Sunday Service - 2025-12-28

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All right, good morning, everyone.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

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So welcome, everyone.

Last week, Jesse preached in Hebrews, and he talked about running the race.

And he gave us three points.

Who remembers the three points?

Know your team, run your race, and fix your eyes right on.

Yeah, so the analogy that Scripture uses with racing and training and all this sort of thing

is it's referenced a lot.

I mean, we see it a lot in Scripture, fixing our eyes on the things that God has for us.

And if you've ever wondered why the writers of Scripture use certain terminology,

it's never by random, accident or anything like that.

It's used with a purpose.

First Corinthians 9, 24 through 27 reads,

it's, do you not know that in a race, all the runners, all the runners,

all run, but only one receives the prize.

So run that you may obtain it.

So it's saying, look, don't just run for the heck of it.

Run to win.

All right, Galatians 5, 7 says, you were running well.

Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Philippians 3, 13 through 14, forgetting what lies behind and straining toward what lies ahead.

I press on toward the goal for the prize.

So again, it's there.

They're talking about winning, racing to win.

So I entitled this, kind of coming off of that, I entitled this training for transformation.

So we're going to talk a little bit about the tools that God has given us

and the tools that he has provided us to transform.

And what is it exactly that we want to transform to?

Well, 2 Corinthians 3, 8 tells us,

and we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,

are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.

That's a great scripture.

And one of the wonderful things about scripture is,

you know, in the English language, when we say certain things,

they usually just mean that thing, right?

You know, if I say run, you know, you know, you're going to be running.

Or if I said, go out that door, you know, you're going to go out that door.

Well, that doesn't hold true of the ancient languages, such as, you know, Greek, Hebrew,

Aramaic, there is oftentimes in a saying or in certain words, there is a fuller,

a much fuller meaning to it that sometimes is hard for us to grasp.

So let's read that exact same scripture in the message.

Whenever though they turn to face God, as Moses did,

God removes the veil and there they are face to face.

They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone.

And when God is personally present, a living spirit,

the old constricted legislation is recognized as obsolete.

We're free from it, all of us, nothing between us and God, our faces shining with bright,

with the brightness of his face.

And so we are transfigured, much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter

and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

A little bit different, right?

A little bit fuller.

Our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become

like him.

All right, I lost my pointer.

I suspect it's up here somewhere.

There it is.

There we go.

I got it back now.

So, this is not really going to be a rah-rah, New Year's resolution type message.

Although you can take it like that, you know, if you like, but it's definitely

taking a look at what's ahead of us for the new year.

I've always been a goal-oriented person.

And, you know, I remember when I was young, someone said, well, if you don't write it down,

it really is just kind of a wish or a dream or a vague idea.

But when you write a goal down, something happens inside of our minds and something.

There's this higher level of commitment.

So, I've always had this habit of looking to the new year and writing down goals for the new year,

both spiritual, business, family, all of that sort of thing.

And I believe that, you know, every new year really kind of offers this opportunity for

us to kind of reset, refocus, realign, you know, with God's purpose in our life

and what he has for us.

It's this kind of idea of the freshness of it.

And, you know, when I say, you know, I write them down, I don't just write it down and put

it away.

I keep it in front of me throughout the year.

We always kind of get a little bit of a joke around the gym is that, you know,

after the first of the year, it's like annoyingly packed.

A lot of people there.

And I always say, don't worry, it'll weed itself out before the end of the month.

And it does, right?

Because people have high ideas of what they want to do, but most people don't really

follow through with that.

So when we talk about transformation into what God wants us to be and who he wants it to be,

it really comes with, you know, discipline and obedience and surrender and intentionality.

And that's one of the reasons why, you know, the writers of scriptures use these metaphors

of things like racing and running and winning because of the disciplines that are aligned

with those things.

You're not going to be at that competitive level with, without them.

So the first thing I wanted to talk about one of the points I'm not going to give

them to you all up front.

We'll recap at the end.

So when you think about envisioning, you know, the future that God has for us,

Proverbs 29, 18 says, where there is no vision, the people perish.

So vision brings direction and discipline to us.

The definition of envision is imagine.

Imagine as a future what the possibilities are and visualize them.

And I know there's this kind of trendy thing among, you know, Gen Z's about I'm manifesting

my future.

In fact, we were just talking about this at our, at our life for last month.

And, you know, you can take it however you want it.

I'm not saying that manifesting is good or bad, but I know that Hebrews 11 one says,

now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

So when we envision what God has for us, we're doing that by faith.

We're enacting our faith in what, in what he has half for us.

When we see in faith and we envision the plans that God has for us and the person

that he has for us to be, we believe and it changes things.

I don't always see myself the way that God sees me.

I don't, I don't know.

I don't know about you.

If you see yourself the way God sees us, but, you know, God, God sees us

through the lens of his crucified son and the blood that covers us and he sees us.

This perfection doesn't see our sin.

In fact, scripture says that he can't even, can't even remember our sin.

He sees us as his beloved.

And I don't always see myself that way.

I often see myself through, through my own, my own lens.

And, you know, I try to make it a habit of, of, of envisioning myself

as the best version of what God has for me.

Try to envision myself, how he sees me.

And it really puts things in quite a different, different perspective.

When you look at yourself that way, I have, I have some guys that,

that I work with a few times a month and we, we meet together.

And these are, these are, are, are men that, that have,

their life choices have led them to bad places.

So these guys are all ex-cons and they are, you know, in transitional living now.

And I said to them like last week when we got together, I said,

I want you to, between now and, and, and, and the second week in January,

which is when we're meeting again, I said, I want you to write down for yourself.

What is the best version of yourself that could possibly be in, say,

if you look down the road two, three years, who, who, who is this person?

What do they look like?

How do they act?

What are they doing?

And, you know, the first thing that you, the first thing that you get when you bring that up is,

but, well, I don't really have the ability, you know, to get, you know,

to get a job that'll do this.

I don't, I, you know, I, you know, I can't really, I can't see my kids because,

you know, my wife or ex-wife, you know, put this in place.

I can't do all the, all of these hurdles that are, that are in place.

They recognize the hurdles and I say, forget about all of that.

I say, forget about your job situation.

Forget about your money situation.

Forget about your family situation as it is now and envision it.

What God has for you.

And it's a very, very different way of seeing things.

You know, God wants to reveal his plans and his reduction,

his plans and his direction and his identity for us.

His vision and his purpose and they're not random or accidental.

You know, God has very specific things.

So transformation starts with seeing yourself and your future the way that God sees you,

the way that he sees you.

So as we go into this new year, you ask yourself, Lord,

what do you want to accomplish in me and through me this coming year to ask him that?

Jeremiah 2911 says, for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you

and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future.

God's plans are intentional and they're hopeful and they're good for us.

Habakkuk 2, 2 to 3 says, write the vision.

Make it a plan on tablets.

So he may run who reads it for still the vision awaits.

It's a pointed time.

It hastens to the end.

It will not lie.

If it seems slow, wait for it.

It will surely come.

It will not delay.

That's powerful words of prophecy.

God calls us.

I knew there was a reason why I wrote stuff down, right?

Because God calls us to write these things down.

God is asking me to see things differently

than how I see them to change or transform me.

So what spiritual goals is he calling me?

What assignments or missions does he have for me?

You know, envisioning what God puts on your heart.

In other words,

what God is calling to you and what he puts in your heart to do

is seeing it as complete, seeing it as fulfilled.

Michael Phelps, you know, the world-renowned swimmer.

He was famous and talked a lot.

Well, he's famous for his swimming, obviously.

But he talked a lot about his mentality of going into competition.

You know, he would say, you know, swimming is the race,

but he would envision every detail of the race before he did it.

He would envision his posture before he drove in every stroke.

He would just envision every part of the race

and then every part of winning.

He would envision himself on the podium.

All of these things, he would see it.

Muhammad Ali said it, of course, with a little bit more finesse.

He says, if my mind can conceive it

and if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it, right?

That's Muhammad Ali.

So, you know, this is...

Neuroscience proves this, you know,

that our brain responds with these things.

And, you know, that same neural pathway that fires off

when something actually happens is the same thing that happens

when we envision this happening.

So it's not an imaginary thing.

It's science, right?

It's neurological training.

And some people might say, oh, well, you know,

it's our minds, we don't do everything in our minds.

Well, God created our minds.

God created, he is the author of all of this.

So that leads us to my next point, which is our mindset.

Transformation starts with our mindset.

In fact, you know, the word, you know,

the word that is used for, you know, repentance,

you know, simply means I'm changing my mind

and not going this direction,

but I'm going this direction

because the way I was going was wrong

and this way is right.

And I know when you talk about things,

you know, things of the mind,

this is not something that's commonly, you know,

talked about, you know, in the church

because oftentimes we like to have the posture,

well, you know, it's all God and not me.

And I believe that God has equipped us

and made us for these things.

And, you know, oh, if it's God's will,

you know, we like to say,

and oftentimes I think God is up there saying,

yes, it's my will, just do it.

Start to activate these things

because God made our minds a powerful thing

and he didn't do it by accident.

He's the author of this.

So I view it a little bit different.

God is the creator of our minds

and the creator of our brains

and we can activate these things

that God has called us to.

Oftentimes, you know, God will plant things in our minds

and it's up to us to activate them.

How many times has God planted a seed in your mind

and you didn't activate all that

and you didn't take it to where it was supposed to be?

And then how many times has he done that

and you've done it?

And it's like, wow, God plants these things,

you know, in our minds because that's where it starts.

So if you think about, you know,

ministry and teaching and all of these things,

they start with what God puts in our mind.

And I used to be pretty undisciplined

when God would speak to me

or would put something in our mind

where I wouldn't write it down

and I would think, okay, I'm going to remember it.

And I wasn't being diligent with what God had given me

because he planted that seed in my mind

but I didn't take that seed and plant it

and nourish it and water it.

I just kind of let it go

and I eventually forgot about it.

I'll often get things

when I'm sleeping and I'll wake up with something

and if I don't write it down,

I don't remember it

and I can't see it through

whether it's an idea

or whether it might be a piece of writing

that I'm working on

but God plants that as a thought in my mind.

Proverbs 23.7 says,

for as he thinketh in his heart,

so he is.

So think about that for a second.

I can come into the saving grace

that God has given me

but if I think in my mind

that I am all of these things

that I used to be

and I continue to allow those

to dominate my thoughts,

I'm not walking the way God wants me

and that's a choice that I have

how I'm going to think

and what my mindset is going to be.

Romans 12 says,

do not conform to the pattern of this world

but be transformed

by the renewing of our mind.

Then you will be able to test

and approve what God's will is.

His good pleasing and perfect will.

So scripture is saying,

be transformed

by the renewing of our mind.

Transformation comes from a new way of thinking.

You know, the pattern of this world

and how we learn to think

is not necessarily a biblical pattern of thinking.

But our minds sometimes go in places

that really it's not supposed to go

and we're not wired that way

and it's not how God wants us to go.

We have to change from the common way of thinking

into the transformational way of thinking.

What's the first thing

that you think of or even say

when you feel like, especially this time of year,

oh, I get a little scratch in my throat,

oh, I was around some,

I think I'm getting sick.

I think I'm getting sick.

You know what I say?

You know what I think?

I say, I am not getting sick.

If I feel like I'm, you know,

exposed to something

or if I'm on a plane or something like that

and say, I am not getting sick.

And I literally think that in my mind.

My kids think I'm crazy.

But it's not just about sickness

but even negativity.

When something negative happens,

we have a tendency to kind of

regurgitate that negativity

and think that negativity over in our minds.

God wants us to turn that around.

We see a glass half empty instead of half full.

It's a change of mindset.

So I need to change my mind about something

or someone because this scripture here

and many others say,

we wanna be transformed

by the renewing of our mind.

We don't wanna dwell on these things

that almost feel natural for us to dwell on.

And again, that's one of the things,

you know, as Jesse was teaching about

this idea of training and repetition.

So when these things, you know,

come into our mind,

whether it's, you know,

fear or shame or negativity

or any of these things,

when they come into our minds,

we need to immediately change our mind

and change the way that we think.

And when you start to think

transformationally like that,

it is indeed a game changer.

We cannot walk in faith.

We cannot walk in faith

with a defeated mindset.

We just can't do it.

We can say all we want with our lips

that we are walking this walk of faith.

But if we are constantly living

a defeated lifestyle in our own minds,

we're living a lie

and we're not living the way Christ

talked us.

And we can't live this new life

of transformation

that we just read about

with an old mindset.

We just cannot do it.

Christ-like transformation

requires renewing

of our thinking and our minds.

Our mindset determines our reactions,

our faith level

and the direction that we're going.

When we set our minds

on the things of Christ,

it really is more than just spiritual.

It's our ability to activate these things.

And again, I believe, you know,

God is the author and creator

of all of these things.

God is the creator of science.

God is the creator of biology.

God created all of these things.

So we shouldn't live in fear

of embracing and utilizing

the tools that He gave us

because He is the great architect,

the great designer

of all of these things.

So when we think about our mindset,

what are the things that we need

to start rejecting?

What are the things that we need

to embrace more of?

What are the mental patterns

that we have

that need to be changed and renewed?

When we think about life patterns,

the things that hold us back

from our purpose

that Christ gave us,

we need to focus on that purpose.

And, you know, so oftentimes,

you know, we want to

try to shift, you know,

shift the blame, you know,

is our upbringing

or it's the people, you know,

around us or it's, you know,

it's distractions or bad habits

or things like that.

These are things that we can

control in and of ourselves

when we choose to.

Bad habits, insecurities,

procrastination, fear,

all of these things

are things that we can change

how we think about them

and transition them

into a Godly way of thinking.

So, instead of, you know,

allowing distractions

to keep me

from what God has purposed for me,

you know, you might get going

in that direction and say,

no, well, that's not the right way.

This is the way

that God has shown me.

Or habits, bad habits

sometimes keep us from these

and you have to change bad habits

and that takes repetition

and it takes change.

These are all things

that are in our control

and that are our choices

and Scripture gives us a clear,

clear pathway and instructions

for how to keep our minds

spiritually focused.

We just have to determine

whether we really want to do it.

When these things

come into our mind,

we need to immediately shift

our mindset.

2 Corinthians 10, 5.

We demolish arguments

in every pretension

that sets itself up

against the knowledge of God

and we take captive

every thought

to make it obedient to Christ.

So when a thought

comes into our minds

with intention,

God's not saying

that I'm going to do this for you.

God is saying, do this.

When this thought

comes into your mind,

bring it in alignment

with God.

Bring it in alignment

with His Spirit.

In other words,

transform that thought.

Either get rid of it

or change that thought

into something else.

Our mind, our will and emotion

need to be aligned

with those of the Spirit.

Philippians 4, 8 tells us

how we should condition

our minds to think

finally, brothers and sisters,

whatever is true,

whatever is noble,

whatever is right,

whatever is pure,

whatever is lovely,

whatever is admirable,

if anything is excellent

or praiseworthy,

think about such things.

Think about those things.

In other words,

shift our mindset.

Colossians 3, 1 says,

since then you have been raised

with Christ, set your hearts

on things above where Christ is,

seated at the right hand of God.

Set your minds on things above,

not on earthly things.

For you died and your life

is now hidden in Christ in God.

Yeah, right.

When Christ, who is your life, appears,

then you will also appear

with Him in glory.

So how we think in things

is as powerful as what we say.

Our words that we use

can transform our reality

for good or for evil.

The power of the spoken word

is all throughout Scripture,

from beginning to end,

testimony of the power

of the spoken word.

Psalm 33, 6 and 9 says,

by the word of the Lord,

the heavens were made.

And all the host of them

by the breath of His mouth.

For He spoke and it was done.

He commanded and stood fast.

So God only had to speak.

And everything that was

and is and is to come

came into being.

God advances His kingdom

by the power of His word.

And as we speak that word,

as we speak that word,

it advances His kingdom.

Words have the power

to encourage, build, heal,

restore, renew, nourish, refresh.

Words can be a source of life.

David spoke powerful words

of faith in 1 Samuel

where he said to the Philistines,

you come against me

with sword and spirit and javelin,

but I come against you

in the name of the Lord Almighty,

the God of armies of Israel

whom you have defiled.

This day the Lord will deliver you

into my hands

and I will strike you down

and cut off your head.

This very day

I will give the carcass

of the Philistine army

to the birds

and the wild animals.

And the whole world will know

that there is a God in Israel.

All those gathered here

will know that it is not

by the sword or spear

that the Lord saves

for the battle is the Lord's

and He will give it over

into our hands.

Joshua and the Israelites

spoke words of triumph.

Once they had marched around

and he had shouts

as the walls of Jericho

came down.

Jonah spoke words of conviction

to the people of Nineveh.

All throughout Scripture

and prophecy

there are prophetic words

that are given

and spoken.

Jeremiah 1 9 through 10,

then the Lord reached out His hand

and touched my mouth

and said to me,

I have put my words in your mouth.

See today I appoint you

over nations and kingdoms

to uproot and tear down

to destroy and overthrow

to build and to plant.

Jesus spoke words of mercy,

words of power.

You know, think about the words

that he used

when he was even being tempted himself.

So we can bring life

with the words that we use

not just to ourselves

but to others

to speak prophetically

into people's lives.

Or we can use negative words

to ourselves,

words of doubt,

words of faithlessness,

critical words about ourselves,

critical words about others

that can just be cutting,

deceitful words,

complaining words,

words of anger.

There is power in what we say

and the words that we use.

And these words can come to fruition

for the glory of God

or for the destruction.

We have the choice words of life

or words of death,

words that hurt

or words that heal.

There's so many,

so many young people nowadays

that struggle with,

you know, anxiety and depression

and things like that.

And we need to speak life

into them.

They need to speak life

into their lives

instead of

I'm going to choose to live like this

because there's power.

There's power in what we say.

Proverbs 18, 21 says,

the tongue has the power of life

and death.

Joel 3, 10,

let the weak say,

I am strong.

I remember,

you know, there was a time

when I would,

and I still do occasionally,

where I would just speak out loud

to myself.

You know, if something came to mind

or if I was in a situation,

I would just speak the words,

you know, out loud.

Or if I was thinking something negative,

I would say,

no, you know what?

I reject that thought

in the name of Jesus.

And I would speak out loud.

And sometimes we need

to do things like that

to help create patterns

in our lives.

We want that pattern in our lives

to be as soon as these thoughts

come into our minds,

we just immediately change that thought.

I don't necessarily need to say anymore.

Sometimes I do,

but not always.

I don't necessarily need to verbally say that

or just say,

you know, I take that thought captive

because you just turn it off

like a switch

when it comes in.

But that takes training,

right?

So it's not just envisioning things,

changing our mindset

and speaking the right words,

but James reminds us

that we need to be doers of the word

and not just hearers of the word.

So these things all must translate

into spirit-led actions.

True transformation requires obedience.

Proverbs 16.3 says,

commit your actions to the Lord

and your plans will succeed.

Thesians 2.10 says,

we're creating Christ Jesus

for good works.

In other words,

he has a plan for us.

Those who have been in business

for a long time

would recognize this guy's name.

He was like an old motivational speaker

from the 80s and 90s.

And I've always loved this quote

that says,

everyone must choose one of two pains,

the pain of discipline

or the pain of regret.

And I would say

that the pain of regret

bites a bit stronger

than the pain,

pain of discipline.

So spiritual discipline,

we need to sometimes again

change our mindset

of how we think about things.

You know, it's not necessarily

an obligation.

It's not something

that we have to do.

It's not something

that becomes a labor,

but it's a tool of Christ

to change things.

I don't know how many of you follow

or have heard of Jaco,

but he's a former Navy,

I guess there's no such thing

as a former Navy seal.

He's a Navy seal

and he's just out there

with a lot of discipline

is like his thing.

And one of the things

that he talks about

is discipline equals freedom.

If you want to be free,

truly free,

you have to enact disciplines.

You know,

Jesus can set us free

from these things,

but if we're continually holding

him at bay

and holding ourselves at bay

because he's calling us

to do this and live this way,

but we're choosing to lead a life

that does not have

a discipline attached to it.

And we can think about

all the stuff we want to do,

but we're not doing

because it's a lack of discipline

in our lives.

And when you think about,

again, when you think about

we immediately

comes to mind

when we think about discipline

is, you know,

we're doing something.

We're being made to do something

we don't want to do.

Disciplining kids,

disciplining grandkids,

it's the discipline idea,

but God's discipline for us

is different.

Matthew 11, 28, 30 says,

Come to me,

all who are weary and burdened,

and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you

and learn from me,

for I am gentle

and humble in heart,

and you will find rest in your souls.

My yoke is easy

and my burden is light.

Proverbs 16, 3 says,

commit your actions to the Lord

and your plans will succeed.

Oops, I already read that one.

So when you think about

running your race

and getting to where God has for you

and fixing your eyes on that.

One of the things that I talk about

in jujitsu all the time

is, you know,

you can be a student of this

and you can learn it all

and you become proficient at it.

But until you've tested your mettle,

you just don't know, right?

Same thing with any other type of racing

or competition.

You can train for these things,

but until you've actually done it,

you don't know.

And one of the things that I love

about this scripture in Matthew

about his yoke being easy

is that when we've done

the hard work

and when we've committed

to going down this path,

when we've put in the time,

when we've trained,

your mind is almost in this flow state

and in this groove

and it becomes a joy

and not a struggle.

That's why Jesus says,

my yoke is easy.

Well, when you think about a yoke,

you know, you're having something

attached to you

and you're pulling something

and it feels like a struggle.

It feels,

this is a paradigm

that Jesus is trying

to creating our minds.

He's there.

What you think is a struggle

when you commit to it

and you allow God to do it

through you,

it becomes,

you're flowing,

you're flowing like water.

That's what I like to say

and it becomes a joy

and you are indeed transformed.

Transformation is a thing of beauty

when we transform,

you know, we've been

and it's never easy to look at.

I guess the worship team

can start coming up by now.

But as we,

as God transforms our lives,

again, we think about

who He has,

you know, what that perfected

version of us looks like.

So when we envision,

we see what God sees.

We see it as God sees it.

With our mindset,

we think with the mind of Christ.

With our words,

we speak life, truth, and faith.

And with our actions,

we walk out the purpose

that He has for us

with obedience and discipline.

Training for transformation

means transforming,

you know, how we think

and what we say

and what we do.

I'll often tell,

tell friends that

three years from now,

if I'm the same person

that I was three years ago,

then I'm not transforming,

right?

I'm not transforming

into who God wants me to be.

If I'm the same person

and I think the same way

and I'm doing the same things,

then I'm not transforming

in my life the way God wants to be.

There should be constant change.

Transitioning should be a fluid thing for us,

not something that we fear.

When you think about people,

I often talk about this at work.

People don't like change.

People hate change.

They don't like changes in process.

They don't like changes

in how they're doing things.

They don't want to make changes.

Yet in business,

you have to constantly make changes

and there's resistance all along the way.

God wants our minds to be positioned

in a way that when he plants something

in your mind

and when he gets you going

in this direction,

it becomes not this point of resistance

of I don't want to do that

or I can't do that

or it's just not working.

He wants us to flow into these things.

We need to commit our hearts

to doing this.

For the upcoming year,

if you want things different

in your life,

you must allow God

to transform those areas of your life

that you want different.

This could be a year

where we're chasing Christ-like transformation

with everything that we have

and we're going after that prize

and we're running that race

and we're conditioning ourselves

to really make these changes.

And these are just some of the tools

that God has given us to change

and I'm not dismissing

this idea that God can change things

with an instance

because he certainly can.

He certainly changed some things

in my life just like that.

But more times than not,

that change is a process

that he takes us through.

And we can either help that process along

or we can hinder and resist

and pull back.

And my point is,

is that we all need transformation.

We all do.

And how we think

and how we see things

and what we do

and the words we say,

we all need it.

And God wants us to embrace that.

Lord, we open our hearts and our minds

to you, Lord.

We surrender, Lord, our minds,

our will and our emotion to you

that they would be in alignment,

Lord, with your spirit,

with your direction.

We seek you, God.

You are the great architect of our lives

and you have things planned out for us.

And we know, God, that you see us

through a much different lens

than what we see ourselves

and we see others, God.

And we just pray, Lord,

that you would be continuing

to change that about us, Lord,

that we can see from glory to glory.

Lord, who we are in you.

And the great things

you've called us to do, God,

we pray, Lord, you would put dreams

in our hearts, Lord,

and you would help us

to envision things

that are so far beyond our own capability

to do that we know

that they're only possible, Lord,

through you,

through the power

and the work of your spirit.

And we pray, God,

you will quicken to our minds, Lord,

how you want us to think,

reprogramming how we think, Lord,

that's in touch, Lord,

with your spirit

and in touch with your will

and obedient, Lord,

to what you have for us.

And that the power of what we say, God,

would bring life and truth

and goodness to ourselves

and to those around us.

We thank you, Lord,

for this opportunity in New Year's, God,

to reset how we think,

to refocus

on what's important in this world

and what you've called us to do

and advancing your kingdom.

We pray, God,

that you would make it more

than just a nice thought

going into the new year, Lord.

We pray that you will make it

purposeful in our lives.

We thank you, God, Lord.

We thank you, Lord,

for all this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

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