 Thank you for joining us this morning for Pace Assembly Live, for those of you that are. Please take time to share it out to all of your friends and let them know that Pace Assembly is live this morning. I think you can be able to be a part of what's taking place and hearing the word of God. I'm gonna bring the word to you today. We wanna say great big hello to all of those that are joining us this morning and pray that you will be blessed by the word of the Lord that comes today. I encourage you to chat along with us here this morning. You can be able to do that for all of you that are watching online around the world. Welcome all of you that are joining us today. What a blessing it is to be with you on this wonderful Sunday morning. Let me say to all of you, this is not obviously our norm not to be in the sanctuary and you can see I'm coming from my study at home, but we are doing a lot of remodeling, say remodeling, redoing of the platforms. This is the time of year that we take to do some extra cleaning in the sanctuary and so forth that we don't get to do on a normal basis. Just like deep cleaning carpets and things like that that's gonna be coming this week to try to get the building turned back around and ready for the first Sunday in January of a brand new year. So thank you for bearing with us and we apologize for any inconvenience. Anybody who may have expected us to come from the sanctuary, thank you for being with us today and I hope that you'll stay with us. I pray that the word of the Lord will be just as powerful as it's always been and we pray that God will touch your life today. Again, you can log on and join with us and I really would like for you to be able to do that because I can travel with you here and seeing who is logged on with us and be able to hopefully respond a little bit to your prayer needs and all that's going on. So if you are watching, let us know. We're so glad to have each and every one of you joining us today. We're going out through BoxCast, through YouTube, through Facebook, through the Roku channel, through Destiny TV and we wanna thank everybody that is logging on and those that are helping us at Destiny TV as well as our own technicians that are behind the scenes making it happen right now and those that are chatting online with you even right now. Let me say it one more time while we're getting everybody to log on. If you will, please share it out on your Facebook and let folks know that they can be able to join in as well. And we're glad for all of you that are joining us from around the world here in the States. We trust that you had a wonderful Christmas yesterday with your family and with your friends and people that you were able to make connections with and even if it was just you in the room and the Lord that was there with you, then we pray that you had a wonderful day. And today here in Florida, it didn't get any better, I suppose, than this and being in Florida and it's 70-something degrees outside and having a great time for those of you that are digging out of the snow up north. God bless you. Move to Florida, that's all I can tell you. It is, it's a wonderful place to be here in pace and we hope that you can join us, those of you that watch us online, perhaps when you're coming down to the area, we welcome you to be a part of any or all of the services both online, but if you get here physically, there's nothing like being in the sanctuary and we want you to be able to be a part of it. Again, we're doing some redos on the platform, so when we come back on the first Sunday morning, there's gonna be some changes that you'll see, some of them that will be obvious and some of them that are behind the scenes, things that we needed to do and get done, some of the systems that we had, operations and PA and things like that, that was actually some of it was failing us and we needed to redo it, so this was the opportunity we had to do that, so that's the reason why I'm coming to you from my study this morning in my home and again, I pray that the word of the Lord will be just as powerful for you. In fact, I want to encourage all of you that are watching right now and I'm trying to watch as well our YouTube channel, pardon me for shifting this around just a little bit, so I can see a little closer. We're glad for all of you that are logging on, both on YouTube and on Facebook and other areas that you're watching from. Again, share it out. I will make a few announcements here in just a few moments for you that you need to be aware of, some upcoming things that are going on and I want you to take an opportunity as well and Mr. Producer, if you will, please make sure that you're ready for this. I'm gonna make sure that everybody knows where that they can be a giver today because this is not our normal setup, obviously, and so we need you to be able to be a giver in the kingdom of God, so get ready to do that. We need you to respond to the last Sunday of the year in your giving and I encourage you to be able to do that. It will be a blessing to you and a blessing to the church. I will tell you that the opportunities that you have to give will happen until the 31st if you want to get it into this tax year, so I encourage you to be able to do that and be able to be a part of giving toward the kingdom of God in the last closing days of this year and also for you to, again, pardon me, I'm trying to get logged on here with you just so I can see what's going on and respond to everybody. Thank you for being patient with me here and getting things set up like it needs to be. Help us Jesus with technology, right? So that's what's going on here today. I want you to make sure that you are giving by way of the app, you can do that, Pace Assembly app, or you can do that online right where you're watching from. And you can still be able to get that in to be in this tax year by the 31st. The offices will be open tomorrow and you can do that, we will be open for most of the week this week, so I encourage you to be a part of what's taking place there in your giving if you haven't done that already. Let me just mention to you also, and like I said, Mr. Producer, at any time you want to put that up on the screen or on the comment section of what's taking place, you can do that. We appreciate you, again, being faithful to the kingdom of God. It means so much when you are as faithful as you are because even just this past week while we were in the community, people were giving into the kingdom at Pace Assembly and one particular individual that handed a check to the church doesn't even go to the church, but they enjoy being able to watch the services online. Found out yesterday that there were a number of people that we had not heard from before that had been watching as well. So this is one medium that we have to be able to get the word of God out and I'm glad that it's available for us. And I pray that it's a blessing to you and when you give, you're perpetuating that to other people, you're helping to continue the ministry of live streaming around the world. And we're doing our best to upgrade all the time and try to keep it right on the edge, the cutting edge. And so all of your giving can help make that process a whole lot better. We're looking at some changes for some cameras to come to you in a more clear way in the sanctuary, things like that, as we can be able to afford to do those things and upgrade your faithfulness in giving makes that possible. So thank you so much for giving and being a part of what's taking place. Now, let me just give you a few things that you need to be aware of for all of our PACE assembly family and for those of you that are guests as well that are joining us today. And if you are a guest, would you take time to just send a little note there in the chat section and let us know that you're watching where you're watching from. All of those things are really important as we attempt to connect with you. We're not gonna bug you but you can at least be able to click the subscribe button there and be a part of PACE assembly into the live broadcast because you especially will want to do that as we are entering into 2022 while we have a month long revival services going on. You'll not wanna miss one of them and we're gonna be live streaming every one of them. So we want you to be able to be a part of it as well. So let me just tell all of you, obviously this is the last service of the year for PACE assembly. We're doing it online today due to what's going on in the sanctuary and we will not have this coming Wednesday night service as people are still traveling so forth. We understand all that and we've gotta have that time to finish up the sanctuary. They're literally coming in to do a lot of carpet cleaning on Wednesday so everything can be ready to go for that first Sunday and the first Sunday of the year, January the second, we will be back in the sanctuary and we want you to make sure that you're there for the very first service. I can tell you, God takes serious the first of anything. You're first of your giving, the first of your faithfulness, the first of seeking the face of God. All of those things matter to God so the very first Sunday, you'll not wanna miss it. January the second, next weekend, we'll look forward to seeing you in the sanctuary, back in the sanctuary and it will be a wonderful time and the presence of God will have one service on that particular Sunday at 10 a.m. and then that following Wednesday night we'll pick back up on our schedule in the sanctuary so don't miss that. And then I want you to make sure you mark your calendar for the entirety of the month. Just scratch off January as being a part of what's taking place every weekend, Sunday morning and Sunday night, starting the ninth and then going the following Sunday the 16th, the 23rd and the 30th, it's gonna be revived 2022, every service, every Sunday morning and Sunday night at 6 p.m. Now at five o'clock every Sunday afternoon, we're gonna join together for prayer. If you're serious about revival, if you're serious about drawing near to God, your family getting saved, all of those kind of things, I wanna encourage you, don't miss one service. Mark your calendars out right now, don't let anything interrupt you or distract you from what is gonna be taking place to set your heart toward the things of God. Let me tell you, there's not a person that's listening to me right now that does not need to find that burning bush of fire, that place that you've set aside like Moses did. You set time aside to go and seek God and to find his presence and to dwell on holy ground. And I don't want you to miss any of these services. I'll be kicking it off on that Sunday morning, the ninth and the a.m. service. And then that Sunday night will be joined by our very special guest, the Crab family. All of the Crab family is gonna be joining us on that Sunday night. They're gonna be leading us in worship and then I'm gonna be coming back, bringing a word from the Lord or whatever the presence of God wants to take place in that service. You'll not wanna miss it. So let me set the course for you. 10 a.m. on Sunday morning, five o'clock for prayer on Sunday afternoon and then the six o'clock service takes place and you'll not wanna miss it that first Sunday. I invited the Crab family because they were with us when we first started Revive many years ago. They were in that first Revive service with us and what an exciting time it was and you'll not wanna miss that opening service of Revive 22 and then the following weekend will be joined by Bishop Ron Webb, my very special friend and guest coming in from Missouri, Poplar Bluff and I don't want you to miss it. He'll be preaching Sunday morning and Sunday night. Then the following weekend will be Kevin Wallace. At this moment, we have him scheduled for Sunday night hopefully he can be able to make it in on Sunday morning. He has his own church, so we understand that we're waiting on a word. And then the last Sunday, miracle Sunday when we pray over all the businesses and all of the family units, groups, everybody that's coming, we lay hands on everything, believing God. Now every one of these Sunday night services especially, every one of my guests know that it's gonna be laying on of hands, praying for the sick, praying for God's delivering power. All these services are going to be full of that atmosphere and I want you to come. Our own worship team will be leading us in worship and you'll not wanna miss this incredible start of January, 2022 and we need revival like we never had before. So I wanna encourage you, mark it on your calendar and then when you see it showing up on social media, help us share it out so we can get the word out, you'll not wanna miss that. Then on Wednesday nights in the month of January starting in that second Wednesday night, I'm going to begin a series on the forecast. You know, sometimes the weather men and women get it, they get it, the weather right and then sometimes they'll say something's gonna happen and then something unexpected pops up, a storm or whatever that it may be. Well, let me just say to you, God and his word have already set the forecast in Bible prophecy so that you and I can know exactly what steps to take according to the word of God to be able to see our lives preserved and protected and understand the things that are coming. The Bible says that the children of Issachar, one of the tribes of the nation of Israel had the understanding of times and they knew what Israel ought to do. That's why I'm bringing this message and this series, the forecast. We're gonna talk about things that is already happening right now in our world and into 2022, it's gonna be an election year. It's gonna be a time when there's gonna be, according to the news broadcasters and the people that are in the know and leadership, governments and economics, a time of inflation that's already upon us. Different things that are happening. Is the word of God, does the word of God have anything to say about that? I guarantee it does. As a matter of fact, just the past few days I've been thinking on the forecast and Bible prophecy and what we're gonna be bringing to you so don't miss it. Maybe join with some very special guests during those times in a Zoom call. So you won't wanna miss one of these Wednesday night services in Bible prophecy. And I would say to those of you that may be pastors that are watching or perhaps you'd like for us to come I'm gonna open up this year an opportunity. I haven't done this before. For us to bring prophecy files to different churches on different nights. So if you're interested in having a couple of nights of Bible prophecy, contact us at the church here at Pace Assembly and we'll be glad to look on the schedule and get you scheduled in. I'll only be taking just a certain number of those but I feel the urgency to get the word out of the house and into other local churches and places that you might wanna set up. It may be a group of churches that come together for that but I wanna be able to get the word of God to you. I think it's so important that we have the understanding of what's going on in our world and then being able to see what does the Bible say about these things? Not to what do these things say about the Bible but what does the Bible say about the times that we're living in? So I encourage you to make contact with the office as well about that. And then I don't want you to miss this exciting time we're gonna be having in February. So mark this down, save the date. You'll not wanna miss this service. It will be without a doubt packed. In fact, we're setting up for closed circuit television in the chapel for the overflow crowd. We will be having on February the 27th of this year, God willing, a night to honor Israel. And I will not want you to miss that because our special guest this year is none other than the founder and president of Christians United for Israel, Pastor John Hagey from Cornerstone Church in San Antonio will be our special guest. And we want you to be a part of it. We will be live streaming it as well. God helping us and willing to be able to do that. And I want you to mark it down and make sure you share that out with all of your friends. It will be a night to remember and a rare night that Pastor Hagey comes away from his own church to come and be able to speak at this particular one here. First time in Pensacola or Pace and we want to make sure that you're in attendance. So mark that down. And I believe that it will be an exciting night for you. Excuse me. To be a part of that night and to hear the word of the Lord and to celebrate and stand with Israel because in fact, just this morning I received notification of terrorist attacks in the West Bank that had been ramping up. They're constantly trying to get Israel into some kind of war or skirmish and they have held their peace for a long time. In fact, a few days ago I was on a conference call with a Koufai group and we were listening Christians United for Israel for those of you that are not familiar and listening to our former ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, as she described what was taking place in the Middle East and how important that the Abrahamic Accords have been to peace in that particular time. But listen carefully. The Bible says that when they shall say peace, peace, sudden destruction shall come. What's that look like in the days that are ahead? We're gonna talk about some of that in the forecast on those Wednesday nights for Bible Prophecy Special. So don't miss that. And I believe that God is gonna speak to our heart. So today I wanna bring the word of the Lord to you and pray that it will be a blessing to you. Just was thinking and praying about what we were gonna bring to you this morning on the last Sunday. And I got in my office early this morning, about five o'clock and was looking over some things that I had prepared for you. And then suddenly, as it is, the Lord began dealing with my heart as I started writing some things down. And today I'm gonna share with you a little bit of the, in fact, I wrote 10 things down as we're entering into 2022 that I believe you're gonna wanna write down and make notes of yourself and use them as a practical application as we're entering into this next season and this next time of changes that are going on. We see the changes that are happening now, changes across the board. I just heard just this morning on the news a little earlier how that in New York, they are now setting a new mandate that if you do not get vaccinated, this mandate says, according to Mr. Bilazio, that you won't be able to use the services of the city. You won't be able to be a part. In fact, you'll somewhat be like the Bible would call a leper, set outside and not able to participate in life for that matter. Ladies and gentlemen, we're living in such a strange time and changes that are taking place that what I'm about to share with you is gonna be so valuable and important to set your course. And I would say how important that it is for you to pass these principles and the value of the word of God and your faith in God to your children and your children's children in the days that are ahead because things are gonna be different as we're moving forward. The agenda, I would say, of the spirit of antichrist is literally leaching like someone described, and this is part of my prophecy files coming, the stalking horse of the antichrist is coming and we're seeing that evident in the world that we're in today. And you now, as a believer, if you're a Christian, you now have to take a positional stand more than you ever have before and be outspoken with your faith because people are cowering in multiple ways, just giving away their freedoms, giving away our life and lifestyle under the pressure of mandates. And what I would consider to be dictatorial things that are happening that are signaling and conditioning our world for the very spirit of antichrist and the very person of the antichrist to step on the scene. So not talking about Bible prophecy this morning as much as the Lord was leading me in this direction. I got a little books, and this is just a little bit, they're far above my head and to the left and right of me here in my library. And out of all the books that I have in here and study material, so forth, I picked up one at several years ago, it's a very small book, and I bought it and brought it home. The cover and the information and the author, I was familiar with, and I collected several of his books and brought them here. And I was thumbing through some of them. And this one particular book, in fact, I tried to locate it, but it's so thin that it probably sticks between one of these books up here. But I started thumbing through it one day to find out that while they were in the table of contents, a number of different chapters in there already titled and already ready to go. But when I flipped back to, I was looking at one chapter and it looked very interesting. So I started to flip back to that chapter only to find out that the printers had printed in this book only chapters one and two. And now the remaining pages in that book were absolutely blank. And I thought about it early this morning because we're about to step into a new chapter in 2022. And there have been chapters before that and there's new seasons that are up ahead for us, new opportunities, new challenges. There is no doubt about it. And with the blank pages in that book, in my spirit, I heard you get to write in this. And if I remember correctly, the entire book was about faith. So now on these blank pages, in fact, your book, the Bible says that our book has been written by God and he's already sealed it up all the days of our life. So he knows everything about us. And when we find out the purpose and the plan of God for our life, then we're able to walk and literally fulfill what God has written down for us in his book, the Bible says, which is called our life. And you get to write that book in the process of decisions that you make and what we do and how we chart our course. One thing about it, the future always is coming on us and it always arrives unannounced. And yet the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3 and 1 that to everything there is a season, everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. There is a time, there is a season and there is a purpose that God has already outlined for our lives and how we conduct ourselves, how we walk in the principles of God, how we conduct our life as a believer could determine how that the blessings of the Lord and when the blessings of the Lord come upon us. One of the passages that you need to know, and I'm gonna, before I give you these 10 things that I wanna share with you today is found in the character of an individual who understands the times, the season and the purpose and how we're to walk as a believer. And here's where it's found and I find that it's very interestingly found in Psalm chapter number one right after the oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job. So after all that trouble, after all the difficulty and then after all of the blessings that double upon the life of Job, you turn the page for a new chapter and a brand new portion of the book that is yet to be written and you find these principled words. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, three levels right there of literally walking away from God if we do not do these things. But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law, doth he meditate day and night. Here's the promise. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth fruit in his season. Remember God said there's a season, a time and a purpose for everything. So as you're planted by the rivers of water and water denotes life, it denotes the power of the Holy Spirit. So many others, I'm not teaching on that but those are some things to consider that bringeth forth fruit in his season. His leaves shall not wither. That is the physical sign of the blessing of God continually in your life. And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Then he draws this contrast, the ungodly, those that don't follow after the Lord, the anti-blessed so to speak, the ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveeth away. All it takes is a wind to blow and they're driven away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment or sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish. That's a powerful passage of scripture. As we hang these thoughts and principles on that passage of scripture, it's important for us to understand that not one of us are going to stay in 2021. Now most people said last year in 2020, you know what, I don't want to stay in 2020. I'm glad to go into 2021, only to find out that 2021 has been wrought with its own obstacles and its own challenges and its own blessings for that matter. But here we are, every one of us, regardless of whether you want to or not, are about to make the step over into a new season, a new opportunity, a brand new year. I'm glad that God allowed us to stay in time with seasons and years, months, weeks, days, hours, seconds, all of that. Otherwise we would be doomed to be stuck in a place of such permanence that whatever that was going on in our life we would never have an opportunity for any kind of change to take place. Now some people are resistant to change but I've learned and I've tried to help myself to be able to embrace change. Not all change is good. That's the reason why what I give to you in just a moment out of these 10 is gonna be valuable for you in the fact that changes will take place with or without you, but you have an opportunity to initiate that. So nothing on earth is as permanent as God and His word. And change is something that is continually going to happen. So embracing it is so important. Everything is going to change in our lives and we're seeing that change take place. Change is inevitable and the only way for us to move forward in every season of life is to be able to embrace those next changes and be ready and prepared as best that we can through God's word and our act of faith. Otherwise we will receive what could be unwanted change. Now I wanna share these 10 things with you and I want you to write them down if you feel like that you can be blessed by them and helpful because you're gonna help write your own book whether you want to or not. And the last thing you want, my friends, is to open up the book and find blank pages like I shared with you a few moments ago. Otherwise there's no benefit, there's no value. Nobody can receive a blessing and you didn't get the blessing of being able to be heard and understood or the experiences or the challenges or the word of God that bless your life to be shared with other people. So here's the 10, top 10 things that I think that God was speaking to me early this morning about to share with you today. Number one, as we're entering into this next season, I wanna make sure that you understand this and hear this clearly. Here's what the Bible says about any season, fear not, write it down, fear not. One of my favorite passages of scripture, in fact I usually close most of my letters that I write to people with this statement from Isaiah, this passage of scripture from Isaiah 41 and 10, fear not, God said, for I am with thee, be not dismayed, for I am thy God, yea I will help thee, yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. You understand that? God is saying in this next season and the time we're in right now, we're gonna continually be faced, it's very obvious that one particular variant after another when you're dealing with pandemics and COVID, there's going to be challenges that are gonna be happening in the economy, challenges happening in our nation and in our world, all that's going on. And God says for his people and he means for his people to walk by faith and not by fear. Now, Pastor, what about the fears that I have? What do I do with that? Well, the Bible is clear in so many ways and you should read the fear nots that are found there. The Bible tells us, for instance, don't be afraid of sudden fear, sudden fear that comes upon you. Now, the only reason why people will fear is because of the unknown most of the time, not being prepared for what needs to take place and multiple, perhaps, other things, but I would cite those two things as the most that would be on the top because not knowing what tomorrow brings, this reason why when I preach and teach Bible prophecy, that people want to be able to hear because it's not what I say, but it's what the Bible says that brings us peace, comfort and strength in the time of turmoil and chaos and keeps us in a place of faith and not fear. So one of the things that I believe is so vital and important for us in the days that are ahead, we cannot be a people that are in fear or our spirit is up evil and fearful and oh Lord, what's gonna happen? When we know that God has everything in his hand and nothing is going to happen to us as a blessed Psalm chapter one individual that he doesn't already know about. Now it's important for you to understand that your fear, if your fear gets greater than your faith, the possibilities of you being discouraged, bitter, wanting to quit, wanting to just go back to your old ways and whatever that it may be is a very real possibility and I understand that the children of Israel were fearful about their present and they were fearful about their future. But hear the word of the Lord. God said, Isaiah 41, 10, I am with you, fear not. I am going to help you with my righteous right arm. That's God's promise to each and every one of us and I will and you must awaken every day to this. I will not be afraid because God is with me wherever I go. So number one, in your new book, in your new chapter, in your new season, write down fear not. Here's chapter number two, principles that I've learned. Now, last year was not for naught. There's obviously things and experiences and perhaps new passages or scripture that you've read that you've never read before. The Lord revealed something from that that has helped you in this past year, things that you went through, all kinds of things that took place in this past year that you would reflect upon and say, you know what? I learned some things from that. I was taught some things. I learned something new. I learned how to do something, whatever that it is. The point is there are principles that we have learned. Let me share some things with you. The principles of God are permanent. God created man to breathe oxygen and many other changes. He gave us oxygen in the environment to live in. We can't live without it. So the Bible lets us know there's seed time and harvest. That we live by the very breath of the Almighty God, Job said. These are principles that are found in the word. Now, principles of God never change. They remain constant. That's a reason why in a world that is going crazy, up and down, inflation, everything else, you can count on the permanent principles of God's word because you can always go back to that word, that principle of God's word and find strength. You can always know. I don't care how they change it. The yardstick is still the yardstick. It's still 36 inches. These are principles. Principles that you can build your life upon. Principles of God's word work anywhere. I don't care if you're in the United States or if you're in a foreign country. God's word is forever settled in heaven. Principles will protect the very product that we have. For instance, the shirt quality and the car, whatever it may be, in God's economics, in God's plan and in his word, his principles protect the product. In other words, his word is not only forever settled in heaven, but he said his word will always come to pass. It will not return void. Principles can never be broken. You'll break yourself on a principle of God's word, but the principle will never be broken. That goes for those that are saints and those that are sinners. We see that happening in our world right now where people are violating God's word and their lives are broken. And as a result, let me say this to you, if we ever needed leadership, you won't wanna miss January 2nd. I'm probably gonna deal with this as well on that first Sunday. If we ever needed leadership, we need it now. Where is that leadership coming from? It comes from people that live by the principles of God's word. Why? Because when those principles that are violated that brings destruction. So in our world, in our leaders, even in the government that we're seeing in the United States and multiple other governments around the world, we can see how they're violating God's word and destruction follows. Hear this, principles contain in themselves inherent judgments. In other words, fire is hot. Fire is heat. If you touch that fire, the principle says you're gonna get burned. You need to understand that God's word has consequences and judgments that are built in. So what are the principles that you've learned this past year? This morning, as I was praying and thinking about this, it seemed that the spirit of the Lord said to me that there are hidden gems of principles that we have learned from this past year that we gotta make sure that we dig them out. Because principles that will stand in one season will also stand in the next. Understanding that our experiences that we had this past year with God and with our neighbors, our family, whatever that it may be in our world, these are things that we shouldn't just toss away, but we take those principles from this past year. And then the next chapter, here's the next chapter, principles that I've learned, here's this one, and then principles I will apply into the future. What are you gonna do with what you've learned? You're just gonna toss it all out and say that was, I'm just gonna forget all about that, or am I gonna take those principles and then apply them? Now that's what the Bible calls wisdom. Wisdom is when you take godly principles and the experiences and the word of God that you've had and you learn from it and then apply that knowledge, that wisdom into the next season of your life. In other words, this is the next chapter, first chapter, fear not, second chapter, principles that I've learned, third chapter, principles I'm going to apply, why? Because you prepare for the next season in this season. You don't wait until harvest time and then start sowing seed, you've missed your season. The Bible says that summer has come, winter has come and now summer has arrived and we're still not yet saved. The harvest has not been taken in. A lot of that is because we did not prepare in the season of preparation for the next season to receive a harvest. Every farmer knows that. Every individual who understands seed time and harvest understands that and that's the principle of God's word that he said would stand forever. You understand that? You understand that the effectiveness of the next season is absolutely predicated upon you doing what is necessary, me doing what is necessary in this season right now. Procrastination, those kind of things that try to get into our life, distractions, all of those kind of things, we have to really focus in the time that we're in. You know what I'm talking about. It's so critical that we focus upon the principles that we need to apply and I can tell you, they will have stood the test of time for you to apply them. Here's the fourth chapter that God just began to deal with my heart about and that is with changes, like I've spoken to you a few moments ago. Changes that are coming whether you like it or not and change without a doubt can be very very debilitating sometimes because we feel like we can't keep up with it. All you gotta do is start trying to miss around with your phone or a computer, especially if you may not have been brought up with all of that and learning all of the ways to go into it and fix it. It can feel like that you're somehow restrained and maybe tied down, but what you should understand is is that change is going to happen and the best thing you can do is be a part of an individual who initiates and directs change in your life. God is the one constant and his word is the one constant of all things. Everything else changes, times and seasons, but there's a purpose for that. You find out what God's purpose is in your life and you can help direct change that's going that way. Doesn't mean that there's not gonna be things that are gonna happen in our world. Every one of us are being affected by inflation right now and sickness, all that kind of stuff is going on. So I'm gonna give you this, write this down if you're writing it down. Adapt, but don't adopt. We're living in a world that wants us to adopt its mindset, its principles, its values, all of the things that are being pushed on us on a daily basis. Adapt to what's going on, realize change has happened and you've got to change, but don't adopt that life and that lifestyle. Why? I wanna insert this right here, this is important, because you and I, as believers, we live in two worlds and this is important. You and I are kingdom citizens and we are led and directed by the kingdom authority of the constitution of God's word. And the values and principles and the lifestyle and the mindset and all of that is not from this world that we're living in and we're seeing it much more in the days that we're living where that pressure is being applied, all the more reason why we've got to understand what the constitution, the word of God has to say as the one constant next to God that is so important for our life to build our life upon so that we can be a people that can literally help others find the way to stability, to peace, to joy, all of the things that God and the kingdom of God brings. You realize what changes are happening? We're living in a time. Most of the changes that have occurred have occurred within the lifetime of course of perhaps the past hundred years you'd say that. The other day I was doing the funeral service for a saint of God and they lived on up into their nineties and I was thinking, as I often do, reflecting upon the fact that that person has seen life from the horse and buggy all the way to people that now it's so not such a big deal to watch a rocket take off and fly to the edge of space and people get weightless. They're almost doing it every day now. You think about that span of the changes that have occurred in that span of time. Realize that right now I'm sitting here talking to you and no telling how many others that are watching right now that I have no idea about, you're watching me, this is a live broadcast that we're bringing to you and those changes have occurred in recent years for us but that does not mean that the pressures from the outside should be bringing us their influence and changing us, we should be directing that change. Jesus said it like this, we are salt and we are light. We are to affect change in others and we direct change in us. Affect change in others, direct change in us. So adapt but don't adopt. Here's number five, we're going down. Remember fear not, principles that I've learned from this last year, that principles I will apply into this year, changes, adapt but don't adopt. Here's number five, stand strong. The spirit of the Lord said stand strong in this next season. You're gonna need to do that, I'm gonna need to do that. As believers we've been put under more pressure, mandates, the pressure that's being applied, people are losing their jobs, some are walking away from careers that now the pressure has been applied to such a degree and it's a very difficult thing. No matter what the decision is, no matter what God directs you to be able to do, he's telling us to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. I truly believe that in this next year and this next season and I've been reading on some things, reading some things that people have been sending to me and just looking into the word of God and some of the things that people have been sharing that's on their heart and I'm seeing a consensus of this of the ratcheting up of spiritual warfare in this next season. This is so important. Now, remember this, spiritual warfare, whenever you say that and you start talking about spirits and spiritual warfare, sometimes people are trying to look for demons under every rock and Satan coming around the corner all the time. Let me just tell you something, child of God. Jesus has already, not going to, already defeated Satan and every power and every imp of hell, he's already defeated. So it's not a matter of me having to fight the battle, it's me standing strong in my faith, which is number six chapter for you. Number five, stand strong. Number six, build faith. When I stand strong in the Lord and in the power of his might, put on the whole armor of God and then he tells me to stand. Now, that's kind of messed up when you read that unless you understand the principle applied here of faith. That's the reason why I'm bringing these two thoughts together for you, number five and number six because one works with the other. He says, finally, my brother in Ephesians six, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. He goes on to say, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand and put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand and then stand there for. Now, what soldier do you know puts on all this armor, grabs the weapon, the shield, the whole bit and then stands and doesn't aggressively move out? Well, he's trying to tell us and he is telling us here that the battle is not ours. The battle has already been won by Jesus Christ. We must protect ourselves by putting on Christ the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of right. All of that belongs to him but we apply those principles to our lives, righteousness, salvation, peace, so forth and then he calls us to stand. Well, where am I supposed to stand? In the middle of a battlefield? Let me tell you where that hill called Calvary and what that hill called Calvary was just outside of Jerusalem. It was a battleground. It wasn't a playground and that battleground is where Jesus Christ hung up on the cross, died for our sins and he intends for us to take our faith and place it exclusively at the cross and let the battle be won by what Christ has already done by dying on the cross and fighting the battle for us. That, my friend, is an absolute victory in your life every day as a believer. That's the reason why I'm saying stand strong in this next season. Spiritual warfare is gonna be swirling like it never has. You can rest assured that in the months to come in this next year and we're seeing those battles and ladies and gentlemen, remember we don't battle in war with principality or with flesh and blood but with principalities, powers, rulers of darkness. You've heard that scripture before but it is manifest in our physical world. So we see nations rising against nations. We say people groups rising against people groups. Democrat, Republican, churches going at one and all this kind of stuff going on. Let me tell you something. The Bible tells us that we are to stand strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and then build faith as a priority and put Christ and the cross and the forefront of what's going on with our faith and don't move from that position of victory. We fight from a position of victory and this is important in building your faith. How do I build my faith in the time ahead? Well, let me tell you that's not some passive thing. I'll go to church when I want to. I'll read my Bible when I want to. I'll think about God when I want to and the time we're in right now in this next season you're going to need to apply the principles of God and inject the word of God into your life on purpose. Could be hourly, could be by minute by minute. I don't know, but I can tell you whatever is required and whatever you think you're going to need you need to apply those principles and build your faith by knowing God. How am I gonna know him? I know him by the word. I'm knowing by listening. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. In fact, God himself, the word of God records have faith in God. That's not suggesting it, that is a command. Have faith in God and hungering after the things of God. If you don't have an appetite for the things of God then you need to stir yourself. We're right here at Christmas and many of your kids and some of you perhaps grabbed that box of whatever that it was and shook the box before you ever opened it to hear what was in there, what was the weight, listen to sounds, all that kind of thing. Well, the Bible says this, stir up the gift of God that is within you. That's the reason why he says that we should hunger after God, thirst after God and here's the promise of his word. You shall be filled. Let me move on to the last four of these really quickly. First, seek first. This is chapter seven. This is the next season. In this next season, seek first the kingdom of God. Let the kingdom of God be the priority. The principles of the kingdom, the lifestyle of the kingdom, all of that. Seek first the kingdom of God. Matthew 633 says, and his righteousness and then all these things shall be added to you. Here's another one. In this next season, the word of God needs to become your best friend. I'm gonna tell you everything we have need of is found in the word of God. Every answer to every problem right now in our world, in our nation, everything, every question that there is, all the answers are found in the word of God. He's the one who created it. He's the one who made it. He made us and he has the answers for all of it. He has the answer for all that is taking place in our world right now. And let me say this to you. Because you're a believer, this book, the word of God carries your history, your history, mine, and our destiny. And God is not gonna cancel out our destiny simply because we won't read it. We need to be able to understand what's taking place so we can walk in that destiny call. But the destiny of someone else, the destiny of the future of this world, God's not gonna cancel that out simply because we don't wanna get involved in it. What you do wanna do is pick up this word and find out what God is saying to you about you, about your future, about your family, about your business, about what's going on in the future. What, how should I walk? What should I do? The Bible says, walk in the light. The word of God, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. Why wouldn't I want to pick up the word of God? Why wouldn't I wanna listen to it on the way to work instead of something else? Why wouldn't I want to study the word of God? You'll wanna do that because in this next season, the word of God needs to become so valued that you're hiding the word of God in your heart that you might not sin against God, the Bible says. Here's the next one, this is number nine, almost done. I believe this is so important, this is so valuable for us, get this, pass it on. In this next season, in this new chapter in your book, be sure to pass it on. In other words, there's another generation coming up and in recent days, I've taught some lessons about Joshua and how that Moses handed off that leadership to Joshua. Joshua, I feel confident that Joshua did not feel so prepared for what he was about to undertake. He did, I believe, his best. He listened to do the best that he could with Moses and then he listened for God who said, I'm gonna be with you, don't be afraid, don't be discouraged, march into Jericho, march into that promised land that I've already given to you, it belongs to you. I can assure you that Joshua was not somebody who was timid, but he was not someone who didn't realize the significance and the weight of his responsibility. Let me say it like this too, pass on the word of God, pass on the stories and the experiences, pass on to another generation what they need to know in order to make it in the days ahead to endure to the end and be saved according to the scripture. How do you do that? I'm really concerned about the selfishness of our society and generations that are coming up and how important that it is that we are moved with compassion for other people, even when they, that we might calculate and think that they don't deserve it. That's what believers do. That's the premise and the principle of God's word, do unto others, love others, show compassion. That needs to be a caring and a selflessness, passing it on to others, passing it on to another generation before we pass off the scene. We're to impact another generation. We are to do everything we can to get this word to them and our, and the experiences over the past few days. There's been a lot of memories that have been shared perhaps around your table and talking with the next generation if they were in the room and all of those kind of things. Let me say this to you, as a believer that needs to be a part of our life every day that we see others and we're passing on those principles. Some plant, some water, God's gonna give the increase. Now, here's number 10, worship God exclusively. My friends, our worship of God is why we were created. To love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength and to have a lifestyle of worship that takes place. That is to say that our very life daily should be one that offers worship to God and please do not regulate worship to the singing of a song. That's part of it. Being in a sanctuary with other believers, that's all part of it. But I'm gonna tell you your lifestyle that you live every day as a sacrifice unto God. At a moment, you may send a praise up before God. You know, a cup of cold water in the name of the Lord. All of these things are worship that go up to God. And let me make it clear how important that it is. From the book of Matthew chapter four, Jesus said to Satan, when Satan came and said, if you'll bow down and worship me, I'll give you all of this. And the world at that time was his to give. And in the time we're living right now, he's ruling the principalities and powers and regions and so forth. And Jesus responded, listen to this, thou shalt worship the Lord, the owner, Lord, the owner, thy God and him only shalt thou worship. Why did I write down chapter 10, worship God exclusively? Because I believe the spirit of the Lord was speaking to my heart about the fact that we must not, we must not let anything distract our worship exclusively from God. That's material things, money, time. You know, it's a car, a house, a boat, children. Whatever that it may be, our worship should exclusively be toward God and him as the priority of our worship. This is so important that it must be our lifestyle in this next year. I've given you 10 things, fear not, principles that I've learned, principles that I've applied into this coming year. I'm already gonna do that. I'm starting, I'm outlining those things and I'll pick them up as we go. Changes, adapt but don't adopt. Stand strong, build your faith, seek first the kingdom. Let the word of God be preeminent. Pass on what you know from the word of God to other people in your life and worship God exclusively. In this next year, you and I are going to need what I believe is going to be such a fresh anointing, such a fresh mindset, such a fresh heart and a fresh faith because we're gonna face things in this next season that we have never seen before and never done and how very easy that fear can take hold of our life when we don't know what that is going to look like. But I can close my eyes and take hold of the hand of God and walk through the valley and no matter what it may be, I already know not only is he gonna be with me, but he's gonna lead me and guide me into all truth by the power of the Holy Spirit. You've seen, you've read, you've been in this past year and seen what God has done in your life. Celebrate the victories, learn from the mistakes, apply the principles. And then here's what the Bible says as I conclude here today. From the book of Matthew chapter 17, Jesus has just come up out of the river Jordan after being baptized by John and the very first message that Jesus preaches is this, repent, listen to this, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. I want you to hear this because and I've been raised in this way too to think that the word repent there means to be in such sorrow over your sins, change your ways. And that certainly means that's a portion of it, but the translation is from the word repent means this, change your way of thinking. The word repent is a compound word, re, return, and pent means pinnacle. Return back to the highest pinnacle, the highest place of thinking, which is the kingdom of God, the word of God. So in this next season, let's start by repenting. Why? Because my friends, in the time that I've been on this earth for these 58 now, I think it is years, the changes and the things that have taken place in my short lifetime and in many of yours have been so incredible that it's hard to wrap your mind around. But I promise you, according to the word of God, we're about to enter into a time, of course, like we've never seen, we don't know what 2022 all of it holds, but I do know who holds 2022. And if we were repent, and it's connected to the kingdom of God, repent, change our way of thinking to what? To the kingdom of God, because it is at hand. Jesus is saying, my kingdom is here standing in front of you. Remember that when Jesus is speaking to this to them? There he is standing, full grown, just a couple of years before that he would go to the cross and be the eternal lamb slain from the foundation of the world, and all of those standing around him didn't even know who he was, not even John initially, until by the Spirit it was revealed to him. What is Jesus' message today? Repent, change your way of thinking. In this next season, whatever way you were thinking before, don't let that be something that you drive a stake in the ground unless it's a principle of God's word and say, I won't change from that. Change your way of thinking about things. Get kingdom-minded, that's what I wanna say to you. Be kingdom-minded, and if you'll be kingdom-minded, then the Bible says that that kingdom, not only that you're a part of now, can be influencing the world that we're in right now. Wherever you go, whatever you do. I pray that these things have been a blessing to you today that we've been sharing with you, some thoughts that I believe early this morning that the Lord gave to me to share with you on this last Sunday of the year, and I pray that you will apply them. I'm gonna do that, I've got them written down, and literally this is not something I typed up to prepare for a sermon. These are just some things that as I was thinking about this morning and this last Sunday that God began to speak to my heart, wrote them down as fast as I could. They may not be so profound, but I believe that they will be helpful. And so as we leave you today, I wanna pray for you, and I wanna believe God for you. Many of you that may have sent in your prayer requests today, I wanna thank you for joining us, and wherever you're joining us from, I hope and pray that as the Lord allows and his will is that we get to see you next Sunday in the sanctuary at Pace Assembly at 10 a.m. central time, you won't wanna miss it. Now, let me pray for you in all of your needs. Father, in the name of Jesus, for all of the folks that are watching today, and God, they may be driving down the road, they may be in their homes or in a hotel or wherever they may be. I'm thankful right now as we lift up our praise before you that you inhabit the praises of your people, that in the car, in the house, in the hotel room, in the hospital room, no matter where they're at, by themselves or with a group of people, your presence is now invading where they are, and peace is coming to wherever they are. Heal the sick that are watching today, God. I pray that you raise them up. Lord, break that fever in their life right now. Cause them to be made whole by the power of Jesus Christ. And God, I pray for every person today that's looking into this next season and may not know what to do. Help them right now before they take another step. Lord, to consult with you to find the help that they need in the word of God, to open up the understanding of the principles of God's word and walk in faith and not by sight. Plenty of things that are going to get our vision this year, but help us to stay singly focused upon you and not let the distractions of this world interrupt us. Lord, from the things of God and from the kingdom of God that is at hand. And now, Lord, according to your word, the Lord bless you and the Lord keep his face and make his face to shine upon you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you today and may the Lord give you his peace now and forevermore. May you be surrounded by the angels of heaven as you take the next step into this next season. And may it be the greatest days because God will never leave you. He will never forsake you. He is the friend that sticks closer than a brother. We ask God's blessing into 2022 and every opportunity to be the blessing for you and the influence in and through your life in Jesus' mighty name, amen. Praise God. God bless you, my friends, for watching today. It's such an honor and I do mean honor to be able to be with you. Thank you for all of you that have taken time to join us today for Pace Assembly Online. God willing, we'll be back with you next Sunday morning, live in the sanctuary of Pace Assembly, so don't miss it. Until that time, keep your faith towards God, stand strong and be safe and have a great new year as we're entering in. Celebrate the goodness of God in your life and we will see you again real soon. Until that time, remember this, Jesus Christ is coming soon.