Psalm 127. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up

early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to his beloved sleep.

So I'm Steph Horner. I work at the church, a student minister, and Olivia is one of my students.

At one point, they were talking about, you know, hey, who are you discipling personally?

And I was praying through okay, Lord, like, who do you have just to put on my heart to just really like do life with and disciple in that way

kind of like the Paul and Timothy example and the Lord just kept putting Olivia on my heart more

and more and I started just seeing her heart for things and the more we hung out the more I realized

like man the Lord is doing some work in her.

And it was just clearly the Lord in bringing us together.

The first time I met Steph was at camp.

And so since then, it was like the snowball effect of going to Mandarin, hearing her speak.

And I was like, you know what?

I'm going to call her.

We're going to go get coffee. And the second I sat down with her, she just kind of like unloaded

a bunch of information on me and like wisdom.

And all of the information and wisdom was from the word.

And I remember thinking, like, wow, this is kind of new to me.

Like everything she's saying is from the Bible.

It's not like her opinion, it's anything like that.

And the Lord's word is the bridge between both of us. It's what connects us.

It's what drives us. It's what teaches us. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord.

The fruit of the womb, a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's

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