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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.
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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and have a great day!