening here. From Germany, wow. Church, come on, let's put our hands together. Could you briefly, in the next 30 seconds, just share your online experience, share, start by when you got acquainted with Hungry Jen, how it impacted you and what you are doing now. Okay, so I discovered Hungry Jen last year in August. I was, my sister sent me a link. She was like, oh, check out this sermon. So I watched it and I think the biggest thing for me has been discovering that you can encounter God. You don't need to wait for someone to bring him to you. When you come to him, when your heart is crying out to him and you say, God, I just want to know you. I want to feel your glory, feel your presence. He can bring you to himself. So don't wait for someone to be like, oh, come and do this, just come to him as you are. And that's really been the biggest thing for me. Wonderful, wonderful. When did you become an online member? In February. In February of this year. February of this year, yeah. Amazing, amazing. And you're watching all the way from Germany. Yes. Well, you're a part of the home group, aren't you? Online home groups. I am not part of a home group yet because of the time zone difference. I'm nine hours ahead. Well, eight hours at the moment, but only it's nine hours. So yeah, but I'm on the wait list. Soon you're going to start one in Germany, amen? Amen! Come on, come on, come on. Adini, could you lead us as a church and together, let's pray for this vision of millions globally. Of seeing the gospel of Jesus Christ reach all four corners of the earth through this ministry, through internet, like it reached you in Germany. There are people all around the world, including Germany, US, and all other parts of the world that are waiting to hear the gospel. And let's pray and ask God for the grace to take it even further, for more deliverance to take place, for more healing to take place, for churches to begin through this movement, for people to be saved, and the gospel of Jesus Christ reaching the whole globe. Could you start that prayer? Okay. Alright churches, let's pray. Thank you for today, for your grace, your mercy. We come to you Lord, with our vision. Thousands globally, thousands locally, and millions globally, we pray you set our hearts on fire for you, to reach the nations for you, to spread the word. I look on people's grace, give us the grace to stay for this spirit, to reach out to people, to pray for people, to let people know that our God is alive, that he is here, that in Jesus' reign, God, Jesus, spread your peace over this nation, spread your peace over the earth. Leave us, Lord God, and help us. Give us grace, strengthen us so that we stand strong, so that we bring the nations to you, our families, our friends, our coworkers, our classmates, so that we all come to know your God, in Jesus' name. In Jesus' morning and Father, we are praying, Lord, for online church, we are praying, God, for our online community, Lord. We pray for all the streams, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, digital deliverance, God's Sunday streams. Lord, we pray, God, for all of our social media. Lord, we pray that the impact will be made globally, God, that most importantly, impact will be made for eternity, God, that lives of people will be saved, healed and delivered. Father, we pray, Lord, for online pastors network to be started and launch, God, to empower your servants all around the globe, to pray, Lord, to bring the gospel to their parts of the world, to their nation, to their city, God, and to empower them, Lord, to do the work of the ministry. In a mighty name of Jesus, Father, we give this into your hands, and we pray, God, for your grace and your anointing, God, to go further for ideas and strategies for teams, God, to come together. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Right now, church, let's take time and pray for this conflict that's going on in Ukraine, Russia, in Ukraine. Let's begin to pray for the region of Ukraine. There is so much senseless life lost there. There's so much destruction. There's so much pain and suffering. Let's pray for a diplomatic solution. Let's pray for protection over the children and innocent civilians that are in that place. Let's pray for wisdom that God will give wisdom to the leaders of the world to bring a diplomatic solution and cease fire so the senseless loss of life will stop. We're not playing politics as a church, but we do know that as a church, we have a voice in the realm of the spirit and we have a voice and a physical realm and we're gonna use both to bring a change to our generation, amen? But right now, since we're here in a church, let's begin to open our mouth and begin to make difference in the realm of the spirit. Let's begin to plead with God that He will dispatch His angels, that things will begin to shift in the atmosphere and that God will protect the innocent and He will bring the justice in where there's no justice right now, specifically in the region of Ukraine and with this conflict. Right now, open up our lips and let's begin to pray. Father, we are praying for Ukraine, Lord. We pray, Lord, for Russia. We're praying for people, civilians, God and innocent people in both countries that are suffering, that are hurting God. Specifically in Ukraine, Lord, we pray, Lord, for protection over children, over women, God, over mothers and fathers, God. We pray, Lord, that the plan of the enemy will not succeed in Jesus' name. We pray, God, that your angels, God, will close the skies, Lord. Even if, Lord, countries do not agree on certain things, but, Father, I pray that you will bring justice. You will bring God. You'll show mercy, God, in Jesus' mighty name. We pray for a diplomatic solution, God. We pray for the leaders of the world, God, to come to an agreement. Lord, whatever needs to be done, Lord, so that the bloodshed of the innocent will stop in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Father, we pray that you will rebuild those evil spirits and principalities and powers, Lord. We pray, God, that this, Lord, this madness, Lord, would stop, Lord, and that your name will be glorified, God. That your name will raise supreme in this world, God. And that, Lord, all these principalities and powers and rulers of darkness will be put to shame because your church is praying, because your people are understanding, God, in a mighty name of Jesus Christ. Father, we thank you, Lord, as we know you hear our prayers and we know, God, that you are moving on behalf of your church. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray, in the church of God sent. Amen, amen. Let's put our hands together for Jesus in this place. Hallelujah. Greet your neighbor on your left and your right as you take your seat and let's focus our eyes on the screen. I'm Pastor Casey, and I just want to say welcome to Hungry Gen. Whether if you're here for the first time in person or watching us for the first time online. Now, if you've been coming to Hungry Gen for a while and have not got plugged into a life group yet, if you've been watching for a while and have not got plugged into a life group yet, I encourage you to do so. We have virtual life groups and in-person life groups. We also have morning prayer Monday through Friday at 5 a.m. with corporate prayer at 6 a.m. on Wednesdays. Now, if you've been coming to Hungry Gen for a while and have not gotten plugged in to serve yet, I encourage you to do so. And with that, we have a new opportunity to serve. It's called adopt a block, where we go and serve our community in the same area where our new church is. We also have many events throughout the whole entire week. As you know, Hungry Gen has a vision, a global vision to go and reach people where they're at all across the world. And so we have our Wednesday sermons. We have our Thursday teachings. We have our Friday fire and we have our Saturday online delivery events. Hey everyone, this is Pastor Zach here and I personally want to invite you to student ministry happening every Wednesday, starting at 6.30 p.m. Every student, and I want to encourage every parent of a middle school or in high school or drop them off. And I promise you, you won't regret it. They won't regret it. Now, help me welcome the next person on stage. Come on, good morning church. Come on, we can do better than this. Give yourself a round of applause. Awesome. That is so much better. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, those that are watching online right now on Zoom and YouTube. Oh my gosh, everywhere, amen. So right now, before we're gonna go into the time of offering and giving, I would like to present our quarterly giving report or update you on the things that Hungry Gen, we as a family, do to help local people and also the organizations all over the world, amen. So first of all, I would like to introduce that we have a Vietnamese pastor big. He used to be our intern here. He came and he was with us here. But now as a Hungry Gen ministry church, we support them on monthly basis. And if you can please fix your eyes on the screen and hear a little report from pastor big. Hello, pastor Vlad and hello, Hungry Gen church. I'm David Big from Vietnam. I'm one of the intern in 2019 at Hungry Gen. You know, in the last three months, reaching out to the community by giving out food, by do mission trip in the mountain, by witnessing to the unbeliever and also back time more people. And we also have Bible study and Bible classes for tribal people. And by the grace of God and by faith, we decided to step out to have our first ever internship for 10 tribal men and women from the mountain. In the morning, we're gonna have classes from Monday to Friday. We also have early morning prayer like Hungry Zen we have. We also have fasting. We also have reaching out and food program and go to orphanages, even though it's still low keys and we have to move from this place to another place. We feel very excited for what God has started and the seed that we receive from Hungry Zen, what I learned from there and what I receive from there. So your prayer, your support really matters to these types of ministry. And we believe that we can multiply and equip more men for God, more women for God to reach out to more tribals and mountains. You know, we are living in the time of the end time and you know, wars and sickness and disease and many, many natural disasters coming. But one thing for sure is the gospel of the kingdom have to preach to the nation as a testimony then the angels come. So that's what we will lead together. We will finish the Great Commission. So once again, thank you so much. May God bless you. And hope that one day you guys can come and we can work together and we can share the gospel here in Vietnam. So once again, thank you and may God bless you all. Amen, amen, come on. That is so wonderful to see that one of our interns, you know, became a pastor and just serving his people. You know, he also is going through some persecution for his faith in that country. And we really wanna say thank you and we appreciate every single person who is giving. This is the cause that we give to one of the things. So the next one, I'm just gonna go through the list and show you some videos. Next one is Brazil. We also support some missionaries in Brazil. And if you can also fix your eyes on the screen to see a little video. Hi, Hungry Jen Church. My name is Deborah Toth and one of the missionaries here at Hope Ministries. Today I wanna thank your church so much for your monthly support and share with you how that support has been blessing us these past months. Hope Ministries' goal and focus is to reach the un-enriched river villages here in Brazil along the Amazon region. We believe that the church should be a beacon of hope for society and also be involved in implanting the kingdom culture here. So besides planting churches, our goal is also with social projects to reach and to bless the river communities, changing the culture, like with the health ministry, the medical vote, educational programs, and now with the children's home for abuse and abandoning kids. Your monthly gift has helped to support four national missionaries, along with bringing the pastors, the local pastor to the city for monthly training and also enabling us to go to the communities to work with them, to train them and to teach the new pastors and the new leaders of the communities. Besides that, your gift has also helped with ongoing construction in three different river churches. One of those river churches being in the community of Allegri Vemos, which is where we held revival last September with pastor, Rickard, evangelist, Ivan, and your team from Hungry Jen. So I just wanna thank you for partnering with us and spreading the gospel and taking Jesus to these communities and seeing how much the gospel can transform communities, can transform culture, can transform lives. Thank you. Amen, amen, amen. Give yourself a round of applause again. So the next one is a Mexico mission trip that we went to. I know many of you've seen the video of a little boy who got healed. That video went viral and I myself went there with the team. It was such a big blessing to see so many people receive tangible healings in their bodies and it was just an incredible experience. We partnered with a local church there and we also went out to this, the poorest neighborhood in Mexico City and that was one of the highlights that really, really like stood out to me and I really enjoyed it, how they all gathered together and we had so many salvations right there in the spot, on the street, people giving their lives to Jesus Christ, healings happening. It was just incredible and we just want to show you a little recap video as well. Four flavors to this country. It's a video. Of a generation we have arrived in Mexico City. Come on, let's give a round of applause to Jesus. I know that's a lot of videos but they are incredible, amen. It's so good to see. Thank God for technology, right? It's so awesome to see. It's like you went there for a minute, right? So the next one is our trip to Poland and Ukrainian border. So we took 10 people with us and we went a week or two ago and so I myself went there as well and we partnered with this local church in Poland that is helping refugees to kind of like as a transition. So what they do is they had a van that they would drive to the border, take refugees and bring them to church. They would stay as a transition in their church. Literally their church is beds, little beds all over, little mattresses like everywhere. There's no room to even like go through it seemed like. So they just take those refugees and we also bought a van for them. So their van was so bad that it would break down halfway to the border which is like two hour drive and then they had to literally go back because they couldn't drive to pick up those refugees. And so we as a church, we bought them a new van, a very good reliable vehicle. And yeah, thank you so much everyone who was giving towards that and we just gonna see a little video after I mentioned something else. What we also do in Poland is we rent homes as a transition for those refugees. And as of right now, I believe we have three homes that we're gonna be sponsoring like paying for rent and stuff for those refugees that they can come in and they can rest, they can spend a few days before they go on and move forward. So let's just take a look at the screen for the van. We're here currently in Krakow, Poland and we bought this beautiful red van for an awesome ministry that's based here in the city. This is Pastor Andrzej with me. They've been doing some incredible work here for the last few years. He's a pastor from Ukraine originally. He's moved here to serve the people of the Ukrainian people that move here as well as the Polish people here as well. So thanks to Vladimir Savchuk ministries, we were able to raise enough money to fund this van right here so they can transport all the goods into Ukraine to the refugees as well as around the city to whatever needs they have. So we're gonna hand over this van to them and thank you everyone who contributed to giving towards this van so that so many people could be blessed through this. Hello to everyone from Poland, Krakow, and the Church of Thank-You Churches. Today we've received a wonderful gift, a wonderful blessing, this gorgeous van that will serve the Lord in order to cover the needs of the loved ones. And today we, from the face of our church, want to thank the services of Vladimir Savchuk who collected these funds for us and brought us this wonderful bus. There's a saying, you know, God is for you, not for me. And you know, someone blesses you with a piece of metal, right? And you did, well, you tried, you took the most, well, the coolest thing, the new thing, practically, well, the cool one, which won't let us burn, because one thing is to make a piece of metal, you know, and the other thing is to sit and work, you know, that is, when they do it with such a approach, this is important, this price is even more valuable than this. Because it is from the heart, that is, if you do something for God, you know, the maximum quality, the best, that is, this is the price. Wow, come on. That is so beautiful. That pastor, he was all dressed up, he was actually coming from the funeral, and he was blown away by the care we provided by the van, and we also brought finances to them, to the church, they couldn't even cover the bills for the rent of their facility, they were so behind, and so they were just so, so thankful. And also, as a VSM ministry, we raised over $600,000 for the Ukraine Relief Fund. Come on, let's give a round of applause to Jesus. So this story was actually covered by the local news, a few of them, they reached out to us, they were following our story, those of you that saw that, and you will see some pictures on the back of me. And so, thank you so much everyone who has given, and thank you so much everyone who will be still giving, because we are partnering on a monthly basis with all of these ministries. Also, I just wanna mention that we have this umbrella of ministries that serve local people here, we call it Hungry Gen Cares, and you will see some pictures. One of them is Adopt the Block, and Casey already mentioned that in his announcement video. We go to the neighborhoods and we just provide food, provide the gospel, we give the gospel and things like that. And there's a lot of ministries that we provide, meal train, house of hope, individual care, free indeed, there's a lot of ministries. And so, with this being said, I want us to prepare the hearts for giving right now. We're gonna be collecting offerings and tides if the baskets can be ready right now. We're just gonna pray for the offerings. If you can please bow your head and pray with me. Father God, thank you so much for every single person that has given to these ministries that will be given today. Lord, I ask you that you will prosper them, Lord. I ask you that you will prosper their businesses, God. I ask you that you will still enlarge our hearts to give more and more for your kingdom, God. For those people that don't have much, Lord, that they will be provided and covered by our finances. In Jesus' mighty name we pray, amen. And the baskets will be passed around. If you can please fix your eyes on the screen. Thank you. Pastor Casey. And I just want to say well- morning church. I think we heard Pastor Casey. I mean, that's an amazing Pastor Casey, but one time is enough. Amen. He's trying to take an opportunity to, he's single. You know, we understand. We all been there. I think it's until he gets married. It's just, this is part of, him and Zach are the only two people. Zach is still young, but Casey is already of that age, so it's kind of like we'll make it super obvious. It's time, Casey. You're looking for a sign. There's just a sign. So anyway, if it's your first time visiting Hungry Jen, hey, we welcome you. We love you. Thank you for coming out to Hungry Jen. Can we give a round of applause to all the first-time guests? You know, make sure before you leave, you stop by at our guest table. We have a gift for you. We would love to get to know you. If you're watching us online for the first time, would you drop number one in the chat? If it's your first time viewing us online, can we welcome again all the first-time viewers? Don't forget to hit thumbs up, share this broadcast with somebody. Today is our special Sunday service. About once a quarter, we do our generosity Sunday. Generosity Sunday is when we talk about finances, when we talk about work, when we talk about investments, when we talk about giving, tithing, and mostly when we share testimonies about what Hungry Jen is doing around the world or what our finances are doing to impact the globe. And so this kind of honestly lets us know that this is not just about here and now. This is not just about online community, but this is about mission in Vietnam, missions in Brazil, missions in Mexico, missions in Poland. We have about 20 ministries as of right now that we have already sent over $450,000 to help in the Ukraine relief. So 20 ministries, and that's huge. Even though that's done from the VSM ministries, but it's Hungry Jen gets all the credit. Because when the news media reports all of that, they don't give the VSM credit, they give Hungry Jen because it's about the church moving ahead and helping the refugees and helping the aid in the world, amen. As Lana mentioned, local community is what we're doing with and there was a background behind me of things that were taking place as part of Hungry Jen cares. And a little bit later in the year, you'll hear more about the building project where that is coming along and what's happening with that. But today I have one more announcement that we wanna share about the giving that Hungry Jen has done in the last three months. And that actually is with the campus, with the church that is started in San Antonio, Texas. Now, we do have an announcement today is that we actually have come to a mutual agreement after prayerful consideration with our team and their team to release San Antonio, to actually pioneer the work of God in San Antonio that's going to reflect the vision, the flavor, the spice, like I like to say, of the San Antonio people and the leadership there on the ground. One of the things that Hungry Jen has is that we desire to build a global church. We desire to build a universal church. And so that's why you see Vietnam, you see Brazil. Our goal is not to brand everything as Hungry Jen. Our goal is to support what God is doing around the world. And so when it comes to launching campuses, we're gonna take a step back for that right now and help campuses to be launched. We're gonna host pastors here in two months where about 200 pastors are coming and our goal is not to make all of them into our denomination or network, but to build relationships through which we can influence other people. We have a young man right now who is on Zoom AJ and they already have a local church in Philippines and it's like midnight over there. It's like I think one o'clock in the morning or three o'clock in the morning. And the guy is little. I mean, you can see that he's trying to also fight sleepiness and he's pressing in, worshiping and so, and they're in Philippines. So our goal is not to just make everything Hungry Jen. Our goal is to glorify Jesus, advance his kingdom and as Hungry Jen for us to help and support spiritually, sometimes financially. We did that in Cameroon. When John Chee started the ministry many years ago, he came here to speak and we raised over $70,000 to buy sound equipment, video equipment and church vans to build that church, even though it doesn't carry our name, but the most important thing is the name of Jesus is being advanced in the nation of Cameroon. Amen. So I'm going to bring on also Brandon and his wife and they're going to just say a word. As of right now, we've given about $20,000 already as Hungry Jen to help this church plant. Now, why is this church plant very significant to us? It's because Brandon and his wife, they came through our internship. And so our desire is students that come out of our internship will plant churches, will grow those churches and we will remain in relationship with them. And so they have a name for the church in San Antonio and I will let them mention that. We're going to be praying for them as well. We love them. We're going to be continuing a relationship but giving them the freedom to flourish and to grow in San Antonio for the glory of God. Amen. And so just want to say church, thank you for doing that. Thank you for giving because your giving doesn't just keep the lights on here and help us with the new building. While we're advancing here at Hungry Jen, we're also helping the kingdom of God to advance all around the world. And we're able to do that because of your generosity. So I just want to, you see the whole team right now that is gathered. Can we welcome them? And I'm going to give Brandon to say a few words. Good morning, Pastor. Good morning. Good morning, can you hear me? Yes, yes, we can hear you. Just want to say thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to Hungry Generation Church, Hungry Generation family, the congregants and to our pastors. We will forever, forever be grateful for what you have allowed us to be a part of. Hungry Jen internship changed our lives. It actually even helped our marriage. And now we have fulfilled, are going to fulfill the purpose and the calling that God has for us because of your yes to Jesus, because of your sacrifice and your plowing, saying yes to what the Lord has asked of you guys. We are now going to be launched through that and take this farther into the next generation and to our other generations as well. So we thank you, Hungry Jen. We thank you, Pastor Vlad, Pastor Lana, Vasili and all the pastors. We honor you deeply. And we're so grateful that we can always say we will always be part of the Hungry Jen family. Come on. Thank you. We have a logo right here, but the name of the church is Tashua Church, Deliverance and Salvation. So it will carry still the same values of Hungry Jen, but it will not be officially under Hungry Jen or carry Hungry Jen name. For us, what matters is that it will carry the name of Jesus. It will carry the mission of Jesus and it will reach people in San Antonio and all around the world with salvation, with healing and deliverance. Amen. Church, I want you to stretch your hands right now. We're gonna pray a prayer of blessing right now on Tashua Church, on Brandon, on Elizabeth and the whole team that is gathered in the living room. Could you stretch your hands? Could we just pronounce a blessing right now that this will grow, this will flourish, this will reach so many people? Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus, Lord. We thank you for your sons and your daughters, for your children and for your servants. We thank you for their life. We thank you for the call of God, Lord, that is upon their life. We thank you that you have used us, God, to help activate that, help God launch that, help God to propel that, Lord, that your kingdom will advance in this world, God. I thank you for Brandon. I thank you for Elizabeth. I thank you for their family, Lord. And right now we pray a special blessing upon the church as we prayed here on this stage for the pastors, Lord. Now we pray for the congregation. We pray for the team, Lord. We pray that this church will touch San Antonio. We pray that this church will bring healing and deliverance to San Antonio. We pray that you will raise them up, that you will protect them, God. That your kingdom will move forward through them, Lord God. We bless their team. We bless the finances, God. We bless the new location that you will give them, Lord God. And we thank you for all the good things we're gonna hear every single month, every single week of what you are doing in San Antonio, Lord God. We thank you, Father. We bless the Toshia campus, God. We bless the pastors. We bless the leadership. And we bless this church in Jesus' mighty name. Amen, amen. Thank you guys so much. We love you and we appreciate you and you're always in our hearts. Amen, church. Can we give them a round of applause? Thank you. Amen. Amen, amen, amen. As I mentioned today is our special financial service. Because every Sunday we don't talk about finances, every quarter we will take a time to share something on finances. It's not always going to be ungiving. Like today it's gonna be testimonies of us giving. It's not gonna be always testimonies of us giving. It could be testimonies of how giving has changed somebody's life. Finances are a very important part of our life. We work a lot and it's very scriptural, actually to work. I know that the culture is gravitating right now. This great resignation has come in, meaning everybody quitting their job and hoping for the government to pay for everything. And then young people who have been poisoned with a socialistic demonic, I'm gonna say again, idea, because the Bible is very clear. He who does not work should not eat. And you should not eat for more than 40 days. Okay? Now if you are physically not able, like you're ill or you're elderly, you're tired, that's a different story. But I'm talking about fully able men and women who are doing absolutely nothing sitting in the basement of their parents' house and who keep voting for politicians to keep supplying them with funds. That is not scriptural. Okay, I know it's cultural, but that's not common sense. God wants you to work. God wants you to be productive. God wants you to create things. God is a creator. God is a worker and he wants us to do the same. He wants to bless the work of our hands. Not the sitting of our couch. God wants to give you ideas. God wants to bless your business, your endeavors. God wants us to learn how to invest in one of these Sundays we will talk about that. But before I talk about what I have on my heart today, I wanna mention that as Hungry Jen, we are committed for financial development of our church. We offer in the summer these 11 weeks courses called Financial Peace University with plastic card hater, Dave Ramsey, who's gonna cut plastic surgery. Every single time we do these courses, it really shakes people up and because finances is not just about giving, it's about knowing how to manage them, it's knowing how to invest. There's a lot of things that are involved in it and we really want each person at least one time in their life of every or every five years to go through financial peace university class. I did that book in one reading when I was a teenager and then we took it as a church and it has honestly shaped and changed my life, gave me a foundation and I wanna encourage you, if you're struggling financially, if you are not struggling financially but you're struggling managing your finances, you just don't know where they all go all the time. It seems like they come in and they're all gone and so you're like, man, I really need help in that area. We have a special class for you. It will start in the summer, it's not starting right now that I would like you to consider joining. If you're like, well, I'm going on the vacation in the summer, maybe one summer, take a break from that vacation and then actually get your finances in order. So then when you go to vacation, you don't have to spend six months paying for that vacation, okay? So that's concerning that part. All right, that connected with somebody. Come on somebody, amen, to God be the glory. Next Sunday is gonna be our very special revival weekend service. We're believing for water baptism in the first service. If you've never been water baptized, make sure you let us know. Go to hungrygen.com forward slash baptism. If you're watching us online, you can get also get baptized online. Go to hungrygen.com forward slash online baptism. Second service will be our monthly prayer line. And next week we have a guest with us, brother Hyuk, Hyuk from Korea, not North Korea, South Korea. He's coming with us, young dynamic revivalist. He will be with us in the two services, but he will be preaching on Sunday night service. So you say, well, we have a Sunday night service. Yes, once a quarter, we have a Sunday night revival service. And so you don't have to come by the way. We can only fit 200 people. Okay, so just FYI, if you don't want to come, do not feel guilty at all. Feel actually good. You gave your seat to somebody else, all right? But if you do want to come, you're gonna want to come way earlier because we have only 200 seats here. And I know a lot of people would want to come. God uses powerful and miracle signs and wonders. He's a young, humble, just a good, single young man. I see all the ladies are like, I'm coming. I'm believing for revival. We still got Casey, okay? Okay. I see zoom girls are laughing too. All right, anyway, let's get back to the Bible. Let's stop all this. Amen. Last year in December, I've talked about the untold truth about tidying. And today I'm gonna continue not about tidying, but just that message part two. Untold truth about tidying, and you can rewatch that, but I'm gonna summarize it to you in just one minute. The tidying started in the Bible as a response. Abraham tied out of victory that God has given him. That was over 500 years before the law. Jacob promised to tithe when he encountered God. We see that God gave a commandment to tithe, which actually, and we went through it, it was actually about 23% of person's income. And then we also mentioned that Jesus spoke very little about tithing because in the culture, it was so part of the culture, kind of like paying taxes in the United States. We don't need to talk about preaching taxes in the United States, why? Because kind of everybody knows, and if you don't, Uncle Sam is gonna find you. So you will never hear a sermon on paying taxes in hungry gent. So the same way Jesus didn't talk about tithing, it was part of the culture, it was actually part of their law, part of their law. But Jesus did mention tithing, he corrected the abusive religious obsession with the number instead of the heart of the tithing. And then I mentioned in that message, which I'm gonna recap for those of you who are just coming in, how tithing misses the point in the sense that tithing misses discipleship. Discipleship is radical sacrificial giving, tithing only focuses on just 10%. We've mentioned also that tithing was a response to how God delivered Israel out of Egypt, and us were called to live in response how God saved us and gave us his son. We also have mentioned that tithing obsesses with percentage and Christians, we have to focus on the leading of the Holy Spirit. And if you only focus on the percentage, you really say, well, Holy Spirit, you don't need to talk to me and lead me because I already have the rules. And as Christians, we're led by the spirit, not by the rules. We have rules and laws that we follow as boundaries, but we are led by the spirit. And we also have talked about the fact that the tithing in the Old Testament was really focused on maintaining Jewish religion and Christian generosity is about expanding the kingdom. You saw what we did, you know, as a church we're doing, we're not just trying to maintain, hey, guys, let's keep the lights on and make sure that our vans are oiled and make sure that our AC filters are replaced and make sure that people on the staff, you know, have their families provided for, no, we're trying to spread the kingdom. And so therefore tithing doesn't cut it for the New Testament because our mission is greater, our motive is greater, and our scope of who we are is way deeper. Now, what today I wanna do is for the few moments, I wanna talk about a practical teaching on the teaching of Apostle Paul concerning giving. Now, what comes as a shock is Apostle Paul never talked about tithing, not one mention of Apostle Paul talking about tithing, even when he planted churches. What did he talk about? Now, keep this in mind, Apostle Paul who wrote two thirds of New Testament mainly dealt with churches that did not have a background in Jewish law. Christians that were not rooted in Jewish culture were tithing was part of the culture. Were giving 10% to the temple was part of the culture. There was also no Christian temples. So tithing was in practice by Gentiles who were turning to Christ as circumcision was in practice, but I want you to teach, I want you to see what Paul is teaching churches about the issue of generosity. Most of us here are not Jewish. We didn't grow up in a Jewish state. We did not have their laws imposed on us and we did not grow up with those habits as with mother's milk. We grew up in Gentile countries where we had different laws and different religious heritage. And so I wanna look at today, five simple principles that all start with peace about teaching of Paul concerning the issue of giving. If you're taking notes, write this down. Number one is giving is a privilege. Apostle Paul taught that in 2 Corinthians chapter eight verse four, it says this, they begged us again and again for the privilege of sharing in the gift for the believers in Jerusalem. The context in 2 Corinthians chapter eight and verse 10 is that Paul is talking about churches and Macedonia. Now guys, please understand, these are not churches growing up in a Jewish culture where giving was part of your culture, meaning you tied to the temple. Macedonia did not have a Jewish temple that they tied to. And the Bible says that Paul goes in there and these believers are begging Paul. Have you noticed, the Bible doesn't say that Paul was begging them to give. So many people, Christians, we created this culture that just because under the new covenant we don't have the law that pastors should be begging us, constantly pushing us. The real transformation of your heart is when you do the begging. When the Christians beg and they say we want to give, provide us with an opportunity. Churches in Macedonia, and you may think, well, churches in Macedonia were swimming in dough. They were not. Paul is saying they were broke. Paul is saying they were so poor, but only in finances, not in their spirit. Because they were so generous and Paul is saying they begged us to give. They begged us again and again for the privilege of sharing. Somehow the New Testament Christians did not see generosity as something that is a burden. Are they gonna talk about money this Sunday? Oh, I'm not going this Sunday, why? I'm sick. Oh, it's that Sunday. I hate when pastors talk about finances and he's wearing a jacket that looks white. As though this is just more expensive because it's wider. Privilege, now if you're an outsider, meaning you're not a Christian, you're total free today to just kind of relax. This is not necessarily addressed to you, though you can be involved in this conversation. I'm dealing today with believers. Believers, giving, sharing, loving and forgiving, that is a privilege. You don't have to, we get to. That's when you are mine. Everything about giving has very little to do with the actual act of giving. A lot has to do with how you think about yourself, the world you live in and the God you worship. The frame of work for a Christian that makes giving easy a pleasure and a privilege is this. God owns, I manage. Now it's easy to say that. It's way more difficult to actually live it. Sometimes you have to practice giving to reinforce that mindset. And sometimes you have the word of God, change your mindset and giving come naturally. Either way, our position, the root, the heart, the motive behind it, why it comes easy and the privilege is this, God owns it, I manage it. Now I don't know if you ever went to some kind of maybe a trip and somebody has given you some money to spend on the trip and specifically designated to spend that on the trip. And let's say you had a group of people that went with you. Now it happened to me one time. I went to Ukraine, I was given some allowance to spend on, I think it was a two week trip. I think it was X amount of money that I was given. I cannot tell you how generous I was with all the waiters because it wasn't my money. Somebody gave it to me to spend and the rule was this, you can't bring anything back because if you do, we won't give it to you, you'll have to return it back. I was like, oh yeah, I will find a place to invest this in Ukraine called Bulichki. You know, coffee, pirochki, I mean, I will believe many, but I will find. And then when the waiter was nice, I was tipping generously. Like there was this generosity that flew out. And when I was like, man, I am so generous. But partially it's because the mindset I was operating from was this, it's not mine. Same money, different mindset. What makes giving difficult, grudgingly, painful is this. It's mine. Mm-hmm. Now as a Christian, we know better that it's not ours. And we can sing, Lord, it's yours. And then the offering plate comes in and the old Adam kicks in. It's mine, precious. It's mine. Mm-hmm. It's mine. I won't give it because it's mine. I won't share it because it's mine. God, you can't talk to me about this because it's mine. Why should God even give me instructions about finances? It's mine. So if I am the owner, God is my manager. There's only two ways Christians can live. And some of us here today, you're a new Christian and honestly, this is new. And that's why this message will help you to shift your understanding. You are not the owner. Now, the logical explanation for that is this. You don't pay for air. And you don't pay for rent walking on the earth. Somebody created all of this, somebody watches all of this and somebody has a clock and they will decide when your life on this earth will come to an end. And that is the owner, not you and I. Somebody created the law of gravity and makes the sun shine every single day. Suspended the earth just perfect. If it goes a little bit one side, we will fry to the other side, we will freeze. Has everything perfect? Somebody has put you in your mother's womb, created you, provided you with parents to care for you. That's someone we believe is God. And we live with that attitude. He's the owner, we're the managers. So if he comes in and he puts on my heart to help the poor. If he instructs in his word to help those in need, I fulfill that. Why? Because I'm the manager. Now imagine this, you have your finances. You deposited money into your bank account. Giza credit union, for example, that's where I bank. You deposited your money in Giza credit union. You come, you need to withdraw. Not all of it, just $200. And the teller at the bank says, no. Why? No. Now, what would you do? Say, oh yeah, I understand. If you're not in the mood, I'll come tomorrow. How many of you would be completely okay with that? Teller, no, you will create a fuss. Why? Because it's your money, they're refusing to give it back to you. See, God comes and when God asks for something, please understand, he actually has the right. Because it's his. And as a Christian, I want you to update your thinking. It's his to begin with. You're only giving of what is his. Privilege to give. To God. To his purposes. Amen. The second P that I want you to remember is that giving should be a priority. And Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians chapter 16 verse two, he says this, on the first day of each week, which is Sunday by the way, on the first day of each week, you should each put aside a portion of your money you have earned. Don't wait until I get there and then try to collect it all at once. Let me give you a hungry gen version, the last part of that verse. On the first day of the week on Sunday, bring your whatever you've put aside to the church. Don't wait until the next, the end of the month. Because if you wait till the end of the month, you will not have anything. And then you'll be really giving God the leftovers. So Paul teaches though, he doesn't teach us percentage, he teaches us priority. And what is the priority? The first day of the week we gather together. That's what we meet on Sundays, not on Saturdays. Saturday is a day of rest, Sunday is a day of worship. Because it's the first day of the week. We see God in the first few minutes in the day when we spend time in the quiet time. As a church we spend first three days of the month in fasting and prayer. We spend first month of the year in fasting, why? Because we love and prioritize the principle of the first. Giving according to Paul is about the priority. That's why I believe in tithing not in tipping. Tipping is when I give at the end after I have paid AT&T, after I have paid YACMA Federal, after I have paid Les Schwab for my tires, after you have paid for maybe some kind of a makeup or a hat or shoes, you've paid everybody. And they're like, oh, Lord, you're my last one. That is not the priority of giving. The priority of giving is that when I get paid, I take the first portion out and I said, God, I honor you first. And I pay everybody else the rest. And I trust you, God, that you will bless the rest. God always wanted to be the first in your life. He says seek first the kingdom of God. He said to give Jericho first. He asked Israel to give their firstborn. So the Christian biblical New Testament perspective on generosity is this. It's a privilege. Number two, it's about a priority. A lot of people do not practice generosity and they're kind of spontaneous. They're very fluid, kind of like, well, whatever happens. That is not how Paul taught on giving. He says, put it away every single Sunday so that you can put your priority into giving. Number three, and that is giving should be proportional. So not only it's a privilege, number two, it's a priority. We make it a priority to give. Number three is proportional. Now I looked for everywhere to find Apostle Paul encouraging Christians to give 10%. And there is none. You know what Paul did teach though? He talked about Christians giving in proportion. Now what does that mean? Let's read the verses. In second Corinthians chapter eight, verse three, it says, for I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing. In another translation says, NLT it says, for I testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will. Proportional meaning you give according to your ability. Now how much should I give? What's that percent it should be? A good place to start is 10%. You don't like 10%, you can start with warning. You can start with whatever you want. But Paul teaches, but I want you to listen to his teaching. He said, according to your ability. That gives us freedom. And it also puts a lot of pressure. Because now you have to go to God and say, Lord, what should I give? And keep in mind, God gave his son, gives you everything. So if you think that God is gonna play stingy or frugal, he doesn't do that. And God always loves to stretch your spirituality. So he would challenge you. And if you don't go to God and you say, well, I'm just gonna ask myself, well, sometimes you're not the best counselor for yourself, proportion. And then Paul says, sometimes you will be giving according to your ability. You know, you're able to give this much. Awesome. And then he says, there will be seasons. And this goes against country wisdom. And he says, you will be able, you will give above your ability. Now this freaks us out. You want me to give what I cannot afford? How is that? That's scary, right? Somehow spending what we cannot afford is not scary. You know that on the average, most of us live 100, I think five or 115% of what we make. So we spend at least, on the average, people in this room spend over 105% than what you make. And that is not freaky at all. It's actually normal. But the idea that Paul is planting is this. He says, give within your ability. And then he says, but some people, they give above their ability. I'm not sure if they put it under credit card. I'm not sure if they emptied their savings account. I'm not sure if they gave from their stock market. I don't know if they pulled equity out of that. I don't know what they did. Paul doesn't give us details. He just says, there's some radical people and they give above their ability. My friend, we should not live above our income. But once in a while, you will be able to give above your income and that's okay. What we've made okay is this. Live above your income. Don't you dare to even think God would never condone such a thought to give above your ability of income. When Paul flips the script and says this the other way around, that's New Testament teaching on giving. Way more radical than some of us think. That's what Paul teaches. I've experienced giving above my ability to give, above what I could afford. And I can tell you one thing. Such a freeing experience. You're thinking about heaven more because you realize for the first time in your life you have more there than here. Then it makes sense. I was like, why do my grandpa's and believers of old always had songs about heaven? Right now we rarely have songs about heaven. All of our songs is about God bless me or God I love you. It's now and here. And you know why a lot of them song about now and here? Because those of us who write or preach we have so much in here and so little in there. And whatever your treasure is there is gonna be your heart, songs, sermons and everything. And so that's why if you read the hymns of all like you know those Dao and Daoist words and you realize almost every hymn had to do with heaven because those people had so much there and so little here. And so I can tell you one thing from personal experience that once in a while it does not hurt to hurt yourself just a little bit your heart and redirect its attention toward God by living in a radical generosity toward God. Number four. So not only the giving should be proportional not giving is a privilege not only giving is a priority but number four giving should be purposed. And that second Corinthians chapter nine verse seven he says let each one give that's another rule now he gives us as he purposes in his heart not grudgingly or out of necessity for God loves a cheerful giver. I'll read to you from NLT. You must each decide in your heart how much to give and don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure somebody say amen for God loves a person who gives cheerfully. There are two motives that sometimes are used and the first one is pressure and that's done in some churches and that could be a borderline witchcraft when you pressure people or you manipulate people for example you say things like if you give $1,000 God will heal you. Yeah, I don't think so. If you sow a seed of $10,000 your child will come back to God. Yeah, no, that's just not how that works. If you pray for your child, you fast for your child, you love your child and you witness to your child that's a different story. Now can God use your sacrifice to create a miracle? Yeah, but when the preacher begins to throw numbers and attach miracles to it that at hungry Jen we don't believe that stuff. We don't believe in pressuring and nor do we believe in promising. Now does the Bible promise to sow and you will reap? Yeah, just the Bible doesn't give a number and doesn't exactly say what you will reap. So when a preacher or pastor gets up and starts throwing numbers and then it gives you a pressure if you do it with the next 30 minutes the blessing will multiply. Yeah, especially if they start saying well I will prophesy to you. You know and they start charging for stuff like that so we walk away from stuff like that. The second one is when people so there's a pressure, there's manipulation but there's one more, it's the super spiritual people who say things like this. I'm waiting for the Lord to lead me. I'm waiting for the prompting. Vlad, I've been coming to hungry Jen for six months. The Lord hasn't prompted me yet. Which part of the Lord loves a cheerful giver did you not understand? The Lord or the cheerful give apart? Cause it's pretty black and white. When Jesus says give to the poor, sell, give alms the Lord is very clear. I love what Paul says. Paul doesn't say get in your secret place and wait for the prompting if you should give. He says as you decide in your heart God is saying you're mature. I trust you because my spirit lives inside of you. So just gonna take some quiet time and you if you're married, you talk to your spouse and say what are we going to give? How much are we going to give? And you decide. God does not need to give you three green lights and a way to church for you to give. Come on. You don't need a sign. You don't need a prompting. You don't need the angelic visitation and you don't need feathers in your room. Gold dust does not have to appear and your wisdom tooth does not have to turn gold for you to decide. And some of us we don't like to decide because we're afraid of deciding. What if I miss God's will? If you're afraid of that, always bump a number. You'll never miss God's will like that. People sometimes come up like, well, me and my husband, we are debating. The wife says, she wants to give 15% and the husband says 10. Which one is the biblical one? The one that's larger is always hearing God more. But I have been in moments where I had the larger number and my wife did not and I had to submit to her because she exposed my motive and I shared this story. I won't repeat that here again about on my 30th birthday, how I wanted to give a particular number just because it related with my 30th birthday had nothing, I think very little to do with God and my wife called it out and we still gave but it wasn't what I wanted to give. So purpose in your heart. God doesn't have to speak to you but men should not pressure in that. Now there are seasons where we as a church will draw or call people to giving toward building fund or toward missions or to that. There will be a need, your heart will respond to that. And I love the fact that God gives us the freedom. He says, I don't want you to be manipulated, I don't want you to do it out of grudge, I don't want you to do it out of necessity and church, please be careful. Just a word of warning for those of you watching us online. If somebody messages you on Instagram and says that they have an orphanage, all right? And they have my face on it that has 10,000 followers. Please don't fall for it. If somebody messages you on Facebook and pretends to be a man of God, please don't fall for it. If God moves upon your heart to give, okay? Give through their website, never through the links in inbox. Number two, if they threaten you with the prophecy and they say, if you don't give something will happen. You're dealing with a scammer and most likely out of somewhere that's not in the United States or could be in the United States, do not fall for that. If somebody says, does says the Lord and they give you and they read half of the things that are true, do not fall for that. Do not be manipulated especially online. I cannot tell you how many people have fell and have given some large sum of money to people who pretended to be somebody else online. And that is just this thing. We're so used to being manipulated a lot of times and we cannot be gullible nor should we be naive. And we should have very strict policy that we are not to be manipulated, pushed or pressured into giving. Develop a certain immune system, resistance in your heart especially when somebody starts manipulating you or pushing you into that. Just simply block them and walk away. And we promise that a hungry gen, we won't do that. We will teach you about giving and that's up to you, that's your decision to give. We would encourage you and we will model that but we can't pressure because God doesn't tell us to do that. He tells us to lead and motivate, amen. And the last one is giving should be progressive. So not only giving is purpose, not only giving is proportional, not only giving is a privilege and not only giving is a priority but giving should be progressive. And in 2 Corinthians chapter eight verses four and seven through seven, it says the following, imploring us with much urgency that we should receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And not only as we have hoped but they first gave themselves to the Lord and then to us by the will of God. So we urge Titus as he had begun that he would complete this grace, so the issue of giving in you as well. As you abound, somebody say abound. So the word abound there is excel. As you abound in everything, in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence and in your love for us, see that you also abound in this grace. Okay, also at the end. See that you abound in this grace also. In another translation, it talks about I want you to excel also in this gracious act of giving. A lot of us don't realize is that God wants you to actually grow in giving. Now giving is a gift for some people. It says that in Romans chapter 12 verses six through eight, there's some people have leadership gifts, some people have gift of encouragement and it says this thing, that some people have a gift of giving. Now you would immediately think that a person with a gift of giving is the one who has the most money. It's like to say that a person with a gift of encouragement is the one who has the easiest life. It's not so, a person with a gift of encouragement just has a gift of encouragement. Regardless of what they went through, sometimes they're actually the ones who went through the worst things in life. So the person with the gift of giving doesn't necessarily have to be the person with the most money. It's just a person who has just this generosity in their heart. Now I know some people who have the gift of giving but for most of us that's not gonna be our gift. Maybe like that's not your gift. It's still an area of growth even if it's not an area of gifting. Giving is a gift for some but it's a growth for everyone. And apostle Paul teaches to Christians and he says I want you to also excel meaning abound, grow in this area. Giving is like a muscle. If you exercise it, it grows stronger, it grows bigger. And Paul is teaching Christians he says I want you to abound in faith, in love, in love and then in love and in faith and in all of these things and then he adds this thing. He says I want you to also abound in the issue and in the area of generosity. That means grow in generosity. As Christians by default we focus make sure we grow in our income but the scripture teaches us make sure that we also grow in our giving. As our income increases that also our generosity increases. Now I understand 70% of all giving in United States is done not to the church but to non-profit charities. As a hungry gen we felt a very strong burden about a year ago to start developing the giving component of hungry gen. So that's mission trips, that's local ministry here. That's also churches that we are supporting. That's also strengthening the giving part. Our goal is to give more than 10% every single month as a church to ministries all around the world and those in need. If in your heart you're giving, tithing and you're like you know what but I really wanna give more but I just don't see like you know just tithing you know just to the church I will have a specific passion, I have a specific desire. I wanna encourage you and there's a list right behind me things like building fund. We have a desire to finish that building fund very fast and very soon we need resources and some of you that's what God's gonna put your heart for to build that building fund with your finances. There's also the ministry, could you put that list of the ministries please? There's also the ministry of, there's also the ministry of community outreach, adopt the block with distributing food. There's also a part where we're giving food to the sick people, pregnant people and to new parents. Community garden, we have 2,000 square feet of garden to help feed people in need. A house of hope that's food pantry with schools, blankets, Christmas gifts, my friend's place. There's also individual care that's still being developed and you will hear more about the free indeed ministry in weeks up to come. And so we're trying to strengthen this component and this is not even including the missionaries that we support in Brazil, in Vietnam and in other parts of the world. I wanna encourage you as Hungry Jen let's live a generous life. Let's be as a church we're being generous and then as a church let's be generous with the church. Why? Because giving is a privilege. Why? Because giving for us is a priority. Why? Because giving is something we do proportionally and giving is something that we do with the purpose. We can purpose in our heart. God does have to hit us with two by four in our head for us to give. We don't, we're mature. And then lastly is that giving is something that we progress in. Each year we grow in that area of giving. When I lived in the Ukraine, I remember when people brought humanitarian aid and their parents would bring cereal boxes, few jeans, few shirts. Man, how impactful it was. We were driving this week and my wife told me and she's like, can you imagine that now 20 years later we're able to do that to other people? And that's really the purpose of prosperity is that you for a long time praying for a miracle. God give me a miracle in finances and then God blesses you and now God makes you a miracle for someone else. And somebody thanks God for you the way you were thanking God for them. America I believe is the most blessed country in the world. No matter what you think about America I can tell you one thing. You're blessed to live in America. There's a reason everybody's trying to get in here through the tunnels, borders, airlines, ships. Everybody's trying to get in and get out of other countries. We have weird stuff in the government. We've always had weird stuff on the streets. America always had problems but the problems in America is the dream of many countries. We've lived on the other side of the world and I can tell you one thing. God has really blessed America but if you know one thing about America the core of American culture and the government has always been helping humanitarily so many countries. Now should America be involved in every war in the world? That's for politicians to decide. But one thing is anytime there was a crisis even America who bombed Japan was the first person to release relief to rebuild the very city they bombed because that's been in American blood. Because God sees how generous America is with the world I believe it's one of the reasons God keeps blessing America. Now what you think about America if you live here in Udelike America there's other places you can live. But as a Christian, as a Christian we have to out give America. I don't want America to be generous and as a Christians in America to be stingy. God did not place the responsibility on the US government to help the needy. He helped on us. We supposed to take care of the elderly the poor and the needy. And let's step up our game as a church. For those of you who are in that situation you said I can't give, lad. I want you to notice one thing. God sees your situation. And God wants you to still give your smile, give your service, help somebody because it's better to give than there is to receive. Let's rise. We already took an offering so there's no offering after this. I know, surprising huh? You would think pastors gonna preach on this there's gonna be some kind of a, no, we're just, we wanna change our thinking. Amen. If you're in this room today and maybe you're visiting us for the first time or you've been coming for first few times and you have not given your life to Jesus Christ. Today I wanna give you that opportunity. It's easy to give a dollar, two, three, five, a hundred maybe but God wants you to give your heart. God is after your heart and after your soul. Every head bowed and every eye closed. I would like to give an opportunity to anybody who does not have a relationship with Jesus who walked away from Jesus or anybody here today who deep in their heart knows I need God in my life. Maybe you came here because your wife dragged you or maybe your kids dragged you here but I wanna tell you something behind that drag was the pulling of the spirit of God. He wants you. He wants to forgive you. He wants to wash you and he wants to give you new life. When I count to three I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand if you would like to give your life to Jesus. If you're watching us on live stream and you would like to do that you can comment in the comments saying I want to get saved. I need Jesus and we will reach out to you. One, two, three. If you wanna give your life to the Lord just raise your hand high and I'm gonna pray with you. If you wanna give your life to Jesus on live stream just comment in the chat. I want to get saved and we will pray. Church can we pray together right now? Say Lord Jesus, I am a sinner. Please forgive me of all my sin and wash me with your blood. I surrender my whole life to you. And from this day forward I promise to follow you all the days of my life in Jesus' name. If you prayed that prayer let us know in the guest lounge over there in the lobby or just go online hungrygen.com forward slash VIP. I'm gonna welcome our pastoral team right now to the front and our ministry team if they could come up. If you need healing if you need prayer for anything you don't have to be a member of the church to receive prayer. We're here to pray. God does miracles. We're here at five o'clock on Sunday praying for this altar that there will be miracles taking place at this altar. God is ready for your miracle. God wants to encounter you. If you're facing financial challenges right now and you need somebody to agree with you in prayer just step forward. As we will be dismissing the service we wanna minister to you. If you're going through a breakup, loss or challenges and you need somebody to agree in prayer with you we are here to pray for you. For those of you on Zoom Pastor Richard is about to start praying for those who need prayer. Those of you on YouTube and Facebook jump on Zoom and you're gonna receive that prayer as well. Church, better is not good enough. The best is yet.