You Were Made For More, Stop Settling For Less - Made for More Series

You were made for more, so stop settling for less.

On this episode, our guest speaker, Pastor Brian Burgess, speaks into our Made for More series. Using a story from Numbers 27, we are encouraged by 5 women who change things because they didn't settle. There's more for you!

We pray this message encourages your faith, deepens your prayer life, and helps you gain a greater vision for life in Christ. Share this episode with someone who wants to grow deeper in God’s Word.

To learn more about Vision Church or discover how you can partner with our ministry, visit www.ourvisionchurch.com.

Thank you, Pastor Brian and April, for your encouragement and care. If you're in the 757 area, check out Restore Church at www.restore.church.

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All right, Vision Church. Hey, I'm glad to be here with you. I don't know how many of you have a church background, but do you know what when the person who's introducing you, they usually give a little hug and all of that? Do you know what they say to one another whenever that happens? Keep it short. At least that's what I'm assuming she said. I ain't keeping it short. Y'all ready? So, hey, I'm glad to be here today. My name is Brian, and I serve as the student pastor of a church uh in the hood of Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, called Restore Church. And I've been serving there. We're coming up on, I don't know, three, four years, something like that. Um, and I also teach middle school. Um, you want to take a guess at what grades I teach? So let's pray before we do anything else. All right. Father, today is your day. As we come to your word, I pray that you would speak powerfully today. I pray that you would speak prophetically into this body today. That Lord, Vision Church would get a fresh excitement for the vision of the church. And so today, would you use me? Would you help me to expound your word? Help me to explain it. And I pray that the Spirit Himself would simply apply this in our lives, Lord. We thank you for the gathering of the body of believers. And today, being Pentecost, let us do what our ancient ancestors did thousands of years ago. Let what happens in here overflow into the streets in our communities. We pray, God, we don't want to do church. We don't want to just be cute, pretty, fun church. We want to go out and just push back the darkness in this community and beyond, Lord. And we can't do that because we come up with creative slogans and fancy sermons and music. We can do that because we partner with the Spirit of God and say yes. And so, Lord, we say yes today in Jesus' name. If you believe it, come on, say yes into place tonight. Yes, yes, yes. So today I'm really excited. I get to share with you from the Old Testament book of Numbers. So you might want to turn there with me to Numbers chapter 27. By the way, how many single folks in the house? Raise your hand. Single folks in the house. Y'all look around. Look around. I'm helping you out, alright? So listen. Say, I was at church Sunday and the preacher was preaching out of the book of Numbers, and I realized I didn't have yours. Somebody just hit revival right there. I can feel it in the house of God. So my name's Brian, and uh I've been married to my wonderful wife, April, for 16 years. We got married on Cinco de Mayo. And uh, in case you're wondering why they did that, I like tacos. You know what I'm saying? And also, my memory is not good, and I won't ever forget that, I don't think. And so we've been married for a while. We've been pastoring in several different contexts and locations. We started way back in the day, uh, actually before we got married, she got married, and on the day she got married became a pastor's wife. And so, uh, and has stuck it out all of those years since then. We've been in inner city or metro Atlanta area, restarting churches in Portsmouth, Virginia, restarting churches, planted a few in different locations in various roles. And today I get to serve as the student pastor of a church called Restore Church. And so I'm really excited to share with you today some things that I think are really relevant for where we are. I need you to just look around and see what's happening inside this place. We're in a high school gymnasium. We got a group of people that have gathered together and said, we want to be part of starting something new in this county, we want to be part of establishing the kingdom of God in this place. Ain't a black thing, ain't a white thing, ain't a Hispanic thing, ain't about any kind of race. It's the kingdom thing, and we're in the house together. That's the kingdom thing. When God shows up, he tends to show up and kind of break our categories just a little bit. And I just need you to know that that this is not the end. So often church plants get about this many people in the room, and we go, woo! We have made it glory to God. Therefore, we don't need to work that hard anymore. And I'm here to tell you, as you get to the place where you're at right now, one of the challenges that you're gonna face is how do I keep my fire lit? Because things are going really good around here. Come on, somebody. But how many of you know that just because something's going good doesn't mean it doesn't require a lot of work? Come on. If you're gonna do anything significant in life, you're gonna have to work, work, work, work, work. I think the theologian, what was her name? Rihanna or somebody said that way back in the day, all right? You just gotta get it together. And so uh work though is tough. I don't like work. I like to show up and it'd already be done for me. I'm a drive-thru Christian. I like to give you my order, tell you exactly what I want, no onions, no persecution, no extra fasting and prayer, extra blessings, and I want to get it in my car in about two minutes, and if it's longer than that, I get frustrated. But the truth is the only place in life you're gonna find success before work is in the dictionary. And for us as the big C church, we gotta work. Say a few years ago, my wife and I had this crazy idea, we're gonna run a half marathon. We got any half marathoners in the building today? Raise your hand. Okay, we got a couple of weirdos in the building. Do you know how to tell if somebody's ever run a half marathon? You don't have to tell, they'll tell you. And so, a couple of years ago, my wife and I had this crazy idea, we're gonna run a half marathon. And so my uh my youngest son, Ezra, he's nine. He was a little baby, like my little daughter Angie is now, she's terrorizing kids' church. Sorry about that. And so we had this idea we're gonna run a marathon, and to run a marathon, you gotta train an awful lot, or a half marathon. You gotta train an awful lot. So for months we were training, and and we went to our area. There's a ton of gyms in our area, so we already had a YMCA membership because pools, and we got another gym membership, and uh, so we we're like, we've got these memberships, we're gonna run this race. Did y'all know you got to go to the gym? It took me like two months before I realized I'm not getting any better at this. I better go down to the gym and see what in the heck's going on. And so you got to train, you gotta work hard to get there. And so for a handful of months, we were working out like crazy. We were running miles on top of miles on top of miles. And uh man, I'll tell you the cool thing about training in the city of Portsmouth is we play this really neat game every night. Was it fireworks or gunshots? And when you train in the 757, you run a little faster. You feel me? And so, like, it was awesome. And so, what ended up happening is we took a lot of time and a lot of effort to work and train, and we actually completed that half marathon. I've actually got a picture to show you of that. Look at the now look, that's my that's my boo right there. And we finished that half marathon. Now, she finished about 16 minutes before I did, and stopped and used the restroom in the race. But but y'all know a Corvette gets through the finish line faster than a fire truck. You know what I'm saying? And she worked really hard, we worked really hard, and we were able to cross the finish line. Now, you would think that that would be like the thing where I'm like, and we gotta work, but here's the thing. When I crossed that finish line, I had this, we've done it. And that was the last race I ever ran. That was years ago. That's right. Come on, said the righteous, they don't be running. The wicked flee when nobody's chasing. Hallelujah. And so I crossed that finish line, and that goal was marked off of the list, and I didn't have any feet, any fire to my feet. I didn't have any, oh, we gotta get out, we gotta go do this anymore. And eventually we got tired of paying for the gym membership, and so I decided to cancel it. Have you ever tried to cancel a gym membership before? It is easier to get out of the mafia than it is to get out of a gym membership. They want you, listen, if you've never done this, listen, and if you've got one you need to cancel, you have to put actual pants on, get in your car, and go drive to the gym and talk to a physical, real life person to get them to cancel this gym membership. As a result of that, thousands of Americans are still paying just because they don't want to go down and do the work. Can I tell you that that's how we are in the church? In the church, we're willing to pay instead of do the work. And today, what we're gonna look at in Numbers chapter 27 is we're gonna look at five brave women, five women who are willing to take a stand and say there is something that God has for me, and no matter how much work it takes, I'm willing to step into that thing. And so, if you're gonna catch anything that I say today, I know you've been in this series made for more. And so if you're gonna catch anything that I say today, I need you to catch this. You were made for more, stop settling for less. You were made for more, stop settling for less. You were made for the kingdom of God, stop settling for the stuff of this world. You were made to be a mighty man and a woman of God. This church was made to impact this county community and beyond. Don't settle for less. And if we're not careful, we'll look around and we'll go, man, we've got a lot of people. Now we we just get a building, we'll be good to go. Use this one. Oh, these chairs are nice, but if we had cushions, we'd really be hitting it. Use these, fill these, go to multiple services, be in the community, do outreach, bless the teachers, bless everybody from up here to down here and everywhere in between. Do the work. You are made for more. Don't you dare, dare, dare settle for less. And today we see in Numbers 27, we see five women who step into their made for more moment. Look with me at chapter 27 of Numbers, verse 1. Here's what the scriptures say. Then drew near the daughters of Zalopahad. That's a heck of a name, isn't it? Can you imagine being five years old learning how to spell your name if it was Zalopahad? My name's Brian. This is five letters, and it's tough enough, okay? Can you imagine being Zalophat, okay? So then drew near the daughters of Zalophat, the son of Hefer, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh, the son of Joseph. Y'all remember him? He had the fancy coat, and his brothers didn't like him, and they got rid of him. So they're in this lineage. The names of his daughters were Malah, Noah, Hogla. Well, I bet she was cute. Milkah and Terzah. And they stood before Moses and before Eliezer the priest, and before the chiefs and all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Now I want to stop here real quickly. I want to listen, just look at the scene. These five girls are standing in front of the tent of meeting. Now, if you know much about the Old Testament, you know that eventually they're going to have a temple in the city of Jerusalem, and it's going to be beautiful. It's going to be magnificent. However, it's Solomon who builds that temple. So we're talking at this point in history, we're about 1,200 years before this takes place. We're in the wilderness with Moses, and they have a tent that they set up. They were a portable temple plant, if you will. And they would set this temple up while they were in the wilderness, wandering for 40 years. And as they set the temple the tabernacle up, they would put the Ark of the Covenant there. Moses and the priests would do their kind of thing while they were there, and that's where God would show up. And so Moses, when he is around the tabernacle area, he's in an official capacity. It's kind of like the king of England. The king of England doesn't wear the crown unless he's doing kingly stuff. And so Moses doesn't go into the tabernacle unless he's doing tabernacle-y kind of stuff. And so these women come before Moses and all of the elders and all of the priests. So this is a really big official moment. This is a big deal for them. They're not just showing up to have a conversation, they're showing up to have a transformation in this place, okay? So watch what happens. They show up saying, this is the end of verse 2, beginning of verse 3. Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. Real quick, Korah was a bad dude. He rebelled against Moses and his leadership, and he gathered people with him to rebel against Moses. Now, I've been in church leadership long enough to know this. There are some people in this room that think Pastor John is unbelievably amazing. There are also some people in this room that think if he would just listen to you, this church would really get it. And a holy hush fell over the Presbyterian crowd that day. Come on now. In every room we're in right now, there are some of you in here that think I'm amazing, and some of you wish I would stop telling so many jokes and just get to the scriptures. That's how it works. And when you're talking about being a leader, being a leader means that sometimes you're going to do what God's called you to do, and there will be a Korah moment where there are people that rebel against you. But before we start going, let God deal with them, we've also been Korah before ourselves. You know what I'm saying? And so in this moment in the past, there was this guy Korah. He gathered a bunch of people to rebel against Moses. He thought he could do the job better than Moses. And here's the thing, y'all. Maybe he could have. Maybe he could have done a better job than Moses. But God called Moses. That's a massive difference that so many of us don't realize. Yes, maybe you can do better than this, but what has God called that person and what's God called you to do? So God deals with that generation. They die off in the wilderness and never get to go into the promise. And these daughters, they're bringing that up. And it's significant for this reason. These girls are about to make a big ask. A big ask. There's a K on the end of that, okay? But before they get to that, they have to set up, hey, dad didn't die because he's rebellious. Dad didn't die because he was being judged for going against the plan of God. Dad died for his own sin, but not because he was trying to be rebellious. And here's here's just kind of a side thing. Maybe I'll just give this to a handful of us out here. Rebellion will never accomplish the kingdom of God. Rebellion will never ever accomplish the kingdom of God. As a matter of fact, you know what the Lord caused rebellion in the scriptures? Witchcraft. It will never accomplish the kingdom of God. So what do I do with that, Pastor Brian? Well, here's what you do with that. If you feel like you've got rebellion in your heart, today at the end of our time, we're going to pray. You need to bring that stuff to Jesus. Lord, I see this in my heart, and I don't want to be that way. I don't want that to be what stands in the way of my heart. I don't want to be a Korah, God, I want to surrender. So they come before Moses and they set this up really quickly. And then they continue to go here. We're at the middle of verse 3. So he died for his own sin and he had no sons. Why should the name of our father be taken away, taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers. Now, these ladies, these five women, step out boldly, realizing that they were made for more. They step to Moses and they asked Moses for their inheritance. Now the crazy thing about it is in that culture, inheritance wasn't given to the daughters. Inheritance only went to the sons. And so if you wanted to have an inheritance of the land, you had to be born a son of the land. Daughters would get the inheritance by who they were married to. And so these five women go to Moses, who, by the way, in case you didn't know, was a man, and they're standing in front of all of the elders of Israel, in case you didn't know, were men. The priests are there, in case you didn't know, were men. They're breaking so many social protocols. They're breaking so many standards of the day. But here's the thing they don't do it out of a heart of rebellion, they do it out of a heart that wants more. They said, Our father died and had no inheritance, but we know that the Lord is good and has promised a good land to us, and we want our share in the promise of God. I'm here to share with you today, you were made for more, don't settle for less. God has a share in his inheritance for you. When Jesus was hanging on the cross for six hours, he says, It is what? Finished. He's already done it, he's already accomplished it, he's already paid the way, and he's already paved the way. He's calling you to pursue it. You were made for more. Stop settling for less. And so there are three things that I want to leave with you today. The first one is simply this bold faith begins by trusting God's promise. Bold faith begins by trusting God's promise. That's what these women did. These women said, There's more, and I want more, and they were willing to ask for more. Do you know what surprises me is how many times we just don't step out of our comfort zone and ask. You're never gonna get what God's called you to do if you stay in your comfort zone. Growth doesn't happen in the place where we're comfortable. Growth happens when we're way out on a limb. That's where all you find, that's where you find all the fruit. And so we want to get out of our comfort zone and have bold faith. Think about this. Their father's generation saw the miracles of God yet didn't enter the promise. These girls didn't see the miracles of God yet do enter into the promise. What was the difference? The difference was they trusted God at his word. Who in here today needs to start trusting God at his word? Who in here today has a wayward son or a wayward granddaughter who you need to start trusting God at his promise? Who in here today's got a marriage that's a little bit hot right now and you can't really talk about it because you're in church, but you need to start trusting God for his promises? Who in here today's got some problems going on at work and the problems don't seem to be solving themselves, and you need to start trusting God at his promises. I'm telling you, it's not in our strength and our ability because don't you ever, ever, ever forget this. The kingdom of God is not about achievability, it's about receivability. And when we receive the work of the kingdom of God, then we walk into what God has for him. We are sons and daughters of the Most High. Now I'm so grateful to be here, and I hope I do a good enough job that you'll have me come back. And if this is a bad message, just know I can do gooder ones than this if you let me come back. But here's the deal I I like some of you, and and but in this room, there's just a handful of people that have a different relationship with me. And if they come up to me and say, one of you's getting a little sideways with them, I'm gonna get a little sideways with you. You know what I'm saying? They're my kids. Okay? They're the only ones that can come into my room at three in the morning and leave with the same amount of holes they walked in with. Because they're my kids. Do you realize what kind of access you have to your father in heaven? The Bible says we go boldly to the throne room. Boldly. Now listen, the crazy thing about the kingdom of God, the crazy thing about the grace of God is it's not because of how perfect you and I are. We go boldly because Jesus paved the way for us. That means you can be so holy in here that when you take a bath, the water parts, or you could come in here still smelling like last night, the grace of God lets you come boldly into the throne room of grace, into the throne room of God. That's the gospel. The gospel is he did it, and so we stand in it and go do what he's called us to do. What happens for us though is we sometimes stay in our comfort zone. The truth is, fear often feels safer than trust, doesn't it? There's an old saying that goes, the devil I know is better than the devil I don't. And so it's easier to keep paying that gym membership than it is to go down and deal with the stuff we've got to deal with. It's easier for me to say, well, that's just her fault. She's just like her mama, instead of realizing maybe I should apologize and I should start taking accountability for my own actions. Oh, come on now, don't get quiet on me at this point, okay? Everybody's looking at their shoes when I start talking about that kind of stuff. Fear sometimes keeps us paralyzed. And I'm here to tell you, when you step into God's more for your life, hey, you might fall flat on your face. The very things you're praying for, the total opposite of them might come, might happen. You might be going, Lord, I'm believing for 10 people to come and help us with this youth thing, and they're gonna be at church tonight when this dude finally gets preaching, and nobody shows up. That might be how it works. Out by the way, I'm a product of youth ministry. I got saved right this close to being 18 years old whenever I got saved. And I'm standing before you today, a pastor, a church planter, a follower of Jesus, because people invested in me whenever I was a teenager. Every single one of you needs to pray about your involvement. I'm calling some daughters of Zalafahad to come and be involved when this student ministry thing. You hear me? You want to change the world? Think about this. Think about this. By the time you're your age, you got it all figured out. Everybody in here said amen about something you already agreed with, didn't you? Nobody in here, I've pushed against you, against a place where the spirit's trying to push against your life. And at that point, you're like, he don't know what he's talking about. But whenever I start talking about something you like, you say, Amen. When you're working with students, you get to mold them into the men and women of God of the future. I'm telling you, you need to be involved. You need to get connected. You need to be at that meeting. All right, you hear what I'm saying? So, bold faith begins by trusting God's promises, and sometimes fear paralyzes us. Let me tell you, in my last assignment, I was a lead pastor of a church in Portsmouth called Forward Church. And my family moved. My oldest sons are 13-year-old twins. My family moved to that city when they were six months old. And we stayed at this church. We went into a location where it was not the best side of town, but also not the worst side of town, but we believed God and we knew he was going to change the world. We were ready to go in, and so we go in on fire for Jesus. I mean, we are so hot for Jesus that if you turn the lights out, we would glow and keep the room on. You know, you feel what I'm saying? And we were so ready to go in there. We go into this community and we start leading with bold faith and taking big risks. And you know what God did? He showed up. And lives were changed, and we were baptizing people. I was calling my friends, like, hey, can I borrow your baptistry? I know you ain't using yours, but I need to use it. People getting saved and baptized. Let me hook a brother up. Like God was showing up and doing crazy things. And then everything stopped working. Everything. I mean, the person who was my right-hand man in ministry at that church, I'm the lead pastor, and he's going, Pastor, I just love you. You're just the best. You're just amazing. You're the best preacher and the best leader, and I just love you. By the way, I'm gonna take half your church and go start my own thing. And split the church right down in the middle. I mean, he's he had that Moses anointing at Harley. And went across town and planted a church. And sometimes I prayed for him. And I'm glad God didn't answer those prayers. Because they were not good, you know what I mean? And I remember begging God, why is this happening? All I want to do is reach people for Jesus. All I want to do is share the message of the gospel with people. I want to see lives changed. I want to see families put back together. I want to see people raise up into their calling. And yes, Lord, I want to plant churches out of this church, but not like that. And you know what happened? Is I spent so much of my time from that moment on being scared that that would happen again, that I never stepped out in full faith but to trust God for what he wanted to do in the next season. And I lived the remainder of my time as the leader of that church based on what happened in a previous season of my life. I'm telling you, don't be scared to trust God at His promise. Maybe it falls apart. Maybe that's maybe God wanted to give you an education in pain. Maybe God wanted to mold something inside of you. Because I don't know about your Bible, but my Bible tells me that everything works together for my good. Because I love him and I'm called according to his purpose. That's what Romans 8.28 says. But do you know what verse 29 says? It says that God's purpose for my life was that I would be conformed to the image of his son. And I just know this: I ain't gonna look like Jesus unless I have some suffering. Who needs to hear this today? Sometimes God's will for your life requires you standing in bold faith to go through bold suffering. But bold faith begins by trusting God's promise. Here's the next thing you should probably write down. Fear settles for less. Faith moves towards God's more. Fear settles for less. That's where I was as the leader of Forward Church. I was scared. What if it happens again? What if we can't afford to keep people in seats? What if we can't afford to keep doing kids' ministry? What if we can't afford to keep doing outreach? What if we can't afford me as the pastor? And I was scared, leading from a place of insecurity, leading from a place of internalizing what happened to me. I was like the disciples in Mark chapter four. In Mark's gospel in chapter four, Jesus says, Hey, let's go to the other side. And they get in the boat, and you've read the story. You know what happens while they're in the middle of the sea. What happens? A storm comes up. And the storm is really big and crazy. And if you read, the New Testament was written in Greek. And if you read the New Testament in the Greek, you'll see that the word for the storm is the word megos. And that's where we get our word mega from, right? So we get this idea. This is just a mega storm of what's happening on the sea. So this is massive. And these professional sailors are losing their mind. Now, I don't like to fly. Let me rephrase that. I really like to fly. I don't like what my brain does when I'm in the air. My brain goes, you know, if this thing just stopped working right now, you're gonna hit the ground. You know, does anybody else's brain do that when you're on an airplane? And I had a I had a counselor one time teach me, you just gotta be grounded. You gotta you gotta feel your feet on the ground. My feet are on the ground of something that's four miles in the air. That ain't helping, Susan. Yes, I want to be grounded. I wouldn't be scared if I was on the ground. Okay. I was on a flight one time, I was flying into a church conference in Orlando, and if you've ever flown into Orlando, you know when you go into MCO, uh, you're going over water, and the the like Florida, first of all, is just weird. And you go, you'd find into Florida, and there's like all this whoosh, wind, turbulence kind of stuff. And when you go to land, you get some of these. Oh, mm-hmm. That's what 270 will get you right there, fellas. You hear me? All right. And so we're going into land, and about uh the final approach on it, about 10-15 miles out. We're going into land and the plane starts doing all of those things. And I fly, used to all the time. So as nervous as I am, I've just been in these scenarios so many times, but this one's different, okay? And it's so different that there's a baby in the back screaming its head off. And y'all know every plane crash movie, there's a baby in the back screaming its head off. And I'm like, ooh, check one. Okay, there's like so these things in my head before I really start allowing myself to lose it. And then the flight attendant started getting scared. You know you're in trouble. When the people who do it for a living start looking at one another with that it's like, how many of you in here have been married for 10 years or more? Raise your hand. How many of you in here keep your hand up if you've been raised for 15 years or more? Raise it up, keep it up. 20 years or more, keep it up. Look at that. Okay, 25 years or more, keep it up. Okay, y'all got that look where you don't have to say a word. You just got that, mm, we're talking about this in the car on the ride home. Tell me I'm lying. Y'all got that when something goes on, you ain't even my wife can just touch my leg and I know everything about what she's saying in that touch. You feel me? And so the flight attendants did one of them. Mm-mm. And y'all, I lost it. I'm like, mm, it's time to, I'm gonna pay the Wi-Fi. I gotta touch my babies, tell them I love them, and Daddy's gonna miss them, all right? Spoiler alert, plane didn't crash, I didn't die. I'm here, right? But these fishermen are professional, they've been in storms a ton of times, they're on the Sea of Galilee, and it's so bad that it freaks them out, and they go, Oh, I don't know what to do. And what do they do to Jesus? They wake him up. They wake him up. Now it just blows my mind that God sometimes will see me struggling while he's sleeping. And the whole time you and me are going, God, where are you? And he's going, keep it down. I'm trying to catch some sleep, my guy. And they wake him up and they say, Don't you care that we're perishing? Have you ever been that dramatic before? I know none of you would ever be dramatic like that. And somebody's like, have you? When's the last time you ate? It's about lunchtime. Yeah, yeah, you need you need food. So Jesus gets up and you know the story. He calms to see them, but then he looks at his disciples and he says, Why are you so afraid? Do you not have any faith? Sometimes fear will cause us to settle for less. We'll try to figure out our own storm instead of trusting that God is in the boat. These daughters go boldly to Moses. We want our inheritance, we want what the Lord has for us. And I want to tell some of you go to God. Trust that your future is secure in Christ and receive the promise that he has for you. The last thing I want to leave you with today is this simple challenge. Stop settling for less. Stop settling for less in your marriage. Stop settling for less. Okay, I want to stop settling for less. What does that look like? Maybe there's some apologies that need to start happening. Maybe there's some ownership and accountability that needs to start happening. Maybe other things have crept in that are standing in the way, and you just need to tell other things they are not your priority right now, your marriage is. Hey, and if you have a work wife or a work husband, stop. In the name of Jesus, stop. All right? Maybe there's something in your finances that you need to stop settling for less. Some of us we think that the red in our checkbooks, the blood of Jesus. We gotta do better, church. Hallelujah. Living on a plan is okay. Living on a plan is okay. Stop settling for less. These women get out and go before Moses, but watch what happens. Look with me here, verse 5. Moses brought their case before the Lord, and the Lord said to Moses, The daughters of Zalophag had a right. You shall give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers, and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. Watch what happens. Moses does what a great leader does. He goes to God. He doesn't just answer it on his own out of his own strength. He takes it to the Lord, and the Lord says, Yeah, Moses, they're correct. Give them the inheritance. And what happens if we were to continue to read is Moses has then given instructions. This is what you do for the rest of the people of Israel. For the from now on, if there's somebody that dies and there's no sons in the family, pass the inheritance to the daughters. They changed the entire outcome of the entire nation of Israel because of their bold faith. Imagine if they had just stayed on the sidelines and said, We're women, we're not going to do that. Well, we'll just get married and we'll have inheritance somewhere else, and I'm too scared, and I don't know if I want to do that. And what if Moses says no? What if the people don't like us? They said all of those things are true, but we're still going after what we believe God's promise is for our lives. And I'm here to tell you that God's promise is not done, God is not dead, his promise for your life is not dead. Maybe you need to stand up and believe again. Maybe you need to start claiming what God has spoken to you. Some of you, God has been whispering in your heart for years, and you're going, God, where is it at? God, why is it not come to pass? I'm telling you today, vision church, it is not a mistake that you are in vision. Start seeing God's vision for your life again. Come on, stand on your feet around this place. Start seeing God's vision for your life again. Start saying, God, I want more. God, I want more. God, I want more. What you have for my marriage, I want it. What you paid for for my health, I want it, what you paid for for my destiny, I want it. Some of you need to have the courage and the faith to dream again. God is not coming. It is not coming. The word of God says that He causes all things to work together for good. And if it ain't good, if it ain't done, keep dreaming, keep believing, and so as the man comes up here, here's what we're about to do. We're about to go into a time of worship. I want to challenge you. Come down here, flood this stingin' altar, flood this place with people that are seeking God for more. But don't let this be about emotionalism as I'm up here screaming and yelling and hyping you up. Don't let this be about emotionalism. Let this be about God. I simply believe you have more, and I'm here wanting to step into it. Would you do that more than only you can do? Would you unleash the kingdom in this place today?