New Years 2026 Message

Only a few hours, I'm not sure how many hours we are into the

New year, but I take this time to wish each and everyone of you

a blessed and happy and prosperous 2026.

I'm sure last night everyone was enjoying themselves and

celebrating and counting in the New year.

And I pray that you had a a joyous celebration with your

family and friends. And I'm sure there are a lot of

people out there that have made their New Year's resolution.

Yes, every year we make our resolutions.

We set in our minds things that we want to do.

And what does the Scripture say in Proverbs?

That God determines the footsteps, be it relationship,

financial work, you know what we want to do at work and what,

what paths we want to take for our families.

And and you know what, what entails living in this world,

which is great. It's, it's amazing.

But I want to talk about and encourage you to and help you if

you don't haven't done so already with some spiritual New

Year's resolutions. First and foremost, let us

resolve and let us promise and start working on increasing our

faith, Beloved, increasing in faith.

Notice I said increase. I'm not saying that we don't

have faith. Those who have faith, those who

believe there is a God, let's increase that.

How do we increase our faith? Read your scriptures.

Read scriptures more regularly. 15 minutes a day.

Out of the 24 hours that God has blessed you with, we will keep,

we will give God 15. So that means 15 minutes.

That means 23 minutes and 45 seconds of the day we keep for

ourselves and do what we want to do, what we need to do.

We give God 15 minutes to read the Holy Scriptures.

Don't worry about not understanding.

Don't worry about where do I start?

Just open using. You can start from the book of

Genesis or in the Gospels, the Gospel of according to Saint

Matthew. Just read the scriptures and

before that say a prayer. Lord, this is my resolution.

I need help, help me to understand, to fathom, you know,

the prayer that we pray before the beginning of the podcast,

Recite that prayer and then read your scriptures and make it

frequent, beloved, and not for one day if you're going to

start. And then there will come a day

where you think, you know what, just today I may not do it.

Don't do that. When you think you don't want to

do it, do it. That's when you should run to

the scriptures and open the scriptures.

Because the minute you say no, the enemy will continue to say,

OK, then we'll the next day too. You know, let's start Monday.

I always start my walking on a Monday.

That means if I haven't done it on a Wednesday, there goes four

days no walking. No, let's start on a Monday.

No, continue to read the Holy Spirit scriptures.

Pray more frequently, pray more frequently wherever you are at

any time at work now, not 15 minutes, 15 seconds.

So, so when you're praying and talking to God, a 15 second

prayer, you know, the disciples said, Lord, increase our prayer,

increase our faith. There's a prayer, Lord, help me,

Lord, forgive me if I've sinned or just mention the name of the

Lord Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,

have mercy on me on a Sinner. Help me Lord, help me to be

focused on you and pray and especially in particular in the

morning when we wake up in the morning when I rise, give me

Jesus. How by praying.

Designate a place of praying at home and pray at night.

Say your prayer before you enter your bed or you can pray in the

bed, but I I prefer praying outside of the bed and talk to

God. Begin fasting.

If you've never fasted or your fast is mediocre and it's

according to how you want to fast.

No, no, no, you fast according to how Christ fasted and

according to the commands and the method of the Church.

There's 45 days till till Great Lent.

We have 45 days till Great Lent. We have 26 days till the

rotation of the Ninevites Mounted Enviro.

Prepare yourselves and let's resolve and you know our

resolution to be this year. I'm going to fast and when we

get to these days, I'll give you some pointers how to offer your

fasting. Attend church more regularly.

You know, we laugh at the term CEO or the acronym CEO.

Honestly, we shouldn't be laughing.

Honestly, it's not a laughing matter.

It's a very grief and dangerous, dangerous matter.

If you are ACEO, don't take pride.

And if people are laughing with you, they're actually laughing

at you. You know, in the book of

Proverbs, it's it's it's better to go to a House of mourning

than a House of celebration. Go to those who always dampen

your weather, always rain on your parade, not enjoy your

floors and encourage you attend church more regularly.

Come to worship and to offer to Christ what he's, what is his in

the Holy mysteries in the form of bread and wine.

Worship is not gathering in a place, in a street, in a hall,

on a stage, clapping drums, band singing.

That's not worship. That is a Christian gathering to

sing praise to the Lord. Great, I mean attend that as

well. But worship entails offering.

The Magi's came, worshiped, and then they opened their gifts.

They offered to Jesus Christ. Their gifts come to Raza, come

to church, come to the church services, the Vespers in the

morning, the early morning prayers.

You know, let these be your spiritual resolutions.

Get involved in charitable activities of the church or just

get involved in the church itself in general.

Why is it that when we come to church only the elders are

working? The Ladies auxiliary are our

beloved mothers that are 60 years and over.

What a shame to you O beloved young sisters.

Shame, shame to sit there and be served by by a lady of sister

who is 606570 barely making it down the steps but coming to

cook you breakfast so that you can enjoy your breakfast and you

don't even you know, trouble yourself to to clean the table

that you're sitting. No, no, no get involved now.

Get involved in charitable activities and in services in

the church. Keep 90% of what God has blessed

you financially and give God at least 10% if not more.

That is a scriptural commandment.

It's not churches only asking for money.

No, it is in the scripture Saint Paul writes.

I want every person to put in their hearts what they want to

give on the first day of the week.

There it is. It's biblical sola scriptura.

It's biblical. Reconcile with your enemies.

You're not on good terms with your brother or your sister

biologically or spiritually. That's not a good place to be.

You're not you're you have enemies within the family,

within relatives or at work. Reconcile.

Pray about this. Lord, help me to reconcile with

this brother, for Christ's glory, not sake, for Christ's

glory, so that Christ is glorified truly in your heart.

Go up to that person, pick up the phone, text that person,

send them a message. Hey, how you doing?

Let's go out for coffee. And if you get a, a, a, an

unexpected reply that wasn't the reply that you want, that's OK,

That's OK. Don't reply back and give it

back to the person you say, all right, I will pray for you.

Because remember Jesus, I said, if we do not forgive the sins of

those who have sinned against us, our Lord God will not

forgive our sins. So we should not dare and pray

forgive our sins as as we have forgiven those who have sinned

against us. No, God will say, don't fool me.

You can't fool me. You can't.

No, you need to go and reconcile before you come and reconcile

with me. You reconcile with me.

Increase your trust and patience with God.

Trust in God. Just because the prayer hasn't

been answered within 3 seconds, it doesn't mean God is not

listening and not hearing. God is not your servant trusting

God. Know that God hears your praise.

God hears the prayers of a Sinner when that Sinner is is

crying out to the Lord to forgive him, to receive him.

He hears the prayers of the sinners, beloved, but trust,

wait, be patient with God and know that he is God.

Be still, says the scriptures, and know that I am God.

God, he's you, God has hurt you, heard you and wait.

Wait for God's time and God's action.

How and when he will reply to your to your prayers.

And by the way, no is an answer, so don't be upset and annoyed

because God said no because He knows best for you.

Always keep in mind that you are are a child of God, Christians

who are listening to this podcast.

You are a child of God through your faith in Jesus Christ and

your baptism into his death. Galatians chapter 3 non

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Christians, you are a creation of God.

God loves you. That's why he said Jesus Christ.

Turn to Christ today, today. Now when you finished here

actually, you know you know what, stop listening.

Get on your knees and pray to the Jesus Christ and ask him to

come into your heart and into your life and to reveal the

truth and you'll see that is Jesus Christ, not because I'm

telling you it's the truth. Don't ever write yourself off,

beloved. Don't ever write yourself.

Write yourself off a fractured Reed.

Jesus does not break, and the lamp that flickers, he does not

extinguish. That means he will not kick you

while you're down. That's not how Christ works.

No, no, no, He will lift you when you lift up your eyes from

the ground and just cry out. Lord Jesus, He will lift you,

just as he did for Simon when he was sinking into the ocean.

And always, always, always times Infinity.

Remember the parable of the prodigal son?

He squandered all of his father's wealth.

When he returned the father ran out and embraced him and kissed

him and the son asked for forgiveness.

The father didn't even didn't even reply and say I forgive

you. It was already forgiven.

We have been forgiven beloved. We just need to come to Christ

and receive that forgiven and make good of that forgiveness.

If you see yourself unfit for Christ because of your sins,

remember Romans 58. God demonstrates his love for us

because if when we were sinners the Christ died in our place.

So if you call yourself a Sinner, remember there is a

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Lord that has died for you

and is awaiting your return in the new year.

In this year, disassociate yourself with those who cause

you to sin. Gouge them out, cut them off,

regardless who who they are, family, friends, relatives,

whoever they are. Avoid going to places overfilled

with temptations. Beloved, avoid drunkenness,

insolence, that is rudeness. Avoid sexual immorality within

marriages. We have marital problems because

one partner and most often the husband wants to enjoy what God

has given him because he's seen a few films and you know what

I'm talking about. Avoid that in marriage and most

definitely outside of marriages. Avoid lust.

Avoid envy. Continue to pray that the Lord

will deliver you. Avoid all that displeases God.

How we go back as we begin by increasing faith through praying

more frequently, reading the Holy Scriptures, fasting and

attending church services. And always gather around you

those who are living in Christ so that they can influence you

in a holy way. God bless you.