What if your work is not separate from your spiritual calling, but one of the primary places God wants to reveal His Kingdom?
In this Kingdom at Work keynote, Jeanna Roach invites business leaders, executives, and marketplace believers to rethink the purpose of work. Drawing from Scripture, the Hebrew word avodah, and her own leadership journey, Jeanna unpacks how work, worship, and service are deeply connected. She challenges leaders to move from striving and control into surrender, partnership with God, and Kingdom purpose in the everyday realities of business.
This message is for leaders who want to stop separating Sunday faith from Monday work and begin seeing their meetings, decisions, teams, culture, and leadership moments as sacred opportunities to partner with God in the marketplace. Jeanna emphasizes that work is not merely a job, a platform, or a way to generate profit. It is a sacred assignment entrusted by God and a place where His Kingdom can be revealed through surrendered leadership.
[00:00:00] Thank y’all, man. What did y’all think of that video? Woo. Great job, Tyler. Thank you so much. That really kicked us off, I feel like, for this week, in such a strong way. But really it’s the starting point ’cause we’re gonna have this conversation for the next few days, um, together. And so I’m excited to come and talk to you guys about spiritual calling and really what does that mean?
Um, when I say that, and this is taking, it just, we’ve talked about the kingdom in this big way, and so what does this mean for us as leaders? And so let’s start here. Your work and God’s kingdom. So what does this mean for each of us? And you know, I was thinking as Casey was up here, Rick beat Bo would always, um, he would always get teary-eyed up here when we first gathered, and he would just say, the Lord is so pleased.
Whew. Um. That you would stop your work week to come and do [00:01:00] this. He is just honored right now that we would do this in the middle of the work day for the work week, um, to do this. And it’s such an honor, uh, to get to do it together. But really he’s pleased that we’re all here. Just gonna talk about this all week and you’re gonna hear, um, from our team.
But I wanna take this big intro to the kingdom and break it down a little bit and I’m just gonna hit it really head on. We wanna invite God to use your work for his purposes and to, for you to step into your spiritual calling. And we’re gonna break that down as we go throughout the week. Um, but I want you to really rethink work a little bit based on that video.
I’m gonna kind of carry that theme into this talk, um, a bit. ’cause most of us are taught to divide our life into different categories. Right. Family, church, work. That’s how it goes, right? Uh, the church is where ministry happens. Work is where there’s like responsibility and the bills get paid, right? Church is where we pray.
Church is where God [00:02:00] moves. That’s how we thought about that, and many leaders have lived their lives like that. For decades. Um, pray on Sunday, carry pressure on Monday, right? There’s, um, spiritual things that happen in one building. Worship happens in one building, but then the minute you step into your workspace, it’s totally gone.
It’s almost depleted. Or maybe it’s not even there at all. Uh, we believe that God cares really deeply about our family. But only mildly about our company or the work that we’re doing. It’s just not as important to him, right. As our family in the church. So, oh man, you’re gonna probably recognize this. So, right, we start building systems.
Uh, right? We have these leadership moments. We carry this enormous pressure with, do we hire the right people? How do we solve this problem? What does growth look like? And we just strive and strive. And strive, and I know that some of y’all are recognizing this because so many of us have struggled with this over time.
And then we assume that the place that’s [00:03:00] consuming, uh, most of our life actually is spiritually secondary to everything. That’s what the video is talking about. And that can create a tension in us as leaders. This quiet tension on, we don’t know what to do about that, right? You leave church and you, you feel something and you then you step into work.
On Monday. And so, um, what if the place that God actually intended to share his greatest purpose for you is right in your work right now where you are. And that’s what he is calling us to. What if the company that you’ve lead, um, has kingdom value that you’ve actually never fully recognized? And our hope this week is that you’ll see just a different way to do things that God will reveal to all of us actually as we go.
New things about this. Um, sorry. Um, I wrote this down ’cause I thought about this, but what if the meetings, decisions, culture, hiring, conflict, these leadership [00:04:00] moments that you thought were just business, were actually ministry moments to strep stuff and work clothes, right? Like, that’s what they look like, but they can become these ministry moments instead of just business on how we do things.
Because if work and um, and church are separate and ministry is separate, then Monday is simply y’all about survival. Have you ever heard your people say like, I just can’t wait to get till Friday. Oh, if I could just get through to Friday, that’s what that means is that Monday is simply about survival, but if they were never separate, then Monday can become a sacred thing.
That we do, we can have joy when we go into the workplace, and that can change everything. And because just like the video said, the kingdom doesn’t operate in separation, but the enemy would like for us to think that he would like for us to separate these types of things, right? And consider something sacred and something secular.
And [00:05:00] just like the video said, here is this message, Jesus’ first message was repent. For the Kingdom of Heaven is a hand. I remember Casey taught on this one time and he said, I mean, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It’s literally at hand and put out your hand like this. It’s literally right there. It is literally right there, right now.
The kingdom as is at hand, and that word repent again, doesn’t mean simply to apologize or feel bad, and that shame. I love that part of the video because I remember feeling that way. But this word repent, which is met in Greek, simply means to change the way you think. My pastor taught on this, uh, six months ago, and he said, it’s like you’re headed in this direction.
And we’re like, Nope. The kingdom is over here. So we have to change the way that we think. And the kingdom always begins with the mindset shift. Because God changes behavior before he changes, right? [00:06:00] Like he’s got to change our perspective first before he can change our behavior. And like the video said, repentance isn’t this one time moment for us.
It is a daily, hourly. Maybe for some more of us. It’s a minute by minute kind of posture and reminder to see life from God’s perspective, you know? Met Noo, uh, this repent, it invites believers to go back to the top to elevate our thinking into God’s higher ways of thinking. That’s why I love it in the video when it pulls out and you can start to see, you can start to see from that higher elevation what it looks like so that we can align with God in his higher ways.
And one of my favorite things about God, um, that I learned here a few years ago. Is the way that the Bible introduces God. It was a surprising way for me that I somehow missed all of these years. But what does it say in Genesis one, one in the beginning, God, what he created, I mean, he was [00:07:00] a creator. The first picture of God is he’s not like giving a sermon.
Right. He’s creating, he’s working. It’s the picture of a worker. He builds, he designs, he organizes, he brings order right out of chaos. Does this sound like your work week? Right? Where there’s lots of things going on that you have to bring Order to God is a worker, and after he does that in Genesis one, one, right?
He does something remarkable. He invites us. He invites humanity into that work. What a special thing that we get to do. I mean, one of the first things he does, it says the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work It work was not a punishment. It was a gift. This is one of the messages that the enemy would love to steal from us because we would like to think of work like as, as a curse that leisure, leisure and comfort are The gifts in work is a curse, but it was a gift.
It came before the curse, before sin, before [00:08:00] brokenness entered the world. Before struggle work existed because God works. He is a worker. And that was such a relief to me when I realized this and okay, there’s a lot of men in this room, so you’re not gonna, uh, exactly connect with this story, but you might have daughters or sisters or a wife that’s similar.
But I remember as a little kid, I would never play with dolls. I wasn’t someone who was sitting there playing with dolls or barbies and things. I always wanted to have a cash register. And I would have a cash register and I was always like doing transactions with people. That’s what I wanted to do. Uh, this was in the eighties and early nineties, so Blockbuster was a thing.
I remember I would always act like I had my own blockbuster that I owned and I was like renting movies with people. And then we lived on a cul-de-sac. And so in our cul-de-sac, um, all of our, um, mailboxes, those were like my drive throughs. Some sort of transaction was happening there. You know what I mean?
I was always like, had a [00:09:00] headset and I’m, I’m doing something. I have always loved to work. And I will say as a young girl, when you’re the one that’s not playing with dolls and things, that is really tough actually. Uh, you feel like something’s wrong with you. And so the minute that I heard this, like God is a worker, oh my gosh, okay, could that be something that God put in me then?
That he is a worker and that work is a blessing. You know, I didn’t play with dolls. I like to play business work. The day I turned 16, I turned in a job application. I could not wait. You know, recently I was with a tailor and she was helping me because I’m short and that’s why I wear heels all the time.
And she was hemming my dress for me and she said, I’ve been doing this for 40 years. And I said, you have? Wow, that’s amazing. She goes, I just. To work. And I just thought even just being in her presence was such a, it was such, it was, she was ministering to me a bit, honestly in that moment with the way she was serving me and the way that she loved the [00:10:00] work that she was doing.
God is a worker. And then maybe about 10 years ago, this word came to us, AVO, you have some cards, I believe, at your tables with this word, and this is a powerful Hebrew word, and it just released me again because one word. Has three meanings. Work, worship, and service. And of course, God would only need one word, but that changes so many things for us.
If those all mean work, worship, worship, and service, then our work is such a holy and worthy calling what we’re doing. And so you don’t have to just take my word for it. I’m gonna show you where it shows up in scripture. It says the Lord God. Same scripture, took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work.
It. That word for work is Voda.
Exodus eight, one. This is what the Lord says. Let my people go so that they may worship me, that could say so that they [00:11:00] may work for me so that they may serve me, but as for me and my household, right, and Joshua, we will serve the Lord. We will work for the Lord. We will worship. The Lord, it’s all the same to him in God’s language.
Those things are not separate. So the way that you lead a meeting, the way that you serve, uh, people in your business or in your cafe that we have, the way you design a home, right, um, or the way that you serve and love a teammate, God sees all of that as worship, work and service unto him. And that changes everything for us.
’cause suddenly your job is not just a job, it is a place of ministry in which you get to work alongside God. Another beautiful part of that video is just, you know, he’s, she’s standing there just walking right with God all along the way. And that’s what he wants to do with you because most of our [00:12:00] leadership maybe that you even experienced and maybe you’ve struggled with in the past is a little bit built on control.
We have to carry the pressure, we hold the outcomes. I mean the stress of that. I have someone really close to me that she’s a CEO. She’s got about a hundred employees and her phone rings all the time and it is a high pressure system all the time for her. We can’t go to dinner without her being on her phone and having to deal with something ’cause she has to make it all happen.
Now, on the flip side of it too, in that you also get all the glory right and that feel, that can feel good. And we have to be really, really careful of that because the kingdom introduces a different posture and it’s not striving for God, but we get to partner with him, co-labor with him in this work, that collaboration and it’s, man, I’m learning so much more and more about this as I’ve stepped into this role since Rick’s passing.
God is teaching me and [00:13:00] showing me things that I’ve never seen before and as I’m navigating through it, and that’s what he will do for everyone. But the question shifts from what do I need to accomplish? Like even what’s my agenda today? There’s a lot of I statements in there and it moves to this, God, what are you doing?
And can I join you in it? What are you trying to do here? And how can I join you in it? And this shift can remove such an enormous burden for us because in the kingdom, we’re simply stewards of a territory. We are not the owners of the outcomes. God is the provider, not the marketplace, right? Not our customers.
Like he is the provider. He carries the outcomes. We have to carry the obedience part of this for him. And the marketplace is a sacred place. And for a long time, many Christians, um, have believed that ministry really does only happen in the church. But if we look at the life of Jesus, we see that his ministry happen in everyday places.
[00:14:00] Fishing boats, uh, dinner tables, right, markets, workplaces, roadside, the kingdom shows up where the people are. And for most people, that place is gonna be work. We spend a lot of time together in our workplace, and so of course the kingdom’s gonna show up there. The workplace is not a secular environment that is separate from God.
We have a biblical teacher on staff. Marcus, I remember he told us, he said, you know, a young Hebrew boy would have never heard the word. Like secular, that word didn’t exist in Hebrew because those Hebrew young men, they knew that everything belonged to God. There was nothing that wasn’t from God or of God, and that is such a crazy cool thing.
So there is no divide. We’ve created that Somehow along the way, we’ve decided that there is a divide, but we’re here to tell you that your work is a sacred assignment. And I [00:15:00] think, um, as I was thinking and praying for this group so much in this sacred assignment, I thought, you know, the first thing the enemy is gonna tell you is that you’re not worthy.
That you’re not, that is gonna try to tell you you’re unqualified, or, oh, you did this back here, and that’s just not true. That is not true. He has given you a sacred assignment. And he had, all I saw was this picture of so many of us just leaned over, you know, praying, just crying, crying out to God. And he just said, just lift your head.
Just look at me. But your work is a sacred assignment and he’s placed you there on purpose and for a purpose. And I wanna be really clear, um, this in no way diminishes the role of the church. So if that was something that crept up in you, we want you to know that that is not true and it does not bring down.
At all the calling of a pastor, but what it does do is it invites up the calling for business leaders, right? People and municipalities, [00:16:00] educators, artists, engineers, moms, nurses. It’s just we’re inviting you guys to step into something new because we are the church too. And so it’s not about less church, it’s about more church and more places.
That’s what we’re talking about, and that is what gets us excited at my church. My pastor totally gets this. You know, one of the core values in our church is Mondays matter. He gets this. He understands that we need to take more church into more places, that the kingdom is everywhere we go. Heard at one time, kingdom is between your two feet.
And so church isn’t just confined, the kingdom isn’t confined just to Sundays, right? It’s unleashed on Mondays. When we walk in to our workplaces, we can flip the script upside down, but we have to move from this kind of label of like Christian business leader to kingdom leaders. And that is, we’re gonna unpack that as we go, but that’s an important distinction.
’cause [00:17:00] a Christian business can sometimes kind of just be a label. It’s like we’re slapping a label on something. I remember my friend Damon Schubert, he used to have, um, he had American Ramp Company, so he, they built ramps, uh, for skaters. And he said we would have on our website, we just had this one little link and it was like, uh, love Jesus, you skaters.
And that was it, you know, and that was how he, that was his ministry. Was this one little link on there. And he’s like, because now he knows that he was, he said I was a Christian business leader. I wasn’t trying to understand how to bring the kingdom into my everyday, everywhere I am kind of walk. And that is when leaders make this private decision in their hearts, but then they publicly declare, God, this belongs to you and for us in our story.
Yes, we’ve been around since 1992. And in those early days, how it began was Ron came to his son, Rick, when they started the company. And he said, if we have success, could we honor [00:18:00] God? And the way that they knew to do that in the beginning was to give money to ministries outside of here. So for many years that’s what we did.
But in 2006, Rick realized, oh my goodness, this is God’s. Business. This is his ministry, formerly known as my business here in the marketplace. And he declared that out loud to the company. And so I tell you that too, to go, that was from 1992 to 2006. Okay. 14 years for him to get there. But he got there and he’s, he would say, Hey, we don’t know what that means.
We just know that this is God’s thing, and so we’re gonna start asking him about the decisions we make and we’re gonna start doing those things. And that’s how it began for us. He and his leadership team started doing that, you know, asking God and not just on Sundays, and not just in prayer time, but in hiring decisions and strategy and expansion.
Where do we go? What do we do in [00:19:00] conflict? What does conflict look like here? How would God want us to go about that? Or our relationships? Who do we partner with? So you start to, you start to think differently about everything. When you’re asking the Lord, who do we partner with? What does our culture look like?
And something powerful happened when that shift occurred, and it can be the same for you, but the focus moves from profit, image, power to transformation. And for us and how I’ve seen it so many times in different organizations is leader, it’s gonna start with you. And that is the coolest thing, was to watch this transformation even of Rick along the way, how God was just leading and guiding him.
Um, but people don’t have to believe what we believe to live in the fruit of the kingdom. And that’s the cool part for them. They get to experience it through things like how we honor one another through our generosity. Through our integrity, right through the way we love and care for [00:20:00] them through the way that we walk in peace in difficult situations or still have joy when things are tough and hard.
I’ll never forget in 2011, uh, there was a tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, and it took down something like 4,000 structures where. Demolished. Then Rick Beaton Bow was on the board for a ministry there and two people he knew and Joplin called him separately and said, Hey, we think that Beaton Bow Homes should come to Joplin, Missouri.
Help us rebuild this city. That we love. And so here, he had right in 2006 said, God, this is your thing. And so he’s like, I think the Lord is trying to tell me that we’re supposed to go to Joplin. Talks to his wife Holly, that some of you heard earlier, and his dad Ron. And so I was talking to her about this story this week and they decided that, yeah, they felt like that was what the Lord would want them to do.
And I mean, I’ll, I remember Rick coming into our conference room telling us. We’re going to [00:21:00] Joplin, you know, we’re expanding. That’s exciting stuff when you’re on the team, right? Growth. Uh, I served on the marketing team at the time, and so I remember, I know nothing about Joplin, Missouri. Right. I better, I better start looking up things, learn about this place.
Let’s go. We were all excited and ready and Ron and Rick were on a phone call. With these two individual, two individuals, and they were talking to them about their compensation package, you know, and they’re like, and you’re gonna get a laptop and you’re gonna get a truck, and here’s what we’re gonna pay you.
And when they got off the phone call Ron Beaton Bow said, oh man, those two Buck and Broncos are, they are not gonna submit to your leadership here. Mind you, one of ’em had like 150 employees already in a business. That he owned. And so he said, oh, and I asked him later on, how did that call go for you? He said, I was just thinking I don’t, am I supposed to do this?
You know? And so afterwards Rick and Ron were talking and he said, God, you know, I thought this was you. And he said, is this, I [00:22:00] thought this was my business, Rick. He said, well, it is Lord. And he said, well then I want you to give them everything. Everything I have freely given you, I want you to give to them.
And he said he, I loved it. He would always go, everything, Lord. And he said that was it. The Lord was done talking about it. He had told him what to do and he just had to go and be obedient. And so he did. And so for one week, a month for two years, Rick went and taught them everything that they knew. And if you went on their website today and you went on our website, you’re gonna go, wow, those homes look really similar.
And so as they’re going through this process, months in, uh, I get a phone call. From Damon and Damon says, Hey, Gina was just chatting with Rick. He says, you’re gonna give me the website. And I’m like, what? The website? Okay, lemme back up real quick. The, we had purchased a website. We had gone to the builder show, met this individual, he had this really great idea, uh, for a new website, this [00:23:00] online concierge system that sounded so great.
And so we go and we try to build it with him. We get done. Can’t use the backend system at all. I’m laughing ’cause my friend’s, Brad and Cal were part of this process with me, can’t use the backend system at all. So now we have to go to a local, um, like a software engineering company, and they have to go rebuild the entire thing for us.
They have to build it on Sitefinity, on the backend. Well now we’ve gone through both of those. This grand idea isn’t really actually working out the way. That we thought it would. So now we have to engage with another company to redo our website. And so in the midst of this, we’ve had all new graphic renderings.
We’ve had to go into people’s homes to get all of their pictures ’cause we put uh, customer’s photos on all of our stuff. And so this is a six figure project. And I’m like, sure Damon, lemme call Rick real quick. You know, lemme just ask him some questions. ’cause I’m going, is he crazy? Is he crazy? And I called Rick, I’m like, Hey Rick.
Funny story Damon called. And he [00:24:00] said that you told him we were gonna give him the website. And I’m just wondering is that, are we really gonna give him the website? ’cause I don’t know if you remember, but we had the one site that didn’t work and then we had to go and now we got the new site and we got the renderings and he’s like, Gina, God told me to give it all to them and so we’re gonna give it all to them.
That changed something in me forever. Because I, you know, when I was thinking about that, there was a lot of what ifs in my mind. Isn’t that how the world is? Well, I was thinking, what if we end up in the same city someday? Like what if all of a sudden we’re competing? What if, what if it was self protection, self preservation?
And Rick was inviting me into this upside down kingdom way of thinking that changed something in me forever. Because you don’t have to believe, I didn’t have to believe what Rick did, which I didn’t at the time. To live in the fruit of it. And that’s what happened for me. And that’s how it can happen in your [00:25:00] business too.
He can make it very real and tangible to the people that you lead. As a leader goes, the people follow and they get to experience the kingdom wherever they are. And so that group is a home building company. Here’s the really cool thing. We both reside in the top 100 home builders in the nation. God didn’t take anything from us.
What a lesson. What a lesson of generosity that he gave us, and that company continues to expand and grow in ways that I just know in my spirit, we could have never done, we couldn’t have had the level of impact that they are having. What a treat. We both still are home builders. We still give ’em everything.
Now we get to learn from them, you know? I think we got more out of it, if I’m truly honest, than maybe we’ve actually even given, than we’ve learned so much. By doing that so much that Rick did it a few more times. And home building is what we do, right? We have a home building company, and so your mission is what you do.
We build homes, we serve coffee, right? You might [00:26:00] sell a product or provide a service, and we just believe that that is your mission. But the kingdom ask a deeper question. It asks why? Why do you do what you do? And that is an important question. You know, our sales trainer, uh, Jeff Shor, he always says, we gotta get to the why behind.
The why Behind the why. That’s what the kingdom does. You’re trying to get to that deep. Why do you do what you do? And we would say that your purpose is your why, and that your mission is your what and your what may change over time. But your purpose, you know, it’s like when you’re traveling and you’re hiking, it’s your, your purpose is like a backpack.
It it is with you wherever you go. And so we have many, whats that? We do now, over time these things have changed. You know, so we have the home building company, but we also have 92 Bakery and Cafe. We just launched a mortgage [00:27:00] company. We have this event center. We host weddings and celebrations here, right?
Impact title, it’s title work, elevate Building Supplies, providing things for our homeowners and uh, for the home building company, we have our services group. We have Kingdom at Work, so. Each of these, what they do looks different. The actual work is different. Success in those looks a little bit different for each of them, but the why hasn’t changed.
And for many leaders, what can happen is your why isn’t as steady and it can quietly become growth, like expansion just for the sake of expanding, you know, profit at all costs. Um, an exit strategy, maybe even kind of like retirement, but the kingdom reframes purpose for us and profit becomes a tool but not a purpose.
Does that make sense? Sometimes, uh, bill Spencer, that narrated, uh, that video before I came on, he would say, um, profit for a business is like [00:28:00] breathing for us to live. You don’t live to breathe, but you do breathe to live and a business needs profit to be healthy and sustainable. So it’s not like an ugly, it’s not a four letter word around here we are profitable business.
Right. And so we, I mean, call and his team, they just do a great job. There’s so many teams here that are excellent at what they do, but the real purpose of what we do is different. It’s a kingdom purpose and really at the core, a lot of it is just about love, and that love shows up in so many different ways, though it’s on how we serve people.
It’s how we serve our customers. It’s how we serve our trade partners. It’s how we serve our internal teams, right? It’s how we bless our communities. It’s how we reveal God and what we do. And here’s our purpose. This is why we exist. It’s to reveal God in His kingdom through our work in the marketplace.
And so our work, our what is different, but this is why all of [00:29:00] those exist. And so this is the first filter in our decision making processes. Will this do this? Will this decision, does that reveal God in his kingdom? Or is it opposed to that? And then we can’t align with anything that’s in opposition to why we exist.
And so we wanna invite you to make your purpose a kingdom purpose. It’s not to adopt our purpose. It is your purpose, but it’s to make your purpose a kingdom purpose in the market place. And as we know, many people believe that spiritual calling belongs to pastors or maybe like the missionaries right, that are on the field over in Africa.
But scripture never actually teaches that kind of hierarchy. And again, your calling is no less than that of a pastor, but it’s not greater, it’s simply different t. God places shepherds and churches, right? But he places kingdom leaders in businesses, hospitals, schools against cities. So you are in full-time ministry [00:30:00] already if you didn’t even realize it.
And so there’s an invitation because kingdom leadership, it doesn’t start with the strategy. And that’s why I love that door of repentance. You know, kingdom leadership starts with surrender and. This is hard when the world is telling you to, to take control, right? To have power. This is a, this again is that upside down kind of concept, and I, I’ve thought about surrender so much.
You know, when you’re in a battle and you’re waving the white flag of surrender, that means something has come to an end and the kingdom, it’s the beginning of everything. It’s totally flipped. It starts with surrender. And at some point, every leader has to face a deci a decision. Will this be my work or God’s work through me?
And you don’t have to fully understand what that means. Just like Rick didn’t in those early days, you know, it was taken one next step. God would say one thing and just one next. [00:31:00] Right? Action is how that would be. There wasn’t pressure on him. And so it’s just simple as that. You don’t need to understand it all.
Most people don’t when they get started, you know? They just simply said, God, if you wanna use this, you can like have your way. You know, here I am Lord. However you would respond. And then slowly things begin to change. The culture shifts. People start to matter. More pressure decreases. Purpose and influence.
They start to increase. And not because the leader became more capable or more like smarter. Somebody’s gonna say this, this week. We are not the smartest people. It is very true. That’s just us being honest. Um, but it is because the leader stopped carrying it alone. And so here’s the invitation. You know, when you go back to your workplace or tonight as you are speaking with the Lord about today and what all you’ve heard and talked about, I want you to pause for a moment and just pray and just say this, God, this is yours.
Use your work. [00:32:00] Use this work for your purposes, Lord. Because he wants to, he has so many good things for you. He’s gonna start to flip everything a little bit upside down and change your way of thinking if you’re open to it, and you just may discover that your workplace actually has been your ministry all along, and God’s inviting you this whole week to step in to this holy and worthy calling, and you have everything you need already.
All authority, right? Has been given by God. So you are already there. And so Father, I just pray for this group right now. I thank you for Holly’s talk earlier on identity, God. And so we just, um, we thank you for the identities that you’ve given each person here, for the purposes that you have for all of us and Lord.
And so thank you that you invite us to join you in your work here. That we get to bring heaven to earth right now, that it’s at hand, that we don’t have to wait to [00:33:00] get to heaven. We can walk on it right now here and now. And so Father, I lift up all of these Kingdom leaders over this week. Holy Spirit, speak, reveal yourself.
Thank you that you are such a good and gracious God. Thank you that everything you’re doing is about restoring us. Uh, Lord, we just are so grateful for you. Father, we just repent. We say change our hearts Lord, and we love you in Jesus name. Amen.