Grow Baby Grow

Sermon: Grow Baby, Grow!

Scripture: John 15:5-14,17

Black History Includes Incredible Black Children Throughout History

I want to introduce you to Mikaila Ulmer

Mikaila Ulmer is anAmerican teen entrepreneur who started a lemonade business called “Me & the Bees Lemonade” in Austin Texas.

She started at the age of 4 and a half years old with a lemonade stand in the front of her house.

By 2009, Ulmer was in front of her house selling her lemonade inspired by her great grandmother’s 1940s recipe, using honey from local beekeepers.

Mikaila has donated 10% of the profits to charities that are concerned with saving the bees.[5] As the business grew her parents became involved.[3][6]

Ulmer appeared with her father on the television show Shark Tank in 2015 where she successfully received a $60,000 investment to support her growing business

Ulmer was invited that year to meet President Barack Obama at the White House.

Ulmer "had the honor" of introducing Barack Obama at TheUnited State of Women Summit in 2016. Obama called her "an amazing young lady".

In 2017, her business received $800,000 dollars as an investment made by a consortium of football players.

Now Me & the Bees was in over 1,800 stores nationwide, including Whole Foods.

Mikaila’s motto is “Dream like a kid”

‘God says: In the last days I will give my Spirit freely to all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Acts 2:17 ICB

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

John 15:5,9,12

Let me tell you a story… There was an anthropologist (a person who studies humans) who had been studying the habits and culture of a remote African tribe. He had been working in the village for quite some time and the day before he was to return home, he put together a gift basket filled with delicious fruits from around the region and wrapped it in a ribbon. He placed the basket under a tree and then he gathered up the children in the village. The man drew a line in the dirt, looked at the children, and said, “When I tell you to start, run to the tree and whoever gets there first will win the basket of the fruit.” When he told them to run, they all took each other’s hands and ran together to the tree. Then they sat together around the basket and enjoyed their treat as a group. The anthropologist was shocked. He asked why they would all go together when one of them could have won all the fruits for themselves? A young girl looked up at him and said, “How can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?”

In bringing many sons and daughters to glory,

it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered.

Hebrew 2:10

The Love of God seeks to leave no one behind.

What Happens to “Me” will impact the “We”

· What Happens to “Me” will impact my family.

What Happens to “Me” will impact the “We”

· What Happens to “Me” will impact my Community.

What Happens to “Me” will impact the “We”

· What Happens to “Me” will impact my Church.

The Love of Christ Growing in Me will impact my Choices—to Bless Others or to Curse Others;

The Love of Christ Growing in Me will impact whether I choose to Pardon or to Payback;

The “We” is Depending Upon “Me” being All that God Intends for “Me” to Be.

We Grow together because of what We Go Through in Faith.

· We Grow to Bear Fruit for Others.

· We Grow by Eating the Fruit of others.

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:40 (NIV)