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This message teaches that from the very beginning in Genesis, God created every person in His image and placed us in the garden to cultivate it and keep it, inviting us to be His fellow workers in whatever domain He has given us, whether we make a little or a lot. Pastor Jimmy Seibert shows that God’s sovereignty and our effort are not in competition. Like Paul, we are what we are by the grace of God, and that grace empowers us to work hard under God’s leadership. He calls us to be faithful and diligent in the work in front of us, to examine whether fear, lifestyle or the need to feel valuable is driving us to overwork, to reject laziness and get-rich-quick schemes, to order the gaps in our days with purpose and to embrace a biblical rhythm of work and rest. The goal is not wealth but contentment and rest in God, sowing faithfully for His glory and storing up treasure in heaven.

In this message, Jimmy Seibert teaches that God is our provider and that money is ultimately a heart issue, not a lifestyle issue. Whether we have a little or a lot, we tend to grip what we have, but God invites us to open our hands: to receive freely from Him so that we can freely give. Living simply practically means living out of a place of peace, avoiding unneeded debt, enjoying what God has given without longing for more and staying attentive to the needs of others. The purpose is not simply to get out of debt or be a better Christian, but to be free to love God with all our heart, love our neighbor as ourselves and give our lives to making disciples.

In our new sermon series, God Will Provide, Pastor Jimmy Seibert teaches that learning to trust God with our daily bread is how we learn to trust Him with our hearts. Whether we have a little or a lot, the issue is not a dollar figure but a heart posture, moving from clenched hands to surrendered hands that receive from God in order to give to others. Jimmy lays out a rhythm of grace for the series: live simply by finding contentment in what God has provided, work diligently by partnering with God through the work of our hands and give generously by giving obediently, joyfully and sacrificially. He invites each of us to open our hands and trust God as our provider.

Pastor Vincent Carpenter invites the church to see prayer and fasting not as a list of rules but as an invitation to experience God. Drawing from Matthew 4:1-11, he looks at Jesus' forty days in the wilderness and the three temptations He faced: to turn stones into bread, to throw Himself from the highest point of the temple and to receive all the kingdoms of the world in exchange for worship. In each one, Satan's aim was not simply to lead Jesus into sin but to distort the character of God, question Jesus' identity and offer an alternative to the Father's plan. With encouragement from key Scriptures, Pastor Vincent reminds us that God listens, cares and comforts, that we are His unique creation and that He calls us beyond ourselves to partner with Him for our city, our nation and the nations of the earth.

In "Fall Like Rain," the last of our Overwhelming Grace series, Pastor Jimmy Seibert walks through his top 10 grace scriptures. Grace is the overwhelming love, pleasure and favor of God toward undeserving people and the power of God to do the will of God. Grace is attached to a person, the grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of the Father and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. He shares through these Scriptures that the throne of grace is always open and humility is how we access more of it. Grace strengthens the heart against strange teachings, abounds as we sow it into others, breaks the power of besetting sin and gives us a place to stand. He ends by encouraging us with a passage from Zechariah with Jesus speaking 'grace, grace' over every mountain we face and of God's grace falling like rain, coming toward us before we ever reach for it.