Vision

Praise God forever. Aren't you glad to be in the house of the Lord? If you're glad, pray with me right now.

Lord, we are thankful to be here. We gather, Lord, as a church family, and we lift up your name. We sing songs about you, Lord.

We look to the word, Lord, because it's about you. We pray Lord be God be dear God because we believe it's from you. We claim the miraculous in the name of Jesus.

It's about you Lord. You are healing today. You are saving today.

You are changing lives today. Once again Lord I make myself available to you. I need you.

Holy one. Bless this time together Lord. Let us draw near to you.

Let us be hungry for you Jesus. You make the difference Lord. Jesus, have mercy on us today.

Great God, HAVE MERCY on us today. Holy one, yes. I love you, Jesus.

I bless your name, Lord. I worship you today, Jesus. Be exalted, holy God.

Be exalted, holy one. Yeah. I love you, Lord.

Aren't you thankful today to be in church? Turned a couple folk close to you and say, "He is here." Come on. The Lord is here.

Now, ask that person that you just told that he is here. Ask him, "Are you here? I give honor to all of you for being here today.

If you've joined us online, we welcome you into our worship time. If you're a guest, we're so glad that you've come. Amen.

Thankful to be in the house of the Lord. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Does anybody have a journal from last year still? You have it with you?

Would you raise it up so somebody can believe the past? Anybody got one? No.

Everybody was faith today. Faith said, "Ah, that's behind me." We don't He can't even read the word on the front. Last 12 months, we have talked about us as a church from one place to another.

Ecclesia, it's the origin of the word says. They took them from here and put them there. I believe today that we are living in the most wonderful days.

Need y'all to look at pastor from my heart. I love you. Please look here.

I love you and I believe God's got great things for you. But I do not I am not the owner of pixie dust. I do not have magic potion nor power.

I cannot give to you something that you do not want. I cannot make up something to make you feel better about yourself. But what I can do is preach Jesus, him crucified, the cross of Calvary, the blood of the lamb that could come and change everything.

Amen. My wife and I want to honor all of you today. You guys have been so so kind.

Look at the church. Look, turn around everybody. Use your neck muscles.

Come on. Ain't God good? Look around you.

Huh? I shared this with our early roll call prayer crew that was here earlier. Eight months ago, we moved into this location.

Look what the Lord has done just in the last eight months. Huh? Yeah.

The challenge for today in this service is going to be this. You're going to have to somehow in this somehow someway, however it is for you, you are going to have to rise above your fear to walk on this carpet. Ju just r just get out there on it.

Brother Jeff walked on to even know it. Oh, I didn't even know. This is all part of what we're doing.

We don't do this for us. We do this because we believe that doing our best matters. Amen.

Now, I I did tell brother Lorenzo, who helped Brother Seth occasionally, um, all this carpet needs now is stains. My carpet, my church growing up had stains on it, green and snot. I can tell you why they were there.

Sister Renee, I can tell you why they were there. I was there the night that lady puked as the demon came out of her and she spit up that green mucus and that stain that couldn't get it out of the carpet ever. And pastor said, "Leave it." That will ever be a memorial to us that the devil's a liar.

So, all we need now is some non- Kool-Aid stains. Come on, somebody. I'm sorry.

We are We're after 1:00 already. Man, it's going to be a long day. I love you guys.

You can be seated if you feel like you need to. Vision 2025 is where we just came from. What a wonderful, exciting year for Cornerstone Apostolic Church.

I mean, really, look what the Lord has done. I I want to ask you, is there anybody in here that's thankful to be a part of the family of God? Could you celebrate the last 12 months at CAC?

Come on. Would you celebrate with me? Come on now.

Would you celebrate with me the goodness of the Lord? Anybody at all feel like giving God glory in this house because of what he Come on. SOME OF Y'ALL should have done lost your mind.

Some of you were stone cold broke 12 months ago. Some of you were STRUNG OUT ON DRUGS. DIDN'T KNOW HOW YOU got there.

But look what the Lord did in your life. Look what the Lord has done in your life. Look what God has done in your life.

OH, COME ON, SOMEBODY. GOD'S BEEN A GOOD GOD AND HE STILL IS TODAY. Stop that music.

Hold on. Wow. Y'all are interrupting my message.

We are learning as the called from one place to another. You go on, Sam, we'll catch up with you. Called from one place to another.

I don't know about you, but if you have ever served the devil and you were one of his right-hand mans, and you did everything you could do to make sure that people were hurting and that they were falling and that they were destroyed. Come on. That was some of you.

That was many of you. That was many of us in this place. But Jesus came in and changed it in your life.

And now you can look the devil in your eye and he has to back AWAY FROM YOU. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GIVE IN TO the ws of the enemy. But you have LEARNED I AM CALLED TO BE ONE OF HIS.

JESUS IS IN control of my life. God has demonstrated his glory and his power in this place in such incredible ways. There is no way that we cannot see the hand of God in this place.

I want y'all to notice that today is vision casting and we're going. That's where we are. But I want you to everybody to notice something today.

If in the last 12 months the Lord God did a miracle in your life, jump to your feet right now. Come on. You know who you are.

Now you look around. Come on. You know what the miraculous things of God are.

Look around. YOU'RE CLAIMING GOD, YOU did that. NOBODY ELSE COULD DO IT.

IT WAS YOU. OH, COME ON. JUST IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS, LOOK WHAT the Lord has done in your life.

COME ON, TELL SOMEBODY, "GOD'S BEEN GOOD TO ME." COME ON. IF SOME OF YOU WERE SAT IN HERE LAST YEAR, YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU WERE, BUT NOW YOU'RE IN YOUR RIGHT MIND, HANDS LIFTED UP, LOOKING GOOD, WORKING A JOB, GOT MONEY IN THE BANK, GOD'S BLESSINGS IS ON YOUR LIFE. NOW THE REST OF Y'ALL, you got another year.

This year could be your year. Now sit down before you mess up my message. There have been healings.

There there have been provisions. There has been protection and salvation. God has moved.

I will tell you this weekly I come in this place and somebody will say, "Pastor, you need to know what the Lord did in my life this week. My young was sick, but we prayed over them and now they're okay. Mom and dad had this issue, but they don't have it anymore.

Come on. I I know what prayer can do. Anybody else know what prayer can do?

Come on. I got a two-year-old grandbaby that was sick with the flu, and I don't like it. Just chicken a burger.

She was all sick. And my wife said, "I'm gonna pray for you." You know what she said? "No, don't tell Jesus I'm sick.

Y'all are laughing because you're you understand that. But my lovely wife said, "Baby, I'm going to pray for you. Jesus, raise her up.

Raise her up, Lord. Raise her up." She didn't jump up to her feet and go running around the room. What she did say an hour later was, "I feel better." You can call that simple faith.

You can call it coincid if you want to. As far as I'm concerned, when I call on the name of Jesus, heaven stands there and says, "Yes, if you will ask in my name, I can do anything. If you will ask in my name, I can do anything." We are here today to celebrate and to talk about the good things of God.

Brother Sam's coming. He is our executive pastor. He's coming for a few minutes to talk about the good things that God is doing in our service group.

Come on, Brother Sam. Go back to be quicker than that. Got some department leaders that have put in some work.

Can Can you put your hands together? Is you ready? I got guest services.

Brother, Mr. Andrea, come up here, guys. When I call your name, if you don't mind, just make make a line across the front.

Do you know Do you know that over over This is conservative, okay? Over 115 firsttime guests walk through the doors. Just make a line.

Walk through the doors of CAC this year. Over 15. That's conservative.

It was actually closer to 150. But 115. Come on.

That doesn't happen accidentally. God looks at us and says, "You know what? That's a church that's hungry.

That's a church that's prepared to handle a newborn. Christian education." Brother Dan, Sister Jim, would you guys come up here? They didn't just have Sunday school this year.

They didn't There we go. I got I got my got my organ player in the back over here if y'all know. They didn't just They didn't just have learning the Bible a little bit this year.

They had a full vacation Bible school. They had a Bible quizzing teams. They can quote the Bible frontwards and backwards.

And they had an amazing Christmas play. That's investing. Investing.

Investing church. Thank you guys. Now, brother Don, he is investing in something right now.

Well, all right. His car broke down this morning, so he's investing in a record bill. But, you know, sorry, brother Don, this is offering time now, right, Pastor Celebrate time.

Sister Brother Duron and Sister Sarah Aerson, they're over our music ministries. I don't know if y'all heard them sing or not, but guess what they work with? They work not just with CAC.

They work across the district and and with topnotch musicians and singers. They hold a candle. They probably teach them a little bit.

Where we at, Dylan and Jess? Ah, there we go. These guys handled all kinds of moving around in circles, setting up, tearing down district events.

I don't know if you know it or not, but they they they pushed the Tennessee district into a next level of excellence. Just at CAC, over 600 unique viewers viewed our media on our app, our website. Over 600, that's not us.

over 600. On YouTube, we gained over 50 subscribers. On Facebook, we had over 388,000 views.

Almost 50% were nonfollowers. Over a 100,000 on Instagram with five months of data missing. I don't Hey, I don't I don't even I don't say that because of the numbers, but the numbers are indic are indicators of the work, the prayer, the heart, the dedication.

That's just a measurement. Come on, somebody. First responders, what we got to get excited about with first responders today?

THEY KEEP US SAFE. WE DIDN'T GET SHOT. Come on now.

They had they've grown the team. They've they've had consistent strategies. Your cars didn't get broken into.

We've even brought in outside consultants to help us with this stuff. Sister Stacy, Lord bless her. She's sick.

We're glad she's not here. Continue growth in prayer. So much so that the men now, brother Tim didn't even mean to take over the prayer department, but the men done been The men done been praying the glory of the Lord down.

And in 2026, we're going to do a 24-hour prayer chapel here at the church. Where you at, Justin and Chzny? We got HOPE RECOVERY.

THEY EXPANDED INTO the jails this year. have an average weekly attendance of 35 and celebrate recovery on Tuesdays. Talk about some work.

Yeah. Now, last but not least, you She wears all kinds of different hats. You have no idea what all she does.

Be she'll she'll call you if you've spent money. She'll call you at 10:00 at night and be like, "Hey, I was looking at this. Where's this receipt at?

But Sister Sloan or Mickey, I was scared to talk to her for like two months cuz she was working on fall festival. I was scared. I I just block her number for a minute.

Every one of y'all was scared. She was like, "Hey, you hadn't volunteered for something. I wasn't going to, but I guess I will now." Over 400 guests stepped in onto our campus over 400.

Come on. IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF THE WORK OF JUST ONE, BUT these these men and women are carrying the mental load, the spiritual load of the of the work of the church. Come on, somebody.

Would you stand to your feet? John 14 and 12. You can be seated for just a second.

John 14 and 12 says, "Verily, verily, I say unto you. He that believeth on me, the works that I do, he shall do also, and greater works than these shall he do." I don't know. if someone if you if you got this or not.

He didn't say Jesus was going to do greater works. He said greater works than me shall he do. Everybody put your hand on your chest and say that's me.

Greater works. That's I know you don't believe it sometimes and you look at yourself and you say, "How could I do it?" But can I just tell you greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. GOD'S GOING TO MOVE ON YOU GREATER THIS YEAR THAN YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO, HOW TO THINK, HOW TO SHAKE IT.

HE'S GOING TO GET ALL OVER YOU. I wish you'd STAND WITH ME FOR JUST A SECOND IF YOU WOULD BELIEVE IT WITH ME FOR JUST A SECOND. HE'S GOING TO TURN YOUR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.

NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU DO, BUT BECAUSE YOU GET OUT OF THE WAY AND YOU ALLOW GOD TO WORK THROUGH YOU. OH, come on, somebody. God's been good.

Can I? As they're standing here today, come on. I I'm telling you, God is doing great things.

And we are not going to ignore the fact that except for the blood of Jesus and the power of a risen savior, we none of us would be here today. Y'all ready for it? He's giving you some numbers.

Listen to this. In 2025, we baptized 32 in the name of Jesus. Play it.

Come on. We had seven receive the gift of the Holy Ghost here. Our average has been over 120 every Sunday.

Our midweek university has been 90 every Wednesday. Listen, we have acquired a new facility and a working space. God's been good to us.

We've got recovery programs working. WE'VE GOT CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES WORKING. We've got men working in the street.

We've got ladies lifting up the body of Christ. God has been good to us. And it's time that we celebrate the good things of God.

Come on, SOMEBODY. ARE YOU READY, CHURCH? ONE, TWO, THREE, GO.

LET'S CELEBRATE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD. COME ON, SOMEBODY. GIVE THE LORD PRAISE FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE.

OH YES. GOD'S BEEN GOOD TO US. SHOUT TO THE LORD, SOMEBODY.

LIFT YOUR VOICE TO THE LORD. SOMEBODY GIVE THE LORD PRAISE. GOD HAS DONE GREAT THINGS.

YES. YES. YES.

HE HAS. HALLELUJAH. We celebrate the good things of God.

We celebrate the good things of God. OH, I FEEL THAT RIGHT NOW. SOMEBODY TURN UP THE MUSIC.

I FEEL THAT GOD UH IS BLESSING US HERE AT CAC. I KNOW THAT GOD IS MAKING A WAY UH FOR US in the revival THAT WE LOOK FOR. AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A MINUTE TO CELEBRATE WHAT GOD HAS DONE and to give him thanks.

Yes. GOD HAS BEEN GOOD TO US. Praise God.

Don't you worry about this paper. It'll vacuum up. We'll help clean it up.

God's been good. He's really been good. He's been good to me.

He's really been good. All right. Thank you.

GIVE THE LORD A HAND CLAP OF PRAISE TOGETHER. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Oh, God's so good to us. Never did I think now I prayed for it, brother Vandy, that 30 plus would get baptized in Jesus name at our church in a year. I can tell you the years I sat at my desk and wept because nobody was baptized in the labor of trying to believe still that God could do it.

wondering why people couldn't get the gift of the Holy Ghost in our church, but they could go to a camp and get it. God, what are we doing wrong? Wondering why miraculous things were happening.

I mean, it excites me when brother Rob gets up here and talks about the mission field. We've been there. I know what it's like to see 700 plus get the Holy Ghost.

Come on. It was on a mission field when I saw one of the miracles of somebody's eyes growing in their head. I I saw that.

I know. God, why can't we see that here? And then the Lord so gently because of listen to me consistency and persistency God begins to move.

Things begin to happen. For a point of reference before you sit down. When my wife and I came here 19 years almost ago, we had 12 people in the church.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Less than that one section. Now look what the Lord has done.

Come on, look what the Lord has done. Oh, the goodness of the Lord. You can be seated if you feel like you have to.

We enter into another year of opportunity. We are looking at the vision that God has given us and we are believing God for greater things. greater things.

Pastor, does that mean this year 33 will get baptized? It will if we do the work. As we look into this year, we are going to focus every week and every month intentionally on growing the kingdom of God to greater places, greater vision, greater giving, greater growth, greater purpose, greater women, greater men, greater families, greater serving, greater revival, greater community, greater together, greater generosity.

Every month, we're going to delve into the ways that as a church body, we can find avenues where we can go deeper and higher in the Lord. Brother Sam, could you come and help me, please? Last year at first service in our vision casting, we handed out journals that as a church we bought for you.

This year, we bought them again. and it's just a little different format. This is our journal for 2026.

Would you stand with me, please? All over the room. I'm going to be referencing this.

If you if you will commit to going through this journal with us this year, would you come, please? And Brother Sam's going to help you get one of these journals. Come on.

There's enough for everybody. Come on. The kids, the little ones, they won't need it.

That you can give them a color book. But if you're serious about taking notes, about committing yourself, about doing what God has called you to do, come on, greater things, greater things, greater depth, greater height. Come on.

Greater greater greater. Come on. That's right.

Get get a get a journal. All right. Greater things in God, greater depth, greater height.

Come on. That's right. Greater, greater, greater, greater, greater, greater.

greater greater. This is not a Bible. This is not a salvation thing.

What this is is a tool to help all of us here at CAC. Now, I want to point out a few things in this journal as I go through my message for the day. I watched the clock.

We're still okay. This journal was assembled, put together, thought out. Lauren and her crew did a fabulous job putting this together.

She's the one who did last year and I I want to honor her for that. It's a lot of hard work. If you'll flip in into the book, you'll notice there's a vision of Cornerstone Apostolic Church integrator.

We wrote the pastoral team. We wrote letters. Listen to me.

Some of you have voiced a question, a concern. I don't know how. How can I better my prayer time?

How can I lengthen my time of prayer? Some of you are really good for about three and a half or four minutes and then you start repeating. That's what you do.

It doesn't mean it's the end of the world, but I we wanted to help you to grow in your prayer time. If you'll go to the Lord's Prayer, page number five or six here in your book. Listen to me carefully.

Look right here. This is a prayer. This is not just something for you to have.

You notice how it starts. Lord, I ask one thing from you. You see how it starts?

This is to help enhance your prayer. Now, you flip through it. These are all verses directly taken from the word of God.

There's four pages of them. Five pages of them. This is to help you.

I do this prayer. I started this about four or five months ago. If you read, just simply sit and read and meditate and think on it.

Listen to me. 23 minutes just to read through that. If you are now, listen to pastor.

If you're only investing now a couple of minutes in prayer because you don't know what to say except God bless everybody. Oh, and the rest of them too. Mom and them too.

This is going to help your prayer time. You sit down in a quiet space. You get this out and you start reading it.

Lord, I seek you today. Lord, I look to you today. It is fashioned from the Lord.

Lord, would you teach us to pray? And the Lord said, yeah, this is how you do it. that is in your journal intentionally it's for you to say I need to know and to learn how to pray more you do so after that the blessed journey this gives you steps that you can take once you get to the months notice January there's a monthly calendar you can go in here and put dates on it put things on it okay notice on the right side important things you can make a note there you can make a note about other things you can do a to-do list if you need to flip that page though to the back of that January greater vision a personal goal a financial goal spiritual growth other things trying to help you to assimilate a plan and you'll be able to carry it in one book as opposed to three or four.

Notice too there are blank pages for notes. This is not for your children and their crayons. they can use it.

But there are several pages here just for notes for the month. You can refer back to them. And then you get into the Sunday the 4th.

That's where you'll be writing stuff today. Everybody see that page number February 4th or January 4th, excuse me. All right.

And then of course, Wednesday on the backs of the pages, front and back, notice the bottom. What do I need to remember out of that? This is a way that you can draw out and you can focus on something every month.

The calendar's there. Listen to me carefully before I move forward. This is intentional.

I wish I could say that everybody just wakes up one day and they've got it all together, but that's not the case. So, we intentionally talk about giving time, talent, treasure. We intentionally talk about prayer.

We intentionally talk about answers to prayer. If you'll if you'll follow this and use this journal, listen to me. Take it to work with you.

Set it on your desk as you pray your prayer. Read through there. Write down some notes.

Talk. There's a place in here for a prayer list. There's a place in here for prodals that you're praying for.

Those who have backsliden or walked away from God. This can be a tool to where you can take it to work. You can talk to folk.

You can take it to the grocery store if you need to. It's small enough. This year we decided not to do the binding, the rings.

Instead, it's bound this way. And we'll see how it goes with this one. Listen to me carefully, though.

This is a way, a tool that you can use day in and day out. I invite you, bring them to church with you. Make notes in them.

I I told you guys last year when we started this, something amazing that I begin to notice here at CAC is while I'm preaching, I see the tops of a lot of your heads. I know you're not on your phone playing games. And I didn't understand it for a while.

I saw it and thought, man, they're ignoring me. And then I somebody else was preaching one and I was behind everybody and I looked, they're not playing games at all. They're making notes.

And I said, God, we have a church hungry to know you. They don't want to simply hear it on a Sunday, but on Tuesday, they want to refer back to it. I told you what my bride does.

She takes hers. They they do a Bible study at her work. She takes notes on Sunday and Wednesday.

She goes and if they give her a chance to preach, I tell she said it ain't preaching. But that's what she uses. Listen, this past Sunday we talked about this or this miracle happened and she relays it.

That's it's written down. Come on. What's the scriptures tell?

What was that the old guy said? Write the vision. Make it plain.

Put it down. So this is your tool. You're welcome.

take it with you. If you need, if your friends at church or are at work want one, tell them to go to amazon.com. They can find this book and they can purchase it because that's where we had it printed from.

We submitted it. They printed it. And here it is.

So, it is now officially out there because it's got a code. So, tell your neighbors, hey, go buy the book. You'll love it.

And then watch every week so you can take notes. We'll compare at the end of the year. Ephesians chapter 4, listen to this.

Verse number one. Therefore the p I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called. I encourage you.

I implore you. I reach for you with all loneliness, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Listen to this.

There is one body, one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all, and in you all. As we do the things of God, as we go to greater heights and deeper depths in God, you will find out that it is only going to happen. Listen to the preacher.

It is only going to happen when we are unified and we are together in the effort to work for the kingdom of God. I need you to listen to pastor for a moment. If you are trying to build your own kingdom in this church, I rebuke you in Jesus name.

It is not going to happen. It is not going to happen. God has given the authority and the will of God in this church and I will stand in this place and I will declare the counsel of God.

And if you're trying to take and do and whatever, I rebuke it. Now, pastor, why are you saying it? Because the enemy of your soul is trying to separate people.

And that can happen in this church just like any other church. But I declare that God is in control of CAC. I am trying my best to submit myself to him and his word.

I am growing and learning and trying to do what God is leading me to do. Therefore, when we do this in unity and in harmony, don't you be mad at me when I say, "Hey, that is not the will of God for your life." Or you need to listen to what God's saying. Don't get upset and don't think that I'm just some kind of guy that's online that you can get information from.com.

But I will pray over your situation if you ask me to. Yes, I will. Others will as well.

I need you to listen what I'm saying. God has given direct order in the kingdom. And if we are going to advance the kingdom here at CAC, I've we have already rejoiced over those who've been baptized, those who received the Holy Ghost, the miracles that have happened.

But I declare that to go to greater heights and to see greater things happen. It is going to take unifying the body of Christ. Somebody say, "Amen." Amen.

Submitting ourselves to the word of God and to the power of the cross. I know that. I know that.

I know that if somebody wants to wreak havoc in a church, all they have to do is come in and sow discord. And I rebuke it in Jesus name. It's not going to happen in Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name. If there's ever a question of what pastor or his wife or what the pastoral team believes, you better come ask us because we're going to talk to you. We're going to give it to you straight.

I can't man pami for Jesus no more. The times will not permit it. I can't stroke your feathers and hope that you feel better because you were offended by somebody.

I've come to tell you this is the day that God is requiring the church to rise to a level to say if we're going to see greater things, it's going to take a hunger and a thirst that somebody says, "You know what? I'm getting past all of the hubbhub of what they're doing out there and I'm coming into you, Lord. I'm simply coming to love and rejoice in you.

I'm believing in you for great things. Therefore, I submit myself to you." Amen. John 1 John 4:4.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. That greater signifies another level, another place. That greater says no longer here, but there.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to stay in the same routine or the same rut that I'd been in. My old pastor used to say it this way. All a rut is is a grave with the ends kicked out of it.

Get up out of the rut. Say, "Lord, I'm going to love you now more than ever before. We have overcome because Jesus Christ has changed us.

We are united in because of his power and because he is able to unite us. the passion that we have to come to a prayer meeting or to show up at a workday or to show up at a at a a harvest party or to show up at whatever is going that passion that drives us says, "Lord, the church is bigger than me and I want to go to greater things. I want to go to greater depths in you and higher heights in you." Come on.

I do not want to simply have church. I do not simply want to do just church. No more just another service.

Never again. I hope this flies and comes together. But I believe that if we are intentional, it's already been mentioned.

And as unity and we are one believing God for greater things, I am convinced that if we will ask in his name and work together in that, we can follow and see the great things of God work IN OUR LIVES. GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOD. The church HAS COME THROUGH SO MANY THINGS over the last generations upon generations.

The church, they've tried to stone the church away. They've tried to burn the church away. They've tried to kill the church away.

THEY TRIED TO BURN UP THE word of God so nobody would know about it. And lo and behold, uh an entire library in a city would burn in 70 AD trying to destroy anything that represented God. But in the midst of that, God was moving and working still.

I've come to declare in this generation, the world out there saying, "We don't know what to do. I can tell you what to do. Turn to Jesus." Come on.

God's got greater things for your life. You do not have to settle for your destruction, your down and out. You don't have to settle for what somebody has handed you as your life.

No. But instead, you can rise to the occasion as the God of all glory begins to work. Come on, think about where you've come from.

Don't you think somebody else can receive that same Holy Ghost? AREN'T YOU CONVINCED THE SAME POWER in the name of Jesus CAN WORK FOR SOMEBODY ELSE? HAVEN'T YOU COME to a place in your WALK WITH GOD TO SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT?

IF GOD CAN DO IT FOR ME, HE CAN DO IT FOR THEM. I DON'T OWN THE TITLE OF THIS. I DON'T HAVE THE THE PAPERWORK THAT SAYS IT'S MINE." NO.

UH BUT IT WAS PURCHASED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. UH IT WAS PAID FOR BY HIM AND HE LOVED US BEFORE WE EVEN KNEW HIM. GREATER THINGS WILL COME as we climb to that level.

There is no telling what God can do if we will join together here at CAC. We've just celebrated 32 baptized. What would it be like to have 65 baptized in Jesus name this year?

What would it be like to see 20 receive the gift of the Holy Ghost this year? Huh? Come on.

Some of you would react that way right now because you you're not it's your soul that's not in the balance. But I can promise you one thing. If you were eat up with cancer and you were dying on the vine, you would hope to God somebody would step in and pray for you.

You would. you would hope. Come on, pray for me.

But why? Cuz I'm dying. Well, you didn't pray for Why don't you develop an attitude that says, "If we'll do this together, come on.

You're my brother. You're my sister. Come on." I I spoke about this not not long ago.

I I I even brought out a little metal sword. And I told you, brethren, that you need to be the prayer warriors. You need to be the ones out on the battlefield swinging that sword, saying, "Come on.

You're not coming in this church. You're not taking my family. Come on, man.

I want to invite you to an altar. Every time the doors are open, you need to find yourself down here on the carpet saying, "I've come to love the Lord today." Come on. We need to get past our dignified 2026 placeh.

And we need to decide if it's either now or never. It's either going to happen now or it's not going to happen at all. Why?

Because you can get, listen to me, YOU CAN GET SWIPED AND YOU CAN GET DROWNED OUT in the things of this world. AND I CANNOT TELL YOU THE NUMBER OF folk that I have touched their lives. and they have touched my life, but they got discouraged down and out.

They quit praying. They quit believing and they walked away from God. And if they needed TO GET BACK TO God today, they wouldn't know which way to turn because they've been twisted and turned in so many ways.

We got a whole board back there covered people saying, "Please pray for this one." Because they used to know God, but they walked away. How can you walk away from something this rich, this pure, this measureless? How can you walk?

I tell you how. It's when you quit believing that God's bigger than you and he can do anything. Come on.

You need the church. You need me in your life. I need you in my life.

Come on. We have got to join together in that. So, this journal, take notes every day, every service.

Get in there, pray over them. If there's needs mentioned, write them down. There's plenty of space.

If you need other pages, you can put pages. Yes, you can add to it if you want to. The fact remains is that the goals that you put in there, what would it be like to write on your day today?

The goal, Lord, I want to see this happen. And a year from now, you revert back and say, you know what? God did it.

Come on. Anybody here want to be a millionaire? No takers.

Anybody here want to be a millionaire? Why are we so intimidated by that question? Why?

Why does that qu I only wanted to use that question today? Because typically if man, if I just had a million dollars, I could do so many things and then we get all twisted up because we don't know which page to turn to. That's what I'd buy.

We called it the Sears and Robu book when I was a kid. Some of you old folk remember that. Now you go on Google or Amazon, use your ship.

No. If you had a million dollars, you'd know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you'd have to work for it. Because if somebody handed it to you, you'd stand there and shake and say, "I don't even know what to do with this.

That's just money. Does anybody today want to make heaven your eternal home?" That is not going to happen by you standing there shaking. It's going to happen when you say, "Oh, yes.

Yeah, that's me. That's where I'm going. That's that's the road I'm that's the path I'm on.

You can take this whole world and I just want Jesus in my life. Come on. I'm going to believe God for eternal things.

I'm going to rise above the the things on this earth. That thing that I'm looking for, trying to chase like everybody else. Lord, if I look to you, if I'll lift you up, you will draw, you will bless and greater things will be, greater things will be.

I believe today that together together there are greater things greater things for us. Greater things for us. If you'll notice on your app on your phone, it's been updated as well.

Is there a picture of that you can put on the screen? I just I just need to make a point of reference for somebody. Is it I see it on the back wall.

Can it get to the front wall anyway? There. Look at that.

These are all recent pictures here at CAC up until last week. I don't know if anybody noticed it or not, but we had pictures from the last five or six years up there because we've been from Dan to Behiba. Brother Richard, I don't mind telling you.

When I'd open my app every day, bunch of times a day, I'd see those old pictures and I'd say, "Lord, can I get past these and go to some new ones?" So, I went to the media team. I said, "I love all these, man. I don't I don't even ask him how many terabytes of information we have on archives.

Is there any way to get past what we were and look to what we are and what we're going to be? And I said, please don't delete them because I need to reference them once in a while. But I am so thrilled to see new faces.

I'm so thrilled to see children loving the Lord. Look, how can how can you not give? H how can you not Sign in.

I I look, I even got my mug on there. So, I don't know how they did that, pastor. Those are little things.

You better believe it. You better believe it. Healing a headache is a little thing.

Unless you've got a headache, then it becomes a big thing. These babies are going to grow up. God's going to fill them with the Holy Ghost.

We're going to baptize them in Jesus name in that tank. They're going to be sitting behind cameras one day. They're going to be praying in an altar one day.

They're going to be going to Bible quizzes and they're going to memorize the word. God has been so good to us. Together, we're going to see greater things.

Now, I know that all of you in this room, if you know pastor at all, in the month of January, with anticipation and with anxiety, you've been wondering, "What's it going to be this January?" Haven't you? Some of you are laughing because you're like, "Oh, Lord." Anybody want to go to greater heights than God? Huh?

Starting Monday through Friday this week, would you fast entertainment with me? Shut it off. Shut it off.

Some of Listen to me. I'm just going to be honest as I can with you because I love you. Somebody come to the music.

Your social stuff is destroying your home. It's destroying your home. How can that be, pal?

I tell you how. Because instead of watching your children do successful things and little things and admonishing them to do greater things, you're sitting there staring at a 2 and 1/2 inch by 5 in screen and their lives are passing you by and you don't even know it. And you justify it by saying, "Yeah, but I got to keep up." Fine.

Keep up next week, next time. The enemy has not fired a shot at many of us. He is simply throwing data out there for you to pick up.

And all of that junk is destroying your brain and your heart. I'm telling the truth. Watch how this works.

Watch how this works. How many of you guys had a prayer life years ago and something's happened to it? I can tell you what's happened.

You've let the social things get in your way. I'm not lying. It's what's happened.

And it's just my habit. I'm not putting request on my phone. I'm not going to dig that thing out because I know as soon as I look down at it and there's a prayer request that there's something else about to pop up.

Brother Don go, I didn't know it. It was on sale this week. And 45 minutes later, oh, I need to get up.

I'm trying to help you. You want greater things in God than this week? Make some decisions.

Shut it off. Turn it off. Save it away.

Some of y'all need to go home today. Listen to pastoring. You need to help your young people love God.

You need to go home today, mom and dad, and get a plate out of the cupboard just like this. Watch. Set that plate down at table comes into your house.

And when they walk through the door, say, "Put your junk right there." They set their phone down right there. It'll be right there tomorrow. We'll put them on charge.

We'll charge them all. We ain't going to have them tonight. Why?

Because this is Monday night all church prayer. What we going? How am I going?

I can tell you how and what. We're going to go talk to the Lord. We're going to go get him moving in our lives.

Come on. Some of y'all are saying, "Pastor, been to my house. He knows all the junk going on." No, I don't.

I just know how people are. Monday through Friday. If you'll help me, would you stand?

If not, look to your neighbor and say, "What are you standing for?" Let them explain it to you. It's 15 minutes to two on a Sunday. Football season's over pretty much.

Some playoff stuff happening. I know y'all know that the devils of this world ruling and running rampant over people with sports and entertainment. Nobody would think anything of missing church if somebody gave you a pair of football tickets to go watch some dubba team play.

In fact, you'd even text, "Hey, I'm not going to make it Sunday." You probably even type cough cough. I'm joking. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with football.

But I've heard this past 12 months, out of all the things that God has done, I have heard some of the silliest excuses this past year from people. And I don't pass judgment. I'm not shooting at anybody.

I'm not mad. I'm just telling you, we can all find reasons to stay out of church. We can all make excuses of why we can't get to prayer.

We can all decide, you know what? It's just not I just don't feel good today. I don't feel good right now, but I refuse to quit.

Brother Lorenzo. I refuse to quit. I refuse to let the enemy take you because you're not strong enough to stand on your own.

But I'm trying to get you to stand on your own. God has been so good to us. I said, God has been good to us.

Would you lift your hands to the Lord right now? Come on, somebody. Jesus.

I want you in my life, Lord. Come on, somebody. I want you in my life, Jesus.

I want greater things, Lord, in my life. And not just going to happen, Lord, but I'm going to seek for you. I'm going to run after you.

I'm going to purposefully go to you. Come on, somebody. Jesus.

Jesus. I want you, Lord, in my life. I need you, Lord, in my life.

I'm going invite every man to come and pray. Come on, men. First Sunday of the year, I need to invite you to come and be the leader.

Come on. Bring all of your faith, your failures. Bring your testosterone.

Bring all that stuff that represents you. Men, come on. Men, come.

Come on. We'll let the lady, they're going to pray, too. But I need men.

Come on. Men of faith. Men that'll believe.

Men that will take up the sword and say, "Lord, I'm here this year because I made it last year with success that you saw me through it." Come on now. Men, pray. Men, pray.

I would that men would pray everywhere, lifting holy hands. Come on, men pray without wrath or doubting. Without wrath or doubting.

Come on men, pray. Jesus, I need you. Jesus, I trust you.

Come on, men, pray. Get a hold of God right now. Be the man in your family.

Be the man in your home. Come on, Jesus. Come on, men.

Oh, God. My God. How wonderful.

How wonderful. How wonderful is your name. That's right, men.

Come on, pray. Come on, men. Pray.

Get a hold of God. I'm trusting you for it, Lord. I just want you.

Come on, ladies. Would you come and help? Would you bring your faith right now?

Come on. Come on. Bring your faith.

Bring your obedience to the word. Come on. Come and pray.

Jesus, as a family, God, we are praying Lord, believing you for great things, Jesus. Oh, come on, prayer warriors. Come on, pray.

Come on, prayer warriors, pray. Lift your voice. Open your mouth.

Lift your voice to the Lord. Jesus, I love you. Come on, church family.

Would you come? I'm inviting everybody. Would you come?

Yes. Jesus, have mercy on us. Have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us. Have mercy on us, Lord. Oh, that's right.

Come on, Jesus. Greater greater vision, Lord. We want to see past where we are.

wide open to us, Lord. A brand new year. That's right.

Come on. Come on, men. Pray.

Come on, ladies. Pray. Come on, young people.

Pray. Open your mouth. Pray.

Talk to the Lord. Jesus, I need you. Jesus, I need you.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's right. That's right. Come on prayer warriors.

Come on church family pray. Jesus greater things in you Lord. Greater things in you.

Nothing else. That's right. That's right.

Talk to the Lord. Nothing else will do. Come on.

If you don't know how to pray, reach over and ask somebody close to you. Teach me to pray. Will you show me how to pray?

Come on. Pray. greater greater greater greater greater things in him.

I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. Reach over.

Pray with somebody close to you. Come on, find somebody. Join arms with them.

Pray for them. Lord, anoint my brother today. Anoint my sister today.

That the word of God become sharp and powerful in their lives, Jesus. Oh, come on. In the name of Jesus, you do miracles, Lord.

You do miracles, Jesus. I trust you. I trust you.

I believe in you, Jesus. I believe in you, Jesus. Come on.

That's right. Come on. That's right.

Pray the prayer of faith. Lord, you can move mountains. Lord, you can move mountains in this place.

Come on. That's right. Get a hold of God.

I'm trusting you, Lord, for great things. I'm believing you, Lord. Come on, somebody interceded right now for somebody.

Jesus, be the answer, God, for them. Show them your way, God. Greater things.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Greater things. Jesus. No sickness.

The name of Jesus is gater. You are great God. Greater things Lord in your name is wiser than you.

You're gater gater gater. As we begin this 2026, some of y'all need to make up your mind. We need to decide, I'm I'm not going to play anymore.

But I just wonder what would happen if I would give myself holy and completely to God. Could God heal my disease? Could God save my Could he make a way?

Could he provide? Could he Could he You think he would love me enough to do that? Would he bring my backsliden child home?

Would he save my son sin sick husband or wife? Come on. Can God do would you just could you this year decide greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world?

Therefore, I'm going to make choices that lead me down the path to greater things. Jesus. Jesus.

Oh, come on. That's right. Linger for a moment in his presence.

Greater greater greater things. Greater greater greater things. Jesus.

I just want you. In the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus.

Come on. You want the Holy Ghost today? He can fill you right now with the spirit.

Yes, he can. Yes, he can. Come on, praise somebody.

God, fill him with the Holy Ghost today. That's what they need. Come on.

You need a miracle in your life. Today is your day. You can see the miraculous happen.

I believe that in Jesus name. In Jesus name. in Jesus name.

Greater greater greater greater greater things greater things greater things. Oh lamb of God. So what do you say church?

Are we together on this or what? Huh? Can we have in this church manifestations of the glory of God?

Can can we believe for that? Will he show up in our midst every time we meet? Is is God able to do that?

Did anybody believe that he can and he will? Come on. Is he still faithful?

Is he still faithful? Huh? Before we leave here, it's 156.

I believe that there are some specific things going on in people's lives. You've been dragging around this albatross for weeks or months or even years. You're trying your best to get past it, but you can't turn loose.

I I don't need to see what it is or know what it is. I do know this. God has greater things for you.

You don't have to settle into that pattern. So if that's you today and you've somehow someway found yourself in a proverbial loop, lift your hands, would you? Now would you go gather up with somebody around and say, "Lord, you see my brother and my sister today.

They're identifying with the fact they just they need something to change in them. They need hope. Come on.

Get a hold. We're going to pray one for another before we go home. Come on, Lord.

You can make a difference in them. Come on. Come on, faith.

Come on, faith. Let the prayer of faith do its work. Come on.

Pray. Come on. Pray with faith today.

Lord, you know what it's going to take to get them to a higher plane, a greater depth. Lord, you know what it's going to take. Come on, somebody.

Believe for it right now. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Great God, fill them with faith right now, Lord.

Let them find you, Lord Jesus. Let them find you, Jesus. Hey, I love you, Lord.

I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. Blessed be the name of Jesus.

Jesus. Oh, great God, you've got the answer, Lord, for every one of us today. Hey, greater greater greater greater gater.

That's right. Jesus, we claim it today. We are making strides toward you, Jesus.

I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord.

2026 wide open. Come on. Every day you live, you're closer to the sounding of the trumpet.

Every decision you make, you're closer to the sounding of the trumpet.