The Blessing of A New Beginning | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

while you remain standing with me turn with me in your Bibles to the Book of Genesis chapter number 12. verse number six and verse 7 and then we will turn we will turn to Genesis chapter 13 and verse number 3. I'm going to minister today on this first day of the new year I'm going to minister I'm gonna go ahead and tell you my title before I read my text the blessing of a new beginning the blessing the blessing of a new beginning and I'm going to tell you if you don't listen to the lesson you're going to miss the blessing all right so you don't want to miss the blessing right so if you're really listen good to the lesson you'll get a hold of the blessing today the blessing of a new beginning Genesis 12 and 6. and Abram passed through the land into the place of shechem and to the plain of Mori and the Canaanite was then in the land and the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto thy seed will I give this land and there builted he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him turn to the next chapter 13 and verse number 3. and he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and hayai unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first and there Abram called on the name of the Lord the blessing of a new beginning I'm going to use today I'm going to use January 1st of 2023 I'm going to use it Lord willing to declare you know 2020 just about took all of the enthusiasm out of us to declare something at the beginning of the year but if there's anybody here today that has a spirit of Torment upon you I want you to know that our future is not uncertain our god holds our future and I can I can declare today I don't know what kind of Economics I don't know what kind of upheaval may come but I'm going to declare that 2023 is going to be a year of Victory it's going to be a year of Faith it's going to be a year of baptisms it's going to be a year of Great and Mighty things father anoint us today as we study your word Lord let us get the lesson of a new beginning today God will give you the praise and give you the honor in Jesus mighty name we pray amen and amen Give the Lord a hand to praise right now you may be seated Abram who later becomes known as Abraham Abram begins his journey begins his journey with God his Journey Begins like all of our Journeys begin the first step of our obedience to God's word activates the blessings and the Covenant covering of God Abraham or Abram as we will call him obeys the word of God and Abram leaves herb chaldees and makes his way to the promised land of Canaan our scripture text allows us and tells us that Abram came into the land of Canaan and upon coming into the land of Canaan he found out that Canaan was inhabited by people that there were the people there known as the Canaanites lived in this land it must have been God's timing because knowing Abrams as he saw the Canaanite there verse 7 tells us that the Lord appeared unto Abram you know it's wonderful and again if you miss the lesson you're going to miss the blessing God knows what you see in the natural God knows what you see in the natural and when God sees what you see God is able to counteract what you see in the natural he knew Abram saw the Canaanite he knew the thoughts that went through Abram's mind about these people that were strong and so God our gracious loving God counteracts what we see in the natural about allowing us to see something in the spiritual and the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto thy seed will I give this land there built it he and altar unto the Lord who appeared to him again if you miss the lesson you're going to miss the blessing God sees what you're seeing and God wants to counteract what you're seeing with a promise God's promises are yes in a man God wants to make you a promise God made Abram a promise that the land that he was upon was going to be given to his children every promise must have a reaction from us we are people Apostolic Pentecostal people are people that respect and Revere one certain location in our church we respect and Revere all the church from the time we pull off the parking lot till the time we get here but there's one spot in the church that we have respect for we visit it often it's called The Altar area the altar of the church we find out that the altar of the church wasn't just the place that I came to when I gave my heart to God but the altar is a place that I come to Time After Time and after time again why do you keep making so many trips to the altar because every promise God need gives you needs to be backed up by the altar when God gave Abram A Promise This Land is going to be yours although he saw obstacles and distractions in the land the Bible says that Abram built an altar unto the Lord the greatest place of a new beginning in your life is in the altar the greatest place to begin again is in the altar someone says well you preach the altar so much aren't you afraid aren't you afraid that people that you're actually advocating people not coming out of sin if you keep preaching the coming to the altar oh no on the quiet the contrary I'm not advocating staying in your sin I'm advocating encouraging you to repent because eventually you're going to get up on top of what's been dragging you down if one altar visit doesn't do it you come to the altar again and again and again and again and again you come to the altar years ago there was a hair cream that men used to put cream in their hair and there was a certain hair cream that was out and they had a commercial for that hair cream A little dab will do you well I'm afraid too many people use the altar like that just a little bit of this it will do you know I've got to have the altar because I've got numerous promises from God well the Bible says Abram built an altar in chapter 12 verse 9 he continues his journey verse 9 and Abram journeyed going on still toward the South everybody say the South the South he journeyed toward the South this is this is an interesting word this is an interesting word because the South here in the Hebrew is not just a direction opposite from the north but it also has the root word of being parched deprived of natural moisture you see God has got us on a growth track God has got us on a growth track and as we are developing spiritually in our walk with God as we go to the altar we move to another position in God of growth and so as Abram is making his way through the Canaan land he goes on and the Bible says he journeyed verse 9. toward the South toward the parched land isn't it amazing sometimes in our minds when we do our best spiritually it seems like tomorrow is met with our worst day it seems like that when we're doing the best we can that the next few days or weeks or maybe even months is met with the South the parched land the land that's deprived of moisture we go on to verse number 10 and it says and there was a famine in the Land There was a famine in the land because the parched areas deprived of natural moisture begin to produce this famine this lack this lack of food now I I I I sometimes words are broken down and and sometimes they're broken down and we find a deeper a deeper meaning but this word famine has to do with being deprived being deprived have I got a witness in this house today that you've been building altars to God in 2022 you build altars to God and you heard the promises of God things were birthed down inside of you when you heard the preaching of God's word but as you traveled your journey you find yourself in a parched land and you actually find yourself believing I'm being deprived of something that I should have right now I should have better than what I'm having today sister Linda Thompson I should have better than what I'm having because after all look what I left after all look at the altar I built after all look at the look at the the word that I heard from God after all shouldn't the leaves be green shouldn't the fruit be luscious should shouldn't things be much better than they are right now can I tell you saint of God on this first day of the New Year there is a blessing in beginning all over again regardless of your surroundings regardless of how parched it is regardless of how you feel like you've been deprived this word deprived and South Parts deprived and then the Bible says that God led Abraham into a season of trust do you know why that God allows the South to come to you and I do you know why that God allows you and I to both go to times that we feel like we have been deprived you know why he has got you in a season he wants to develop something in you that you don't have right now and that something is called Trust God wants us to trust him not with the green tree but with the withered tree God doesn't want us just to trust him with the Blue Sunshine Skies but God wants us to trust him when the clouds are so heavy all over our heads God wants you to trust him to trust him the Bible says in verse 10 and there was a famine in the land and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there for the famine was Grievous in the land what do we do when we're between our altar in the midst of our parched land and we have Egypt we begin to lean toward our own understanding can't you see Abram there well after all the land is parched but God didn't say go to Egypt God didn't say God gave you can and God didn't give you Egypt he gave you Canaan what are you doing going to Egypt you know what that is it is simply a light trust do you trust him do you trust him today when I tell you God loves you regardless do you trust that statement do you trust that statement today that God loves you I'll tell you right now you should trust that statement because that is a true statement God does care about you God does have a new beginning for your life so Abram is faced here with a trust issue does it say he doesn't have faith he just doesn't have trust he just doesn't trust God it's interesting I begin to run a word study on the word trust and I found in Proverbs chapter 3 and verse number 5 it says trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding look at his sis he says trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't lean to your own understanding because your own understanding will tell you in the midst of your parts dry time your own understanding will say well let me just go to Egypt I think I can figure this out on my own I think I can do things on my own trust in the Lord another thing I'd like to bring to you about the word trust many of the scriptures that deal with the word trust have the word coupled in a verse about Warfare about Warfare because you know as well as I do the time that it's the most difficult to trust God is when you're under demonic attack when the thoughts and the torments are going through your head when you wake up on January 1st of 2023 and something Whispers in your ear that 2023 is going to be no different than 2022. and 2021 and 2020 it is then and there that we have to reach down deep and get a hold of some Trust of God I trust you God I know what I see I know what I hear I know what's around me but God I trust you anybody anybody got a battle going on right now anybody got torment swirling in your mind right now will I be alive this time next year will we be together this time next year we'll be we will can I tell you something God wants you put silence to that torment and you put silence to that torment but you simply saying I trust you God I just simply absolutely trust you God I trust you I find this word I find this word that is coupled trust it's coupled around Warfare second Samuel see if you understand what I'm trying to say second Samuel chapter 22 verse number 31 as for God his way is perfect the word of the Lord is tried he is a buckler to all them that trust in him now it's not a butler he's a Buckler and what a buckler was was a man that carried your shield and he went out in front of you for whatever was coming in the future before it got to you it had to go through the butler can I tell you today he is a buckler to all them that trust in him folks we don't know what tomorrow holds why we don't even know what the rest of this day holds but I can tell you one thing I trust in the Lord and the Lord has already got my buckler out there in front he's already candled your sickness he's already handled what's going to try to defeat you he's already out there in that the news that you don't even know you're gonna get he's already out there and he is your butler do you trust him today I wish somebody shout yes do you trust him today do you trust him today let's let 2023 be the year of trust Psalms 11 and verse number 1 in the Lord put I my trust how say you to my soul flee as the bird to your Mountain you see my natural flesh says run get away from this get away from this but I trust in the Lord what are you talking about leaving what are you talking you need to do some soul talking when something deep down inside of you says you need to run you need to look at whatever that is saying then and say what in the world are you talking about I'm going to run I'm going to fly away like a bird to a mountain I'm not going to do that why I trust in him Psalms 18 and verse 2 the Lord is my rock and my Fortress my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my Buckler and the Horn of my salvation and my high tower Psalms 20 and verse number 7 look at this Warfare with this word some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord what are you trusting in today what are you trusting in today Psalms 91 verse number 2 I will say of the Lord he is my refuge my Fortress my God in him will I Trust Psalms 115 11. he that fear the lord trust in the Lord for he is their help and their Shield Psalms 118 9 it is better I want you to get this one it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes that's talking about government officials I'm not I'm not bashing government officials today but I'm going to tell you something on your coin it doesn't say in Washington we trust on your corn in corn it doesn't say in politics We Trust look at your coins today look at your money today it says in God in God will we trust oh I'm feeling the Holy Ghost here on this first Sunday oh yes come on worship him with me right now and God will I trust in God what I trust I know I'm looking at chemo to start next week sister Linda but in God will I trust I know I'm looking at a heart transplant but in God will I trust I wish somebody going through something which stand on your feet throw two hands in the air and say in God do I trust up in God do I trust my God my God the blessing of a new beginning it is it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes Proverbs 29 25 please get a hold of this one please get a hold of Proverbs 29 25 the fear of man bringeth a snare you want to get wrapped up in a trap you can't get out of start becoming a people pleaser start letting men's Spirits control you start letting what people think about you and say about you should determine the attitude of your day stop letting somebody's mouth or somebody's tongue cause you to go from happy to sad in one moment the fear of a man bringeth a snare but a whoso puteth his trust in the Lord shall be saved talk about me all you want to I trust God say all you want to say about me I trust God say all the ugly things you want to say bring up my past by the dump truck loads I'm here to tell you I trust God I trust y'all settle down I'm trying to teach a Sunday school lesson this morning so Isaiah 12 and 2. behold God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song he has also become my salvation look at Isaiah 31 and 1. Isaiah 31 and 1. woe to them that go down to Egypt you ever notice that yet nobody ever goes up to Egypt you never find a place in scripture that says they went up to Egypt because Egypt is not going up you're always going down anytime you take your hand you take yourself out of God's hand you're always going down I don't care how secure you feel anytime you take yourself out of God's plan and out of God's purpose God has a purpose for your life God has a plan for your life and you got to go through the South to get there but if in the middle of the South parched land you feel deprived you feel like God ought to work some things out a little bit different you just gotta still trust in God because anytime you take yourself out of God's hands you're always going down but you know the Bible always says you go up to Jerusalem Jerusalem is the city of our great God do you never hear you never hear it said in the Bible and it went down to Jerusalem nobody ever goes down to Jerusalem if you ever go to Jerusalem you're always going up you ever lean on the arm of Flesh you're always going down woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses and Trust in chariots because they are many and in Horsemen because they are very strong but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord now you know what happens when we fail to trust God we take ourselves out of his plan everybody wants you everybody wants I want his plan I want his purpose for my life so if I choose not to trust God and I begin to plan things on my own guess what that makes me a schemer I begin to scheme and plot my own life it becomes a dog eat dog world it becomes we live by the Golden Rule he who has the gold rules we live by the rule don't you you know we live in such a day today that people are so edgy they're so edgy in life I mean I mean just take somebody's parking spot that they thought they should have got or just don't move immediately when the light turns green brother Ericson John your brother was taking me to the airport yesterday well okay the factual story I was driving because it's going to make it sound like and uh we came up on some motorcycle riders and and they were all in the black leather and all that and as I pulled out um I I pulled over into their Lane I didn't see them they were in my blind spot that's my story and I'm sticking with it and and they all blew the horn kind of all kind of started Serena said oh Chad they're going to kill us right here on this road and uh I said they pull us over you get out and talk to them all right and uh believe people get so irate anymore right they get they just get so irate if they feel like you're getting an advantage on them you're getting some kind of advantage I don't know about you but I'm not going to go through life being a schemer I'm not going to go through life making sure that I always get the upper hand on you Abraham did Abraham did look at chapter 12 verse 11. it came to pass because he makes the decision he makes the decision to go to Egypt and it came to pass babies happy this morning and it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt he said unto Sarah his wife behold now I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians shall see me that they shall say this is his wife and they shall kill me but they will save thee alive say I pray thee Thou Art my sister that it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul shall live because of thee can I tell you something when you take your hand you take yourself out of God's plan God's Trust when you begin to look at your parts land and you begin to believe God has nothing to do with this and you take matters into your own hands you become selfish you only think of yourself this is the number one issue in marital problems today one or both you may be seated becomes selfish how selfish you are Abram what a loving husband you are who's Abram thinking about himself he says hey Sarah hey Sarah I got to tell you something we go down to Egypt you're a beautiful woman and and and if they find out that you're my wife they're going to kill me and they're going to take you we need to scheme we need to scheme and we need to have this plan made up so that this scheming protects me it protects me you see when we choose not to trust God we become professional schemers we're always trying to scheme the best move and how I can do this and when it gets in a marriage it it it's it's it gets in a marriage and one begins to scheme and the other begins to scheme and it just it's just no good How It Ends he is thinking about no one but him self verse 14. it came to pass that when Abram was coming to Egypt the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair the prince is also of pharaoh saw her commended her before pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house and he Pharaoh entreated paid back Abram well for her sake and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and Men servants and maidservants and she asses and camels I don't care how prosperous you're scheming has led you you see Abram had a plan had a skiing say you're my sister well when they got down there Pharaoh took her but Pharaoh began to pay Abram he began to increase his wealth can I tell you this today in 2023 don't mistake Financial increase as the blessings from the Lord too many people have the high standard of only believing God blesses them when they get a raise or they get some kind of job Improvement I'm for all of that but that's not the only way that God can bless you Abraham's getting more sheep that he had more cattle than he had Pharaoh's giving him more men servants and more maidservants camels he's getting all of this but Abram don't smile too big proverbs 10 22 says this the blessing of the Lord it maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it Abram I know you got more money than you ever had Abram I know that you're more successful than you've ever been but have you looked around Abram you've done it at the high price of your family and there is nothing so valuable for you like your family I don't care how well you're prospering if it's driving your family apart turn the prosperity knob down and begin to refocus yourself on God's plan and God's purpose God's plan for Abram was not to make him a wealthy tycoon in Egypt God's plan for Abram was to make him a world changer and a blessing to the entire world that was God's plan the Bible says the Bible says in verse 17. and the Lord plagued pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah Abram's wife Pharaoh called Abram and said what is this that thou has done unto me why did US thou not tell me that she was thy wife why said as she is thy sister so that I might have taken her to why now therefore Behold thy wife take her and go away two things here God's ultimate plan for Abraham the Bible says I will bless you and I will make you a blessing to the Earth do you realize that we as a people as individuals as families as a church we are to be a blessing to Blount County you are to be a blessing to your family and there's no greater blessing than going into your family that doesn't know God that lives in the region of Darkness they don't know God they've never heard the Plan of Salvation And you begin to share the life-changing message of what God can do for anybody and for everybody we are a blessing but you know something when we fail to trust God we become opposite of what we should be we become a curse and not a blessing Abram I don't know what the plague was I've tried to study it some believe it was sores that broke out on the Egyptians whatever it was more than likely pharaoh consulted a false god and God spoke and let Pharaoh know that the plague is because of Sarah she's Abram's wife so now Pharaoh comes to Abram and Pharaoh is angry at him and he says what is you you've done to me you've lied to me I could have taken your wife this is why we've got these plagues upon us what have you done and the Bible simply says that Pharaoh said at the end of verse 19 take her go away that Hebrew word for take is to force to leave they didn't just give a gesture toward the gate they didn't just kind of gesture would you and Sarah leave they forced them this word has the same word of driving cattle through a field they force them out of Egypt verse 20. Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away there it is again and his wife and all that he had you know when the world is your choice is one thing but what do you do when Egypt doesn't want you what do you do when what you want does it want you can somebody give me a witness oh I just want Egypt oh I want I want the bread of Egypt but what do you do when you get into Egypt and Egypt doesn't want you can I tell you something today friend your true friends are friends that know Jesus Christ your true friends are those that are serving in the Eternal purpose of the almighty God you better make you some friends because if you've got friends in Egypt all you have to do is cross them one time and they're telling you I don't want you in my life anymore can I tell you we live in this canceled culture all you have to do now in Egypt is stand up for an absolute and they'll they'll boycott your business all you have to do is tell your Bible views on a man and a woman and all of a sudden contracts are cut out of you cannot get a witness this morning what is that that's Egypt saying we don't want you we don't want you what do you do when you find yourself being shoved out of Egypt nobody wants us Genesis 13 verse 1. and Abram went up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and lot with him into the South wait a minute wait a minute you're going back in the South isn't it amazing you think you got it bad till you've had Egypt oh are you with me this morning some of us think we have it bad our car doesn't start all the time our washing machine broke some of us think we have it bad you don't know bad till you know Egypt when you know Egypt amen what are you doing and he went into the South you don't come through the South I'm a different man now it's still parched it's still Brown it's still dry but I got a good view of Egypt and I'll tell you I would rather be in Canaan Southland any day than to be an Egypt land I lost my family in Egypt I got a lot of trouble down in Egypt Egypt doesn't even love me anymore I would rather be on God's parched ground I would rather be in church feeling like I've been deprived than to be in Egypt feeling like I've got all that I need oh I got to hurry I I got to hurry I got to hurry this morning Chapter 13 Verse number two and Abram was very rich in cattle and Silver and Gold and he went on his journeys from the south now verse 2 he got his wealth from Egypt don't read verse 2 and think well at least he got something out of it he got trouble out of it verse 2 is a bunch of trouble you know why because not only did Abraham increase in cattle in Egypt lot increased in cattle and it's going to be the the the the the the the the the the central the center of trouble their increase was the center of trouble anything you get out of Egypt becomes the center of your trouble but let me go on he went on his journeys from the south where you going Abraham where are you going he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel unto the place where his tent had began had been at the beginning between Bethel and AI unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first and there Abram called on the name of the Lord Abram where are you going to you've just spent a year scheming plotting planning you just spent a year not trusting in God is there anybody here today that's tired of the pay of not trusting in God is there anybody tired of coming up short is there anybody tired of a lifeless joyless life that you've been living because you're a schemer don't you want to turn it around on January 1st of 2023 and say where are you going I tell you if that preacher if that preacher brings this sermon to an end I'm going back to the altar I'm going back to the place I was there a year ago I was there trusting God a year ago and if the preacher will let me I'll get up and I'll come back to the altar because there's a blessing in A New Beginning come on give him praise right now where you going Abram I'm going back to where I started where are you going you about lost your life you about lost your wife I'm going back to where I started I'm going back I'm going back to where I started going back toward my tent look at verse three with me just for a second and he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel Bethel means House of God where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and Haya I'm going back to where I pitched my tent the first time and I pitched my tent between a place called Bethel and a place called hayai names are important Bethel means House of God Bethel means House of God if there's any place you need to pitch your tent it's close to the house of God it this is the place of the beginning this is where I heard the gospel this is where I felt the convicting power of the Holy Ghost this is where I was baptized this is where I receive the Holy Ghost this is where the blessings have been but notice where he pitched his tent between Bethel and hayai names are important do you know what hey Bethel means House of God hey I means a heap of ruins a landfill a heap of ruins do you know something you need to keep in view how your life could have been ruined if you ever fail to remember where you come from and where you can go back to you'll go right back to it you go right back to it friend you better remember the pit from which you were drawn you better remember how God brought you out you I don't care how many years you've been drug-free alcohol-free porn free marriage free whatever free you're going to get free from I don't care I don't care how many years you can brag and boast but you better always pitch or tent between the house of God and a bunch of ruins and say there's what I should have been there's what I could have been come on I'm talking about the blessing of starting over January 1st 2023 I'm preaching with everything I've got to tell you that you can start over musicians and singers would you come the father's house The Prodigal Son the prodigal son stood and said I want nothing to do with Father's House the father stood and said I want nothing that The Prodigal Son said I want nothing to do with the pro I want nothing to do with them I'm tired of the father's house I'm tired of all this here give me what I deserve I'm leaving and that man left and squandered got addicted to alcohol and harlots wasted all of his life savings wasted all of his inheritance wine women loose living wasted it all on that woke up one morning in a pig pen feeding pigs but when he came to himself sister Holland he said how many In My Father's House have bread in the oven to spare I will arise now I'm adding this particular I will arrive and I'll go back to where I begin I'll go back to where I started I'll go back to where I was born I'll go back to my father's house and I'll say father I'm no more worthy I'm going back to the beginning do you know the only place it won't give you a new beginning is the world Judas comes and Judas begins to negotiate with the religious leaders what will you give me for him what will you give me we'll give you 30 pieces of silver good deal sign 30 pieces of silver Judas later changed his mind did he not he wanted to start over again he wanted a new start he had regret oh yes he did have regret he had regret Galore what did I do I sold him I need a new beginning and he makes his way back to them and he says John he says please here I need a new start I need to give you this bag I I've been wrong I need to give you this back and you know what they said watch that to us we're a religion we're not in the new beginning business what has done been done has been done in Judas having no new beginning cast the silver down left without hope and committed suicide can I tell you today you're in the House of Miracles here in the house of new beginnings you can change it all this morning but you stand with me you can change it all this morning God has a new beginning for you ma'am I speak in the Holy Ghost today to somebody that you're so tormented in your mind I speak in the name of Jesus to somebody today you have fought torment you wake up in the middle of the night you're so tormented and God is saying if you will come to the altar today if you will come back to the place of beginning I will begin a new work in you today I will begin a new work in you Abram I will begin a new word pray with me right now church pray with me right now I open these altars right now if you want a new beginning step out of your Pew and make your way down to the front right now make your way down to the front right now if you want a new beginning in your life if this message had your name on it today if God laid this message on my heart for you would you come right now would you come right now would you come right now A New Beginning here they come today here they come who'll be next today come on church family I need every one of you fervently praying right now come on create the atmosphere that people will let go of the back of their Pew you need a new beginning beginning this morning you need a new beginning this morning come on today come on today in the name of the Lord come on today in the name of the Lord oh God deal with him right now God oh this is January 1st oh God this is January 1st of 2023 God help them to know they could have new life God help them to know they could have a new beginning God oh help them to know they can have a new beginning they can have new life come on right now come on right now push up around the altar as close as you can as close as you can come up around the altar the altars are going to be filled this morning I say that in Jesus name the altars are going to be filled oh people want a new beginning I'm gonna put it under the blood this morning I'm gonna put it under blood this morning I will not be tormented any longer I trust in you o God I am in your hands Lord I am in your hands oh God come on schemer come on Abram put your life back in the hand of God this morning Jesus God come on pray one for another right now oh God I trust you God God I trust you God I trust you God oh God I trust you God God I'm sorry I'm taking matters into my own hands God I'm sorry God that I've done things on my own God as of this morning I trust you God God I trust you God for the answer God I trust you in the prayers God I trust you in the praise God I trust you in the attendance of your house oh God come on Church the Holy Ghost is moving I Trust You Lord God will baptize you with the Holy Ghost this morning you ought to baptize you with the Holy Ghost trust him with your praise trust him with your worship right now trust him with your hands being lifted trust him with your mouth being open trusted oh yes trust him right now trust him right now I trust you God oh God I trust you God God I trust you this morning come on come on Stir It Up right now I trust you in my life God I trust you in 2023 I'm going back to the place of the beginning I'm going back to the place of the beginning I trust you God I trust you God oh God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on trust him with your praise come on trust him right now with your praise God I trust you in this situation God I trust you in this situation God lord I Trust You O God lord even though my son my son needs a heart transplant I trust you God oh I trust you God even though my wife's been diagnosed with cancer I trust you God I trust you God come on pour your heart out it's January 1st it's the new beginning yeah yes come on your voices out of me lifted High hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh God I trust you oh God I trust you oh God I trust you come on put your hand over on somebody and pray with them right now lift up your voice like a trumpet worthy of all the praise don't lose the trust of your praise don't lose the trust of your praise God yes God yes God yes God yes God Jesus the name above every other name Jesus the only one who could ever say worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you there is feel me with your heart Worthy worthy of every song we could ever see this worthy of all the praise worthy of every breath we live for you Jesus Jesus the only one who could ever say worthy of every breath holy there is no one like you there is holy there is no one like you there is give yourself and I will not be shaken I will be it is from Far Cry foreign your heart indeed I will build my life open up my eyes one more time one more time brother everybody's singing with me there is none besides open up my eyes show me who you are oh give God praise right now give God praise right now trust him trust God trust God trust God trust God trusting his ways can be trusted hey it lost their way I've been praying for this person I've been praying for him and praying for him praying for him yesterday right out of the blue I got a text and that person was basically saying Egypt has disappointed me I want to come home I I want I want to I need God I need to come home oh how many years have we been praying how many years foreign ER sister Carpenter's got a wrinkled up piece of paper in her purse it's her prodigal list he prays over that that list of papers she just you she gets it out of her purse at prayer time and she'll just pray pray for her she's written so many names on it please trust in prayer I believe that you know normally we have a theme by this time and I don't have a thing for 2023 but brother Ken I believe God's give us a thing this morning let's trust God let's trust God let's trust God's ways let's trust God's word come on let's trust God come on will you trust God 2023 is going to be the year I trust him tired of being a schemer I'm going to trust God I'm going to trust God this year 2023 I need to ask you I want to give you a special treat tonight tonight at six o'clock our Evangelistic service we're going to be extremely blessed with the dynamic Ministry of evangelist Michael Maupin he's going to be with us tonight and those of you that have heard him before now last Wednesday night we had brother Miracle here brother Miracle do okay didn't he I was here with you online brother Nana sent me a text out for service he said we had a miracle service tonight all the Miracles here I got one better this coming Wednesday night brother Moses from LaFollette is going to be here teaching the midweek Bible study so we don't only have miracles of the New Testament we got Moses in the Old Testament coming this coming Wednesday night and it's going to be it's going to be a great time I need to ask you if the or the lady is still practicing for the funeral I I need to ask everyone's understanding 5 30 today is our prayer time and it's six o'clock but I need everyone right now to be very very kind I have a group of ladies we've got a funeral at two o'clock at the severe severe campus brother bogle's a charter member of that church up there brother Bogle passed away we're having his funeral matter of fact they're going to start receiving friends here in just a few minutes and it has rendered Our Ladies uh the the auditorium up there unavailable for practice they're going to come and practice some songs and we're going to be understanding of that right now let's all just be dismissed in prayer father I love you father I thank you and God I declare to you right now that I'm going to seek to trust you deeper in 2023 than I ever have in all of my life God that I'm going to trust you God regardless of the south in the name of Jesus we pray amen and amen God bless you see tonight at 5 30 at prayer