Bethel Church Service | Kris Vallotton Sermon | Worship with Peter Mattis, Caleb Jackson

Hello Bethl online family. We're so happy. 
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 I love being with Yan. Guys, my name is Cassie. I'm your Bethl online church director. This is Yan Mats. >> I'm one of the BSSM Portuguese Revival Group pastors and manager of second year of BSM Portuguese. >> That's right. We're excited to be with you.

Hope you guys had the most wonderful Christmas. Can you believe Christmas is done? >> It's done. >> Oh, I'm kind of sad. >> It's done. But honestly, on the other side as well, I'm so happy. 
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 I ate so much and I'm repenting right in front of you guys.

Jesus forgive me. I ate so much. >> I feel the same way. I had to put on real jeans today and I went, "Wow, those are tight." >> Oh yeah. >> Give me my leggings back. I want to wear sweatpants, but we are coming back into the real world. >> I signed up for two workout classes in the next two days.

Hallelujah. >> I'm fasting already. I I didn't have lunch today, you know, and I'm planning all my week of exercise already. I'm like, Jesus, I repented. And you can see some fruits coming out already. >> Hallelujah. Well, I'm sad I'm not ready to take my Christmas tree down, but >> I am expectant for a new season. >> Yes. >> Oh my gosh.

We're in that little in between between Christmas and New Year's where time kind of feels like it's not real. >> Mhm. >> You know, like we're like coming back into work. >> There was no real responsibility. Nothing you had to do. >> Nothing maybe serious that you have to do, you know?

Like it kind of like we lose that that sense of like, oh, I'm really living my life. It's kind of like the in between. True. That Yeah, it feels weird. It might feel weird, right? >> It does feel weird. I just traveled back from Washington DC this morning.

So, I'm also in a different time zone. I'm a little bit like, "Oh my gosh, what time is it?" Some of you have been probably traveling for the holidays. You're already back maybe home. Maybe you're about to come home. Um where >> they're they're in a different time zone. >> That's true. >> Yeah.

Tell us where you're connecting from. >> Maybe it's the morning. >> Yeah. Maybe it's the middle of the night. >> Normally I see some Brazilians hopping in and it's 5 hours of difference. >> Y'all are dedicated. It's like 10:45 p.m. Guys, it's been um such an incredible um day today.

Yan and I were both at the morning services um at the 1 p.m. And if you haven't had a chance, if you're someone who watches all the time, if you you're like, "Hey, I want to stream in when I can." Um, Richard Gordon brought an incredible word today. >> Amazing. >> Amazing word.

If you have a chance, um, go back and watch it, whether it's on YouTube or Bethl online. >> It was a fantastic word. >> It was fantastic. And he's so like engineer in his mind and the way that he was explaining about the glory of God and when we go from glory to glory.

I'll leave it like that. just I don't want to give you guys any spoiler if you didn't watch, but if you can, if you have the chance, go on on the links that you have access to and watch this sermon. It was amazing. Amazing. Amazing. >> It's true.

Well, I see some people who are in France 2 a.m. I see someone from Dayton, Ohio. I'm from Dayton, Ohio. Hi, Lori. >> People from Georgia. I see Jennifer from Georgia. >> Brazil. My people from all over. Literally, how crazy. Brazil and Dayton, Ohio, where we're both from. >> Wow. >> Okay. >> And I see people le from Taiwan. >> Wow. >> Wow. >> Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Guys, it's so amazing to to be >> church with you guys from different places of the entire world. It It's amazing to worship the Lord with you guys. >> Yeah, it's true. Guys, we're going to um worship together in just a little bit. We're doing a bit more of a stripped down acoustic set tonight.

Peter Mattis is leading us with an incredible team. Chris Valatin's about to preach a word. gets me excited to listen to the prophet of the house give a word in this in between, right? Like we're we're closing out a year. We're getting ready to step into a new year.

It has me thinking about so many things. What are you thinking about in this season, Yan? Like what's what's God talking to you about? >> Um I I really feel that the Lord has been talking to me about gratitude, you know, like being thankful. And honestly, for me, I had a a rough ear.

It was very tough. Like the Lord was stretching me in so many ways. And I came actually before Christmas, I came very tired. And then the Lord started to speak to me. Hey, what are you thankful for? And honestly, being totally honest with you guys, and probably you guys will resonate with that.

Some of you might resonate with that. I had to sit down. >> Yeah. >> And, you know, put some effort to think back and see, oh, actually, yes, I do have some reasons to be thankful for. Um, and maybe for some of you, you have also to sit down and go with the Lord in this walk starting from the beginning of 2025 like, oh, and go like month to month to month to month to 
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 start to think back.

Oh, yeah, this happened. Oh, and for some reason, I forgot because I was so like in tune with the stretching moment, the the moments that I was feeling tired, but then I start like hope started to arise. >> Yeah. >> And Yeah. Hop is starting to arise. The expectation for the Lord to move in 2026 is just like it went through the roof. >> Come on.

I was in a a waiting season just a few short months ago and um I was finding myself a little bit like agitated, just frustrated of like, God, I've been waiting for so long. Like it's been eight months of of waiting or seven months of waiting. I'm like, what what are we doing here?

You know, just um if I'm really just honest, just being frustrated in the process of like what are we waiting for, God? What do what's happening? I I want to see breakthrough. And and I remember the Lord challenged me and he said, "Cassie, I want you to write down 100 things that you're grateful for." >> I said, "A HUNDRED." >> WOW.

That's challenging. >> It is challenging. And I went through item like line by line by line. I got to like 80 and then I took a break and then I found some more. And so I've been adding to that list. And so um today like y name a couple things that you're thankful for.

If you're um watching this on the chat, put in the chat what are you thankful for? What is something that um even before we set into a new year, before other things happen, before the breakthrough kicks in, before your prophetic words come to pass, what's something that you're just thankful for um right now? >> Yeah.

And I I started to remember >> I've been praying for so long for my family members to come to know the Lord. And actually, you met him when he went to England. Yeah. >> Cassie had the chance to meet my oldest brother. He lives in UK now and he came to the Lord this year and he's doing BSS in Portuguese and I I I was I was thinking back with the Lord >> and I was like oh wait he gave his life to the Lord he's doing BSS in Portuguese and he's been preaching the gospel in his workplace praying for people and I started to think like oh wait for so long I was praying for him to give his life to the Lord to have an encounter of the Lord and he had it my parents came to reading to visit me and I cannot give like the whole context but like this is a miracle in itself and they came both my dad and my mom >> and your brother >> came here and and my brother yeah but my dad and my mom they came and both of them got healed here in the in the healing rooms their legs grew out. >> Wow.

And yeah, like so many things that I started like financial breakthroughs. My wife is working because she really wants to work is something that has a great value in her heart, you know, like so many things that I was remembering. I was like, "Oh Lord, you're so good. >> Wow. >> You're so faithful."

For some reason, I was looking to the wrong thing >> and you you realign my eyes and my heart to yours. So yeah, so many reasons to be thankful for. >> So good. >> What about you, Cassie? >> Yeah. I'm going to tell what I'm thankful for real quick.

I feel the anointing. Um, some of you are are longing for the same thing. You're you're praying for a brother, you're praying for a sister, you're praying for a mother to come to know Jesus. I want you just to attach faith. Thank thank the Lord for wherever they are right now, whatever season or situation or whatever, and just thank them like, God, thank you that that they're going to know you.

Thank you that their name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Whatever it is, begin to declare thanksgiving over that loved one. Maybe they've had incremental breakthrough this year of knowing Jesus or coming to know him. Whatever it is, um celebrate Yan's testimony and ask the Lord to do that again.

Whether it's for your parents to get healed, someone in your family to get healed, someone to get saved, um whatever that looks like, thanksgiving um brings multiplication in the kingdom. And so, we're we're just believing that as we celebrate the testimony of what God's done in in his life, we would see the same thing happen in yours.

And and this year, I I was thinking about this today. Um, I'm super thankful. Um, my parents just retired. They're like the hardest workers that I know and I'm so grateful that they get a season to just rest. And um, I was with them this morning as they drove me to the airport and they were just they're just so they are grateful that they can just um like support and spoil their kids.

And I was like, I'm just so grateful for parents who um have had just such a radical turnaround who know the Lord, who love the Lord. And um, that's not where we were 15 years ago. That's not where we were um 10 years ago, but it's where we are now.

And that's a huge thing. Um my brother and sister-in-law are pregnant, and so I'm going to be an auntie. I'm an auntie already, but um to my cousin's kids, but I'm going to be an aunt. And we're just celebrating the miracle of life. And so um whatever it is that you're walking through, maybe you could just um practice a little gratitude.

Maybe you're in the midst of waiting for breakthrough. Maybe you're waiting for that thing to come to pass. But man, practicing gratitude before it happens is actually so powerful >> and and just being intentional lead us to maturity as well. So like I know that we're about to wrap it up to start the service, but type in the chat what are you thankful for?

And then start to read other people's um testimonies as well and start to celebrate and start to engage with the Lord and connect with the Lord's heart because he's about to move. I can feel hope arising. I can feel faith arising and he's about to do something amazing.

The year's not done yet. >> It's not done. God is not done. He's an 11th hour God. There is still time in 2025 for the Lord to move in your life. >> Let's just say this before we leave. Holy Spirit come. >> Holy Spirit come. 
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 >> Holy Spirit come. >> Holy Spirit come.

God, we pray that you would invade bedrooms and living rooms and kitchens and right now that your manifest presence would um fill in any gaps, God. That you would come in so close, that you are Emmanuel, God with us, and that you would come in so near to your sons and daughters.

God, we bless them. We pray that they would experience you in a radical way. Um even just while we worship, even as the the word is preached. And so we we just bless you guys. We love you and we'll see you after the service. >> See you. >> Bye.

Welcome, welcome. Hey, why don't you go ahead and stand with me? We're going to go into a time of worship to our online family. We welcome you. Thank you for joining us from all over the world. Tonight is going to be an incredible night. Uh, how many of you are grateful for what the Lord did in 2025? >> Yes.

How many of you excited for what's ahead 2026? Thank you, Lord. Hey, tonight uh we have a family night. We have our stripped down worship team to these four amazing humans right here. Can we say thank you to these guys? Five amazing humans. >> 
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 >> Uh so tonight's going to be like home group worship where we're going to be able to hear everyone's voices.

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 So we are just encouraging you tonight. Hey, come forward. We're going to worship together. These are my usually my favorite times to worship the Lord. Uh he comes so beautifully uh in these intimate moments. So, I want to invite you forward and uh tonight just uh I felt something very specific that we were meant to do together.

And uh in Psalms 107, it says, "Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoicing." And I felt like tonight as we reflect on 2025, uh this is our final service before the next year, 2026. And so we're going to make it special. And uh I just felt as we reflected on 2025, maybe you had the most incredible year.

Maybe this was a year where that maybe didn't go exactly how you thought. I felt like as if we entered in tonight with thanksgiving, it was going to bring us clarity to see what's ahead. And uh there's something that I've beun to learn about Jesus is he is so drawn to the thankful heart.

It's it's irresistible to him. So before we go into worship, could we just take a few moments? It doesn't have to be loud, but I do want you to declare it with your voice. just 
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 begin thanking Jesus for what he's done this year. Jesus, we humbly come before you in thanksgiving.

Lord, thank you for your 
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 presence that was with me every day this year. >> That was with us every day this year. Your presence that never left us or forsake us. 
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 >> Thank you, >> Jesus. Thank you for your mercy this year that covered my shortcomings, my mistakes, 
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 and your mercy and grace that empowered me to see things beyond what I could do in my own strength.

God, thank you for our health, Lord, that we are living and breathing your breath 
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 and your life each and every day. You can go ahead just begin thanking the Lord with me, joining in in a sacrifice. Jesus, thank you for our families, Lord, that 
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 you are doing a great work.

God, thank you for bringing our families together this Christmas. Thank you, God, for what you have 
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 done this year and what you're going to do in our families. Thank you for this house, Lord. 
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 This house that pursues your presence and your promises, Lord. A house that loves 
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 your face, Jesus.

Father, thank you for what you're doing on the earth that this year 
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 we saw a move of evangelism spread across our nation and the world. We thank you, Jesus. 
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 Thank you, God, for your love that has sustained us in relationship 
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 with you. Your love that has covered us and washed us clean.

Thank you, Father, for 
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 your provision that has paid for everything that we needed this year. 
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 Oh Jesus, you are so generous. Thank you for 
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 your generosity, Lord. Thank you, Father. I have a suspicion Jesus saves the best 
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 wine for last. So, why don't you uh say hi to a neighbor next to you?

Come 
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 on forward down the front and we'll worship the Lord together. 
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We give you the highest praise. 
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Begin to let heaven come. 
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 Lord. 
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 Oh, we praise you. Yes, we praise you. 
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 >> in Christ alone my 
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 hope is found.

He is my light, my strength, my song, this cornerstone, this solid 
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 ground. Firm through the fiercest drop and 
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 storm. What highs of love? What depths of peace? 
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 When fears are sealed, when my striving cease, 
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 my comforter, my all in all, here in the love of 
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 Christ, 
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 I stand.

I stand. 
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 There in 
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 the ground his body lay, light of the world by 
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 darkness slay. Then bursting forth in our glorious day. Up from the 
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 grave he rose again. And as he stands in victory, sins, curses, loss, 
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 his grip on me. For I am his and he is mine.

Who was bought 
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 with the precious blood of Christ. Oh, his 
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 precious blood 
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 of Christ, no guilt in life, no fear in death. This is the 
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 power of Christ in me. From life's first cry to final breath, Jesus 
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 commands my destiny. 
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 We're going to sing that line again. As soon as I felt no 
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 fear in death, I just felt like the enemy just crawl in 
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 the room like he couldn't stand in the room.

So tonight, if you're fearing death, woo, I feel it right now. If you've been fearing death, 
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 if you've had suicidal thoughts, if you had harms of like death encroaching on you at night, night terrors, whatever it is, the little 
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 baby Jesus that grew with favor with God and man, he is 
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 no fear in death, no guilt in life, no guilt, nothing to be guilty of.

Let's sing it again. No 
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 guilt in life. No fear in death. This is 
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 the power of Christ in me seen again. No guilt 
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 in life. Oh, no fear in death. This is the 
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 power of Christ 
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 in me. No guilt, no guilt in life or no 
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 fear in 
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 death.

Oh, this is the power of Christ in me. 
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 For from life's first cry 
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 to final breath. Jesus 
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 commands my destiny. No power of hell. 
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 No scheme of man could ever pluck 
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 me from his hands till he returns or calls me home. 
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 Here in the power of Christ I stand.

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 Oh, 
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 I found my strength. I found 
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 my strength. I find my hope. I find 
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 my help in Christ alone. When fear sails, when 
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 darkness falls, I find my peace in Christ alone. I give my life. 
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 I give my all. I sing my song. to Christ 
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 alone. The King of Kings, the Lord I love.

All heaven sings 
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 to Christ alone. 
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 Oh, 
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 till he 
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 returns or calls me home. Here in the power of Christ, I stand till he returns or calls me home. Here in the power of Christ I stand. Here in the power of Christ I stand. Here in the power of Christ I stand.

No guilt in life, no fear in death. This is the power of our Christ 
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 in me. From life's first cry 
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 to final breath, Jesus commands 
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 my destiny. 
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 No power of hell, no scheme of man could ever pluck me from his hand till he returns. Lord calls me home.

Here in the power of Christ I stand. Oh. Hey. Hey. 
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 Oh hey. 
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 In Christ alone my hope is found. He is my light, my strength, my song. This cornerstone, this solid ground firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love? Oh, what steps of peace? When fears are still, when my striving cease, 
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 my comforter, oh my, here is a love of Christ I stand.

Here in the power of Christ, I stand. There is no one like the Lord our God. You've 
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 been faithful every day of 
[singing]
 my life. >> 
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 >> I could search the world and never find another like you. Another 
[singing]
 like you. Let's sing that again. There is no one like the Lord 
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 our God.

You've been faithful 
[music and singing]
 every day of my life. I could 
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 search 
[singing]
 the world and never find another like 
[music and singing]
 you. Another like you. You've been faithful 
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 all my life. >> 
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 >> You 
[singing]
 embodied the fullness 
[singing]
 of God wrapped in mercy. 
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 You showed us your heart, 
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 your 
[singing]
 love upon the cross, and your love 
[singing]
 poured 
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 out for all.

There 
[singing]
 is no one like the Lord 
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 our God. You've been faithful every 
[singing]
 day of my life. I could search the world 
[singing]
 and never find another like 
[music and singing]
 you another like you. 
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 I've searched and found Jesus. 
[singing]
 You set a table and invite us 
[music and singing]
 to come. Your body broken. Oh, your blood was enough.

[music and singing]
 This love upon the cross. This 
[music and singing]
 love poured out for all. There 
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 is no one 
[singing]
 like the Lord our God. You've 
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 been faithful 
[singing]
 every day of my life. I 
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 could search the world and never find another 
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 like you. Another like you. There is no one. There 
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 is no one like the Lord our God.

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 You've been faithful every day of my life. 
[singing]
 Time and time again. I could search 
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 the world and never find another like 
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 you. Another like you. There is no other like you. Jesus, my faithful 
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 friend. My faithful father, nobody like you. Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is 
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 the king.

Worthy is the one 
[singing]
 who reigns forever. Seated on the throne, high above it all. Everyone 
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 will know that you're like no other. 
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 Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the king. 
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 Worthy is the one who reigns 
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 forever. He's seated on the throne high above it all. And everyone will know 
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 that you're like no other.

Worthy is 
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 the lamb. Worthy is the king. Worthy is the one who reign forever. 
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 Seated on the throne, high above it all. And everyone 
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 will know that you're like no other. There is no one like the Lord 
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 our God. You've 
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 been faithful every day of my 
[singing]
 life. 
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 Oh, I could search the world and never find another 
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 like 
[singing]
 you.

Another like you. There is no one 
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 like the Lord our God. You've 
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 been faithful every day 
[singing]
 of my life. I could search the 
[music and singing]
 world and never find another like 
[music and singing]
 you. Another like you. There is no other like you. No other 
[singing]
 like you. No other like you. No other like Jesus.

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 >> No other 
[singing]
 like you. >> No other like you. >> No other like you. Faithful, 
[singing]
 faithful, always faithful. We reflect on this 
[singing]
 tonight, Lord. We reflect on your goodness. We reflect on your goodness 
[singing]
 in our lives. 
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 Faithful, 
[singing]
 
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 always faithful. Faithful. 
[music and singing]
 You are faithful. Faithful, 
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 always faithful. 
[singing]
 You're always 
[singing]
 faithful.

Always 
[singing]
 good. My God, so faithful. You're 
[singing]
 never going to let You're never going to 
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 let me down. You're never going to let You're never going to 
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 let me down. Oh, no. You're never going to let You're never going to let me down. 
[singing]
 
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 You're never going to let You're never going to let me down.

No. No. No. You're never 
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 going to let You're never going to let me down. Let that prophesy your ear. You're never going to 
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 let You're never going to let You haven't let me down and you won't start now. 
[singing]
 You're never going to 
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 let You're never going to let me down.

Speak to the disappointment. You're never 
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 going to let You're never Oh, Jesus will never let you down. You're 
[music and singing]
 never going to let You're never going to let me down. Oh, you're 
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 never going to let You're never going to let me down. Jesus, you're never going to 
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 let You're never going to let me down.

You're never going 
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 to let You're never going to let me 
[singing]
 down. Cuz he is good. 
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 Good. Oh, he is good. Good. Oh, 
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 you are good. You're good. Oh, you are good. Good. Oh, you're never going 
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 to let You're never going to let 
[singing]
 me down. You're never going 
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 to let You're never going 
[singing]
 to let me down.

You're never going to let You're 
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 never going to let 
[singing]
 me down. You're never going to let You're never going to 
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 let me 
[singing]
 down. No. No. No. No. No. You never 
[singing]
 have. You never will. Lord. >> 
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 >> Heat. Heat. >> 
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 >> All the saints and angels they bow before your throne.

And all 
[singing]
 the elers 
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 cast their crowns before the lamb of God 
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 and sing all the saints 
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 and all the saints and angels. They bow before your throne. And all the elders cast their crowns 
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 before 
[singing]
 the lamb of God in singing. 
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 You worthy of it all. You worthy of it all.

For from you are all things. Into you are all things. Oh, you deserve the gloryy. All the saints and all the saints 
[singing]
 and 
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 angels they bow 
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 before your throne. All the elders cast their crowns 
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 before the lamb of God and sing you worthy 
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 of it all. You worthy 
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 of it all.

For from 
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 you are all things and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. Yes, you do. 
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 Oh, you are worthy of it all. You're worthy 
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 of it all. For 
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 from you are all things and to you are all things. 
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 You deserve the glory. 
[singing]
 Here it is.

Here it 
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 is. Here it is. Our disappointments, our mountaintops, our valleys. Here it is. Here it is. Here's 2025. Lord, here it is. Here it is. All the glory, all the 
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 honor, all the praise. All the praise. >> 
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 >> Yes. Sing day and night. Here it is. Day 
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 and 
[singing]
 night.

Night and day. Let incense arise. 
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 Day and night. 
[singing]
 Night and day. Let incense arise. 
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 Day 
[singing]
 and night, night and day, let in rise. Day and 
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 night, night and day, day and night. 
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 Day and night, night and day, let 
[singing]
 in. 
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 Day and night, night and day, let in arise.

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 Day and night, night and day, let in arise. 
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 Night and day. You're worthy. You're 
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 worthy of it all. You're 
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 worthy 
[singing]
 of it all. For from 
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 you are all things, into you are all things. You deserve the glory. 
((music playing))
 You worthy of it all. You worthy of it 
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 all. For from you are all things, into you are all things.

((music playing))
 You deserve the glory. 
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 >> 
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 >> Sing one more time. And day let incense 
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 arise. Day and night, night and day. Let incense arise. Day and 
[music and singing]
 night. Night and day. Let incense arise. Day and night. Night and day. Let in. >> One more time. One more time. And lift up your heads.

In day let incense arise and night and day in 
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 day night Day and 
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 night and day. 
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 Heat. Heat. Heat. 
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 >> 
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 >> Day and night. Night and day. 
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 Day and night. Night 
[singing]
 and day in srise. Day and night. Night night and 
[music and singing]
 day. Cuz you're worthy of it all. 
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 You're so worthy of it 
[singing]
 all.

For from you are all things 
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 and to you are all things. You deserve gloryy. You are worthy of it all. He's so worthy of it all. For from you are all things and to you are all things. You deserve the glory. The Lord is good. The Lord is good.

Come on, give the Lord a hand. Give the Lord a hand. He's worthy. He's worthy of it all. He's worthy of our applauses. He's worthy of our praise. 
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 I was reading Psalm 100 verse4. 
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 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving. And we 
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 started the service talking about thanksgiving. And I believe that by the thanksgiving 
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 that we give to him, he's just reminding ourselves how good he is in moments 
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 of trials, in moments of challenges.

We 
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 just look back to his nature. Like Moses, he was asking the Lord, "Lord, show me 
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 your ways that I might know you." And by the thanksgiving that we give 
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 to him, the ways that we remember who he is, he's showing us his ways and into his courts with praise.

He's 
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 realigning our hearts to praise him. It's not just in moments that we feel, "Oh, I feel so good. I will praise the Lord." Even in moments that it's challenging, we praise him 
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 because he's worthy. In the midst of trials, we're going to praise him. In the midst of difficulties, we are going to praise him because he's worthy.

It doesn't matter how the year has been, 
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 the year is not done yet. The Lord is not done yet. He's good. And if it's not good yet, it's because 
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 he's not done. Be thankful to him and bless 
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 his name. For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth 
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 endures to all generations.

I was reading and reading and reading these verses and I closed my eyes. Oh, I felt the compassion of the Lord. I just saw the Lord before me and I was asking 
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 him, Lord, how how this year was cuz I feel 
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 that for me personally, it was so rough, stretching in all the ways.

And he just said, "Lock eyes with me." Someone invite you right now, close your eyes if you can. Even you online, close your eyes if you can. >> 
[snorts]
 >> When the Lord said, "Lock eyes with me," I kind of like I saw like a movie 
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 in his eyes.

And I saw a mother hugging her child, hugging her son. And then it changed to a person getting healed and leaping, dancing, and praising the Lord. And I saw 
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 the dead coming back to life. And I saw people getting free from 
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 addictions and people encountering the Lord for the first time.

And I saw the prodigals coming back home. >> And while I was seeing that, I started to rejoice. And I kind of like I felt the Lord 
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 saying, "Don't you think it was a great year? I've done so many things. Don't you think it was a great year?"

And I started to to feel my heart and my spirit just leaping 
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 before the Lord with so much expectation, with so much faith. Maybe to some of us this year has been rough, but to some of us this year has been amazing. But all of us were part of the same body.

And we have so many reasons to rejoice. So many reasons to rejoice with our king. He's worthy of it all. He's worthy of our challenges 
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 throughout this year. He's worthy of our trophies of this year. He's worthy of it all. And he's not done yet. So I want 
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 us all, if you can, in unity because he will never let us down.

I want 
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 us all in unity, we're going to give a shout to the Lord for he is good and his loving 
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 kindness is everlasting. We're going to praise him. It's not about the noise, 
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 how loud it can be, but it's about the posture of our hearts. We're going to praise him because he's 
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 worthy.

We're going to glorify his name because he's worthy. 
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 So on three, I want us all to 
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 shout for joy to the Lord because he's worthy. One, two, and three. Jesus, 
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 you are worthy. You are worthy, Lord. You are worthy, God. You are good. You are good. You are 
((music playing))
 good.

You are good. Lord, you are good. You are worthy, Lord. You are worthy. Worthy, worthy, worthy, worthy of it all. 
((music playing))
 You're so worthy of it all. 
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 For from 
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 you are all things and to you are 
[singing]
 all things. You deserve the glory. 
((music playing))
 Come on. One more time. One more time.

You worthy of it all. 
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 You're so worthy of it all. 
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 For from you are all things and to you are 
[music and singing]
 all things. You deserve the glory. Jesus, you 
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 deserve the glory. You're the king of glory and we're so grateful for you. Wow. Wow. Let's give a hand to the worship 
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 team.

Thank you so much. It was incredibly amazing. Wow. Wow. Wow. As you go back to your seat 
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 and if you see some seats next to you, invite somebody to come and sit with you because we have an amazing treat for tonight. Let's welcome up Barbara K and Donna D Silva.

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((cheering))
 >> Good evening, church. So good to be here with you all online family. We're glad you're with us tonight. Yeah, Donna is back. >> I know. Back here. >> Do we have any new people who haven't been here before? >> First time visitors tonight. Give us a actually stand up because our ushers want to give you a gift.

So, if this is your first time, welcome. We're so glad you're here. Wow. Beautiful. There's one over here. Is there anybody else? This light is so bright. Maybe it's the glory coming in. I feel it. >> I almost feel like the new person because I haven't been here in a while.

Yeah. >> So good. But glad you're here, Donna. Glad you're here. Yes. So, what did you get? What they have for you? >> Beautiful. Beautiful. I just feel What is your name? Julia. Welcome. I just feel the pleasure of God that you're here with us tonight. like you could be anywhere.

And I feel like God, especially in this season, right? And I just feel that God is really marking you tonight, like you are not going to leave here the same as you came in. Like there's a passion in your heart and there's things that I feel like they're going to come to the surface tonight specifically for you.

So bless you. We're so glad you're here. >> Thank you, Jesus. Wow. Wow. Wow. Well, you told me something to get up before we got up here. What do you want to >> I just said Donna came and sat next to me and I said, I don't know if I've just been doing a lot of real estate.

That's something I do. I work in the school of ministry, but during this holiday, it's been so beautiful. Parents have been coming in and wanting to buy their children's homes and families. And I'm like, and it's such a like testimony of like his goodness, you know, like if we give good gifts, how much more our father in heaven just you guys, are you ready to receive?

He has good gifts for us. And I really felt that. And then when I sat next to Donna, I was reminded of a dear friend of mine who actually received an inheritance of a home and somebody died and then but the neighbors knew and so squatters moved in and it it's been a battle and she just called me and they finally after two years got the squatters out and I felt the Lord saying, you know, no more delay like this This is a season that God is setting us up where you have not received the fullness in your inheritance.

I really felt like God is wanting to just remove the squatters, whatever's been holding back where things have been stuck and delayed in your life. And I was like, Donna is like the perfect person to pray for squatters. So if that's you, stand up and just receive the fullness like it.

These squatters got to go. He wants to give you the full package. He is that good. We sang about our good father tonight. So yeah, go ahead and pray. >> Come on. I want to add to that, too. Romans 8:28 says that we know that God brings all things to good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose.

And maybe you guys didn't, some of you didn't have a real fun year. How many of you would say I didn't have a real fun year? Um, yeah, it was it was pretty rough. So, I thought in the middle of the squatters, part of it is discouragement. You know, part of it is hopelessness.

Part of it is, oh, this thing continues to, you know, there was like this relentless thing that was released. You just get up from one thing and something else happens. And um so what I kind of wanted to do is I wanted us to take all of that discouragement, all of that hardship, and put them in your hands.

These are some of the squatters, right? And I want you to do a prophetic act of handing it up to God. >> And I just want you to say out loud, Jesus, >> tag, >> you're it. 
[laughter]
 >> I give this to you and I don't want it back.

Yeah. >> And from this day forth, >> I'm going to stop focusing on the discouragement. >> And I'm going to start looking for how you're turning it to good. >> Yes. >> Open my eyes. >> Open my eyes >> and my spiritual eyes >> to an expectation. >> Yes. >> Of the turning it to good.

Mhm. >> So, squatters go. >> I take back my inheritance. >> I take back my inheritance. 
[laughter]
 >> So good. We are like I feel like we just got invited to a party. Like 
[laughter]
 I think we are going to have a party tonight. >> Come on. >> Yeah. Are you guys ready for an early party?

Yeah. It's good. And the giving party begins now. >> 
[laughter]
 >> That's funny. >> Thanks, Barbara. The giving party. I love it. Uh, it is a joy to worship the Lord with our tithes and offerings. And in the theme of remembrance and it being the last service of the year to participate in this, I felt like the Lord was asking us to take a moment and remember our year in giving.

So, this is a personal moment with the Lord. In Deuteronomy 8, he's so clear as he's speaking to those who have been in the wilderness. And he's saying, "When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord. Thank him." And I think that there is a remembering that is so key and so important.

Um and he says, "When all has been multiplied, when your herds and flocks have grown large and your silver and gold have increased, um and all has been multiplied, just in case your heart becomes proud, don't say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have red have produced this wealth for me."

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth. And so if you have participated in giving this year, it doesn't matter the size. What matters is our heart. I just want to take invite you to take a moment to close your eyes with the Lord.

Bring to mind your giving from this year. Thank him for the privilege and opportunity to participate in that. And I will pray thank you God for the gifts that you have given us. Thank you for multiplying. Thank you for increase. Thank you for feeding us, housing us, for giving us um a beautiful country to live in and a roof over our heads.

Thank you for the privilege of giving back to you and sewing back into the kingdom and for every sacrificial obedience that you prompted us to. Thank you for the opportunity in Jesus name. Amen. Would you stand as we uh worship him with our tithes and offerings? I'd love to remind you that if this is not your home church to save your tithes for your home church, but of course we welcome your offerings.

There's a QR code on the screen and our ushers are going to come forth and pass those beautiful buckets and we are going to read um offerings number one together. So, as we receive today's offering, we are believing the Lord for jobs and better jobs, raises and bonuses, benefits, sales and commissions, favorable settlements, estates and inheritances, interests and income, rebates and returns, checks in the mail, gifts and surprises, finding money, debts paid off, expenses decrease, blessing and increase.

Thank you, Lord, for meeting all of my financial needs that I may have more than enough to give into the kingdom of God and promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Amen. Stay standing as we welcome up tonight's and this year's concluding speaker, Chris Valatin. So good to have you here.

[applause and cheering]
 >> Hi It's good to see you and uh merry Christmas and nearly a happy new year. A very happy new year. I just was loving worship tonight. >> It was so beautiful. You should have heard my voice up front. It was telling you I'm going to get on the worship team sooner or later. >> Probably a lot.

Bill said later. I know that's the problem right there. Well, it is good to be here and it's been a while since I've been here Sunday night. We we had such a wonderful Christmas. How many of you guys had a great Christmas this year? Maybe our best Christmas.

We had uh three little ones and uh that was a lot of fun. Two of them were helping everyone open gifts. And we got all these gifts open and there was just like so many gifts. There was like 25 of us at Christmas. And and then the kids left the gifts and the three little ones went out in the rain and played in the mud puddle.

Running through the mud puddle with no coat on just running through the mud puddle. We have videos of it and I'm like the gifts. 
[laughter]
 It's like we have all these expensive gifts and then play with the boxes and run through the mud puddles. I don't >> I don't know.

Next year I'm just going to get a mud just like I got it figured out. dump mud in the driveway and just go for it. 
[snorts]
 Yeah, we had a lot of fun. So, well, um why don't you grab a hand and you can get a date this way.

We're going to pray. Father, thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you for Jesus. Thank you for God in the flesh. Emmanuel, God with us. You said nothing shall be impossible with you, God. All things are possible through you. And Lord, I pray for people tonight that need uh they're in an impossible situation and they need a miraculous.

They need a miraculous intervention. Something that defies the doctor's report. Something that defies the laws of physics. something that defies the laws of relationship. Lord, I pray that you would just move across this congregation and on our online church that people hope would just rise tonight. Lord would rise in people.

Lord, we we break the power of hopelessness and we break the power of doubt in each of us, God. We we say like the man with the demonized son, help me with our help us with our unbelief, God. We pray that this would be a a new year, a year of a year of much growth.

And we we bless this day and this in this year, this coming year as a year of exponential growth. >> Amen. >> I I just want to um I I do have a message and and u hopefully I do. I think I do. And uh I prepared a message.

We'll see. But and Richie said, "You know, it's the first it's nearly the new year, so you'll have a prophetic message." And I just don't know if I have a prophetic message. But I I've just been thinking uh since yesterday that last year uh and the last couple years have been a season of pruning.

Our whole team has been getting these prophetic words about pruning. I I've been rebuking them 
[laughter]
 as I'm pr getting pruned and and as we're pruning and uh you know pr pruning is not the most exciting prophetic word you want to get. The Lord is pruning and I'm like yeah my neighbor's yard needs that.

[laughter]
 Um but this yesterday I I woke up and I I felt the Lord just say uh it's now that the season of pruning is over and you know it's there there's always going to be some pruning in our lives but the season of pruning is over and it's time for an exponential growth and >> you know no farmer prunes for less fruit. >> Sometimes when I hear people talk about pruning it doesn't sound like they're pruning.

It sounds like they're uprooting the plant. And I'm like, "Bro, no, don't cut there. That's my leg." 
[laughter]
 You know what I mean? And I'm I'm like, they're describing pruning. I'm like, "That doesn't sound like pruning. That sounds like destroying the field." >> And uh pruning is always on to more fruit.

You bear more fruit. And and uh this is uh such a year of pruning. And last year I remember I I brought this word uh at the end I don't whatever my turn was in early January or late December to share and I I brought this word of the Lord was um he was convicting us you know it was a it was a season of convicting us you sought first the kingdom but I said seek first the kingdom and his righteousness and I talked last year about the Lord just convicting us of places that have been maybe long I talked about my cursing habit a couple three years ago when the Lord just talked to me in the middle of the night and said no more cussing and it was just pruning things off that were you know that were in my life for a long time but there wasn't conviction about them and and this year I just feel like the word of the Lord is like so much fruits coming from my life just a season of fruitfulness um I I want to actually talk about 
[clears throat]
 um spiritual warfare and and fighting from from victory and um I actually the the last probably two maybe three months some of the largest um ministries that we are associated with in that we have a relationship with have called and said I I'm having these really weird things happen and I know you're you're weird and you you 
[laughter]
 I thought call Chris he'll he'll know he'll understand me it's 
[laughter]
 really and seriously when people have weird demonic attacks like uh leaders around the world.

I may not hear from him for years and then and they're like a demon showed up in my room and it looked like this. Call Chris. He'll he's had that happen before. May not know what to do, but at least he'll he'll understand you. And I've had those kind of calls.

So many of them. I mean, I think um let's see. Probably in the last 14 days, I've had at least five leaders who've called me and said, "Demons are showing up in my room. I don't know what to do. They're knocking pictures off the wall. Crazy things are happening to me." and uh and and I felt to call you and um and and and I I just the frequency of the amount of people and especially in leadership who are having these kind of demonic experiences I you know it may just be that they just happen to be in my friend circle but for some reason like I get off the phone with one guy literally and he's telling me I had this demonic attack and pictures are flying off the wall and crazy things are happening And this demon showed up in my room when I woke up.

I get off the phone with him and another friend texts me like within well at the same day a few hours later and he's like, "Man, I'm having this crazy thing. This guy is living on the other side of United States and demonic attacks happening. A demon showed up in my room.

I'm having these crazy dreams." And I'm like, I got off the phone with him like a day later. And when I got off the phone with him, another person from another part of the United States text me and said, "I'm having these demonic." And I'm like, "These are all ministries, by the way, that are actually growing. >> They're actually growing."

And I'm like, "This is crazy. Lord, what's going on?" And um you would you would know of probably out of the five, you would know three of them for sure. And and so I was just like, "Lord, what is going on?" And I then I was recalling, well, I'm on the phone with them, of course, and I'm recalling they're they're saying, "I had this happen.

Have you ever had that happen?" I'm like, "Oh, yeah." And oh yeah, I remember when that happened. And and so many of those things were things that happened when we first came to Bethl. >> U we we uh you may have heard these stories, but I I think they bear repeating.

And and I'm going to tell you why I feel like they're happening. Like I feel like the Lord showed me why they're happening. But when I first came to Bethl and Bill was here two years uh before us coming here, um witches were showing up in our in our congregation.

I I don't mean a couple of them. I mean like many I remember one time I was preaching and I could feel curses coming off this this woman. So I just got down off the podium and I went back and I said, "You stop that right now." And she just freaked out.

And then I finished preaching. 
[laughter]
 It was all good. It was You had to be there. 
[laughter]
 It was all very appropriate at the time. And uh when we would uh when we would pray for deliverances, people many people would fall down under the power of God and manifest demonic spirits like like I don't mean like it would happen once in a while.

I mean it was happening continually and it was uh really crazy things were happening. I remember that uh 
[laughter]
 I don't know if Bill remembers this but Bill and I were we were flying uh from San Francisco home. We were flying well through San Francisco to come home that little hopper and uh we were together I don't know coming home somewhere and when we went to get on a plane that you used to have to kind of I guess you still do you kind of wait in this uh fenced area and everybody kind of waits in this fenced area then they open the fence and you walk to the plane.

So, we were uh I think it was summertime and we were uh waiting for the the fence to open and all the people who got on that little plane where there was like 28 of them or whatever were all waiting in that fenced area. And there was a a very old man.

I don't I don't He's getting younger all the time. 
[laughter]
 Uh but he was a very frail old man. He looked to be in his 80s and he had both his suitcases with him. And I'm like, "Wow, that's odd because you know you check your suitcases, right?" And I'm thinking, where is he going to put those?

Cuz this little plane doesn't have room for the suitcases. And uh and he looked a little disoriented. So I went over and I said to him, "Hey, um can I take your suitcases?" And he's like, "Yes, thank you." So, I I grabbed the suitcases and they opened the gate and we started walking to the plane and we got maybe I don't know just a few steps out of the the the gate and this lady, she's probably in her 50s, she comes up and she says, "Don't you touch his suitcases.

Put those down right now." And she started yelling at me and I'm like, "Do you remember this at all?" I'm like, "Okay." I thought, "Well, she must be his daughter or something." So, I put the suitcases down, gave them back to the old man, and we started walking to the plane.

And I noticed the old man grabs the suitcases, and of course, they're very heavy, and he's trying to walk to the plane with these two big suitcases. And the lady went on and got on the plane. I'm like, that is really weird. What is going on? So, I told Bill, take my take my case.

I'm going to go help. So, I go back there. I grab the suitcases and I'm talking to him and he's like, my son's dying of cancer. I've never been on a plane before. He lived on the East Coast. So, he flew all the way from the East Coast.

He'd never He's never flown in his life. Why? He didn't check the bags. He didn't know what to do. And his son was dying of cancer and he had to and and he was hoping that he'd be here uh in Reading before his son passed. So, that was his story as we were walking to the plane.

So, I'm like, "Oh." So, I said, "Who who's that lady?" And and he goes, "I have no idea." I said, "You're flying by yourself?" He said, "Yes." Well, that's weird. Anyway, so we got suitcases and I talked to the stewardist and she got the suitcases checked, like check bags because he didn't know what to do.

And I explained to the lady, he's never flown before. So, we got them all taken care of. And I get 
[snorts]
 on the plane and the lady um the it seat arrangement is one seat, an aisle, and two seats. And so I'm sitting mostly towards the back and and this the lady is sitting that lady who yelled at me is sitting with her husband who has a cowboy hat on if I recall and he's sitting with this this big man and two seats and Bill I think is sitting behind them or two seats behind them and I'm sitting towards the back on the one on the aisle with one seat and we take off and I'm like Lord what is going on with that lady and he says she's a witch.

I said, "This is going to be so much fun." So, I'm in the back and I'm I'm I'm being quiet, but I put my hand out and I'm like, "I break the power of witchcraft." And the lady starts 
[laughter]
 freaking out. She starts Whoa. And she turns to Bill and she starts calling the I 
[laughter]
 don't know.

She was cussing him out. She's like, "You pastors." She's yelling at Bill and 
[laughter]
 I'm just like, I thought it was so funny. So, Bill doesn't still know what's going on cuz I'm sitting like several seats back. So, I wait till she finishes cussing out Bill and then I I pray again.

Lord, I just break the spirit of witchcraft over her and she starts 
[screaming]
 and so she turns and she cuts his bill out again. 
[laughter]
 So fun. So, so she turns back around and and so then I start I just break the spirit of witchcraft. I just double anointing on her life now.

She's freaking out and she's like she can't and the and her husband or what whoever he is sitting next to her. I assume it's her husband. Leans over and he's holding her in the seat. Well, I'm like in Jesus name I break the spirit of witchcraft over. She's freaking out.

She's like she can't wait to get out of the plane. It was so much fun. >> 
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 >> A bunch of you had too much compassion. You didn't like the story. 
[laughter]
 Soon as the plane landed, the door opened. She jumped out of the plane like she was a cat stuck in a box and she ran out across the across the tarmac.

And I was laughing so hard. I was so fun. And uh helped the old man with his luggage on the way out. And the a gal sitting behind me, she's probably like 20. We get to the tarmac and she goes, "What was that?" I said, "A you don't want to know."

She gets in front of me and she stops me and she looks at me. She goes, "I want to know. What was that?" I said, "I was just a witch." And I was just giving her some Holy Ghost. She goes, "Weird." I go, "I know. She was weird.

But weird experiences were a part of our early life. They happened way more frequently than you'd probably want to know, actually. And uh um and I remember when I first came here, I've told this story many times. I love the story. Um I think it was my I it's pretty I'm pretty sure it was the first year I was here.

And uh one of the jobs we you know, we didn't have very large staff at the time. And one of one of my jobs was to pick up the speakers for the conferences or at least a couple of the speakers. So I remember Bill said, "I want you to go pick up Bob Jones >> and Larry Randolph."

I love this story. I've told it probably a hundred times. And I'm like, "All right." So for Oh, first of all, he said, "Go pick up Bob Jones from the airport where I had, you know, Bob Jones was like super famous. I'd seen him on video only. I had never encountered him.

And and I was afraid of him, too. So, I I go and I I get to the airport. I'm like a half an hour early and Bob Jones is standing on the sidewalk. He's already there with a whole bunch of luggage, like three pieces of luggage. And he wore the same outfit for 5 days.

So, I don't know what he needed all that luggage for. I don't know who was in there. And when I get there, he doesn't say hi. He goes, "You're late." I'm late. I said, "No, sir. I'm actually a half an hour early. I'm so nervous." He goes, "I said you're late."

I said, "Okay." And I got his luggage and I got it all in and I I get him in the car and I'm driving him to the hotel and I'm and he's talking to me the whole time like, "Yeah, you see the angel? See the angel? The angel flying over?" "Yeah, I think that's the angel already."

An angel. And he's going, he goes, "You see that angel?" I go, "Oh yeah, I see the ang I'm just lying my face off. I had to Oh, yeah. God angels here all the time. Of course, he go, "Yep, yep, yep. That angel here, he he here. He he he here.

Revival angel. He's just going on and on about revival angel." I don't I don't even know what he's talking about, to tell you the truth. I was so nervous, I couldn't even concentrate. So, I I get him in the hotel and I get him all set up in the hotel, get his luggage in there, and uh and then the next morning, Bill said, "Go pick up Bob and Larry from from the hotel for the conference."

I said, "Okay, well, I know Bob's early, so I got to be early." So, I get there. I'm like, I'm there like a half an hour early. And Bob's already out in the sidewalk. As soon as he sees me, he goes, "You're late." I said, "No, no, no, no way.

I'm late this time, bro." He goes, "Yep, you're late. I've been here for 20 minutes." I said, "No, no, I'm" And then I said, "Uh, well, I got to pick up Larry, too." Goes, "Oh, not Larry." Said, "Yeah, got to pick up Larry." Goes, "Larry always late. Larry always late."

And now Bob's pacing and he's like, "Bob, Larry always late." "No, you can't pick up Larry. Pick Larry." "No, Larry always late." And I'm like, "I don't know if I should listen to Bob Jones or my boss." Cuz my boss said, "Pick them both up and bring them."

So I said, "Oh, well, we'll just wait." And he goes, "Oh no, Larry. Oh no, Larry. Oh, Larry. Oh, it's late. Larry." So we wait. 15 minutes pass. I knock on the door. I ring him. Nothing. 20 minutes. 25 minutes. 30 minutes now you know all the early I'm it's over now 35 minutes 40 minutes I've knocked on the door several times we've called several times finally now we're now we're going to be late to the conference which drives Bob nuts and Bob's just pacing Larry always late always late I told you Larry late and I'm like I should have just taken Bob and come back for Larry but too late now so finally like 10 minutes after we're supposed to be here.

Larry opens the door. Larry Randolph, his shirt's button wrong. His hair's all He hasn't shaved. He looks like he came out of like he slept in his clothes. And he goes and and Bob goes, "Yeah, you had a hard night last night, didn't you?" He goes, "Oh, yeah."

He goes, "You had a demon in your room, didn't you?" Larry goes, "Yeah, all night." He goes, "Yeah, I know that." He said, "That demon came to my room. I'll say you're in the wrong room. Larry next door. 
[laughter]
 That was my introduction to Bob Jones and Larry Randolph.

So that whole crazy thing continued through the whole conference as you can imagine. And I was assigned to take care of Bob which was like a hurting a cat. And so I remember Larry was preaching. Well, that night instead of just getting up and preaching, Larry's apologizing for being alive for like 15 minutes.

He goes on like, you know, I'm just from Louisiana and he's going on like that. Well, Bob gets up and walks out. 
[laughter]
 And I'm like, he ain't going the right way for the potty. So, I don't know where he's going. So, I catch up to him. I go, you got to go to the bathroom.

He goes, no. I go, you where you going? He goes, "I'm going to green room. I'm not listening to Larry. He ain't anointing it." 
[laughter]
 Okay. We get to the green room and I guess I guess I'm supposed to sit with him. Bob. So sit with Bob through the whole service and then Larry comes into the green room and Bob stands up.

He goes, "You notice I walked out." He goes, "Yeah." He goes, "Cuz you ain't anointed. you apologized for being alive and anointing left and so did all the angels. 
[laughter]
 I don't know if that really happened, but that's what Bob said happened. When I took Bob back to the airport on the way home, uh I uh I dropped him off, got him all taken care of, and uh then he goes, "Uh, give me your phone number.

If you're ever in trouble, I'll call you. >> 
[laughter]
 >> I'm like, "All right." So, I wrote down my phone number on a scrap piece of paper and I gave it to him like, "And I'm still trying to figure out if you're ever in trouble, I'll call you." All right, whatever.

So after that week, well actually even before that even before the conference when Kathy and I first moved here, we lived in a little apartment and I was having these terrible nightmares and they were they were just like demonic visitations and we had two a two-bedroom apartment just the two of us living there and I would I slept most of the time in the second room because I didn't want to wake Kathy up.

So after Bob Jones, probably a month after Bob Jones, after the conference and I gave Bob Jones my phone number, I was having this super bad dreams and I was up in the middle of night just doing all this warfare and 
[snorts]
 um and uh in the second bedroom and about I don't know 6:00 in the morning the phone rings and of course I have been up all night so I stayed in bed and Kathy went and got the answered the phone.

She's like Bob Jones on the phone. said, "Bob Jones is on the phone." "No." She goes, "I'm telling you, it's Bob Jones." So, I get up and he goes, "Hi, Bob Jones. I told you if he ever's in trouble, I call you." And then he tells me about my reoccurring dream I've had for two weeks.

And he goes, "Yep." And he goes, "You know what that is?" I said, "Oh, yeah. I guess I do." He's like, "Yeah, that's the demon. You know the Lord's going to send the angel of the Lord. He's going to protect you." He told me this whole thing about the angel of the Lord.

I'm like, "All right, thank you." Then he talked for like half an hour. I had no idea what he's talking about. 6:00 in the morning, he's telling me about all these principalities and he saw them over ready and they were at my room and they were visiting my room and the Lord was going to send this angel to help me.

I'm like, "Ah, that's good." So the next day, that next night, I had still bad dreams. The next night, bad dreams, really bad dreams. Slept in the second room. The third night after Bob Jones said, he said an angel, I woke at 5:30 or 6, whatever time the sun came up, the sun was just coming up and I woke up because my bed was shaking violently and I'm like and I I thought we were just having an earthquake and I looked up and the chandelier in the bedroom was perfectly still, but my bed was shaking violently.

And I'm like, that is weird. And I'm laying on my back and I look over and there's a man standing next to my bed. He's like the size of Shaq, the foot the basketball player. He has no shirt on. He's built like a muscle man. He's got cold black hair and black eyes.

He looks like a Native American. He's got black tights on and no shoes on. And he's and he's just he's got his arms crossed and he's staring at me. And I and I say to myself, "Someone broke into my house. And then I go then in my mind I go, "Oh my gosh, it's an angel."

I didn't say it out loud. As soon as I said that in my mind, he disappeared. So I called Bob Jones. I called Bob and I go, "Hey, I think I just had an angel visitation." He goes, "Yep." He goes, "Did he have no shirt on?" I go, "Yeah."

Did he have black wrestling tights on? I said, "Yeah." He said, "Did he have cold black eyes and black hair and he look like a Indian?" I go, "Yeah." He goes, "Well, he in a bad mood." I go, "Yeah." He goes, "Oh, that's Michael. He always in a bad mood."

That was the end of my demonic attacks. 
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 >> These were all in the early days of Bethl. first I don't know my recollections on times pretty bad but probably the first five years four or five years that I I um I we like we had experience after experience I remember I preached for banning I think I was year two in his youth group and there was I don't know 150 kids and I was just preaching and all of a sudden I saw the spirit of suicide on four girls in the back and I just walked back there's about half this room half the size of crowd.

I walk back to these four girls and I go, "You four girls are in a suicide pack. The Lord showed me there's a demonic spirit over you guys." And this he's trying to get you to kill yourselves. And they all fell down the ground screaming. They had made a pack the week before to kill each other on kill to die together on the same day.

This was like the early days of Bethl. And it was happening. These this the things I'm telling you, they weren't once in a while. like they are happening all the time. And um and so these are the kind of things that are happening to my friends who are calling me.

Demonic attacks, things flying off the walls, witches coming to their into their into their services, disturbing the services. They're like, "Something's wrong." I I I wrote this many years ago. I've read it many times. I think I put it in a book, but it it came out of those uh years.

Spiritual conflicts most often occur when we are advancing into new territory inhabited by evil spirits. Much like Joshua's promised land experience or Nehemiah's rebuilding of the walls, the enemy defends his territory when we are pushing forward into new land. Most Christians are completely unaware that these are real spirit wars and retreat and retreat at the first sign of conflict because they fail to recognize the true source of the battle.

It's important to understand that evil spirits attack by giving you their thoughts called flaming arrows that are compelling. In other words, they make you feel like you want to do them even though they are opposite of your history and nature. Then those same spirits accuse you of having these thoughts and feelings.

If you believe these accusations, you lose confidence in yourself and God's ability to keep you, and you begin to wind down into depression, anxiety, and self-hatred. The war is finally won when you recognize that these thoughts are not your own >> and you resist them. Paul said, "Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against powers, against world forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."

In other words, because these thoughts are are manifestations of evil spirits and not just bad ideas, when you decide to resist them, it becomes a struggle, an intense battle for land in the spirit. Most people retreat or digress to try to find peace or solance instead of press and defeat the enemy and obtain their inheritance.

A few things that are important to remember in these times is that evil spirits have no power over you. Even though it feels like they do. Let me just say that one part again. Even though it feels like they do, you have power over them. Secondly, these battles come in waves and they will not last forever.

And lastly, you probably did nothing wrong to cause this battle. As a matter of fact, you most likely are experiencing this battle because you're doing something right. Come on. >> And I think that this is really important for 2026 >> because I believe that we are moving into new territory. >> And we can misdiagnose.

Whatever you misdiagnose, you mistreat. >> And sometimes you think something's going wrong when actually something's actually going right. >> Because demonic spirits, can I say this? Like you know, they're uh they're called angels of light, right? And um and they they they're because you have authority over them and they have no authority over you unless you give it to them.

Do you understand that part? >> Like Jesus said, "I'm going to give you power over all the power of the enemy." The word power there is a word something like dudamus. It's a Greek word dudamus. And he said, "I'm going to give you power over all the power of the enemy."

So he they the enemy has power, but you have more power. That's >> right. But Jesus said in Matthew 28, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth." So the devil has no authority, but he does have power. You have all authority. >> The only way the devil gets to use his power against you is to convince you that you should authorize him. >> Are you with me?

Yeah. >> So the the the enemy's idea is to the enemy's deceptive ways is to get you to use your authority to deputize him to use his power in your life when he has no authority to do that. >> Are you with me? >> And so I I want to talk a little bit about spiritual warfare and how do we move forward?

Uh Nehemiah chapter 4, if you if you if you have a Bible, it'd be good to open it up here. We're going to jump into the middle of a story and uh this is a pretty well- read story. We we love this story. It's Bill and my two both of us one of our favorite stories.

We preached on it often. Uh Nehemiah is the story of the rebuilding of the walls. So Ezra, the book of Ezra, for those of you that are maybe new to the Old Testament or brand new believers, Ezra is the story of the uh of the rebuilding of the temple that Nebuchadnezzar tore down.

So God sent the people back to their land and they were able to rebuild Solomon's temple. So Ezra is the story of rebuilding the temple. Nehemiah is the story of actually rebuilding the walls around the city. Now for you and I, walls don't mean much because you know we have aircraft and all kinds of things that can penetrate walls.

But in those days, can you imagine living with in a house in a really bad neighborhood and it had no windows and no no doors. So this is th this this kind of gives you the mindset like when a city had no walls, it meant that perpetrators could come in on at their will.

Are you with me? So walls are the way that cities protected themselves and their occupants. So the walls had been torn down for 114 years and uh they had tried to rebuild them for 77 years. They had tried to rebuild the walls and there was three main enemies in the days of Nehemiah.

One was named uh Tobaya, another Sam Bellot, another Gersham. These three enemies, they were kind of like uh they were kind of like leaders. Well, they were like they represent demonic leaders, but they were like leaders of people who um who were very vicious. And they actually kept the walls from being rebuilt.

So Nehemiah is living in another country. He he's a Jew, but he's serving a king as a cup bearer. Nehemiah knows nothing about rebuilding walls. But when he hears that the walls of Jerusalem were torn down, he he thinks everything's going well because the rebuilding of the temple was a big deal.

And they're like, "Wow, the temple got rebuilt." And he he's expecting his brothers come to see him and he's expecting this amazing news that the temple now is rebuilt and the people are excited. But instead, he gets the news that the temple's rebuilt, but the walls have been destroyed and that the city is in ruins.

And Nehemiah seeks the Lord. And this is a much longer story, and I'm trying to actually do a different part of the story, but I find that there's so many new believers that don't know any of the story. So, you kind of you you talk about something, they don't even understand what you're talking about.

So Nehemiah um he he he seeks the Lord and the Lord gives him this desire to go back and help his people. And he's of course he's serving a king. So the king gives him permission. The king gives him uh not just permission but he also uh he also commisss him and gives him some troops and actually gives him access to materials from different nations. the king extends his favor to him.

And so he goes back to rebuild the walls and he's in and it's a beautiful story. By the way, if you've never read Nehemiah, uh the first seven chapters are uh compelling. They're a great story. And so Nehemiah goes back and he starts to rebuild the walls and he gathers the people.

He surveys the walls and they're and they're just completely destroyed. And remember they have tried to rebuild the walls for 77 years. So they they are really they're hopeless kind of. Anyone ever have a big problem in your life that you've tried and tried and you have not been able to fix it?

So this is the people are demorized. They're they're they're just depressed. Nehemiah gets there and he's got, you know, a fresh heart and he's and the Lord gives him this, you know, all this favor favor with his king and and he starts to rebuild the walls. So Nehemiah chapter 4, we're going to pick up in the middle of the story.

Now, it came about when Sam Bellot, remember this is one of the enemies, heard that we were rebuilding the wall that he became furious and very angry. I guess he was very upset and he mocked the Jews and he spoke in the presence of the brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and he said, "What are these feeble Jews doing?"

Everybody say feeble. Are they going to restore it for themselves? Everybody say, "Restore it for themselves." >> Restore themselves. >> Can they offer sacrifices? Everybody say, "Can they offer sacrifices?" >> Can they finish it in a day? Everybody say, "Can they finish it in a day?" >> Now, uh, can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble?

Could say that. Can they revive >> the stones >> from the dusty rubble? >> Keep going. Dusty rubble. >> Dusty rubble. Even the burned ones. >> Even the burned ones. >> Now Tobaya the Amorite, I'll I'll read this part. Now Tobiiah the Amorite was near. And he said, "Even what they are building, if a fox would jump on it, it would break down their stone wall."

Now um for the sake of uh of of a metaphor, Nehemiah, his name in Hebrew means comforter. He represents the Holy Spirit in our life, rebuilding the walls of our life. And ne and Isaiah prophesied God he you will call your wall salvation and you call your gates praise.

I'd like to point out that Nehemiah is literally restoring a physical wall. But how many know that God is actually writing the gospel in the sands of time. Nehemiah has been sent to restore the walls as the Holy Spirit has been sent to restore the integrity of our life.

We get saved. The the temple is built. Ezra's temple was the the temple was already restored. How many know Holy Spirit comes in our life and the first thing he does is he sets up the temple. He we become the temple of the Holy Spirit. But how many of you realize that once you got saved, the work had just begun? >> I got saved and now I'm actually born again, but I have some things that need to be cleaned up. >> And and the and and Nehemiah, the Holy Spirit is working in my life to restore some junk in my life.

No. To get some junk out of my life and to restore some walls in my life. >> And yet we find that when after we're saved, has anyone ever said this? Before I was saved, I didn't have all these problems. >> How many have ever said that? Like, you know, sometimes you get saved and you got you get rid of all these problems, but you got new ones. >> Like, I used to be a heroin addict and I got completely delivered.

And I'm like, that's amazing. Now I got all these other problems. And it's like, no, you had enemies in your land that this is the promised land that the Lord gave you. But the challenge is is that there are enemies. Did you you get the idea? The children of Israel went into the promised land.

The only problem was there was people possessing the promised land. And the Lord's like, I'm going to give you cities you didn't build. The only problem is the people who built them, they think they're theirs. >> And you go into the land, you're like, you're so excited. We're going to the promised land, but the Lord seemed to not tell you that there was enemies who didn't want you there.

And you start to engage these enemies. You're like, I didn't have problems when I was in Egypt. No, you were a slave. Nobody cared what you did because you did what the enemy wanted you to do. Now that you are a son, a daughter of the king and he's given you a promised land.

The enemy who's in your land, he don't want you to have that land. >> And we start this process and Nehemiah is such a beautiful story of Nehemiah the comforter and also can I say the warrior and Tobias, Sambell, and Gersam three enemies. There's a trinity of enemy enemies with against you against me.

And he begins by doing look at look what he says. These feeble Jews the first thing the enemy does is he comes in and attacks your personhood. >> I I'll read you the five things. Can they restore it from themsel? He attacks your motives. >> Have you ever done something really good and the enemy is like, "Yeah, you did that to show off.

You fed that homeless person and told 10 people you lost your reward. >> Can they offer sacrifices? He attacks my relationship with God. Can I actually offer? Is God going to actually receive my sacrifices? Can they revive? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble? He attacks my ability to accomplish the mission God's given me. >> And then the last one, if a fox should jump on it, it will fall down.

He attacks the quality of my ministry. You lead someone to the Lord and he goes like, "Yeah, well, he won't stay." Somebody comes out of homosexuality, they'll go back. And there's this ongoing warfare that's designed to actually make you impinent, to actually discourage you, to actually get you to stop building the walls.

He did it for 77 years. He kept the Israelites through talking. Are am I making any sense to anybody? >> And and and I I just feel like this is really important for where we're going because we're going to be taking new land. >> Are you with me?

It feel like we pioneered for like I don't know a number of years and we had all this oppression the first five years and then we began to clear land. We began to build. We began to build things. Right. First there's you got to Jeremiah 1, God said Jeremiah called you to as a prophet to tear down and destroy and then to build and to plant.

It felt like the first five years were tearing down and destroying there. There was seldom, this may be an exaggeration. It doesn't feel like it right now. I'm not trying to exaggerate, but there was seldom a meeting that we were in that somebody didn't have some demonic manifestation.

We were destroying demonic worlds and then it felt like we started to build and now I feel like the Lord has given us some more new land. >> He's given us new land. And I said to my five friends who called me in a week. This is good news.

And they're like, "Tell me about that. Tell me about that." Because what I have is accusation. This person quit. They're on social media saying I did this and I did this and d and this person over here and there and I get and I go home at night and I'm having these terrible dreams and demons are showing up in my room and I'm like amazing.

That's how we started. You are taking land, >> your land that God gave you. >> And when you stayed out of that land, the enemy went dormant. But when you started taking that land, he's like, "You feeble Jews, what do you think you're doing? You the work you're doing, it isn't going to last.

You think God, are you even a Christian? You had that bad thought the other day. Did you tell anyone about that? There's so much power." Well, let me say this. How am I going to put this? It matters what you think about God and it matters what you think about you.

Those are the two main areas. Now there are others but those are the two main things the enemy is trying to destroy. The image you have of God and the image you have of you. There was a great experiment uh I I think it's a almost like a parable.

I read it just um a few weeks ago in 1970. Some psychologists, one of them was named Robert Cleich and the other one was named uh Angelo I don't can't pronounce the last name. They stud did this study and what they did is they took a five I think it was five ladies several ladies and they um and they said we're going to do an experiment and what we want to do is we want you to do interviews.

I want you to do interviews like you are. And then we're going to put makeup on your face and it's going to look like you have a big scar. And then we're going to send you into other places and you're going to do interviews with the scar. And we what we want to do is we want to find out how what the difference when you the way you look, the way you appear, how does it affect the way people interact with you.

So they did these interviews and of course they did the first interviews with without the scar and then they put makeup on the ladies and they had this, you know, very um professional makeup artist do all the ladies so it looked like they had a very big scar on their face.

And then right before they went in the interview, they said to the ladies, "Okay, let's touch up the scar and make sure that it's it it really looks bad." And they instead of touching up the scar, what the ladies didn't know is they removed it. And then the ladies went in each of them obviously thinking they had a big scar and they did several interviews with potential bosses for jobs.

And then when the experiment was all over, they got together with the ladies and they they asked them, "Now, how did your appearance affect the interview?" And every single woman said that they were when when they saw this scar, the interviewers were cold, de dismissive, and unfriendly. They believed that they were treated worse because of the scar and they felt less confident and more guarded and more anxious.

The problem was there was no scar. Believing that you are stigmatized can change how you act and that can change how others respond to you. And what I'm getting at is this. Those ladies believed the lie. >> And it didn't change the way people saw them. It changed the way they saw the way people saw them. >> Are you with me?

And I'm pointing out that because they perceived that they were rejected, they internally generated external rejection. >> They felt that they were rejectable because of the way they looked and they projected it on other people. Not because it was happening, but because they believed it was happening. >> I'm pointing out that this is an enemy tactic.

Like this isn't just about psychology. This is what the enemy tries to get you to do. Are you really a child of God? Are you really a son of the king? You remember that thing you did, Scar? Remember that thing you did? You never asked for forgiveness. Remember that that website you looked at a month ago?

Did you ever tell anyone? Did you you know that remember you gave that guy that money, but then you know you you regretted it later. Remember when you went to pay your rent and you were short and you regretted it? You scar, scar, scar, scar. People see you with that scar.

They know who you really are. >> And you begin to be robbed of the confidence of being a child of the king. >> In Luke chapter 4, this is a story of Jesus going into the wilderness led by the Holy Spirit. And the devil says to Jesus, "If you are the son of God, I'd like to point out that just four verses earlier, Jesus is baptized and the Holy Spirit comes on him and a voice from heaven says, "This is my beloved son who I'm well pleased."

And just 40 days later, the devil said, "If you are the son of God, make these stones bread." And Jesus said, "Man," but it is also written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the father." My point is this is that the devil was trying to get Jesus to perform for what he already had. >> Are you with me? >> I think Bill told the story, the Genesis story, where the devil says to um to Adam and Eve, "Can you not eat from any of the trees of the garden?"

And Eve says, "Oh, we can eat from many trees, but the tree of life, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, we can't eat from because the day we eat it, we'll die." And the devil goes, "You'll not die. In the day you eat it, you'll be like God."

How many understand that the devil was trying to get them to perform for what they already had because they were already like God. And I'm pointing out, religion will kill you. And religion is working for what God already gave you. I'm pointing out this that warfare almost always begins with identity.

Who is God and who are you? >> That's right. >> Who is God and who are you? Sometimes you can have a clear picture of who God is. He's amazing. He's forgiving. And the enemy goes, "Okay, can't mess with the identity of God. Let's work on you. Are you really a son?

Are you really Do you really have pure motives? Does God really accept you? Yeah, everybody knows you're a phony. Scar, scar, scar. And I come into the presence of God. I can't even hardly lift my head because the enemy has been working on me day and night, he's the accuser of the brethren.

And I'm pointing out that the closer you get to your purpose in life, the louder the voice of the enemy gets. >> That's a good word. >> Come on. >> Are you with me? I've said this for many years. The dogs of doom, they lie at the doors of destiny.

And often times when we get close to our destiny, those dogs start barking and we think there's something wrong. And I'm like, those dogs are protecting something. No one puts guard dogs on things that aren't valuable. >> Feel like this is going to be a real important lesson for 2026 for us because we are taking new land. >> That's right.

And we're going to have to remind ourselves that when we have these demonic attacks, it's not because we're doing something wrong. >> It's because we're doing something right. >> Are you with me? >> I um there's a great story in first Am I boring you guys? >> No. >> There's a great story in First Kings chapter 19 of 
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 uh and I'll tell you the story.

It's a story of Ahab and Jezebel and Elijah. Now Elijah has just had his greatest victory ever. He has for three and a half years he Elijah has stopped the rain. Well, God stopped the rain by Elijah's call calls for the stop the stoppage of the rain. And there's a great famine because Ahab and Jezebel are serving Baal.

And the prophets of Baal are 650 I think at the time or 450. There's hundreds of them. and uh and Elijah is trying to cleanse the land of this demonic spirit of Jezebel and Ahab. And so finally he challenges he stops the rain and then he challenges the prophets of Baal to a showdown at Mount Carmel.

And the I think 450 prophets of Baal come and you probably know the story. They they come and and and and he and he said, "Okay, here's the rule. Here's the rules of this game. We We will You will build an altar and I will build an altar.

And whatever God answers by fire, he's the God Israel should serve. So the 450 prophets of Baal, they all build an altar and they just go crazy. They just they start worshiping Baal. They're cutting themselves and blood's running everywhere. It's just a gross. And they do it from morning till night.

And Elijah says stuff like, "Maybe your maybe your God's going to the bathroom. Maybe he's on vacation." And he's just taunting them. And then finally, this goes on all day. And all by the way, it says, "And all of Israel comes out to watch this. This is a big event."

And so then Elijah after all those hours and hours and hours and hours of Elijah says, "Okay." He builds an altar and he says, "Come pour water on the altar." Because remember God has to answer by fire. So they pour a bunch of water and he goes, "No, no, more, more.

Bring more, more." And it's like, "There's so much water. It says that the altar is floating in water." And then Elijah goes, "God, show him I'm your prophet." And fire comes down. It consumes the altar and it says, "And it licks up the water." I have no idea what that looks like, but I'd like to see that video.

And then this is Old Testament, right? So then Elijah calls for the destruction of the prophets of the false prophets and and they kill the false prophets, which in the Old Testament is a really good thing. And they all began to say, "Jehovah is God. Jehovah is God." and the whole nation in one day.

Isaiah said, "Can the Lord can can the Lord turn a nation in a day?" And Elijah turns the nation in one day. In one day, they go from worshiping Baal to all the Baal worship leaders dead to them all worshiping God in literally 24 hours. And it starts raining again.

God calls for the rain. It starts raining again. And after all of that happens, Elijah like this is the pinnacle of his ministry as you can imagine. And the next thing that happens is this. First Kings 19:1. Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he killed the prophets with a sword.

And Jezebel sent a message to Elijah said, "So may the gods do to me and even more if I do not make your life like the one like one of those by tomorrow morning." And she threatens Elijah and he runs for his life. And literally the very next day after the pinnacle of his greatest ministry ever and all of Israel has turned to God and all the prophets of Baal are dead.

The next morning he says to God, he's so afraid that he says to God, "Kill me. >> Take my life." And he is suicidal. And God sends him into the wilderness and said, and sends an angel to him and says, "I want you to sleep and I want you to eat."

And the angel puts him to sleep and wakes him every little while and feeds him and feeds him and makes him sleep and feeds him and he ends up in a cave. And he's in the cave and he's in the cave and he and he and and God shows up in the cave and God says to him, "Elijah, what are you doing?

What are you doing?" And he said,"I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left." Now, I want you to understand this man just killed all the prophets of Baal yesterday.

Mhm. >> His commentary is, "They tore down your altars and they killed your prophets and I'm the only one left." And so the Lord tells him to go stand in the in the cave and God does all this earthquake stuff and this fire and he's on display. Then Elijah heard it.

He wrapped his face in the mantle and the Lord said to him, "What are you doing, Elijah?" And he said, 'I have been very zealous for the Lord of hosts. The sons of Israel have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with a sword, and I alone and left, and they seek my life to take it away.

I'd like to point out that sometimes your greatest victories attract a demonic spirit that makes you completely irrational. >> He has irrational fear. He feels alone. Your problems look bigger than they really are. And you've forgotten your victories. I feel strongly tonight that there's a lot of people right there.

That you're in the midst of your greatest victories, but somehow the victory you had yesterday, you can't remember. you can't remember yesterday that you actually killed all the prophets of Baal. And God goes on to tell him, I have 7,000 prophets beside you. You're not alone, ding-dong, knucklehead.

You're not by yourself. I have 7,000 other prophets. And by the way, you killed the prophets of Baal yesterday and all of Israel turned to the Lord. What are you doing? >> Well, what he's doing is he's under spiritual warfare. >> Are you with me? And spiritual warfare creates a false reality. >> You start believing things that aren't true.

You have conspiracy theories that are coming from the demonic realm. Your fear has began to cycle through you. And how many you understand fear is faith in the wrong God. >> You can't have fear without faith. If a little boy says, "I'm gonna beat you up." I don't get anxious because I don't believe him.

If a gangster comes and says, "I'm gonna I'm gonna beat you up." I might have some anxiety because I believe him. I'm pointing out that fear is faith. You can't have fear without faith in the wrong god. >> And when you have faith in the wrong god called fear, how many understand it attracts you just authorized an unauthorized demonic spirit.

I'm just saying fear actually deputizes the enemy. >> Isaiah 54 says you oppression will be far from you for you will not fear. Oppression will be far from you, for you will not fear. Let me say it one more time. Oppression will be far from you, for you will not fear.

What happens when you're afraid? You attract oppression. >> The devil's oppressing me. He oppressing you. He's oppressing you because you open the door. I open the door. Anyone ever been afraid? I was afraid once. Listen, no one raised their hand. 
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 Well, I'm feeling really bad now. And Nehemiah says to the people, "Do not be afraid of them.

Remember the Lord who's great and awesome and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters." Listen to this. In the sixth chapter, Nehemiah, the enemy is taunting Nehemiah again. He's saying, "I'm you know what you're building is is is you're you're doing it for selfish motives and the king you came from is going to find out that you're making yourself a governor."

And he goes and they and they go, "Come on. Come into the valley of Ono. Come down in the valley of Ono and talk to us." I want to tell you something. Don't go down in the valley of Oh no. Oh, you'll know why it's called freaking no.

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 >> And Nehemiah says, "I am doing a great work." >> Here's his response. I'm doing a great work and I can't come down. Why should I stop the work and leave it and come down to you? You have to remember I'm doing a great work for the Lord.

When the enemy comes in >> to your life and he's like, you're nobody. You're nothing. You're like, I can't talk to you right now. Busy doing something amazing. Actually, 
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 it's okay, Bill. 
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 A few verses later, the enemy comes in and and this is what happened. He says, this prophetus comes to her and says um let us meet together in the house of God within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you.

They're coming to kill you at night." And Nehemiah said, "Should a man like me flee?" >> Come on. >> Come on. And should and could one such as me hide in the temple to save my life? I'll not go in. >> And when Nehemiah refuses to get under their fear spirit, he says, "Then I perceive that surely God not sent them."

But he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiiah and Sambell had hired him. He was hired for this reason that I might become frightened and act accordingly and sin so they may have an evil report and reproach me. Remember, oh God, Tobias and Sambell according works of theirs.

Also, Notia the prophetus and the rest of the prophets who were trying to frighten me. Get this verse 15. So the wall was completed in the 25th month of Elu in 52 days. I'd like to point out that what they couldn't do in 77 years, 74 years, Nehemiah did in 52 days. >> What was keeping them from rebuilding the walls for 77 years? 74 years.

What was keeping them? Fear, >> low self-esteem, forgot who God was. What happens when the enemy comes in? I don't have time to talk to you because I'm doing a great work for God. >> That's right. >> Well, you should run. You should hide in the temple. You should hide in religion. >> Should a man like me run? >> Nah. >> When I refused their fear, then I knew.

Then I got the discernment to know that the prophecy they uttered was not from the Lord. I didn't know that till I refused to go hide in the temple. The days ahead are going to be so fun. >> But if you think you have scars, they're not going to be fun at all. >> Did you get what I just said? >> Not because you don't have victory, but because the enemy will convince you that you are not victor victorious.

I'd like to remind you of the story I just told you about Elijah. The greatest victory in probably human history where a nation turned in a day happened because a man of God stopped the rain for three and a half years, killed the prophets of Bale. Fire fell down, miracles happened, and the next day he said, "And Jezebel has killed all the prophets."

It's like, I'm sorry. You're the one who killed the false prophets. >> He can't even remember what happened yesterday. >> And you know why? He kills the prophets of Baal, right? He challenges them in the midst of of all of Israel watching. He has no fear of them.

He taunts them all night. But one woman, Jezebel, says, "I'm going to kill you." and he runs for his life because that woman has a principality that rules her. >> Ultimately, what happened is God said, "I want you to go prophesy that Ju is going to kill Jezebel."

And at his prophecies, Jezebel is finally dethroned and destroyed. I finish with this one last story. 
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 Many years ago when we were in still in Weaverville, I was having so many demonic attacks. It was horrible. I'd wake up in the night, pictures would fly off the wall. The lights would turn on and off.

I was It was We the phone would ring and I'd pick it up and be people having seances on the phone or Kathy would pick it up and it was just going on and on and on for months and months and months and months. And I'd wake up in the middle of the night and there'd be two bright red eyes about this big, two eyes like this standing at my bedside.

And I rebuked them and I prayed over them. And I got up and read my Bible. This went on for months. It was horrible. And when one night I I woke up and like this is like night five. And I said, "Lord, what do I do?" He said, "I'm going to give you a new weapon."

I said, "What is it?" He said, "Ignore." Ignore. Yes. I said, 'Where is that?' He said, ' It's right here in the Bible in Philippians 1:28. In no way alarmed by your opponent, which is a sign of destruction for him and salvation for you. So I said, "What do you what do I do?"

He says, "When he comes tonight, just go, oh, it's just you." So he comes in my room and I wake up. I am having nightmares. That's why I wake up and I wake up and he's at the foot of my bed and I go, "Oh, it's just you." and put my head down, put my covers over my head.

My heart's pounding out of my chest. 
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 Never showed again. Never showed again. The power of ignore. All these things I just shared with you, I share with my five friends in the last two weeks. I believe we're taking new territory. >> If we're not mindful and discerning, it could feel like we're going backwards instead of forward.

We could get under that Jezebel spirit as as an example. Not that that's the only spirit, but we could get under that Jezebel spirit. By the way, let me just say this. Jezebel is not a strong willed woman. It's a demonic spirit and it's on as many men as it is on women.

So, let's be really clear. But I'm not even talking about the one that's in a human. I'm talking about the one that actually gets like one in a human's easier to deal with than the spirit I can't see. >> And I just want to point out when you start having irrational fear, you start feeling like the things you did didn't matter.

Your motives are bad. You're not really a child of God. You need to stop and go, Chris was right again. 
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 I must be really close to a treasure >> cuz the enemy does not like what's going on in my life right now. >> And I go, it's just you. >> Weren't you defeated at the cross?

You were disar you were disarmed and defeated at the cross. You got no arms and you got no feet. 
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 Whenever the devil reminds you of your past, just remind him of his future. >> I want you to stand and pray for you. >> And if you're watching online, I'd love for you to stand, too.

If you're in a car, just open the sunroof. 
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 You might want to stop first. And I want to pray for you. And and my and my prayer for you is that the Lord would remind you who you are and whose you are. >> And that you might write these things down. >> You might write down this is who the Lord says I am.

I always like to prepare before the battle. Yeah, >> I like to like have some good things written down about who I am and who he is. >> And and sometimes I just like to read them to the devil. >> Sit here. You might want to like this.

Like here's some things the Lord said about me last week alone. Said I'm his favorite. Lord, I just pray right now over every single believer, especially those in this family. Lord, that you would remind us of our sunship, our daughterhood, that we are children of the king because of your choice, because you are crazy about us.

You are passionate about us. And it was by your grace that we got this place. And Lord, you didn't bring us this far so we could fail. And I thank you for the land that you have given us over the next five years. This land in the spirit.

Lord, we pray that those enemies, they would just hear about us and leave. >> They would just hear about us and leave. >> But when they don't, I pray that we would remember our job is to torment them before they're thrown in a lake of fire. So I bless every single person in this room in Jesus name.

Amen. 
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 >> Someone's going to come up here and do something. 
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 Bless you guys. >> This lady right here, this lady's a champion right here. Yes. >> You want to talk about destroying the gates of hell? >> Right here. >> Small and mighty. >> Not on. Here we go.

This was on. Wow. Well, there was so much that Chris said that I know that we all can resonate with, right? How how many of you can recognize over the last month all the accusations of the enemy? So, I just want to take let's take a moment and let's look return to that place that Yan took us earlier, looking squarely into Jesus's eyes.

That's the place where I've gotten the most breakthrough. Boy, I've had so many demonic visitations and I've had to address so much oppression in my own life. And and the place where I found the most rest is in the gaze of Jesus Christ. And so right now, let's just stand, look into Jesus's eyes, and let's hand him every accusation that we've received this month.

Thank you, Lord. If it helps to confess with your lips, do it. Just speak it out. I I renounce every word of accusation that has come towards me. Thank you, Father. Holy Spirit, I invite you to just come minister to us as we profess the truth of our identity in Christ.

Thank you, Lord. >> Oh, Holy Spirit, cleanse us. Wash us. Wash our minds. Wash our memories from this month. Lord, renew our faith. renew our hope. >> Thank you, Lord, for your restoration. >> Remind us what do we look like in your eyes, Jesus. We step into your strength.

We step into your authority, Lord. And Father, we declare that as we move into 2026, we'll not let ourselves be isolated as Elijah was. We're turning to our friends. We're turning to our family, our community. We need to hear the word of the Lord over one another from each other.

I'd like to invite the ministry team forward. Everyone who can to come forward and pray. 
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 We might have a small ministry team, but we're going to be mighty tonight. As these ones are coming forward, I want to invite you if you need prayer tonight. If you need healing in your body or if you have experienced the oppression that Chris has talked about, we want to partner with you in prayer to have an overcoming spirit.

Thank you. All right. Father, I just bless this congregation. And Lord, thank you for this final night, this final Sunday night at Bethl Church of 2025. We welcome 2026 in the name of the Lord. Amen. 
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 >> Wow. What a message. >> What a message. >> Oh my word.

Even as um Chris was sharing tonight, I was like, "Wow, is that not where so many of us are >> in the middle of taking new ground, in the middle of walking through such a deep pruning season and saying, "Okay, God, there is more." >> But then there's been an onslaught.

I don't I don't know if people watching online, maybe you've experienced this. Maybe you're um in a season of your life where you're like, "Wow, I've had so much spiritual warfare. things have been happening in my family or in my work or my life or whatever it looks like.

And I feel like >> Chris just released not only stories, not only revelation, but actually gave us like this impartation of what it looks like to actually engage from a place of victory. >> Yeah. Yeah. And he was talking from experience. Yeah. >> Which which is it's amazing, you know, like as a father, he was coming and he was Yeah.

I what I felt honestly it was kind of like an affirmation as as a father like yeah I know what you're going through >> I know the feeling I've been there but hey look to the to the other side of the mountain >> right >> and he came as a father >> just teaching us how to walk through this process and you know like sometimes we we we might feel the temptation to walk away like he was saying like hey if you're facing that don't just walk back don't just walk away. >> Have courage.

Walk through the process. Face the pain. Face what is uncomfortable because this is what is waiting for you on the other side. >> And yeah, I I I really felt like the blessing of a father as a prophet to teach us the way forward to face this next year. >> Absolutely.

Let's take a moment. I know. Um I think there's times when um both Yan and I did ministry school and we learned so much about what it looks like to sit in our place of authority as sons and daughters knowing that we get to sit with Jesus. Um but maybe you're new.

Maybe you're watching this and you're thinking, okay, so Chris did it. How can someone pray for me? And actually knowing that you have authority, that you are seated with Christ in him. I love that. It's what it says in Ephesians 2. Um, and so we're just going to pray and we're going to pray for courage.

And so Jesus, I pray even right now that anyone that's listening, anyone that's watching, God, that they would know the fullness of who you said that they were, that they are your son or they are your daughter. And that they are seated with you in heavenly places. Yes, on earth, but also with you in heaven.

And from that place, there is authority. From that place, you actually get to war. not in the second heavens where you're waring with that uh demonic realm, but actually from a place of authority where Jesus is. >> Where Jesus is. And God, I pray right now that you would give us great courage.

That you would teach us what it looks like just as Papa Chris was saying to ignore that that sometimes there are times when we actually um we speak and we declare the truth. God, I pray that you would teach us what it looks like when we need to speak and declare the truth, when we need to get our Bibles out and begin to rebuke the enemy, and when we need to ignore.

God, I pray that you would give us a maturity and discernment to know the difference between the two to allow us to actually persevere and take new ground. Holy Spirit, I pray right now for courage that you would come so close, God, that you would give us courage to persevere, to not quit, to not give up, to not retreat, but actually to keep going because you have something for us.

There is land for us to take, not only in 2026, but for the rest of our lives that God is only continuing to give us space to move into everything that he paid for. >> Yeah. Yeah. I I want to pray. So, I saw Moses, you type in the chat on YouTube, and I really feel that the Lord, he's releasing the angelic just like the testimony that Chris was sharing about um Michael the angel coming into his room and after that moment, all the torment just just stopped. >> So Lord, I pray right now for the angelic to be released as well in the mighty name of Jesus. for all the oppression and the torment to stop in the mighty name of Jesus because >> I I believe that you Lord you're just revealing more and more of your nature >> and thank you Lord thank you because what the enemy is trying to attack actually he's just revealing how powerful the gift that Lord gave to these people they are and that you communicate with them you talk to them you manifest your will through dreams through the the sanctified imagination and Lord We thank you because the angelic is coming to fulfill the word of the Lord and we say stopped right now to all the oppression right now in the mighty name of Jesus.

And I want to pray as well for fear. If you're facing some fear in your life and maybe um being bold and courageous, it means for you to surrender. Maybe to just sit and receive. Oh, I no I actually I feel that I supposed to do something. No, actually Jesus paid the price that was needed.

And you don't need to do anything right now. You just need to sit and wait for Jesus to come and to serve you because this is what he came for. He came to serve. So right now, I want to encourage you to receive the love of the father that he is mighty in battles.

He he battles for you. He fights for you. So sit down and watch. I don't I don't think this is for all of us, but I want to encourage you what surrenderess looks like for you. >> Come on. >> To receive the love of the father to to to see that he cares for you.

He cares for you more than you think. That he's fighting for you more than you think. More than you able to see. So Lord, we release the angelic to fight the battles that you conquered already on the cross. We thank you Lord and we bless him right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Amen. >> Amen. Amen. Even as Yan was talking, a couple things were just flashing through my mind. Um, every year as I wrap up a year, I reflect on everything that God's done um, in the last 12 months. I I reflect on the year before and I just what we talked about earlier, I bring gratitude.

I thank the Lord. I I I jot down things like what books I read, where I traveled, um, depending on how many movies I saw, little things, big things, miracles I saw. Um, and I saw some of you doing this, um, and you actually reflect back on, um, what you've seen God do, but I saw some of you actually adding a list of, um, the prayers that you're pressing into for 2026.

And I feel like there are some of you who are going to begin to reflect and actually process like, God, what am I believing for? What land am I supposed to take? And I saw um, many of you actually beginning to dream and pray into this is what I'm believing God's going to do.

And I saw so many of you throughout the year actually checking it off saying I took that land that that that I took from my family that I saw my father go through. I saw my brother go through whatever it is. But actually seeing that come to completion.

Um do you want to say something about that? >> Yeah. No. No. Keep going. >> And then um the second picture I saw is today um I was closing the service for the 1:00 and um one of my third years was praying for somebody and I have no clue what she was praying for.

All I saw was this woman going like this with her arm and them going like this, like yes. 
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 And I was reminded of the healing power of God. Like this testimony is coming to my mind. And um I know some of you are asking in the chat like would you pray for my body?

Would you pray for whatever it is? And I want you if you um if you are experiencing pain, whether it's in your arm, whether it's um in uh mobility, whether it's in neuropathy, um I we prayed for um a word of knowledge earlier with arches. Someone um needed arches and I felt like that someone had either a locked jaw or TMJ.

It was crazy because one lady in the 1:00, it was both of those words of knowledge were for her. But if I want you to stand if that's you and you're like, "Cassie, I came in here with pain. I I actually just want you to stand in faith."

And we're going to pray in just a second. And um I even feel like someone's been having like migraines. It's been coming in from the the back of your head. And some of you ha uh have them in like these uh front temples and and I feel like God's about to heal migraines as well.

Um we're going to we're going to just pray in a second, but I want you just to stand. Yan, do you have any words of knowledge? >> Yeah, I have one. um you might be very specific but I feel that somebody here in this call you might be watching it back um that you feel some pain in your body and for some reason is related to grief that maybe you're missing somebody or you're missing something for this time of the year that you're feeling some physical pain and I feel I feel that yeah it's connected to grief and I believe that the Lord he wants to come in and he wants to shine his light over this situation and over your heart Come on.

I also felt like someone has elbow pain. I know someone asked for lower back healing. We will absolutely pray for that as well. Um, but if you're experiencing any pain in your body, I just want you to stand. Sometimes we do these prophetic acts. It's these physical acts of obedience that actually release something in the supernatural.

And why do we do it? I'm not sure. But we saw it so many times in the Old Testament, so many times in the Bible where people would do these uh prophetic acts like non going to wash himself in the river and in that his leprosy was cleansed.

And so sometimes it doesn't make sense and and we do it full of faith. And so if you if you're just standing for a second, Yan, why don't you pray and then I'll I'll close us with that. >> Of course. Lord, I thank you. Lord, I thank you because you're so good.

You love us and you love us so much. That's the reason you heal. You heal because you love. And right now we command all the pain to leave bodies right now. And we command all the burden to leave souls right now in the mighty name of Jesus. We command flexibility to come in right now and all the pain to come out in the mighty name of Jesus.

We speak new cells right now, new organs right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Even new bones right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, we thank you because you make all things new. And what a great way to step into a new year is to have a a new body, a new cell in our bodies.

So right now we speak healing in the mighty name of Jesus right now. >> Jesus. And we just speak to muscles to loosen. I saw muscles that were spasming and all of a sudden I saw people actually like opening their hands. And so right now we just declare a loosening of muscles.

Anything that's been spasming or tight. Um I even feel like there's a couple people um you're going to wake up tomorrow. I feel like you've had extreme fatigue and you're going to wake up tomorrow feeling like a brand new human. God, we just thank you for the life that you are breathing into people's bodies, into their organs, into their hearts, into their minds right now in Jesus' name.

God, we just speak over everybody whether it was a condition we spoke of or just your sons and daughters out there receiving right now that all pain would lift off in Jesus name and that people would experience just even relief in their bodies wherever you guys are right now.

We just invite you to test it. Yeah, >> we invite you to test it and shake it shake your body around whatever part was was hurting before. Um >> and and even if you didn't feel anything while we were praying, it's not about the feeling, but it's about the authority of the name of Jesus.

So test out your body because we saw so many people getting healed when they start to test out their bodies. >> It's true. Why does it happen in the moment? I don't know, but it does. Um it's that act of faith, right? >> It is. >> Oh, but but Jesus, we just thank you.

I even feel like there are people who are getting healed right now. You can throw it in the chat if you're like Cassie, even we saw a little bit of improvement. We just celebrate the little bit of improvement and ask the Lord that he would only increase that.

And so God, we just thank you for what you're doing. even for the ones who will watch this back um that they would experience radical healing. God is outside of time. I don't understand how things like that can happen over a recording and yet he does it all the time.

And so Jesus, we just thank you in advance. We say thank you right now, God, for the people who are about to be healed. Even like bowels, I feel like someone has had um like a leaky gut uh like a bowel situation where you've had an issue um uh yeah, just digesting and processing all of that stuff.

And so I just thank you God for the healing of a leaky gut right now in Jesus name. Yeah God we just thank you that jaw pain is lessening. >> Thank you God. >> Yes God that people are experiencing even relief. >> Yeah. And I feel to prophesy redemption. >> Come on. >> Yeah.

Lord I I bless them with the redemptive power of the cross right now in the mighty name of Jesus. It can be to relationships. Um it can be to businesses as well. I I really feel something about like an idea that maybe you've tried in the past and you didn't see like the way that he wanted it to happen.

But I I see like an encouragement from the Lord. Go and do it again. Try one more time and you will see the work of the cross in front of your eyes. So I want to encourage you. It can be to somebody specifically. Um just try again. I really feel the Lord encouraging you.

Do it again. >> Yeah. Come on. >> Try again. Try one more time. >> Come on. >> Thank you, God. >> And we're just celebrating. I just saw um a woman online. She said, "TmJ, gone." We just say goodbye. TMJ, you don't get to come into 2026. Some of you are about to experience healing.

You're about to experience the restoration that Yan's talking about everything that Chris talked about with spiritual warfare, a new year. I don't want to just say like, "Oh, a new year, a new me." But also, there are certain conditions that will not go into this new year. So, anyways, we're excited for what God's doing.

Yan, you want to say anything else before we go? >> Hey, happy new year. It's not just like a a normal saying. It's literally a new year. So, happy new year. >> Happy new year, guys. We love you. We're celebrating the testimonies. Let us know what God's doing.

We love to celebrate what God's doing. We want to share those testimonies. I did see really fast that there was a woman who had lime limes disease. And a few weeks ago, Dave Harvey um said he was in Canada and this um woman got prayed for. She felt like black ooze was coming out of her body and every symptom from limes disease was gone.

She actually went to the doctor, got a scan and they said it's completely cleared and healed. And so, uh, whoever that was for, I I can't recall in the chat. Um, but I just released that testimony to you guys. He is the God of the impossible. >> He is. >> It is a new year.

A new year. We love you. We're celebrating what the Lord's doing in your lives. And we'll see you next week. >> Bye. Five bikes.