Good day, everyone. We're in day 23, reproducing your values. Restful one,
listen with your spirit to the Word of God for you. I know, my God, that you test
the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things have I given willingly
and with honest intent. And now I have seen with you how willingly, with joy, how
willingly you people who are here have given to you. O Lord, God of our fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire in the hearts of your people
forever and keep their hearts loyal to you. First Chronicles 29 17 through 18.
One of the core values of David was worshiping God in a magnificent way. He
centered his life around different forms of worship. He desired to worship God
by building a temple where he could dwell, but God told David that his son
would build it. Willingly, with integrity, and with honest intent, he gave
his personal treasures for the temple. He gave his efforts as king to assemble
tremendous resources for the construction of the temple. He called
together the leaders of the nation and invited them to give an offering. They
gave an immense offering with the same willingness as David, not out of
manipulation or pressure. They embraced his same value. As king, he had ruled so
effectively that his value had captured the hearts of the leadership of the
nation. So they gave generously, willingly, and with integrity of heart. Restful one,
I bless you with the joy of transferring your vision to the hearts and spirits of
others. I bless you with building your vision and your values into your
followers and seeing your vision and values replicated in others. I bless you
with being the kind of leader who can imprint passion and values deep into the
being of your followers. I bless you with the joy of seeing your followers in
ministry embrace your values at the deepest level. I bless you with seeing
your followers take what God has conceived in you, your vision, your
passion, and live them out and implement them in multiplied ways that
you have not. I bless you with seeing your spiritual grandchildren living out
your values, those who have been mentored by people you have
mentored. I bless you with the joy of seeing in your spiritual grandchildren
and great-grandchildren deep inner heartfelt commitment to the values that
God has placed in your heart because God has also written it in their hearts.
Restful one, listen again with your spirit to the Word of God for you. You
became imitators of us and of the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 1 6. I bless you with the
joy of seeing your followers live the life of the Spirit they absorb from you
as they partner with you. I bless you to see them as the values that you have
lived, modeled, and instilled as a platform for them to embrace the ways of
God at an even higher level and possess their birthrights. I bless you with
beautifully imprinting God's heart on others and knowing that you have left an
indelible imprint for good on the lives of many. I bless you as people
embrace your values, people that you did not know were watching or learning from
you, people to whom you were not overtly ministering. I bless you with the
wonderful joy of seeing your values embraced by a wider circle than those
whom you directly touch. I bless you with great fulfillment and satisfaction at
the end of your life knowing that your family and generations that follow you
have embraced your values as their values. I bless you extravagantly
in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Lord, the phrase that comes to my mind is, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
That there was a way of you living, Lord, that so seamlessly represented the Father
in a way that no one had ever imagined.
That it was as to say, you know, I'm all about my Father's business. If you see me, you've seen the Father.
we're just the same. Lord that we could it could be said of us. That Lord that we
would be so consumed by you that we would be so committed to you that it
could be said that if people see us they see you. That Lord that we're really just
trying to replicate you here on the earth that your values will be
reproduced. I pray Lord that you would search our hearts. I think too often
maybe as Christians I would say we are guilty of beating ourselves up for all
the negative that we have. We're not aware of the fullness of who we are and
what our impact is. I'm thinking of a man who grew up his whole life being
able to see. He was very tormented as a young man and it's a it's a book called
The Veil. I always forget his name. And he described a scene. He then went
from seeing darkness he could see fully. The way he saw worship everything was
just extraordinary. And if I've shared this before please forgive me. But he was
sitting on a street corner having coffee and he saw a woman walking by and there
was homeless people there. People in cafes and restaurants and stores. And she
was walking down the street. She was giving off this gold dust. That's
what it looked like. And this gold dust this these particles were were being
released off of her. And they were landing everywhere. And he could see
like the plants start to stand up taller. He saw the basically the spirit of this
homeless person as he started to stand more erect. He came to life. And
everything was being affected by this person. And he realized as she walked by
and things started to fade and go back to normal that she was a believer. And it
blew his mind because he realized that we have no clue the impact that we have
on the things that we're not even aware of. I've heard it said a million
different times that you know you that when you have children you know they're
always watching and they always see the things that you don't intend for them to
see. And they'll reproduce what you say and you do. And every second grade school
teacher will be the same. Lord I truly pray that Lord you would give us an
appreciation for who we are in the grander sense of that. That I think for
some that are under my voice now need to be reminded that they have things in
them that are worth reproducing. And Lord that we can't consciously and
intentionally always be aware of everything around us that we're trying
to impact. I pray Lord that we be so focused on you that the greatest impacts
that we would ever have in this world and upon people would be unintentional.
It would be a side effect of your values being transferred through us. Not by just
our words but Lord by the inherent character that is you to be shining
through us. And that Lord that there would be an exchange. I don't know what
that's about. There would be like an exchange Lord.
I don't want to dwell on that. Lord I really pray God that that there be a
true shift in who we are, whose we are, and that Lord that there be a place
where you know as you know that our song would be a love song. Our life would be a
love song to you. That our life is a canvas and that we are your masterpiece.
And that this life is being filled out in of you. But Lord I pray that you
would instill your values so deep in us. That your passion and your desire is so
great that we cannot blow it. And that Lord that those things to infuse
everything that we do. And I think Lord it's a little like those that are on the
camera. What are they like when they're off camera? Well we're on camera all the
time. And it's the thing that we do in secret that that really makes us famous
in heaven. And I think it's the thing
is in secret also that prepare the structures and the things within us to sustain us, but
also seem to be almost like the aroma that's released off of our lives into the environment
and to the people that we're around.
And I pray for real integrity, Lord, real bolstering of who we are.
And I pray, Lord, that there be as it be fruitful and multiply.
That's in many facets of what that means.
But in this instance, I think some of that multiplication is the reproducing of you and
your character, your nature, your values are ours, and that those things would be engaged
and released everywhere we go.
We bless you and love you in Jesus name.