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Mercy Hill Church - Cincinnati
Speaker: Dylan Gilbert
March 9, 2026 · 42 min
Summary
Ecclesiastes 11 challenges believers to cast their bread upon the waters—to invest boldly in faith, relationships, generosity, and God's work—trusting that He will bring a harvest despite uncertainty, fear, and the inability to control outcomes.
Highlights
If we seek complete certainty in the decisions that we make when we're trying to forecast our life or plan it all out perfectly, we will be stuck in what a lot of people know as analysis paralysis, fearing what might happen if you step into something that the Lord may have for you.
True joy is not found in tight fists, but in the ones that actually have their hands in the dirt, putting in the work and asking that God will move.
Do not let the fear of the unknown take away the incredible opportunity of the Lord working powerfully in your life, because if we sit around waiting for the wind and rain to stop for too long, then we need to be content with our fields remaining absolutely empty.