A Servant’s Heart: Serving Others Like Jesus | Girls Gone Bible

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Speaker 6 i'm ari and this is girls gone bible we are a faith-based podcast where we talk all things spirituality mental health relationships anything to do with life but above all else we love talking about jesus jesus is our man he's our guy he's our god we love that guy i think that was the best intro yet Honestly, not bad for someone with the flu.

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Speaker 7 ari servant heart you know yeah yeah

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Speaker 6 don't you dear all right talk about servant heart we are the two most

Speaker 6 i it must be an east coast thing it's an east coast thing and it's an albanian thing Ari and I are the same. I think we've said it on here before, but like we fight to pay the bill.

Speaker 6 Like we will fight each other. We fight other people.

Speaker 7 Yeah. No, we will fight.

Speaker 6 Like we'll fight. We want every, like, it's just a thing.
Like, that's how my family is. That's how your credit card is out of the hand.
Exactly.

Speaker 6 Oh, like, go and be the first one to tell the waiter, like, take my card. And if you don't, we're going to have a problem.

Speaker 7 Until it's me and you at dinner, and you're like, oh, please, Ari, shut up. I pay for everything.

Speaker 6 And then Ari and I, though, have realized that other people don't fight to pay. Like, in fact, they don't pay at all.

Speaker 3 In fact, no, they don't offer.

Speaker 3 And so, in fact, they don't pay at all ever.

Speaker 6 And then, so Arnie and I have found ourselves, we'll be like out to dinner, like doing something.

Speaker 3 We're like, we got it, we got it, we got it. And then you're like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 They're like, I wasn't fighting you on it. And we're like,

Speaker 7 why are we like this?

Speaker 6 Like, why are we fighting ourselves for the bill?

Speaker 7 I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing. I'd rather be the one that's offering that than that sitting back.

Speaker 7 I do feel though that God has a way of always providing providing when you are at service and you aren't so fickle with your money.

Speaker 3 Well, fickle.

Speaker 7 I don't know if I've ever said that word. You have.

Speaker 3 You taught me that word.

Speaker 7 I said fickle.

Speaker 6 You've said that. You taught me that.
I didn't know that word.

Speaker 7 That's our word of the devil.

Speaker 3 What a fickle God. Josh, how fickle?

Speaker 6 He's so fickle.

Speaker 6 Is that an insult?

Speaker 7 I don't know. I don't even know what it means.

Speaker 6 I don't know where it came from. I don't know where it came.

Speaker 7 Did I use it properly?

Speaker 3 Fickle. No.
Actually, fickle means like unreliable

Speaker 6 i think i don't know maybe we were both wrong okay what do you think about my 90s but do you remember that one time it was our second episode ever i wore jeans and that jesus loves you t-shirt and i thought i was going for the model off-duty look but i ended up looking like um construction worker I remember that, yeah.

Speaker 7 And I told you, you made fun of me for so long. Well, no, that was the episode where I said, if you want to live with someone, just go ahead.

Speaker 3 Do what you're going to do.

Speaker 7 My sister did it.

Speaker 3 And I can't believe we haven't taken that down.

Speaker 6 And I go, Chris, oh, you want to be a good man? Like, who was I talking to? The first few relationships episodes, like, it sounded like I was, I went through a really bad breakup or something.

Speaker 6 I used to yell at the camera and be like, Christ love,

Speaker 6 you're supposed to love your wife like Christ loved the church. And you know what, Christ did? He died.
Like, who is I yelling at? Who have we been yelling at? Can we talk about it?

Speaker 3 We still do. I know.
Let's

Speaker 7 calm down.

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Speaker 6 All right, guys. So

Speaker 6 we love you, GGB, so, so much. We are so excited today.
I feel like we haven't sat at the table and really dove into a topic in a while. So, yeah, we haven't.

Speaker 7 Like, I mean, it's been so great. Just, I love talking on the couch, but I'm ready to go in today.

Speaker 6 I, we love the things of God. We love topics centered around Jesus.
And today, you guys, we are so excited to talk about servanthood, what it means to have a heart like Jesus that serves.

Speaker 6 We're just so excited. This is really fun.
We have so much scripture that we want to read.

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Speaker 3 Beautiful girls.

Speaker 7 Do you know how you

Speaker 7 were saying to me that you really meditate on one story like you used to like fly through the bible yeah i went i have been going through that too where i'm like okay one story did it and then i go on to the next and so i really took your advice and

Speaker 7 i read this story that we're going to read today and

Speaker 7 i've been reading it every day for eight days

Speaker 7 Thank you for that advice because I'm, I tell you guys this a lot, but I'm a really slow learner. Like it takes me a while to process things.

Speaker 7 And so this has been the greatest advice you could have given me because every single day I'm learning something new in this story.

Speaker 7 And it's such a short, what seems simple story, but I had so many revelations each time. The eighth time that I read it, I have tears streaming down my face because I learned something new.

Speaker 7 So thank you for that. And I would just encourage you guys to, there's just so many little treasures in these little stories that that's why it's like, don't just read it once.
Read it.

Speaker 7 You will have a new revelation. I've read stories millions of times and it's as if it's the first time I'm reading it.

Speaker 7 So I would just encourage you guys to really soak in a story and read it like many, many times because it's insane these revelations that you will, that he will speak to you through, through the story.

Speaker 6 So it's so true. It's so true because just like Ari said, when you read a story and you meditate on it, it's just like your eyes get open to something new every single time.
That's so good.

Speaker 6 I love that.

Speaker 6 What are we reading today again?

Speaker 7 So we're going to read Luke 10, verse 25, the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Speaker 7 And one more thing, you guys.

Speaker 7 I know it's so hard, even like. It's different in Bible studies than when you're watching podcasts.
It's so easy to kind of go through your phone while you're listening.

Speaker 7 It's hard sometimes, you know, and I even do that when I'm watching sermons.

Speaker 7 But if you guys could just put away your phones and try to just take this time to really listen and read through with us, it will make a huge difference.

Speaker 6 Do not be on your phone when somebody is reading from the Word of God. We know that.
I know you guys would never know that.

Speaker 7 When you watch sermons,

Speaker 7 and behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the law? How do you read it?

Speaker 7 And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and with all of your soul, and with all of your strength, and with all of your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.

Speaker 7 And he said to him, You have answered him correctly. Do this and you will live.
He, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 Now by chance a priest was going down that road. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

Speaker 7 And 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.

Speaker 7 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

Speaker 7 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine.

Speaker 7 Then he set him on his own animal and brought him in and took care of him.

Speaker 7 And the next day he took out two dinari and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.

Speaker 7 which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers he said the one who showed him mercy and jesus said to him you go and do likewise

Speaker 7 that isn't a perfect story of being a servant um one thing that i really i actually i was in a bible study with a friend and

Speaker 7 You would we were reading through and we read in verse 31. It says, now by chance, a priest was going down that road.
And when he saw him, he passed by to the other side.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 7 And I was, we were talking. We were like, wow, a priest.
And how many.

Speaker 7 How many people, Christians, preachers are preaching the word to you or are Christians who love Jesus, but they aren't servants. And I was like, wow, that right there is like,

Speaker 7 and

Speaker 3 so good.

Speaker 7 Yeah. And I just, it's, I love this story too, because at the end, when he says, take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you.

Speaker 7 And we oftentimes do things and we expect things from others, and, and, and that's where we've gone wrong. And we just have to do things and not expect things back.

Speaker 6 I love that so much. I love that.
I love this story. I love that you got us to read this.
Um,

Speaker 6 something that is so interesting to me is that during this time, during Jesus's time, if you guys know, like there there was a feud going on between the Samaritans and the Jews.

Speaker 6 The Jews considered themselves to be the pure-blooded

Speaker 6 race. And so they are like elite, they're better, they're on top because they're pure-blooded and they're just Jews.
Samaritans are a mixed breed. They're Jews and another race.

Speaker 6 And Samaritans and the Jews hated each other. They absolutely hated each other.
So they would purposely go around each other's land.

Speaker 6 Like they would go hours and hours and miles out of their way so that they wouldn't have to run into each other. And during this time, the Jews thought that they were so, so elite, right?

Speaker 6 And so it just goes to show that the kingdom of God is not for the elite or the pure or the

Speaker 6 rich or the ones who are better than everybody else because this Samaritan person who is looked at as less than, who is despised,

Speaker 6 the Jewish man who was a priest, who was, you know, supposed to be better than the Samaritan in the story, he goes to the other side of the street.

Speaker 6 And the Samaritan who is like the lesser than person in the situation, he's the one that stops.

Speaker 6 So I just like God is always putting an emphasis on it. It doesn't matter who you are, what you are, where you come from.

Speaker 6 It's about your heart and it's about how much and how well you serve other people. I just love that so much.

Speaker 6 I love the emphasis on the fact that like the person you thought was supposed to do something good is actually the person that didn't. And the person that we look down on is actually the one that God

Speaker 6 is going to favor in this situation.

Speaker 7 You know, servanthood is just,

Speaker 7 oh, gosh, it's just, I'm so happy we're talking about it today. It's so needed because we are praying for things and we are hurting and all these things.

Speaker 7 And before anything else, it's about being a servant. It's about that is, that is what, what the ultimate thing that Jesus wants for us.
I

Speaker 7 think about, I'm just so blessed because my mom and dad were just, their hearts, they taught me since I was a little girl, like, you always, you always help others.

Speaker 7 You even like when I was a kid in school, and I love that we're talking about this right now, too, because

Speaker 7 there's so many young kids that even listen to us and it all starts even when we're at school. And I just, I just remember them always being like you helped those kids and

Speaker 7 I didn't even me like I think about I think about things that have always stayed in my heart and it's not it's it's the moments where people have served me when I needed it and helped me when I needed it I remember being in school and

Speaker 7 I was, I had so much anxiety, I didn't want to get on the bus. Like I wouldn't get on the bus with the kids.
I had anxiety because I know where to sit, like these little things.

Speaker 7 And so I would walk an hour home from school and this girl she

Speaker 7 her she had a servant heart she would come and she'd be like Arielle she drove me home every single day and she didn't have a lot of money her mom like was sick but she still took that time to drive me home every day and

Speaker 7 and just like kids in school too like

Speaker 7 He watches these little things that you do. He watches how you treat people.
Like you think that just preaching the word is enough.

Speaker 7 No, God watches all the little details and it starts with school, you guys.

Speaker 7 If you knew how many kids are hurting, how many kids come from broken homes, how many kids go home and feel suicidal because they feel like alone and even like the lunchrooms and they're sitting there by themselves.

Speaker 7 So it's little things like that. Like go sit next to them.
Go ask them if they need a friend. Go walk home with them.
Go ask them if they need, you know, it's like these little things that

Speaker 7 going to, it's going to change the world.

Speaker 7 Like if we all helped others and was at service for others, and we, and me and you realize this at the shows, how broken, how afraid, how broken of homes people come from.

Speaker 7 And it's opened up our eyes so much. I mean, we come from.

Speaker 7 you know, broken places, but you don't realize how many people are hurting and just giving someone a hug, a smile, holding the door, buying someone a coffee.

Speaker 7 I remember too, when I was in my depression and I would be at the Starbucks line and somebody had paid for my coffee in front in the line. And it was like,

Speaker 7 it just, these little things, these little acts of service go such a long way.

Speaker 6 So true. It's so true.
I love what you're talking about, how.

Speaker 6 how your family taught you at such a young age. If I can say thank you to my mom for anything, it's the fact that I had the greatest role model ever when it comes to serving others.

Speaker 6 Like my mom is an absolute gangster. Like she,

Speaker 6 Albanians in general, they do this a lot where like they're just like when you, if you look up like traits,

Speaker 6 like traits of Albanians, like what are they known for? It's their hospitality.

Speaker 6 They let people in.

Speaker 6 She makes fruit.

Speaker 6 She makes fruit. She makes food.
Like you set people up well. You let them into your home.
You open the door. You give what you can.
You give money. You put yourself out.

Speaker 6 You are there for people when they need you, whether it's financially or a million other ways. You open, you know, the door.
And so, like, I grew up in a context where

Speaker 6 our door was like a revolving door. Like, we had people with us all the time.
We always had people stay. And like, now these days, I'm like, you who needs to come to my house? Come to my house.

Speaker 6 Like, I, my bed is open. Like, I, I have, you know, you can have what's mine, you know, like, because that's just like the way that I was raised.

Speaker 6 It's, and I don't, I can't even imagine being any different than just like, I watched my mom and

Speaker 6 I've just seen.

Speaker 6 And my mom wasn't, you know, my mom loved Jesus, but she wasn't in this context of Christianity where you are like that, you focus on serving or being hospitable or any of these things.

Speaker 6 This was just like really innate for them. And so I watched my mom my whole life just give, give, give, give.
And I see the reward of that. Yeah.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 And we don't do things to get anything in return. That's not the heart of Jesus.
He did not die on the cross so that he could get something in return from us.

Speaker 6 He did it regardless of if he ever gets anything in return. But like I've seen the reward in my mom's life.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Same with my dad.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Like they always, God always provides.
Like she has never lacked.

Speaker 7 We have always had what we needed sometimes it was a lot sometimes it was absolutely nothing but it was always enough and you know what it's something I as you were talking because you come from an Albanian family I always connect with different cultures that come

Speaker 6 you are not

Speaker 7 like you are for it you are you have like that mentality you really do because I'm gonna tell you what it is it's when you come from nothing yeah

Speaker 7 I have never I used to grow up being so embarrassed of where I came from. And I used to like compare myself to like the rich kids or the kids that would go to the private schools.

Speaker 7 I have never in my age felt so proud of how I grew up, where I come from, because we know what it's like to struggle. We know what it's like to suffer.
We know what it's like.

Speaker 7 So that's why if you're listening right now and you're someone who's struggling or you come from a broken past,

Speaker 7 I know it's so hard, but it's actually God's blessing because that is why you have a servant heart. That is why you can look at the look in the eyes of others and be like, me too.
Can I help you?

Speaker 7 How can I be at service for you? And that's why I connected so much with you. And I also, I also even connect so much with people from South America.

Speaker 7 I'm always friends with South American people because

Speaker 7 they come from struggle. And so it's like we have that, you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 And so you have a mentality where it's like

Speaker 6 we're not this like independent, isolated.

Speaker 6 like we both come from situations where it's like it's a village like you care for each other you serve each other what do you need what do you need let me provide how can i help like that's just the mentality that we have and i think it's like so interesting for you and i because we live in la for whatever 10 years now and it's like it's such a dog eat dog isolated independent everyone's out for themselves type of world and i think you and i have thank you jesus done such a good job at not becoming like that where we're not like in it for ourselves we're not like we

Speaker 6 it's just so interesting being in the position that we're in because

Speaker 6 when you have a microphone and cameras and lights and stage and tour and blah blah blah all this stuff the temptation would be to think that like my ministry is important my podcast is important i serve the masses because our podcast is so successful and blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 6 And God is like speaking just such a different message.

Speaker 6 He's like, yes, what you do is significant and important, but you are not like, you are not great in the kingdom of God when you lead by having followers and being an important person.

Speaker 6 You are great in the kingdom of God when you serve people with a selfless, humble heart.

Speaker 6 And so like, we're in this thing.

Speaker 6 And like everybody who's in a position that we're in, and even if you don't have a podcast, and even if you're not famous or on Instagram or all the things, you still, we all have to fight the temptation to be of being like, what I do is so important, and it's more important than what anybody else does.

Speaker 6 You know what I mean? When God is like, that's not what's important to me. No, it's not, it is not, it's not, it's not.

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And even like, it's people are,

Speaker 7 I'm seeing it. It's like, me, me, me.
It's, we, we're going to work, not even realize that your coworker might be having suicidal thoughts.

Speaker 7 Like, one thing I'm learning in my journey, because I was even there at one point point where I was so self-focused on making it or being something or being someone.

Speaker 7 And it's like, no,

Speaker 7 he gives us things not to have it for ourselves. He gives us things to be vessels to work through us, to help others and serve others.

Speaker 7 And if we just trust God and know that he's not asking us to give our whole savings account, but be at service to others. That's why he gives us the things.

Speaker 7 Everything he gives us, it's not for us it's for him to serve him that's why he says seek me first and then everything else will be added seeking him means helping his people helping his people being at service for his people being like this How can I be at service for you?

Speaker 7 How can you work through me so I can help your sons and daughters? That is how our world is going to be better. It's the only way.
You know what the most beautiful thing that I have seen lately is

Speaker 7 when the fires happened in L.A. Yeah.
I have never been more proud to live here. I used to hate living here.
I was like, everybody is about themselves. These Hollywood people.
Oh no.

Speaker 7 The way people came to a place of humility.

Speaker 7 The way people came together was giving each other money, groceries, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. And I was like, this is what life is all about.
If we can do this,

Speaker 7 forget it. We're going to be a team.
We need to be a team.

Speaker 6 I love that so much. I love that so much.

Speaker 6 It is all about people. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Period. Everything we do is about people.

Speaker 6 Gifts of the Spirit are for people. It is for the gift of prophecy, is to build up the people of the church.
The gift of healing is to heal God's people.

Speaker 6 The gift of faith is to let it spread to everybody around you so everybody has faith in Jesus. The gift of tongues is to literally edify the body.

Speaker 6 Like everything that we do, everything that we are in the kingdom of God is for people.

Speaker 6 It's for people. This is just one thing that I've noticed about Christianity in general, especially in this time of social media.
And the rise of Christian content is the most incredible thing.

Speaker 6 Thank you, Jesus, that so much Christian content is pushed. Our biggest issue.
is that we have people who want to be Instagram famous and they don't actually love other people.

Speaker 6 The greatest commandments are love the Lord your God with all your heart and love his people.

Speaker 6 I heard Bill Johnson say something really, really profound, and it's that your relationship with Jesus is not invisible.

Speaker 6 Your relationship with God is invisible, but it can be measured. And it is measured by the love that you have for other people.
It's measured by the way that you serve other people.

Speaker 6 You cannot just say that you love God with your mouth and spend time in the secret place and develop and cultivate this incredible relationship with God and you operate in this, in the gifts, and you do all these things and you're so gifted and you're so amazing and you hear the voice of God and you're an incredible singer or you really know how to make Christian content, but then you don't love and serve people.

Speaker 6 That is not like, the two have to be,

Speaker 3 they have to co-class.

Speaker 7 I know. That's like that.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 6 And so I just, I wrote this thing that

Speaker 6 I just wrote a little something that I feel like kind of sums up just this whole thing for me personally.

Speaker 6 Greatness in God's kingdom is not measured by the usual standards of the world. In a world that celebrates power, status, and influence, Jesus gives us a radically different perspective.

Speaker 6 In his kingdom, the greatest are those who serve.

Speaker 6 And then in Matthew 20, we have this little,

Speaker 6 we have this little story where the mother of James and John asks Jesus if when when they get to heaven, he will take her two sons and put them in positions of like high honor, one on Jesus' left and one on Jesus' right.

Speaker 6 And this request stirs up like a bunch of jealousy and competition and issue amongst the believers. And then Jesus goes and tells them something so profound.

Speaker 6 He uses this moment to teach them about the true nature of the kingdom of God. And it's like what we said.
It's not about the things that the world sends a message. It's It's about serving.

Speaker 6 And he says, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant. And whoever wants to be first must be your slave.

Speaker 6 Just as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Speaker 6 It challenges us to rethink. our whole perspective around power and status.
Jesus came not to be served, but to serve. And so as a follower of Jesus, that's the approach that we take.

Speaker 6 And it can get really messed up when you think that your gifts are important, that your presence is important, and you are precious to Jesus. And

Speaker 6 if God himself came down,

Speaker 6 he makes literally the world his footstool. That's how powerful Jesus is.
And he came to serve.

Speaker 6 How much more should we be serving one another and not looking to be the most powerful or the most important or the most most like, you know what I mean? I just,

Speaker 6 we are supposed to serve the least of these. If you and I walk into a church and we have power and influence, we must be on the ground washing feet.
That's the point. It's true.

Speaker 7 It's really true. Thank you for saying that.
That's so beautiful.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I just,

Speaker 7 I,

Speaker 7 I can't tell you like

Speaker 7 what when I was in my lowest time of depression and it wasn't when I got a job or booked something.

Speaker 7 It wasn't any of these things it's when i put my problems aside to set somebody else look at what you did for me you were in a bad place all right you were just as

Speaker 7 i mean maybe you weren't as depressed but you were going through some really bad things when you met me but you put your stuff aside to be at service to me you were a servant to me and didn't that help you through your stuff yeah because some of us are really struggling financially and some of us are just like i want to help but like it's really hard and I just want to let you know that God sees that and he's

Speaker 7 he doesn't look at how much you can give I just wanted to read this little part it's Mark 12 verse 41 the widow's offering and he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box many rich people put in large sums And a poor widow came and put two small copper coins, which make a penny.

Speaker 7 And he called his disciples to him and said to them, Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of those who are contributing to the offering box, for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, has put in everything she had.

Speaker 7 I'm so, and she had to live on. And like, it makes me so emotional because,

Speaker 3 like,

Speaker 7 I just hope we can all like help one another more. And

Speaker 7 I just see so many people, like,

Speaker 7 I don't know, so many people are broken and suffering. And

Speaker 7 it's not a lot of people, it's just not their fault. Like, they, especially these kids, they're just,

Speaker 7 they come from such broken homes. And

Speaker 7 I just, I don't know. I just, I have been praying so much about this.
I think it's, it hits home for me so much because I'm seeing

Speaker 7 so many people at our shows and stuff and

Speaker 7 this is the core of Jesus's mission. It's to be of service to people.
It's to serve sacrificially. What does scripture say? It says, you love those who love you.
Okay, even sinners do that.

Speaker 7 But when you love sacrificially, when you love when you don't have much, when you give when you don't have a lot to give, even if it's just like buying someone a coffee, holding the door door for someone i have numerous things in my mind that i can say off the bat that when i was struggling it like got me through i was at the bank one time right and

Speaker 7 i held the door i waited a couple minutes for this man to come out he had a lot of stuff in his hand And I held the door for him. And then I was in line.
And this man came in the bank.

Speaker 7 And he goes, I just went to my car, but I had to come back and let you know that I was having the worst day today. And you held the door and nobody's ever done that for me.

Speaker 7 And I just want to say thank you so much. And he had tears in his eyes.
And it's like these little acts of service of holding the door.

Speaker 7 What else? What else can you think of? Holding the door, smiling at someone, letting someone go on the road, giving somebody a compliment, giving someone your seat on the train.

Speaker 7 Like I know these are these seem like little things, but these are actually sacrifices that you make for someone else.

Speaker 7 Maybe you're having such a hard day and you're in a hurry, but if you keep your eyes open and you look around, someone may need you.

Speaker 7 And if you're someone that's in a depression right now or you're struggling, let me tell you something.

Speaker 7 Your depression is going to fall off when you, there is no more great reward than when you help someone and be at service for someone.

Speaker 7 It's truly the most rewarding thing. And I always tell people that if you are someone that really is in a tough time, help someone else.
It will get the focus off of you.

Speaker 6 It is the most edifying thing when you're going through a bad time to help somebody else to take the focus off of yourself.

Speaker 6 Like you said, my favorite thing that happens sometimes is when you're going through something and I start going through something and I just see in you

Speaker 6 completely like disregard all that you're going through to step in and step up and like intervene for me because I'm going through something in that moment.

Speaker 6 And I see that it makes a difference in your life like it gives you purpose serving others gives you purpose if you're struggling with your mental health I promise you the more you take your focus off of yourself the more that you

Speaker 6 put energy and life into somebody else, into speaking life over somebody, into being there for somebody, like in into just sitting and a great way to offer somebody help and to be of service to people is to stop thinking about yourself and to really focus in on somebody else's issues and to really sit and analyze and be an ear and pray and say, God, do you have something that I can tell this person?

Speaker 6 Is there anything that I can say to try and help this person get out of whatever hole that they're in?

Speaker 6 And then you watch God speak to you and God can literally use you to speak through you to a person and you give somebody life by actually sitting.

Speaker 6 Because I know so often we just like rush through the issues of life with people. Yeah.
And like you just give someone a little, yeah, you're good. Don't even worry about it.
You're fine.

Speaker 6 Instead of really sitting and being like,

Speaker 6 how, what can I give to this situation? What can I give to this person? I know. You know? Yeah, no.

Speaker 7 And I, that's a great point that you just made about.

Speaker 7 Even being at a red light, and if you see someone that is struggling or it's hard for them to walk, start praying for them. These are also acts of service that you can do for people.

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Speaker 6 I think something that's really, really important that is kind of the most when I think of servanthood this is the most important and probably because it has so much to do with like the position that we're in is that I see like leadership and I see the way that people view leadership and like whatever they do in the world is up to them but in the church in Christianity in faith like being a leader is characterized by your heart willing that's willing to serve people.

Speaker 6 A true leader in the Christian faith is not the person who demands and commands and sets the tone and sets rules. It's literally the person who is serving with sacrificial love.
Yes.

Speaker 6 That is building other people up. It's the person who chooses to go last.

Speaker 6 The person who chooses to go last.

Speaker 6 The person, it's like when, like, uh, whatever, I don't know, military terms, but when somebody is at war and the captain or the leader, whatever, they're not supposed to just hang back.

Speaker 6 They should be at the front of the line, willing to risk their life and give up their life life for everybody else. Just because you're in the highest position doesn't mean you get the best treatment.

Speaker 6 That's not, Jesus is in the highest position.

Speaker 7 Well, then he got the worst treatment. And that's who Jesus was.
And I'm telling you,

Speaker 7 like I was praying and I just had a picture of Jesus. If Jesus was here right now, he would not.
be hanging out with the cool kids.

Speaker 7 He'd be on his knees helping people, holding their hands, the people on the street, the sick kids.

Speaker 7 Like, this is the core of Jesus' mission he served and he helped sacrificially yeah that should be our core to help god's people and we're just all

Speaker 7 including that i was one of them just so self-focused on how i can get from a to b to make this money but it's not until we go like this and start serving and not being

Speaker 7 Again, like I said, if we only are helping the people that we love, what good is that for us?

Speaker 7 But when we start opening our hands hands and helping others that need it, not just the people we love, that's when abundance comes. Abundance doesn't come from self.
It comes from

Speaker 7 being in the posture of a servant.

Speaker 6 Exactly. It's having a heart that meets the needs of others.
And that's just what it's about. That's what he's asking of us.

Speaker 6 And that's what Ari and I are here to tell you today is have a heart that's desires to meet the needs of others. And it's not the easiest thing in the world.

Speaker 6 I know the one thing that I pray for every day of my life is Jesus, give me the awareness and the ability, the maturity and the strength to go out and not be so focused on myself and my own life that I forget that that, that like, yes, going on a podcast is amazing, but my main point of evangelism is my mouth face to face with somebody.

Speaker 6 And My temptation is to like, I'm just trying to chill. Like, I don't really want to, I don't really want to talk about anything.
I don't really want to talk to anyone.

Speaker 6 I'm a little introverted you know what i mean but it's like that's not the heart of jesus jesus stopped for the one every single time jesus never saw somebody in need and thought i just don't really feel like it right now you know what i mean it's having a heart that wants to meet the needs of others and i think we can all grow in this area all of us all of us including us because the temptation is to be selfish the temptation is like we are so concerned with what's happening in our own world and there's a lot all the time.

Speaker 6 And I have a thousand reasons why I should be focusing on myself. Yeah.

Speaker 3 But we're called higher. Yeah.

Speaker 7 You know, I want to read this little part because it goes back to what you said about,

Speaker 7 what did you say earlier? You said something so good about

Speaker 7 not leading, like going into church and being a leader, but not. And I read this the other day and it's in Matthew 16, verse 32.
It says, Then Jesus called his disciples

Speaker 7 and said, i have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat and i am willing and i am unwilling to send them away hungry and so when i when you read this you say they've been with him he's been teaching them he's been preaching to them but he refuses to let them go away hungry so this is like jesus right here saying that i refuse to let anyone go away hungry when i'm preaching the word yes but those who are hungry i refuse to let them And we should take this and apply this to our own lives.

Speaker 7 We can preach to people, we can pray to people, but those who need us, who need help, we need to be at service to them like Jesus.

Speaker 6 I love what it, can you read it to me one more time, what it says, but I refuse to let them.

Speaker 7 I'm unwilling to send them away hungry.

Speaker 6 I think about when we go, like scripture says, he rewards those who diligently seek him.

Speaker 6 He wants to feed us with himself. Like he wants so bad.
I just, I love that that spoke to me. That it's just like he refuses to let people go away hungry.

Speaker 6 If you go into the secret place and you look at Jesus and you say, I'm hungry, feed me. I want you.
I want more.

Speaker 6 I, his heart, it literally says that his heart is that he refuses to let you go away hungry. He wants to feed you.
If you want more of him, he wants to give it. I just love that so much.

Speaker 6 Um, there's this

Speaker 6 Ari and I love this. Clearly, we're so fired up because

Speaker 6 this is,

Speaker 6 again,

Speaker 6 we are, GGB is all about rebelling against what the world teaches. I am so, so sick and tired of this self-serving, self-self, self message of self because it's so detrimental.
Everybody's miserable.

Speaker 6 Everybody's alone. Everybody's isolated.
Nobody has true love. Nobody has true relationships.
You can't live serving yourself. You drive yourself into the ground.
And it's what kind of life is that?

Speaker 6 I grew up in a family and an environment where you put yourself out for other people.

Speaker 3 Now,

Speaker 6 sometimes I need boundaries, which is good, but like, I would rather be like that.

Speaker 6 I'd rather put myself out and like put myself in maybe not the best position because I know, I know my reward in heaven.

Speaker 6 And it's, this is like one thing that I want to say because I have it in my notes. Like

Speaker 6 true service is not about recognition or reward. It's about laying your life down for others.
It's about mirroring the sacrifice that Jesus made where he didn't do anything for a reward.

Speaker 6 But scripture is very clear that worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive the reward of his suffering.

Speaker 6 We asked a pastor recently, like,

Speaker 6 we just have, everyone has the question, like, what good is it if you do things God's way? What good is it if you walk in purity? What good is it if you serve other people well? What do I get from it?

Speaker 6 Like, that's everybody's question. Like, what's the blessing? And we talk about that.
We talk about the blessing that comes from obedience. We talk about the favor that comes from serving.

Speaker 6 If you serve other people the way that Jesus serves them, I guarantee you, I promise you that you will receive blessing, honor, favor, all of the things. But that's not why we do it.

Speaker 6 It's not even to receive anything in return. It is for Jesus to receive his reward for his suffering.
Jesus has the ability to receive the reward of his suffering through our lives.

Speaker 6 If we serve each other well, if we love each other well, Jesus, it's not about even what we receive and it's great. You will receive.
You will have a great,

Speaker 6 you'll have a great life. You'll receive so much blessing from serving people.
But more importantly, so much more importantly, Jesus receives his reward through our lives. I don't know about you guys.

Speaker 6 I really want Jesus to receive his reward through my life

Speaker 6 because I know that if nobody else existed on the planet except me, it was just my life, Jesus would have still gone to the cross.

Speaker 6 If it was just me he was dying for, he would have gone and he still would have looked at the cross as the joy that was set before him just for me.

Speaker 6 So I look at it as like, I can't control what anybody else does, but what I can control is doing my very best to make sure that when I get to the end of my life, Jesus can look at me and say, I receive my reward through your life, through the way that you lived your life because you served people well.

Speaker 7 And I think too about like, you know, I used to think that confidence was in

Speaker 7 what you wear and what you do and how how how big you are on Instagram. No, I will tell you one thing.

Speaker 7 If you guys are lacking confidence in your life and you're just, you don't really feel like you have an identity, that's okay.

Speaker 6 Serve people.

Speaker 7 Help people. Be at service for people.
Go help someone. You don't know where to help someone.
Go drive down the street. There is someone in a grocery store, in a bank.

Speaker 7 I always talk about the grocery store because I always be talking to people in the grocery stores. But there is always someone that you can help.
That is where we get our confidence.

Speaker 7 That is where true confidence.

Speaker 7 comes from having the posture of a servant heart helping others when it's sacrificial for you and the reward that you will feel when you see their depression go to happiness because you served them well.

Speaker 7 There is no other confidence that you can possibly feel in this world than that. There is nothing more fulfilling that you can feel when you help someone.

Speaker 7 I just want us all to do this and especially the kids. I just want to say it one more time.
Kids, people in high school, people in college, if you only knew how broken your peers are,

Speaker 7 sit with them. If you see them alone, help them.
If you're at work in an office, talk to someone. Get to know someone.
Help them. Give them a helping hand.

Speaker 7 Please, for the love of God, it is, you have no idea how much people are going through. And one more thing, I'll just say.
Your prayer life. Let's try to change the language to our prayer life.

Speaker 7 Why don't we say in the morning, how can I serve you? How can I be a service for you? Jesus, what do you have for me today? Who can you put in my corner that I can see?

Speaker 7 Can you help me keep my eyes open?

Speaker 7 Can you keep me alert so then when somebody comes my way, I'll know what to say, I'll know how to pray for them and I'll know how to steward the money to give them or how to help them or how to serve them.

Speaker 7 This is what that, this is what we need to be doing. This is this is what's going to change our world, change our relationship, change us as people.
Depression is going to fall off.

Speaker 7 This is that this is the most important thing above all else. I'm telling you guys.

Speaker 6 It's the most important thing. It's the most important thing.

Speaker 7 And that's what me and you did. That's what me and you did when we, when we really lost everything, we just started serving others.
And then everything else was added.

Speaker 6 I wish I like

Speaker 6 before I ever had Girls Gone Bible, before I ever made videos, before I ever did anything like on social media.

Speaker 6 And I miss it so much. And I know you've just got to be faithful to the, with the season that you're in, with what God's given you right now.
I love what we do more than anything.

Speaker 6 Like, I wouldn't obviously trade it for the world. But gosh, do I look back on evangelists and beginning days?

Speaker 3 You still are.

Speaker 6 But, like, I used to bring literally

Speaker 6 5, 10, 15 people, girls specifically, to church every Sunday. That was my thing.
I had like an LA nightlife ministry.

Speaker 6 I had no idea what I was doing, but I'd go to people who were struggling and I would say, you need need Jesus.

Speaker 6 I would buy people by setting my faith. I was just like Amazoning people Bible.
What's your address? Here's a Bible. Here's a study Bible.

Speaker 6 Like it was, it wasn't like I was, you know, friggin' on a missions trip, like helping the poor and the needy and the hungry, which is incredible and important.

Speaker 6 But I was doing what I could with what I had. And like, I miss those days.
Like, I miss the days where I would talk to my neighbor and I would pour into them and I would sit and I would stop.

Speaker 6 And like, so this is like,

Speaker 6 you know, I know how I serve the people in my everyday life and the people who are closest to me, but I feel convicted from this, from this to do more.

Speaker 6 Like I feel convicted in my own heart to be like, I can do more. I can, I can be on mission all the time and I want to do it.

Speaker 6 Like I, I, I, I just, I want to like leave the house and make it a mission to invite somebody to church, to stop and ask somebody, hey, what are you going through?

Speaker 6 Let me tell you a little bit about my story and what Jesus did in my life. Like, this is the way that you serve people best.

Speaker 3 I do do that, Anne. I love it.
I wish you guys could have seen her. Like,

Speaker 7 oh, I'll never forget it.

Speaker 3 The way

Speaker 6 sometimes, like.

Speaker 7 You do do that. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 I'm like, what do you want to do?

Speaker 7 I see you do it all the time.

Speaker 6 I love you so much. You do.

Speaker 6 We are so connected to the people that we talk to who are so broken. And it has been the most grounding and the most humbling thing of our lives.

Speaker 6 People are hurting and they're sick and they're poor in spirit and they need Jesus and they need to be served.

Speaker 6 And if you have any sort of influence, if you have any sort of power, it's not for you.

Speaker 3 It's not for you.

Speaker 7 Even no matter what you do. And I had a girlfriend tell me today that she's like,

Speaker 7 She's, she's discipling people by just getting her eyelashes done. Wow.
Ministry starts at your hair salon job, at your office. It's every like ministry

Speaker 7 is not because of this or a platform. It isn't.
It starts at anywhere, out at a store.

Speaker 7 I'm telling you, there is a revival coming, and

Speaker 7 we see all you guys at the shows. And it's like you guys are getting built to be disciples.

Speaker 6 Amen.

Speaker 7 Make disciples, Jesus. He is building you guys up to be disciples.
And it starts in the home and then it starts in your office.

Speaker 6 But you don't need a platform to have a ministry amen it all starts in anywhere anywhere can we be honest it's the best it is the best it's the best when you get to be with people face to face and you get so nitty gritty in their story in your story jesus is constantly constantly constantly preaching a message of humility he's constantly preaching a message of selflessness.

Speaker 6 And in this chapter, John 13, it talks about how Jesus washes his disciples' feet and his whole point in doing what he does is because he wants his disciples to know that it's all about selfless sacrificial servanthood.

Speaker 6 And it says, he began to wash the disciples' feet, drying them with the towel he had around him. When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, Lord, are you going to wash my feet?

Speaker 6 Jesus replied, you don't understand what I'm doing, but someday you will. No, Peter protested, you will never, ever wash my feet.
Jesus replied, unless I wash you, you won't belong to me.

Speaker 6 Simon Peter exclaimed, okay, then wash my hands and my head as well, Lord, not just my feet.

Speaker 6 Jesus replied, a person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet to be entirely clean.

Speaker 6 I love this moment so much because it's completely countercultural for Jesus to wash his disciples' feet. It is the lowest position that you can take in a household.

Speaker 6 Like literally the lowest, lowest, lowest servant, the person who is equal to practically nothing is the one who washes feet.

Speaker 6 And Jesus, King of kings, Lord of lords, decides I'm going to wash my disciples' feet because I want to show you guys what you're supposed to do.

Speaker 6 Everything he does is an example.

Speaker 6 Everything he does is to show us, do as I have done. Follow me.
Be my disciple. Follow me.

Speaker 6 And I just love this moment where he says, Jesus replied, unless I wash you, you won't belong to me. It's like he's expressing this symbolic nature that without Jesus, we will never be clean.

Speaker 6 We have to be clean by the blood of Jesus. And he's saying, because Peter's like, no, no, don't.
I don't. I am not good enough for you to wash my feet.

Speaker 6 And he's like, do you not want to be one of mine? Yeah. So it's symbolic in him saying, I must be the one who washes you clean.
You can't do it apart from me.

Speaker 7 And then like reading that, doesn't that just make you be like, I want to be a better person?

Speaker 7 That's the most beautiful thing about relationship with Jesus and Christianity. It makes you a better person.

Speaker 7 It's not easy because we got all this ego and pride and selfish ambition and all these things, but

Speaker 7 he starts to like prune you and take off the branches.

Speaker 7 He just starts to like strip you and it just, it pushes you to be the best person you can be.

Speaker 7 Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.

Speaker 7 This is how important being at service and having your hands open and not being all about yourself and living to glorify God's children before thinking about ourselves all the time.

Speaker 7 I want to encourage you guys to, I keep hearing this thing in my head.

Speaker 7 I've said it one episode, but I know I say it a lot. There are so many children who need homes.
I am so big with adoption.

Speaker 7 I feel that it may be in my future, but there are so many children who need homes. I'm seeing so many women with infertility issues.
And so I don't know.

Speaker 7 I don't know why I keep saying this, but this is also part of being a servant, giving children homes.

Speaker 7 So many kids need homes. And so many of us are like, but I want children.
Well, maybe that is what God wants you to do. I don't know.
I just, I keep hearing this the whole episode.

Speaker 7 I want to encourage you guys this week to

Speaker 7 try to help someone. And then, if you could write in the comment box of how it actually felt when you did that for somebody else, could you guys do that for us?

Speaker 7 Let's start a comment chain and help someone, even if it's the smallest act of kindness. I want to hear how it made you feel.
And I want to hear, we want to hear how it made them feel.

Speaker 7 So let's start a chain of kindness and helping others. That's such a good idea.

Speaker 6 That's a really good idea. I think another

Speaker 6 thing that I just want to add,

Speaker 6 Ari and I

Speaker 6 can't wait for the day where we are actually in one place for more than a week at a time. It's been really tough.
Ari and I are not planted really in a local church.

Speaker 6 I have my church that I watch online and then I have my church that I go to in LA and then I have my church that I go to when I'm in Idaho.

Speaker 6 But I can't say that I'm I'm not planted in a church to serve.

Speaker 6 Serving the local church is something that is a luxury of life that I can't wait till we get to be a part of one day. Being plugged into the local church and serving God's church.

Speaker 6 Jesus loves his bride. Jesus loves the local church.
God loves the church and he wants, he wants, he wants, he wants you to be plugged in and he wants you to serve.

Speaker 6 There's a million ways you can serve at a church. And it's like hard to tell you guys to do that when we're not doing that, but just know that like this is something that matters to me so deeply.

Speaker 6 And I can't wait till the day because I know it's going to change my life.

Speaker 6 I know being rooted in like church community, serving the local church, getting to be a part of the experience that I had where I walked into a church, I heard worship, I read scripture, I heard a sermon, and my entire life changed.

Speaker 6 Like I can't wait to be a part of that for other people.

Speaker 6 And then one last thing for me: tithing is the most, the most, the most, the most, one of the most important things that we can do. And I have gone my whole church life because I watched my mom give.

Speaker 6 My mom, she's just like incredible. She just like, she'll throw, she doesn't care.

Speaker 6 Like even if she doesn't have it, she is literally the woman with nothing who gives from her lack as opposed to giving her from her excess. So I've watched that.
And so I've always been the same.

Speaker 6 Like I've always given. But then I'm reading scripture and I'm reading where God says, like, you are to give me 10%.

Speaker 6 And he he gives a specific amount and so that's not by accident like he gives us guidelines and he gives us something to follow and he says you give me 10% of the first fruits of your income and then it's the only time that he ever says test me he says and then test me I will open heavens like literally heaven will open and rain down blessings on you when you give me 10% of your tithe yeah of your income and so what I started doing and because before I was like I'll give here and I'll give here and I'll give and I'll give and I'll give, but I never actually sat down, calculated my my income and given 10% of my overall income.

Speaker 6 And I finally started doing that. I feel like I'm living in obedience.

Speaker 3 Yeah, beautiful.

Speaker 6 You know, it's obedience, period. And so the local church tithing, so important.

Speaker 7 And just like we've read in the widow story, you know, some of you guys really don't have a lot of money. And it's that small, little bit that you could put makes such a huge difference.

Speaker 7 And it's, he sees it all. He sees it all.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Say that you serve people really, really, really, really well. This is a really good episode for you because you serve people really well.
And I mean that with all my heart.

Speaker 7 That really means a lot to me.

Speaker 6 You really serve people well. You serve my family.
Ari is there for my family in a way that you guys will never know because I don't share that part of my life, but

Speaker 6 God knows. And I know.

Speaker 6 And you know how much you've served my family, and the things that you've done behind closed doors, and you do things when nobody's watching, things that you'll never get recognition for.

Speaker 6 So be encouraged that you do

Speaker 6 everything that we talked about, you preach it.

Speaker 3 Well, or you live it.

Speaker 7 Well, the way you've served me is a completely act of selflessness every single day.

Speaker 3 You're my favorite person to serve.

Speaker 3 You know what Angela does.

Speaker 6 I hang up on everyone to answer our phone call.

Speaker 3 Angela is, Angela is literally the most selfless

Speaker 3 person.

Speaker 7 Everybody just calls her all day, and she's got to be the tough girl and just helps everybody. And she,

Speaker 7 me too. You have no idea.

Speaker 3 I mean, you do guys have an idea because I've said,

Speaker 7 I mean, you've, you've served me in a way that

Speaker 7 I will never.

Speaker 7 What you've done for my life is

Speaker 7 an act of complete selflessness. And you do it for my family too.
And everyone in your life.

Speaker 3 Oh. No.

Speaker 6 I love you so much.

Speaker 7 And you bring people to salvation every single day. And you're slaying demons all day.

Speaker 6 I love you so much.

Speaker 7 You're going to see where dry bar.

Speaker 3 I go, Angela?

Speaker 6 She thought I was crying because I didn't like my blowout because you guys know that I freak out about my blowouts when I don't like them.

Speaker 6 And so she's dying laughing because she thinks I'm crying because I hate my blowout. But really, the lady's telling, she's accepting Jesus.

Speaker 7 She's crying her eyes out.

Speaker 3 She says, You changed my life.

Speaker 7 You just brought me to salvation.

Speaker 3 It was so fun.

Speaker 6 One of my favorite scriptures, Philippians 2:6, it's like, um, Jesus did not count equality with God as something to be grasped, but instead he humbled himself, he emptied himself, he made himself nothing and took on the form of a servant in order to save the lives of many, many, many people.

Speaker 6 He emptied himself and took on the form of a servant. If Jesus spent his whole life sacrificially serving other people and he never grasped any sort of, he is God.

Speaker 6 He is God in all of God's fullness, divinity, power, authority, in the perks of being God. And instead, he emptied himself and became a servant.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 And that's just the model that we're to follow. And one last thing that I'll say, something that I've realized about God,

Speaker 6 everything points to Jesus. The Bible points to Jesus.
The Father points to Jesus. Holy Spirit points to Jesus.
And then Jesus points to himself, basically.

Speaker 6 God is obsessed with his son. The Holy Spirit is obsessed with Jesus.
The more we look like Jesus, the more attracted God is to us. Like he's attracted to his son.

Speaker 6 That's why you get favor when you look like Jesus, because God looks at you and then he sees his son and he's attracted to that and he comes to it more. Arrogance, pride, greed, they repel God.

Speaker 6 You know what I mean? But the more we look like Jesus, the more, and again, this is not a prosperity message of saying like you're going to get good things if you're like Jesus.

Speaker 6 But the truth is, God loves his son. He's attracted to a son.

Speaker 6 He dwells where his son is. He wants to be near Jesus.
And so just be encouraged that we have a model. His name is Jesus.
We are to look like him.

Speaker 6 That's beautiful.

Speaker 6 I love you.

Speaker 6 All right. Everybody, comment in the box.
Like Ari likes to say, comment in that box.

Speaker 7 She makes fun of me because I say comment in the box.

Speaker 3 What do you want her to call it?

Speaker 6 She's like, you know, comment in the box.

Speaker 3 It is a comment box.

Speaker 7 You're right. What is it called? The YouTube box? Just the comment box.
What do you Gen Z? What is it that you Gen Z's call it?

Speaker 3 I need to. I think I'm going to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 7 You guys keep me young.

Speaker 7 Keep me young.

Speaker 7 You guys are like... I don't know if they're like your kids because you're a little younger, but I think they're my kids and your brothers and sisters.

Speaker 6 Are you guys my brothers and sisters or my kids?

Speaker 7 No, they're our kids.

Speaker 6 They're our kids.

Speaker 3 And then sometimes,

Speaker 3 what does it say?

Speaker 6 Oh, you want to know what scripture says?

Speaker 3 I can tell you.

Speaker 6 We love you guys so much. We love you.

Speaker 7 We love you. We love.

Speaker 6 Like, please don't look at that.

Speaker 7 All right. We pray that for a heart of a servant that we can all be served.

Speaker 3 Amen.

Speaker 7 We just, we just pray.

Speaker 7 We pray for servant heart that tomorrow morning you would hit your knees and say, God, what do you have for me? How can I serve you?

Speaker 7 How can I be a servant to your kingdom? Let me soften my heart and not let me make it about myself, but of you. How are you, Jesus? I love you and may I serve you in this day.

Speaker 7 Can we all get down on our Saturday morning and pray that prayer?

Speaker 7 We hope you guys have the most incredible joy of the Lord weekend and we love you and we thank you for all you do and thank you for serving us the way you do.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 6 thank you, Jesus. Thank you for serving us.
Thank you for everything you do. We love you guys so much.
May the Lord bless you and keep you.

Speaker 6 May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May He turn His face towards you and give you peace.

Speaker 7 Shalom. Shalom.
Shalom.