Step Up Part 1

Hello, hello. Listen, I know you wanna check out this message, but before you do, I wanna invite you to come check us out in person. Here at Freelife Chapel, we're all about family and would love to connect with you face to face. So if you're ever in the Central Florida area, come check us out. Here at FLC, we wanna help you discover and live the free life in Christ. To learn more about who we are, what we do, and how you can be a part, check us out at freelifechapel.org. Until then, check out this message. We're kicking it off today with a brand new series called Step Up. Step up. Now, if you're not familiar with the terminology step up, it means would you please get your life in motion? Would you do something? Like don't sit back and look at it and go, wow, good for you. No, no, no, good for us, let's go. We've got to make some moves in life. How many of you know we can be really good about talking about stuff and we never do anything towards it? Right? How many of you know that light bulb needs to be changed? But it's been out for three months now

and it just keeps on sitting there. Oh, see, that's called conviction. That's what that is, right? Yeah, we gotta step up. Cindy and I, when we travel, it's always exciting. It's always fun to get to a hotel, be checking in, and when you start to earn some points here and there and they say, oh, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, welcome back. We'd like to offer you a free upgrade. Yes. Yes. Especially when they put you on that club level thing. You ever stayed on a club level? What? Hors d'oeuvres, how do you even spell hors d'oeuvres? I don't know, but they are good and they serve them at five o'clock and hungry or not, I'm getting some of them things. That little club level thing. Well, thank you very much. We'd like to upgrade your room to a better view, good. I went from the air conditioner to a wall, but it's a whole lot better. It's nice when you get upgraded when you're flying on an airplane. Oh, hey, how you doing, right, right? All of the livestock in the back and everybody else up front, that's kind of how you feel. I usually ride with the livestock, that's what we do, but when you get that upgrade,

and man, they're like serving you juice, like, that's a glass, like that's actual glass, that's not paper. Yeah, that's what we do in first class. Got that big cushy seat, it's so nice. One time Cindy and I were flying overseas and they bumped us. It had to be an accident. It's so random, it was like, what in the world? I didn't say it, it's like, hush. They put us in first class going overseas. Ladies and gentlemen, this first class had a bed. It laid all the way out. They delivered a mattress about an hour and a half in, like, yes, yes, and here comes a little bag of pajamas. Are you serious? Are you serious? Put them things on, yes, we did. My little onesie, and I lay back on that little thing, like, I may never do this again, but I'm gonna enjoy it right now. It's nice when you get the upgrades in life, when you get that little bump. Y'all know you enjoy the upgrades in your car. When you buy a car, you want the upgrades, the options, right? Cindy won't buy a car even in Florida without a booty warmer. It's gotta have a booty warmer in it. And on days like this, she's dead right.

She needs a booty warmer. That's how we roll. Even your phone plan, you want an upgrade on your phone plan. When you go to Disney, you want the Fast Pass. I want that upgrade. Like, we're always looking to that little upgrade. Well, God wants you to have an upgrade in 2025. Don't you do 2024 on repeat. Don't you just keep getting the same old, same old, looking around going, well, here we are again. You've got nothing to be excited about if you're not stepping up. You've got nothing to look forward to in this new year if you're not deciding, I'm moving my life forward. I'm not hanging out anymore. Something's changing. Would you turn to someone and tell them something's gotta change, something's gotta change. Something's gotta change this year. That's exactly right. Don't settle for the standard when Jesus died for you to live in first class. Jeremiah chapter 10, verse 23 says this. I know, Lord, that a man's way of life is not his own. No one who walks determines his own steps. Notice that phrase. No one who walks determines his own steps. In other words, if you are deciding your own steps without Jesus, that means you ain't going nowhere.

You ain't walking. It's only when I say, God, lead my life. God, I'm gonna do it your way. My way fails, your way succeeds. I want you to lead my life. Your word is a lamp to my feet, a light to my path. Show me how to do this thing called marriage. Show me how to handle these people that I work with. Show me how to handle these people I call family. Let's just keep going. I'm sorry, I'm meddling now. If God isn't leading, I'm not stepping. I've got to step in my life, but I want to do it his way. It's critical that you and I know God's direction for life. If not, you're driving the wrong way all year. You ever missed a turn? You ever like missed an exit, and the only place to turn around is like 75 more miles that way, and then finally you get to take the off ramp and come back, oh, as soon as I realized I missed it, I missed an exit, and especially series, turn, turn, turn, turn, and I wasn't even listening, but it's okay, so here we go, and I'm all the way past it, and the whole time I'm passing, I'm going like, I'm just frustrated because I know, I'm wasting time, I'm wasting time, I'm wasting time. Oh my God, I passed that car, I passed that car, now they're gonna pass me. Like all of that's going on in my head.

There's nothing worse than knowing you're going the wrong way in life, and you've gotta turn around and come back eventually. Can I tell you something? There's a lot of us in the room today, I've been here, I've done this, maybe you're watching today and you understand that you recognize, you know, that where I'm going in life is not right. This is the wrong direction, and it's better to make the U-turn now, and get back in course, get back into alignment with God's plan, and God's word for your life, so that you can have every promise that he says. We've gotta get our lives in order, because here's what I've found. You can have a good heart and good intentions, and still be lost. I never wanted to miss a turn. It was never my intention, let's just pass this exit and see what happens. I never did that intentionally, but I found, I had good intentions, I had a good heart, but I still got lost. Has nothing with you being a good-hearted person. Good-hearted people are still wasting time. Good-intentioned people are still not on the right course in life, and we've got to pull it together, so that our home is in the right direction,

our money's going in the right direction, our family, our career, marriage, my heart, my peace is in the right direction. We've gotta make sure that we're doing it God's way, and I wanna talk to you just real quick today about just three simple keys to help you step up this year. Not step backwards, not step sideways, step up. The first thing you're gonna have to do if you're gonna step up this year, if you're gonna get off the ground this year, if you're gonna leave the past and get into your future, is you're gonna have to have some great goals in life. You're gonna have to know that you've got some things that you want to achieve in life. Anybody have something in mind that you would like to see happen this year that hasn't happened in your life yet? Yeah, yeah, but let me help you with something. Make sure that you're out thinking your family. Your family will be a lid on your life if you don't allow God to breathe something inside of you, because you're not here to just repeat what your family's done. You're here to set a new standard as for me and my house. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I want my grandkids going, man, thank God for Grandpa Scott. I want, Saba Scott. I want them celebrating where we went to.

My mom and dad had the same desire for our family. Let's make it better. Cindy and I had the same desire. Let's make it better. Caleb and Liz are gonna make it better. Malachi, Talia, we wanna continue to upgrade our family, but we do it knowing that we got handfuls of Christ and we're going somewhere in life. But let me help you make sure of something. You gotta make sure that you're climbing the right thing in life. You gotta make sure you're climbing it right. Careers, dreams, and degrees, and starting a new business, that's all good. They're great pursuits, watch this, but they're terrible goals. They're great pursuits, but they're terrible goals. They're not worth the climb. Why would you say that, Scott? Because you can achieve the career and still be empty. Oh, you can, you can get the degree and be frustrated. Don't even ask people how many people got degrees that they don't even use them. Let's keep, let me just get back, I'm sorry, let me just get back to the, you, you can have a successful business and your joy be bankrupt. So careers and degrees and businesses are not the goal in life. That is not the goal in life. So many people have reached the top of those ladders and then jumped off because they found out there was nothing waiting on them at the top. And if you're here today and you've got all these aspirations and you've got all this vision board, I love that, dream, baby, dream.

But understand, those are not the ladders, those are not the real goals in life. If you're gonna reach the top, you've gotta make sure that the effort is worth the climb. So how is it? How is it that we keep stepping in life and, and, and how do I achieve the best so that I'm fulfilled? You've got to realize this, watch this, the career, the business, the, the dreams, all of those aspirations, they're great, but, but, but those achievements are only steps on the ladder. They're not the purpose of the ladder. Your goal in life, Jesus, knowing Him, experiencing Him, loving Him, having Him speak to your heart, my heart more after Him, I see what He sees, I love, I hear what He says, I love what He loves, the Word of God is alive, I'm pursuing Christ and do you know what I'm standing on? A career. I'm standing on just a, a, a business, the degree. In other words, as I was pursuing Christ, I experienced those things on the way up, but they were not the focus of my life. It is fully possible that we get so focused on achieve, build, gain, grow, get, that we're coming up empty and we can't figure out where's Jesus in the mix. And if He's not the focus, then nothing on the way up is ever going to mean anything to you. But when my eyes are on Him, He makes everything that elevates life, gives it purpose, gives it worth, gives it value, brings it alive on the inside. There's nothing like knowing that He is the goal in my life. Jesus is the highest goal. He's what brings fulfillment in this new year. He's the one that gives you purpose in this year. Not just success, but satisfaction on the inside, where you lay your head on the pillow at night and you feel good in the neighborhood, like this is the way I'm supposed to be living right here.

There's nothing like that, ladies and gentlemen, that joy. Get your laugh back this year. Let me just help you with something. This is not impressive. We gotta fix that. And I'm telling you, it's possible to be climbing something and the whole time, you should enjoy the climb. There should be some joy on the way up. What makes it joyful? Because you got your eyes full of the One that makes the whole climb worthwhile. Jesus makes life worth living outside of Him. I don't care what you achieve, what you get your hands on, it's never going to replace Him in your life. Would you tell three folks you need Jesus? You just need Jesus? Just tell somebody you need Him. Philippians 4, 13, read this loud. Read it out loud. Here we go, one, two, three. I strive towards the prize. The upward call. I strive towards the prize of Jesus. And He's only going to take me up. He's taking me forward. He's taking me higher. I strive. And notice, there's a reward. The prize. The payoff. Ladies and gentlemen, you need a payoff bigger than your bank account.

Because there's folks that got plenty in the bank account and they still haven't hit a payday yet. They're still empty and they're struggling and things are falling apart. Some of the wealthy, in fact, the two wealthiest men in the world, their homes have fallen apart. It has nothing to do with wealth. I know we think, if I could just get me one of them, baby. They got one of them and they're making other new ones and it's still not enough. You need Jesus to satisfy. Jesus to be the goal if you're going to step up this year I got to make sure that the ladder I'm climbing has Jesus at the top and I'll enjoy Everything that's on the way up and he will continue to bless every step But you got to keep him the focus any other goal other than Jesus means I'm climbing in the wrong direction I've got to make sure he's the focus. It's critical Proverbs chapter 10 says the blessing of the Lord makes a person rich and He adds no sorrow to it that means when I'm pursuing him not them When I'm pursuing Him Jesus Then all of a sudden the things that I'm enjoying along the way don't come with strings attached That when I got to this level now, it's gonna cost me and I owe them. Oh, yeah, then there's that no No, no, no When you do it Jesus as well you get all that he brings with it and he says I don't have any dark side There's not a backside that's going to come back and bite you later. I don't add sorrow to my blessing You can really enjoy the journey. There's nothing like that in the world So any right goals number two You need right people People do not look at your neighbor right now just keep looking this way Can I help you with something no one climbs alone No one climbs alone I Know you got your ladder and you got your goals and you got your vision board. That's all good

But you need the right people in your life to help you climb that ladder Yes, you do I need I need like a Shane Shane Yes, Shane. I need you. I need you. I Need you. Oh, I need you Shane. Would you put yeah and and pastor Rick? I need you. Would you please help me? I know Yeah, yeah, let's see Sean come up here real quick you and your beanie. Come on up here. Yeah, you big That's right. That's right. Yeah, that's Dan. I need you Dan. I need you hurry. Come on, Dan. Come on Dan bring deltoids and biceps Because you see when you plan on climbing in life The higher you go The more destabilized this thing can get and you need some guys who are gonna say no we ain't letting you come down off of this Because with the higher you go, it's going to get rocky. There's gonna be some storms I'm so glad they're down there right now Hey, oh Hi, how y'all doing up there I got we all right now I Need I need some boys in my life that when when I'm up here and going, oh And I start to come down say get your tail back up. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they won't let me come down the ladder No, no. No, they're calling me out. They're pushing me. They're on me. They won't let me mess this thing up They see things going sideways in the in the house. It's got Scott. How are you and Cindy doing y'all? Y'all? Okay? I ain't I'm not liking the vibe. I feel right now I need some guys who are stabilizing my ladder that when I've got some dreams I'm going for I got some guys who I can Talk about it and celebrate it and we're in this thing Like I've got my posse because the higher you go in life the more you need some people helping to stabilize your life I just got a question who is in your life Helping you reach the top of everything you want to have who believes in you who believes in the vision Who believes in your drive who believes in your relationship? Thank you very much Who is it that is standing and believing with you?

Who's encouraging the strengthening you? You need some people who will tell you stop looking down Gotta get our eyes back on where we're going not where we've been We need these voices. Okay. Let me ask you this who's distracting you Who's not stabilizing your ladder, but they're actually shaking your ladder That you're trying to go after Jesus and they going again this Sunday you're going back to church Bro, did you see that girl? Dang? Look at her There'll be some people that will pull you off of your climb You got to make sure you got the right voices in your life And let me just tell you something your ears and your heart are not open for everybody. I Love you, but you got to qualify for that And you got to qualify for that In order to be in my world and to be my ladder holder you got to you got there's got to be some things I see And you got to qualify for that And you got to qualify for that And I understand about how you what you're pursuing because if we're not pursuing the same thing Then you climb in one ladder i'm climbing another it don't work that way homie We got to be going in the same direction. We got to have the same drive. We got to have the same heart I need you put there's gonna be days. I want to quit. I need you calling me out There's gonna be some days that i'm gonna be shook I need you to stabilize me if I start to come off this thing I need you to catch me and put me back on the ladder and get me back up there again I need some right people in my life proverbs chapter 13 verse 20. Look at this Here's what it says read it with me walk with the wise and become wise associate with fools I don't want to be a fool in someone else's life And I don't want to have a posse of fools hanging around me Because I can do foolish stuff all by myself Y'all know what i'm talking about I need people who who know where I say I want to go, but they think different than I am

So when i'm acting like a fool, they acting wise and they help get me back together That's all of us in this room hebrews chapter 10 says this let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works How can we encourage each other in the right direction? It don't take all that. That's the wrong direction. Yes. It does take all of that What do you mean you're tithing you're giving that church man? I thought you loved a bunch of crooks You don't need ladder shakers in your life I love people. I got a bunch of people in my life But I don't invite everybody to hold my ladder And you better get a posse around you that are your people. Oh, you need some people you need a family You need that crew you need your boys You need your girls that when you put a call out you can shoot a text to them You can you can be laughing you can be texting about the ball game You can be texting about crazy ridiculous stuff shooting ridiculous memes to each other pastor Freddie pastor rick and I have our own thread on instagram and the whole thing is entitled foolishness And we send all kinds of stupid stuff we see on social media to each other just foolishness is all it is But I promise you this I could pick up my phone right now and shoot a text Text message to pastor rick pray for me. I got a big decision to make and boom. We're going spiritual right now There's not anything we have to do to try to fix it or try to rearrange why because that's my guy It's one of my ladder holders. He's in my world. I can hit pastor freddie I got some boys in the room that if I put a call out we can go from fun to faith right now And it's not a weird twist. You got to get the right voices in your life Sure do The higher you climb the stronger your base has got to be number three i'm done with this You need the right goals You need the right goals Because you see it don't matter that you got a ladder. I mean If you're trying to work on this part of the building over here, but you set your ladder up over here

We don't don't matter if you climbed it You can't even reach what you're supposed to reach I need jesus at the top of this thing. I gotta know i'm moving towards him I gotta have the right goals number two. I gotta have the right people in my life and number three You gotta have the right step That's what I said, they said oh yeah we're going there You got to make sure that your steps in life are higher not sideways That took a little bit of a push that was a whole lot easier That is a little more work than Right there You can step backwards. You can be stepping just stepping wrong You got to make sure you're stepping up You've got to make sure that there's a you know the focus, you know, the purpose of the ladder His name is jesus. I've got my posse around me to stabilize ladder because i'm going somewhere But now i've got to make sure that i'm stepping up in life You you got to get an attitude that you want more than where you are right now More than where you are right now. I'm not hanging out here. I'm not satisfied one This is not meant to lean on This is not meant to sit on this is not a chair This is to climb in life it's to take me somewhere and I can't just sit back and say well Life's going to give me whatever it's going to give me Just going to take whatever it is ladies Ladies and gentlemen, we're supposed to be going after excellence, not average. We're supposed to be reaching in life. We're supposed to be praying for more. We're supposed to be expecting more. We're supposed to be climbing in life. I should be better this year than I was last year. And I'm trusting that last year I was better than I was the year before.

I'm not the same person. When you get around people you ain't seen for a minute, and they say, I mean, what's wrong with you, man? You just changed. Put it back and go, thank you. I've been working on change in a long time. And by the way, if they're not willing to grow and climb their own ladder, God bless you, I'll send you a card. Just don't need to hang with you, because your foolishness is getting in my head, making me think thoughts I wasn't thinking, and I don't need the help. You gotta make sure the right people — but we gotta make the right steps in life. Mediocrity is the definition of stuck. If I'm expecting nothing, I'm stuck. If I'm not pursuing something, I'm — oh, let me help you. If you're not excited about the next season of your life, you're stuck. You've got a lid built on your life, and there's no room for hope to move. There's no room for joy to reach. There's no room for you to see beyond where you are. That's why hope has no place in your life. And if there is no hope, there is no faith. Faith is the substance of things first hoped for. Hope sees faith steps. If hope can't see it, faith can't move towards it. So if I don't have hope, if I'm not believing for something that's outside of my present world that I have nothing to believe for, then there's nothing for faith to step towards. My life becomes just enclosed. It implodes. There's nothing new going on. And what happens is when we hit those places, I start putting pressure on people to make me feel better about me.

I start making expectations of the spouse. I start demanding. I start looking. And when people don't feed me the way I want to be feeded, I get angry, and I start pointing fingers, and I start lashing out, and I start, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah, gah. When the truth is, if I would have opened my heart and begun to hope for something more, I'm so distracted by the possibilities of breakthrough and next seasons and upgrades in my life that I ain't got time to fool with the foolishness. I'm stepping up, and I'm moving, and I will overlook, and I will let you say something wrong to me, and I will just step right around you. I don't even have time to respond to it. I got to, I'm more excited about my future than I am what's going on right here. Let's go. When hope steps in, when you and I are taking the right steps, we see what we've not seen. We begin to believe for what we've not had, we've put our hands on yet. In fact, if you're not praying for something bigger than what you have right now, something that's going to take God to get done, then God doesn't even have a job in your life. I've got to believe, oh, here's a word we don't like because it cuts against the grain. We think, it's just, we so try to rationalize and box it all up and put it in our little cranium, but I promise you, everything God wants to do is not going to fit in your head. It's a thing called miracles and faith, that I can have what I don't presently have, that I can do what I presently can't do, because I believe my God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all I could ask or think according to his power that's working in me, hey. This is where I belong. This is where I belong, not caught down in the past, not in the low life. I'm supposed to get my head up because when I get up here, you know what happens up here? I see further than I've ever seen. I don't have the same view. I'm believing for more. I can see a way out of the situation.

I can see beyond just people's opinions in my life. I can see beyond what family told me I should expect. I'm seeing something higher. I'm seeing something greater. Let me just kind of put it this way to you. Stop asking God to help you manage what you should be defeating. God, if you would just help me, just help me get through this addiction. Help you in the addiction? How about God break this off my life? How about that? Lord just help me help me learn how to how to deal with this you know our family situation Lord just just bring it give us some peace no no no no no no no no peace is not something that God sticks in it's okay y'all just manage no peace is what I make decisions that put peace in my life and peace begins to heal and strengthen and restore and put it in a different realm ladies and gentlemen we've got to stop protecting what God is trying to remove in our lives and we can get so used to owning and holding on to stuff it's become such a part of our world that we don't even pray the right prayers I'm gonna go into this in a couple of weeks so when I bring it up in a couple of weeks you need to say amen again but when Jesus saw blind Bartimaeus he said what do you want Bartimaeus didn't go Oh Lord if you would just give me a more comfortable pad to sit on Lord if you just put favor on my life so more people would stop and give me money yeah what you're doing is you're praying that God would bless you in your condition make you better at your condition instead of God heal me and that's a big prayer because when you say heal me who you have been and everything you've relied on is now gone and now you've all your excuses are gone now I'm living higher stronger I got to learn a new way of thinking a new way of interacting he wants to rescript everything in your life in 25 but you and I have to make sure that we're upgrading so watch this watch this we got to keep looking up don't don't don't look don't look down focus on the next step and by the way you can't skip steps if they advertise

skipping steps in Jesus on Instagram it's a fraud don't buy into it every step towards Jesus is a step higher and a step away from your past number two you got to keep looking out you got to get vision for your life you got to see where you're going you got to come alive in this you you got to know that more is on the way you got to see further so you can pray bigger prayers and believe for more and number three you got to keep talking about the climb talk about it let me put it this way your language has to climb before you do before you ever achieve a goal you'll be talking about the goal before you ever get the house you'll be talking about shopping for the house it's always going to be a part of your language before it's a part of your reality you and I have to develop a language around where we're going not just where we've been stop talking about the past to start talking about the future when this happens and when this happens I'm going to experience this and I'm doing this and 21 days of advance and I'm signing up for life groups and I'm doing that's crazy why would you do that because I'm stepping up I'm not where I used to be I'm living in an upgrade I'm going after someone greater in my life I've got to challenge the status quo I've got to challenge what I'm comfortable with to get to what he's comfortable with it's time for me to put my focus on him and get it off of me I'm not the focus in 2025 he is so it's not about my comfort I want more of him it's not about what I enjoy know what do you enjoy it's not about what's convenient for me know what's going to move me towards you Oh connect for so I can serve on Sundays let's go but there's gonna be people there you don't know yeah they're also at Walmart they're also at Publix mm-hmm don't know him you sure enough interact with him we go to places all the time we don't know the people you can handle connect for you can handle a life group yes you can you're a big boy you can take your wife with you she'll help you I'm just saying we we got to do these things together Proverbs 4 11 says this I have directed you in the way of wisdom and I have led you along straight paths when you walk your steps will not be hindered and when you run you will not stumble hits happen but you're not falling off the ladder

when you're doing it his way he'll guard you he'll guide you he'll protect you in that marriage in that business in that dating scenario he'll lead you in all that the crisis disappointment the crisis and this woman are going to come this year it's going to happen but it's He doesn't have to knock you off your ladder. You can be stable, you can be strong, and keep moving towards Him. No obstacle is big enough to stop your step. No excuses allowed. He's stepping with you. Here's the most important thing I could tell you today. Colossians 2, verse six says this. You have accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord. Now keep on following Him. Every other faith in the world requires you to climb in order to be good enough to appease and be accepted by this God. Climb the ladder. Do this, don't do this, dress this way, act this way, eat this, don't eat this, show up on this, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, climb, climb, climb, so you can get to where they are. Every other religion in the world does this. Jesus came from heaven and climbed down the ladder. Met us right here. Let me help you get on the ladder. And you and I will start from step number one. This is where you're accepted, not there. This is where you're loved, not there. This is where you're forgiven, not there.

That's why you can enjoy the climb with Jesus. Everything else is all performance and scorecards and failure. Right here, it's a climb of joy. It's a step of hope. I'm getting better because He's stepping with me and He's protecting, guiding, and leading the whole way. Would you stand to your feet, please? Goals, people, and steps. That's your GPS for this new year. Goals, people, and steps. This is how you move forward. You get your goals right. It's Him, not the stuff. The stuff is fine, nothing wrong with the stuff, but experience the stuff on the way to Him. Goals, people, the right ones around you. Wrong ones are shaking your ladder. Who do you need to make a change with this year? Who do you need to invite into your life this year that's gonna stabilize your ladder? I'm just telling you now. You think and act like the top five people you spend time with. You either think down or you think up based on who you're spending time with. That's how you handle your money based on how those five people act in your life. That's how your home, your marriage will work, those top five people.

How you walk with Jesus, those top five people. People are either pushing you to Him or pulling you off of that ladder. Choose well, my friend, because we can't afford to have a fall this year. Goals, people, and then step it up. Father, thank you for the ability to move our life forward, that we're not stuck and we don't have to live grounded, but we can move up towards you. Help us this year to activate our life. I'm not sitting back. I'm not gonna look around and get angry when I see other people move and I'm still where I am. No, I'm climbing. I'm coming after you. And as I step on every one of these ambitions, these pursuits, these other things in my life that I've been after, thank you for that I will achieve the degree. And thank you that the business will start. And thank you that the promotions are on the way. And thank you for these amazing accomplishments that I'll experience, but all of them, all of them will be seen and accomplished while I'm pursuing you. You are my highest goal. You are what I'm after. You are the highest thing that could ever be attained, knowing you is everything.

So God, today, I pray you would challenge us, that we wouldn't just sit back and watch life happen, but we would engage and move towards you. We need you. We need you. I'm not built to do this without you. I need your leading. I need your wisdom. I need your peace. I need your direction. I need your hope. I need your joy. I need to know that you're with me in this journey. Today, God, be with my friends. And I thank you, Jesus, that you came all the way to the bottom, and your grace embraces us and puts us on the first level. You put us on the first rung, and you're climbing it all with us. Thank you for that hope, and thank you for that rest, and that embrace, and that acceptance. Today, God, we lean into you. We call on you. We pursue you. We thank you that this year is gonna be everything you promised it would be. You're good. your God and you're faithful in Jesus name amen amen amen would you put your hands together and honor him today we hope you enjoyed this message to hear more impactful messages just like this one check us out at freelifechapel.org

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