This morning's message is entitled Standing in the Gap. Because if you ever found yourself in a place where you are doing everything that you can, And yet, you're not seeing the response that you're hoping for, right? Maybe you pray, but you don't see an answer. Maybe you parent, but you don't see progress. Maybe you share, and no one's responding. Or you invest in people and in relationships, but yet nothing seems different. Or you serve, and you're wondering, am I making a difference at all? See, life is filled with gaps and the gaps from where you are and where you wanna be, or the gap between your expectation and your experience. Sometimes one of the hardest places to be is not just where you plant your faith, but in between planting faith and experiencing a harvest. So what do you do when you wait? Well, if you find yourself in a gap, if you find yourself in a waiting season, I wanna encourage you with some good news this morning. And I want you to encourage you with this truth. God's grace meets us in the gap. God's grace meets us in the gap. You see, grace is something that we sing about that we say is amazing. You know, we talk about it when it comes to salvation. We're saved by grace through faith. But grace by biblical definition is God's unmerited favor, receiving something that you don't deserve. And so yes, it applies to salvation. But it also applies every moment of every day for our lives. See, I growing up, I learned grace through this acronym that spells grace. It's, it's God's riches at Christ's expense. God's riches at Christ's expense. It's this idea that we have received the blessing of God, and we did nothing in return to earn it. That you need grace to sustain your very season of life right now, just as you did the moment you prayed to receive him into your life. That grace is needed across the board. You see, all month long, we've been walking through the stages of the Christian journey. We talk about the Christian journey really has 4 stages. And so you have the seed stage, where the Word of God is planted into your life. Then you have a root stage in which you start to establish biblical foundations. And then as you start to read the word, obey the word, follow it, you'll start to grow in maturity. And as you grow, you start to produce fruit. And that fruit is the benefit of others and that if you have a group of people gathering of people together, all producing fruit for the glory of God, that eventually you landed a place of a harvest. We have disciples making disciples who make disciples. Now, how do you go from one stage to the next? Well, to go from seed to root, you have to plant the gospel. You have to actually allow the word of God, not just to be read out loud, but to actually take residence in your heart. How do you go from roots to fruit, where you actually have to grow in community, that you need to be known as well as know other people, that you can come alongside and that we encourage and lift each other up in community that we grow collectively together. And how do you go from fruits to harvests? We believe that you best grow and you multiply through service. That you weren't created just to be served, you were created to serve, to go from consumer to contributor. Plant, grow, multiply. That's what we're trying to do here as a local church gathering. That's why we're called Mission Grove, because no single tree makes a growth, but a grove can start from just one tree. But here's the problem. That looks nice on a chart. But everyday life is kind of messy, isn't it? And see, growth happens in stages, but life happens in the gaps. Right? Anyone else got a complicated Monday ahead? You know what I mean, you gotta get the kids out of the door, and then you got the meeting for the meeting about the thing with all the emails, and all the stuff to follow and responsibilities. And of course, on your busiest day next week, that's gonna be when appliance in your home breaks, or the school calls and says your kid's got a fever, you gotta pick them up. Right? And you got to rearrange your schedule and so life just starts lifen. You know what I mean? Growth happens in stages, but life happens in the gaps. And so what do you do in those gap moments? Well, the good news is we have a God of the gap. We have a God who meets us in those spaces, and, and that God gives you grace for the exact moment, exact season that you're in right now. And so we're gonna take a look at Galatians, a letter where in which Paul writes about grace, talks about grace, and then even talks about a fruit of the Spirit, which we walked through this summer as a church family. But we get to Galatians chapter 6, and he's gonna share with us 3 gaps where God meets us. So we have 3 gap seasons that I think most of us would identify with one of the 3. So I want you to think about these 3 and ask yourself, which season am I in right now? The first gap we're gonna take a look at today is the gap of brokenness. Are you going through a hard time? Or are, do you have a loved one going through a hard time? Right? What do you do with that? Then 2, we're gonna look at the gap of intentions. That's why there is a space between where you are and where you wanna be, right? There's two kinds of people in the world, people that do, and then people that might, right? What do you do in that middle space? And then third, we're gonna take a look at the gap of weariness, where, hey, I'm doing the right thing. I'm saying the right thing, and I'm just not seeing things change. What do you do? If you have your Bibles, go ahead and open up to Galatians chapter 6. We're gonna pick things up here in verse chap uh verse 1. Which it says, brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, notice the all incumbency nature, if anyone is caught in any transgression, right? He's, he's including all of us in this mix. You who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. So the idea here initially, when you talk about when someone is caught in sin, that we are to restore, we're to, to come alongside to correct. But that word restore is interesting because the word restore is actually the same word used to describe when fishermen mend nets. Can you help mend the nets in someone's life? Same words also used when doctors set a broken bone. And that's what happens when we restore, is that we are the goal of, of restoration or the goal of confronting sin is not punishment, but rather growth, reconciliation, connection again. So, as Christians, if you've ever grown up in a legalistic environment or seen that, um, as church people, church, Uh, we get really good at pointing out sin, right? It's almost like we're in the wild, wild west, but instead of guns on the side, we just got our fingers and we're like, sin, sin, you're wrong, you're wrong. And we love to judge people, right? There's no I in team, but there's an I in sinner. Ah, right there, that's a sin. That's a sin. And we especially love to point out the sins that we're not struggling with, right? You know, we live in a culture that is like a cancel culture, right? So it's not just Christians. It's it's, it's human to judge other people. But as believers, we're called to restore. We're not called just out to call out sin. We are called to bring sin to light for the purpose of bringing that person into alignment with community, back into alignment with Jesus. And in order to do so, we have to restore in three ways. We have to restore first gently. It says gently, tone matters, right? They come alongside. Then it says be care uh then it says in there, it talks. Keep watch on yourself, which is the idea of humility. Right? You have to recognize, oh well, we sin too. So, you have to restore it gently, you have to restore with humility. And then third, we have to restore carefully. So be careful lest you too be tempted. So when sin enters into the life of loved ones, we're, we are called to call it out, but for the purpose of mending the nets. So we can call it out in, in gentleness, and humility, and, and carefully. But then it continues on. Let's keep reading here, verse 2. Says bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. I love verse 3.6, don't, don't be prideful, right? If you got that really narcissistic person in your life, you know, they probably aren't gonna read the Bible. You can be like, hey, I read Galatians 6:3, thought of you today. Like, oh, I'm in the Bible, yeah. If someone thinks there's something when they're not, OK, they're deceiving themselves. Continues John verse 4, but let each one test his own work and then reason to boast will be in himself alone and not his neighbor, for each will have to bear his own load. I love this distinction because I love this distinction, because what happens here is, is there's a difference between burden and load. They're different words there. And see, at its core, here's what grace does. OK, when it comes to the gap of brokenness, grace changes what we carry. Grace changes what we carry. So when you carry a burden, That is coming alongside and lifting something alongside that it is too heavy for one person to carry. Maybe it's a relationship, maybe it's financial, maybe it's health, maybe it's emotional. When you're walking through something that's too heavy for you to carry by yourself. It's like carrying a couch. No one's moving a couch by themselves. OK, if you are, we're doing this thing, you've ever done this? Like no one's home, you're like, OK, I gotta move this couch. They're come back, OK, we're gonna come back over here. And we go like, we're gonna come back over here. All right? It doesn't work. If you're gonna carry the couch, you need, you need two people more to carry. In the same way, there are things in life that we go through that you need the support and love of other people. And just as much as it's important for us to carry other people, it's important for you to acknowledge that you too need help. Right? In college when I was playing basketball, Uh, they would put similar people or, you have your friend groups that you lift with, and I am not the strongest person. And so I would pair up with people who are buddies of mine, and then we'd similar match and he would lift. Well, this day, my buddy wasn't there. So I got paired up with the starting center, uh, Anthony Delempo. He's like 6'10. Maybe 6' 11, like 260. He, and he was even louder than he was large. Like he was just a massive human being. And I got paired with him, and I'm not even anywhere close lifting to what he's lifting, but we're trying to max the bench press that day, and he's over top of me. And the thing, the reason I didn't want to lift with him, one, because I feel bad, I couldn't lift as much, but two, he's really sweaty. Right. And so here I am trying to bench, and I got Anthony Dilempo, his big bell like bellowing voice. I'm like, Come on, Kraigle, come on, Kraigle, don't give up. And this bead of sweat just starts to go. Right down. I, I'm like, no. And like, he's like, you got this. Like, I don't think I do, you know, and like it's coming down and like I didn't have it. And so I was like, I was like, I'm struggling, but well, I don't know if it was fear or if it was encouragement or what, but just a little help of Anthony. I was able to lift more than I had previously, and we got it back up and it, and it was a good experience when all was said and done. And here's the thing, there are going to come times in your life where you need a spot. You need encouragement. You need someone to lift a little bit, OK? But what I like about this passage is that it doesn't just talk about burdens, it denses, but don't forget, you're also supposed to carry your own load. And see where burden is something so heavy that multiple people need to carry it. Load is like a backpack that you're supposed to carry. Like, uh, when we go on trips with the family, you know, we, we try to empower the kids a little bit. OK, backpack your backpack for what you need for the road. And if you've ever seen a little kid pack a backpack, like my daughter, like put it in, it was like a block, like a Barbie, like a cheese stick. You know, and like cat ears. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, all right, I'm ready. Like for a five-day trip, like this is what you need. Like, yep, I'm ready to go. Right? And, and so then as a parent, you got to go back and be like, OK, no, no, we need this stuff. You need clothes, you need this, you know, these things, you need a toothbrush, right? And you go through. And, and so understand that a lot of times we, we do the same thing with God. I got a tough week ahead. OK, well, are you packing what you need for the week? Are you carrying what you need? Cause there's probably people in your life that you have conversations with and they tend to blame everybody else. Right? It's never their fault. It's always the employer or the teacher or the coach, or the family member or the friends or the government or whatever, right? Like I've had conversations with people like, oh man, I'm just being spiritually attacked. I'm like, I think he might just be spiritually lazy. And it seems harsh, but I'm like, I just wanna know the will of God. OK, did you pray? No. Have you read your Bible? No. Are you sleeping well? No. Are you listening to right like some good worship music? No. Are you in community? No. Are you giving? No. Are you serving? No. Are you fasting? No. But I just wanna know. It's like, OK, the, the will of God can be found in the Word of God. Like, like, there's more to it, but understand that there's responsibility. Right, there is, again, there's no I in team, but there's 3 I's in responsibility. I think, I think, I think there's 3 I's. OK. Right? There's this, I, and I love this balance because we have to carry our own backpack. Right? Our own choices, what we say, what we do, our own actions, right? You can't have somebody responsible for your responsibility. When you get to heaven, you are not gonna be held responsible for other people's actions. You're gonna be held responsible for your actions, right? There's ownership, there's agency there. And part of that responsibility is to come alongside those who are broken, who are hurting, to help lift where they need a spot. Or if you're in a hard time, and this is tough too. If, if we become really responsible, sometimes it's hard for us to even say we need help. Right? But we gotta be willing to share. Uh, my friend Aaron's here in, in the auditorium. If, imagine if I got really mad at Aaron, cause Aaron, where were you yesterday? You're supposed to paint my fence. He's like, what are you talking about? It's like, I thought you were gonna paint my fence. Well, did we ever have a conversation about it? Well, no, but I just assumed. You would know, right? And like, here's the thing, sometimes we get mad that people don't meet our expectations that we never expressed. No one supports me. I'm going through this alone. OK, but have you ever opened up to somebody? Have you ever been vulnerable? See, too often we try to be independent, saying like, OK, I do this all on my own. We never express hurt, we never express need, we never express doubt. And then we wonder why we're struggling. Then there's other people who just live fully dependent. Everything is somebody else's fault. Everything is somebody else's issue, and we can do nothing. But how the Bible teaches us through this passage is that we're called to be interdependent. We are called to carry our own backpack, to carry our own responsibility, and help carry the burden of other people. See, if we're standing in the gap of brokenness, grace changes what we carry. We are looking to support the needs of others, to help carry the emotional couch that they got in their life, and take responsibility of our own lives where we can. OK? It says in Galatians 2:20, it says, I have been crucified with Christ, that is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. The reason grace changes what we carry, it's the power of God working in us and through us. So it's not even our own strength. It's that we're living dependent on Christ through the Holy Spirit to work out through our lives and for Christ. So that's the gap of brokenness really changes what we carry. But the second thing we see here is the gap of intentions, the gap of intentions. This is the gap between where we are and where we want to be. Let's read verse 6 to 8. It says, Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked for whatever one sows, that will, he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And there's so much there, there's so much power there. Because at its core, grace changes what we cultivate. Right? First thing that for those that hear the word or receive the teaching are called to share with the one who teaches. Now, commentators point out that there's actually financially responsibility that you support ministries, support the church, or support ministry leaders. And it's a part of this exchange, but it doesn't just say treasure, it also talks about your time and your talents. That when we give, we give our treasure, our time, our talents to the betterment and the building up of the body. And so I'm not just asking for something from you, but rather, I really want something for you. And as your pastor, as your friend, I want to tell you that you become more like Jesus when we give. If you got kiddos, have you ever, uh, got the gift, you know, they wanted, and they open that, and you see that joy on their face, and they're so excited, right? What happens? You actually experience joy too. That the giver really is blessed in the process of that. And so understand that we are called to give. But then it says some intense statements says, hey, don't forget, God won't be mocked. You will reap what you sow. You will reap what you sow. And here's the thing. You can't pray for a harvest with a seed that you've never planted. Right? I can't plant corn in my life and really hope for strawberries. Like you will reap what you sow. And on one hand, it's, it's a little scary, because he says, don't forget, God will not be mocked. God does see the sin in your life. That if you keep living a pattern of sin, a pattern of lies, a pattern of destruction, at some point, you will be found out and there will be consequences for that. But the reverse is also true. It's not just anti- corruption, it's actually for the spirit, is that if you keep planting the seeds of the Spirit, eventually, which we'll talk about in a few moments, in due season, you will reap a harvest. And so the way to think about this is, what are the seeds that you're planting in your life right now? Because you're never gonna become tomorrow what you don't start becoming today. Let's, let's just go through a little test here for a second. OK? You may say, I want a life that prioritizes my family, right? Harvest. Let me ask you, OK? Take inventory. What does your calendar look like? Right. You may say, John, I want a pure mind. OK, what does your screen time look like? You may say, John, I want to be generous, and I wanna live in financial freedom. OK, what does your bank account show? And there's two kinds of people. There's people that do, and then people that might. You know, I've, I've heard it said it's a thought that counts when given a gift. Let's be real, that's not true. It's not I wish it was true. I think about being healthy all the time. I think about like, like nothing changes until something changes, right? Like, have you ever made the mistake of grocery shopping while hungry? You end up with some extra stuff in the cart. You know what I'm talking about? My kids, my kids really want for dad to do the grocery shopping when dad's hungry, because like, we'll have the grocery list, and I'm like, I want to be healthy. I want to be good. And then somehow there's like double fudge chocolate ice cream and it got in there. I don't know what happened. But I put it in the cart. Here's why I'm saying this. Like we say we want things from God, but what are you putting in your cart? What seeds are you planting? Oh, man, I'm anxious. I'm struggling. But all I'm doing is scrolling and watching and all these things and I get stressed out about the world. Like, oh, I want, I want to be close to God. OK, have you read? No. If I worshiping? No. Am I reading? No. Am I praying? No. Like, I want to give you the freedom to understand that there is some agency that you can actually, there's a lot of things in this world you can't control. But there are things in your own life that you can. And so if you want to cross over the gap of intentions, you gotta start planting better seeds. Here's what I want to challenge you to do. I want to challenge you on one side this week at some point, write down what are the harvests that you want in your life? What's the harvest you want? I want a connected family. I want a financial, whatever. I want. Spiritually mature, I want, and you and you put in some goals here. But then I want you to, on the, on the column next to it and say, OK, what are the seeds I'm going to plant this week? That go towards that. Because you'll never reap a harvest that you're unwilling to sow. You got to plant a seed. Are you gonna plant seeds of flesh this week? Are you gonna plant the seeds of the spirit? It's not an automatic. But it says in there that God will not be mocked. But just as it should scare us, it should also actually encourage us. Because he says that if you plant the right seeds. Eventually, you will see that harvest come through, which leads us to the 3rd gap. That's the gap of weariness, gap of weariness. Um, and you know what, let me go back here. Um, I'm gonna go back Nash here to, let's go back to 2 Corinthians 3, so you can see this process that doesn't happen overnight. Uh, 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1718, it says now that the, now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, right? There's a collective. OK. Verse 18 says, for we with unveiled face, which is a crazy phrase. I say that because he's referencing Moses, Moses, like the Moses, like Mount Rushmore of Old Testament Moses. When Moses interacted with God, he was so close with God that his face shined, that when he came down from the mountain, and he interacted with the people of Israel, his face literally glowed, and so they asked him to cover his face with a veil. In this passage in Corinth, which is a really crazy city that a church is trying to follow God, Paul writes, is actually, you can be closer to God than Moses was. So you with unveiled face, beholding the glory of God, are being transformed. That's what's described as present, passive. In other words, it's ongoing, and it's what God does in and through your life. That we are being transformed. This is the name of our series. You are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. And so it doesn't happen overnight, but it does happen over time. You ever seen family members or kids, like nephews, nieces, friends, and, and you hadn't seen them for a while, and then you come back and see them and they're like, 1 ft taller. Like, whoa, where'd that come from? And they, and they don't, they don't know they're growing. They don't see it because it's they're, they're everyday, right? I think sometimes the same thing happens spiritually and maturity-wise. We don't necessarily see it. But over time, you'll feel it and other people will actually see that maturity in your growth. All right. Now, what happens if you're doing all these things, but you don't see the results? What do you do? That's the gap of weariness. He doesn't leave us hanging. He says verse 9 and verse 10. He says, so let us not grow weary of doing good. For in due season, we will reap if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, especially to those who are of the household of faith. See, in the gap of brokenness, grace changes what we carry. In the gap of intentions, God, grace changes how we cultivate. How do we work the garden in our soul? What do, what do we try to do? What seeds are we planting? But in the gap of weariness, grace changes how we continue. He says, don't give up. Don't give up, that you have the opportunity to love and bless and serve others. It says in due season. The problem here is we don't understand the length of time for in due season. I wish in Greek in due season meant tomorrow. I wish answers to prayer worked like Amazon Prime. Right? Like we've been spoiled in today's culture because we want instant results right away. We want to air fry faith. You know what I mean? We want to push a button, like, mm, nice, tender, crispy faith, right? We get, like anyone else watch a series stream on any streaming platform, and then you catch up to present day, and then get really annoyed that they only release one episode every week now. Like, there was a time where you had to watch the show. And if you weren't there on time, you had no way of recording, and you just missed it, right? And then, but now we like watch it, and if it's not ready in 10 seconds, we're like, oh, I'm being persecuted. You know what I mean? Like, we're just like so spoiled, and we think God's gonna work the same way, but he doesn't. He says in due season. That's why in the Lord's Prayer, it says, give us this year, yearly bread? No. Give us this monthly bread. No, give us this daily bread. Because there are different words for for time in the Bible. Two of the words are really interesting. There's a word for chronos. It's like where we get chronology. Right? It's, it's like calendar and dates and clock and time and orderly. And I love that we have a God that loves order. He brings order out of chaos, right? I love that. But there's another word, kairos, which means God's appointed moment or season. For example, in Romans 5:8, says while we were sinners, at the right time, Christ showed us the love for us that He died for us. You see, every major biblical character had a waiting season. Noah waited 25 years for the promise of a child, or Abraham, sorry. Noah had a boat. Abraham had a baby. OK. So Noah waited about 120 years. OK. Abraham waited 25. Joseph waited about 13 years in prison before he'd get brought out of Egypt to, to save his family. David waited anywhere from like 12 to 15 years from the time he was appointed king to the time he actually became king. Jesus didn't even start his earthly ministry till he was 30. Paul, when he gets saved in Acts 9, actually goes away for a few years, goes away before he starts his public ministry. And so all these major characters follow this waiting season. Moses with the people of God wandered the desert for 40 years. Jesus, after he gets baptized, the first thing the Spirit does is lead him into the desert for 40 days of temptation. The waiting season is part of the process. But at the right time, at the right kairos, you will reap what is sown. Some of you are praying for kids, some of you are praying for a loved one. Some of you are praying for an experience or breakthrough. And the reality is you don't know when it's coming. But I want you to take this promise here to not give up. There's a story, for example, where the people of God, they go into the promised land and they, they have this battle in the city of Jericho. And God tells Joshua, here's the plan. You're gonna take the people of God, you're gonna circle the city in prayer for 7 days, once a day for 7 days. And on the 7th day, you're gonna circle 7 times. Then the walls are gonna crumble and I'm gonna give you the city. Pretty cool story. Pretty cool miracle. But I wonder, what if the people stopped on days 1 through 6, right? Probably not day 1, right? They're like, OK, Joshua took us over the land. He's our leader. We have our God, right? Let's walk the city. Yeah. OK. And then day 2, this feels a little repetitive, but we're with you, Joshua. OK, day 3, this seems a little redundant. Right? You, you know, there's some quiet questioning at that point, day 3, especially days 4 and 5. Like, what are we doing? We're circling the city. There's a wall. There's craziness, right? There's this idea of like, all these things happening, and they didn't realize what was working, but God was working. And so I don't know when day 7 is for you. I don't know when the breakthrough is for you. I don't know when the light bulb moment is for you. I don't know when that's gonna come. But what I wanna tell you is God does. And in the meantime, he says, don't give up. He is the God in the past, the present and the future. Check this out in in Titus, chapter 2, verses 11 to 14. Paul writing to his pastor, writing to Titus. He says, for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. So here's what Jesus did in the past, right? Again, it's grace, it's all grace. But then notice here goes to the next thing, verse 12, training us, that's present tense to renounce all ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. In other words, that he is, we are being transformed. We are growing. We are growing. So then what happens, that's the present. What about the future? Well, verse 1314 says, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who, in case we forgot, verse 14, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for good works. The grace of God provided salvation in the past, who then we receive that grace and through the grace of God trains us to become more Christ-like here in the present, all while we're waiting for the return of Christ in the future. What I want to encourage you with today, if you're in a waiting season, is don't waste the wait. Waiting is not passive. Think about waiting like a server at a restaurant. What are you gonna do with me? We're gonna serve. We're gonna grow. See, obedience is our responsibility. Outcome is God's responsibility. You see, collectively in world history, right now, the church is living in a gap. We are living in the gap from when Jesus rose from the grave, providing salvation for all people. And then he said, I'm coming back. We are somewhere in between. I think we're probably closer to the return that we are there, but we don't know when he's coming back. We are literally living in a gap. So what are we gonna do in the meantime? Some of you are waiting right now, struggling, didn't get the answer, didn't get the res resolution, didn't get The move. I don't know what that breakthrough is gonna be. I don't know what day on your seven day journey you are, but I want to tell you, keep walking, keep marching, keep going. You can take all those things you worry about, instead of clinging on to it to let it weigh you down, give that to God, and instead of worry, it becomes worship. That's why in the Book of Psalms, the largest group of Songs are actually we're called lament songs where people are questioning, struggling, burden, battling, saying, God, where are you? I don't see you. I don't see the future. I don't know. But what I do know is that you hold the future. So at the end of it, I'm gonna keep on walking. I'm gonna keep on marching. I'm gonna keep on believing. I'm gonna keep on trusting, because you created the world with your word. You saved the world with your word, and you gave me your word that if I don't give up, we will reap a harvest. Amen. So if you're praying for, it's not just praying for, you're praying through. If you're walking, you're taking another step. If you don't see the outcome, understand that God has given you another chance. To take a step closer to him. to bring people with you. That's why he says the harvest is plentiful, but the workers and the laborers are few. I don't know when Christ is returning, but I do know he is returning. So while we wait, let's, let's go share the gospel. Amen. Don't give up. Because God's grace meets us in the gap. God's grace meets us in the gap. What season are you in right now? If you're in the season of brokenness. Let grace change how you carry. What is one burden you can help carry in someone's life this week? Maybe it's bring that person a meal. Maybe it's shoot that person a text. Maybe it's come watch their kids for an hour so they get a break. Maybe it's just encourage, maybe stay after work an extra 10 minutes to do something that's not even your job responsibility. How can you help carry the burden for somebody else? While also recognizing the load and responsibility in your own life. What about the gap of intentions? Remember, grace changes what you cultivate. What is one healthy seed you can plant this week? You know what, I was reading my Bible, I got away from it. OK. You can start today. I can pray today. I can take one healthy step, plant one healthy seed towards the the spiritual harvest that I'm longing for in my life. You don't need perfect conditions. You don't need a perfect situation. What, what you have. is enough to make a difference. To plant that seed, to take that step. Or lastly, if you're doing the things, and like the tank feels on empty, and you're not seeing the future, understand. Take one step this week to continue. Keep praying, keep reading, keep serving. You might be just one moment, one Kairos day or moment away from breakthrough and don't even know it. I don't know when God's gonna come back, but I do know he's coming back. As we live in the gap between the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the return of Jesus Christ, let us be the people that grows and lives faithful. To put our hand to the plow, to say, God, I'm gonna live obedient for you. I'm gonna share. I'm gonna show up. I'm gonna love people. I'm gonna make a difference. And I don't know what the outcome's gonna be, and I don't know if I'm even gonna see the result this side of heaven, but I'm gonna keep trusting you, I'm gonna keep believing, I'm gonna keep worshiping you, and I'm gonna trust you with the outcome, because our job is obedience. God's job is outcome, and we can trust God because we have a God who stands in the gap. Amen. Whatever you're walking through right now, let me pray for you. Dear Heavenly Father, just thank you for who you are and what you've done. God, we know that grace changes what we carry. It changes what we cultivate. God, it changes how we continue. That a transformed life happens moment by moment. May your grace meet us where we are. If someone's in the gap of brokenness, God, I pray that you would bring somebody in their life to help carry that burden. If somebody's in the gap of intention, God, I pray that we can put down the things of the flesh and and plant healthier spiritual seeds this week. And if somebody is in the gap of weariness, they're trying to walk after you, they're trying to obey you, they're just tired. May you give them the rest. May you give them the strength. May you give them the encouragement to keep going. May we worship you, for in due season, you will bring about the change and that will glorify you. May we not give up. May we stand in the gap, for you are God of the gap, and you meet us here. You are with us. You are for us. You will work through us today. We love you, God. It's in your son's name we pray. Amen.