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  1. We are so excited that you are joining with us on this cold

  2. winter in New Year day, and we are so blessed to be able to

  3. start off 2022 with you. And so, we are going to spend

  4. about 30 minutes today, starting the year off, right?

  5. And so no matter how great 2021 was or how hard 2021 might have

  6. been for you, we have the chance to start brand new.

  7. It actually says in the Bible and Lamentations 322 lat because

  8. of the Lord's great love. We are not consumed for his

  9. compassion's never fail. They are new Every Morning.

  10. How incredible that. God's mercy his compassion.

  11. His love, it is new every morning.

  12. Not just every year, not just starting off, but every day each

  13. of us has the ability to start new.

  14. So today is a new day. It's a new year and we all have

  15. the chance to have a fresh start today because Great Is Thy

  16. Faithfulness, it says. So we're going to start off by

  17. worshiping God. Today, we have a couple of songs

  18. The worship with you and then we will have a word of Hope, right?

  19. From the Bible. And so I hope that you'll stay

  20. and you'll come into a posture worship and join us as we

  21. worship our good God this morning.

  22. Do you want from me? Yes.

  23. I am who you say you are holding me.

  24. I am saying that I am He's moving in on and worship to

  25. our here. Working in males place I

  26. worship. I'm words, light in the darkness

  27. is my God. Touching and

  28. healing every and works. You turned my life around, I

  29. work should give you a word and he'll in every home should be.

  30. Wait, make a miracle, worker promise keeper.

  31. Lying, the darkness. My God, that is who you are.

  32. When Baker Miracle Water. Promise keeper mine in the

  33. darkness. My God that is who deal or you

  34. step out into deep. About is who you are but is who

  35. you are. Who You Are?

  36. That is who you are. That is who you are.

  37. Even when I don't see it, you're working.

  38. Even when I'm feeling that you are going on - stop, you never

  39. stop working. It never stopped.

  40. You never stop working. To see it to working.

  41. Even when you to a stop, you never stop working and you never

  42. stop. Jesus is Waymaker, Miracle.

  43. When your home, is he a light in the darkness?

  44. Oh my God. That is who you are wait.

  45. Thank your big one. Oh my God, that is who you are.

  46. That is who you are. That is how cute that is.

  47. That is human, she will make a miracle, worker promise keeper

  48. light in the darkness. My God.

  49. He's who you give it up. Big for our God today.

  50. Drop some hearts, throw up some lights in the comments this

  51. morning and let, Jesus know you love him.

  52. And once again, welcome to Real Life Church online today and

  53. hey, people at real life, I need your help today.

  54. I realized church, we are a church on a mission and that

  55. mission is to see people far from God, discover their real

  56. life and purpose and Jesus, one of the best ways is we start

  57. 2022 to move. That mission forward is to click

  58. the share button, you can be a social media, including It's

  59. here for the cause of Christ by sharing this content today and

  60. it means the world to us. When you do that, if you are new

  61. with us this morning, you are our honored guest.

  62. We'd love to help you with a fresh start.

  63. As we begin 2022, I invite you to fill out our digital

  64. communication card and you can do that by texting RL Newton

  65. 97,000 or you can click a link in the comments.

  66. A member of our connection team will reach out to you.

  67. Is there any Options that you might have and help you feel at

  68. home here at you live church because of you 20:21 ended as a

  69. record-breaking year for our church in so many ways.

  70. And 2021 you broke ground on the Hope Center, you broke giving

  71. records and you broke down the walls of sin for so many people

  72. to say, yes to Jesus, but maybe on the second day of 2022, you

  73. don't feel so. Cool.

  74. Maybe you're feeling a little defeated, maybe you're feeling a

  75. little less than or a little down and out and maybe you feel

  76. like 2022 is already a failure will lean in this morning as

  77. Pastor Sean brings a message of Hope as we begin this new year

  78. with hashtag 2022. Come on.

  79. All right. Look at the comments.

  80. Look who's on the screen and just some hearts.

  81. Get some like celebrity know you You love them, especially

  82. updates new, come on, let them listen.

  83. The Hawks crate, crash Facebook, come on, come on.

  84. You can do it well, Happy New Year.

  85. I can't believe it's 20 22 already.

  86. And maybe yesterday, you had the perfect New Year's day, maybe

  87. leaning into it, your family and friends.

  88. You have a great time, surrounded by people, you lay

  89. that special kiss on that special, someone at the stroke

  90. of midnight. You finally got the courage.

  91. Come on somebody. Now, as you pass your for 10

  92. years, And there is a great situation, is kind of weird, but

  93. we're a power-play. We know these teens and it was

  94. getting closer. Struck midnight in this guy.

  95. I had a crush on this girl, and it wasn't nothing, but for him

  96. was the thing. He kept sliding closer, you

  97. know, to her all that long and you close them on the screen

  98. yet. He called, and he slides over

  99. this girl and ricerca midnight. He literally lays a kiss on his

  100. girl. He's like that.

  101. Come on. It was an awkward feel awkward

  102. sign on there. Lasik is all those girls left at

  103. the stroke of midnight so maybe you have the courage.

  104. I don't know, don't be weird like that on the higher tiers

  105. was. But here's the old no matter

  106. what you went to sleep that night and you woke up and for a

  107. lot of us that anxiety was still there, that loss is still there.

  108. That pain was still there. Everything really changed the

  109. time changed but you stayed the same.

  110. And so they this message is really dedicated to those of us,

  111. they're trying to lay a foundation for this year and

  112. getting past your past moving. In the direction.

  113. And so I want to encourage you today.

  114. That is so easy for us to really get tied down on courage, to

  115. break some chains, and some change, the past will hold us

  116. back. And so, a lot of us say, well,

  117. why even change? I've been struggling with the

  118. same thing for so long. Why in the world?

  119. I haven't even care. I'm still the same addiction.

  120. I try to break it. I go back to it over and over

  121. and over again for someone says, why even care?

  122. I've been in relationships is falling apart.

  123. Why do you care about going back?

  124. Why care about serving? I served in the past.

  125. So you guys serve the church. 10, 15, 20, 30 years ago.

  126. And he got burned out and like me, why would I even do this

  127. again? I've been down this road before

  128. I got burned out. Why commit?

  129. We have some relationship issues, maybe a child, it has

  130. walked away, or a spouse in the past and you're in a fight with

  131. the relationship. You like me, and I don't even

  132. care to even try it again. I've tried before, it's not

  133. going to happen. It's the same results.

  134. I give him my best. I'm not gonna go down that road

  135. and it's not going to work out. Nobody notices, and can I just

  136. say this Satan? Sin has a way of holding us to

  137. our past to chaining us down there fact, the Bible says that

  138. Satan has come to kill, steal, and destroy.

  139. He has come to stop you. He's come to distract.

  140. You to hold you back from what God has for you for 2022.

  141. Matter of fact, the Old Saint Nick may have brought your

  142. present, but Satan may have stolen, your joy sometime last

  143. year for some of you, if something else is happy, you're

  144. like they're delusional. I told somebody one time I said,

  145. you know, I try to make every season my favorite season and

  146. somebody said, well, it must be nice to lie to yourself.

  147. There's so much pain, so much hurt.

  148. So many feelings, so much holding us back from the plan

  149. that God has for us. And so, it's message is for you.

  150. If you've been chained down by your past, we're start a versus

  151. really famous verse the powerful bursts.

  152. It's a little passage in Philippians chapter 3 and Paul

    Philippians 3 chapter mention

  153. is writing to the church at Philippi.

  154. He says this, he says not that I've already obtained all this

  155. or have already arrived at my goal basis.

  156. I press on, I push forward to hold on for one.

  157. Christ. Jesus has taken, hold of me in

  158. essence. God is saying, I have a plane

  159. for you. I'm Holding On To You Paul for a

  160. purpose and pulsing I've been tainted.

  161. What Christ has helped me for you?

  162. Need to know today. That Christ is holding on to you

  163. for a reason. There's a purpose.

  164. You're in the season, you're in, in Jesus is holding.

  165. You goes on verse 13, says, brothers and sisters.

  166. I do not consider myself yet to have taken, hold of it.

  167. I've been obtained. What?

  168. Christ? Hold onto me for, but one thing

  169. I do forgetting what is behind, so Paul is Literally saying I'm

  170. forgetting my past failures. I'm forgetting, that was a

  171. murder of Christians. I'm forgetting that was holding

  172. the cloak of the Garment of Stephen, as he's being stoned,

  173. as you being killed by the Pharisees, I'm forgetting my

  174. success. I brought the gospel to most of

  175. the known world. I'm forgetting that I was

  176. betrayed by a good fellow worker.

  177. Another messenger for the gospel name, Dimas I'm forgetting that

  178. Barnabas wants to rip me, but then walked away with a

  179. different direction after That was beaten.

  180. I'm forgetting the sleepless nights.

  181. Not forgetting. That was left for dead numerous

  182. times. I'm forgetting my past even

  183. though it's good or bad. He says, but I'm straining

  184. toward what is ahead because I'm reaching for the things of

  185. Christ that God is holding me to.

  186. There's something in front of me that God has for me.

  187. My fact is a reason got gives you a rearview mirror about this

  188. big in a windshield that this big because you're moving

  189. forward and not backwards. He says, I'll press on toward

  190. the goal to which the prize for which God has called me

  191. heavenward. Word in Christ Jesus.

  192. In other words, Paul saying I'm no longer chain down to my past.

  193. I'm not a victim of my circumstances, rather, I'm

  194. straining. I'm fighting, I'm pushing, I'm

  195. coming. After the things of God, its

  196. fourth down and 25 yards, but I'm all in, we're going for.

  197. Come on somebody as your grade for Chiefs game.

  198. Cool, Luke chapter 9 says this verse 62, says Jesus replied.

    Luke 9 chapter mention

  199. No one who puts her hand to the plow and looks back is fit.

  200. For service in the Kingdom of God.

  201. In other words, if you'll be used by God, you'll be in the

  202. presence of God, but your eyes are stuck on something behind

  203. you. If you change your past, you're

  204. not ready to serve it out, ready to be used for the kingdom of

  205. God, that factors versus in the context of somebody says, I'm

  206. all in Jesus. Put me in coach, I'm ready to

  207. go. I'll do anything for you.

  208. But I've got to go back in my dad died to go back and bury and

  209. Jesus says this comment that's going to rock us off the Kind of

  210. the stable land around. He says, Let the dead bury the

  211. dead, it's like that's already behind you.

  212. And that culture had taken months and months and months

  213. together, family, and to have a proper burial, the things they

  214. would do in that culture. And Jesus said, hey, the past is

  215. the past, the past is behind you.

  216. In fact, this verse is in the context where somebody says, Hey

  217. Jesus. I'm all in on the fall.

  218. You'll go anywhere I surrender to you, but let me go back and

  219. say goodbye to my family and then Jesus makes those comedy

  220. says, whoever puts their hand to the plow and looks back is not

  221. fit for the kingdom. God, they will say goodbye to

  222. their family, want to bury the dead and Jesus says, hey what's

  223. behind? You is I would have for you have

  224. something in front of you. We're going in a direction in

  225. 2022 and what's happened the past.

  226. You can't change, your can't control, we're moving forward.

  227. And so to break chains and this year, we have to get her eyes

  228. off of the past, our heart off the past and move forward with

  229. the things of God, because God has a purpose for you.

  230. So I'll do I'll give you one best practice.

  231. We're not going to be long today, but I want to encourage

  232. you to one best practice to get your eyes.

  233. On the things I've got. So what battle you facing this

  234. season? What's the thing you're

  235. struggling with? What's on your heart?

  236. What do you, what made your identity?

  237. What's the question? You're asking yourself?

  238. What? What image you're trying to

  239. portray? What loss is in your life?

  240. What battle are you having? What battle, what maybe we

  241. regret or what time management? What priority what relationship

  242. is falling apart? What is God's showing you

  243. through these things? And I would encourage you

  244. instead of making resolutions this year which you're just

  245. making resolutions. I think religious but Was a

  246. great. But since have a resolution that

  247. you're not going to, you know, finish off the ice cream to the

  248. bottom of the tub. Come on somebody, you're gonna

  249. get Planet Fitness membership and work out, six days a week.

  250. Come on, says, doing P90X every single day, except all these

  251. resolutions, I would encourage you.

  252. Some difference, your resolutions are all like

  253. doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo and have all these do our goals which are

  254. great about encourage you to write a daily declaration.

  255. And I am statement about yourself, it's way, bigger

  256. picture. It's it's really a comment about

  257. your identity and calm about God is doing and these are really

  258. who go Goals, these really statements about yourself

  259. through, clearing to yourself and to the world around you,

  260. that this is who I am declaring to Satan himself.

  261. That this is who you are, is your input goals.

  262. Your things are, God of shown you and you got to stand on

  263. these things with her so easy to forget.

  264. So I'll give you the first for mine and then we'll dive into

  265. what that could look like for you.

  266. So number one says, I'm growing closer to Jesus every single day

  267. because of Jesus, my family are stronger.

  268. My body is healthy. My faith is deeper, my

  269. leadership is sharper. Number two, I'm creative

  270. innovative. Its focus and blessed beyond

  271. measure because the Holy Spirit dwells in me number three, my

  272. gift is leadership. I develop others with Open

  273. Hands, delegating Authority, and empowering those with room to

  274. fail number for. I'd love Diane Foley and first,

  275. so I love these declarations, I have a whole list of

  276. declarations that read. What does it helps me to stay

  277. focused because it's so easy to be distracted.

  278. And so if you don't have Life Giving words and if you're like

  279. me or most people, they're surrounded by people, probably

  280. all the time. That what take something from

  281. you. Be growing up and maybe your

  282. dad, or your family, or a friend is left your betrayed you and

  283. made a life taking words over you.

  284. I love us speaking to young men and especially short the church

  285. on Sunday by be a middle school or a high schooler.

  286. And often times, I love to stick my hand out and give a big hand

  287. shake. And first time, they probably

  288. had somebody like really squeeze the hand, like a man Shake

  289. right? Break your arm off and I love

  290. telling them, hey, you're gonna be a strong man, one day, you

  291. can be great. Husband, you're gonna be amazing

  292. leader. I know God to do something great

  293. in your life. And for most people, they open

  294. her actual big because Most people say those chat thanks to

  295. people about facts, kind of opposite, people are picking on

  296. people and check people down and so I encourage love to encourage

  297. people and build them up and really shape their identity.

  298. And so your words matter more than you think and not just the

  299. word you say to other people but the words you tell yourself that

  300. your self-talk that your may say I am good or I'm not good

  301. enough. I can't make it.

  302. And so what is it when you look in the mirror in the morning

  303. that you need to tell yourself every single day?

  304. What is the difference? You can tell yourself in 2022

  305. that you maybe didn't sell yourself in 2021.

  306. What is God been showing you? What's been revealing about your

  307. life? What struggled you need to give

  308. to God? What is God saying to you?

  309. Now, I believe you is open God's word and you say, Okay, God just

  310. show me something, you're holding onto me for a purpose.

  311. I wonder what that purpose is reveal something to me.

  312. I've been struggling with this addiction or struggle with this

  313. problem. Got what is it you want from me?

  314. Got, show me something. I believe God can speak through

  315. his work. I know for How many people it's

  316. like, pick the Bible up? I got to read the Bible.

  317. Gary about know, we get the read them High V.

  318. Their fact is I would encourage you to do a Bible reading plan

  319. this year. And I'm not going to tell you

  320. what plan or how much to read or whatever I think is really gold.

  321. I think the goal of reading the Bible is that the Bible reads

  322. you, that you show up and maybe it's one verse a day, maybe just

  323. get the U version 1 verse a day. You read the verses a day and

  324. you said, Okay God do something with that.

  325. For some of you it's like I'm gonna read the New Testament

  326. this year. For some you can read new

  327. testament twice, some of you read the whole Bible this year,

  328. Here. But that's what God has for you.

  329. But you want to ask the question, got what are you

  330. showing me? So what do you want to do about

  331. this guy? Like let's speak to you.

  332. Don't just get in the habit, as read the Bible because you have

  333. to read the Bible. That's not the point.

  334. You really got bottle of know, God.

  335. And so be asking those questions.

  336. I do encourage you when God speaks to you, write it down.

  337. So this declaration that you're gonna speak of yourself When God

  338. says, hey, this is who you are. You're no longer an addict, you

  339. are set free to power crash. You're not a victim of your

  340. circumstances. You are strong.

  341. You were healed. You are forgiven.

  342. You are made new when God starts speaking.

  343. These things. It down and then save every

  344. single day. We're say it to yourself.

  345. Remind yourself. Look yourself in the eye, maybe

  346. little person, ever does this. Look yourself on that in the

  347. mirror in the morning and tell yourself who you are in Christ.

  348. See the enemy has a strategy for you in 2022.

  349. The enemy has a plan for you. There fact.

  350. Probably look like a lot like playing last year and I believe

  351. when you start getting these declarations in your heart and

  352. your mind, you're going to wreck the plans of saying, you're

  353. going to change your destiny because you are foundationally

  354. changing the direction. Of your life.

  355. By declaring who you are. Today, I want to give you two

  356. very important. Very, very important principles.

  357. Found the Bible. These daily declarations.

  358. These are chain breaking declarations.

  359. Number one, is this, I am not a victim of circumstances, not a

  360. victim of life, but I'm gifted and created to lead and change

  361. circumstances from what they are to what they can be.

  362. Matter of fact, this is for most people when they when they get

  363. into a problem. When the pressure happens when

  364. they have an expectation set is not there.

  365. When they have a pace, they want to run at and something gets in

  366. the way or someone gets in the way the Temptation is always to

  367. blame the Temptation is say, well, if it was for that person,

  368. I would have done this and I would be on time, but that I

  369. would have done this but this and I came.

  370. It's just blame blame, blame even blaming themselves but I

  371. want to tell you something, God placed you in this moment in

  372. this season on purpose, and it's to plow The field, think about

  373. that who respects their hands to the plow and looks back is not

  374. fit for the kingdom of God. And God has put you to the plow

  375. and you could imagine plowing in a direction.

  376. If you're looking the other way, blame, everything else around

  377. you. So you gotta put you in this

  378. hard season. Nobody said, sign me up the

  379. plow, I love plowing plowing. My favorite thing to do but God

  380. has put you in the season to turn over some hard soil.

  381. Yeah. I put you in the middle of a

  382. problem so you could get the season ready of preparation for

  383. God to do something in your family.

  384. Got to do something with all the problems and all the things that

  385. sets you stop, you from reaching your goals and set you back and

  386. all the hard things around you, those are created by God because

  387. there's a field that God has for you to plow in this season.

  388. There's some spiritually dry relationships that God has

  389. called you to nourish and repair in 2022.

  390. Matt back, he's preparing the field so you can plant some

  391. seeds. Amen.

  392. So you can plant some seeds there be a harvest in the

  393. future. So you're called to these hard

  394. things to turn over some Soil, to bring some change to bring

  395. some purpose in the season. So if you wonder, why is this so

  396. difficult is? Because God has placed you

  397. there. There's a season our life as a

  398. Christian is called endurance. And so I would say no one likes

  399. the plat, right? The plowing is, in sexing

  400. plowing is hard work. It's long days, it's sweaty.

  401. It's hard. Nobody says, thank you for

  402. plowing. I love the way that plowed

  403. field. Looks.

  404. Nope, there's no. There's no reward to it.

  405. You don't get a harvest from the plow.

  406. You have that plan season. Wait, longer sees In the season

  407. of preparation and is hard season that you may be in, and

  408. you're walking through, you have to thank God because he's put

  409. your hand to the plow matter. Fact, he wants you to plow a

  410. certain way, so you gotta look the direction of the plant, you

  411. can't look back and just wander around.

  412. Aimlessly the season, your ends. Maybe a season of preparation,

  413. the beginning of part 2022. If your relationship with God,

  414. is it where it should be? You're going to be a season, the

  415. preparation. If there's some relationships

  416. that aren't where they want to be, you're going to be a season.

  417. The preparation do a lot of hard work or law, hard, things behind

  418. the scenes. And Getting your heart, ready

  419. for the things of God and plow. Your own heart with the word of

  420. God, It's Gonna Change 2024, you 2022 for you.

  421. I would say this to you walk in the season, you got this mindset

  422. walk in the season that I love problems, boom Pastor, I love

  423. problems, your problems are possibilities, the problems you

  424. face or the or the plow, you have to apply to this the fuel

  425. in front of you and all the problems you have, if you

  426. complain about it and like, all man, I can't believe this.

  427. And, and you're stressed about it.

  428. And you're irritated about it and it slowed you down and get

  429. frustrated. You all those things are

  430. actually on purpose and they're there for you to have

  431. possibility of change all those problems.

  432. You face are opportunities for God to move through you.

  433. You can plow that field if you don't like, relationships are in

  434. your family, guess what? You can change that you had to

  435. be in charge, but you can influence that.

  436. You can pray for that, you can start changing the culture of

  437. your family. If your work isn't where you

  438. want it, you can It changing your heart changing, the culture

  439. of those really influencing those above you that you can't

  440. blame those people around. You're not victim of

  441. circumstances, but you're called to lead and change from what

  442. they are. So what they can be.

  443. And that's what 22 2022 is. All about is seeing the

  444. opportunity and the potential in the possibility through your

  445. problems. S declaration is this.

  446. I will bring my best and then some it's what I bring after do

  447. my best. That makes the biggest

  448. difference so you Satan loves to create this snare of self P.

  449. Say Loves it to get your eyes and yourself and say well I did

  450. my best, I tried really hard and it didn't go all the way I

  451. wanted to and therefore I can do whatever I want to do.

  452. I can, I'm Justified now, I can leave.

  453. I could quit on that stuff. I don't never go back to this.

  454. You can get mad. You can gossip.

  455. Come on. You can make that post.

  456. I know somebody. That's this is going to be home

  457. for 2022, right? If you don't, if if you don't

  458. make the post or your baby, maybe Facebook kicks you off

  459. instead of God, I know some of you son Are you?

  460. That's what happened this year and it was the biggest lesson

  461. you had in 2021, right? But you can do it, everyone, you

  462. can fight. You can be mad.

  463. You can justify any Behavior you want you, because you try to do

  464. your best and we'll tell you today that when you do your best

  465. and you do and then you do even more and then what you do, next

  466. makes the biggest difference when you give your best and it

  467. doesn't work out and when you give your best and it still

  468. hasn't changed, and you give your bad since not the direction

  469. to go, I would encourage you to give your best again.

  470. Give your best. And then some and those Work out

  471. then give your best and then some it doesn't go Direction

  472. want to. Then just give your best your

  473. faithful to God. Not to people may affect your

  474. enemy is not your kids. Come on somebody.

  475. Some of these here is today you're frustrated to death with

  476. your family. Your enemy is not your spouse.

  477. Your enemy is not your boss, your enemy doesn't have a face.

  478. The enemy doesn't go by a certain name.

  479. That's not something you can see every day.

  480. Then he has a strategy is working behind the scenes, has a

  481. plan for you. This year.

  482. And so encourage you that we are faithful to God.

  483. We have to recognize that the people around us are

  484. possibilities and not problems. And that God wants to use you

  485. this year. I'll tell you, it takes a Judas.

  486. So, think about Jesus and Judas, I love Vicky go each and she

  487. posted this. You said if it if it wasn't for

  488. Judas there wouldn't be a cross. And so thank God for Judas.

  489. Thank God for the problem. See, Jesus was close to Judas.

  490. Jesus knew that Juicy Fruit right here.

  491. In fact, Jesus fulfilled, some prophecy for Jesus, and Jesus

  492. used it, but you never find anywhere in the bible where

  493. jesus blamed Judas. Man, I wouldn't, I wouldn't on

  494. this cross wasn't for Judas. I can't believe in this

  495. situation if one for Peter or Paul or anybody else around, he

  496. didn't blame anybody, but he knew God was in every single

  497. circumstance. Should I tell you?

  498. It takes us all. You think about David.

  499. Thank God for saw this man. That chase me around for over 15

  500. years, trying to kill me. I was a season of preparation.

  501. Ation backpack you think about David.

  502. He would have say thank God for my dad who overlooked me.

  503. He stuck me as a Shepherd boy in a field so I can play a harp.

  504. Come on, somebody and sing praises to God.

  505. He's overlooked, he picked every single other one of his sons all

  506. the other other siblings and he thought, oh yeah.

  507. Yeah, those I guess I do have this other kid named David and

  508. then the prophet anointed David to be king and that season who's

  509. being prepared, they was being prepared to kill a lion, a bear,

  510. but prepared to one day slot or slay Goliath.

  511. You Goliath you later, that's a good one.

  512. Your life is ready to kill your life because you prepared the

  513. season. He was plowing a field and it

  514. was no, it was a thankless. His dad, even recognize nobody

  515. even noticed him. As he was just a little boy.

  516. Bring a sack lunch to his brothers but God Was preparing

  517. to use him. So I encourage you.

  518. Thank God for your salt. Your enemy isn't here on Earth

  519. or entity is somewhere else. And so just thank God that

  520. you're in a season of preparation.

  521. I believe that when you recognize that, when you give

  522. your best and then some that you're going to wreck the plans

  523. of say, Dating in 2022. Every single time that you walk

  524. in situation, it doesn't work out man.

  525. Don't don't have self pity. Don't have self-doubt, don't

  526. don't blame, don't point the finger, don't put the finger

  527. yourself just every single time. Get back up and say, okay God,

  528. I'm gonna do my best and then doesn't work out.

  529. Just give your best every single day.

  530. Some of you guys are season. You need to say this every

  531. single day. I'm gonna do my best and then

  532. some, it's one of you have my best.

  533. That makes the biggest difference then.

  534. Repeat, that day, 3 Day, 4 day, 5 day 6, you're in a season.

  535. And when you're pouring out your season, the preparation.

  536. And this is the endurance. This is the character that's

  537. here to carry the weight of your calling in this season.

  538. So let's hold you back today. What's stopping you from

  539. following God, what's one thing that's holding you back?

  540. What's God showing you in this season Philippians 3?

  541. The read again says, brothers sisters.

  542. I do not consider myself yet to have taken, hold of it.

  543. But one thing I do, I forget what's behind me?

  544. Now, I'm letting go of the past. I know where God wants me.

  545. Isn't this direction it? It's this direction.

  546. Eyestrain. I push.

  547. I leaned in to what's ahead of me at Paul's, basically saying I

  548. took the rear view off the rear off.

  549. I took it off and I broke it to the ground because I press

  550. toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me

  551. heavenward in Christ. Jesus.

  552. And so they, what declaration do you need to write?

  553. What sentence do you put together for God?

  554. What's one thing you say? Okay, I am strong.

  555. I am forgiven. I am whole.

  556. I am complete. I am loved.

  557. I'm a Child of God. I'm not a victim of It's just, I

  558. am a leader, I am creative, I am call, I am whole.

  559. What word is God? Put in your heart today that you

  560. needed to clear to yourself every single moment.

  561. Every day that this is who you are because you're going to

  562. break down Satan's strategy in this season.

  563. And I encourage you to write it down.

  564. Just starts one declaration this year.

  565. This is who I am. I am I am a gifted that I love

  566. my spouse. I'm called on purpose.

  567. I am. I am not easily.

  568. We broken. I was I was made for the hard

  569. season, whatever this is in your life write it down and say it

  570. over and over look yourself in the mirror right in the eyes and

  571. say it over and over and over again.

  572. Declare the truth of God. I believe this is the

  573. foundation. If you're going to move forward

  574. and 2022 to let go of your past, the very first step is to see

  575. yourself the way God sees you. So this open God's word, just

  576. get that one verse a day. Whatever it is and start saying

  577. who you are to yourself, have the right voice.

  578. Your head. For some of you, this is give

  579. you the first time you've ever had to declare this to yourself.

  580. It's going to change your life in this year.

  581. Would you guys play with me? Father coming for you?

  582. God, we thank you so much for what you're doing a lot for a

  583. church is so many people today. They need to declare a truth.

  584. Got that there's been some webs, or been some some pets, or some

  585. stairs that we've fallen into in 2021.

  586. And today we used to clear who we are that.

  587. We're your children that were forgiven there were made whole

  588. got that week that we are perfectly made in your image,

  589. God that we don't have to impress anybody.

  590. Yeah, that we were complete the other we're satisfied and you

  591. got that we are made in your image that I am lovable.

  592. Get the I am forgiven get that. I'm your son on your daughter.

  593. I don't have to be around certain situations.

  594. God, I'm not a victim of those around me.

  595. I give my best because you gave your best.

  596. And so God, I pray, you just drive home that sentence for

  597. each person as they watch this video guide, that they would

  598. write this down then. Look themselves now, I ever

  599. single day and declare who they are in you now, for some of you

  600. I want to pray for Ryu that say I need Jesus.

  601. I recognized at, I don't know who I am.

  602. I want to tell you that, you are God's child that got died for

  603. you. On the cross, he came for you,

  604. everything that God did was on purpose.

  605. And this year, the great thing you could do is start

  606. relationship with Jesus. I know some of you have been

  607. searching, you've been reading through, Romans, you're reading

  608. John. So you guys are looking for

  609. answers to encourage you today to step out and believe what God

  610. has for you in the seasons Foundation to change.

  611. If you want 2022 to be your best year, you have to have

  612. relationship Jesus. This is a relationship.

  613. With your heavenly father. And so today, who is Jesus.

  614. Jesus is the son of God, he died for it across.

  615. Two thousand years ago about says, you're believing him to be

  616. forgiven, it made new. And so they have to invite you

  617. to be a part of this. If you want to you can pray and

  618. ask God and come your life today.

  619. Say this probably got. Thanks much for dying for me.

  620. And I think for sending Jesus to die on the cross, for my sins.

  621. Got no relationship with. You got make me whole got I know

  622. you died for me. You forgiven me and y'all lay

  623. myself down and I press toward what you have for me.

  624. I don't apply the field in front of You got the endurance God.

  625. Give me the heart. Got called me out.

  626. Got the I'll declare today that I'm your son or daughter at a

  627. praise in Jesus name. Amen.

  628. Come on. Get up for became relationship

  629. with Jesus. Come on.

  630. See some hearts some likes. Come on.

  631. Keep it up. Let them know you love them.

  632. Let's go. Come on.

  633. Hey, couple things, guys. You certainly should have Jesus.

  634. Let us know. Let the help you in this season.

  635. You can text RL next to 97 thousand.

  636. We'd love to give you start on the right direction, the right

  637. path for God. I'm gonna give you guys a couple

  638. Next Step. We talked about plowing a field

  639. and going in for God and who he's called us to be.

  640. And one of the most important things, I think that's a rhythm

  641. for this season, 2022 is going to change things for you is

  642. being a part of the Dream, Team being a part of serving.

  643. I would encourage you to make it a regular habit to serve God and

  644. give back to others in this year.

  645. So for you and your family, I would encourage you to come out

  646. and get signed up to our crash course.

  647. If you're not serving already out encouraged to be a part of

  648. this, you can jump in. Next Sunday at 2:00 2430 there's

  649. a crash course at my house. It's a right before the Chiefs

  650. game, but I Kurds come out and be a part of what God is doing.

  651. Our dream team is made up of a whole lot of people over 160

  652. people, there's committed. Say Okay, God, whatever you have

  653. for me, I'm a plow this field. Some people set up some people

  654. worship on the stage. Some people lead in the back

  655. with the kids, some people are serving on youth group, they

  656. just 160 people, all being part of the mission to plow really

  657. feel that God has called us apply on our community to make a

  658. difference. I would encourage H, it be a

  659. part of this. If you're not serving I would

  660. encourage you to jump in. This is a great thing to do,

  661. right? Begin here to give back and make

  662. a difference. You can register online at our

  663. website reelect Rich kc.com for our.

  664. Crash course this next Sunday on the ninth.

  665. Second thing is this, our steel for Hope Center is coming in

  666. this week and you guys have an opportunity to help build hope.

  667. So, even if you're a first-time guest today, this your first

  668. time ever seeing anything in real life, I would invite you to

  669. be a part of what we're going to do.

  670. There's a registration link that's going to pop.

  671. Up and on that link, you can sign up to help us frame part of

  672. this building. It's all steel.

  673. So if you have some ability with that or a trade in framing or

  674. working with steel, obviously we love we have on the team.

  675. If you are just interested help and say I'm just willing to jump

  676. in Honaker just sign up as well. You don't need any experience

  677. but I encourage you to jump in. There's lots of to do over the

  678. next few weeks. So when you sign up, here's what

  679. to expect. We are will definitely out there

  680. on this. Saturday coming up on the 8th

  681. and we'll be jumping in and framing, get things lined out.

  682. And then We will basically work with you and contact.

  683. You as we work through the, the framing part over the next few

  684. weeks, we'll put together a schedule or as needs come up,

  685. we'll have you guys come out. So, we encourage you to get

  686. signed up and be a part of that. Third thing is this, your

  687. generosity makes a huge difference in our church that

  688. just start off this year. I'd encourage you to be

  689. strategic with your giving. Don't make it like the end of

  690. your giving and give off the drip after you spent everything

  691. and wanted to give you my leftover, I would encourage you

  692. up front decide what we have to do, for God this year with the

  693. generosity, it's Our station with my wife and we talked

  694. about, okay, what percentage we're doing this year, how much

  695. you're going to up this? What was God asking us to do?

  696. And I would encourage to be real strategic pick that number up

  697. front and fall through never some, you your respond taneous

  698. Giver of crispy regular Giver just commit.

  699. I'm going to give this whatever you come right.

  700. For some of you guys, you've never given.

  701. I would encourage you to give and make a difference, whatever

  702. it is as actually ask God and fall through that.

  703. You guys have incredible job this year.

  704. This was your last year was incredible.

  705. Seriously, large record breaker? What you guys have given it,

  706. everything you give helps us accelerate.

  707. The pace of the vision to reach more people and to make a

  708. difference. It's your guys giving makes and

  709. paves the way. So encourage you guys, as I have

  710. the team come back up, come on, Diane Holly.

  711. Come up here. Don't be scared.

  712. We have lots of fun. If you color like home, like

  713. Rich, guys, to give you can give online today.

  714. You texted him out to eight four, three, two one.

  715. You didn't see what this after those it was crazy.

  716. She was crawling down there and Holly's flying in paratroop and

  717. down. All right.

  718. So encourage you all right next Sunday we will be back in.

  719. Kentucky Trail God willing no blizzards nothing crazy. 9:30

  720. and 11:00 we're going to be back so encourage your show up and be

  721. a part of that with us will be continued.

  722. The series hashtag 2020 to talk about your thought life how to

  723. move past the negative thoughts that your thoughts like altitude

  724. and it takes you up or takes you down walking through the whole

  725. reframing, all sorts of great stuff.

  726. And remember, whoever finds Jesus discovers, Real life and

  727. purpose. Hey, see you guys later.