Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. Happy New Year, Elevation Church. You made
Speaker 1: a good.
Speaker 2: Decision to get in the house today. I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: I'm believing this year that God is going to open
Speaker 2: the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that
Speaker 2: we will not have room enough to receive. Of course,
Speaker 2: as we stand on the precipice of a new year, God,
Speaker 2: we thank you for what you've already brought us through.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, mind blowing, absolutely incredible what you've done for us.
Speaker 2: That we stand before you a new creation in Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: The old is gone and the newest come. As I
Speaker 2: stand behind this pulpit today, God, I thank you for
Speaker 2: all of the messages that you're going to preach this
Speaker 2: year through this ministry. I thank you in advance that
Speaker 2: these your children will have enough bread for every battle
Speaker 2: they face. I thank you for new songs from this
Speaker 2: house this year. That will minister to people and become
Speaker 2: anthems for every day of their life. I thank you
Speaker 2: for all of the people who will be saved through
Speaker 2: this ministry this year, for all of the people who
Speaker 2: will be redeemed from their sin. I thank you for
Speaker 2: all of the addictions that will be broken this year because.
Speaker 1: Of your powerful word.
Speaker 2: I thank you for new opportunities for your people this year,
Speaker 2: new connections, fresh perspectus.
Speaker 1: I thank you for new relationships in their life this year.
Speaker 1: I thank you for the restoration of things that were
Speaker 1: given up on. I declare it, I believe it, and
Speaker 1: I give.
Speaker 2: You thanks in advance. You're a mighty God. Do whatever
Speaker 2: you want to do. We give this year to you
Speaker 2: in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen. Somebody shouts headed my way. Put it in the comment,
Speaker 1: say it's headed my way. Put your name in the comment.
Speaker 2: So God knows where to put your DoorDash delivery. Wouldn't
Speaker 2: it be cool if God was like door dash, if
Speaker 2: you could track him and see where it was. But
Speaker 2: somebody says headed my way, give me five on that
Speaker 2: it's headed my way. High five five more people say
Speaker 2: you got a new thing coming this year.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be incredible, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be powerful. New thing, new thing, new thing.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Glory to God. I got a new thing. Comment.
Speaker 2: Yes, Lord, we wrote that last year, but I saved
Speaker 2: it for new years.
Speaker 1: I thought you needed it today.
Speaker 2: All right, we are upon the first sermon of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. You can't imagine the agony that goes into figuring,
Speaker 2: out of all the different texts that the Lord would
Speaker 2: speak on this day, what would it be. Because I
Speaker 2: know that your heart is in a receptive place today
Speaker 2: and that there is a fresh faith stiring. So I
Speaker 2: want to share with you from a prophetic scripture in
Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter twenty seven. Isaiah chapter twenty seven very meaningful
Speaker 2: to me, and I hope you will feel the same way.
Speaker 2: A word that the Lord gave to his people long ago,
Speaker 2: but it speaks to us today. Somebody shout today today,
Speaker 2: Isaiah twenty seven, verses one through six. By the way,
Speaker 2: I want to say a huge thank you to our
Speaker 2: our church who gave so generously in our year end
Speaker 2: offering that you gave over eleven million.
Speaker 1: Dollars to share the.
Speaker 2: Gospel, to heal the sick, to clothe the poor.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: I cry come into church today just thinking how thankful
Speaker 2: I am for you, how expectant I am for God
Speaker 2: to move in your life. And I want to start
Speaker 2: this year with the prophetic word that God gave me
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Isaiah twenty seven, Verse one.
Speaker 2: In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword,
Speaker 2: his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Speaker 2: Leviathan the coiling serpent.
Speaker 1: He will slay the monster of the sea.
Speaker 2: Anybody got some stuff you need God to kill this
Speaker 2: year in your life that's been dragging you down.
Speaker 1: That's what Leviathan was.
Speaker 2: Leviathan was a chaos monster, a mythological figure, and many
Speaker 2: believe it represented Babylon and Assyria in Egypt, the enemies
Speaker 2: of Israel. But the truth is we all live with
Speaker 2: our own Leviathan, don't we. And the Lord promises that
Speaker 2: in that day that whatever has you wrapped up, whatever
Speaker 2: has you stuck down in yourself, he will punish with
Speaker 2: his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the
Speaker 2: gliding Serpent. I look at verse two. In that day
Speaker 2: sing about a fruitful vineyard. I the Lord watch over it.
Speaker 2: I water it continually. I guard it day and night,
Speaker 2: so that no one may harm it. I am not angry.
Speaker 2: If only there were briars and thorns confronting me, I
Speaker 2: would march against them in battle.
Speaker 1: I would set them all on fire. Or else. Let
Speaker 1: them come to me for refuge. Let them make.
Speaker 2: Peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me.
Speaker 2: Let me give you verse six, and then I'll tell
Speaker 2: you our topic for today. In days to come, Jacob
Speaker 2: will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill
Speaker 2: all the world with fruit. In days to come, Jacob
Speaker 2: will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill
Speaker 2: all the world with fruit in days to come. I
Speaker 2: want to appreciate you today a message. This is that day.
Speaker 2: This is somebody shout. This is shout like you're at
Speaker 2: a football game. This is that day. Tell your neighbor
Speaker 2: this is that day. Other neighbor, this is that day.
Speaker 2: Say it again, put it in the chat. This is
Speaker 2: that day. I'm breaking out. I'm going forward, I'm growing up,
Speaker 2: I'm moving into it.
Speaker 1: I'm walking tall because this is.
Speaker 3: That day.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, you may be seated this is that day.
Speaker 2: The perspective of Isaiah twenty seven is the perspective of
Speaker 2: an integrated faith. An integrated faith not a fragmented faith.
Speaker 2: A fragmented faith is when you believe in God when
Speaker 2: things are good and doubt him when things are down.
Speaker 2: This is an integrated faith. Everybody say integrated. It means
Speaker 2: that in the process of moving forward in what God
Speaker 2: has for you in the days to come, you will
Speaker 2: have to make the decision to remain hopeful. When I
Speaker 2: say remain hopeful, that also includes leaving room for disappointment.
Speaker 2: So for grown ups, believing in God means remaining in
Speaker 2: hope while leaving room for disappointment.
Speaker 1: That goes to every area of our life.
Speaker 2: Hopeful that you might have a good week with your
Speaker 2: family or a good meal with your kids. But leaving
Speaker 2: some room. Everybody say leave room. That's what I tell
Speaker 2: the tailor when he takes my pants in. I say,
Speaker 2: leave some room. In case Holly Cook's really good over
Speaker 2: the holidays, Just leave me a little growing room.
Speaker 1: And I think that leaving room.
Speaker 2: For disappointment, that's what I mean by integrated faith. It's
Speaker 2: really how our faith is sustained so that we see
Speaker 2: disappointments as doorways to greater faith, not dead ends. In case,
Speaker 2: the first few years of your walk with God have
Speaker 2: been confusing to you because at first things seemed to
Speaker 2: go up when you walked with God, and then things
Speaker 2: went down and you thought that following God was always
Speaker 2: going to lead you up. God wants to give you
Speaker 2: an integrated faith. In case, the first few days of
Speaker 2: your new year have sucked, and I thought about saying
Speaker 2: have been spiritually challenging.
Speaker 1: But when it sucks, it sucks, you know. I just
Speaker 1: put it how you put it. This is like this
Speaker 1: is the same old, same old.
Speaker 2: What we want to talk about today is a little
Speaker 2: bit different because we understand that it is our responsibility
Speaker 2: as Christian people to manage our expectation.
Speaker 1: Meaning I've got to make.
Speaker 2: Sure that I don't let my experiences in life regulate
Speaker 2: my expectations of God. Write this down I will not,
Speaker 2: or say it out loud, whatever you want to do
Speaker 2: to reinforce it, Auditory learner, Okay, just say I will
Speaker 2: not allow my experience in life to regulate my expectation
Speaker 2: of God.
Speaker 1: That is a daily decision you've got to make.
Speaker 2: And I think that a lot of the damaged relationships
Speaker 2: in our life are because of unmanaged expectations that we
Speaker 2: really started depending on somebody to do things for us
Speaker 2: that only God could do for us. We really started
Speaker 2: expecting things to be like the perfect little movies we
Speaker 2: make up in our mind of how things are supposed
Speaker 2: to go when we show up. And so the integrated
Speaker 2: faith that Isaiah describes really beautiful because he says that
Speaker 2: there's two things happening. There is a fight. Everybody say fight.
Speaker 2: That's verse one of Isaiah twenty seven. In that day,
Speaker 2: the Lord will punish with his sword. Now you have
Speaker 2: the sword if you're just going through life, strolling through
Speaker 2: your day. So there's a fight happening. And then in
Speaker 2: verse two it says, in that day sing about a
Speaker 2: fruitful vineyard. So let me point something out to you.
Speaker 2: There's a sword in verse one, and there's a song
Speaker 2: in verse two. But the sword and the song are
Speaker 2: happening on the same day. Okay, This integrated faith will
Speaker 2: make me get up in the morning and never say
Speaker 2: again it's gonna be one of those days, because it's
Speaker 2: always going to be.
Speaker 1: One of those days.
Speaker 2: Almost got discouraged before I came out today because my
Speaker 2: hair right, there was flat and I couldn't get it up,
Speaker 2: and I was going, Oh God, how am I going
Speaker 2: to preach if my hair is flat?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Are you serious?
Speaker 2: You have the word of God and the spirit of God,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have a bad hair day and get
Speaker 2: up in the pulpit without confidence. And I think I
Speaker 2: fixed it, but I'm still not really sure. So I'm
Speaker 2: kind of insecure as I stand before you.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. It doesn't it doesn't take.
Speaker 2: Much to remove us from a hopeful expectation.
Speaker 1: My expectation is my responsibility.
Speaker 2: Nobody can ruin my day. I got a verse for that,
Speaker 2: Psalm one eighteen, verse twenty four. It's the year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, right, all right, this is a verse twenty
Speaker 2: four for you.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 2: Day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be
Speaker 2: glad in it. So if God made this day, nobody
Speaker 2: else gets to mess it up. I used to say
Speaker 2: to people, when they send me a nice text, you
Speaker 2: made my day. I quit saying that because I figure
Speaker 2: if they can make my day by sending me a
Speaker 2: nice text, they can mess up my day if they
Speaker 2: send me another type of text. Now we want to
Speaker 2: get up every day this year and say, this is
Speaker 2: the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice
Speaker 2: and be glad in it. So it's the challenge watch
Speaker 2: this to remain in hope while leaving room for disappointment.
Speaker 2: I think our expectations this time of year could use
Speaker 2: a little HGH holy ghost hormone.
Speaker 1: To get us on an expecting path.
Speaker 2: That God has given me, a hope in the future
Speaker 2: and an expected end. No matter what they did or
Speaker 2: didn't do for you, no matter who left or who stayed,
Speaker 2: or who called back or who blocked your number, I
Speaker 2: have an expected end. And yet as I walk through
Speaker 2: these days, I understand that my challenge is to remain.
Speaker 2: Do you want to take notes on my message today?
Speaker 2: My first word is remain because I want to challenge
Speaker 2: you to remain in hope this year and leave room
Speaker 2: for disappointment.
Speaker 1: And you're like, which one is it? I want you
Speaker 1: to do both.
Speaker 2: I want you to expect the blessing and accept the mess.
Speaker 2: In that day there will be a sword because everybody
Speaker 2: in here is fighting something. Everybody in here has a Leviathan.
Speaker 2: I might preach about Leviathan next week, a whole sermon
Speaker 2: on Leviathan I might do it next week. Would you
Speaker 2: come back if I did? Would you make a hat
Speaker 2: about it if I did? Yeah? Then, But notice that
Speaker 2: while the sword is fighting Leviathan, because everybody has a Leviathan,
Speaker 2: and everybody knows how to hide it. It's a coiling serpent,
Speaker 2: it's a gliding serpent.
Speaker 1: You hide your Leviathan behind a smile.
Speaker 2: You hide your Leviathan behind new clothes to the disguise
Speaker 2: the fact that I dragged old habits underneath new clothes.
Speaker 2: Some of us have new hair. Talked about a bad
Speaker 2: hair day. Some of us actually have new hair on
Speaker 2: our head in a new year.
Speaker 1: Yet notice this in the text. Notice this in the text.
Speaker 2: At the same time that God is dealing with the enemy,
Speaker 2: he commands you to sing about the fruit that is
Speaker 2: coming forth in your life. I love the Bible because
Speaker 2: this gives me an integrated expectation of God, that there
Speaker 2: will always be a fight in my life, but there
Speaker 2: will always be fruit in my life. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, I learned, the bigger the fight, the bigger
Speaker 2: the fruit is going to be.
Speaker 1: And the size.
Speaker 2: Of the fight is a preview of.
Speaker 1: The size of the fruit.
Speaker 2: I find somebody say it's gonna be big baby.
Speaker 1: I'm appreciate today. I don't know what y'all are gonna do.
Speaker 1: Shall remain.
Speaker 2: He talks about Jacob, He talks about Israel being planted
Speaker 2: and bearing fruit, having root and bearing fruit, And I
Speaker 2: wonder are you rooted in the right thing?
Speaker 1: As this year begins?
Speaker 2: And I came to ask one question of our global
Speaker 2: EFM and our local campuses all around the world, what
Speaker 2: will you do with.
Speaker 1: Your twenty four.
Speaker 2: I think we're all a little humbler about our new
Speaker 2: year's resolutions. After the year formerly known as twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: every preacher I know was up preaching about Vision twenty
Speaker 2: twenty Vision, and then.
Speaker 1: Just completely blindsided by the.
Speaker 2: Fact that the Lord didn't give us a prophetic word,
Speaker 2: that we would be looking at empty seats all year,
Speaker 2: preaching in our empty buildings.
Speaker 1: So all the sermons are humbler. In the new year,
Speaker 1: all the plans are a.
Speaker 2: Little bit moderated, mitigated, modulated. I found a verse for
Speaker 2: that too, Proverbs twenty seven to one.
Speaker 1: I put this one in the King James. Check it out.
Speaker 2: Both not thyself up tomorrow, for thou knowest not what
Speaker 2: a day may bring forth. So when I had you
Speaker 2: shout this is that day. Shout it again, this is
Speaker 2: that day.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all said that in lowercase letters, no exclamation point,
Speaker 1: this is that day. You're You're very deep, so you're like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean by that day?
Speaker 2: I was just reading the Bible because Isaiah said, in
Speaker 2: that day, the Lord's gonna fight your enemies, and in
Speaker 2: that day you will sing of a fruitful vineyard.
Speaker 1: That day.
Speaker 2: You know that day you dream of. There are many
Speaker 2: of you today who are dreaming of a day. Say
Speaker 2: I'm dreaming of a day. If you don't talk back
Speaker 2: to me during the sermon, you get a flat tire
Speaker 2: when you leave to go in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: We've got some guests.
Speaker 2: I need to explain the rules, say that day, that day.
Speaker 2: And so we have an expectation that God is going
Speaker 2: to free us from certain things this year, that God
Speaker 2: is going to deliver us from certain dilemmas this year,
Speaker 2: that God is going to provide for us. And expectation
Speaker 2: is great as long as it's integrated, because I think
Speaker 2: the danger of having expectations about what God is going
Speaker 2: to do. You know, twenty twenty four, God's going to
Speaker 2: do more in twenty four, I'm leaving the shore in
Speaker 2: twenty four. I'm going to get a stronger core in
Speaker 2: twenty four. You want another one something I've never seen before.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four. My ceiling is going to be
Speaker 2: my floor. In twenty twenty four not going to be poor.
Speaker 2: Why we say that, And while it's good to envision that,
Speaker 2: and I'll be honest with you, some of the things
Speaker 2: that I'm seeing today in my life are the result
Speaker 2: of a vision that God gave me at a time
Speaker 2: when I couldn't see anything like what I'm seeing today.
Speaker 1: I believe in that expectation.
Speaker 2: I think the danger we should talk about as you
Speaker 2: move into your new year and what God wants to
Speaker 2: do through you, is that sometimes your expectation.
Speaker 1: Of the future can become your excuse.
Speaker 2: Right now, and I'll break it down to a phrase
Speaker 2: that I heard, and I'll use Elijah to give it
Speaker 2: to you. When he was very little, we were taking
Speaker 2: Easter pictures as a family, and of course our kids
Speaker 2: just love taking Easter.
Speaker 1: Pictures because they're the pastor's kids.
Speaker 2: They were fighting, they were angry, they were despondent, and
Speaker 2: Elijah finally like after having to change outfits a few times.
Speaker 2: This is a legendary line that he said in our family.
Speaker 2: He said, I hate Easter when I'm the pastor. So
Speaker 2: let's break this down. He said, one day when I'm
Speaker 2: the pastor, We're not even gonna have Easter. I'm canceling Easter.
Speaker 2: He was like five, So don't judge him like that.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he was five. But check this out
Speaker 2: a five year old's perspective. One day when I'm the pastor.
Speaker 2: One day when one day when have you ever been
Speaker 2: a victim of? One day when syndrome. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 2: doing too good right now, but one day, one day
Speaker 2: when I get these kids.
Speaker 1: Out the house. The problem I have with that plan one.
Speaker 2: Day when I get the kids out the house, is
Speaker 2: that twenty years ago you were saying one day when
Speaker 2: I have kids of my own, and now it's shifted
Speaker 2: to a future stage where you think you'll have more
Speaker 2: space and less stress. Let's do another one. I'm going
Speaker 2: to start a business one day when I have the
Speaker 2: right partner. I used to laugh when teams would come
Speaker 2: to see our church and they were starting their own church,
Speaker 2: and the pastor would pull me aside and say, hey,
Speaker 2: I got a gift that I got an annoying got
Speaker 2: a call star church when we reach people far from God.
Speaker 2: But I don't have a team. Where do you get
Speaker 2: your team? And I would always make something up. Oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know to build a bear store.
Speaker 1: Well they got to build a ministry team store.
Speaker 2: And I went down there and I found the right
Speaker 2: amount of achiever and doer and the right amount of dreamer,
Speaker 2: and I put a team together.
Speaker 1: What do you think the team came from the same
Speaker 1: place Jesus got his team.
Speaker 2: You find the people that God has placed in your
Speaker 2: life that are imperfect, and you make it happen with.
Speaker 1: Who you've got.
Speaker 2: Now, if you are expecting a stage in your life
Speaker 2: when the perfect people will come into your life to
Speaker 2: help you figure out your imperfect life, if God sends
Speaker 2: perfect people in your life, you should send them away
Speaker 2: so they stay perfect, because the moment they get tangled
Speaker 2: up with you and me, they.
Speaker 1: Won't be perfect anymore.
Speaker 2: Did you ever do the one day when thing, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get in shape one day, when one day
Speaker 2: win what I'm gonna do the diet one day when
Speaker 2: one day when what I'll tell you what happened to me?
Speaker 1: It is so embarrassing. One day I saw in the mirror.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you see forty five pounds that
Speaker 2: you've gained all at once, but it.
Speaker 1: Was like a flash of revelation. It was like a
Speaker 1: road to Damascus to me. I walked by the mirror
Speaker 1: after being married to Holly for eighteen months, with my
Speaker 1: shirt off, and I said, why didn't you.
Speaker 2: Tell me this was happening to me? And why did
Speaker 2: you contribute to it with your cooking? I said, I'm
Speaker 2: going on Atkins. That's the diet I knew, and it
Speaker 2: involved bacon, and I like bacon, so I gotta.
Speaker 1: Lose this belly.
Speaker 2: But I got to use bacon to do it because
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be counting macros anytime soon.
Speaker 1: And Holly said, great, that's great. We could go on
Speaker 1: to diet next week.
Speaker 2: I said, no, I'm not eating another car starting right now,
Speaker 2: and I didn't.
Speaker 1: We went the Windy's that night. I donated back the
Speaker 1: bun to the homeless Ministry and just state the patty
Speaker 1: and I did that over and over and over and over,
Speaker 1: and she thought that was so strange. She said, you
Speaker 1: could have gave me time. We could have shopped.
Speaker 2: We could have hired a nutritionist, but I knew too
Speaker 2: much to have to give a nutritionist money to start
Speaker 2: doing what I could do today. Now I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: one day, one day, when I have more time, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna write a book. One day when my wife starts
Speaker 2: acting right, I could really I could really be a
Speaker 2: great businessman if my wife would believe in me one
Speaker 2: day when she gets the vision.
Speaker 1: What if she doesn't need to get the vision.
Speaker 2: What if you need to show the discipline? Somebody say
Speaker 2: one day, one day when one day I'm tell you,
Speaker 2: Pastor Steven, I'm gonna start giving to the church.
Speaker 1: One day when.
Speaker 2: I one day when I'm man all of the riches.
Speaker 2: I know that, I know that the day is coming.
Speaker 2: God has told me I will be a millionaire. I
Speaker 2: will fund the kingdom. I will send apostles into the earth.
Speaker 2: And one day, when I get this business right, if
Speaker 2: you won't do it with ten dollars, I promise you
Speaker 2: won't do it with millions.
Speaker 1: I promise, because it's gonna be more zeros.
Speaker 2: This is gonna make you throw up even that much
Speaker 2: more when you give it.
Speaker 1: One day when and I have found myself.
Speaker 2: Now I know this new Year's message is not the
Speaker 2: shutiest New Year's message, but I think it could be
Speaker 2: a sustaining one for you if you make a subtle shift.
Speaker 2: And if the first point of this sermon is remain
Speaker 2: in hope, but leave room for disappointment, because there will
Speaker 2: always be a fight, and there will always be fruit,
Speaker 2: and sometimes you have to really allow the fight to
Speaker 2: take its course to see the fruit come forth. If
Speaker 2: the first word is remain, the second thing I want
Speaker 2: you to do this year is reduce.
Speaker 1: Reduce, And again this is not a weight loss seminar.
Speaker 2: And I know that reduce is not a juicy New
Speaker 2: Year's word. And I know that we want God to
Speaker 2: add to our lives, and you should. I want you
Speaker 2: to have more influence. I want you to have more
Speaker 2: happy moments. I want you to have more laughter. I
Speaker 2: want you to have more peaceful sleep at night, more
Speaker 2: hours of sleep. I want you to be able to
Speaker 2: see more places and create more opportunities for others and yourself.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I want you to experience more.
Speaker 2: I want to point out to you that in the
Speaker 2: text I read, God did not say anything to Israel
Speaker 2: about years. In Isaiah chapter twenty seven, verse one, he
Speaker 2: says in that day, verse two, in that day, verse.
Speaker 1: Six, in days to come, And I wonder are.
Speaker 2: We stressed, discouraged, defeated, and lacking momentum and victory in
Speaker 2: our life? Because when I said what are you going
Speaker 2: to do with your twenty four?
Speaker 1: You thought years.
Speaker 2: The real answer to the question what will you do
Speaker 2: with your twenty four is not about a year called
Speaker 2: twenty four. It's about this is the day the Lord
Speaker 2: has made. When I woke up this morning, I had
Speaker 2: twenty four hours of opportunity deposited into my account. And
Speaker 2: I can sit here with you and dream about all
Speaker 2: of the amazing things I'm going to accomplish for God
Speaker 2: this year. I could sit here and advertise to you
Speaker 2: all of the amazing possibilities that could happen.
Speaker 1: In your life this year.
Speaker 2: More in twenty four, leave the shore in twenty four,
Speaker 2: strengthen your core in twenty four. And all of that
Speaker 2: that I say about twenty four is wonderful and abstract,
Speaker 2: but it.
Speaker 1: Falls into the category of one day.
Speaker 2: When so round about June, I'm gonna have my beach body.
Speaker 2: So round about December, I'm gonna have some of these
Speaker 2: debts paid off, so round about three years from now,
Speaker 2: my family's gonna be back together. Round about ten years
Speaker 2: from now, my kids are going to college.
Speaker 1: I believe in long term vision.
Speaker 2: I think it's all amazing, But I think this one
Speaker 2: day win can be a trap to keep you focused
Speaker 2: so much on the years that you don't do with
Speaker 2: the days what you can do with the days.
Speaker 1: Isn't this what Jesus said, Why do.
Speaker 2: You worry about tomorrow? Tomorrow has enough trouble of its own.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. If you're anxious, are
Speaker 2: you anxious about today? Or are you anxious about Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Or are you anxious about Wednesday three weeks from now?
Speaker 1: Or are you anxious about when you retire?
Speaker 2: When you're seventy five, you're seventeen, You've got time.
Speaker 1: There's days between here and there.
Speaker 2: You know how much peace it'll bring you to recognize
Speaker 2: the revelation of a day. Here's the revelation of a day,
Speaker 2: that the grace for the.
Speaker 1: Day is in the day.
Speaker 2: The grace for tomorrow is not in today. The only
Speaker 2: thing that is in today for tomorrow for you is
Speaker 2: anxiety if you don't put it in God's hands. And
Speaker 2: Jesus said, sufficient is the day. Give us this day
Speaker 2: our fifteen year bread. He doesn't even pray for twelve
Speaker 2: months of bread. I'm saying, have a plan, I'm saying,
Speaker 2: have a strategy. I'm saying, have a financial advisor. But
Speaker 2: you got to do that today and waiting.
Speaker 1: On a time.
Speaker 2: You remember when we thought there was no need to
Speaker 2: set up online giving back in two thousand and six
Speaker 2: because nobody was giving online.
Speaker 1: But we had to set it up that day for
Speaker 1: this day.
Speaker 2: Now, I think ninety three percent of giving is online,
Speaker 2: ninety eight ninety eight percent from nothing to ninety eight percent.
Speaker 2: But there's something in your life like that right now,
Speaker 2: and you go one day when I get more money,
Speaker 2: I'll learn to manage it. That is a syndrome that
Speaker 2: affects people of faith even more than it affects atheists,
Speaker 2: because we will blame God for that. We'll say I'm
Speaker 2: not doing it, God's going to do it. We'll say
Speaker 2: I don't need to take care of that. God's got
Speaker 2: me in his hands, and he does. In that day
Speaker 2: the Lord, we'll fight, Leviathan, but you and I have
Speaker 2: a responsibility too, So I want us to make a shift.
Speaker 1: Are you open to a shift? This year.
Speaker 2: If you're open to a shift, just nod your head
Speaker 2: at me a little bit, wiggle your pinky wiggle your
Speaker 2: pinky toe, just do something to get in agreement with me.
Speaker 2: Somebody shall shift. Come on, pronounce it well with the
Speaker 2: FN and say shift. Because I want your year this
Speaker 2: year to be full of fruit. I want your year
Speaker 2: this year to be full of abundance. I want your
Speaker 2: year this year to have heavy branches. I want rain
Speaker 2: to fall on your relationships, your resources.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna shift this. That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Touch somebody say I'm gonna shift this.
Speaker 2: I've been stressed out about the next week. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: break it down and reduce it because really what I'm
Speaker 2: worried about has nothing to do with where I am.
Speaker 1: It has to do with where I think I'm going
Speaker 1: to be. And I don't know what tomorrow holds.
Speaker 2: So God has not given me a promise concerning this year.
Speaker 2: He gave me a promise for this day. And the
Speaker 2: promise is not for tomorrow because you don't know what
Speaker 2: tomorrow holds. So I want you to go from one
Speaker 2: day when that thinking, how many have done that before?
Speaker 2: By the way, one day win put it in the
Speaker 2: chat one day when, one day when, one day when,
Speaker 2: this most powerful thing I could teach you to help
Speaker 2: you set up for this year for what God wants
Speaker 2: to speak, for the disciplines you want to pass on,
Speaker 2: for the things that you want to see set straight
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: I want you to go from one day when to
Speaker 1: one day when, from one day when.
Speaker 2: Because Isaiah didn't say anything about years, he said in that.
Speaker 1: Day, in that day, this is your year to win
Speaker 1: one day at a time.
Speaker 2: And if we get a one day win on top
Speaker 2: of a one day win on top of a one
Speaker 2: day win, on top of a one day win on
Speaker 2: top of a one day win on top of a
Speaker 2: one day win, one day we'll be telling our kids
Speaker 2: one day when I made a decision to get a
Speaker 2: one day win. Now, see, you don't get it. You're
Speaker 2: going to be telling somebody the story one day and
Speaker 2: they're gonna.
Speaker 1: Say, how did you get out of the depression?
Speaker 2: And you say, well, one day when I decided to
Speaker 2: call a counselor and have a conversation and begin to
Speaker 2: open myself up to the fact that the Holy Spirit
Speaker 2: can use people, and I need to admit some of
Speaker 2: the things that I'm struggling with, and I need to
Speaker 2: fight this Leviathan and get some leverage on this addiction
Speaker 2: and start to open this window so the light of
Speaker 2: God can come streaming in.
Speaker 1: I got a one day win.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, get ready to celebrate because you came to
Speaker 2: church today.
Speaker 1: Guess what.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'll be here at Easter, but
Speaker 2: you're here today.
Speaker 1: I won this one devil. Let's go ahead and celebrate
Speaker 1: the baby's step.
Speaker 2: SHO made it today.
Speaker 1: I got that one day. When I got that one day.
Speaker 2: When I've been living in one day, When oh, I
Speaker 2: give more resources, then I can do it. When I
Speaker 2: have more clarity, then I can do it. When I
Speaker 2: know enough. Then I'll share the gospel with somebody. When
Speaker 2: my kids start acting right again, then will be a
Speaker 2: peaceful family. Not one day when just get a one
Speaker 2: day win. Just don't cuss them out today?
Speaker 1: How many can do that?
Speaker 2: Make some noise if you cannot cust them out today, But.
Speaker 1: We should dream big, pastor Stephen, my kids will be missionaries.
Speaker 2: Great one day when you haven't cussed them out enough
Speaker 2: days or killed them, they might be a missionary. But
Speaker 2: it's gonna take do you see the power of a
Speaker 2: one day. When to get to a one day, when
Speaker 2: glory to God. I feel happy preaching my own notes.
Speaker 2: I wrote this in my own notes.
Speaker 1: And I'm receiving it.
Speaker 2: I got that fresh bread for twenty four elevation charts.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna feed you this word from.
Speaker 2: God till you're strong enough to fight.
Speaker 1: Every Leviathan in your life.
Speaker 2: And God said, when you sing about a fruitful vineyard,
Speaker 2: I'll slay every wicked.
Speaker 1: Thing in your life.
Speaker 2: How many know while you were singing today, you were winning.
Speaker 2: While you were worshiping today, you were winning. Because this
Speaker 2: is how I fight my battles.
Speaker 1: This is how I get my mind right. This is
Speaker 1: how I set my mind on things about.
Speaker 2: This is how I overcome my darkness.
Speaker 1: This is how I cut my gliding serpent. This is
Speaker 1: how I walked in favor. This is how my there
Speaker 1: my shruit. This is what I'm doing with my twenty four.
Speaker 2: I was watching basketball one time ten years ago, and
Speaker 2: the commentator gave me a whole sermon.
Speaker 1: The man shot the ball.
Speaker 2: There was like one second left on the shot clock,
Speaker 2: and the guy who shot he missed. Everybody say he missed,
Speaker 2: But then it hit the backboard, and ten years ago
Speaker 2: in the NBA, if you got the offensive rebound after
Speaker 2: missing a shot, the shot clock would reset to twenty
Speaker 2: four seconds. You don't get it, so it means you
Speaker 2: missed that one. But if you get that ball back
Speaker 2: in your hands, I believe God brought somebody to church
Speaker 2: today so you could get this ball back in your hands.
Speaker 2: I know you missed some in twenty three, but this
Speaker 2: is twenty four. Somebody shout, this is twenty four. Put
Speaker 2: it in my YouTube comments. This is twenty four. Announced
Speaker 2: to your neighbor. This is twenty four. This is twenty four.
Speaker 2: And when he got the ball back, the announcer said,
Speaker 2: he gets a new twenty four. I thought I would
Speaker 2: announce to somebody who came to church on the first
Speaker 2: Sunday of the new year, which happens.
Speaker 1: To be twenty twenty four. He walked you up this morning,
Speaker 1: He started you on your way, He closed you in
Speaker 1: your right mind. He gave you the breadth of life.
Speaker 1: You got a new twenty four.
Speaker 2: You got a new arm. You've got a little twenty far,
Speaker 2: wenty far, whenny far?
Speaker 1: What's it warm? Wheny far? I'm gonna do this thing.
Speaker 2: In days to come, You mean, I gotta break this
Speaker 2: thing down. I'm not drinking today, I'm not looking at
Speaker 2: it today, I'm not hooking up with them today. I'm
Speaker 2: not complaining about it today, because this.
Speaker 1: Is today the Lord has made.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can't even face the day with confidence. So
Speaker 2: let's break it down a little more. Say I got
Speaker 2: a new twenty four. What if you open your mouth
Speaker 2: on when you wake up tomorrow and say, thank you
Speaker 2: Lord for a new twenty four, And you know what,
Speaker 2: it really frustrates the devil if you miss the last
Speaker 2: shot the last day, if you really screwed it up
Speaker 2: the day before and you wake up and you see
Speaker 2: that shot clock in your life. Oh, God must not
Speaker 2: be done with me because I got a new twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a new twenty four. So I'm taking the
Speaker 2: shot today. Everything that I did that wasn't like God
Speaker 2: is covered by the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I got a new twenty four.
Speaker 2: When he said in that day, listen when he said
Speaker 2: in that day, in that day, and then in verse
Speaker 2: six he said, in days to come, I realized the
Speaker 2: way we're going to be where we want to be.
Speaker 2: At the end of twenty four, it's twenty four at
Speaker 2: a time. I feel God on this message. I don't
Speaker 2: even want to do my second two points because I
Speaker 2: feel God right here.
Speaker 1: He left you here because there is fruit still to
Speaker 1: come forth from your life. That's why you got a
Speaker 1: new twenty four.
Speaker 2: Once in a while this year, you're gonna have one
Speaker 2: of those days. Not a bad hair day, but all
Speaker 2: hell breaks loose day and at seven thirty am. So
Speaker 2: if you can't just break it down to the day,
Speaker 2: break it down to the breath, next breath, next breath,
Speaker 2: he said, Israel will butt and blossom and bring forth fruit.
Speaker 2: You know how you bring forth fruit and but and
Speaker 2: blossom one breath at a time. You can take the
Speaker 2: next breath and the next. I googled before I came
Speaker 2: how many breaths does the average person take in one day?
Speaker 2: It said between seventeen thousand and thirty thousand. I figured
Speaker 2: somewhere in the average, it's twenty four thousand. So look
Speaker 2: at me, children of Zion. If twenty four hours is
Speaker 2: too much for you to face, you got twenty four
Speaker 2: thousand breaths to reset you.
Speaker 1: I was praying. I was praying one time before I preached,
Speaker 1: I prayed that that moment would be a reset for
Speaker 1: everybody who came in the room that day all week
Speaker 1: long has just felt like I can't. I can't breathe,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't move, I can't do it. And
Speaker 1: the Lord says in that day, it's amazing how we
Speaker 1: can be in a day that God gave us and
Speaker 1: not recognize it as a gift.
Speaker 2: You ever notice that, I guess that's my third r. Recognize.
Speaker 2: You better recognize. If you don't recognize that, you regret it.
Speaker 2: We went to Atlanta to watch Graham wrestle last weekend
Speaker 2: and it was so crowded in that gym, and as
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, it was so wonderful to watch
Speaker 2: them wrestle that I just looked at Holly and I said,
Speaker 2: one day we'll look at these crowded gems with dirty,
Speaker 2: sweaty wrestling boys filling the air with the fragrance of
Speaker 2: athleticism and knee pads and wrestling shoes.
Speaker 1: And looking all around. I said, we're going to look
Speaker 1: back and say, those were the days.
Speaker 2: So why not just shift it, buck and say it
Speaker 2: right when you're in it, these are the days, somebody say,
Speaker 2: this is that day God brought you here. Don't you
Speaker 2: ever let the pain or the pressure make you forfeit
Speaker 2: the grace of the day. That's why I stand here.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm not pausing right now because I don't know
Speaker 2: what to say next.
Speaker 1: I'm taking it in. This is the.
Speaker 2: Day, this is that day, you understand.
Speaker 1: I prayed that this church would happen. God built this
Speaker 1: church to see this.
Speaker 2: Many people gather to have this level of ministry influence,
Speaker 2: to be able to preach to your life is something
Speaker 2: that I saw from age sixteen.
Speaker 1: One day when and then you're in it and you
Speaker 1: don't recognize it.
Speaker 2: What I want you to understand about every day you
Speaker 2: will have this year and just twenty four at a time.
Speaker 2: I'm going deeper next week. I'm going deeper next week
Speaker 2: because the Lord is really using this to penetrate somebody's worry.
Speaker 2: Somebody's just out of balance, and God is bringing you
Speaker 2: back to it right now. And by the way, this
Speaker 2: word will not last you till next January.
Speaker 1: You need daily time in the presence of God. Clap
Speaker 1: your hands about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So we recognize these moments when we're in them, and
Speaker 2: we say, wait, this is that day.
Speaker 1: Now, it's hard to know it when you're in it.
Speaker 2: So that's why the fourth thing I want to give
Speaker 2: you is to get you to reframe it.
Speaker 1: Look at verse six. I think this one was the
Speaker 1: one that spoke to me the most of all of them,
Speaker 1: because it sounds like God is talking about two different
Speaker 1: people and two different processes. Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 2: It sounds like he's talking about two different people and
Speaker 2: two different processes.
Speaker 1: He says, in days.
Speaker 2: To come, Now we've gone from one day to multiple days,
Speaker 2: from the present circumstance to the future. Promise in days
Speaker 2: to come, Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and
Speaker 2: blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
Speaker 1: Now he's talking about the nation of Israel, from whom.
Speaker 2: The Messiah came, that blessed the whole world and took
Speaker 2: the gospel even to the gentiles.
Speaker 1: That's what he's talking about. He's talking about, Jesus. But
Speaker 1: watch the application.
Speaker 2: He says, Jacob will take ruth, Israel will bud and blossom.
Speaker 2: And you know what I'm learning more and more about
Speaker 2: these years and seasons and paths that God gives us
Speaker 2: is that you're going to have both of those kinds
Speaker 2: of days and you are going to feel like both
Speaker 2: of those people. See, Jacob and Israel are not two
Speaker 2: different people. In the Bible, a man named Jacob became
Speaker 2: the father of the tribes that would be the nation
Speaker 2: of Israel. And when God changed Jacob, he changed his name.
Speaker 2: He said, you used to be called Jacob, but now
Speaker 2: your name is Israel. Jacob means deceiver, that's who Jacob was.
Speaker 2: Israel means prince with God, because he struggled with God
Speaker 2: and with men and overcame. Is that not a picture
Speaker 2: of what it feels like to be you in any
Speaker 2: one given day. Doesn't it depend what somebody thinks of
Speaker 2: you on what day they meet you on how many
Speaker 2: of you have Jacob days that still happen in your life?
Speaker 2: Is there one honest person in the whole truth? I
Speaker 2: need to zip up my jacket. I feel exposed with
Speaker 2: all of you fake people. Have you ever had an
Speaker 2: Israel calling but a Jacob day where it just feels
Speaker 2: like a total flashback, a total relapse. A new name
Speaker 2: and a new nature do not automatically give way to
Speaker 2: new habits. I want you to notice that he says,
Speaker 2: Jacob will take root verse six, Israel will bud and
Speaker 2: blossom and fill the world with fruit. One of them
Speaker 2: is going down, one of them is going up.
Speaker 1: I will have some down days this year.
Speaker 2: I expect that, just like I expect to be blessed,
Speaker 2: I will have some days where I can barely get
Speaker 2: out of the bed.
Speaker 1: In fact, some of us might have already had one
Speaker 1: and we're just getting this wonderful year started. I will
Speaker 1: have some.
Speaker 2: Down days where I can't find one thing to feel
Speaker 2: good about.
Speaker 1: But I will not allow.
Speaker 2: The down days to define me anymore past this point.
Speaker 2: Let it be written, let it be done forever and ever.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: Because I have a Jacob day doesn't mean I don't
Speaker 2: have an Israel purpose. What are you trying to say, Erdick,
Speaker 2: don't let the down days fool you. The down days
Speaker 2: are the days where God is getting you grounded so
Speaker 2: that when He brings.
Speaker 1: You up, y'all aren't here to give him glory.
Speaker 2: The down days exist so you appreciate the great days.
Speaker 1: So do not let the devil tell you for one minute,
Speaker 1: oh it's just gonna be one of those years. Oh
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be one of those days.
Speaker 2: I want you to reclaim your day and let the
Speaker 2: enemy know that even the down days, somebody shout, even
Speaker 2: the down days are working my root system so that
Speaker 2: I will be ready for the fruit God wants me
Speaker 2: to bear. Do you believe that you gotta reframe it
Speaker 2: where you say, oh, it's one of those days. It's
Speaker 2: always one of those days. It's a growing day, and
Speaker 2: it's a gross day. The roots are in the soil,
Speaker 2: in the dirt. That's the gross day. And then the
Speaker 2: fruit is coming forth and it's growing. Which one will
Speaker 2: you focus on this day?
Speaker 1: I promise you that this is that day.
Speaker 2: Don't be surprised when the biggest fights come at the
Speaker 2: moments of the greatest fruit. They come in the same day.
Speaker 2: You are in a great day. Somebody shout, I'm in
Speaker 2: a great day. And in days to come, my roots
Speaker 2: are gonna grow deeper, My fruit is gonna stretch farther.
Speaker 2: I believe that whatever you're going through right now that
Speaker 2: you would not choose, God will use in your life
Speaker 2: to produce fruit that you can not even imagine with
Speaker 2: your mind. In accordance with Ephesians three twenty, I believe
Speaker 2: that on the days where you choose to believe, oh,
Speaker 2: this is a root day, this is not a fruit day.
Speaker 1: I can't feel God today, but he's with me today.
Speaker 2: This is the great integration of your life. Quis saying
Speaker 2: it was a good day, a bad day, a good week,
Speaker 2: a bad week, a good year, a bad year.
Speaker 1: As for me in my house, we will serve the Lord.
Speaker 2: Choose ye this day whom you will serve. You got
Speaker 2: a new twenty four baby, and y'all are clapping like
Speaker 2: y'all are in a golf course and I'm talking about
Speaker 2: a basketball analogy.
Speaker 1: You got a new twenty four.
Speaker 2: You got twenty four thousand breasts today. Doesn't God deserve
Speaker 2: at least a few.
Speaker 1: Of them to praise him?
Speaker 2: Win?
Speaker 1: You didn't open your mouth all year to praise God?
Speaker 1: Do it now? Thank you, lid, and I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: this one day. Win. You won today. You won.
Speaker 2: If even if you kick the cat when you get home,
Speaker 2: you won. You came to church today, I mean, don't
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: But if you did, you got this word today. Every
Speaker 1: time you hear the word of God, it's like seed
Speaker 1: being sown into your heart. Are you good ground? God
Speaker 1: gave you a new twenty four. God gave you another
Speaker 1: year to glorify him. Are you good ground?
Speaker 2: And while we're waiting for one day, when God's saying, no,
Speaker 2: just win one day, one breath, we can all do that.
Speaker 2: I didn't tell you to run a marathon this year.
Speaker 2: I said one day when walk around the block tonight,
Speaker 2: one day, when read one chapter.
Speaker 1: Of scripture today before you go to bed, I say,
Speaker 1: at twenty seven, I already did it. I'm ahead of you. Preacher.
Speaker 2: I read it to you, you read it by yourself.
Speaker 2: One This is your year. You know how preachers say
Speaker 2: this is your year. I want to say, this is
Speaker 2: that day.
Speaker 1: Now what year you're gonna be in. I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on my YouTube this week and finish
Speaker 1: this message for you from the basin. Okay, I got
Speaker 1: more I want to say.
Speaker 2: I can't get it out right now, but more than that,
Speaker 2: can we build some consistency in our lives, in our
Speaker 2: patterns this year, so that we don't put God's house
Speaker 2: like if everything else gets done, I'll show up to
Speaker 2: church type item on our list.
Speaker 1: Trees don't fill the world with fruit.
Speaker 2: That way, and you won't be filled with peace that way,
Speaker 2: and you won't be able to make your mark that
Speaker 2: way either. The Bible says that God will guard you
Speaker 2: day and night, and he will water you consistently so
Speaker 2: that you but in blossom.
Speaker 1: But you've got to be planted in the right place.
Speaker 2: To all of you who are planted in this ministry,
Speaker 2: I stand in agreement with you this year that this
Speaker 2: is that day. I don't know what job you're going
Speaker 2: to be working at the end of the year. I
Speaker 2: don't know who is or who isn't going to be
Speaker 2: on your favorites list in your phone. I don't know
Speaker 2: what will or won't be hurting in your body this year.
Speaker 2: But one thing we know. We got a new twenty four.
Speaker 2: And Jeremiah twenty one says this I recall to my mind.
Speaker 2: Therefore I have hope it is of the Lord's mercies
Speaker 2: that we are not consumed. Give me verse twenty three
Speaker 2: because lamentations three, because lamentations three, because I promise this
Speaker 2: in the Bible, that compassions fail not they are new
Speaker 2: every morning. Put your hands like this to God so
Speaker 2: he could give you the ball. Stand up on your feet,
Speaker 2: get ready to take this shot. You got a new
Speaker 2: twenty four. This is a bounce back moment for you.
Speaker 2: This is a rebound Sunday for you. We don't need
Speaker 2: a new Year's resolution till we get a rebound to
Speaker 2: realize He gave us this day. Thank you for this
Speaker 2: twenty four God, Thank you for this fruit that will
Speaker 2: come forth. Thank you for these roots that have grown
Speaker 2: down deep. Thank you that our roots have weathered the storm.
Speaker 2: Our relationship with you is still intact. Our hope is
Speaker 2: still built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
Speaker 1: Say, I got a new twenty four and I offer
Speaker 1: you this day.
Speaker 2: Lord, This is the day you have made with your
Speaker 2: head's bowed and your eyes closed. The Lord is saying
Speaker 2: that for somebody, this is the day of your salvation.
Speaker 2: This is that day for you to place your faith
Speaker 2: in Jesus. This is that day for you to make
Speaker 2: a commitment to be a follower of Christ and receive
Speaker 2: his grace in your life.
Speaker 1: Right now, I want to lead you in a prayer.
Speaker 2: And wherever you're watching from, if you're in a building
Speaker 2: or you're watching online, doesn't matter. The Bible says as
Speaker 2: that a man named Zachius heard that Jesus was passing
Speaker 2: his way, and he climbed up in a tree.
Speaker 1: To see Jesus.
Speaker 2: And Jesus said to Zachias, who was a tax collector
Speaker 2: and a short man, who was at a disadvantage and
Speaker 2: an ill repute. Zachias, come down out of that tree.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: I'm coming to your house. I believe Jesus is passing
Speaker 2: your way right now.
Speaker 1: This is that day.
Speaker 2: He wants to come into your house, your heart, your habits,
Speaker 2: your life, and give you a new hope and a
Speaker 2: future and forgiveness of your sin. Right now, we're going
Speaker 2: to pray a prayer out loud as a church family
Speaker 2: for the benefit of those who are coming to God
Speaker 2: or coming back to God as a rededication. And if
Speaker 2: you pray this by faith, the Bible says that by
Speaker 2: grace we are saved.
Speaker 1: Through faith, God will hear you and He will save you.
Speaker 1: This day today is today.
Speaker 2: Repeat after me, Heavenly Father, Today is my day of salvation.
Speaker 1: Today. I give you my heart.
Speaker 2: I believe you sent your son, Jesus Christ to die
Speaker 2: for my sin. I believe he rose again to give
Speaker 2: me life. I receive this new life. This is my
Speaker 2: new beginning. On the counter of three shoots your hand up.
Speaker 2: If you prayed that one, two, three online, let us
Speaker 2: know right now I'm receiving Jesus.
Speaker 1: I'm receiving Jesus. This is my day, this is my moment,
Speaker 1: this is my turnaround.
Speaker 3: This is my moment, this is my day. This is
Speaker 3: my turnaround. If God great praise in the house, why.
Speaker 2: All he look this is that day and look back
Speaker 2: on that day and say that was the day I
Speaker 2: decided make some noise.
Speaker 1: If you're glad you came to church today, this is.
Speaker 2: That day.
Speaker 1: I will put part two on my YouTube for you.
Speaker 1: This week.
Speaker 2: I will plan God willing in the creek. Don't rise
Speaker 2: to be back here next Sunday with part three. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be an amazing year. And all you gotta do
Speaker 2: is win one day.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. Y'all let me know in the comments
Speaker 1: what you're gonna win one day, not one day. When
Speaker 1: what you're going to win one day?
Speaker 2: I want to hear about it. We want to pray
Speaker 2: for you. Believe with you, grab hands with the person
Speaker 2: next to you. That way nobody can leave during my
Speaker 2: clothes and prayer. Red Rover Red Rover send twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four right over one day when well, Father, I thank you,
Speaker 2: I bless you because you flowed to us today, in
Speaker 2: power and in strength.
Speaker 1: You nourished us today.
Speaker 2: You gave us something on Sunday that we can do
Speaker 2: on Monday. We don't have to leave our faith in
Speaker 2: this place. We're taking it with us into the battles
Speaker 2: against Leviathan. We're taking our faith, We're taking your word.
Speaker 2: We're taking a sword into our tomorrow. We're taking a song.
Speaker 1: We're singing about a fruitful vineyard. We're taking root, and
Speaker 1: we are bearing much fruit.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray and now, unto him who
Speaker 2: is able to do immeasurably more than you ask or imagine,
Speaker 2: to him, be glory through Christ Jesus in the Church,
Speaker 2: now and forever more, in the name of Jesus.
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