Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Alright, so I'm going to begin a series that you've never heard before. It's called The Bless Life.

Brand new series. So yes, I know that many you've heard it before, but I used to preach this series every three years.

Because it has to do with your heart, not your money. People don't understand that.

Jesus said where your treasure is, there your heart will be. Also your heart follows your treasure.

It's not the other way around. I've actually heard preachers misquote the Scripture and say where your heart is, there your treasure will be. That's not the Scripture. It's not what Jesus said.

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. If you want your heart in the kingdom, you put your treasure there.

If you want your heart in your marriage, you put your treasure there. If you invest in a stock, you'll start going online and checking on that stock.

Even though you've never checked on it before in your life and you never cared about it before. Once you put your treasure there, your heart follows.

So this is a series about the heart. And that's the name of this first message. It's all about the heart.

It's all about the heart. And God really spoke to me. The last time I did this series was in 2015. And I used to do it every three years.

So I did it five times in the first 50 years of church. I started to get in 2020 and then this worldwide pandemic happened right after I started it.

So I abandoned it and began preaching on peace in the midst of the storm and messages that would help us through something like that.

So I've not preached this night years. And I've gone back to the material. This is my life message. But I want you to think about it. In 2015, we had about 30,000 active members.

2023, we now have over 100,000 active members.

So a lot of people haven't heard this. And the other thing is that we weren't even on the radio and what we're now on 6400 radio stations every week.

And our television ministry has grown so much. We are now on 67 times a week on 11 networks. And all over the world, we're in every country of the world.

We actually are on Fox affiliates right before the NFL today. I had a church member write me and said, we were in a restaurant where they had a sports bar.

And he said, all of a sudden this guy said, hey, y'all be quiet, he's home. And he said, all these guys gathered around the bar with their beer and watched you.

And I'm not saying, I'm not trying to, you know, nothing wrong with them. I'm not saying anything about beer. I'm just simply saying we were reaching an audience that we probably don't reach normally guys in the sports bar to watch television, you know, to watch the Christian to watch not Christian, but to watch the football game.

So anyway, and our top two networks, which one is day star, I saw Joni ride over here and dug with those just those two top networks. And we're about to buy more time.

I was telling her that last time we were there because we were doubling our our our airtime budget now because the television ministry just doing so well. And that's one of the first things we want to do is by time on day star because they have such a huge reach.

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