🎉 Celebrate Jehovah Jireh

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

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

This year we are going after:

The Detached ❌

The Drifted 🌊

Those who Don’t Know 🙈

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

🟢 Engage Your Faith = Personal Evangelism

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

📝 Action Step: Pray & Invite

• Pray for:

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

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

📖 Luke 10:25-37 (ESV)

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

📖 Matthew 10:5-8 (The Message)

Don’t begin by traveling to some far-off place to convert unbelievers. And don’t try to be dramatic by tackling some public enemy. Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here. Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead. Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons. You have been treated generously, so live generously.

🟢 Christian Atheism

• Christian = follower of Christ → we believe in the one true God 🙌.
• Atheist = believes there is no God ❌.
• Christian Atheism makes no sense… yet many live as if God isn’t real.
• Problem isn’t just abundance of sin → it’s absence of power ⚡.
• The power of God is found in doing good when it’s within our ability, not just knowing more. 

🟢 Eye Exam – What Do You See? 👀

• Nearsighted = only see immediate needs.
• Farsighted = see far-off issues, but miss what’s right in front of you.
• Every time you see a person, ask: “What do I see?”

🟢 Jesus Saw With Perfect Vision

📖 John 5:19–21 (ESV)

19 So Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.’

Jesus saw value in every person:

👨‍🦯 The Blind Man – Mark 10:49

🛏️ The Crippled Man – John 5:8

💰 The Rich Young Ruler – Luke 18:21–22

👹 The Outcast/Demon-possessed – Mark 5:2

👶 The Children – Matthew 19:14–15

🌳 Zacchaeus, the corrupt rich – Luke 19:5

💧 Samaritan woman at the well – John 4

🟢 Frames vs. Lenses 👓

• Frames are for fashion, but without the right lenses, you still can’t see.
• Lenses = priority.
• God sees you through the lens of the blood of Jesus 🩸:
• Righteous 🙌
• Conqueror 🏆
• Anointed ✨
• Saint ✝️

Application – Put On the Father’s Glasses 👓❤️

• We must see others through the Father’s heart 💖.
• Glasses aren’t for the broken to wear; they’re for us—so we see clearly.
• True vision = seeing the broken & bleeding the way Jesus doe

🎯 Final Call

👉 Come see clearly.

👉 See with compassion 👁️❤️.

👉 Be the neighbor who acts.