Led us through this year but Lord here we now stand on the brink of a crossover into a new year and Lord we dare not believe that we in our own confidence flesh and and our own strength and might can do this so Lord tonight we aim to
Hear what thus saith the Lord we know that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of your mouth and so we ask you Holy Spirit to speak and may we have ears to hear what the spirit is saying saying to the
Church in this hour want you if you feel comfortable doing so lay a hand on one of your ears and just say Lord open my ears to hear what the spirit is saying to me tonight and father we pray for this entire city tonight as many Gatherings such as this are taking place
Around Columbus Ohio even around this nation we ask you that the word of the Lord would come forth from every pull pit that Lord there would be a sense of sobriety and a Divine arresting of every heart and mind and Lord tonight you would use preachers across this city and
Nation to bring your people into alignment with your will Lord I acknowledge before your people that I am nothing but a mere man ordinary in every way fully dependent on your hand tonight so Lord I ask you that I would discharge this burden faithfully and that your
Will would be done that this place would be filled with liberated people when we walk out of the doors tonight into a new year that no person under the sound of my voice would be bound by demons would be slaves to the flesh but that you
Would set every last one of us free indeed and you would pour out your spirit without measure you would cause people tonight to hunger and thirst for righteousness you would bring eternity into view and wherever people are here in this room tonight in the valley of decision May tonight they decide in
Their hearts to choose this day whom they will serve may Jesus be glorified if you want Jesus to be glorified just say Lord be glorified in Jesus name amen amen before you take your seats I want to welcome you to Hope City House of Prayer can we
Give God praise for our worship team tonight I want to thank you all for being here of all the places you could be to bring in the New Year we’re so thankful that you’re here in the house of the Lord Lord and I believe that tonight you’re here for a Divine Purpose
And reason how many you believe that you’re here for a Divine Purpose and a Divine reason and I’m asking the Lord I’ve been praying all day in fact that the Lord would enable me in a few moments to share something from his heart and from his word that would
Launch you into a year of fruitful Ministry a year of Kingdom living a year of Holiness and more than anything a year of fascination with Jesus how many you want to be fascinated by the savior there’s nothing like a heart that’s enlivened by the glory of God and so
Tonight I will not waste any more time CU we got an hour until it’s a new year and I want to hurry up and get through this because I believe that this message tonight is truly from the Lord and uh just to tell you how this is going to go
After I get through with this message we’re going to give you an opportunity to respond to it and so tonight I need every intercessor that’s here tonight to pray in the spirit that that there would be a Divine I call it a Divine attention span that people will be able to
Supernaturally focus on what’s being said tonight because I assure you including myself that our life is at stake right now amen now I know this is a party so I didn’t mean to be so anticlimactic but we are living in sober times how many of you know we’re living
In sober times amen so go with me in your Bibles to the Book of Amos chapter number one and I’m going to spend some time in Amos tonight for a few moments and also look in some other places the Book of Judges but to begin tonight let’s go to Amos
Chap 1 beginning in verse number one our custom at Hope city is a stand to honor God’s word so if you’re physically able please join us on your feet if you can’t we do understand but I refuse to give more honor to a judge in a courtroom
Than the word of the Lord amen and so we’re not religious we’re just honorable Amos chapter 1 beginning in verse number one Holy Spirit be my help in jesus’ name the scripture says the word words of Amos who was among the Sheep breeders of tcoa which he saw concerning Israel
In the days of Uzziah King in Judah and in the days of jeroboam the son of joash king of Israel here’s the key phrase tonight two years before the earthquake verse two says and he said the Lord Roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem the pastures of the
Shepherds mourn and the top of Carmel Withers father we ask you tonight to allow us to understand give us living understanding what thus saith the Lord in Jesus name amen you can be seated in the presence of almighty God I’m going to get straight to the
Point here tonight I am on a mission and an assignment and my assignment this evening is to release a word that I believe comes from the heart of God and a word that is meant to a good way startle you out of complacency uh I have been preaching for
Quite a few years now and I’ve had a privileged to travel around the nation in the world in fact and stand before a wide range of groups of people from various denominational settings even different continents where I’ve stood and preached the gospel and I found something to be true that wherever the
Gospel is preached the results are the same people are convicted of sin and Are Born Again by the power of the Holy SP Spirit you would think that on a watch Night Service on New Year’s Eve where you could be in a bar or you could be at
A party you could be at home you could be doing so many things that in a setting like this everybody be saved but I want to tell you tonight that God in his sovereignty has even orchestrated some of the steps of people here tonight who are not in right
Standing with God because there’s a difference between being a faithful member of a church and being a faithful servant of Jesus and so I want to be faithful to my assignment which is to throw out a Lifeline tonight and release this message in hopes that you would be
Turn back to God I want to begin tonight in Amos and this verse that we chose to pick up from is a prophetic verse where he says the latter part of verse number one he says this prophecy was given two years before the earthquake now for context sake if you study history the
History of Israel you’ll discover that there was an earthquake that occurred in the nation of Israel that is on the historical record it was a judgment from the Lord but this Prophecy from Amos comes as we read in the scripture two years before the earthquake now again
I’m not here to be a doomsday guy but I want to tell you that there is Judgment in the land uhoh y’all said oh how do we come to this church we should have went to the Happy church this trust me truth always results in Joy but not always
Happiness but there is a sword that’s coming upon the land the scriptures teach us that God is just the scripture teaches us that God sees all things that God is aware of all the wickedness whether we are or not and if America in the church even of this
Nation were to be weighed in the balance we would be found wanting and the church said amen let’s come out of denial tonight we live in hours of Great Compromise just as the people in the days of Amos and this compromise has been normalized and what happens when
Compromise is normalized is people lose discernment people lose a perception of spiritual reality and while we look across the landscape of Christendom and some of you may not even be aware of this but let me inform you tonight that as we look across the spectrum of Christianity in this
Nation there’s a lot of compromise even among God’s people now you can sing and you can preach and you can run around this sanctuary and still be living in blatant compromise and so in the days of Amos two years in fact before this earthquake the Lord raised up this man this Prophet
This ordinary guy who was among the Sheep breeders of tcoa and he gives him a vision and he gives him a word to release to a nation who on the surface was actually quite successful their economy was booming they were relatively successful at this time time in their
History but NE beneath the surface however there was compromise and hypocrisy brewing and God in his Mercy raised up a prophet to confront them and so tonight for these few moments this is the message that the Lord has given me and you’ll understand it as I explain in
A moment but the title of this message is the Nazarite Awakening now some of you have never heard the word Nazarite before so turn with me to Amos chapter 2 for those who are familiar the word Nazarite is a word that simply means consecrated the word
In Hebrew is nir and it means separated or consecrated and so the Lord began to speak to me really a couple years ago as I turned the corner and went into my 30s and began to like guess I said travel across this nation and talked to preachers and talked to famous singers
And people who had a lot of influence and affluence and I began to find that there was a serious problem on our hands now the guy that preaches against sin is never going to be the most popular guy but at the Judgment seat of Christ I’d
Rather hear Jesus say Well done my good and faithful servant than be one of the people that goes with the culture and goes with the Wind of compromise and so the Lord begin to burden me that there was a call to the nation in fact to the generation to awaken nazarites and to
Call them forth and so Amos chapter 2 as you read through this maybe you should in your own time just to study this out you’ll find that the prophet Amos begins to you know release the judgments of the Lord for example in the beginning of chapter two it says for three
Transgressions of Moab and for four I will not turn away its punishment then you get down to verse number four he hones in on Judah you get down to verse number six he begins to talk about the Judgment of God that is coming upon Israel for their transgressions as well
And so as we’re in the midst of these judgments going forth in verse number 11 if you turn your attention there we find God’s Divine strategy to save a nation how many you believe that America can be saved I refuse to believe that there’s no hope and when you study the history
Of the church when you study what God even now in Many Nations around this world is doing you’ll find that there is a great work of the Holy Spirit that’s taking place but Amos chapter 2 verse number 11 shows us the Divine strategy to remedy the malady affecting Humanity somebody said bars
I didn’t want to say it too fast because I thought y’all might lose y’all’s Focus but this is God’s strategy to remedy the malady of humanity verse number 11 here’s what the Lord said in this context of compromising judgment I raised up some of your sons as prophets
And some of your young men as nazarites is it not so oh you children of Israel says the Lord but here is how in verse number 12 the generation responded to this invitation from the Lord it says but you gave the nazarites wine to drink and you commanded the prophets saying do
Not prophesy go back to verse number 11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets and some of your young men as nazarites is it not so oh you children of Israel says the Lord to help you understand for those unfamiliar a Nazarite again is one who took a
Voluntary vow to to live at a heightened degree of consecration a person who willingly took on this call to separate themselves from the culture the way that everyone else was doing it and they did this for a reason to be separated unto the Lord it wasn’t an act of
Self-righteousness it wasn’t to look down upon their peers or contemporaries but it was to say as a prophetic witness that hear me clearly as I say this next statement as a prophetic witness that Superior pleasure is found in serving God I’m voluntarily choosing to live at a heightened degree of
Consecration as an indictment on the inferior Pleasures that are governing My Generation did you catch that I know I said a mouthful there but these were people that had been gripped by the superior pleasure of Jesus these were people who wanted to live in a way that
Was fully pleasing to him so in the context of judgment breaking out two years before the earthquake God in his Mercy said to perhaps avert this crisis what I’m going to do is I’m going to begin to move on young people I’m going to hear me by the spirit I’m going to
Begin to move on not just Millennials but gen Z and gen Alpha I’m going to hone in I’m going to focus my attention on that generation that was raised by a generation of compromise and knows no other example but to live a duplicitous life to live a hypocritical life and I’m
Going to stir them by the spirit and I’m going to mark them as a prophetic people and I’m going to call them into another level of Consecration and if they would receive this witness it would turn a nation back to me what BYO hear me by the Holy Spirit what is happening now
Why you’re actually here tonight it’s not because you just want to do something positive and not get into trouble it’s not because your friend invited you or you saw a flyer on the Internet it’s because the holy Spirit has marked you yes you with all of your
Issues with all of your secret sin perhaps with all of the things that you’re afraid or ashamed to tell other people’s about you have something on your life that is Supernatural the unction of the holy spirit that brought you here tonight that is keeping you here in this moment it is a Divine
Arrest but it’s not just so that you can be a little bit holier than the person you’re sitting next to it’s so that you would understand your part in the storyline of God’s Redemptive purpose that even though America and I should say it like this the Church of America
Sins are multiplied over and over God will never leave himself without a witness and so just as he’s done in times pass by moving upon people men and women young and old black white yellow red everybody from every socioeconomic status when he can find a willing vessel
Who has simply availed himself to his purpose within their time of existence who would lean not on their understanding but in his word and let his word guide their life he could take that ordinary broken fractured person and do something historic and turn a nation back to him this is what God was
Attempting to do two years before the earthquake the parents of these young men and these young nazarites who were marked by God had grown up and heard the stories of The Exodus and heard the story of all the different Wonders that the god of Israel had done for them but
There was a generation that had a form of godliness yet no power in other words to modernize this and contextualize this they knew the songs they knew the verses they knew how to play Church they knew Christian e they knew all the platitudes and the cliches they knew how to shout
They knew how to jump they were familiar with Christian culture but they had no power and as a result their children saw their compromise and wanted nothing to do with God but God in his Sovereign Mercy overrode their hypocrisy and said I’m going to grab their heart and I’m
Going to mark them with something that calls them away from the spirit of their age that was the Divine strategy that’s what’s happening right now that’s why some of you are in college and rather than being at the frat house or the sorority house or at the bars that line
High Street I’m an OSU gr as well I know what it’s like you’re at church what are you doing at church that’s the person next you why are you here shouldn’t you be drinking shouldn’t you be rolling a blunt since it’s legal now right shouldn’t you be buying condoms at
UDF yeah I’m going to be raw and honest shouldn’t you be responding to all those DMS no no no no you know why you’re here because you’re a Nazarite and you don’t even know it because you are are the answer to the prayers of the remnant of your grandmother’s generation you are the
Prayer the answer to the prayer of the underground church I talked to Pastor Samuel the other day in India and he told me that they’re fasting and praying every day for the people of Hope City for the people of Columbus Ohio that a spirit of Revival would come and so
You’re here not by your own choosing or your own decision making you’re here because you’re a Nazarite and you don’t even maybe know it but sadly what verse 12 tells us if you continue looking at the chapter verse 12 tells us that rather if you can put that on the
Screen rather than cultivate that hunger for God rather than stoke the coals of that fire for God that was burning in the heart of those young people it says but you gave the nazarites wine to drink and you commanded the prophet saying do not prophesy I’ll leave that there for just a
Moment this is a sad indictment on that generation because God though he is just and should rightfully judge the people was attempting to extend Mercy but they missed their window of visitation they missed the perception that they needed to perceive what God was doing in the generation that they’re part of and so
They gave the nazarites wine to drink now I find that quite interesting because there’s nothing wrong with a glass of wine now technically there’s nothing wrong with a glass of wine now I hear some of you say oh my God is he saying we we can go get drunk of course
Not come on now but when Jesus turned the water into wine it was real wine I don’t know if y’all believe that but it was real wine wasn’t well just grape juice that’s for sure the Bible doesn’t prohibit you drinking a glass of wine the Bible clearly prohibits you from being drunk
And if you’re wise you would stay away from all of it because the scripture tells you don’t look at it while it glistens in the cup because wine is a mocker so don’t take what I just said as a license to go out and drink a glass of
Wine but here’s the issue The Naz isites were called to not drink wine even though the other people could in other words just because you can doesn’t mean you should just because you can doesn’t mean you you should all things as Paul said may be lawful but or or lawful but not all
Things are beneficial and so what happens here as this is my prophetic understanding here is that as this Nazarite people begin to rise up and you may find yourself in a story line as I explained this and they begin to say no we’re going to live at a heightened degree of consecration we’re
Not going to go with the the trends of the culture we’re going to set ourselves apart to seek God some people crept into their life and said you’re doing the most you’re doing too much who do you think you are oh Mr holy how many of you
Have ever heard that voice before that voice may come through a parent a grandparent a cousin an uncle a friend a roommate just be honest you might be sitting with him tonight but it’s okay how many of you ever heard that voice oh you think you’re better than us now and
Sometimes they don’t even say nothing it’s just the unspoken subliminal stuff that funny acting passive aggressive stuff yeah that passive aggressive hit somebody’s nerve I heard a couple amens on that but that’s what happened they were basically seduced back into a level of mediocrity and when the prophets begin
To prophesy that the prophecy a real Prophet is preaching against sin now all these new prophets that come out they want your money and they tell you if you give them money they’ll make something great happen for you that ain’t a Biblical Prophet y’all can keep
Believing that if you want to but when prophets prophesy they’re speaking on behalf of God and God’s number one desire is that his people’s heart be turned back to him so I could just imagine the scene in the days of Amos as these prophets these young men are prophesying that their prophecies are
Now calling people to feel conviction and the people who are listening to these prophecies don’t want to hear it so they say knock it off don’t say that why would you call us to repent be see be because they they were not aware that that judgment was coming they were not
Aware that an earthquake was just two years away they thought that they were being blessed because their economy was booming but I want to tell you there’s an urgent need for genuine true prophetic voices in this hour that have stood in the Council of God and are unashamed to declare the whole Council
Of God but again sadly what we learn from this is that this generation responded to the Divine invitation the wrong way and as a result judgment does in fact come upon the land two years later and earthquake comes and great destruction is the result so tonight as
We’re beginning to cross over into a new year as much as I want to tell you that 2024 is going to be the best year of your life and you’re going to shake your haters off and you’re never going to have hardship and you’re never going to
Have struggle I won’t lie to you we don’t know what 2024 is going to bring it might be like every other year some good stuff and some not so good stuff let me prophesy that it’s going to be a good year and a tough year I can’t lose with that one
Right the bottom line is we know if we pay attention to the prophetic signs of the times that as wickedness and lawlessness increase that God in his wrath is going to bring judgment but his merciful judgments are to turn the people back to him let me tell you
What’s going to continue to happen based on the prophetic record more exposure is coming in the house of God the scripture tells us that judgment must begin in the house of God and sadly we’ve seen in the last few years a number of scandals that have hit news outlets and social media
And some of our heroes and some of these people who we consider to be Giants in the faith have been found to be living fraudulent lives or it it bare minimum hypocritical lives and has caused many people to be sad and to have their faith Shipwrecked I want to tell you more of
That’s coming but it won’t just be to the famous preacher or the famous singer but it’s coming to your house if you are living in compromise this is an hour for you to repent right now to say Jesus have mercy on me it’s better to fall
Into the hands of the Lord than to fall into the hands of the wicked but there’s going to be further exposure if you’re being unfaithful to your spouse if you’re being dishonest with your money if you’re living living a secretive life of deception judgment is coming hear that by the Holy Spirit if
You’re here tonight and you’re living in in sin the good news is that Mercy is available but we can according to the scriptures know that more judgment is coming it’s part of what Jesus said would happen before his return so we shouldn’t be so shaken by that but I
Want to turn to corner a bit I want to talk to you about a Nazarite that had a pretty bad middle but a good ending and you may know the story and that is the story of Samson how many of you are familiar with the story of
Samson all right so turn with me let’s look at this for a minute y’all all right I’m looking at the clock we we’re not going to miss the countdown like we did two years ago I was so caught up we forgot to even celebrate the new
Year but judges go with me to the Book of Judges we’ll go to verse or chapter number 16 and while you’re looking for that or while pulling up on the screen I kind of sum up the story for time sake for you so in the scripture this is just some
Little background information that may help you so these nazarites again you can read about the law of the Nazarite in Numbers Chapter 6 but in the scripture there are a few people mentioned and called to be nazarites one of them was the prophet Samuel the other
Was the man we’re going to read about here in a moment Samson and the third one that’s mentioned is John the Baptist Samuel Samson and John the Baptist now what’s interesting is that all three of these uh nazarites that were called into that lifestyle to live at a heightened
Degree of consecration these prophetic voices all three of them came from mothers who were Barren it’s interesting and I might make a point on that here in a moment so if you look actually go back to Judges 13 I apologize verse number one we’ll go to
16 next but judges 13:1 says that again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for 40 years verse two says now there was a certain man from Zora of the family of the danites whose name was
Monoa and his wife was Barren and had no children and the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her indeed now you are Barren and have borne no children but you shall conceive and bear a son now therefore please be careful not to drink wine or similar
Drink and not to eat anything unclean for behold you shall conceive and bear a son and no razor shall come upon his head for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines so to speed this up Samson is born and he’s born miraculously an angel the angel of the Lord shows up and prophesies his birth and gives very strict orders about how not only he but his parents should live and raise him so for those of you that were raised in
A strict Church household don’t despise it too much anybody glad they were raised with some order some of y’all don’t know what that means I guess did anybody tell you no growing up did you ever get a whooping I don’t think that’s like child abuse now
Who got whooped in here tell somebody I survived a whooping I’m not going to ask you what you got whooped with somebody said switches electric cords shoes hangers we will not tell Children’s Services what happened to you but times have certainly changed but what happens here let me get
Back to the text is that Samson is miraculously born to a mother who is Barren because he has a Divine Purpose on his life and he maintains for the most part the strict order of life until he gets a little bit older and a little bit independent Now isn’t that how we
Are soon as we turn 18 we manifest the Rebellion that was in our heart all that time can I testify for about 40 seconds I was raised in church I was raised to not do this not do that and I did all the stuff I did and I hid it from my
Parents right soon as I turned 18 this is how I C I’m not trying to boast in my sin because Lord knows I’m ashamed of these things now but this is just to show you how Wicked the human heart is soon as I turned 18 the first thing I
Did was number one go get my ears pierced now if you got your ears pierced it it inpersonal I just wasn’t allowed to get my ears pierced so I said I’m grown now I’m getting my ears pierced second thing I did was I went and bought a PL pack of black and
Miles don’t even ask and the third thing I did is I I did something I shouldn’t have did I went to a x-rated club and because it was a disaster yeah I wasn’t always saved okay but I was 18 I’m independent I can do what I
Want Samson in the same way as he gets older he begins to kind of flex a little bit he starts to act like well I’m biging bad I can do what I want so his compromise begins gradually everybody say gradually he first desires the Philistine wife and then after that
Doesn’t go too well in chapter 16 if you will look at chapter 16 verse number one so after the gradual compromise with his Phil wife losing a bed and losing his wife verse one of chapter 16 says that Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot
There now this is a Nazarite y’all do y’all remember what I said about nazarites they live at a heightened degree of consecration as a prophetic witness in their generation that Superior pleasure is found in Jesus Christ as an indictment that the world offers nothing but inferior pleasure
Same guy and now here he is a couple years removed from his par parents oversight feeling himself because when you’re in sin you don’t immediately feel the consequences and he’s thinking to himself well I’ve violated my Nazarite vow but I still got my strength so it must not be nothing to this standard
Called Holiness because God hasn’t judged me quite yet so here he is in chapter 16 verse number one we read the text he sees a harlot there in Gaza and he goes into her and after a while he falls in love with this woman and what
He doesn’t know is that this woman is a trap she was not a blessing she was a curse she looked good to his eyes but she had demonic motives in his life her demonic assignment was to weaken him to take his strength and so she begins a seductive conversation with Samson and
The question is asked what is the secret to your strength and Samson because he feels that he’s Invincible still at this point begins to kind of mock the woman so for three different on three different occasions you can read about in verses six all the
Way down to about verse number 16 or 15 he kind of you know mocks her and and plays games with her and she gets very frustrated and each time that he kind of gives her a false answer to the question what is the secret to your strength you
Know he says for example if you bind me up with you know a little rope or seven ropes and you know I’ll lose my strength well after three different occasions of him Breaking Free the woman gets very upset so let’s read verse number 16 of
Chapter 16 it says and it came to pass when she speaking of Delilah pestered him daily with her words and pressed him that his soul was vexed to death now pause right there this is a sneak peek into how sin really works I’m not going
To ask you to raise your hand but I want to just want you to thank about this for a moment how many of you have had Temptations knocking on your door repeatedly can consistently you found yourself in conversations you had no business having in situations where things were being offered to you and
Little by little your resolve is weakening things that you once thought were completely off limits you now begin to embrace as okay who’s ever been there before so he knows at this point he should know at least that he shouldn’t even be talking to this woman but he put
Himself in a situation to where now he’s being pestered every single day so so much so that his soul was vexed even unto death so what happens when he’s at this point of exasperation verse number 17 says now he told her all his heart and he said to
Her no razor has ever come upon my head for I have been a a Nazarite a set aart man a man who made a vow from his childhood to live for the purposes of God so I’ve been a Nazarite from my mother’s womb and if I’m shaven then my
Strength will leave me and I become weak and be like any other man verse number 18 says when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart she sent and called for the Lords of the Philistines saying come up once more for he has told
Me all his heart so the Lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand and they she lawed him to sleep verse 19 on her knees y’all better be careful where you take a nap what are you doing later you want to
Come over some of y’all getting text messages right now what that church ever is going to be over what you doing later you want to watch the ball drop you better careful where you take a nap who said Woo in Jesus name Freedom whatever whatever that I’m just playing I’m just
Playing and happily married praise God you got your wife with you and your baby so amen yes praise God I’m just playing but she she lawed him to sleep on her knees I want you to take the take the vi the imagery there it’s pretty vivid but I want you just kind of
Imagine how all temptation works it’s usually a la to sleep it is not a you don’t get deceived with just one conversation seduction is a process compromise is a process at this point Samson has been gradually fading it’s a slow fade so keep going after he gives her the secret it
Says she called for a man and had him shave off verse 19 the Seven Locks of his head she began to torment him and what does it say his anointing or it says his strength left him have you ever been there before where you felt strength leave you gifted but no
Strength y’all didn’t know there was a difference you can still sing you can still preach you’re still this you’re still that you still have all of those attributes that God endowed you with but you’ve lost the anointing there are many churches that put on a good show but there no
Conviction of sin there’s many preachers that can hoop and holler and entertain the crowd and singers that can make you jump and Shout but there’s no conviction of the Holy Spirit demons are not alert demons are not terrified people can sit in churches across this country and live
In Comfort while living in Rebellion something’s wrong with that picture so continuing on after his strength leaves him it says verse number 20 and she said the Philistines are upon you Samson so he awoke from his sleep and he said I will go out as before at other times and
Shake myself free because that’s what he did the other three times but here’s what it says you read it it says he did not know that the Lord had departed from him now stay on verse 20 how do you get to a place where you don’t know that the
Lord has departed from you Samson found himself in a place where he was so disconnected from God’s presence he wasn’t even aware that it was gone sometimes you can live in compromise for so long that compromise is normalized and that’s why I was warning you at the beginning I’m not trying to
You know be anticlimactic here but I’m telling you there are people and I’m saying this prophetically by the word of the Lord take it and do with it what you will there are some of us here tonight that 2023 we have lost our strength we still have titles we still
Have reputations we still have positions we still have influence you still may even have people who are singing your Praises but when you go to shake yourself as you did at other times when you find yourself in the Rut when you find yourself being overcome by the enemy the strength is
Gone and Samson sadly did not even know he had lost discernment he had lost his sensitivity to the presence of God and so after you have the Holy Spirit depart from you it’s now just you an ordinary man so what happens next let’s just read verse 21 it says now that he’s weakened
Like an ordinary man it says the Philistines took him and put out his eyes that’s a prophetic picture of losing vision put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and they bound him there with Bron feathers and he became a grinder in the prison I’ll leave it there for a moment
I want to encourage you though it doesn’t sound so encouraging that God is merciful tonight can I be candid with you all for a moment as a pastor I I weep I pray and I have many tears and I have many sleepless nights my wife will tell you that there are
Many nights where I’m up in the middle of the middle of the night 3 4:00 in the morning she’ll ask me what are you doing and I don’t always tell her all the details but quite often it is the holy spirit Awakening me to prayer specific people’s names and faces will come
Before me and I’ll find myself unable to sleep because the Lord will show me that the devil has crept into people’s lives and even the people who you would never thank the people who have displayed the giftedness who’ve been useful in fact who’ve had fruitful histories with God
Where you would think of them and you would put them on the same page as as some of the greats of the Bible I mean people who have really great reputations but there’s two reputations there’s the one that people have of you and the one
That God has of you and I felt the Holy Spirit say tonight that tonight is not a night for you to continue living based on what people say about you but to know what God says about you you can be we can be like the Pharisees who Jesus said
The outside of the cup is clean but inwardly there can be death today as a testimony and proof of what I’m saying one of our worship leaders where’s he at Chris where’s Chris why are you over there come in here brother I need your fa come on what you in that dark room
Come on make a room for him somebody you can sit on stage if you want but Chris was up here leading worship and you were here this morning some of you and you remember he stopped and he began to testify now this was not on the script
We were supposed to be getting into the message and doing announcements and all that and he began to testify and he said I know this might be weird but if you’re here and you’re struggling with sexuals sin and immorality I want you to come forward within a matter of 60 to 90
Seconds from wall to wall people were coming out of their seats within a matter of three minutes I saw two people manifesting demons to where they had to get the the bucket because person was vomiting as this unclean Spirit was leaving them if you were here this morning
You’ll notice and remember that just two minutes prior everybody was jumping and everybody was twirling and everybody was having Church the reputation the performance this outer uh in this this outward face that we put on this facade you cannot carry that into this next year Samson had strength while he was living in
Compromise several episodes of compromise yet he still got strength but at some point the hand of the Lord lifts off of him and he finds himself as we just read here a moment ago in a jam and he goes to shake himself and set himself free as he did in times
Past but he did not know that the Lord had departed from him here’s the good news about this story verse 22 though he’s in compromise the scripture says however everybody say however there’s always a however with God the scripture says the hair of his head begin to grow again after it had
Been shaven now leave that there for some of you you may not know what the significance of that verse is but that is a prophetic picture of restoration and Redemption if you remember the angel of the Lord comes to his mother and father and says that no
Razor shall touch his head for he is a Nazarite un to the Lord and you remember just a few verses prior that when he was asked what is the great secret of your strength he finally caved in and said all my life a razor has never touched my
Head but if you shave my hair which again that long the locks of his hair was an outward sign of his inner devotion then I’ll lose my strength so here he is he’s in compromise he’s lost the spirit he’s in bondage he’s being mocked he’s lost his vision you would
Think just die your damaged goods you’ve missed your calling you were raised up by God as we read from chapter 13 to overthrow the Philistines and rather than fulfill your ministry you got caught up with hookers you married a Philistine woman you have blown it however the hair of his head begin to
Grow again after he had been shaven I want to ask you this question who is it that causes the hair to grow who is it that the Bible tells us has numbered every follicle on your scalp it is the Lord God Almighty the one that called Samson the one that
Anointed Samson the one that raised him up and here he is in complete compromise he’s blown it but yet the Lord says yet even in your compromise I’m going to give you another chance this isn’t just a statement about his physical attribute of hair whether or not he was remaining
Bought it is a sign that even in your lowest moment even in your greatest compromise if you are willing the Lord will cause your hair to grow again two days or three days ago as I was thinking about this evening service I heard that scripture in my prayer time
Early in the morning I heard it judges 1622 the hair of his head begin to grow again and the Lord said there will be people there on watch night’s service who like Samson have compromised they have blown it they have fumbled the ball they have missed assignments they have lived a life that
Is not pleasing to God they had a great anointing at one point and everybody even the people who used to pray for them have turned on them but deep down that still Small Voice that inner Witness of the Holy Spirit has continued to give them just a Slither of Hope and
Something’s going to tell them if you could just limp your way crawl your way into the house of the Lord he is a God of everlasting Mercy my assignment here tonight is to tell you that if you would allow him to tonight God will restore you even in the
Midst of your compromise now what has happened to you as you have found yourself in secret sin is this more more than likely the case that you’ve begin to believe that God has no use for you that your best bet is to just kind of
Come to church from now on and just sit there and take up space but you don’t believe that God could ever use you now what’s amazing I don’t have time to read it but what happens with Samson after a while you can read it for yourself is
That he prays a prayer at the end of the story that you find in chapter 16 and the Lord strengthens him once again and his assignment which was to overthrow the Philistines though he died in the process he still fulfilled it the scripture actually says that he killed
More in his death than he did in his life there’s a song the African church is sing Jehovah has the final say how many know God has the final word and so the Lord hear this by the spirit the Lord wants you to know tonight to not number one to not be in
Denial about the status or the place that you’re at when we look around this room at when I look around this room I see nothing but trophies of grace and the scripture says it like this if he was to count iniquity who could stand is there anybody here that
Would dare think that in their own strength or in their own Merit that they would be qualified how wave your hand if you know ain’t nothing good in you but sin okay how many you’re thankful for the mercy of God so what happens when people get in compromised is they
Isolate themselves because the heaviness of condem Nation begins to come upon them they begin to feel like man there’s no hope for me but I want to tell you tonight God didn’t let you come to this watch Night Service for you to continue living that life there is a God that
Will cause your hair to grow again to restore that Nazarite calling that prophetic calling that anointing that strength and put you back in position to fulfill your purpose but you have to be willing tonight to confess your sins and to ask the Lord for his
Mercy I want you to just take a few moments and if this message is hitting home to you or if you maybe even interceding for someone who you’ve been praying and asking God lord would you turn their hearts back to you bring them before the Lord I want to continue as I
Wrap this up with just a few small words of encouragement America is in a crisis but it’s not a crisis that’s too big for God whether you you are living in Compromise or whether you’re just a church attendee who’s kind of trying to figure out what you’re supposed to do next with your life I want to tell you by the word of the Lord there’s an invitation to be a Nazarite to be a man and a woman this is
Not gender specific but to be a man or a woman who would voluntarily lay their life down to live a life totally separated for the purpose and the glory of God now some of you think that sounds boring can I tell you there’s nothing more enjoyable than living for the purposes of God when you have truly been awakened to the Majesty of Jesus Christ and when your taste buds have been cleansed from the what this world offers and you’ve tasted and seen that the Lord is good the very sin I was talking to some folks yesterday at our theology suppos I said
The very sin that you once struggled with you will now despise and hate because through the Holy Spirit you’ll begin to see sin for what it actually is an invitation into death and I just feel the burden of the Lord for some of you that have been praying and asking God like for
Direction in your life asking God for what am I supposed to do once I get out of school what am I supposed to do next I want to tell you that you are a part of what I believe by the holy spirit is going to be one of the greatest
Outpourings of the spirit of God in the history of America y’all got to have some faith I know what they’re saying I know what they’re saying about Christians and about the church about how it’s this and about how it’s that but can I tell you that God has never
Left himself without a witness that he is still on a mission to seek and save that which is lost and just as many of you who are here tonight have testimonies of being delivered from as Aaron shared tonight of alcoholism of pornographic addiction of idolatry of I
Mean you fill in the blank how many of you here tonight have been delivered from the power of death and I think if you would just think for a moment about how many people you know who are still bound maybe you have family members who are living in unbelief maybe you know
People who you go to school with or who you work with or live with that they’re mocking you for being at church on New Year’s Eve could you imagine what would happen when the Holy Ghost is poured out on them too see one of the benefits of
Being a pastor is I’m constantly brought into contact with testimonies of redemption to where this never gets old to me this morning we baptized I think it was nine or 10 people in jesus’ name and we didn’t have them go through and share their individual testimonies but there were people who struggle with
Same-sex attraction addiction hatred atheism unbelief I mean you name it and to take them down in that watery grave in the name of Jesus Christ and to watch them weep under the conviction and the love of God and receive the promise of the Father which is the holy spirit with
Tears streaming down their face knowing that their hope has been renewed their Joy has been restored I just find myself getting a little bit more excited about church these days because every time I walk through the doors I’m asking the Holy Spirit who’s next God who’s on your
List who have you targeted who have you led here today or tonight that you have for before they even thought of you who you’ve had on your mind we’re almost at 12:00 but before we do this is how I want to go into the new
Year I want everyone to pray with me for a moment if you’re here tonight you’re under the sound of my voice and you know that there are things in your life that have just been slowing you down things that are not fully pleasing to Jesus Christ you don’t even
Need someone to tell you all the things you’ve done wrong because you know that there are things that God desires from your life but you’ve got as the scripture calls it weights maybe it’s relationships maybe it’s an addiction I want to tell you something about the blood of Jesus
Tonight that all it takes is one drop of the blood as a song said that flows from Emmanuel’s veins to cleanse you from all unrighteousness and declare you holy before God so whatever those issues are what whatever those bondages are please know they are no match for the power of
The blood of Jesus intercessors this is your cue to begin to pray that the power of the blood of Jesus and the power of the name of Jesus will be manifested in this moment as you open your mouth and begin to pray around this room I want to
Invite you tonight and I want my prayer team leaders and members to get in position I want to invite you tonight as you begin and prepare to enter into a new year to allow the Holy Ghost to set you free from bondage tonight in the next 10 minutes or so
Before we go in into 2024 rejoicing the Lord has ordered deliverance and I I promise you there is nothing that is shocking or unknown to God he’s fully aware of everything you’ve been through and everything that you’re going through he knows what it feels like one of the things that makes Jesus
Such a great as the scripture calls him merciful high priest it says that he was tempted in all points he was touched with the fing of our infirmities he knows what it’s like to feel Temptation yet he was without sin So when you say Jesus I’m struggling with
This I’m struggling with that Jesus is able to to relate to you he’s not ashamed of you he doesn’t look at you like a mistake and just as it was with Samson even if you’ve had your head shaven even if you’ve broken your vow to God even if you’ve
Compromised your hair can grow again tonight he can lay hands on you and your hair can begin to grow again tonight he can restore you and take you from that place of compromise and bring you to a place of purpose and all he has ask of
Us tonight is to say I surrender I Repent I need help so let’s pray around this room and I want you as you begin to pray in the Holy Spirit you guys just stay stay right there come on lift your voice if you’re here tonight and you say
Pastor it’s 11:49 if that clock is right I don’t want to go into 2024 carrying the same weight that I’ve carried all year maybe it’s longer than 2023 I want you to stand on your feet and I want you to come forward and allow us to
Pray with you just come on wherever you are you’re making your declaration come on come on up to the front find one of these prayer team if you come on up sis we got you we got you we got you because you don’t have to carry this any
Longer Deliverance happens at the point of surrender whatever you’ve done we might need a little bit more help you guys can leave from over there maybe come here in the front we got some space here but as you watch these folks bring these things before the Lord I want you
To pray for them I want you to really stretch your hands forward if possible and maybe pray if you guys want it’s a little loud by those speakers feel free to come over here I want you to remember where you are we need some help can I get some
More guys over here these sister the sister and these brothers come on up guys just stand right here we got some people coming to you now we need all hands on deck but I want you to remember your testimony for a Moment may the Lord never allow you to forget what he’s brought you through when I was 19 years old college basketball thought I was the man going to church had a girl I was messing with had a whole lot of other things I was doing but I was going to
Church and I remember going into the church one day and when that preacher said Jesus something arrested my spirit and I came up for prayer that day not knowing that my life was about to Forever change I came forward the guy was like hey do you have
The Holy Spirit I’m like I don’t know maybe and he just said well let me pray for you as he begin to pray for me I begin to feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit I begin to recognize even know I’ve been to church I need to be saved for
Real they said do you want to be baptized I went back and I changed clothes I got baptized that day within five minutes I was speaking in tongues and was demon free I remember sitting there on that Pew and those old church mothers laid hands on me and begin to
Rebuke the devil that had been attacking my life and I remember feeling this sense of a combination of mercy and love but also the fear of the Lord and I begin to confess my sin I begin to renounce my sin I begin to ask Jesus Christ to forgive me and what seemed
Like hours passed by and when I got up off that Pew and walked out of the church that day I was instantly delivered from sexual immorality instantly delivered from what would probably be considered now a weed addiction instantly the shackles of demonic oppression were broken off my
Life and it wasn’t because of some powerful sermon that was preached or a powerful song but I came into contact with a powerful God how many you believe that you serve a powerful God that’s not intimidated by the magnitude of your struggle but he’s a powerful God he’s
Able to break every chain and every shackle on your mind and on your heart and on your soul he’s able to break every generational curse that might have been passed down from Bad examples in your family if any man be in Christ he’s a new creation old things are passed
Away behold All Things become new we’ve got just a few more minutes of this year you guys come on up here oh I see some can you help them maybe move a chair out you guys come on up here we’re going to pray with you if there’s anyone else
Come on up here but if any man be in Christ he’s a new creation old things are passed away All Things become new there’s a pathway here yeah you can stand right there just lift your hands if you come up just lift your hands to
The Lord and this is your moment to talk to the father if I can get everyone’s help just for about 2 minutes before we count down the New Year here in a moment I want you to intercede and pray for every person if you’re on our prayer
Team I need some help here cuz we’re a little short-handed with this many folk so all of our elders and if you’re on our pastoral team please feel free to help us up here you’re on our street Ministry team you can help us as well there’s about three or four people five
People around here but just for about two minutes let’s just begin to pray for breakthrough not only for those at this altar but breakthrough in our families breakthrough in our spheres of influence come on let’s begin to pray that God would raise up nazarites in this nation
That God would raise up a bride in this hour that God would raise up some young people that would live a holy life with the joy of the Lord that God would raise up some young people that would prophesy that that God would raise up some intercessors that God would Mark people
Whether you’re called to business or engineering or the medical field or or wherever to Media to politics to Athletics to education whatever your assignment is on the earth may God anoint you to make difference may God anoint you to bring light to Darkness may God anoint you to be an agent of the
Kingdom of God father in the name of Jesus we ask you for an anointing of the Holy Ghost to come upon this church to come upon these people father in the name of Jesus would you cause the spirit of Holiness to even right now begin to arrest the heart of your people father
For the hours that we live in are dark the hours are filled of compromise but father tonight we draw a line in the sand and we refuse to be identified as the generation of compromise and we ask you holy spirit that you would give us a power tonight to live a life that
Exhausts Jes Jesus to live a life that is fully pleasing to live a life without compromise and father in the name of Jesus for every person that’s here tonight at this altar or even still in their seat wherever the devil has come in wherever the enemy has sought to deceive their
Mind we plead the blood of the Lamb of God we plead the blood of Jesus we plead the name of Jesus May the power of God come right now and disrupt every demonic plan May every demonic Spirit every heavy Spirit every unclean Spirit that’s Afflicted and oppressed your people
Tonight be driven out in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and father for every person that stumbled their way into church tonight under Despair and under hopelessness we pray tonight that you father of Glory would release a wave of Glory upon their life that raises as
Your word declares the beggar out of the ash Heap that sets our feet upon Solid Ground father in the name of Jesus would you restore Divine Purpose tonight as you did in the life of Samson would you cause our hair to grow again as you did
In the life of Samson would you call us Lord out of a life of of of jadedness and disillusionment and discouragement and bring us back to a place of Divine Purpose in the name of Jesus we declare that 2024 is going to be a year of surrender in our life come on prophesy
That over your own life that in 2024 you will be surrendered to the purpose of God that in 2024 you will not allow your life to be hidden under the bush that in 2024 you will say Jesus whatever you want you can have your way in my life
Lord in 2024 we wave goodbye to excuses in 2024 we wave goodbye Lord God to compromise and we pray holy spirit that you would would come aresh that you would come in power Lord that you would come again that you would not leave our generation without a witness Lord for so
Many years we’ve been crying out for an Awakening and Revival we’ve been crying out for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit we’ve been crying out for a move of God among young people and Lord I’m asking you tonight would you mark these young people every person in this church
Tonight that’s under the age of 30 would you set them Ablaze with the gospel would you set them Ablaze with the fire of God would you cause the burden of Eternity would you cause Lord God an anointing to come upon them tonight to live as a Nazarite if you want the Lord
To anoint you if you want him to mark your heart if you want to live your days as a young man or young woman sold out for the purpose of God I call you tonight lift your hands to your heavenly father and say Lord Jesus as I cross
Over into a new year I’m waving goodbye to mediocrity I’m saying yes to the call of surrender would you anoint me would you pour out your spirit upon me aresh would you mark me as a Nazarite as a curse breaker as one that would shine as
A star in the midst of Darkness father we pray in the name of Jesus that tonight Every Chain would be broken we got a couple more minutes it’s 11:57 come on let’s pray your way into 202 for you might need to stand up and lift your hands you might need to Pace
Up and down the aisle but can I tell you don’t go into 2024 playing the religious game don’t go into a new year with the form of godliness but no power we renounce every demonic agreement we’ve made everything that we’ve opened our spirit man up to every movie every music
Every conversation that was defiled and Unholy father tonight we ask you draw a line in our heart set us apart for the purpose of God In Our Generation if you’re here tonight you’re not here by accident is because the Lord wanted you to hear a message to Mark you
To call you out of the place of ordinary into the life of the supernatural my burden for our generation is that we embrace the fire of God Ra father release the baptism of the Holy Spirit Come on keep pray y’all we almost into a new year and as we end
2023 we go into the new year with Thanksgiving in our heart with praise on our lips contending for an outpouring of the Holy Ghost come on y’all we’re almost there we’re almost there as we get closer we’re about to get into a new year it’s about to become official and
We announce as we cross over into 2024 that our mind is made up our soul is decided we have set our affection as Paul said in Colossians on things above Raa we will not allow the devil to Rob us we will not allow the enemy to steal
Our purpose and our destiny but in the mighty name of Jesus Christ the son of God lord tonight we say Happy New Year to our future we say Happy New Year we say we celebrate the year of Deliverance come on Four 3 two one come on give God a shout
Of Praise come on shout hallelujah the first word out of your mouth announce the power of God announce the victory of the Cross we bless you Jesus we declare 2024 the year of Our Lord the year of surrender right now break it down for a moment we pray right
Now that father your favor would rest upon us in this year we pray that every family Lord God would receive the blessing of God we pray even tonight God that every marriage that’s been under attack not only in 2023 but in years prior that year the Year of 2024 is the year of
Supernatural Restoration in the home whatever that looks like but God we thank you that covenants will not be broken and where it may not be possible to restore the Covenant that there will be Peaceable relation relationships between former husbands and wives we’ve break the power of Discord and we
Declare in jesus’ name our year is blessed by the hand of God whatever comes high or low challenge trial or tribulation we ask you for the grace and for the strength going into this new year that we would continue to sing and continue to worship continue to bless your
Name that the year 2024 Our Testimony would be 12 months from now whether you are blessed beyond measure or whether you go through the trial of life may your testimony be 12 months from now great is the Lord and greatly to be praised may your testimony be 12 months
From now I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth one year from now may your testimony be that Jesus is Worthy of every breath that I take father tonight if you’re not receiving prayer and you’re in your
Seats feel free to just lift your hands for a moment I want to pray now for the Holy Spirit to fall aresh and I want you to begin to pray in the spirit in your seats come on just call on the name of Jesus if you don’t know what else to do
Just say Jesus I need more God I want an anointing oting to live for you Lord as we lift our hands we pray Holy Spirit would you come come on ask him tonight Lord would you come and manifest Your Glory would you come and restore The Cry of our
Youth and Lord I pray now for the Hannah for the mothers that were Barren I pray for the elizabeths I pray for those women that feel B and feel like their life has not produced fruit that Lord that entire generation that felt like their best was
Not enough we pray that Lord you would come and release fruitfulness in their wombs that Lord their children will be saved that Lord their grandchildren will be saved I want to encourage every person who’s Gen X who’s a baby boomer who’s a buster who’s a builder you may not not be what the
World calls a young person but you have not been forgotten by God and Lord I pray tonight that you would restore the years that the locusts have eaten that Lord tonight people would get their strength for prayer back some of you are like Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty
Dumpty had a great fall all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again I got good new news Jesus can put you back together again if you fallen off the wall of intercession and you can say I need my
Prayer life restored I want you to lift your hands we want to pray for an impartation of intercession you turn me up here my voice is getting a little weak but lift your hands to the Lord as we go into this new year we’re going to need fervent effectual intercession
Come on lift your hands y’all don’t don’t put confidence in the flesh as you lift your hands you’re saying to the father Lord I need what comes from your hands you’re also saying Lord I receive the mercy that comes from your hands and I give you my life that’s what a posture of
Hands lifted represents surrender and reception father we lift our hands to heaven we pray Lord God Of Heaven and Earth that you would remember this moment that as Lord tonight we make covenant at the top of our year that we consecrate the year of 2024 to you we consecrate this
Year for your purpose and for your will and we ask you now for the spirit of Grace and supplication to come upon your people for your word declares at the fervent effectual prayers of the righteous dis Avail much Lord would you raise up intercessors in this generation who pray with fervent
Effectual prayer would you raise up men and women young and old that have an anointing and an unction from the Holy Spirit to go the distance in prayer Lord I’m asking you even right now for people who have not prayed much at all in the last few months that they would feel a
Quickening in their spirit that Lord the spirit of as you prophesied to the prophet Zachariah that the spirit of Grace and supplication you would pour upon the House of David in those days May that anointing rest on families May that AR anointing rest on husbands and wives May the anointing of
Prayer come upon every home that the House of Prayer would not just be this building but every place we call our own home that the anointing would be tangible when you walk through the doors how many of you want your home to be a habitation for the glory of God that
Lord when when our homes are opened up when our cars are opened up that there would be a presence of God that’s cultivated every place that we reside and Lord as you would call us away from uncleanness as you would call us away from compromise we pray now holy spirit make us
Holy ask him this year God would you make me holy would you deliver me from compromise would you remove the appetite for sensuality would you remove the appetite for carnal things father I pray that you would Mark a people with the spirit of Holiness Lord that you would Mark not only this
Congregation but this whole city may it be known that Columbus is a city that seeks the Lord we ask you at the top of this year that you would would add musicians and singers and intercessors to the Columbus House of Prayer we ask you that this year you would allow more
Marriages and and more babies to be born healthy we ask you that this year that you would bless the work of our hands and I want you for a moment whatever you’re believing God for in 2024 I want you to take a moment bring your goals your vision whatever he put in your
Heart before God say Lord I’m putting this before you in 20 24 and just take a moment and pray that God would bless the work of your hands if you need to find a prayer partner that’s fine just say hey will you agree with me and pray let’s pray
Together for our family members to be saved let’s pray that God would bless our career Pursuits our academic Pursuits father as we consecrate this year to you we recognize that our best is not good enough we need the super Upon Our natural so Holy Spirit I pray for every
Person that’s been here tonight that said at the top of 2024 I’m consecrating my life to Christ my vision to Christ that you would anoint them right now and you would touch and favor everything that they’re doing everything every Kingdom assignment every Ministry Endeavor everything you’ve called them to every podcast every blog
Every YouTube channel every whatever it is nonprofit for-profit business some of you have entrepreneurial Endeavors bring it before the Lord and ask him to bless your business bless your organization bless your family he’s a faithful God and what you pray now has impact God remembers memorial stones God’s
Memory he remembers every tiar you you shed he remembers every meditation of your heart and every time you put it on the altar God remembers so this is what This Moment’s about you want your husband and you want your wife maybe you want your children
To be saved this year say God do it this year if you’re in a courtship relationship or you’re dating someone and you want that relationship to be pleasing to Jesus dedicate that courtship to God say Lord we want your blessing on this dating relationship whatever it is that you got
Your hands on Jesus it’s all yours we surrender everything to you father at the top of the year and Lord we commit this ministry aresh to you and we put it on the record that hope City House of Prayer belongs to Jesus may this church never be the work of a
Personality or a group of people in their own strength but may this place be a place that your name is exalted where you are the only star of the show where people can come and encounter your presence and hear your truth without fear of judgment father we pray
This year lead us into the Harvest we pray Lord of the Harvest send forth laborers into the Harvest we thank you that this will be a year of breakthrough of an increase of the presence of the Lord an increase of love for God an increase of every good and
Perfect gift that comes from the father Jesus we thank you for who you are what you’ve done and what you’ve promised to do 2024 belongs to God how many believe that this is going to be a year of the blessing of the Lord trials tribulations may come but
You will by God’s grace Grace be blessed
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