If your voice is tired, I guarantee your message is two. And today we want to talk all about

sustaining your influence, sustaining your messages, and your preaching gift. And so this is kind of

the conclusion of a four-week series. But I want to talk today about the reality of long-distance

communicators, those of us that have been preaching for a long time, and what it's gonna take. Now you might be a year or two in, maybe in five years. I'm almost 30 years into preaching, and so I'm gonna tell you, as somebody who's probably a little further down the road, here's the things you wanna think about, Here's the things that will help you and protect you.

And hopefully, for those of you that are on the same journey as I am, just to remind you,

like, these are realities to what we each face. It doesn't make us weak. It doesn't make us

broken. It doesn't make us like we're doing something wrong. These are just real hangups that

we have and real things we

have to think about as preachers and teachers and communicators over the years. So we've all been

there, right? We're running on caffeine. We're running on calling. We're tired. We're prepping late.

We're arriving early. And we're just tired. I know I've been there where I just feel like, Lord,

I don't know. I mean, I have just worked so hard. And what I've learned in my own life is that

what if the rhythm of our preaching is preaching louder than our sermon? Like what if the way

that we live our lives and prep our messages are actually hindering us from being effective because we're not going to do it for much longer. We're not going to be able to do it for much longer. So what I want to do is talk to you today about sustainable preaching. Sustainable preaching. I think early on we saw, at least I saw a lot of communicators as burnout was a badge of honor, right?

I'm just going to go, go, go and look at, I preached eight messages and I'm traveling to three

different places. And I don't know. I have a real conviction about that. And again, I don't

ask everyone to live the way that I live. But I have a conviction that if we are mimicking real

life for other people and what

are good, healthy boundaries and parameters, then we are preaching really powerful messages,

but if our parenting is not sustainable, if our marriage isn't sustainable, if our finances

isn't sustainable, then we can say a lot of things, but people watch our lives.

They watch, are you always tired? Are you always gone? Are you busy, busy? How do your kids, like, look at you? They want to be around you. Are they gone from you? Those kind of things matter. Now, we can't control other people. I can't control my spouse. I can't control my kids, although I'd like to. So I can't control the response to me, but I can tell others, here's things that will help you sustain your everyday

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