Behold The New | Jay Greiner

In this inspiring episode, we dive into the transformative power of God’s promise: “Behold, I make all things new.” Join us as we explore what it means to stop, look, and listen for the new things God is doing in 2026. Through Scripture from Revelation, 2 Corinthians, and Isaiah, we uncover how to let go of the past, embrace our new identity in Christ, and walk in faith-filled gratitude. From practical lessons on journaling visions to living out reconciliation and praising God through every season, this message encourages listeners to experience a fresh spiritual perspective and step confidently into the new things God has prepared.

Chapters

• 0:00 Behold The New
• 3:20 Why “Behold” Means Stop And See
• 7:00 Writing Down What God Reveals
• 10:00 Thirst, Supply, And Overcoming
• 13:40 New Creation And Reconciliation
• 18:00 Forgiveness In Action
• 21:00 Isaiah 43: God’s Brand-New Thing
• 24:00 Praise Before You See It
• 28:00 Bonus “Behold” Scriptures
• 31:00 Step Into The New With Surrender
• 36:00 Prayer And Declaration

Transcript

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We can hold up our Bibles now and and uh make Jesus glad and the devil mad. Let's just say this together. Say, Heavenly Father, I'm glad for Wednesday night church, where we can come and fill up on your spirit. We're we are spirit. We have a mind and we live in a body, but we are a spirit, and our spirit receives from you spirit to spirit, and our mind is renewed by your word. So we put you first, and we open our spiritual eyes and our spiritual ears to see and hear the new that you have for us in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, I just wanted to uh kind of, you know, this year is 2026, the year of new things. And I'm gonna become the new things cheerleader this year, right? And so uh, you know, that my dad got that, and our pastors got that from for 2026, that that's uh this year, and I'm telling you, it's it's gone off on the inside of each and every one of us, hasn't it? And so God is doing something completely different, completely new, and we are positioning ourselves for the new of this year. And so um I just wanted to preach a message entitled Behold the New. Behold the New. And so um I'm gonna read right out of our foundational text in Revelation 21, if you want to get that in front of us. And uh but before I start reading, I just wanted to, you know, I was in the shower yet, uh, let's see, Thursday morning of last week, and early in the morning, and this detail I thought matters. You know, I'm a morning person. We have any morning people in the house. We got a couple, we got a couple of night night owls as well, instead of morning people. Like, what? And so uh, but I have my best thoughts in the morning. I have that's when I read my Bible, is is is when I wake up in the morning. Usually my first thoughts of the day are spiritual related, and I'll wake up with a song in my heart, and I'll wake up happy, and I and I'll wake up with God speaking to me, um, even sometimes in the night hours. And so, um, but this particular morning I was in the shower and I had one of those moments, and the Holy Spirit said to me, Have you ever noticed that every single one of the new scriptures has the word behold in it? And I had to think about that for a second. And I knew that my dad had been preaching this scripture in Revelation, and it has the word behold in it, and then I quickly went to 2 Corinthians 5 17, and behold, all things are new. Okay, that's that's another one. And then Isaiah 43, that's got, you know, behold, uh, you know, I'm doing a new thing. That's another new scripture, and that had the word behold in it. And so there's a couple of more, and that's what I'm preaching on tonight. Behold the new. And so let's go through our our uh text in um Revelation 21, starting at verse 5, and I'm gonna extend it a little bit in the New King James version of verse 5. It says, Then he who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And he said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega and the beginning and the end, and I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things. Everybody say all things. And I will be his God, and he shall be my son. And so the word behold, let's go back to the word behold in verse five. Behold, I make all things new. And so, uh, you know, my dad, when he preached this part one a couple weeks ago, you know, he talked about his dad would say, Looky here now, right? South Texas, lingo. So looky, looky here now. But it really means it means to care, to observe, to keep, to fix your eyes upon, to fix your mind upon, to pay close attention to, and to perceive and to understand. But it also means to stop. You know, really when you see the word behold in scripture, and I'm gonna kind of skip ahead, I think uh there's two different beholds in the Greek and the New Testament, and between both of those, they have a very similar meaning. And I didn't write down the other one and differentiate here, but but the bottom line is they mean very similar things, and usually it means to stop. And so when you see that you want to stop because something new is about to happen. And we'll go over that tonight, some of those. And sometimes it just means to look, like the word low. And low, you know, and so like sometimes we just we just want to look, but in order, you know, have you ever been on a road trip maybe and you've driven by something, you know, you drive over a bridge and there's the Grand Canyon, and you're like, whoa, but if you stop and you actually go to Grand Canyon, you know, to the park and you walk out to, and then that's it, that's a whole lot better. So, you know, Selena and I uh and the kids, this years ago, I think it was like 2009, we went on vacation and we were going to Gatlinburg, and so we we spent the first night in Chattanooga. And so when we woke up the next morning, we went up Lookout Mountain to uh, let's see, at uh Rock City. We went to Rock City. Anybody ever been to Rock City? Miss Linda has been to Rock City, and so you can see this huge mountain, and you can stand out on this mountain and look at seven states all at the same time. And so, and it tells you it has like a little uh thing that you can stand on so that you can see, you know, North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia and I don't forget all the seven states, Kentucky and whatever else I'm missing, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, something like that. That probably wasn't seven, but you can see all seven. It has a beautiful waterfall, and it's just gorgeous, has these tunnels through the mountain. If you have kids, it's really neat to see that. So if you're ever riding through Chattanooga, take a take a little detour and see that. It's well worth it. But you you can't see that from the road, you've got to know where you're going, and it's about, I don't know, five miles, seven miles, ten miles, whatever, up this mountain road that has all these switchbacks in it. And which sounds great until you realize that we were in a 43-foot uh diesel pusher motorhome. And so that was the tightest road, and I didn't know that. That was what was getting me ready to be the church bus driver. So the the next year I got my bus driver license and I became the church bus driver. So that was what that was prepping me, that trip and those turns, and I'm really I it would mean a whole lot more if I would have just dropped the video to Lee and we could have just watched that for old-time minute memory sake here. Um, I think Ethan was like 11 or 12, and he's in the front seat, had these big cushy uh seats in the front, and you know, that huge windshield you can see forever. And uh, anyways, and and that lifestyle I could get used to, right? Because you're driving down the road with everything you'd ever need, right? Everything's in the fridge, and when we were hungry, we pulled over and ate. We the bathroom's right there in the back, and you pull over, take a nap if you're tired. But, anyways, that was a great trip. But but it we would have missed that if we wouldn't have taken a moment to stop and to look and to take it all in. That we had to do something on purpose. We couldn't just see that by driving down the highway. We had to get off the highway, we had to go up a road, and so that's when you see the word behold in scripture, what is God speaking to you? So, so behold, I make all things new. God makes all things new. And then he told John to write, for these words are true and faithful. And so, you know, my the first time on part one when my dad was preaching this, and you know, he said uh what Mark Hankins says all the time, uh, when you you know that uh God's word was spoken so that it could be written, and it was written so it could be spoken, right? And so, but also just in in in 2026, as God begins to reveal new things to you, be faithful to write it down. So get out a notepad, get out your notes app on your phone, whatever it takes for you to write some vision down and make it clean, clear, make it clear. And so I don't know. Um I'm not much of a journaler. I know that my dad does that. Um, you know, if he's not writing it down, he's recording his voice in the voice recorder on his phone, and he prays and he talks to himself. And if you walk by, you're you're scratching your head, like, is he okay? Is everything all right? But that's how he journals. He journals, and uh, and then now you have all of the different apps that turn that into text and voice-to-text stuff, and so then you have a record of it. But however you want to take notes, however you want to journal, I encourage you when God's speaking to your heart to write it down. And um, and then you know, in verse 6 that God is is is uh I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. So stay thirsty. Who's thirsty tonight? I'm telling you, we are thirsty for more of him, and we have a never-drying fountain of the Holy Spirit that's on the inside of us that that uh quenches our thirst, that gives us everything, that supplies to us everything that we could possibly need. And uh, Dr. Gee Pei, you know, when he was preaching here uh last, I think it was in September or October, October, right? Um, he was talking about that he is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, but he's also the God of the middle. He's the God of right now. He'll never leave us nor forsake us, and he has a supply of every single thing that you need, but it's out of the new. Notice the context of this verse is still out of the new, right? And then he who overcomes shall inherit, verse 7, all things, not just some things, not just, but all things, and um, and and I will be his God and he shall be my son. And so there's uh we overcome because Jesus overcame. And how did he overcome? How do we overcome? By the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony. The blood of the Lamb, the sacrifice of Jesus Himself, who died for our sins, who was risen from the dead, that took our place so that we can have a relationship with God. He's our mediator. He paid the price so we don't have to. He went, he suffered so we don't have to suffer. Amen. And so uh behold, the stop and notice that it's God that makes all things new. And so uh I just you can write that down as your number one. Number one, remember that it's 2026, the year of new things. I know this is simple. I have three things that we need to remember tonight, and that's one to stop, to look, and to listen. And we're not talking about trains, and this, you know, it's good if you're at a train track to stop, look, and listen. But, you know, to when you see the word behold, to stop, to look, and to listen to what the Holy Spirit is revealing to you. And I'm telling you, uh, you know, there's so many, we're gonna be talking about love. We have uh the the month of love coming up in February, and so we have that love series. It's gonna be every Wednesday night in in uh in February, all four Wednesday nights, and we're kicking it off next uh week, and Selena and I will be kicking it off with Pastor uh next Wednesday. But uh I'm telling you, uh we need to know with certainty the the length, the depth, the width, and the height of God's love. Have a revelation of God's love. You know, we were talking about it today uh with my dad and just how people are really uh suffering because they they don't know how to love. They try to love out of their human love or just out of their emotions, and when when they can receive a revelation of who exactly God is and love people out of that same love that they're loved. And so it's impossible to love without loving like God loves. And so that that's that's very a very small way to love is just out of your human emotions. But man, when you kick into agape, that when you realize that you have the power to love other people through the power of agape, I'm telling you, we're gonna be talking more about that in the month of February. Amen. And so for number two, let's go ahead and turn over to 2 Corinthians 5, 17. But we're gonna read that in context as well, starting in verse 16. It says, Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. Therefore, so we had to find out what the therefore was for, right? Therefore, if anyone say anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation, you're a new creature, you're you're a creature that has never before existed, amen. And then it says, old things have passed away, and there that word is, behold. So we stop because everything's about to become new, right? We stop and we look and we listen to what the Holy Spirit's revealing to us, and it says, All things, not some things, not one thing, not five things, but all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, that God was in Christ, reconciled the world to himself, not impugning uh uh their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For he made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. We have been made righteous, and we have all been given the ministry of reconciliation. That means we don't have to, that means our past is gone, and that means the people that we're ministering to, the people that that turn their hearts to God, are reconciled as well, and we can treat them and should treat them as such. So when you go on treating your spouse like the old man or woman that they are, you know, that they were rather, as a sinner and remembering every single thing that they've ever done wrong, um, you're not be you're not following in the ministry of reconciliation. When you treat your kids and you bring up every a laundry list of every single thing that they've ever done wrong and said wrong, you're not loving like Jesus loved. You're not loving us, you're not seeing people through the blood of Jesus. You're not seeing people through the ministry of reconciliation. And so when someone has turned their heart uh back to the Lord and repented and put that under the blood, they get a fresh start, just like you get a fresh start. And so, my number two is remember that the past is gone. You know, the enemy wants to remind you of your past, but he also wants to remind you of the past of other people, how other people have failed you, how other people have talked about you, and how people have have uh have gone behind your back and stabbed you in the back and and brought all kinds of messes and lies about you, and maybe maybe you think it's cost you, maybe it's cost you your job, maybe you think it's cost you a promotion, but I'm telling you, uh let God fight your battles and begin to treat people that you know when people repent, you don't you can't see when they've repented to God, you can only see when they've repented to you, right? But I'm telling you, if you'll begin to walk in the ministry of reconciliation and be able to reconcile them to God, your witness of how you treat them uh points them back to God. You understand what I mean? If you if you walk, if you treat them the same way they're treating you, they're never gonna turn. They're never gonna see that witness. And sometimes we're the only Jesus that people are gonna see. So we have an opportunity to be Christ-like in their life. And I just I was preaching on Sunday night and I used this example, and and David's not here tonight, but I know he won't mind uh me using this example, but um, you know, he he backed in his big truck in his driveway, and all was fine. He's sitting inside the house, and uh, and I know that that I've talked to him about that truck. He's got a lot of money in that truck, and he loves that truck. He's taken years to build his dream truck. It's got like this big winch on the front, his big four-wheel drive, and a custom bumper, and all this stuff. And uh, and this elderly man lost control of his car and hit his truck just parked in the driveway. And it looked, at that moment, it looked totaled. It looked like it drug the whole truck. He hit it so hard that it drug the whole truck into sideways into the ditch and just mangled the front end. And the insurance company, you know, had already, like in the world that we live in, the pictures are right there, and they're already saying that it's gonna be total. And he's like, Look, you know, this is my truck. There's gotta be a way. And and he wasn't worried, the whole time he wasn't worried about his truck. He was worried about that elderly man. And he was able to make sure that he was okay, he wasn't injured, he invited him inside, and him and his wife prayed with him and witnessed to him. And so that's what I'm talking about, and treating people the way Jesus would treat you, and allowing people to start over and forgive. He forgave them right on the he didn't, what did you do to my truck? Oh my god. No, no, he loved on them and and uh and made sure that he was okay. And so that's what that's what Jesus does, right? That's the love that Jesus has for each and every one of us. And I'm telling you, so remember that your past is gone, and remember when you know, to treat people like their past is gone as well. Amen. And bring them in and allow them to uh to find through the power of the Holy Spirit the witness that's in your life reflecting the love of Jesus into their lives. Amen. So your past is gone, and their past is gone as well. Amen. And then for number three, let's go ahead and flip over to Isaiah 43 and verse 16 through 21. And I'm gonna go ahead and read that out of the message Bible. And uh if you just follow along with me when I get to verse 19, I'm gonna uh make that obvious in the New Living, I mean the New King James Version. But it says in verse 16, this is what God says, the God who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves, the God who summons horses and chariots and armies, they lie down and they can't get up. They're snuffed out like so many candles. I'm telling you, Pharaoh's army, you know, it they were totally annihilated by the Red Sea, right? You know, God split the Red Sea. I know it calls it an ocean in this version, but it was like an ocean. It was so big. And then, and as soon as Pharaoh's army made it in between those waves, man, those waves swallowed that army up whole like they never existed before, right? And it says right here to forget about what's happened. Don't keep going over old history. Instead, be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand new. So I'm gonna pop this out back in the new New King James just for a second. It says, Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it is springing forth. Shall you not know it? That's verse. Verse 19, and then but it says back to the message, it says, Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand new. It's bursting out. Don't you see it? There it is. I'm making a road through the desert, rivers and the bad lands. Wild animals will say thank you. The coyotes and the buzzards, because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, drinking water for the people I chose, the people I made especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise me. And so that's by number three is to remember to praise Him all the way through the new. You know, it's real easy to praise God when you're sitting in the miracle, right? When it's already happened, when it's all around you, when you're surrounded by the miracle, when you're surrounded by the breakthrough, when you have all of your health and all of your, you know, when you're not sick, um, when when you're not when you're not in need, when you have all the money in the bank, you know, it's real easy to praise the Lord then, but we need to praise Him before you can see it with their natural eyes. You see it through the eyes of faith, right? You are a spirit, and you can see through the eyes of faith. Through you can hear it through your your ears of faith. And so, you know, I see a cloud the size of a man's hand. You know, all it took was was a little bit of faith, right? Um, you know, I was thinking back um this morning. I was just kind of thinking about driving and uh and how my uncle um taught me how to drive out in the hill country. He lived in Vanderpool, my dad's older brother, and he had like two different dots and a and an old uh old Chevy truck. They were all stick shifts, all standards. And so he taught me how to drive in this old beat-up dotson that was you know mustard yellow. So we called it mustard seed, right? For you know, mustard faith. Mustard seed faith, right? Because just a little a little seed of faith. Because you needed a more than a little seed of faith to make to believe God you're gonna make it to the next town in this old beat-up car. But anyways, um, and so I was just grateful that he taught me how to drive. You know, now there's cops everywhere, even in the country, there's cops like you know, there's there's DPS, and and you couldn't do that. I was I was nine years old when I learned how to drive a stick shift. Thank you, Uncle Bob. He's in heaven now. But uh, but mustard seed faith, that's all it takes. And so um, you know, we we have a portion of faith that's that's been given to us, but our faith grows by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And so you're in the right place tonight to know that God is doing a new thing and to praise him all the way through to the new. And so never stop praising. You know, Paul and Silas uh praised at midnight, they praised. And so uh if you'll get a revelation of what your praise does in the supernatural, in the supernatural realm, when you open your mouth and give thanksgiving and show your gratitude, there's no such thing as unexpressed praise or unexpressed thanks. There's no such thing, it has to come out of your mouth. You can't think, just think a good thought, or think you're you're grateful to the Lord. It has to come out of your mouth. You're you're out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. And so that abundance of your heart needs to be gratitude. It needs to be thanksgiving. And we have got a church full of thankful people. It means so much on Sunday to come together as cold as it was. We had all kinds of people from all over the city here on Sunday morning praising and worshiping the Lord out of a thankful and grateful heart. When again, here we are tonight. We have the same thing: people from all over every corner of the city coming together to worship together in spirit and in truth. Amen. And so, but we all have a heart of gratitude and a heart of thanksgiving. And I'm telling you, it's hard for the devil to stop a thankful person. And so um we've got our our hand on the plow. We know exactly who we are, and we're remembering to praise God through all, you know, it's bursting out. Don't you see it? We can see it through the eyes of faith. We know that we are healed. We know uh that we have everything that we need through him. Amen. Because we're in Christ, we've been engrafted into his body. And I just, that was my three points, but I I threw in some of the bonus, I call them bonus behold scriptures. Um there's two more behold new new scriptures. If if you want to just write these down for late later, Isaiah 42, 9 says, Behold, the former things have come to pass, and the new things I declare before they spring forth, and I tell you of them. And then Isaiah 65, 17 says, For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. And so that's after Jesus' return. Amen. And so we see that that in the New Testament, we're gonna shift over, I'll share two or three out of the new, but uh, but that word behold is is uh strong's number 2400, and it occurs occurs 213 times and 204 verses, and then there's another behold, which appears, I think, 300 and something more, 300 and some odd more times. And so uh, but but see if you if you uh recognize some of these Matthew 17, 5. And while he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear him. So, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. So that was Jesus getting baptized, right? And so um something new was about to take place, right? Something, so Jesus was baptized, boom, his ministry begins, boom, you have the new, right? And so Matthew 27, 51, then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earthquaked, and the rocks were split. So that behold, boom, that's something new, right? Um, Jesus was crucified. And then I look at uh this is this is one of the other beholds. Um in 1 John 3 1 it says, Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not. So behold, stop and look at what the manner of love, agape love that the Father has bestowed, he's given as a gift to us, and put it upon us, put it in us, and then now he calls us sons and daughters. Amen. Amen. And so behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed unto us, that we should be called the sons of God. So I'm telling you, behold the new. Remember, number one, remember it's 2026, the year of new things. Let's not forget it. What are you doing in your life to prepare for the new, to listen for the new, to to write down the new, to write down the vision of the new? Or you just started this year like any other year, and you're just going from one event to the next, from putting out one fire to the next, going from one day to the next in your job, just okay, checking a box, got that day done. You know, what about tomorrow? And and no, we're God's doing something new. He's awakened us, he's awakened our spirit, and so we're receiving fresh revelation, uh, a fresh infilling of his spirit, and we know that he's making all things new. So he's got a new way of doing things, a new way of thinking, and a new way of proceeding into our new year. Amen. And so, number two, remember that the past is gone. Don't allow the voice of the past, don't give it, you know, just go ahead and shut that volume all the way down. And turn while you're at it, turn the joy all the way to ten. And remember to praise him all the way through the news. So your joy is up to ten, your gratitude, you've got your heart of gratitude, and it's coming out of your mouth, and you're praising the Lord no matter what it looks like, no matter what it feels like, no matter what your emotions are telling you, because you are a spirit. Amen. You have a mind, you know, and you have a mind, you have the mind of Christ because it's been renewed by the word of God. So you have a will, you have your emotions, you have, you know, everything that's that's going on up here, and you know, you can you can still praise God with doubt in your head, right? Because the doubt's not in your spirit, the doubt's not in your heart, the doubt is just in your head. And so if you'll turn the voice of your spirit up and turn down the voice of doubt in your mind, you're gonna overcome. Amen. You have already overcome. How? By the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony, right? But then you have a body, you live in a body. So is your body perfect? No. Is do you have aches and pains? You know, you're healed. You can walk in the fullness of your healing, but you have to receive that healing, right? And you do that through through your spirit connecting to God, and through your your spirit connecting by faith. And you how do you grow in faith? By hearing and hearing by the word of God. And so I'm telling you, there is a plan for your life. God has a plan for your life. He has He knows exactly what you're going through. He knows exactly what you're feeling right now, He knows exactly what's going on in your body right now, and He's the answer for every ailment. He's He's the answer for every sickness, every disease, every doubt, every fear. So perfect love casts out fear. You know, in studying, like I was saying earlier, for our love, the month of February, perfect love casts out all fear. So there's no room for fear. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind. That love is agape love. And that sound mind, it's it's sound, well-disciplined thinking. Amen. He's given us that power. And that power that he's given us is not a small thing. It it doesn't, we're not lacking in power. We have all the power that we need, and he's given it to us on the inside of us through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. And so let's not forget it. As we're moving into 2026, God wants to do the new. He has a new way of thinking, a new way of doing, and we don't have to hold on to the past. We don't have to hold on to the things that didn't work, that the things that we beat our head against the wall until we're we've got our foreheads bloody. No, we've got, he's got a fresh way of doing things, and all we have to do is receive it. All we have to do is get it, position ourselves in our prayer closet where we can hear from him, and he speaks to us through his word, spirit to spirit. Amen. So in the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God, and the word dwelt among us. It was Jesus. Jesus is the word. We carry Jesus in our heart, therefore we have the word in our heart, so we hide his word in our heart that we might not sin against him. And I'm telling you, uh, maybe you've you've you're listening tonight, maybe you've you've got uh maybe you feel guilt and you feel shame for decisions that you've made. Uh maybe you have a track record of making bad decisions and wrong decisions. And I'm telling you, tonight, you need to know that Jesus, when he died on the cross, he died, he took your shame. He took your pain and your uh ailments, and and he's made you whole already, and all we have to do is get to a position where we can surrender our whole lives to him in total surrender, lean back on him. And the I like the way the Amplified Bible says over and over, and Selena accuses me of saying this every service, but it's probably every other service. But how we can lean our entire human human personality back into him. And when we do that, it's a type of surrender that means that I'm not gonna pick up the old way of thinking again. I'm not gonna pick up the old way of doing again. I'm gonna pick up his purpose for my life. I'm gonna pick up, uh I'm gonna put my hand on the plow that he has because his yoke is easy and his burden is light. And I'm tired of doing things my way. If you build the house uh on your own, separate from him, he who labors, we labor in vain, right? But but if he builds the house, and how and that house he's building is on the inside of us, but it's also through us. It's through our our efforts. When when when uh when we take a step, he takes ten steps and brings us along. So as soon as we start to do something, if we're surrendered, if our life is surrendered, he is taking over. And it's and it's him that's taking those steps. And so then it's it's like it's effortless, right? But we have to make the decision to make the first step. And we're stepping into him, we're stepping into our purpose, we're stepping into the anointing, and uh, and we're anointed to do what he's called us to do. But when we step out of that anointing, we when we step out of that revelation, we step into our own thing or we exit his plan early, we're gonna get off into error, we're gonna get off into something that is gonna more than stub our toe, right? Have you ever walked in the dark and stubbed your toe or stepped on a Lego, you know, when the kids were little, have done that plenty of times in the middle of the night, and uh and we yell out in pain. No, we we walk in the light as he is in the light. Because behold, what manner of love the Father has given unto us that we are called his sons, we're called his daughters. That means we have a relationship that's tight, that's close, that's intimate, that we didn't leave anything behind, that we're not ignoring him. We're close to him. So when we need something, he's right there. He's a very present help in time of need. He's not last week's God, he's right now. He's now faith is Hebrews 11:1. He's a now God, and he's a right now God, and he's a right now, very present help in time of need. And so um, if you feel far away from God, the the word says in Hebrews to draw near to him and he'll draw near to you. And so uh he's never as far away as you think. He's right here and he's right now. All you have to do is call on the name of the Lord and you shall be saved. This is the day of salvation, this is your day, and you can walk in the fullness of everything that God has for you in your life. Amen. Let's lift up our hands right now and receive the word of God. Father, we're just so grateful and thankful for what you're doing in these last days. Lord, how you've positioned us, you've brought us in, you've pulled us close. Lord, that you're not far away, that you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us, so you're right here. You are the answer. And so, Lord, we uh turn to you, we lean on you, and we know that it's you, that in you is uh in your presence is fullness of joy, and at your right hand there's pleasures forevermore. And so there's no sadness, there's no depression, there's no weakness, that we're strong in you and the power of your might, that it's your might that causes us to triumph over every situation, over everything that we see through our natural eyes. But Lord, we rejoice through it. We rejoice in it. We don't rejoice for it, but we rejoice in it, knowing that we worship you in spirit and in truth, and out of a grateful and abundant heart of gratitude we have towards you, because it's you that rescues us, because the Holy Spirit is not afraid of any mess. And you've uh yanked us up out of the mud and out of the mire, and you've set our feet upon a rock, and you've made our footsteps firm, and so that we can be a witness to you and of you, of your faithfulness. That's what your word says. You want us to be a witness of your faithfulness. And so, Lord, in order to do that, we surrender to you. We allow you to take over, we allow you to have full control of our lives in Jesus' name.

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Amen.