Boat Building Faith
Message Moments & Highlights
Cultivating Close Fellowship With God
Walking In Faithful Obedience
Developing Spiritual Foresight
Boat Building Faith
Building unshakeable faith, as exemplified by Noah's journey, reveals three fundamental components essential for spiritual growth. The foundation begins with cultivating an intimate relationship with God through intentional daily fellowship, understanding His character, and drawing near to Him before undertaking significant challenges. This close communion enables believers to hear and discern God's voice clearly.The second component involves walking in faithful obedience, following God's guidance precisely in both minor and major matters. Noah's exact adherence to God's specifications for the ark demonstrates the importance of following divine instructions rather than relying on personal judgment. Finally, developing spiritual foresight allows believers to trust God's vision beyond current circumstances, stepping out in faith even when the outcome isn't visible. This forward-looking faith empowers Christians to build for future realities that may seem impossible in the present.Practical application of these principles involves maintaining consistent prayer and Scripture study, responding promptly to Holy Spirit promptings, and trusting God's plans even when they don't make immediate sense. This approach to faith development creates a robust spiritual foundation capable of withstanding life's challenges while enabling believers to participate in God's greater purposes.
Key Insights From The Message
Related Bible Verses
Genesis 6:9-22◦
URL (NLT): https://www.bible.com/bible/111/GEN.6.9-22.NLT
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ”I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for the ark, sloping upward a cubit from the sides. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to keep them alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Hebrews 11:7
URL (NLT): https://www.bible.com/bible/111/HEB.11.7.NLT
It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before.
Hebrews 11:1
URL (NLT): https://www.bible.com/bible/111/HEB.11.1.NLT
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
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Building Unshakeable Faith: Lessons from Noah's Journey
Faith is a cornerstone of what we believe as Christians. While many desire to be people of great faith, what does it actually take to develop and strengthen our faith? Looking at Noah's example provides powerful insights into building unshakeable faith that can withstand any storm.
What Makes Someone a Person of Great Faith?
Noah stands out as someone who demonstrated remarkable faith by building an ark when there had never been a flood before. His story teaches us three key elements of developing strong faith:
1. Cultivating Close Fellowship with God
Genesis 6:9 describes Noah as walking in "close fellowship with God." This intimate relationship was the foundation for everything else. To build great faith, we must:
Pursue an intentional daily relationship with God
Take time to understand His heart and character
Draw near to Him before attempting great things
Follow Jesus' example of withdrawing to spend time with the Father
2. Walking in Faithful Obedience
When God gave Noah detailed instructions for building the ark, he followed them precisely. Strong faith requires:
Following God's guidance and instructions
Being obedient in both small and large matters
Saying yes to God's promptings even when uncomfortable
Building according to God's specifications, not our own ideas
3. Developing Spiritual Foresight
Noah demonstrated faith by building for something that had never happened before. This teaches us to:
Trust God's vision even when we can't see the outcome
Step out in faith beyond our current circumstances
Have confidence in what we hope for but cannot yet see
Remember God knows the end from the beginning
How Do We Apply Noah's Example Today?
Building great faith requires:
Maintaining consistent fellowship with God through prayer and His Word
Being obedient to both small and large promptings
Trusting God's plans even when they don't make immediate sense
Taking steps of faith before seeing the full picture
Remembering God is faithful to complete what He starts
Life Application
This week, challenge yourself to:
Set aside dedicated daily time to build closer fellowship with God
Act immediately on any Holy Spirit promptings, no matter how small
Write down an area where God is asking you to trust Him without seeing the full picture
Ask yourself:
Am I pursuing intimate fellowship with God or just religious activities?
What small acts of obedience am I avoiding?
Where do I need to trust God's foresight over my own understanding?
What "ark" might God be asking me to build in faith?
Remember: Faith grows through relationship, obedience, and trusting God's vision for your life. Start taking steps today to build the kind of faith that can move mountains.
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A discussion guide for the sermon can be found here.
Sermon Transcript
How are we all going this morning? Good. It is a great morning to be in the house.
Hey, I love that we get to have our children and everyone just gets to come together because this is church. Church is family, and it's doing life and everything together. And this in the noise and the joy of it all, we get to do it this morning. So let's crack into the word, shall we?
When I was thinking about this and praying on this, the idea of faith really stirred in my heart. Because who doesn't want to be a person of great faith? Yeah. It's something that is a cornerstone of what we believe. We believe.
We have faith in Jesus. We believe in what he has done for us. But we can be people of great faith, and we are called to be people. Great faith. So what does it take for us to be people of great faith?
And that's what we're going to be looking at this morning. And there's one particular person in the Bible that I think has some great faith and some things we can learn. And this guy is famous for building an ark. Noah. We know him as the guy who built the giant boat that had all the animals in two by two.
It's one of the first lessons that you learn in kids church. I used to think that that was the most horrible calling that any person can get to be locked on a boat with multiple animals. But he has so many great faith qualities, and we're going to dig a bit into that today. So we're reading in Genesis 6, verse 9 to 22, but I'm going to paraphrase and just give you a little bit of history of what's happening leading up to that verse. So God's made the earth, people are dwelling in it.
We're doing good, and then we do not so good. So people start to multiply and we start doing our own thing, and people just really don't get the good idea. So the world is in a pretty broken state. So God looks out over the earth and it says that his heart is grieved. He's devastated at what's happening and what people are doing.
So he's like, all right, I need to figure out what I'm going to do. I'll start again. But then he sees Noah. In fact, it says in Genesis that Noah found favor with the Lord. He stuck out as a man that God could use.
And what did God use him for? He used him to save humanity. He used him to rewrite humanity's story because he saw something on his life and he wanted to call it out on him. So what does it take to have great faith like Noah did? I've titled my message today Boat Building Faith.
Because who doesn't want to have the kind of faith that builds giant boats? Not literally, unless you really want to build boats, then go for it. But the first thing that we see in the life of Noah is that he had a good, solid relationship with God. In fact, it says in Genesis 6, verse 9, this is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time.
And he walked in close fellowship with God. Close fellowship with God? Not even just fellowship, close fellowship. Noah was doing life with God. Noah was pursuing a life with God.
If we want to be people of great faith church, we need to first be pursuing a close relationship with God. Because that is the foundation of everything else. It's what everything else flows from a relationship with God. Because isn't it when you know someone, you're in relationship with them, you're doing life with them. You know their heart, you know their characteristics.
When we get to know that about God, we know his heart, we know his characteristics, we know what he thinks about us. We know how he sees other people. And through that, that can stir a greater faith in us. That stirs us on to do great things for God because we know who he is and we understand a bit more of his heart. When I was first dating my husband, his, he gave himself a shout out.
He's the one who does the sound for us mostly every single service we've got. But I found out he has this love for board games. And when I say love for board games, it's an intense love for board games. We have many, many, many, many in our house. And so the first time he invited me to play a board game.
He absolutely smashed me, like, absolutely smashed me. And I was like, okay, it's a fluke. We'll try it again. We're both competitive people, so you can see where this kind of is going. We do another ball game, he crushes me again, and then again and again and again.
And so I was like, all right, newly dating, this guy's not even like letting me win. He's not polite enough to kind of, you know, let me have a little bit of a self esteem boost. He just wants to crush me. So I was on the fence for a little bit going, all right, God, really, I could just jump ship now. But then I began to see how Dylan actually used board games for his families.
We would be gathering around after a meal and we played board games and everyone would come together and there'd be laughing, crazy chaos. He'd bring out to young adults events, he'd bring people together and there'd be laughing, crazy chaos. And all of a sudden, this man's love of board games started to make a bit more sense that he was using it to bring people together. He loved the fact that if you put a fun, crazy ball game down in front of a group of almost strangers, you can bring them together to laugh and have fun. But I wouldn't have known that if I jumped shit when I originally was thinking about it.
I wouldn't have gotten to know that about him. I needed to understand his heart to be able to understand why he did what he did. It's the same with God. When he calls you to do great and amazing things, which he does, he has a call for each and every single one of you. And that's so exciting.
He has a plan and purpose. That's a promise in his word. But sometimes when he asks you to do these things, they don't really make sense and they can feel a little bit overwhelming. But when we're in a relationship with God and we know his heart, we understand who he is, we know that what he calls us to is always going to be good. It's going to work together for good.
He has a purpose and a plan in what he's asking us to do. Relationship is so important, Church. Because if we're just chasing, calling, and don't do relationship, we've missed it. God is a relational God and He cares about having a individual and intentional relationship with every single one of you. Jesus modeled this for us so well.
When he did life on this earth, he only did three years in ministry and you Constantly see him withdrawing and going away and finding time by himself because he was pursuing relationship with God. He knew that to do anything in ministry, he needed to first be with his Father. He wanted to draw from his Father. That was important. Jesus taught us that we want to do impacting things in the world around us.
Draw back to the Father. You want to have an impact in your workplace? Draw back to the Father. You want to have an impact in your home? Draw back to the Father.
You want to have an impact on your friends and your workplaces, Draw back to the Father because He is the ultimate source. Do you know Him, Church? Do you know him every single day? Is it an every single day kind of relationship that you're creating? Because that's what he's called us to.
The second thing that Noah shows us is obedience. Now this is going to be a little bit of a spiel, so bear with me here. But it's in Genesis 14, verse 16, or Genesis 6. 14, verse 16. And God gives no other download.
He says, build a large boat of cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct the decks and the stalls throughout its interior. Make the boat 450ft long, 70ft wide and 45ft high. Leave an 18 inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put a door on the side and build three decks inside the boat, lower, middle, middle and upper.
When God called Noah into this act of faith, he gave him the instructions that he would need to be able to do it. He gave him exactly what he wanted him to do. God does the same for us. He calls us to live in obedience to his word. And when he calls us, he gives us instructions that he asks us to be obedient, to work out.
It's a bit like this. Now, I'm gonna need a few of your help down below here. Yeah, yeah. Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. You can all work together, but life can sometimes look a bit like this.
Whoa.
No, you may not keep it afterwards. It is donated to Kids Church, so you can do it at Kids church whenever you come to Kids Church. So life can look a bit like this. We get just puzzle pieces, little bits that we don't quite know how they fit together. And if we have no instruction, we are only going to be guessing where these pieces go.
God knew that about us, that we would need a little bit of help to be the ultimate construction that he has called us to be. That we would need some instruction. We would need some guideline to step into the ultimate purpose that he's called us for. So I'm going to give you guys the puzzles. Where am I putting it?
I'm going to put it around here. Yeah. So your challenge for me, guys, for the rest of this is to build. Yeah, I know. To build this without any instructions or without looking at the pieces, you have to guess exactly what.
Oh, don't forget this. This is important. You have to try and build what it becomes. We're going to check back in with them a little bit later because it's very fun to see what young people create when you give them just some random blocks. But guys, guys, guys.
But that's a bit like life, isn't it? Without any kind of guidelines. We are just guessing. But God has given us so many tools to get us ready for what he calls us to do. He's given us his word.
He's given us the Holy Spirit. We have ways in which we can build the best possible foundation and our best possible life to be ready to step into the calling that God has given us. If we want to be people of great faith, it matters how we're being built up. It matters how we're being constructed. And it matters how obedient we are to what God is calling us to do.
It matters to him that we listen to what he says because he cares so much about us. That's the thing, church. He gives us these guidelines and he gives us these instructions because he wants you to be the best person that he has called you to be. He cares about how things are made. He cared about how this ark was constructed.
Could you imagine if Noah had decided that he didn't need to use to. That was the waterproofing element of this. He could have just, you know, God will be right. And the boat doesn't last the way that God had intended to because he neglected to follow the instructions that God had given him. It matters how we follow God's instructions.
No, that's the whole challenge, guys. No, you can't even have the box. This is an imagination moment. I know you guys do this all the time in kids church. You should be used to this.
We also are called to have small obedience, obedience in the every single day. To be people that build great moments. We can't just live for the great moments. It's small obedience in every single step of life that we take because the Holy Spirit prompts us on things. Has anyone ever experienced that?
You know, you get that little just stirring of the Holy Spirit, that little nudge to go do something more often than not unfortunately. I tend to argue with it because it's normally a little something that I don't want to do. There's been many times that I've had that Holy spirit, go talk to someone. I'm like, no, I'll pray for them here. And you go talk to them.
God, you're good at that. But God isn't calling. You know, he could do it, but he's asking us to do it. He's asking us to be obedient to that step and go, all right, will you go out? Will you be vulnerable?
Or will you seek me in your word? Will you go and do what I am challenging you to do? Little acts of obedience matter. Church. It is the little acts of obedience that grow and strengthen our faith.
To be able to do the biggest once, to be able to build those boats in our lives, to be able to step out into great and amazing calling. Will you be obedient when God calls you to do something that is a little less glamorous? And it's just awkward and uncomfortable because sometimes more often than not, God never calls us into places where we're comfortable. And it helps to get used to small bits of discomfort because normally the big calling is very uncomfortable. So it works.
God is strengthening you. He knows what he's doing. Are you willing to say yes? And are you willing to surrender to what God is shaping you and calling you to do? The third thing that we see in Noah is foresight.
God calls him to do something amazing, something extraordinary, something that had never been done before. In fact, in Hebrews 11 it says, oh, gosh. Hebrews 11:7 it says, it was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. It had never happened before.
Church. So all of a sudden, Noah is faced with this massive thing that has never happened before. And yet what does he do? He faithfully steps out and he doesn't see the outcome, but he is trusting the God that does. He is having eyes of faith to see beyond what is in the now circumstance and have action to do what God is calling him to do and what will set him up for the future and his family up for the future.
Foresight is broken into two parts for meaning before and sight, which means to perceive. So really it is having the ability to judge what is going to happen before it happens. Now, I think a lot of us would probably love to be able to judge and know exactly what's going to happen before it happens. So we can step into every single circumstance fully prepared for that. We don't always get to do that.
That's where the faith comes in. But we serve a God that does that knows every single thing that's going to happen. He knows the outcome of every single moment. And he knows when he calls you into something, he knows what's going to happen at the end. But he's calling us to have eyes of faith that step out regardless, that step out of our circumstances and that step out in faith, not necessarily knowing what's going to happen.
To build great boats. Sometimes we just need to take small steps of great faith, not understanding what's going to happen in the future. Hebrews 11:1 says, now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do. Do not see. We will not see everything church, but we serve a God who does.
We don't get to know everything, but we serve a God who does. We serve a God who does incredible and amazing and powerful things. And he wants to do incredible, amazing and powerful things through you. And he wants you to be courageous enough to see what he is calling you into and start stepping into it. He wants you to see what the possibilities are and start to chase after that.
He wants you to have a look and see the things that could be changed and what he might be calling you into and run into that. Your current circumstances, however, may not dictate that. Your current circumstances might not feel all that great or they might not make all that much sense. But it's still having faith to step into where God is calling you to. Because you see where God can call you.
You can see what he's doing. You don't need to be seeing it now. You're having faith for what you do not see because you have assurance in the God that you see serve. You have an assurance in what he can do. When I first really gave my life to the Lord, I was fresh out of high school and I had this calling and this want to do something amazing and impacting for God.
But I thought that the only way I would be able to do that is to not be here. So I tried to lead, Frank said. I tried to leave this church. I tried to leave all the places that I'd known because in my mind, this church saw me grow up, watch me grow up. So they knew all my insecurities, they knew all my flaws.
They knew everything that was wrong. So for me to have real impact, I needed to go somewhere when no one knew me and I could just step into my call. How simple is that? But God challenged me to step. And every single year, like clockwork, I would find something new that I wanted to do.
And I'd be like, God, this is it. And he'd be like, no, it's not. And I would have to surrender again to staying. And that was a hard thing to do in the moment, Church, because I just wanted to do something. And I didn't understand why God kept asking me to be here.
I didn't get why God kept asking me to just serve in the same place. Surely there's no change can happen in a place where I've been my whole life. But God proved me wrong. Thank goodness that God proved me wrong. He challenged me in the way that I was thinking.
He challenged me in the way that I was living. He's like, yes, those dreams I have given you, they are real and I have a purpose for them. But you do not get to control how they happen. In fact, I want you to have faith to be right here, to serve right here, to say yes, right here. And have faith that what I have called you to do is going to happen.
You just need to start walking in where I'm asking you to now. Because the calls that I have for you, I still have for you. You just don't get to see how they're necessarily going, going to play out. And church, that is what our God can do. The calls, the dreams, the things that he has put on your heart, he has ways for them to come to pass.
But he is not necessarily going to show you the way they are going to happen. But he is going to call you to start walking and start stepping out in faith, to look at your circumstances and your situation through eyes of faith that say, God, I might not get it here, but I know your promise and your call over my life. And I'm going to start walking in it. Because I know and I believe that you are going to do what you say you are going to do. Because God, he is a faithful God.
We serve a God that is faithful. And if he has put something on your heart, if he is stirring something in your life, he is going to be faithful to act it out. You just might not get to see how it happens. That's faith. Faith is saying yes anyway.
It's stepping out anyway. It's seeing the dream and going, yes, God, I'm going to pursue it anyway. Noah did this in so many aspects, in so many ways. He didn't know what God would do after the flood. He didn't Know how the world was going to turn out.
He didn't know the result, but he continued to walk in faith. Church. We are continually called to do the same thing, to step out in faith. Because God has things he wants to do in our lives. He has dreams that he wants to put on our hearts.
He has purpose and intention for our homes, for our workplaces, for our ministries, for our church, for our families, for our friends. But he's asking us to say yes. He's asking us to look through eyes of faith and step out and be bold and build that boat. All right, kids, how's this going? What have we made?
Nothing. Nothing beautiful. Do you want to see what it was supposed to be?
It's supposed to be a camera. You just saw that. Well, I know I gave you guys like a full hint up here. Here you go. Try and construct.
So church, I just want to pray over you this morning. Guys, guys, guys, we're almost done. You can almost go outside so I can get you just to close your head. Close your eyes, guys. I'm so sorry.
Close your eyes and bow your heads. I am 30 weeks pregnant, so I'm gonna blame this on pregnancy brain and not on the fact that I just mix up my words sometimes. But if you have a circumstance that you just really want God to move in right now, if you are just feeling that stir of faith and you're just hungry for faith, if you are just crying out, God, give me something, give me a call. Show me what you want for my life. I just want to encourage you church all around this place.
No matter what you're going through and no matter what your situation is, I just encourage you to lift your hands across this place. Let's just give our circumstances over to the God who is able to do immeasurably more through us. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, God. I pray that you just stir up the face of your people in this place.
I pray, Lord God, that you would just stir something new and fresh in our hearts, Lord God, I just pray that you would help us, Father, lean into a relationship with you. That you would help us to seek you with every everything that we've got and in everything we do. And that we would just be willing to say yes when you call us Father. And that we wouldn't need to know outcomes or circumstances because we trust the God who is in us. And over it all, thank you, God, that you are in and over it all, that you see where each and every single one of us are at.
You see our circumstances. You See what we're going through. And you are a God who cares, and you are a God who loves us. So, Father, I just pray for a faith to be a faith increase in this room, Lord, that you would just show us your heart anew and afresh this morning and that you would do what only you can do in each and every single one of our lives. I thank you, Lord, and everyone said in this place, amen.
Hey. Oh, you're getting up. No, I want to get up. No, it's mine. No, it's mine.
Happy wife, happy life. That's my wife.
Why don't we give Kathleen a great hand?
I always love hearing from. From Kat. She has grown up in this church, and many times, many times she's questioned what her place is and all of that. And I'm just very proud of her for getting up and going. You know, this is not what she goes.
She loves doing because she gets all nervous and she's pregnant and she's going all kinds of things going on and. But she's got that. That what you just saw is great faith in action. And, you know, we're very proud of you, Kat and Dylan, and seeing God do great things and growing together. And so thank you.
And kids, how are we going with this? This is proof. This illustration here. Hand me some of the. Hand me some of the pieces, guys.
I need to show the church how well you done so far. Here we go. Here we go. This is. This is how well we're doing so far.
Give them a hand.
Isn't this proof that we need instructions in life? That's why the Lord gave us the Bible. And I'll leave you to it. Guys, you'll be here for the rest of the afternoon. Parents, you got to leave your kids here the rest of the afternoon.
They're going to be working on this. Hey, a couple of things I want to do, and then we're going to finish up. We've got all the activities. If you don't know my name, I'm Adrian. I'm one of the pastors here.
We are very privileged to have an amazing team of people that look after and run our whole Connect Kids ministry. And I just want you, if you're part of the Connect Kids team. What's that? And they're all outside setting up and doing all the stuff. But if you're in here, I want you to stand to your feet.
You guys represent many of the leaders. Kat, that's you and who else? All the guys who help in kids. If you volunteer at Connect kids at any point. We've got them all out there as well and standing around.
Here we go. There's some more. Come on. Why don't we give them a great hand? There's some of them are up the front here.
We want to honor you and say thank you. Don't we, kids? We love our leaders and thank you for all the effort and time you put in. So we love you and you guys are doing an awesome job. So thank you very much.
The other thing I want to do is this. The other heroes in this room. I was just thinking about this before. Ella, can you look at a smile for a second? There you go.
Thank you.
That's what I have to do as well. I have to smile sometimes because I look very serious. If you're a parent here, if you're a parent of someone under 18 or you've got your kids still living at home with you, you're a hero. You're a hero because you come into church and you're raising your kids to know the Lord. And it's hard, isn't it?
It's hard. In our day and age, we've got all these challenges, all these things in our way that are pulling on us and sport and social media and all this stuff going on. But you guys are making the decision to say, I want to be in the house of God. I want to raise my children to know the Lord. So here's what I want to do.
I want to pray for you. Is that okay? And so if you are a parent of someone under 18, can I ask you to stand to your feet? Is that all right? There's a whole bunch of you here, so it's all right.
You're not in your. You got a whole. Here. Look at all of our parents in the room. Kids, are we proud of our mums and dads?
You're here because they're here. And Kathleen is sitting down because she's been standing, preaching the whole time. So that's all right. You're allowed to. I'm going to pray for you.
I want to say, well, well done. You know, many times we feel bad as parents because we feel like we're not doing a good enough job, don't we? We feel like, oh, no matter how hard we work and what we do, there's always more we could do and all this. But I want to tell you. I want to tell you, you're doing awesome.
And if you. If you're saying, I want to put God first in my life, you're making A brilliant decision. And so I want to say thank you. And God is with you. He knows how hard it.
It is. He knows the challenges. He knows that you feel way out of your depth sometimes and don't know how to do it and feel like I'm not good enough. I wish I was better. I feel the same way.
But God wants to tell you I'm proud of you and I'm with you and I'm going to give you all the strength you need. So can we pray right now? I want us to bow our heads and if you've got a parent near you, just reach out your hand towards them. Kids, we're going to pray for our parents. I want you to reach out your hands towards your parents right now.
We're gonna pray for our mums and dads, okay? Because they need help, don't they? Mums and dads need help. So let's pray together. Lord, I thank you for the parents of our church.
I thank you for the parents, Lord, who are raising their kids to know you, Lord, to be in the house of God, Lord God. We need people of faith, God, like Kathleen was saying, people of faith who see God. What you're trying to do, Lord, we're trying to raise our children to follow you. We're trying to raise our children to be mighty men and women of God. We're trying to give them great opportunity, Lord God, so that you, your hand would be upon them.
So, Lord, I ask for your protection over our parents. I ask for strength right now, Lord. I ask for your love and encouragement, Lord, because we need it, Lord. They're doing better than they know. They're doing better than they know, Lord.
And. And they need to know right now that you're with us. You're with them and you're guiding them, Lord. And even when we make mistakes, Lord, you pick us up. Some of us are parents.
We feel like we've fallen down and we're not going to be able to pick up. But the Lord says, reach out. My hand is reaching out to you and I want to lift you back up and give you strength and confidence because you love your children. And I'm going to let you know that I know that and they know that. And you're doing a good job.
And God's going to give you everything you need to continue. So, Lord, help us, God. Help us to be the role models you've called us to be. Help us, Lord Jesus, to make the right decisions. Give us wisdom in Jesus name, Lord, I pray for grandparents as well.
And aunties and uncles, Lord, that you'd help us, God, to be the role models you've called us to be. Lord, you're raising us up for such a time as this to make a difference in our world, Lord, so help us. We pray in Jesus name. All God's people said amen. Come on.
Why don't we give all our parents a hand? We love you. You guys are awesome. Well, we've got all the activities. Stay standing because we're all going to stand up.
We're going to finish the service there. You guys are awesome kids. We've got activities outside. We've got food. We've got a sausage sizzle next week.
We got water of baptisms. And it's going to be a brilliant day in the house of God. God bless you, church. Have a great rest of the day.