Highs And Lows (Chad Veach)

know it's the first Sunday. I know you've been watching ELF movies for a long time, so I'm gonna try it again. This is a faith church. Chunks. You know, the first time I ever came to Elevation, first time I ever came to Elevation was for an Orange Code Revival night and Joyce Meyer was preaching that night and we pulled up here to the campus. We pulled up at the stoplight. I could feel the faith out on

the street. You could feel the expectation. What I'm trying to say to you, if you are in that amazing connect group in Virginia, if you're watching online, We're a believing church. We believe that God can do it. We believe that God is with you. We believe that God is for you. We believe that no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and no mine can even imagine the things that God has in store for those who love Him and are called according to His name. This is a fa church. Come on, clap like you

believe it today. I'm excited. I want to give honor where honor is due today. Anybody love your pastors? Come on, I figure you out to go crazier than that. Anybody love the pastors of this amazing church. Passa Stephen at Holly Ferdick. We love you, We honor you. The Bible literally teaches us to give honor where it is due, and so we honor this fan family. We honor this amazing couple. We honor Pastor Stephen for not just his gift, but to use his gift to preach the good news

and to point people to Jesus. And we just thank God for them. I think we ought to pray for our pastors. Come on, right now, let's pray for Pastor Stephen to Holly. God. We cover the leaders of this amazing church. We bless them right now. We thank you God, that prophetically you're speaking to them about this year. We cover their home, we cover their children, we cover their mind. Right now, we thank you that their soul will prosper. Their soul will prosper. God, thank you for every relationship

they have. God, thank you that it's in alignment right now. Thank you for great wisdom, the wisdom from above. Give them great wisdom to govern your people. We bless them today in Jesus' name. And everybody said, come on, clap like you got faith for your pastor Amen, are you fired up? Now? I left Los Angeles to come out here to Charlotte because I'm fired up, because I gotta put a little country on it. I'm fired up. I might as well. I should get Christ's I should get

Chris's outfit and say it. Chris, I need you to say fired up, give me your best country, fired up for me. I'm fired up, Chad. Thank God for Chris Brown. Right here. Make some noise. Give somebody a high five, Give somebody a high five. In your house, give somebody a high five, and take a seat. If you have a Bible, go to First Kings. Go to First Kings chapter nineteen. Go to First Kings I'm gonna jump in in just a moment, but before I do, keep playing.

If you're the keyboard player, don't don't leave me. Can we thank God for the amazing worship today? My God first King's nineteen. I'm gonna jump in in just a moment. I have to just bring greetings from my amazing family. I'm a married man. Are there any married people here today? I am thirteen years married? Okay, I don't know what that was, but my wife, she is so blessed. I'm just kidding. Come on, you guys, we're in church today. Okay, but can I show you a photo of my amazing

family real fast? These are my four kids and my incredible wife. Look at these guys right here. This is my daughter Georgia and my son Winston Maverick. And then that's my little nugget, my last one. His name is Clive Ellington veach. But I need you to pray that boy is not saved yet. He needs some Jesus. But God has been so good to us. Has God been good to you? Come on, let's clap one time and

thank God for his grace, his mercy. And I'm really excited to share with you today if it's okay with I wrote a message just for today, and I wrote a message for us coming into twenty twenty two because I was thinking about, you know, a year. The other day, we were in our I call it our swagger wagon. When you got four kids, you get a minivan. So I was up in you know, on Christmas break, I was up in our Toyota Sienna. You know you bothering when you in a Toyota Sienna, when you can hit

the button and the doors open, ball out. And so we're talking with our boys about a year now. I was asking my guys, what happens in the year, in the calendar year. Tell me all the holidays that happened the year. Some of my guys right away Christmas, other guy Easter. They start going through all the holidays, Thanksgiving and fourth of July, and start going through a year. They've named almost all of them until my wife was like, you forgot one. And I was like, what did we forget?

I thought we had all of them. She's like single. I was like, that's what I'm Taco Tuesday ba lao guacam only for Holy That's why that's my girl. Right there, we were talking about a year, you know a year. A year has highs and lows. A year has good times and bad times. When we have dinner at our house, I don't know what dinner at your house looks like. When we sit down as a family, every day we go through an order and we talk about our highs and lows of the day. Every day we have a

different theme, a different emphasis. So like my Maverick, he's Maverick, Maverick Monday, or my Winston he's Winston Wednesday. They get to choose the meal and they get to choose the order of the high and low. So on Wednesdays, my son will be like, you're going first, You're going second, and whoever he's mad has going last. But we talk about the high of the day and we talk about the low of the day. In one year, think about your next year. You're gonna have some highs and you're

gonna have some lows. You're gonna have some good times, you're gonna have some bad times. Think about last year. Last year you had some mountaintop success, but you had some valley of despair. One of the things I know about three hundred and sixty five days, you never know what a year will bring to you. You never know

what this next season has for you. But you've got to make the resolve and the decision today that says, no matter what high or low I'm in, I'm gonna choose to put my faith in Jesus, I'm gonna choose to worship God. Come on clap today if you believe that we're making it. Before we get there, we're already saying yes to God. So we're talking about, you know, a year, we're talking about, you know, going through you know, a calendar year and everything that's about to happen this

this next year. Then and then I don't know what came over me. I started to, you know, just kind of wonder the biblical literacy of my own children. You know, do my kids know the Bible? So I started I went straight from the calendar into Bible trivia, and I was like, okay, boys, you were in my swagger wagon, We're gonna ask you some Bible questions. Immediately, all the pastor's kid eyes they just start to roll. They're just like Dad, I'm like, okay, okay, okay. Who was the

guy who's brothers sodom into slavery? My boy in the back. Six year old Joseph caught him many colors. He's like, that's my guy. There you go, Okay, okay. In the Bible, who was the disciple that Jesus asked to come walk on water? Now, my three year old, no matter what question I ask, he has the same person. He's always like Jonah. I'm like, no, I love you so much. That's the whale guy. He's the whale guy. He's the whale guy. Jonah Like, no, it's not Jonah. But we

start talking. We're going through all this Bible trivia and I probably exhaust them, but I want to make sure my boys know the stories. Come on, anybody believe what the Bible says, raise up a child in the way they should go. Oh, come on, clap parents, like you got faith for your children to walk with Jesus all the days of their life. I'm a pastor's kid. I made it. A lot of people in the church didn't

think I'd be here, but I made it. So I'm going through all these questions and going through all these you know, Bible trivia, and finally I get to the last one. Okay, last one, last one? I said, who in the Bible was the God who goes up against all these hundreds of false prophets and he tears them down. And my boys love this part. And he talks trash and he says, where is your God? Is your God on the toilet? Dude, is your God taking a nap?

And this guy demolished these false prophets and showed that our God is the only true God. I said, who was it? My little boy in the beck Jonah, he's the whale guy. It's nothing no, So that's Elijah. And it was like, as soon as I said that, I just kept thinking about the story of Elijah. I kept thinking about what happened right after some of his biggest success came some of his biggest failure. Right after the high of the high came the low of the low,

and right after he killed these false prophets. The Bible says, he runs from a lady named Jezebel. He goes into hiding. God provides an angel and some cookies, and then all of a sudden God shows up and talks to him. Watch here, High and Low, watch Elijah one kings nineteen, it says. So he got up and he ate and drank and Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days in forth forty nights, until he reached Horror, the Mountain

of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night, and the Word of the Lord came to him and said, what are you doing here? Elijah? He replied, Oh God, I've been very zealous for the Lord, God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant and torn down your altars and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they're trying to kill me too. You ever whined a god? Elijah's

speaking whines right here. He's like, Oh God, his coven's been so bad, and the panthers are terrible, and everything's just it's a hard luck life and I just don't know our WiFi slow, But I love God. God shows up in the place of his low and says, my man, what are you doing here? Has God ever had to ask you that question? What are you doing here? Why in the world are you thinking this way? Why in the world are you running? No, No, you're not filled

with fear, You're filled with faith. You're the same one that just cast the false prophets. We don't need you here. I want to preach a message this first Sunday of twenty twenty two. Right down the title, it's called highs and Lows. We live in a culture that says, don't let your highs get too high and don't let your lows get too low. But that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says in Romans twelve, we rejoice with those that rejoice, and we weep with those that weep. Come

on clap today. If you're excited, this year is gonna be filled with rejoicing. And even if it's filled with weeping, we're gonna choose Jesus, it's gonna have highs and lows. You're gonna have highs and lows. You're gonna have highs and lows. But no matter what you face, and no matter what you go through, you're gonna make the decision on the mountain top of success. I will lift my voice as loud as in the valley of despair whether

I walk. That's why I love Pho Psalm twenty three. Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Why you are with me. Rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me, and the presence of my enemies. You

anoint my head with oil. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord, saying, even if I'm in the hospital, even if I get a bad report, even if we face death or sorrow, or sickness or tragedy, even in the valley of despair, You're gonna see my hands raised, Even in the high of the High, I'm still gonna choose God. Amen to that. I wanna give you a few things to write down that you're gonna need this year in twenty twenty two.

I try to think of what do you need to go through a year that's filled with highs and lows? What do you need this year? Right down? Number one, here's the first thing that you need is you need vision from God. Oh I love that thought right there. You need vision this year coming into this next year. You need vision from God. By the way, vision does not come from church. Vision comes from the Holy Spirit.

The Bible literally says in the Book of Joel, in these last days, he will pour out his spirit in such a way that our old men will dream dreams and our young people will prophesied translation. It doesn't matter how old you are today. God has something for every person. God has a vision for your life. God has a dream. Oh, we already talked about it Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven. He knows the plans that He has for you. So

you don't have to come up with the vision. You don't have to sit down with your resolutions and your goals and go this is what I'm going to do. You need to go to God and say, God, what do you want for my life? What's the plan that you have for my family? What do you want to do with my finance? What relationships do you want me to invest in? Doo? Come on? Anybody want vision from God this next year? What's what the Bible says in Proverbs. Oh I love this scripture. It says where there is

no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. When you don't have prophetic vision. Say you don't need vision from movies or commercials or YouTube, you need vision from heaven. We call this getting a word from God. I pray over your twenty twenty two that you have some mantra, some scripture, some thought, something from heaven that God's like, stand on this word. The Bible literally says, what I whisper into your ear, proclaim upon housetops, that utterance, I

give you, that unction, I give you. I don't know what you feel like for ye for your year. But I've been feeling this for the last month, and I keep telling my wife, this is gonna be a big year. This is gonna be a big year. I'm walking around my house telling my wife, this is gonna be a big year. This is gonna be a big year. Finally she walked up to me. She says, Babe, I'm with it. It's gonna be a big year. But can we just say big year? Small frame? And I was like, what

do you mean. She's like, I just don't want to grow. I just want to I want to stay small. I was like, okay, ball out, you do you do you boo. But can you get some vision for your life? Can you get some prophetic vision and start writing down here's what God is saying to me this year. Oh I love to have backkick. Watch this in chapter two, watch what the Bible teaches us about vision. Then the Lord replied, Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets,

so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits for an appointed time. It speaks of the end, and it will not prove false. Though it linger wait for it. It will certainly come, and it will not delay. Write down that vision. This is what God is saying over my children. This is what God is saying over my church. This is what God is saying over my future. This is what God is saying over my business. I'm getting vision from God. And let me just say this

to you. If you can see it, you can achieve it. If you can see it, you can have it. The first thing God does is open your eyes. He opens your eyes, not just to see in the natural, but even into the supernatural. He opens your eyes so you can see the God. Thing everybody else sees ruins. You see redemption. Everybody else sees garbage. You see gold. Come on clap today. If you're excited to get vision for your fear, I'm telling you you get vision. It'll get

you up in the morning. You get vision, and it'll keep you disciplined. Why in the world would you live a life of restraint without vision, the only thing that's going to keep you on the straight and the narrow is getting a word from God. I'm not here for my own gain. I'm not here for my own fame. I live for something bigger than myself. This world is not my home. I'm not a citizen of this planet. So while I'm here for me, to live is Christ and to die is I'm getting vision. I'm getting vision.

I'm getting vision. See See, If you don't have vision, you have no restraint. Why would you restrain your tongue and not gossip and not have all kinds of filthy language? Why would you restrain your finances if you don't have vision? Why would you restrain and live a life of discipline, devotion and dedication to God? If you don't have vision, unique vision? Oh, I'll never forget Separate September tenth, nineteen ninety nine. September tenth, nineteen ninety nine. The first time

I moved to LA. I'm from Seattle. The first time I moved to LA was straight out of high school. I went to Bible College in Los Angeles, so I had I had long hair back then. I had long wavy hair cause I can't I couldn't get a girl, but they said surfers could. So I can't surf, but I grew up my hair like a surfer. It's a little Samson vibe going on. So I'm down in La. I got long hair. I'm in Bible College. I don't want to be in Bible College. I want to I

have my own idea for my life. But I knew that, I knew I was supposed to be there, so I'm still kind of living my own life. September tenth, nineteen ninety nine. I'm in a car with a buddy and he puts in a cassette tape. Come on, the old people said amen. Like as soon as I said, I felt the room shift like lo he preaching. Now, oh he preaching, He preaching, preaching. What he say, cassette tete he real, they do. Real. My buddy puts in the

tape of a preacher named Kreflow Dollar. Kreflow Dollar starts preaching out the Galatians six seven and eight. He starts teaching, do not be deceived, for God cannot be mocked. For whatsoever a man sows that he shall reap, for the man that sews to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption. But the man that sews to the spirit will from the spirit reap everlasting life. I'm in the car, long hair, don't care, and the Holy Spirit grabs a

hold of my life. And the Holy Spirit says to me, You've been a young man that has been ruled and led by your flesh your whole life, and I'm about to wrest you by my spirit. God gave me a vision. I downloaded my future. I'm telling you. I went back home, I cut my hair, I got a spirit felled by I started reading the Bible. I started studying the Bible. I started being dedicated. Why I got a vision from God? Clap if you're excited to get a word from the Lord,

come on. God's got marching orders for you. Clapling expectation. Just open your ear and open your eye and what God has for you. So the first thing that you need is you need vision. You need you need a word from God. Here's the second thing you need. You need faith for the future. You need vision to see what God has for you, and you need faith to believe it. Now, faith by definition, right down the definition. It is trust, confidence and belief. It is trust, confidence,

and belief. So what I what I say when I have faith, it means I have trust in God, I have belief in God, and I have confidence in God. You need to have trust in God this year. You need to have all your confidence in God this year. And you need to have all your belief in God. I'm not asking you to tap into yourself. You are not the solution to your sadness. We don't believe in self help. We believe in God help. I don't lift my eyes to myself. I lift my eyes to the mountains.

Where does my help come from. My help comes from You, the maker of heaven and earth. Give them a praise today. If you've got faith for your future, you gotta have faith. Now. You might be here going like, I don't got that much faith. I don't. I'm not big on faith. First of all, you know, the biggest faith that you need

is mustard seed size faith. So you know. And by the way, the reason why elevation is so powerful is if you bring your mustard seed faith, and I bring my mustard see faith, and they bring their mustard see faith, We're gonna have a whole lot of faith for God to heal the sick for God to do miracles, for God to bring prodigals home. Come on, just throw your mustard. See faith in the middle. But even if you don't have faith, you can learn faith. You can receive faith.

All love the story about this one parent. He's got a child that's got a major issue in his life, and he comes to Jesus and asks for help. And he's like, my son has got a bad problem happening in his life? Can you help us? Watch what Jesus says to this parent in Mark Watch this Mark nine. Jesus asked the boy's father how long has he been like this? How from childhood? He answered? It has often thrown him into the fire in the water and tried to kill him. But if you can do anything, take

pity on us and help us. If you can, said Jesus, everything is possible for the one who believes. Immediately, the boy's father answered back, I do believe, But can you help me overcome my unbelief? Can you help me? God? There's a part of me that's like, is this virus ever gonna go away? Is this stuff ever gonna change? Is our country gonna be okay? Are things gonna get any better? At home? God, I believe, but can you help the part of my heart that has some unbelief.

Jesus is not repulsed by this, He's not put off by this. No, he comes to give you faith today. He comes to give you the gift of confidence, the gift of trust, and the gift of belief. Anybody want to receive the gift of faith this next year? Anybody want to have crazy faith this next year? Lift your hand right there in your house, lift your hand. Let me pray God. I pray for the gift of faith right now. I prayed over business owners. I prayed over parents,

I prayed over leaders, I prayed over the staff. I prayed over pastors, Stephen the Hawley. Let us have more faith this next year. Let us trust in you, believe in you, and have greater confidence in you. In Jesus' name, And everybody said, together, come on, clap one more time. If you come on, believe that God will give you faith. You learn how to believe God, You learn how to trust God. I grew up. I told you, I'm a preacher's kid on a pastor's kid, and we grew up.

I grew up in a small little town, and we didn't. We didn't have a lot of money, Like my mom used to make our clothes. You know, nothing like rocking up to the pool in summer with homemade speedo's. You never been through it. You don't know my struggle. Okay, you don't know the pain in my platform. Okay, so don't judge me. But but but growing up, we didn't

have money, so I don't forget. One time I was walking through the farmer's market with my mom and they were raffling off of VCR a little kid, but we couldn't afford a VCR, and so my mom. I looked at my mom, I said, Mom, listen, look at this beautiful VCR. She said, well, son, let's buy a raffle and let's believe God that we'll win that VCR. So we paid for the little raffle and we took it home to our kitchen, and every morning when I got up, my mom would take the raffle with me and we'd pray.

And I'm telling you, you never seen a kid pray before until you're believing for a VCR. I shout that thing down, I said, Jesus name, we just declared that we're gonna watch Salty's praise book on this VCR, we thank you for McGee and me to be up in our home in Jesus name. And I'm telling you we would pray, we would pray, we would lay hands on them. And my mom was teaching me faith. She was showing me what it meant to believe in God. She was showing me how to speak things that don't exist as

though they do. She was saying that faith is having confidence, having trust, and believe. I'll never forget when one night the phone rang and that person on the other line said, congratulations your raffle one the VCR. I'm telling you we did a praise party like it was New Year's even elevation Church. Come on clap if you're believing that this year you'll have greater faith. I wrote a book years ago called Faith Forward Future, because you have to have

faith to move forward into your future. The enemy wants you to get stuck. What are you doing here? The enemy is like, I'll tell you what they're doing here. They've got setbacks, they've got disappointment, they've got destructive thinking. But praise be to God that is the lifter of my head. Praise be to God. That says no, fix your eyes on Jesus, the Author and the finisher of your faith. Come on, I'm believing that this year you go to new levels of belief, new levels of trust,

and new levels of confidence in our God. Oh, let me just show you one more scripture. Look at you. This is my prayer for you, Jeremiah. Look at Jeremiah thirty two seventeen. Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and your outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you, ah Lord God. Nothing is too hard for you. Ah. You gotta just come into this year going. Ah Lord God, put some awe on it. Ah Lord God, nothing is too hard

for you. Nothing. He shuts the mouth of life, He feeds the five thousand plus the women and the children. He allows us to walk on dry ground while the sea is split in two. He provides a pillar of cloud and a fire by night. He gives us fresh manna in the day. Anybody believe that our goa Oh Lord God, nothing is too difficult for you. Now. I'm telling you, whatever you're coming up against and it ain't bigger than God. And so listen, we're not gonna let

our circumstance determine our faith. We're gonna let our faith determine our circumstance. Come on, clap like you believe it for your year. I feel faith in this place today. Oh right down number three today. I love this. You need a renewed mind, You need a mind. I'm telling you what God is fighting for is the same thing the enemy is fighting for. And they are both fighting for your mind. Or speaking of Joyce Myers, she wrote a brilliant book years ago. The mind is a battlefield.

This is the thing the enemy's trying to fight for. The way that God changes you is he changes your mind. The way that He changes you is he changes your thinking. See, because if you get stinking thinking, you're gonna get stuck in places you shouldn't be. But if you get your your mind right, if you get your mind right, you get your life right. You listen, you'll never live past your thought life. You'll never live better than your thought life. Your thought life is the limit. It's the lid of

your life. So watch how God changes your mind. Look at Romans chapter twelve, verse two. I love this scripture right here. Romans chapter twelve, Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will. So let's just stop there. God's will for your life is three things. It's good, it's pleasing, and it's perfect. The will of God for your life is good, pleasing,

and perfect. How in the world will you ever know the will of God for you if you don't let God renew your mind. It says, do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed. Like again, I'm exposing my age. But when I grew up, Transformers was the thing. I mean, I could sing the whole song Transformers more than meets the eye. I mean, there's a whole thing. We would be in the house playing

with these little Transformers. It'd be like a police car and we just do the little thing and it's like bam, just this huge transformer like Bob Bob. How does God take you from your insecurity? How does God take you from all your jealousy, all your inadequacy, all your stinking things? How does God pull you out of the pit he changes your mind? You gotta understand this about your mind. Your mind keeps no record of success. It only keeps record of failure. You realize that you think, on average,

you think forty thousand negative thoughts a day. You realize eighty five percent of your thoughts are reoccurring thoughts. And so you know a lot of us we wait till we're in a bad place. We rehab. But can I encourage you in twenty twenty two? You need a prehab. You need to get your mind right before you get in the gutter. You need to get your mind elevated. You need to get your mind of the things above. Oh I love this. In two Timothy, watch what God

says through the Paul of the Apostle. He says, for the spirit of God, he has not given us timidity, but gives us power and love and self discipline. Now, the other translations say power, love, and a sound mind. If you study the Greek word for sound mind is literally translated discipline. Thinking translation, God gave you the ability that when your mind gets low, you can bring it back high. Or, as the Bible teaches us, we capture every thought and we make it obedient to God. I'm

not thinking that way about that person. I'm not thinking that way about this situation. I'm not thinking that way about last year. I'm not thinking that way about the answers we're gonna be blessed. I'm not thinking that way about so and so. Come on, and I appreciate anybody. I'm gonna get my mind right. You get your mind right, you get your life right, you get your mind. That's why the Bible says we put on the first thing is the helmet of salvation. I put on God's thoughts

over my thoughts. When you think about yourself, listen. Your mind was not meant to thrive, it was only built to survive. So if I want to thrive, I gotta get scripture, I gotta get God's thoughts. I gotta have. You know you need in twenty twenty two, you need a confidence ritual. You need to build your confidence back this next year. You need to start walking around your home and start declaring over your life. Don't listen to the serpent, don't listen to the liar, don't listen to

the accuser of the brethren. Don't don't listen to the one that only shows you all the bad stuff that happened to you. No you gotta get all God's thoughts. You gotta say no, no, I'm more than a conquer in Christ Jesus. No, I'm the head and I'm not the tale. No, I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. No, no no, no. If God is for me, who can be against me? Come on, anybody down to build a

confidence ritual in twenty twenty two. Then you're gonna start leaving your home in the morning feeling like I'm gonna be okay. Sometimes your mind gets into a bad place and you get you ever feel negative. When I get negative, I get scared of myself. I'm like, I need to eat right now. I feel like a walking Snicker's commercial. And I'm like when I get low, when I get Because listen, don't kid yourself. We all go through highs and lows. We all have good times and bad times.

Don't listen. Don't believe the live Instagram You're comparing your lows to somebody else's highlight reel. Everybody has lows, Everybody has bad days, everybody cries, everybody has pain. There's only one hero in this story, and it ain't you or me. Jesus is the only perfect so when you get low, how are you gonna build yourself back up? Watch what Paul says. Philippians for I love the Scripture. Philippins for

are finally brethren. Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, If there is any virtue, if there's any praiseworthy meditate on these things. I wonder what twenty twenty two would look like if you stop watching the news and started looking at God's word. Clap like you believe what I'm saying today. Whatever's true,

whatever's a good report, whatever's praise. Meditate on these things. I live in LA you know, I'm in Los Angeles, so people can't figure it out. People are always like, oh my gosh, I love your vibes. Your vibes are crazy, dude, you got crazy energy, bro crazy, And I don't like thanks, eh, Jonah, How can you get the spirit of God running through your life this year? It's because I don't spend time crying over spilled milk. I don't spend time thinking about

all the bad things that I've done. Why do you keep thinking about your past when God doesn't he says, as far as the east is from the west, I have removed your transgressions from you. Somebody clapped today, and thank God, I'm getting my mind right. I'm getting Come on, God's changing your premise, He's changing your perspective. He's changing your thinking. You can't do what God's called you to do with thinking thinking. You gotta get the mind of God.

Oh worship team, come join me. There's the last one I want to teach you today, right down the last one. You need a life full of thanksgiving. All think about what you would look like this year. If you've got vision, and you've got faith, and you've got your mind right, and you've got gratitude. Whoah, you know you need. You need the attitude of gratitude you need. You need to wake up tomorrow and say, this is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.

You need to start getting Come on, there's nothing like a grateful people. You know, God is always looking for a grateful person, is a humble person. And God says in the Bible he opposes the proud, He put a heisman trophy on that thing, but he gives grace to the humble. See, humble people are grateful people. God. I just praise you. I listen. I may not be where I want to be, but thank God, I'm not where I used to be. Thank God, I'm out of that

old miss clap today in your house. If you're grateful that you're not where you were six months ago, one year ago, come on? Has God been faithful? Has God been good? Has God brought you? Oh? I love that song today. He pulled me out of my repent. He set my feet upon a rock. He put a new song in my mouth. Many will hear of it, many will see of it. Dive him a praise right now. If you're grateful, I'm not there yet, but I'm not where I was. Thank you Jesus. Think about what God

has brought you out of. Think about what God has delivered you from this. Just pause and thank God for some of the fashion. When I think about the goodness of God, when I think about the faithfulness, you're not amazing. He is. My Bible says, when you were faithless, he remained faithful. My Bible says, when you left, he left the ninety nine church folk, and he hunted you down, and he said, what are you you're doing here? Why are you living in this apartment? How come you're messing around?

You know this ain't a man of God. He don't even go to jailb get out this place. We gonna get you back on christianmingo dot com. We're gonna get you an MG. He ties he's in church and he has hygiene. One of my favorite stories about Jesus. One of my favorite stories about Jesus is the story of

the Ten Lepers. The Bible says Jesus is walking through Samerian golie translation between some people that never should have been in church and some church folk, and these ten lepers cry out with a loud voice, Jesus have mercy on me. Let me just say this. Never be too proud to beg for God's help. If you give yourself in the valley this year, can you just cry out? Come on? If you go through some lows, can you

just make the decision. If I kind of cry myself to slap, if my children don't want to believe in Jesus, if I lose it all, I'm still gonna cry out. Jesus have mercy on me. Jesus says to these ten lepers, he said, go and show yourself to the priest. See because this is why you need vision. To one, he said, stretch out your hand. To another, he said, I already healed your kid. God has something specific just for you. To one young man, he said, go sell everything you got,

then come follow. For these lepers, he said, I'll tell you what we're gonna do for y'all. Go show yourself to the priest. And it says as they went they were cleansed. Let me just tell you something coming to your next year. The blessing of God is on the other side of obedience. It's on the other side. You're not blessed because you get a word. That's because you obey the word Jonah. Just because you get the word done mean you're blessed. The blessing of God it's on

the other side of them. And as they went they were cleansed. It says one of them, one of them came back ten percent. Can you make a decision that in twenty twenty two, I'm going to be the one. I'm going to be the one one of them came back. Theologians believed that the one that came back he was he was the one that knew he should have never He's the Samaritan, the one that knew he should have never gotten grace, he should have never received God's forgiveness.

Most believe that the nine that went out, you know, the nine that got healed. They ran off to Applebee's and Chevys and Westfield Malls. The nine that went out, They were like, we deserve this. You know how many Sundays I've been in church. You know how many New Years Eve praise parties I've been to. You know, I was at the first Orange Code Revival entitlement. But the one that said I I can't even believe that he knows me, loves me, helps me. I know what a

sinner I am? Says. He comes back in the language in the Texas with a loud voice, the same volume that he had in the low It's the same volume he had in the hot said, what God's trying to say to you today is just gonna be Low's and there's gonna be highs, and you gotta decide today, no matter what comes my way, you'll see my hands raised. No matter what I face this year, you're gonna see my mouth fell with praise. I don't praise God. On the bad days, I praise him on the good days.

I praise Him in the springtime, in the winter time, in the summertime, in the fall time. Clap today. If you got faith, no matter what comes my way, I'm gonna praise Jesus. He said, he said, he said, he said, hold on, hold on, he's praising God. Jesus goes, hold on, stop stop talking them. Ah, He's like, hey, Mark, John, come on here, it's crazy. Hold on, hold on, hey man, cool Hey, so was we're busy these days? Hey? So, wasn't there ten of y'all? Hey John, look at this,

and the one that came back was a foreigner. He says, So, come on, get up. Your faith has made you will today. Come on, anybody thankful today. I'm gonna be the one this year. I don't care what high comes my way or low comes my way. You're gonna find me with my mouth filled with praise. Oh this is Stand to your feet, wherever you're at, whatever location, Just worship team, come back. Psalm seven seventeen. I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness. I will sing the

praises of the name of the Lord Most High. What about Psalm nine one and two. I will give thanks to you Lord with all my heart. I will tell of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad, and I will rejoice in you. I will sing the praises of your name almost high Psalm ninety five. Oh come, let us sing for joy to the Lord. Let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extole him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great King

above all the gods. Psalm one O three. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, who forgives all my iniquities, who heals from all diseases, who crowns my life with tender mercies. Come on, licks your hands right where you're at. Father, We come into this year more dealed with thanksgiving. We asked today. Give us vision, give us faith, give us the mind of God, give us gratitude. Come on, this sifted up, Come on rever

forever we knows you morning a phrase. It ain't Jesus, who did you ask? Seek cool? Imagine? Accordity too is found holleylujah, eating you're more than enough. It's morning, hollelujah. Who did you ask seek cool? Imagine accordy too is fine? Worrying? Come on singing again more? Did you ask me for a mansion? Honeylujo? Did you ask he cool? Man? Jim according too is hard worthy? It's morning in mony things imagine according too is bad worrying, it's waming shine pin chin.

You are in the we gave you phrase gim job. You are in the to how we'll be why will be content? In every circumceentt job you are. Come on the ceil it with a clap today, Come on the ceil it. You know it's it's almost like before the touchdown, before the ball goes through the net. We're already thanking God. The greatest force in the history of the world is the love of Jesus. Cannot be stopped. He's in love with you. If you're in a pit today, he's not mad at you. He's not asking you what are you

doing here? He's saying, what are you doing here? I've got a plan, I've got a future. Jesus. We say yes to you, We surrender, we say praise be to God. That leads us in all triumph and in all victory and God, we vow today on the first Sunday of twenty twenty two, that in the highs and the lows, in the peaks and the pits, you find us turning to you. Jesus, you are the author, you are the finisher.

Help our unbelief today. Give us mustard seed sized faith, a pray, vision, faith, the mind of God, and a heart filled with gratitude. Don't let us run, don't let us hide this year. Don't let us be filled with imposter syndrome, afraid of what people think. I pray that you deliver people from faux poe, fear of other people's opinions. We live for an audience of one, and we say

today it doesn't matter what the others are doing. That if we're the only one that comes back, if we're the only one that's loud and praise and worship, we say we'll be that one today. Thank you Jesus, Praise you Jesus. Come on, let's clap and thank God one more time. Amen, thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry.

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