Keep Going | Make Room For Prayer

**SPEAKER_1** (0:07)
Thank you for tuning in to the New Vision Podcast. Our prayer is that this message builds your faith, brings clarity, and gives you hope. Enjoy the message.

**Kevin** (0:18)
I told the 9 o'clock, there was one person that cheered when I came out. I was like, man, I only had a dollar today, so only one person got paid to cheer for me when I came out. Today, we just needed to wind up that that woofer a little bit more, like it could have been a little bit louder. Guys, thanks for being here today. It's a Labor Day weekend. How many of you are excited about not working tomorrow?
All right, we're done for today.
No, I mean, it is good. I hope that you get to spend some time tomorrow enjoying your day.
Allow yourself to spend time in God's presence and with people that fill you up. Sometimes we look at rest as this opportunity to sleep without an alarm and to do nothing at all, and not that those aren't good things to do at times, but I would also encourage you if you're like, man, I just I need I need something like maybe this would be God's invitation to you to rest in him and spend time in his presence with his people or or maybe you you go on a walk. Maybe that's when you sense the Lord's presence the most. And so spend some time walking tomorrow. Do it early in the morning or late in the evening so that you don't melt unless you're losing weight is what you want to do. Then put on a sweat suit and go walk for a little while outside in the heat. But take advantage of the opportunity tomorrow to not just sleep, but rest, rest in God's presence, allow him to fill you up so that the rest of your week can be different because you had an opportunity to do that tomorrow. Let me introduce myself. If we haven't met, my name is Kevin. My wife Mel is here in the front and we get to lead here at New Vision. And it's such an honor and such a joy. And so we are thankful that you're here in the room and you're online this morning. We are grateful to get to spend time with you. And today we are wrapping up our Make Room for Prayer series. But that doesn't mean that our conversations with God stop. Like remember, prayer is just us talking with God. And so I hope that you've been encouraged. And I hope that today, as we close the series out, it encourages you to continue on praying. We will be here tomorrow, even though it's Labor Day. We'll be here from 6 to 7 So if your body wakes you up, even though you don't have an alarm, like come on in and join us. We'll be here from 6 to 7 tomorrow, just like we would be the rest of the week. This year, some things changed for us at home. Like Lex went to school, and Jordan decided right before school started, that he was going to join the swim team.
And some of you are like, I didn't even know that that was a thing. Neither did I. I didn't know that our school had a swim team. I didn't know that Jordan would want to be on the swim team. But he did. And it's really cool. Like we're really proud of him for doing something that he's never done before, and like working hard at it. They practice just like everybody else. You know, it's every day after school for a couple of hours. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, like it's even longer in the mornings. They do different things. And we're getting the hang of it little by little. So we've been to a couple of swim meets now, and so we're getting used to those things. But it's really fun watching him warm up and work on his techniques, and to see him in the different events. And one of the things that's been really cool is like he's doing the backstroke, and like I can't even like use my arms like that. But this kid is like moving through the water. It's really been cool watching him to watching him do all of these things. And they have one event there that is, I don't know how they do it. Like it's the 500-meter freestyle. And so for those of you that have no idea what swimming meets look like or events look like, 500 meters, a swimming pool is 25 meters long. So they go down and back, and that's 50 meters. They do that 10 times. So 20 total times, like down, that's one, back, that's two, down. So 20 times. That's a long time to be swimming. Some of you are like, I could do that. I got you.