There is freedom waiting for you on the other side of tough times. I’m praying that you begin to identify the blessings in your life and focus on them until you breakthrough into a new, anointed light. PLEASE do not hesitate to reach out to me if you need someone to walk through the process with you.

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Blessings and Honor,
Scott

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back when back when I was wanting to compete and and I was I was at a I was a 260lbpowerlifter and in one year I went down to 172 pounds endurance athlete now Ididn’t have a plan I just worked hard I’d push myself as hard as I could andthen I’d drag myself home and I’d go back the next day and push myself as hard as I could I I didn’t I didn’t havea vision I didn’t have a plan so in those years of of repeating I neveractually excelled because really all I had was a goal like I just wanted to do atriathlon because it was big and seemed insurmountable but you see I didn’t havea vision and I didn’t have a plan and you know the Lord tells us in Proverbs29:18 he says where there’s no vision the people will perish what I want totell you is Vision it requires setting your goal into action by making a planwe all got a vision but it’s what we’re going to do with that vision and how we’re going to move towards accomplishing it is the key what I wantto assure you the one thing that the Lord put on my heart to assure you as five Stones Church we’re always going topursue God’s vision and not man’s opinion that’s it and you know it mightsound simple to say but I can tell you when the world starts pressing and and trying to influence and this and that ittakes commitment to the vision that the Lord’s given you the word of the Lord to stick to that vision and this churchwill stick to that Vision you know you can’t Proclaim God’s word if you’re busy doing the world’swork what I want to share with you today is the word of the Lord that where we got the vision that guides our work andif we’ll stand together as the body of the Lord and let’s read today’s anchor scripture and we’ll begin as the bodyand if we can stand in honor the word of the Lord and we’ll begin as the body Iwill stand my watch and set myself on the rampart and watch to see what hewill say to me and what I will answer when I am corrected then the Lordanswered me and said write the vision and make it plain on tablets that he mayrun who reads it for the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end itwill speak and it will not lie though it terries wait for it because it willsurely come it will not t that is a good wordif you are looking for God’s direction if you are looking for a word from the Lord you refer to this verse setyourself in that posture and you will not only hear from the Lord but you will know how to activate what the Lord hastold you what you just heard this is what I want to share with you today I want to share with you the vision ofthis church I want I reference this anchor scripture because God’s direction is ourdestination goodness gracious most of us have have lived a portion of Our Lives some longer than others outside of thewill of the Lord and I would ask you is life better in God’swill or out of God’s will I will tell you that I have lived outside of God’swill in my early days I will never ever step foot to the left or to the right I challenge this church body stay on thepath God has already made it smooth and straight for you all you got to do is stick to the path how do we do that weneed to know his word we need to know his vision we need to do his work what I will share with you I want to walkthrough this scripture and we start off it says I will stand my watch and set myself onthe rampart and watch to see what he will say to me if you want to hear what God’s got to say to you you’ve got to bewilling to set yourself apart you’ve got to be willing to position yourself in an advantage over the devil you see you gotto come into a place of health and strength to be able to hear what the Lord’s got to say to you sometimes a lotof times almost all the time time that’s going to require you separating yourself from what’s going on in the world cutthe static cut the noise if you want to hear what the Lord’s got to say you’ve got to put yourself in a position ofstrength and advantage over the devil if you living for the devil don’t think the Lord’s going to give you a holy word ofProphecy or direction or correction what I’m saying is be not do not be afraid toset yourself apart from the world if you want to hear what the Lord’s got to say you’ve got to walk a righteous lifeyou’ve got to live a Romans 121 one um yeah 121 life you got to set yourself as a holy living sacrifice and then he goeson and says and what I will answer when I am corrected y’all let me tell youyou’re going to be corrected that’s right you’re going to be corrected and you know what if you were nevercorrected by the Lord I’d be worried that’s right because he disciplines the ones that he loves and when you get thatcorrection or that word from the Lord your answer should always be yes anything other than yes deny ordelays the destination he goes on to say write the vision and make it plain on tablets thathe may run who reads it church I want to tell you God’s word’s not office gossipit’s not to be taken lightly when God gives you a word treat that word with the respect and the reverence that itdeserves you write that word down goodness gracious how many times we get we get a prophetic word look there’s asister in this church two years ago a year or so over when I met and she gave me a word and man I was like I was likealmost I almost fainted in the church I almost went down under the power of the Holy Spirit by the end of that message Ididn’t remember what that word was so I reached out to her and I said would you please write that down for me that worddeserved the reverence and honor because it’s from the Lord I want to encourage you write God’s word down but look don’tjust write down what he says start creating action items for that word I want to tell you a lot of times I talkto people in they’re like you know the Lord told me that that I’m going to start a business amen thank youJesus let me ask are you taking business classes have you created a business plando you even have a name for your business like what are you doing to advance yourself for the visionthat God’s given you I hear people all the time you know I think the Lord’s going to give me a million dollars amenI wish you’d give everybody a million dollars and then you can tie generously off that million but if the Lord’s told you he’s going togive you a million dollars what do you do you have a bank account do you have a CPA do you have a plan you see God’s notgoing to bring 153 fish and put them in a broken net he did that once with the disciplesand those and those fish fluttered away when those old boys got the themselves together and that net was mended thenext time those 153 fish came into the net they drew in a bountiful abundanceof God’s blessing it’s what I want to encourage you you get a word from theLord you put a plan to it so when God says go you’re ready toroll I just want you to remember and we fin it says for the vision is yet for anappointed time but at the end it will speak and it will not lie though it terries wait for it because it willsurely come it will not tar God’s word does not expire God’s word does not expire nowit’s going to come on his time and not yours but I want to assure you God’s worddoesn’t expire I don’t care what you’ve done from the time that word was given to you to where you’re at right now thatword is waiting for you to grow into the character and righteousness and the ability to be the vessel to carry thatword don’t get impatient and go looking for another word I want to share with you God’s Vision requires partnershipwith the body you see God gave five Stones Church a very specific vision forthis new season of impact like God’s done his part now he’sallowing us to do ours like the lord gave us this word impact this is a season of impact wespent because he said the first two years training equipping preparing learning growing like like when I was aspecial operations Academy like it was hard I’m like where’s all the cool gear where’s my gun and my night visionequipment and and all the fun stuff when do I get to to to fall out of a helicopter on a rope hopefully and andand it’s like well you got to train that’s what we’ve been doing we’ve been training but now we’re called intoa season of deployment a season of impact amen you see God’s done his partGod’s given us two years of preparation God’s given us a new home for the season of harvest but now he’s going to allowus to do our part and our part requires our time and our talent and our treasureyou see a lot of us are really good at donating our time giving our time serving in our time I mean look look atthis building I mean like two months ago it was it was a empty space with giant holes in the floor but y’all the churchcame and we painted and we cleaned and we nailed and we wired and we it’s justamazing what we did and and our talents are showcased through our skills and ourour worship and care for the kids and love for the word but it takes all three things you see it takes our treasure aswell because you see this season of equipping is more than about impact it’sabout going out and doing the work of the kingdom and that will take our time our talent and our treasure now I’mgoing to tell you if your first reaction to talking about treasure or tithing isnegative you might be more connected to your bank than your Bible you see this is why Jesus spokeabout money 11 out of the 39 Parables Jesus doesn’t need your cash hewants your heart you see but if you’re a slave to Mammon then you’re not truly freeMatthew 6 tells us no one can serve two masters for either he will hate one andlove the other or else he’ll be loyal to one and despise the other you cannotserve God and Mammon so what is Mammon well the Greekit’s mamonis it’s the treasure a person trust in what is yourMammon most most of the time it’s money it could be it could be your own looksit could be your career it’s whatever treasure you trust in you see Mammon isa demonic Spirit why because it’s an opposition to God it says you cannotserve God and Mamon that means there’s a choice that means there’s anopposition you cannot love God and love your gold GLDD you can’t do it you see Matthew says you cannot serveGod in Mammon I want to ask you do you serve God or do you serve Satan becauseit’s that clear if you love your money if you love your gold if you love yourpossessions if you love your wealth then you’re not loving God yousee the irony and the beauty is that God gave it to you everything you gotbelongs to God if you believe that God created everything then everything you got God created it’s his in the firstplace and he loves you so much he wants to bless you abundantly but if we clingto this little bitty bottle of water I’ll never get the beauty of seeing an ocean I’ll never get the beauty offilling up a a picture a jug with with fresh rain because I’m over here in the darkness clinging to my little bottle ofwater I challenge sometimes that’s that’s the way we get when it comes down to Financial IALFreedom you see Financial Freedom you’re only going to f not by making moremoney not by spending less or making more you make more you’ll spend moreyou’ll just be in a bigger hole the only way to come to True Financial Freedom is to be deliveredfrom the Demonic Spirit of Mammon to be delivered from the from thegreed of money or wherever else your your your values plac other than theLord like if we’re going to preach the word of the lord we cannot avoidteaching about the blessings and the curses of money moneywas meant to be a blessing you see but see money doesn’t love you it has no emotion I just want totell you open your wallet it’ll walk away but we attach an emotional reactionan emotional response to money why do you think the devil is so masterful and using money to getchurches all spun up to get families buried in debt when the Lord’s like Iown the cat on a th000 Hills all you got to do is stop clinging to that littlesomething of nothing and let me bless you like I just want to ask and I don’t mean this in a bad way but if you spentmore on Christmas than on Christ maybe that’s an indicator of what’s important toyou for where your treasure is there your heart will also and that’s from theword of the Lord I just want to ask you I’m asking you thesequestions because I want to free you I want to help bring Deliverance in your life if you’re thinking that FinancialFreedom comes from making more money it’s not it’s a lie Financial Freedomcomes from freeing yourself from the sin of clinging to thefinances if you want to know where your heart is look at your bank register and what I want to share with you is you’vegot to seow to grow you see good stewardship requires good accounting and I want to assure youthat accountability is key at five Stones Church like you can only you can only quantify um Improvement when it’smeasured so I know couple of us were talking about losing weight this yearwell how do you know if you’re losing weight well you start off by weighing yourself at the beginning of the year now anything gained or loss isquantifiable Improvement but it’s got to have a baseline to measure the growth you seeour elders they meet every month they have a finance we have a finance team our elders and our finance team theymeet every month and they look at the money that was spent and they allocate money going forward for differentMinistry activities or anything we do I don’t care if it’s paying a bill I give that I trust the elders andthe finance team to look at that money we need true accountability and thesethese leaders have done that Faithfully for two years you see money is a reality in life and if the church is not talkingabout it teaching about it showing generosity and stewardship with it like how does the body learn that the truevalue of money that is found in how it’s used to grow the kingdom of God while alsoblessing you you know I’ll tell you a little little Side Story is when I grew up probably a lot of us like we couldn’ttalk about really anything with our parents we couldn’t talk about dating or or really anything like stuff like thatwas taboo our parents just didn’t want to talk about it so we most of us all grew upjust having to figure it out figuring it out making a lot of mistakes along the way and figuring it out but you know Leand I committed we always talk to our kids about everything appropriate age appropriate conversations but we talkabout everything and we lay out very clear to our children what we have an expectation for their lives everythingfrom their jobs their careers their majors in college their friends their girlfriends or boyfriends their mates wegive them a clear expectation of what we want for them in their lives and we talk about it openly with them and when theboys get a little older and get girlfriends if we need to talk to them old girls too we’ll do that we’ll invite them over but you can’t expect anythingto be healthy and grow if you’re hiding and avoiding it so this is why we talkabout money we talk about finances it was important to God it’s important to us so I wanted to start this year offwith just just showing you an example of of what it takes to operate this church you know this is based on last year’snumbers 2023 and I know it was different we were in a different location it was a smaller location but you know ourmonthly ties and offering average that we collected was$8,155 45 what I want to tell you is you think about church is one ofthe last public places you can come for free you go to a restaurant and getyourself a hamburger and walk out of there without paying and see how quick you go to jail you can’t go to the movieand watch it for free you can’t even go to a parking lot and put your car on there withoutpaying the church really is it is one of the last public places that we can comefor free but you know what but it’s not free to operate the church where do these money where do these monies gowell lease Utilities in not like your own homes or your own businesses you know we have we have a part-time umadmin we paid some stiens to to people that that contribute and you know what else we dois we take our first fruit of everything that’s given to the body to the church we take our first fruits and we use thatmoney with this church ties we take that money to help people in ourchurch every month we’ve contributed and help people with finances with withcounseling with housing with finding jobs jobs you know I’ll tell you it’simportant I want you to know that this church is a tithing church this church helps foreign missionaries uh Communitybut our first priority is the families and the people in this church that’s important to us that’spart of our vision is taking care of our five Stones family and you know what I want to tell you if not to have a pat onthe back but I’ve never received a salary and I’ve never asked for a salary I am given my timeand what I would consider my talent and sharing the word of the Lord because I love what I do and it’simportant you know what I want to share with you and I’m really encouraged by this well I I’ll be encouraged by thenext slide not this this one coming up you know the national average for Christians who Faithfullygive Across America that national average is 10% all the Christianchurches across all America all the people who attend the average of allthose people who tithe regularly is 10% and you know of those 10% who titheregularly they give less than 10% you know what I want to tell youabout five Stones Church the national average is 10% do you know what the average for fiveStones Church the families who give regularly 79% of you give Faithfullyman listen if you don’t realize how rare youare I want you to realize that you’reweird that you’re an oddity that you’re not normalpeople the normal would be 10% the beautiful body at five StonesChurch 79% of our families giveFaithfully you know what our goal is in this season of equipping is to teach youhow to live a blessed life we want everybody to live an abundant life mygoodness from the very beginning in Genesismultiplication the Kingdom’s never about decrease never about lack or want orless it’s all always about multiplication you go to Matthew you talk about the five talents how do wehow do we quantify uh faithfulness that’s through multiplication multiplication I want tothank you for your faithfulness I want to encourage the other I’m not a mathematician I want to encourage theother 21% to to press in to the goodness ofGod to the Abundant Blessings of giving Faithfully our goal is to have ourentire body giving Faithfully to the Lord I want to tell you that this is soimportant this is so important that the Lord allows you totest him when it comes down to giving you see Malachi 3:10 tells usbring the whole tithe the whole tithe so if you got $10 don’t bring 50cents bring $1 bring whole tithe into the storehouse what is a storehouse thischurch is the storehouse what is the storehouse it’s where you’re fed from it’s where you’re fed the bread of lifeit’s where you poured out the Living Water of the of of King Jesus it’s where you’re fed meat from the word of theLord this is the storehouse the local church in Malachi was a temple bringyour whole tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in myhouse you see if this church didn’t exist then there wouldn’t be a storehouse and then there wouldn’t be nofood the food is fellowship is discipleship is the meat that’s beingfed is the ministry that’s being done and God says and put me to thetest this is God saying put me to the test if you don’t believe me and youknow why he’s telling them this remember this is Malachi this is right before he’s like I’m out Bo I’m out for 400years we didn’t hear another word from him this is the same book because the people had not beenfaithful they were probably more in line with the 10% average so the Lord saying y’all put meto the test like you do this and I will open for you the windows of heaven andpour out for you a blessing until it overflows you know I tell you when when we go to the theater I look at that oldpopcorn box I love to see popcorn it’s so beautiful got the red and yellow at the bottom and and the bigwindow and you see all the popcorn and I think about I was thinking praying about it last night and the Lord’s like youknow if you would just give your whole tithe one tenth let’s make sure tithe isnothing magical the word only means one tenth right Lord’s like if you just give meone1 I will open up this popcorn machine and it will overflow you with all thebuttery goodness I will open up the window that’s a popcorn machine that the lordgave me that last night he is saying I will open the windows of Heaven I will open the windows of heavenand pour out upon you if only you’re willing to give backwhat he first gave to you he gave you 100% of your salary he gave you 100% ofeverything he’s just askingone1 man God’s good I want to tell you if you want different you got to do different nowlet’s look at the vision that the Lord’s given this church this church we were called to plant an equipping church andthat equipping is based on the gifts that Jesus Christ gave to his church well look at Ephesians4:11 now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church the apostles the prophetsthe evangelists and the pastors and the teachers their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work andbuild up the church the body of Christ this will continue until we all come tosuch unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s son that we will be mature in the Lord measuring up to the full andcomplete standard of Christ like this is an equipping church because the Lord told us to equipwhat I want to do I want want to call on this body today we do the five gifts if you’re anapostle and let me tell you what is Apostle in the Greek aposto which means to send out a messenger remember we’vebeen talking about you’re all Apostles you’ve all been called to go out and share the message of Jesus Christ so I’mgoing to charge you you are all Apostles go out and share the message ofChrist if you’re an evangelist go go out healing casting outand sharing the gospel of Christ if you’re a prophet prophesy and show thetangible power of Christ if you’re a Shepherd I want you to go out and show compassion I want you to reflect theLight of Christ to a dark and dying world and if you’re a teacher you have the gift of a of teaching I want you togo out and help mature people in their faith so that they understand JesusChrist you see these five gifts sometimes called a five-fold Ministrythese aren’t offices or authoritative positions these are simply gifts thatJesus gives to the church you are those gifts you have the gift we know we’reall Apostles you have the gift to make impact I want you to go outand exercise and apply those gifts to the dark and Dying World this is how wemake impact so God’s vision for us in this season of impact so what does impactmean it means bringing action to God’s Vision look we can sit around we can sitaround this building all day and just prophesy to one another and and give a word and this and that but that ain’tdoing nobody no good right you rub wood long enough and that wood becomes frailyou got to take that Lumber and you got to put it out in the world where it’s serving a purpose for the community thatneeds Jesus we’re going to bring these gifts from Jesus into thekingdom how do we make impact we’re bringing action to God’s Vision we’re going to continue to equip this churchto do the work of the ministry we’re going to take what we’ve learned outside the walls of this church we will be boldin sharing the gospel of Salvation through Jesus Christ we will be a light on the hill that cannot be demned by theworld or by the culture or by social media or by fear or doubtsecond Timothy 1 tell 17 tells us for I didn’t give you a spirit of fear I gave you power love and a soundmind if there’s fear it ain’t from the Lord and I cast it out in the name of Jesus we will be the hands and feet ofJesus Christ you see the Lord’s given me two very specific areas of impact these arethe things that what I call their Supernatural banners that hang over our ministry banners go back to the OldTestament you had the 12 tribes of Israel their father Jacob had given them special anointings and when they cametogether there were banners that were hung over the different tribes and those banners represented their particulargifts their particular callings I want to tell you that we’ve got Supernatural banners that hang over this church ourtwo Banners are the banner of marriage and the banner of manhood you see the banner of marriage because marriage isthe reflection of the relationship God created with us to have with him you you know the Bible starts with a weddingGenesis 2:24 then he Jesus first miracle was at awedding and the last celebration Feast is a wedding you see the marriage isimportant to God because the way that God relates to us is the way he wants us to relate with our spouses marriage is akey component to the kingdom of God but I want to challenge you I wantto ask you how can we the body of Christ become the righteous bride of Christ ifwe’re not promoting a covenant marriage relationship with what Christ lookslike the supernatural Banner that hangs over this church is marriage we lovemarriage we support marriage we promote marriage and we’re going to continue topreach about marriage our other Banner is the banner of manhood you see manhood is a reflectionof God in the image he created us to mirror Genesis 1 127 tells us so Godcreat created man in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created them now let mebe let me be clear I’m not neglecting our powerfulsisters in the faith we are equal but we are different we are bothcalled to be leaders and servants but God called the man to be the spiritual head of his family you see in Genesis2:18 when he says and the Lord God said it is not good that man man should be alone I will make him a helpercomparable to him what I want to assure you in the Hebrew the word helper isair and that doesn’t mean second class second rate afterthought come on Balland Chain that means rescuer doer of marvelous things wonderfulhelper women that’s what you are you are a zeir you are equal to man but we aredifferent and you see the reason there’s a spiritual hierarchy and we want wewill we have to honor that spiritual hierarchy men we are called to be the spiritual heads of ourfamily and we’re going to continue to promote that you know when when the spiritual leader of the family isclearly identified and travels the path of righteousness the marriage and the family they come into healthy alignmentlike this was an early study from promisekeepers it said when dads come toChrist first 93 of the% of the families are going to follow see that’s not juststatistics that’s God’s design probably somebody figured youknow what if we get some old dudes to go back to church we can watch the kids show up nobody thought of that that’sbiblical is from the from the beginning actually Ephesian tells us in 5:23 for the h husband is the head of the wife asalso Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body First Corinthian tells us but I want you toknow that the head of every man is Christ and the head of woman is man and the head of Christ is God there is aspiritual hierarchy in the kingdom and when that spiritual hierarchy we focuson marriage and manhood everybody else is free to align inrighteousness you see five Stones Church me particularly when I got called out of a career a 26-year career as a chief ofpolice and undercover operator and Special Operations Commander I’m like like what are youdoing but the Lord showed me very clear that it is our job to equip Godly men tolead in ungodly times that’s what this church I had a sister asked me thismorning one of the one of the kids like why is this church name five stones and the dad’s looking at me likeI hope you have an answer so I got on my knee and I told her I said are you familiar with withDavid and Goliath yeah how many stones did he pick up out of the Old River water and put in his bag five what didhe use that stone for to knock down the giant amen that’s what we’re doing that’s why we’re five Stones Churchthat’s why the lord gave us that word we’ve got our old River Stones we don’t have a sword and a shield all we got isfaith we got trust and we got a bag full of River Rocks and when there’s a giant that comes and I don’t care what thatgiant is I don’t care if it’s the world I don’t care if it’s the devil I don’t care if it’s sin I don’t care if it’s social media I don’t care ifanything we got that stone in our pocket you don’t have to be a good shotyou just need Faith to put it in a sling and let it go you know what God needs from you is youryes you’re yes that’s all hewants that’s why we’re five Stones Church this is the Lord called me tocreate a warrior culture and that’s not a bad thing I talk about alpha males andI get pushed back from men that’s toxic that’s let me tell you what’s nottoxic 1 Corinthians 16:1 13:14 watch Stand Fast in the faith bebrave be strong some translations say act like men let all that you do be donein love this is why the supernatural banners that hang over this church wefocus on marriage and we focus on manhood we get these right everything else Falls in place Place everythingelse multiplies everything else increases I want to I want to start wrapping up about the third ban or themaster banners is the banner of the Gospel we are equipped to do the work of ministry as identifying the gospels ofJesus Christ last year we started walking through the gospel of Mark and we next week we’re going to go backwe’re going to continue walking out the rest of the Gospel of Mark that is our field training guide on what to do andwhat Jesus called us to do and we’re going to continue to share the Salvation message of Christ we’re goingto continue to heal the sick we’re going to continue to deliver the captives from demonic oppression and we’re going tocontinue making disciples what is the practical application of God’s Visionwell to this church we’re going to continue preaching through books of the Bible we’re not going to give thematicmessages because I want to push my agenda on anybody we’re going to walk through books of the Bible and we’regoing to teach them one by one by one we’re going to focus our Wednesdaynight encounters on equipping messages things such as healthy foundations biblical understanding trueFreedom Financial stewardship everything is to equip you for success in theKingdom we’re going to continue to press into our relationship with God during during first Friday nights nights ofworship we’re going to activate our Evangelical Outreach you see we didn’t do that the first two years because theLord told us not to do that the first two years he told us to train he told us to equip but now we’re ready to go I hada sister tell me a couple months ago she they did something in in Fort Worth they had little bags of candy and they justwalked to these businesses and they said hey can we pray for your business there was no pressure obligation they didn’t ask for nothing but to pray and theyprayed for the business and they gave them a little bag of candy and walked out I’m like that’s beautiful especiallythe prayer and the candy part but it’s those those type of initiatives that the Lord’s inviting you to come forwardlet’s Outreach let’s get Evangelical let’s let’s let’s activate the training and the skill and the calling that God’sput on our life you know part of our part of our Outreach is the family center we said when the lord gave us aspace that we were going to dedicate a healthy portion of the building M Sundays that’s kids ministry but throughthe rest of the week that is the family center that is to be the tangible hands and feet of this church throughout theweek what better way to minister to people who don’t go to church than to bring their kids in two days a week nowwe don’t call it church but I guarantee you I know we do because Carol and Esme are running this thing the gospelmessage is being taught It’s A faith-based Mother’s Day Out parents day out we are ministering to those childrenthe word of the Lord our hope our prayer is they go back to their moms and their dads and they start sharing that ourprayer is that the parents are like where’d you hear that that’s what that’s what the ladies told me at the parentsday out that’s our hands and feet to this community so going forward if Kurtwanted to come up so just going forward Where Do We Go From Here well next week we’re going to return uh to the gospelof Mark we’re going to remain committed to teaching the word um I’m reallyexcited about that the Lord had told us to take a break uh for that advent series it was really I enjoy the Adventseries I pray that you did too um but I’m excited to get back to the gospel ofMark you know I want to promise you today that in this season of your lifewhatever season that is if you go all in for KingJesus your life’s never going to be the same that’s it oh man I’m telling you your life’snever going to be the same like I just want to encourage you I want to embolden youif you’ve been like one foot in and one foot out stop doing the spiritual hokeypokei stop doing the holy hokey pokei and go all in for King Jesus I’m gonnatell you what your life will never be the same it’ll never be the same I askpeople it’s say we planted this church together today or two years in are youbetter off today than you were when we started are you better off not because of this church but because of yourfaithfulness and your commitment I want to encourage you no matter what season you’re at in yourlife go all in for King Jesusman I want to help you prepare to live out God’s vision of impact we’re going to have the mostexciting season of Our Lives both individually and as the body of Christhow do I know this because the Lord said so how do I know things are going to keep getting exciting because the end’snear because the end’s coming are we in the end times yes we are we are everysecond that ticks by you’re one second closer to the return of King Jesus shouldn’t bring fear unless you’reliving outside of righteousness it should be a day that we look forward to thank you Jesus if our alter Ministryteam would come up I want to pray if we can stand as the body I want to pray us out I want topray prayer of Deliverance I want to pray a prayer of of freedom from the Demonic Spirit ofMammon if there’s a little twinge in your spirit when this message was talking about giving and tithingand I want to assure you that that’s the Holy Spirit the holy spirit isprompting but I want you to know 100% because the word of the Lord said you cannot serve God andMammon you cannot serve God and money you cannot serve God and your career youcannot serve God and Netflix you cannot serve God and fast food you canot serveGod and Starbucks coffee so I’m going to declare this over you ifyou close your eyes or raise your hands or however you want to receive this but this is for the corporate body Jesus wereject the spirit of Mammon we are done worrying about money we are donestressing over money forgive us for worrying we are asking you Lord for aGrace in our finances not because we deserve it but because you paid for itJesus we renounce the spirit of Mamon we are done looking at money as our sourceof provision God you are our source and we declare that we will have no otherGod before you amen I want to speak this declaration over yourlives again you were free to receive this repeat e this meditate onthis but I declare to the body of Christ God wants me toprosper I expect opportunities in favor in every area of mylife I live in abundance these are declarations for your life this is what I want for yourlife but you’ve got to receive this I am blessed and I am a blessing blessingscome upon me and overtake me the blessings of the Lord make me Rich and add no sorrow to it all my debt is paidin full in jesus’ name I have the power to create wealth in order to establishGod’s covenant on Earth that’s it I am a conduit for what God wants to do in thisworld and God is my all and all I need is my GodAm Lord we thank you for today we thank you for this new seasonwe thank you for everyone here today we know we had a lot of folks sick earlier in the week so we’re praying for thefamilies that weren’t able to be here we pray immediate recovery we pray Healthwe pray restoration we pray father God abundance in this new year not because the calendar clicked to 2024 but becauseyou said we’re in a new season of impact so father I declare the goodness of Godover this good body in this season of impact I free this body from the Demonicstronghold of Mammon I thank you Father for this generous body of 79% who giveFaithfully it ain’t about bringing money into the church it’s about giving it all to King Jesus so thank you Lord for thebody who boldly gives to King Jesus all they have Lord I pray a blessing overthis body I pray a blessing over this body in Jesus name in Jesus name Iinvite you to come up to this Alt alter to receive prayer if you’ve not given your your life to Jesus Christ as yoursavior and Lord then none of these promises mean anything to you membership has its promises if you want to rereaffirm your life in this new season I invite you to come up and receiveprayer I invite you right now if you don’t want to come up and the holy spirit’s moving you to pray for somebodynext to you or across the room I give you the freedom and the permission to get out from behind your chair and go towhere the the holy spirit’s move in you and lay hands on give a word as the Lord’s directing you todo