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In the military, in the military, the highest rank in the military is the general's wife. The general's wife is a guy, but yes, when it comes to the stars, yeah, the general, the general holds the highest rank in the military. And the lowest rank in the military is as a private. Yeah, yeah, like new enlistee, like I'm here to serve my country. Love that, love that. The general has this all-encompassing authority and power. Whatever the general wants, the general gets. The general doesn't have to open a door because there's people waiting to open a door for him. He gets to a vehicle, the door is open. He sits down, someone drives him. Whatever he wants, boom, he just makes mention. Done. Get so-and-so on the phone. They're there. Like, like it's all of that is whatever he wants because, man, there's power, there's authority behind his voice. The private, he's just glad to be here. She's just glad to be serving. I'm just here and whatever it takes, the grunt work, like all of that, just everything. No real authority, they're just doing what they're told to do, just kind of hanging out. So what, at what point, let me ask you, listen, at what point does the private have just as much authority in the military as the general? When does the private, newly enlisted, all of a sudden, they are right there. I have the same authority as the general. When is that? That happens when the general calls the private in and says, I have a task for you. I want you to fly across the nation. I want you to meet with so and so. I want you to give them this message. On this day, I want you to go here, do this, and then they're going to bring you back and you'll report to me everything that just happened. The moment that private walks out of that general's office, doors open. Why? This private's walking, never had doors open for him before. Walking out, they got a car waiting on him. Hey, how you like me now? Wheezy. Like he got all that going on, like flying across the nation, first class. I'm loving this. Gets there and doors are opening. Walks in to meet with other high-ranking officers that they've never even dreamed of seeing or talking to before ever. And the high-ranking officers there all of a sudden are interested in what I have to say. I've never been here, but I'm just a

private. What makes that private's presence and voice so powerful that it actually matches the general is because he's walking with the general's authority on him. That private was sent on a mission because the general had commissioned him or her. And now they're carrying out the mission. They're carrying out, this is what I was told to do. I was told to go here, say this, do this. And as long as they're doing and saying what the general said, they have doors open, they're walking into places they don't belong, into places they never thought they would ever dream, meeting with people they never thought possible. They are outranked. But the people that they're talking to don't have the same authority that they do. I want you to know in 2025, God has plans to put a mission on your life that's going to take you places you don't deserve to be in. He's going to speak some things over your life and put an authority on your life that this year you walk into places that outrank you, that you step into arenas that you could not work a thousand years and get to that place. God is going to favor and open doors for you as long as you walk with his authority and his mission, stating what he states, doing what he said to do. There'll be an authority that will open doors for you, take you places that you never could get on your own, put you in front of people that you never would have seen, and then watch the mission take place exactly how he desired for your life. Is anybody ready for a supernatural year of favor and blessing over your life? Me too. Me too. And that's why it's important that we're here tonight talking this through because it's critical that you and I understand God's hand on our life does something different for us. His authority gives us momentum. His authority gives me direction for my life. And when that happens, I expect doors to open. When that happens, I should have favor on my life. I'm God's favorite. When I get to the mall, there are I'll be up front. Well, I'm just saying that there should be something real there that I wake up living with an Expectation I've got a hope I've got a joy It's not that everything is perfect But I can just see further than the immediate right now and I know that better is on the way because of the one who's

Resting on my life. This is why you need the GOD in your life This this reality of When that private is Traveling there is a confidence on that private That they don't typically live with because now he's not living or traveling under his or her authority but one greater as Christ followers ladies and gentlemen, we need to take on Realizing that there's something different on your life. You're not here to fit in You're not here just to suck air and just do what you've always done 2025 is not to be a repeat of 2024 there should be something that moves you further than you've ever gone and have people scratch their head asking How did you get here? Because of God's hand on your life and when you know that God is with you It gives you a confidence on the inside that we like to call a godfidence It Makes you live different Makes you walk different when you know that God's hands off you pray different Lord. Thank you You just you just something different you walk into the workplace on Monday morning, this is the day the Lord has made Don't do that. That's weird But I'm just saying like like that you just walk different when you know that he's on your side this this confidence Key to your advance and I want to talk about that tonight your advance and some things that you and I've got to get Ahold of and realize that we have to see and understand what God's doing in our life to move it forward Joshua chapter 4 verses 8 through 9 I want you to read all it with me all of it loud and proud final day last Day of the entire year. We'll never have this day back in 2024 it's gone to 24 is leaving in just a couple of hours. This is your last chance to read this scripture publicly together out loud Read it together. Here we go. One two, three The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded they picked up twelve stones according to the number of the Israelite tribes

From the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests Carrying the Ark of the Covenant stood they remained there to this very day It's a crazy story Crazy story Israel as a nation had been locked up in Egypt in bondage for 400 plus years and by an act of God and ten plagues that God released there out they come through the Red Sea and It should have been an 11-day journey from coming out of Egypt to reaching the promised land But because they did not trust God and disobeyed God It turned into a 40-year delay Does anybody in the room have time for a 40-year wrong turn Let me help you I'm going to tell you something Yeah, ain't nobody got time for that ain't nobody got time for that they know you don't You you don't have time to make a four-month mistake You don't have time to make a four-week. Mr. Are you kidding me? Time is moving baby. Time is moving Opportunities are here and then they're gone. You can't you can't we've got to be so in tune with what's going on God What's your plan for my life? Let's go that's why we're here on the weekends leaning in and going after who he is because I don't want to miss a moment of the Favor and the opportunity and the blessing God has laid out for me. And if you skip yours, I'm taking mine in yours, too Israel made this this delay 40 years and in this story Moses is gone now Joshua is on the scene leading Israel and what they've done is they've come through the wilderness and Now they're standing at the Jordan River The Jordan River in the Bible is No, it's a place that's synonymous with death. Like, not like a place you want to vacation. It's a place of death.

Things die here. It's the banks many times overflow. And when the banks overflow, it will wash little towns or villages away that are built too close to it. In addition to that, if you're living far enough away, when the banks overflow, the animals that usually live close to it, they are driven off the banks and many times go into the villages and many people were attacked by animals that were usually living close to the water, but now they were driven away and they'd driven into populated areas. It was dangerous when the Jordan went crazy and nobody knew what was gonna happen. Now here, Joshua and all of Israel is standing on edge. God led them to this place. The wilderness is behind them. The promised land is just on the other side of this river. And God says, I want you to go across it. And what does God do? He splits it down the middle. What the? He split it. He split it. In fact, the Bible says that the priests grabbed the Ark of the Covenant and they start walking into the water and the water, it got out of the way.

And where the headwaters were flowing this way south, the priest stood in the middle with the Ark of the Covenant, almost defying the water that was trying to flow downstream and it stood up on a heap. And as it stood here and the priests were standing here, 40,000 warriors from Israel crossed over. The Bible says, it's funny, it says they went fast. You and I would too. Hurry, oh my God. Can you imagine? They just scooting across that thing. No time for a wheezy. Can you imagine? They get across there. And then Joshua, the priests walk across and finish. But here's what I want you to understand in this crossing. God said, I want you to do two things. We're going to make two memorials. Two memorials are going to happen outside of this. And we just read together that there was going to be one in the river and there was going to be one out of the river. Two different memorials and they have two different purposes. And it very much relates with who you are and what's happening in your 24 and your 25. I need you to hang with me. Listen to me. We're going to declare some things.

It's going to change stuff. The first memorial that's going to happen, God said, I want you to put, I want you to stack rocks in the middle of the Jordan. What? Because no one's ever stood here before. Nobody. People have died trying to go across this. You are standing on dry ground in it. I want you to build a memorial to me of how together you and I defied it all. Things that others never made it through. I want you to build a memorial that says, I didn't understand how it was going to happen. And I thought God had lost his mind because my family, they're crazy people. I didn't have much of an example back there with them. I started serving God the best I knew how, made a bunch of mistakes, not doing it perfect at all, but God's been so faithful to me and he kept providing and he kept bringing me through stuff that I should have lost my mind. And he kept on doing things that I didn't understand. And he, one time like manna was falling out of the sky and he fed all of us. I didn't see that one coming. And then there was a time there was this cloud, this cloud would go over and hide the sun from us. And then at night there'd be a pillar of fire to warm us.

And he was been so faithful to us, bringing us through a wilderness. I got to stop and I got to say, thank you for what he brought us through that I didn't think we would ever make it through. Build a memorial, a memorial in the middle of a place that should have killed me. Anybody been through something in 24 that you almost pulled a Fred Sanford? This is the big one, Elizabeth. Y'all don't even know what I'm talking about. That's okay. I got, it's like you thought it was over. Like I'm not making it out of this one. Anybody go through something in March or April last year where you thought it might've been? How about July or August? Anybody hit something, September? Somebody say, my God, it's a few hours and I'm still in that situation. right now. I understand. I got you. I'm just telling you there's some things that you made it through that you shouldn't have made it through. And the truth is you're not even sure how you made it through. It's not because you're that good. Oh you're good but you ain't that good. No, no, no, no. I know you're edumacated but it's not even your edumacation that got you there. It's not your money. It's not the people that you know. It's not you're just so strong. You are strong. It's not about your strength. God has been on your side in 2024 over your kids, over your money,

over your business. This first stack that they put in the middle of Jordan was to celebrate God's faithfulness. He's been faithful. He was there. It was reminding Israel of God's activity. The reason that they are finally where they are is because God brought them out of an Egypt and brought them through a wilderness. Despite all their failures and their bunch of junk and 40-year delay, God was still faithful even in that to get them to this point. And now they're standing in the middle of impossible. And God said I'm taking you through stuff that you're not even going to be able to explain how this happens because nobody is going to believe you when you say that you were standing on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan that I split it and I made it get out of your way. But because you walked under my authority and you walked with my direction, I know how to defy the odds and take you places you never could have got on your own. What's interesting about this is the Bible says that they stood halfway when you get in the middle. You ever been in the middle of drama? Let me go to this side. I didn't like that at all. You ever been in the middle of drama? Like it's all around you. It's everywhere. The word middle or halfway in the Hebrew is midnight. The word midnight in Hebrew means middle or halfway. Now let me ask you, have you ever been in a midnight situation when things were dark and you had no answers? When the sun went down a long time ago and you don't think it's coming up for a long time and you're just holding on for dear life. Oh y'all dress up way too nice to act like you got it all together. We go through some things and we've been white knuckling life and just hoping that it works out. We faking it and faking it and faking it.

We ain't made it yet but we faking it and we faking it. That's what a midnight is. A midnight is I'm halfway. I'm not where I used to be. I'm not where I want to be. I'm stuck right in the middle with you. I'm stuck in the middle of this whole thing. When you've been in the middle of a struggle, when it's dark and you're alone and you've lost hope and you just want to fight or you want to cry or you want to hide, you want to run, you want — I don't even know what to do when I'm in the middle but I've got some news for you. God does his best work in the midnight hour. It's the midnight where God does things that you and I can't fully explain. It was Exodus chapter 11 that tells us at midnight God's angel went through Egypt and broke the back of bondage and released God's people. It was in Acts chapter 16 where we find out that Paul and Silas were locked up in prison and at midnight they began to sing songs and praise God and it was in the midnight hour that the jail cells were broken open. It was Acts chapter 27 where the Bible says that Paul was riding on a ship with a bunch of men. A storm hit and they lost all hope but Paul stood up at midnight and said we're going to be just fine, we're coming through the other side, there's not going to be anybody lost and they were saved. Midnight was when the groom always showed up to surprise and to take the bride. It was, it was at midnight that Samson woke up and went down to Gaza where the Philistines were, Goliath and his brothers, and ripped the gates to their own city out of their — out of the ground and carried them away. There was a power, there was a supernatural thing that came on Samson for that. It was Nicodemus who came to Jesus at night and he said, Jesus what must I do

to be saved? What I'm trying to tell you is this, God does some of his best work when you're only halfway through, when you can't see to the other side and you don't know how to go back and I'm just hanging out. I feel like I'm stuck in the middle. So do you need something broken off your life? He knows how to do that. Do you need a prison door open addiction off of your life? He knows how to do that. Do you need some hope in a storm? He does his best work in a midnight hour. Do you need to just meet Jesus because you're going through some hell right now? He can handle your hell and he will help you in a midnight hour. Is anybody glad that your God neither slumbers nor sleeps, that he's awake every hour and he can handle your midnight the same way he can handle the noonday? Weeping may endure for the night. But joy is coming in the morning time. That's Bible for you. The good news is this, miracles still happen at midnight. Job wrote in Job chapter 35, God gives me songs in the night. I don't like my circumstance, but I feel your presence. And I know you're here and things kind of sucketh right now, but I know everything is gonna be all right.

I've got to hold on. Do you realize, let me just kind of bring it down to where we're living. Do you realize that you can't even celebrate 2025 until you go through a midnight tonight? Yeah, every night we got midnights. Every single night a midnight comes. That's what I'm trying to tell you, that it's the midnight that divides 2024 to 2025. I'm just challenging you. Don't get stuck on this side of the Jordan, wondering what the promise is like. You got to get out there where he said to go and stand in the middle of what he said to do. His authority, his plan, his direction for you. He didn't lie. He knows what he's doing. And everything's gonna be all right. Would you turn to somebody and tell him, everything's gonna be all right. It's gonna be all right. Tonight, before we get to it, when we hit that midnight hour, let's ask God to end some things. How about you leave some things in 24? So you step into 25 without the baggage. Would that be all right? If something just broke and rolled off of your life? Would it be okay if God started some new stuff in your life? Like, I just feel a hope.

I feel a joy. That's good, baby. Cause you ain't always felt hope. And you've not always felt that joy. You need to have a hope. You need to have a holy hype going on inside of you to take this year on. Let's ask God to provide some stuff that you are missing right now. Because he knows how to take care of his own. He's just looking for somebody who's in the middle of a midnight hour to call on his name so he can show up and do the miraculous in their life. Scott, do you really believe in miracles? Baby. I'm a living miracle. Oh, don't get it twisted. You're sitting beside one right now. You don't think you got where you are because you're that good, do you? No, you are a miracle. God has been good to us. So if you're walking through a midnight situation, you gotta begin to look for the stones. I need to look back and remember when he took me through that thing. Because if you're not careful, you will forget about that. And that's why he said, I need you to make a memorial.

Something that, oh, when the tide is high and it's rushing, you might not be able to see it, but when things calm back down and you see a few of these stones sticking up just above the surface and you walk by going, oh, I remember that right there. I remember how he brought me through. I remember how God was faithful to me in that situation. It's easy to forget. How do you know we forget really quick? We forget really quick stuff that he brought us through, but you know who hasn't forgot? The person you were crying to all year long. You might need to go ask a friend, can you please remind me what it was that I was fussing to you about that God provided and opened a door and made a way that I've done forgotten about because you might need to be reminded yourself as to what God has done in your life because I promise you he's been better to you than you've been to yourself. God has provided and made a way. God said, I want you to build a monument to my faithfulness in your life. And then he said, and the second stack, the second monument, I want you to take 12 stones and I want you to build that monument outside of where you live in the middle of your camp. We're gonna have two monuments.

One is in the Jordan and one is in your camp. That one is to remind you of my faithfulness. in your midnight hours how I brought you through some things this one is to awaken your trust and your commitment and your dedication to me that when you see those stones you're reminded of those stones I wouldn't have these if I hadn't handled those but because he was good there I'm reminded of who I am here you see that is what God did this reminds you of who you are would you turn to someone tell him I'm a Christ follower I'm a Christ follower I'm a that's that's who I am that that's what I do I I follow him I emulate him I worship him my heart my mind my focus is on him that's that's where I am it's important to remember it's important to look and think back because there's something about remembering that refuels your life being reminded as to where you should be as opposed to where you are being reminded of what God did not what you did but what God did to bring you to this place it's critical that we are reminded because we forget the mess that Jesus found us in so what we have to do in order to be reminded is we have to look backward so we can see forward you got to look backward in this case I look backward to see his faithfulness his goodness how he provided he brought he brought me through stuff I don't even know how I'm here in my right mind but here I am because God has been good and based on that it refires me to take big steps forward you see here's what happens this step right here it's a place of Thanksgiving and that praise that comes out because of how good God has been and everybody under the sound of my voice has a reason to praise God but because I've got praise and just I'm grateful I'm just thankful I couldn't do anything to earn this thank you when I have praise do you know what comes with praise peace as when I'm when my focus is him my heart is at rest because I'm reminded if he did that then he can do it again everything is going to be fine that is praise and peace this right here this memorial that I have this one builds something inside of me that is different this is this something is that pushes me and what it does is it builds a hope inside of me and it gives me my

try back your try mm-hmm it's the thing that makes you different what did you stop trying what did you quit on in 2024 what are you quoting scriptures over and spiritualizing it so you know no longer have to do it what are you blaming on unanswered prayer and you stop believing God for you can't lose your try your try is why you're sucking air your try is why God's hand is on your life your try is to violate the impossible and go into places that nobody can understand but but God God's been good to me and God helped me you've got to keep your try your try is your dream your try is that focus it's that internal scream that I was made for more than where I'm living right now I've got to get my tribe back ladies and gentlemen I don't care if you're 16 if you're 36 if you're 56 if you're 86 never lose your try there's still something inside of you God's not done with your life and that's why 25 is so important don't you stop living in 24 and try to sleep through 25 God's plan is too great and too amazing for your life and he's done too much in your past to cancel him out in your future I look back and remember and this opens my heart and I recommit I'm all in as for me and my house we will serve the Lord it's a fresh commitment we take steps towards him whenever whenever that opens up when you ever do look backwards so you can look forward hope comes alive on the inside of you again gratitude comes alive on the inside again trust comes along you know what trust does trust takes the drama out of your life because trust all of a sudden my emotions are at ease I ain't running around screaming and yelling and doing all kinds of stuff on social media no I'm good he makes life easier when I can see where he's been now I've got hope I've got gratitude I realize there's something in my life that can bless somebody else I stopped living just for me now I'm concerned about you where you are matters how can I help there's nothing like living fully alive and what is it that brings me fully alive remembering what he did then and understanding what I can do now when those come together that changes everything folks don't you forget how he brought you through 2020, 2023, 2024, all that stuff, ladies and gentlemen that matters, that matters. The only reason you can even look at a 25 is

because he has been faithful to you through all that. So these stones, they repped two things and I'm done with this. They repped two things. Number one, God's faithfulness, his ability to help and lead and guide you through, and the other set were my commitment. I need to be reminded that my heart belongs to him and I want to move forward in 25 even greater than I did in 24. This is actually like real deal. My license tag registration sticker. At midnight tonight, my truck is illegal to be on the road. So if you're driving by and you see your boy pulled over, just honk your horn and wave, all right? Just see you Sunday. My truck has a sticker on it right now that says 12-24 but it expires at midnight. It's over. What I did before got me through 24 but it was going to take something different to get me into 25. It's not the same. I need to take another step. I had to contact, register, pay the fee and then they finally sent me a sticker. But how do you know this thing does me no good? It does me no good if I keep it in my glove box. Just because I have it doesn't mean I'm legal. No, I need to post it where it can be seen and visible that people are not confused, especially the police, which I love. Especially that when they see this they go, oh I see you, I see you, you're ready for this next year. Ladies and gentlemen, the faith that you have now got you through 24. The commitment level to Christ that you have now was good for the past 12 months but it's time to up our game because you're not looking for another 24. You're looking to step things up and move higher in the 25 and what I'm telling you right now is 25 is going to be above your pay grade but God's authority is going to be on your life and his mission is going to be on you and he's going to send you places that you have no way of doing without him but if you and I will prepare our hearts and find a fresh level of commitment based on how good you were there, I can commit to you in my life. I've got the two stacks in my life. I will remember what you did and I will recommit my life to you every day of my life. When I see this, I'm reminded of that. Because you did it then, I can stand and I can trust you right now and ladies and gentlemen, when you put those together, hell cannot handle you. You will become bigger than

the situations, the obstacles, the opposition, the things trying to pull down your family, shut down your career, destroy your mind, steal your peace, all of that comes to a screeching halt. Can I tell you, we read tonight out of Joshua chapter 4 where God took them through the Jordan River. Can I tell you in Joshua chapter 5 verse 1, the very first verse of the next chapter, the Bible says all of Israel's enemies saw what God did for Israel and their hearts melted inside of them. Here's what I'm trying to tell you, when you have memorials built for how good God has been, when you show up to work on Monday morning and folks know your story, not the one, I mean, I mean the real you, the real you, when you've talked to some real people, you are a walking, breathing, living miracle that people cannot understand. Why you haven't checked out, quit, canceled, shut down, walked away by this time, but you're still here. It's obvious that something greater is operating inside of you. It is a memorial. Every time Israel's enemies pass by the Jordan River and they saw rocks standing up inside the river, it was a reminder to every one of the enemies, their God is greater than anything you can throw at them. They're gonna be fine. They walked through the impossible. They stood in the middle and they defied death and their God brought them through. Ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing like knowing that if God be for you, who can be against you? If God is on my side, everything is going to be all right. I don't understand it all and I don't like it all and I wasn't crazy about walking through the death traps that I had to go through in 22, 23, 24, but God proved faithful every single time. I didn't like what I saw. I had, I had situations all around me, but as long as I kept walking and doing what he said, I came through some things that I can't take credit for. I just got to say, I think I'm God's favorite. That's all it can be because God has been good to me. I wonder if there's anybody in the room tonight that you can say, Pastor, I am living proof that God has been good. He's brought me through some rivers. He's brought me through some impossible. I should have lost it. I should have been done, but God has been on my side. Would you stand to your feet? Come on, stand to your feet. I'm done.

We're going to pray tonight because I truly, truly believe that what God has planned for you is bigger than what you've seen or even contemplated. And he wants to place his authority and his direction on your life and send you into some arenas that you're going to have to say what he said and do it the way he said to do it. He's going to put you in places that you're going to try to figure out, what am I doing here? I cannot believe he's opened this door. Why would he choose me? I'm a private. He should have chosen somebody else up the line, but for whatever reason, by grace, he chose me to go do that. Ladies and gentlemen, get ready. He is in the business of choosing the most unlikely to do the most impossible so that he can get the glory for it. It's what he does. Let me just ask you, would it be okay if God used your life like that in 2025, that if God just opened and took you some places that you can't even explain to your family? You're doing what? What? They hired you? Do they know that? Are you serious? There needs to be some head-scratcher situations. And that's what God's plan is. Tonight, we're going to pray. And the first part of our prayer is we're going to think back to what God has done, how faithful he's been. If you have a pulse and you're breathing, you're blessed. And you have a reason to say thank you. And we're going to build a memorial of gratitude tonight. God, before I go into 25, I want to stop in 24. And as I look back, I got to say thank you for how you blessed my family, how you've kept me. Not even the stuff I know, especially the stuff I'm not even, I don't have a clue about that you kept me from. I got to say thank you for that, number one. And then number two, we're going to build a memorial on the other side of God, here's my life again. Let's pray. Father, in this room tonight, I'm praying for all of my friends that are here. As we look back over our life, as we look over the situations that we've encountered, as we look over what you've done over the past several months, we're going to be honest, the past several years, we've got multiple memorials built to how faithful you have been. Things that you moved out of the way that should have destroyed. I can't even explain why I'm here after that diagnosis, but I'm still here right now. I can't explain why I'm still here after what the family went through. I can't explain why I'm still here after what happened on the job. But God, you've been faithful and you've provided. We had no resources, but God, you somehow made a way and provided, and I'm here right now. I went through it, but I came through it. I'm still here. God, thank you. We just, we've

got to take the next few moments and just say thank you. God, I need you to thank him on your behalf. I can't thank him for you, but would you just stop and just honor him and say thank you, Lord, for providing, thank you for blessing, thank you for healing, thank you for stopping, thank you for starting, thank you for raising up, thank you for taking down, thank you for doors closed, thank you for doors open, thank you for providing, thank you for all of it, God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I didn't deserve it. I turned my back, but thank you. And God, in the same breath, I add to that, that I recommit my life to you tonight. That because of how faithful you've been and how good you've been and that grace and that mercy, I give you me all over again. I will not limp my way into 2025, but I will run. I will stand strong and burst in through the door, and I will take every opportunity you give. God, I'm going to live with a trust and a try. I'm going to live with a confidence in who you are and what you're doing in my life, and I'm going to pray prayers bigger than I've ever prayed. I'm going to try what I've not tried, because if you are are for me, then what can be against me? I want everything you said I can have. Tonight, God, we recommit our lives. We recommit to the weekend. We recommit to serving. We recommit to our giving. We recommit to sharing your love, your hope, your joy with others. God, convict us, draw us, lead us. We recommit our lives. Thank you, Lord, for these moments, these markers that we can do an assessment and look back to what you've done and look at where we are so that we know we're moving forward. And God, I speak over 2025

that this year is gonna be full of opportunity. It's gonna have favor come at your people, that you're gonna whisper in their heart when to go left, when to go right. God, they're gonna have a drive, a direction, and an excitement that maybe they've not had in a long time. There's a joy, there's a reality that I can start again, that this is my moment. I'm coming through a midnight. Supernatural things happen at midnight. Prison doors open at midnight. Strength comes at midnight. Things turn around at midnight. Hope hits to get me through a storm at midnight. So God, I embrace all of that. And as I cross through a midnight tonight, I will step fully into every promise you have for me. I don't want one promise to go unfulfilled over my house, over my marriage, over my children, my finances. God, for your glory to the supernatural this year, I pray. We give you thanks in advance for your increase and breakthrough in Jesus' mighty name. And everybody said, amen, amen, amen, amen. Amen.