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Crossing Into 2026 Thanksgiving, Spiritual Reset, and Walking in Greater Glory
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As we step into 2026, this episode is a call to pause, reflect, and realign our lives with what God is doing in this new season. While the world marks time by calendars, God works in seasons and divine moments—and this message helps you prepare spiritually for what’s ahead.
In this conversation, you’ll be encouraged to look back with gratitude at all God has already done—answered prayers, protection, provision, and moments where His grace carried you through. Thanksgiving is not just an attitude; it’s a powerful spiritual weapon that strengthens faith, restores joy, and silences the voice of the enemy.
This episode also challenges believers to move beyond casual Christianity and step intentionally into spiritual growth. You’ll hear practical teaching on prayer, fasting, studying the Word, being planted in a local church, and responding actively to God’s promises. Faith doesn’t grow by accident—it grows through intentional effort, obedience, and daily relationship with the Holy Spirit.
As the year begins, this message calls you to make room for God: to fast with purpose, pray with clarity, give generously, love boldly, and live fully surrendered. It concludes with a declaration of blessing, encouragement for the year ahead, and an invitation to receive Jesus—the greatest gift ever given.
If you’re ready for a year of greater glory, deeper faith, and spiritual acceleration, this message is for you.
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00:00:04
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Welcome to Ministry Moment and Happy New Year. This is our first Ministry Moment of 2026. Happy, Happy New Year to every now everybody.
00:00:15
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yeah Happy New Year to Jesus. Well, you know, and I think it's good to say, you know, we we operate on years. But, you know, God works in times and seasons.
00:00:27
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But sometimes there's an alignment of of a shift change in a new year and a new season. But anyway, think it's always a good time for to take a step back and reflect and plan the next year.
00:00:42
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Sometimes it's good to take that time to set up your next year to get back on track. You know, we do this with our health, right? Or we should. I know January every year we do a fast with our church, a Lord of Host Church. And I always love that because as part of the fast, I also do...
00:01:02
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you know I do ah an extended version and reset everything, get all the sugar, all the junk out of my body, reset my eating right after the holidays. We you do it well we need to do that spiritually too. And just reset and say, okay, now this year I'm going to make this a priority.
00:01:19
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I'm getting, making sure I'm getting back course. think it's good to do that too, your spiritual temperature in the new year and And also be ready for the return of Jesus, right? All the time. You got to be ready every time. yeah You know, as look into 2028.
00:01:38
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two thousand twenty six okay see i'm already two thousand twenty eight You know, as we look in 2026, you know, one of the things that, you know, ah I like to, I think what everybody likes to do this, you know, is that to go back in 2025 to see, you know, all the marvelous, you know, awesome, powerful things that God did for us. Yeah. Because sometimes, you know, if you don't take a time to really go back
00:02:14
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in a good way. The Bible said, think on what? Good report. You know, all the blessings that came to you, you know, because of the grace of God. You know, God has answered your prayer and because He loves you. He loves to answer prayer. That's why He asked us to pray. God has protected you from the the plan of the the enemy. God has done something marvelous, powerful in your life. Folks, you know, I don't want to start 2026 without taking the time to thank him for what he did last year.
00:02:52
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So I'm going to encourage you. I know you have a a big vision. you You know, you have a, you want to fulfill some, you want to see some things be fulfilled in your life.
00:03:06
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You know, don't, take don't, don't, um ah take a time, maybe the first week of January, I know is a time of some people iss people there's a people are fasting or praying. Just take a time and to go back and to see, to begin to count all the blessings that God, you know your Heavenly Father has showered upon your life. yeah he protected Your life being protected from the plan of the devil.
00:03:35
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He saved you from hell. God saved you from tragedy, accident, you know, chaos, drama, name it. All the nonsense that the enemy has used to talk you out of God's perfect will or everything that the enemy has used to to discourage you or to make you feel like, you know, your prayers have not been answered. You're still breathing. That's a testimony. Because, yeah you know, that's a testimony. It is. You know, Denim has used, you know, some wicked people, maybe your city, your state, you know, and ah to to make you feel like, a you know, God is not moving, is not answering your prayer. yeah No, it is a lie from the pit of hell. So I want you to take a time this week, I'm challenging you to take a time to begin to count your blessings. If you are fasting, take the first, the first,
00:04:32
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the first week just to to thank him for you know, every blessing that came in your way. Yeah. You know, that's, that's, that's, that's a, it is a spiritual, it is a spiritual weapon. is, absolutely. It is a warfare. One of weapons that you use, you know, when you are going through, you know, the enemy spiritual warfare is thanksgiving. It is. It says to give thanks all. Give thanks, yeah. In all, right? Because that's the will of God. So, I'm excited about 2026. You know, you were talking about that, and I had told you last month, I had had someone come in and tour that was starting, not the exact same thing that we do at Heartland Hope Mission, but something similar, and they were at the beginning side. And so we were just talking through everything that God had done for us and how much it had grown. And I told my husband, I was like, you know, I think it's good to take time because we're always pressing and believing God for the next thing. That's the thing in this world. There's always challenges that we're walking things, things that we're using our faith for. That's why it says to fight the good fight of faith, right? Amen.
00:05:43
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We're victorious, but we have to fight that fight of faith and walk through it. And sometimes it's good to rehearse all the things that God... Man, I tell you what, just go you know having that conversation, build up my faith so much. I was like, man, look at how far God has brought us, all of the amazing things that God has done us. You know, for us I think that that the person asked an interesting question. He asked us, how many worth of
00:06:12
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You know what saying? What do. Yeah, what we do. All the blessings that came. you know what I'm saying? You know, what he's telling us, ah you need to tell your story or the testimony. You need to testify of the goodness of God in your life.
00:06:28
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Folks, let me tell something. The enemy is afraid of you. If he can, if we can you know, ah ah make sure that you focus on, you know, your prayer. I'm not against praying for things of this life. Right. You know what i'm saying? And one one of the things that don't, don't I'm going to be careful. You don't allow your prayer request to become God. Yeah.
00:06:54
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Yeah. So every time you pray, Father, I need my healing. No. The price was paid. Mm-hmm. is He said to speak what you want because he made you as a king and priest, blessed be Jesus. So you have the right, you have the right given by the Almighty.
00:07:15
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for you to make a decree. It says, if you speak, I will back you up. I will cause things to manifest in your life. So you have the right to to to to change. You have that ability to shift things and you know around your life, in your home.
00:07:34
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Whatever area that you desire a change, you have that ability to make that change. yeah So, but like I said, look back into your life.
00:07:46
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Take your time to thank Him. I know most of the time, what you know, and when it comes prayer of thanksgiving, people don't have a lot to say about it.
00:07:57
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But when it comes to prayer of warfare, they can they know how to make a decree. yeah I have done this, so um I know what I'm telling you. When it comes to prayer of thanksgiving, because if you know your Bible, there's a different group, different stages of prayer. There's a prayer of thanksgiving, there's a prayer of praise. So that's not the subject, but when it comes to prayer of thanksgiving, people don't have a lot to say.
00:08:21
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because it's like a they they run out words to unleash into the realm of the Spirit. yeah Remember, you know, prayer of thanksgiving is like an offering. If you're giving thanks to Him, it's like a what? It is a an offering that you are giving to Him. yeah that's so That's the reason why the Scripture says, he said to, I think, I believe, a Book of Hosea, somewhere in the Bible, I'll find it for you, it said, you know, the fruit of our lips, yeah giving thanks, giving thanks every day. Praise Him for what He did.
00:09:00
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You cross over 2026,
00:09:03
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Wow, I wish you know what this is all about. yeah It is a testimony. It When you were talking, I just pulled up Psalms 9 because what you said made me think. and And the Psalms are full of just praising God, praises to God for what He did. But I love Psalms 9 verse 1, and it it says, it depends on what version, so I'll tell you too, but it says, I will praise you, Lord, with all of my heart.
00:09:30
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I will tell. of all the marvelous things you have done. I will be filled with joy because of you. When you take time, and the reason I brought that up, Psalms 9-1, some version says, I will give thanks instead of I will praise. But here's the thing is, it's he's saying, I'm going to give thanks, I'm going to praise all the marvelous things that you've done. And as a result, I'm going to be filled with joy because of everything that you've done for me. And then he goes through all of these things. My enemies retreated. You judged in my favor. You rebuked nations. He goes through all of these different things. just rehearsing the goodness of God, what God had done for him. And when we are in a place of thanksgiving, it changes our attitude. And, you know, people that are thankful who rehearse what God has done for them are people of faith.
00:10:24
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Because, man, you know, I look back at what God has done in my life. If I rehearse all the things He's done, all the miracles that we have seen happen... You know, the whole world not contain the book. Yeah. It is true. Can you imagine, you know?
00:10:40
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Yeah, God has done so much. He did a lot. You know, I always say, God, say, Papa, you are too much type of deal. He has done so much. Our life being preserved.
00:10:53
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Sickness tried to attack your body. he he he protect Your body was protected. Yes, maybe you fell so sick. You went to see the doctor. You didn't die. But it is a testimony.
00:11:04
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maybe Maybe that prescription that the the doctor gave to you helps your body. It is a testimony. Without that medication, you won't be here today. It is a testimony. So you know look into your life. you know even you know Just go back, January, February.
00:11:25
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See what God did. It is so marvelous. So that's that's what I felt. you know i've been I've been thinking through all of this. And I believe, this is what I believe in my spirit.
00:11:36
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You know, I love, you know our pastors prophetic word has come forth. And, you know, things have been changed. There's a shifting that's taking place. There's a changes. God is elevating His own kids, okay, His body. Now, one thing that I believe that is gonna you will people are going to begin to experience is,
00:11:57
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you know, this distinction between those who are serving God yeah faithfully and those who are not. You know? Now, if you go back to the Bible, the Bible mentions about the house of David and the house of Saul.
00:12:11
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God is going to make a distinction, you know, in these two groups, in His own house. So, I'm going encourage you. You choose to be on fire for Jesus. Choose. Make a decision to serve Him faithfully.
00:12:24
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Make a decision to stay in your path. Make a decision to fulfill God's vision for your life. Make a decision. Because at the end of the day, what I know for myself is that I'm going to stand before Jesus. She's not going to be with me.
00:12:41
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I wish. But it's not going to happen. The Bible never said that. She's going to give an account for herself, and I'm going to give an account for myself. yeah Everything that he told me,
00:12:52
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you know, what I have done with what the Holy Spirit has spoken to me. All of us, we're going to give an account for what he we did with His grace, what the blessing that He gave to us, you know. And so I'm going to encourage you.
00:13:09
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Isina, you to say something? Well, I was just going to say, and I think that God expects everyone to bear fruit. Yes. You know, based on what He was giving, you think about the parable where There were three different levels, right? Someone given 10 talents, five talents, one talent.
00:13:25
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He expected all of them to produce with what they were given. He was very angry with the person who was given one talent and just titted away and didn't.
00:13:36
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invest in, didn't fulfill the call out in his life, right? He expected according to what he had given that person, them to bear fruit in that area. It doesn't matter where we are in life, God has a purpose for you. You know, I i know this is a scripture that I reference have referenced before, but in Ephesians it says, God, when He saved us,
00:13:57
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He then put us in a place, this is the New International Chelsea Version, to fulfill the good deeds that He had preordained for us to do. There are things that each of us have been preordained, destined to do, yeah that when we step into the kingdom, we're now in place to start doing. He expects us to bear fruit with it. In fact, He says that He cuts off branches that don't bear fruit. There's an expectation that we bear fruit, that we do something. That's why the Bible says you can't be hearers only, but you have to be doers of the Word of God. ah Satan knows the Word, and he's he's going to spend eternity in hell, just saying. yeah you You can't just listen to the Word. It has to take root in you, and it has to produce a fruit. it has to You should have fruit of your salvation, yeah man according to what God's called you to do. and so No, i hundred percent no, with that. You know, because look, when God speaks at what He said,
00:15:07
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okay, what God says become a law in the spiritual realm. Now, we need to understand something. That's why your response to God's blessings, God's decree, that's what makes a difference. That's what produces the miracle. yeah Now, see, when God speaks, He is expecting us to come into an agreement. The more when you gospel, when you receive it Now, if the message is talking about healings,
00:15:42
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Okay? If the message is talking about him, the moment you receive that message, healing is producing your body yeah in your life. If that message is talking about financial blessing, if you believe, if you receive it, get you begin to see financial blessings in your life.
00:16:00
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So yall yeah the corresponding action, that's what position you to experience. Yeah.
00:16:11
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the excellency of God Almighty. Well, and I think too, if if you don't if you're not sure where to start, right, is that you need ah you need to have a good pastor be planted and study the messages that your pastor's preaching because the Bible says that God gave us pastors, the fivefold ministry, to equip us to do the work of the ministry.
00:16:35
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So, in other words, to equip you. God gave you a pastor to equip you to do the work of the ministry. So, study what they're preaching because that word is for you to equip you. Amen. And, you know, our pastors last month had talked about you know, they were going, reading a proverb every day, going through the book of Proverbs. So, I took that. i'm Every day, I'm going to read the proverbs. I'm going to go over. Why? Because that's who's equipping me. God put them in my life to equip me to do the work of the ministry. So that's how I grew in the word of God.
00:17:07
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When I got saved, I didn't know anything. I would just take the notes from Sunday service, from Wednesday service and go study them out. You know, and we we have to be careful that we never get to a place where we feel like we don't need someone else to teach us or pour into us. or to equip us we all need that that's why the book of ephesians said god gave these gifts to equip you to do the work of the ministry because we all need that and so i just encourage you if you if you don't know what to do you don't know how to start fulfilling what god's called you to do start by being in the word and being in prayer but but make sure you're studying
00:17:47
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the messages from the people, from the pastor God put in your life to equip you to do the work of the ministry. I think that's so important. In Psalms, it says that, Psalms 92, that he who has planted in the house of the Lord will flourish. You will flourish. Yeah, even, doesn't matter if there's... blessed Jesus. Drought, what happens? You're going to flourish. Either you like it or not. The fact that you are planting house, you always produce fruit. Yeah, absolutely. Another scripture says, you know, let your life so shine before men. That means that you got to produce fruits. Everywhere we go, our life becomes a testimony of God's goodness. So, you know, 2026,
00:18:32
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It is already, this is what I've been declaring. yeah it It is a years of the greater glory Blessings, whatever you want to say about this is up to you.
00:18:46
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I believe what God said and I received the message. yeah And I know, and I know, i you know, I'm not questioning to say, I'm gonna, I made a decision, I'm gonna spend more time, pray in the Spirit more than any other time. I made a decision. I'm gonna take more time to fast. For example, let me say this.
00:19:08
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I know christian Christianity becomes very casual that sometimes people don't people don't really step into God's best. Yeah. Don't let Christianity become so casual that it becomes normal things that sometimes you you lose, you know, ah the essence of this glorious life that God gave to us. Well, even Paul had to remind Timothy and say, you need to stir up yeah the gifts that were imparted on the inside of you. So in other words, just because hands were laid on you doesn't mean you're going to do everything you're supposed to You need to stir up that gift. You have to. You have to study the book.
00:19:49
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You have to give more. Now, if you want financial blessings in your life, I believe financial prosperity. I believe that, you know, as a child of God, should have more than enough to be a blessing to someone else.
00:20:03
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I believe that. god It is God's dream for our life ought to be well-established in this life. So, Find it time like I said, you know, yes Let me add this question. I know most of the time we take like a Two weeks or three weeks to go to vacation.
00:20:24
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All right. I would like to Yeah, we have that you know, I'm not like a two weeks. We just yeah, we've done two. Yeah, you know take a time for to go to rest up, but we say it's let's rest our bodies Let's rest You know, just to satisfy the flesh.
00:20:44
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Yeah. You know? Now, how many of you, I'm asking honest question, how many of you ever request time off from your workplace?
00:20:56
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for the purpose to seek God's face. yeah No. yeah As far as I know. yeah you know How many of us ever made that request?
00:21:09
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Just you request time off, maybe a week off, say, you know what? I want take a week for to build up my spiritual muscles. No.
00:21:20
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We only trust on Sunday. Sunday alone is not going to help you. Yeah. For you to get to that place. You got find a fine time. That's I'm challenging everybody. This is a call to action. Yes.
00:21:31
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This year, fine look into your calendar. Since we like to plan, you know, our vacation, all of that. Find a time. Okay, five maybe it's a one day or two days, whatever works for you.
00:21:45
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But find the time and request time off and just to seek the face of the Holy Spirit. You know, I know people like to fast and when there's a problem so because they want an answer. yeah It doesn't go this way.
00:21:59
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I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah, and can I just say this too? Fasting... yeah Sometimes I think people have the wrong idea fasting, and then I want to read this from 2 Peter, but they fast because they want an answer from God. Fasting doesn't make God respond to you.
00:22:14
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Fasting crucifies your flesh so that you you can hear God better. that that The point of fasting is to crucify your flesh yeah ah That's why you know Jesus told the disciples, he said, this kind comes only out by prayer and fasting. He wasn't saying you have to fast to get the demon out. He was saying, you listen, that's how you crucify yourself, your own flesh. You have to be a person who is in prayer and in fasting. And and in America, and I'm not saying not to do this. i
00:22:47
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We can do this. We can, you know, fast for a week and still go to work and add extra time to pray. But if you're going to fast, it doesn't do you good to fast without adding prayer I haven't asked, that's a diet. It's diet, yeah, it's a diet. You can lose weight while you're fasting. But the point is to crucify your flesh because you want your spirit man to be dictating to your flesh, what's happening. So fasting is about crucifying your flesh, not about making God respond. Sometimes, that's why we have done this. I learned a lesson from this. We thought, you know, God is sitting the throne. We just push Him and just answer us.
00:23:32
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Well, we fast. No. Hey, listen to this. God is not in the throne for you. You know what I'm saying? No, you are here for Him. He is a big boss. Do you understand? Again, we can become so familiar with God that sometimes we we don't we don't give Him that respect. And that's why when we pray, our prayers are not being answered.
00:23:54
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So, I'm laughing. No, God wants you. See, fasting does for you. She said it. It helps you. It brings discipline. Also, it helps your spirit to be synchronized yeah with the Spirit of God to hear His voice yeah and to know what to do for the situation. Yeah, the book of Galatians, you know, you read that and it talks about how, what? what it talks about how being led by the spirit happens and how, what it looks like when you're led by the flesh and carnal nature. Well, if you wanna switch, if you wanna, you know, get rid of your carnal nature, how do you do that? How do you subject your flesh
00:24:37
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to your spirit Amen. Hey, Luke. All right. Okay. Have you said anything else? No, no. No, you're good. Okay, because I wanted to read this. I know this is what we were talking about earlier, but we're almost out of time. It's not right. It's going too fast. All right, so listen to this. I love this. Okay, I know this will make some people mad, but it's in the Bible. I'm reading Scripture from the Bible. This is 2 Peter. It says...
00:25:01
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um And this is chapter one, second Peter one. And because of his glory and excellent, he has given us great and precious promises. Listen to this.
00:25:11
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These are the promises that enable you to share in his divine nature. What? promises that allow you to share in God's divine nature. I'm not making this up.
00:25:26
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I'm reading it from the Bible. And escape the world's corruption caused by human desires, right? The flesh, human desires. um so we can partake right i just read it from the bible in his divine nature and escape the corruption caused by human desires okay so we're talking about these promises now listen to peter's admonition here in view of all of this so in other words knowing that you can partake in these promises that allow you to partake of the divine nature make this is verse five make
00:26:03
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every effort to respond to God's promises. Did he say you're just going to walk in it? No. He said you have to make every effort to respond to God's promises.
00:26:19
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Right? It's written right there. You can read it on the screen. Make every effort. Now, let me ask you a question. Does effort take effort? Does it take work?
00:26:30
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Does it just happen? No, you you have to put effort into it. You have to be intentional about it. Just like what Paul said to Timothy, you have to stir up those gifts. You have to put effort into walking into the promises. They don't just happen, you are responsible for that. And we don't have time to read through the rest of it, but there's, go read.
00:26:50
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Go read 2 Peter. Yeah, so, you know, ah that's that's very powerful. Just go read your Bible. Yes. Get a Bible. You know, this year, 2026, read more, study more scriptures. Yeah. Pray more and fast more, not just one not just ah when you have a problem. yeah You know, sometimes there's a fast that the Holy Spirit calls you, yeah, I inspire you to fast. Mm-hmm. Sometimes, ah you know, you say, you do this. No, because of I need an answer for for so for something. Right. Because sometimes, again, fasting, you know, I'm going to say fasting makes your so your you to be rec receptive God's spirit.
00:27:34
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You know, if you go to book of chapter 13, verse 2 and 3, it's talking about when the minutes, the Bible says when the minutes start to the Lord, they fasted are for sake of time. They say, minute. One minute, what? Okay, all right, that's not fair. i got You know, all right, I got a mic, so, all right. People are liking this. They don't care about timing. This is...
00:28:00
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All right, so the Bible said when they fasted and prayed, the Holy Ghost spoke. That is the reason why we should fast. If you want to answer to your prayer, if you want to hear God, you want to know what God is saying about the situation, if you want to see miracles after miracle your miracles in your life,
00:28:20
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May the Holy Spirit become your priority. Make a time for Him, and trust me, your 2026 will be yeah a season of, ah you know, say an acceleration from glory to glory, from victory to victory. So I'm excited for 2026. So I'm challenging myself.
00:28:38
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I'm going to fast more, I'm going to pray more in the Holy Ghost, and I'm going to study my Bible. yeah And I'm going to love people more, and I'm going to give more into the Kingdom of God to frustrate the devil's purpose. And he will not prevail around me or in the life of my my loved ones yeah in the name of Jesus. going to be praying for our loved ones, standing in the gap, that no one will go to hell, but they will come to know the Christ that we know.
00:29:05
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Thank you, Jesus. so For sake of time, thank you for your time, your participation. You know, go to our platform, like the page. Let's work together this year, 2026, to make great impact in the kingdom of God. And I believe that this year it is our season for us to shine the light. yeah in every nation under heaven. So we speak the blessings of Abraham upon you. As we prophesy, Happy New Year, everything that you desire to see will manifest in your life.
00:29:38
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You know, in the name of Jesus, no weapon formed against your life will prosper. Every tongue that will speak against you will destroy that's the plan, the the purpose of the enemy, and your life It is ah a life of glory. Your life has become a great testimony for everyone that come around you.
00:29:57
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you are blessed You are blessed to be a blessing to your neighbor, your friend, your co-worker. So stay connected. I'm telling you, your life is about to change.
00:30:09
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Thank you for your time. and We speak blessings over you. We'll see you guys, all of you, next time.
00:30:18
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00:30:30
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00:30:44
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