Watch Night 2021

[Music] i can't believe it that we're actually here yes 20 22 and a half maybe hours to go and then we but you know what i'm still believing god for some many things you know we've been in this fast you know and making sure that we make our presence known to god you know in prayer because he said some things only move through prayer and fasting and i love the fact that here that's exactly what we do we go through prayer and fasting to enter into the new year anticipating what god is going to do you know and now they're going to got so excited i'm remembering kelly mobley and i am glad to be here once again and i have who you all know by now oh thank you my name is brother kevin johnson if you do not know yes and we are excited to be here with you once again as we close out the year of 2020. i want you to know that god still is doing great and mighty things in spite of how 20 20 look we are anticipating what he's still going to do as we enter into the next year of 2021. we do what's called first fruits offerings yes we do first fruits often and some people might say kelly that's old testament now what do you guys really do that too well i want you to know that when we give god honor by giving our first giving that that we have god is able to bless the harvest that we still have left over and at the same time it allows him to get into the business that we're into i'm even i'm even tidying off of my own business i'm getting first fees off of my own business and not only that i'm trusting god with everything that i have and so i'm looking forward to what god is going to do in the year of 2021 but as we close out 2020 i want you to know there has been some blessings somebody put in the chat there has been some blessings blessings and i want to know what those blessings are because god has not um left you or forsaken you he has been with you because guess what we are still here and that's what i find exciting the fact that we are still here you know we're still amongst the land of the living we're still praising god we're still giving him the from the fruit of our lips our praise and on tonight that's what we're going to do amen we're going to continue to praise him all the time covert 19 ain't got nothing or nothing you know what i'm saying well rev you know what you know i just love how your testimony up here and everything because you are usherers right into this new year we're supposed to post it now come on now you know but we actually did have a social media challenge yes come on with the social media show we asked people you know we asked our bethany family online what are three things that they want to revive in this new year because you know this is the year restoration reversal and revival right so we're trying to revive some things so i just want to take this moment and just look at some of these comments i want to shout out ty thompson she said top three top three things i want to revive in 2020 is her faith her family family and her finances i know that's right come on family fun i'm what you wanted and then we have alexandra she said lord revive the faith of friends and loved ones revive health and revive investment i'm loving these wow i'm loving them i'm really appreciating what the people of god are getting and what we're still doing you know it lets us know that god is still alive and he's working and he's still working and you know last but not least we have rev clark he said my walk in relationship with christ is what he wants to revive in this new year the call of my life and family relationships you know i think the common thing that we're all talking about is relationships absolutely we this year this was the year of vision right yeah and it revealed a lot right and i think relationships were one of those things so i think that's something i want to revive right how about you right for for me it has been my relationship with god i have been amazed at the fact that god has said don't forget the assembling of yourselves together and although we couldn't be in a physical building what i love is god still allowed us to assemble together online we're still able to have community and he so he says don't forget about getting together with one another and so we thank all those who have been getting together donna mcpherson who has been so faithful yes all this time and doing what she does you know all the other people who have been online absolutely love every single one of you for being faithful as we move into twenty twenty five but listen even though you you talking about online right so throughout this year you know quarantine we have been blessing you guys with so much content right yeah some laughter some board at bethany some panels right so we want you to take a look at the re you know recap of some funny things that we've experienced this year on the content take a look [Music] those of you that need to rededicate my [Laughter] i can't i got to work well i'm sure she does she's a big kid the same [Music] [Music] [Music] yes sermon s-e-r-m-win i was writing fans [Music] i am always intrigued by all the things that our bethany people come up with and that we do in these reels and what i love most about the reel that we just saw is seeing our pastor exercising with the kids i mean he is a man of god who is not only the spiritual leader but he's also the grandfather and the father and i love the fact that we get to see all of the areas in which he is the man of god not just in that area but in other areas too so we see the totality of the man very transparent and you know what as he's transparent so are we and so right now what we're getting ready to do is we're going to play a little fun and games with our pastor nick we're going to give him an opportunity to come up with a sermon from the titles of the songs that you're going to put in line right now and give to him so come on let's go over and watch this so as you guys can see i have no other than our pastor nick you know this is if you watch the recap this is the man i said is the tweener but he has the wisdom like an old man like a 100 year old man right we're to have some fun tonight sir are you sure yeah we're going to have some good fun tell me about this i got i'm doing this off the cuff y'all just want you to know that so listen we are going to play a game called make it preach so pastor nick i'm going to give you some song titles and i want you to come up with a a sermon or you know a message a godly message with this with these songs god be godly not good right you are the man of god so you handle it so you ready for the first one yeah i'm ready all right so the first one is ain't no mountain high so okay ain't no mountain high enough right yeah you keep me from getting to you right yeah you probably don't know the whole song do you i do know the whole song passing it so so the song is talking about an obstacle okay that's getting in the way of somebody getting to their love right right so when adam and eve send in the garden they created a mountain that created a separation between god and may okay so jesus comes on the scene goes to the cross deals with sin to remove the mountain so now there ain't no mountain high enough from keep me from getting to you babe god did whatever he had to do to get to us now why does he make it look so simple all right i got another one for you now before i let go which version the old school version now i'm like that's the one i thought about you know i'm a 90s baby so you know the song before i let you go that's the one i thought about why to be clear on it on the contract um i'll go back to um to adam and eve in the garden okay so adam and eve sent in the garden right all right um a separation's created and god says be i got to kick you out still you know there's still a consequence to this okay but before i let you go all right i'm going to clothe you in the skins of an animal i'ma sacrifice an animal clothe you in it because you can't clothe yourself so before i let you go i'm gonna prepare you for the next season but also prepare a promise to get you out of that bad season that you got yourself into listen get me off the set right now y'all all right last one so we do have some millennials that are tuning in so i had to throw them in the name i don't know a lot of these new songs well you should know this one all right savage i don't know that song you don't know that song the challenge that they do the rihanna savage song no megan look at this [Laughter] so think of the word just savage so just savage [Laughter] this is what they do to me y'all so so watch first friday right you're right right so um i'm assuming that i'm a savage is in a negative connotation i say that negative because overall um i cut you off easy you know i cut your head off i'm a savage i'm a g don't mess with me that kind of thing right um well satan thought he was a savage [Music] until god had to remind him that i'm in control of all this thing um because i think you know he tried to go after god and he lost he tried to go after us and he lost he tried to get jesus and any lost so sometimes being a savage can go wrong see now saints do you see why i call this man the tweener with the wisdom why are you listening to savage uh okay please don't but no we want to thank pastor nick for taking time out of his busy schedule you know for this new year's eve watch night service but we do have something special coming up you know i'm going to shoot it over to our social media director maya labou shout out to her she has a special interview with you know a familiar face around the plaza take a look maya and i am here with the one the only the incomparable sister danielle shorter oh my gosh hi hey how you doing i'm so good i miss you guys so we miss you too trust us but thank god for social media yeah we can still stay connected right thank you [Music] let me just want to catch up with you and see how you're doing and talk about watch night service no i'm excited yeah so i know i've been at bethany almost 21 years i believe and i was just thinking you know after rounding down um 2020 and heading into 2021 all of the fun moments and the memories that were made what have been some of your favorite uh watch night experiences and how they carried you into the new year remember one of my most special memories of watch night at bethany is that my dad came with me so to sit with my dad and watch night service and and he said to me he said wait a minute at 12 o'clock it's kind of supposed to be over and i was like oh dad we just getting started yeah that that's definitely um one of the most critical portions of watch night service for me seems like bishop always has um the theme that is right on time for what we're going to be experiencing in the new year right yeah so this year's theme is restoration revival and reversal um so i want to hear from you what what does this year's theme mean to you i'm just as you can see i'm just elated i just can't wait about the revival and then and then for restoration i know that for some that um you know in this season it's been a fight some people that have been holding on like myself to some of the promises god spoke directly to me we have been in the most probably intense battle right yes for our faith to keep moving that what god says is true right yeah i love that when you think of restoration the things that we've lost even just even the energy in the fight that we are about to be restored and that we are going to get you know the lord himself is going to give us a rest from our enemies and there's going to be a a redeeming of the time which is again just amazing and then um reversal um i'm not reversal like i am beyond hype personally about rehearsal um i had some health woes this year that i've never thought i would have experienced and i love hearing a reversal because what doctors say it's like when i heard the word reversal i'm like yes lord let's turn this thing around yes it's like that um uh ty trivet song he turned it yes that's going into this season of reversal things that the enemy thought were evil right even this corona virus even this pandemic right where people thought all was lost there's going to be a reversal i am so excited because the lord promises that he says no matter what no matter what it is all things are going to work together for your good for someone watching uh who might be new to bethany or joining us for a watch night service for the first time what would you say to that person yeah i mean you just don't want to miss anything i mean um i just remember pastor nick praying and it was such a um it was like you were connecting with your fast yeah you were connecting with this like expectation and you were just ready you were just ready to just be in god's presence so i would literally say do not be late get yourself ready early you're not eating but you do not want to miss it and the other thing i would honestly say sit your family down project it on your 60 some inch tv for some of you everyone together corporately in that house and just get ready to devote that two hours whatever it may be to this experience i love that i love bringing the whole family together bring your friend invite share the night stream with a friend right this is the perfect opportunity not only to have a fun time with friends and family around the world but to share god's word so definitely click the share button right now and invite a friend to watch with us we are only a few minutes away um from the message tonight um so yeah it's gonna be an awesome awesome experience like none other right um leading into the new year so sister danielle thank you so much for joining us tonight we're going to hand things over back to kevin and robin kelly what a moving uh testimony that she has that she talks about 2020 and what she remembers most and you know what i think is most impactful is the fact that she talks about her father uh who she did lose but daddies are always looking out for their little girls and our father in heaven is always looking out for not only his daughters but his sons too and so as we look into this year of 2021 what is it that you are really looking forward to i am like really looking forward to just how our ministries are going to grow you know this year um our social media platform just you know interacting with people across the world has been an amazing amazing experience so i'm just expecting you know it to continue to grow and like we always say i'm expecting that first service in person i know you're gonna be running around here like make sure everything but i am i'm just so excited about what the church has in store for us for me you know for 2021 um one of the things that i have really established is a closer walk with god yes you know i have been able to invite him into my home and it has been his dwelling place has been there and so whenever the saints get together you know god gave us each a portion of his holy ghost and when all that spirit gets together and it is ignited in one room uh things begin to happen healing takes place deliverance and not that god doesn't do that when we're by ourselves but there is a greater power when we're all together and so i'm looking forward to how god is going to stretch us you know because i am amazed that we talked about being an international church and because of covet god has really given us the opportunity to become the international church we are no longer confined by the walls you know we are now able to reach out into the masses and it doesn't matter what your denominational thing has been it is the coming together in jesus christ and that's what i'm looking for most out of 2021 is god having this universal church and that all of us are having the same language about jesus christ and him crucified and what he still has yet to do for all of us amen amen and you know we we forgot to say this in the beginning but we want you guys to take this time you know to share this broadcast absolutely it's so important as we keep saying on engage live that you experience on sunday sharing this broadcast it's like doing that remote evangelizing yeah it is it absolutely is i mean it is our way of communicating with everybody else when you share you're sharing with your community yeah you know it's just like the diamonds women's ministry we this year has been very different but at the same time god has given us this vehicle that we're able to still connect and have community with one another and i remember you know one night in particular it was very impactful as we began to pray and people express their fears and it's okay to be afraid you know it's okay god understands that yes there are going to be times when we have fears but he has given us the power to overcome all of our fears you know he told joshua and he told moses be not afraid you know i'm afraid he said have courage and courage simply means doing something in the face of being frightened and being afraid of it and so god is saying to us even in this today that we have to continue to move in spite of how we're feeling even in the face of fear i'm going to accomplish my goals ministry is still going to happen my business is still going to open i'm still going to be praying over my family i'm still looking forward to getting married you know what i'm saying ushering this service and you are giving us a minister you come on i'm looking forward to 2021 because i feel like he has not left us he didn't say life ended because this was happening he said life still moves on and he gives us the ability to be creative man is so creative and he thinks outside of the box and that's what i love about what we do here yes we think outside the box yes and what i also love is that it's something here for everyone so we just shared like the women's diamonds ministry yes fresh has i love my fresh group i love my friends i love them young adult ministry we have connected in such a an amazing way this year um we have grown closer together you know sharing ideas you know encouraging each other especially during this hard those hard school days or those work days we're able to relate on a you know absolutely and i just love that and you know if you're interested in joining any ministry come on somebody we are still working you know even though we are remote the ministries are still strong we're still here so we're still here how can we get connected with the ministries well well what we know is that we have bethany connections yeah and i know you have all been hearing about bethany connections but we need you to share the word about bethany connections it is like inviting people to the virtual church and that virtual church has all the resources that you and i both need in order to stay connected you know we talk about connected all the time this is how we do it we can ask questions we can get to know one another we can share ideas we are still able to fellowship with one another and take it to the next level yes amen and you know we love visuals around here especially when we do sermons and everything but some people if you don't know what happens behind the scenes there's never know there's a particular person that takes care of those you know visuals and bishops up there you know giving us those are we talking about superman we call him superman it's not superman none other than phil are we talking about phil not talking about phil rapp tell us about bill before we go into this phil has been such a jewel to us throughout the years and it is my understanding that he even got into things accidentally you know doing something for his wife and you know that's how god works yes we do and then god begins to magnify and do the creativity and so phil has built so many things that we use here around the plaza from the pillars to the train um anything you ask them to do i'm waiting to see the art come through here you know what i'm saying jacob's ladder called listen i'll come up in here i'm gonna tie it into phil it's right right it doesn't matter what it is phil is able to do it and we are appreciative of having this man of god here with us and god is using his skills to help us bring to you the message in a way that you can see and understand so right now what we want you to do is watch this well it was a challenge years ago when i was working trying to balance family uh work and ministry when someone came in when they installed that equipment i was working and it would have been great if i was retired because i could come here every day and see what they were doing and know the ins and outs i had to sort of learn that afterwards it but now it's so much easier to do these things and then plus also these projects that bishop gives me and so forth i spend you know i can spend an entire week working on it which you generally do the tabernacle that took about three weeks to build and then i spent another week building the chest to go into it so it looked like the ark of the covenant that's what it was the ark of the covenant we had angels on top and painted it gold uh so it looked like it was you know that kind of thing how it started was that uh i lived about 20 20 25 years ago uh we we moved into jersey and we had this uh entertainment center so i s and it was i called the flat box special something you get from walmart uh and we wanted to replace this i wanted to get real furniture just to part the picture tv and with something like five thousand dollars and i said for five thousand dollars i could buy the tools and build it myself i said hey that's an so i started i went to try to build a cabinet and i built one and i mentioned that to at that time crystal about this cabinet she said well can you build me a cabinet to store our video tapes so i built the cabinet build put the videotapes in so once i did that then they started me asking me to build other things and then they said well can you build us props so they wanted street signs from jerusalem so we put into the isles they had me build a porch was sitting on a porch talking of the prodigal son so i built that porch so as i the more i built the more i did the more they asked me so uh that's where it started to blossom so every time bishop needed a prop for a dramatic sermon he asked me to uh can you build this you know so i built different things to support that and uh you know the train the doing the train he said we need something to train so i looked at train pictures for a long time and strong okay how am i going to do this and i wanted something to that people would definitely recognize so i felt the union pacific was uh was very colorful and jump out at you i was very tickled because everybody wanted to get into it even though it was just some panels across everyone wanted to sit in the train and the looks on their faces they were like yeah that was i was like okay that's really where it really got was got to me the tabernacle was after that just how that came out i was really happy how that because i was going by a temp most of the times bishop gives me an idea and i don't i don't do any drawings or anything like that so it's usually coming out of my head but this time the the dimensions and everything that had to be done follow a template that was in the bible so i kept reading that section of the bible okay what were the columns how many columns were there what kind of cloth was you know for the uh holy of holies the outer area and so forth so there was so much i had to you know and then try to engineer based on what i saw in the bible using today's materials and that was good because i got definitely got a good sense of people with that i accepted god that there was god accepted jesus christ had no idea what it meant for me what my purpose in life was didn't realize i had a purpose in life it wasn't until i came to bethany that i had a true understanding of what god wants me out of my life doing his will that he has he has a desire for what he wants me wants for me to do in my life and that i want to do that that i want to because he's been so good to me because he's blessed me because of all the things i have that i want to give to the church want to work in this church want to help out others i need to give back you know as i said he's uh give back more than ten percent of what he's blessed me with so it's been it's fantastic that you know god's been so good to me in in so many ways that these things that i've been doing and just this just to do this and he's he's given me the strength and the uh wisdom and the knowledge and the skill sets to do these things and the more he gives me the more i want to give back my time my treasure my talents and i've done it in so many different ways and i'm happy to be able to do that i get joy and that's one of the things is you're not promised to be happy but you promised joy in your life and a lot of times coming here getting this stuff done i get joy from it what an amazing absolutely amazing amazing interview and what i love about here bethany is that our leadership always acknowledges us and they they just love the work that we put in yeah they know it absolutely and so phil if you're watching right now we want you to know we appreciate you i want y'all to join me in the chat put i appreciate you yes yes everyone wants to be appreciated for what they do and ministry listen we definitely appreciated that bridge because that's how we got our drive-in services now speaking of bridge because of what he did it was a bridge that brought us over and so right now right now what we want to do is we want to take a look back over that bridge and see all the things that god has said to us for the year 2020 that has brought us all through [Music] yes i find that my own broken heart caused me to have some unusual symptoms tell you without equivocation i've been struggling with time ever since momma died it's heart of mine doesn't function you walk through the house see paper on the floor listen to me and walk right by it and have to make yourself go back and pick it up you never used to leave dishes in the sink at night now you walk by the sink and say that's not too many laundry piles up bills are not paid on time you're scared to open your mail you can't watch your heroes die in movie on television because something's happened to your heart all right god if you're going to do those two miraculous things why won't you remove this low self-esteem attached to the assignment that you've given me because you say you want me to talk to kings for you but i have a speech impediment so i wondered i asked god why did you allow that condition to persist and the lord said moses in my eyes is like paul i've got to leave a thorn in his flesh his impediment in his eyes was something that god could have changed immediately but he left the thorn in his flesh that he might understand the power of god's grace to give him the authority to overcome that which he believed was connected to his low self-esteem to his disqualifying himself from the assignment that god was trying to give god was re-labeling moses why because god loved him repeat unto me what god created to bless you we'll bless you [Applause] oh my gosh i'm telling you series after the series it's been amazing you know one series in particular stuck with me is the redefine series okay i feel like okay during this season you know we were shut in so it took us some time to like redefine ourselves yeah it did it actually defined our purpose and right you know what are we doing during this time you know i always said that you know quarantine it may have brought some trouble but it also brought some blessings and you know i've learned some more stuff about myself so i feel like that redefine series really stuck with me how about you raphael you know uh for me i will tell you it's not even any one series it's just the fact that here we're able to get the word of god that you can make life applicable to whatever your situation is you know i've never had to really go into bishop's office and have these sit-down counseling sessions and not that there's anything wrong with that but because of the word that he would preach by the time my scheduled appointment would come i've already got everything that i stood in need of from the series that he was preaching you know from the class sessions that he's done i mean he has really been pouring his help both him and pastor nick have been pouring their heart out all year long giving us still what they would give us if we were here in service and so there's no particular one but i'm praying that you have a particular one if you would share with us put that in the chat what was the one message that moved you that motivated you that helps you to get through 2021 come on red oh my gosh and brad you know like you said there we do offer those counseling services ministry in particular um can help us with those especially during this time right okay so um it's called pathway counseling services and it's head up by reverend tiffany smith and counseling services a lot of people are taboo you know because we're christians we're supposed to be strong and we're not supposed to we're supposed to have the faith to to move and to bleed and you know to continue on but the reality is is sometimes we need somebody to talk to and i can tell you from having counseling experience myself sometimes you need to hear what's inside of your head come out and we have pathway counseling services here a christian-based counseling service to help you kind of understand what you're experiencing the grief some of you may be experiencing the isolation some of you may be experiencing and get help for it help you to put it in a perspective that will help you live and live better than you have been living so we want you to see this interview right now so you can see what bethany has to offer hi everybody and happy new year to you and your families listen i know that talking about counseling on at new year's is not all that exciting but it is it's super relevant and necessary that we talk about the importance of counseling right now this has been a crazy year we've all um gone through quite a bit of shifting and we're getting ready to shift again and this time into a year full of restoration reversal and revival and that being said it's so important that we have divine partnerships that are there not just for ourselves but that advance the kingdom and so i'm here and excited for watching individuals get the tools that they need to walk into a new dimension of faith of restoration of prosperity of healing of deliverance and it's all about making sure that we do it together corporately remember pastor nick taught us it's not about you it's not about me it's about us coming together to do something that advances god's kingdom and so i am looking forward to seeing you in the new year and all that god is going to do in this very unprecedented and unconventional time god is still getting ready to do something creative and uniquely different and i and with you i cannot wait to see it all right i will see you all in the new year prayerfully god bless and have a great new year oh my gosh so it is coming to that time we are getting ready for this service right now but you know with engage live we cannot leave you without some prayer so rev you have been testifying to us this is a long time we have we are really appreciative okay but i think you need to pray rap come on now yeah i i come on give me one of those you know we're intercept we're interceptions yeah and we're doing this together kid you know we got so you might not be speaking the words with me but you're praying right now i got you i'm touching the green right here so we're praying that you have already been putting your prayer request in and even if you haven't i want you to do that right now we are believing god for you you know we're in our fasting and prayer uh mode right now and we know that god can do anything but fail no matter what you're looking for for god to do he deals in the impossibilities so father right now we thank you for your goodness for your mercy and for your grace we thank you for the year 2020 despite what it has brought unto us we thank you father because we are still here we thank you father for everyone who is watching on tonight everyone who is looking for a word from you everyone who is looking for direction from you right now father we thank you for each soul that is represented we thank you father either for one that is laying on their sick bed but father thought it not robbery to become a part of this worship experience god because they needed to hear a word from you we thank you father for the spirit that you have given us that you allow us to touch and agree with one another we thank you father because you said in your word that you are a spirit and they that worship you must worship you in spirit and in truth and so father right now we pray oh lord that you would go by and touch each and every one father that is listening god everyone that is under the sound of my voice god we pray oh lord that you would even bless the services that are about to take place we pray oh god over our leader father that you would just touch him right now in the name of jesus that father you would bring back to his remembrance all those things that you have said to him all those things that you have whispered in his ear as he ushers us into this year of 2021 about revival about turning our lives around about recuperation and getting all those things back lord that we may have felt like we have been lost father you said that you would restore the years that the locust have taken so anything that anybody feels has been taken from them lord we know that you have the power to give it back to us and so father we thank you for what is going to happen in 2021 we thank you that as the songs they are saying of unto zion father that you will hear it and that god will come up unto you as a sweet smelling savior unto you father and that you will begin to bless us god that you will begin to overshadow us father that you will begin to father move and get in everything that we're doing god that you will birth ministries out of us father that you will birth businesses out of us father that you will restore relationships father that you would allow us to forgive one another father that you would allow your love to abide that father you would even get into this region and into our nation father that has been divided over racial disparity and we pray god that you would heal the land yes god you said if your people who are called by your name yes god would humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways and seek your face that father you would do what you needed to do for us and so father we're depending on you we're the ones that are here praying and you said that you needed to hear someone pray father that you might be able to turn things around and so father we believe right now that you're going to turn things around 20 21 father we're looking forward to the blessings that we know that are in store for us in jesus precious name amen hey rev amen thank you ryan amen i'm telling you i need to see you guys put the amen in the comments i'm feeling this right if you can feel this heat coming right here lord is present we want you guys to thank you just enjoy the service amen we are speaking nothing but blessings and restoration yes reversal reversal and revival everybody yeah our prayer that you enjoy this service you know please please please please share invite someone tags on all right beth and your family we love you love you and we'll see you next time on engage praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody for the lord is good and his mercy endures forever for the lord is good and this truth endures to all generations guess what y'all we made it to end at the end of 2020 and i need you to give god some praise right where you are give him some worship it was a hard year but you made it it was difficult but god brought you through it was challenging but the lord was your shepherd and you shall not run come on open up your mouth right where you are clap your hands all ye people now unto god with the voice of trying come on right where you are give him some worship give him some praise because our god is great and greatly to be praised through the sickness god is good through the stress god is still good through the depression our god is still worthy to be praised come on lift up the sound right where you are and give god some praise hallelujah give god some glory hallelujah i know we're worshiping virtually but you can shout where you are i know you're in your home but you can praise god right where you are get about your seat give him some praise get about your seat give him some worship get out your seat give god some glory because he's worthy of all of it he's worthy of all of it millions didn't make it but you made it he's worthy of all of it [Music] hallelujah hallelujah yes lord for the lord is good it was a rough year but god brought us through it was challenging but god brought us out god really showed us some stuff this year stuff we didn't want to see some stuff we did want to see but we're getting ready to move into a year of revival reversal and restoration if you believe it prophetically put a praise on it right now put a worship on it right now put some glory on it right now for god's reversal god's revival and god's restoration give him praise for it hallelujah hallelujah god is good y'all get ready we're getting ready going to some worship getting ready to go into some praise some time where we give god glory and we give him honor if you haven't done so please share if you can please share if you can we're getting ready to pray pastor lonnie hunt in the group is getting ready to come and take us into worship this evening oh we want you to do us a favor and please share and prophetically in the comments section i want you to put reversal revival restoration reversal revival restoration watch this it's not ours but god's reversal how he wants to reverse it how he wants to revive it and how he chooses to restore it this year taught us something the plans of god are greater than the plans of man hallelujah we had a whole lot of plans this year but guess what god frustrated them and his plan came to pass and we're going to pray that god's plan will come to pass even more he didn't send the covet but he sure did use it he didn't send the evil but he sure will use it and we're believing for god to show us his goodness in the land of the living come on let's pray father i thank you again for this moment i appreciate you for this time i thank you for this day i thank you lord for how you have brought us to this specific moment in time this kairos moment this kairos experience where you have given us a chance to experience your season one more time again we now learn more and more that your seasons may be inconvenient your seasons may be challenging but in them is a harvest for us and we thank you for bringing us through 2020 it tested our strength physically emotionally psychologically but lord this year you strengthened us you showed us again that our hope is not in us but our hope is in you and i pray now for each person that's struggling that lord you would revive them tonight that lord you would reverse sickness and that you would restore health this evening that you would put your hands on us one more time again those who are grieving the loss of a loved one this year i pray that you would restore their joy strengthen them emotionally and psychologically i pray in jesus name that lord your power will show up tonight like never before come holy spirit do your thing tonight and we promise you that we'll give you the praise the glory and the honor in jesus name if you agree give god some praise and shout amen right where you are come on cry out hosanna in the highest blessed be the name of the lord it is a new year's eve situation somebody came to give him a glorified party we came to lift him up we came to make him big hosanna we worship you hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] the darkness [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] this house [Music] [Music] foreign everybody's here [Music] [Applause] forever [Music] foreign [Music] oh we need [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] everybody [Music] [Music] can [Music] [Music] we love you we love you [Music] hey [Music] it's a new year's eve praise party thank you god for bringing us through 2020 and we look forward to what you have in store for 20-21 [Music] we [Applause] [Music] happy new year bethany 2021 it's gonna be big come on somebody if you've got a testimony lift it up lift up a worship in this place because he is good hallelujah let's talk about it let's go hallelujah jesus i saw darkness run for cover but for miracle that i just can't get over my name is registered in heaven i believe in signs and wonders i have resurrection power seal the miracle that i just can't get over my name is registered in heaven hey my praise belongs to you forever everybody say this is my testimony from them tonight cause grace [Music] this is my testimony this is my testimony [Music] come together sons and daughters [Music] bought with blood and washed in water sing the praises of the spirit son and father our god will finish what he started [Music] [Music] this is my testimony [Music] if i'm not dead can i say it y'all if i'm not dead you're not done greater things are still to come and i believe and say if i'm not dead you're not done come on if i'm not dead you're not done greater things are still to come oh [Applause] oh i believe somebody [Music] [Music] this is my testimony come on this is my testimony from heaven i'll testify by jesus christ the righteous i'm justified this is my testimony my testimony okay so i finally did it didn't i i'm finally going to experience the encounter at bethany this ain't so bad so far so good you know the people are friendly it's clean and reminds me of my house you know except for the friendly and clean part what getting all saturday night fever up in here the choir and the congregation are doing dance moves oh this is kind of crazy i kind of like it though but oh snaps we got a big screen tv wow they even got their own commercials all this fancy smashy stuff and i don't know what wait what's up with the people standing up front oh it looks like they're doing some kind of play they are they are check this out drama up in the church what's this it looks like they're arguing oh man this is getting kind of emotional then jesus comes in and changes it all around it was beautiful it's just beautiful okay okay what's happening now what's it to it too well i'm kind of shocked all right all right all right wow this place sure is friendly it really know how to make me feel at home i really like this place oh oh wait wait there you go there goes bishop i guess it's time for a sermon what's that he said a two-part sermon i've never even heard of anything like that this place is really creative i've never been to a service like this before wait wait a minute now what's he doing oh no i hope this isn't the part where he oh man ask people to get saved man i can't stand this part why do they even have to do this look man if i wanted to get saved i'll do it at home or something look please hurry up it feels like it's been about 20 minutes now somebody tell these people to stop walking up there i mean he's just going to keep asking if they keep walking up there oh okay okay i think he's dying backsliders oh my god this church just accepts any old body i guess i don't even know what a backslider is oh oh okay someone who is saved and just walked away from god okay i ain't even know you were allowed to do that okay now i think he's done church home join the church oh oh oh oh oh oh no he he's walking he's walking towards me ain't he oh my god sweaty palms sweaty palms oh shoot here he comes all right lily just act natural just act natural don't give yourself away look at him like a man look look you're a man and he's a man just look him straight in his eye oh yeah that was real manly i feel like like like really nervous and anxious look just end it already for the love of humanity okay okay okay okay i think this is the end i think it's really going to end this time i thought they would never get out of that one alive wait no no no no no no no please no please no this is the absolute worst please don't have them do that anything but that [Applause] the double whammy god my stomach is turning inside out pulling me out of my seat legs legs legs what are you doing what are you doing where you taking me i don't i don't know wait wait i'm starting to feel better the the closer i get to the front oh okay okay stomach is getting back to normal oh look look at this there's someone there coming to meet me that's nice i'm really doing this ain't that look at here the bishop's coming over here to shake my hand look at him with that eddie murphy grin almost as if he knows something good is about to happen you know i i really feel good now this is where it's at the encounter is like nothing i've ever encountered before i never thought i could feel so at ease thank you god for your patience with me today and thank you for loving me thank you for keeping me alive so that i could see this day and more importantly thank you for just not throwing me away oh wait wait in case you didn't know it's me your child for real and forever amen around this time every uh single december of every year you oftentimes see people throughout this phrase new year new me with the hopes that we go into the new year that uh all of a sudden a date change will change who we are as people that something happens magically at midnight where all of a sudden we become a transformed person but i don't know about you but there have been times where i told myself i would not repeat an action in the new year that i did in this in that one year but lo and behold the individual i was in one year transferred over into the new year and as many times i told myself i'm like this year i'm gonna do better this year i'm gonna do this this year i'm gonna do that all of a sudden it was still the same because human effort does not lead to transformation only god can transform you and at this new year's service at this particular time if we were here live and in person we would hold a time for you to come to know jesus for yourself we just showed you a special presentation of a throwback uh drama presentation but in that particular message was about coming to jesus coming to the lord coming to his house and getting to know him as your lord and savior because there is no real transformation outside of jesus christ jesus says that i am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me he tells the disciples when he first meets them follow me and you will become fishers of men if you follow me you will be transformed transformation life change destiny and purpose are all found in jesus christ and tonight before we go into service and get into the word of god from bishop and the more worship we want to present jesus christ to those of you who do not know him for yourself to give you a chance to say yes to this moment yes to this time yes to god's will for you you were watching us tonight because someone uh told asked you to watch they tagged you they shared it and you clicked on it but god wanted you to connect with us this evening through this worship service because he wanted to introduce himself to you as your savior as someone that can radically change your life the thing i love about god it doesn't matter who you are what you did how you did it who you did it with the bible says whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved we're more hung up on our sins than god is god said i can take you i can make you and i can shape you i can radically change your life ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 lets us know that we are god's workmanship or in the greek we are god's poem we are god's story that god is has the ability to write new parts of your life write a new future for you that god has the ability to change watch this to not change your past but he knows how to write a future that looks different than your past and it takes you coming into a relationship with jesus christ right now we're calling you to walk with him if you're not saved you need the lord in your life please do me a favor what i'm saying is clicking put your name in the comment section someone on our team is there and they will get back to you and we'll walk you through a process on how to have a relationship with jesus christ if you need to be saved for the first time put your name in the comments section just put on there your name and i need to be saved somebody from our team will connect with you also those of you that are backslidden you got saved at one point in time and you walked away from god maybe do the covet and the virtual nature of service you kind of lost track and uh you got off the wheel you stopped praying you stop studying your bible you stop watching service and you found yourself this evening understanding that the trials of life are different without god but with him the trials of life are easier to manage god does not promise us a problem free life but he does promise us that he'll be there with us through the problems of life but if you're here and you walked away from god you need to recommit your life to jesus it is a great time to do it now before we go into 2021. come recommit your life to the lord put your name in the comment section put in there rededication or recommitment and someone from our team will connect with you those you that are saved you love the lord and you want to connect to this church in a deeper way you want to be able to become a member a partner a part of this church in a more committed way put your name in the comments section someone will connect with you we would love to have you as a part of bethany church the transformation church here in lindenwald new jersey if you're distant you're from another state we created a virtual church called our connections church you can join that you can put your name in the comments section and someone will connect with you or you can go to our website go to bethany.com fill the information out there we believe that god's going to do it i want to say a quick prayer for those of you that need to be saved rededicate your life need a church home i'm going to say a quick prayer and we're going to believe god together that a transformation is going to happen tonight father i thank you for this moment i appreciate you for this time i thank you for this day it is a day that you have made we will rejoice and we will be glad in it it is a day full of your grace a day full of your love a day that's full of your goodness and father we come to you in the name of your son through his person this evening believing in salvation i pray in the name of jesus that you would save somebody now i pray that you would reclaim a backslider i pray that you would connect someone that's saved to this house put a yes inside of their spirit remove every excuse remove every barrier and i pray that you give them the strength to put their name in the comment section so their transformation this day will be a supernatural and life-changing event in jesus name amen if that's you one of those three categories put your name in the comment section as they're doing that at this time we want to take up our general offering we're going to do our first fruits after the message bishop is going to preach he's going to do the first fruits offering we want you to be able to sow into this atmosphere now it's our custom always we have service we are general offering up front first fruits after the first is the first of many it's going to be discussed later but right now we are asking to all of us to sow sacrificially into this general offering the information is on the screen um whether you give to giblify text to give or through our website those options are there on the screen and the word for you right now is second corinthians chapter nine god gives seed to the sower he gives seed to the sower not to the one that intends to sow he gives seed to the sower and if you sow tonight with a cheerful heart if you sow tonight in the plan of god he gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater he gives you more seed to sow and bread to consume he gives you some to sow again and some to consume to change your life god wants to do that for you believe god by faith sow that seed now in our general offering we're getting ready to go back into some worship bishop has a word from the lord from us for us this evening god bless you get ready for worship give god praise hallelujah this song is for everyone who knows they have a testimony in 2020 of god's faithfulness lift your hands wherever you are if you know that god has been good hallelujah [Music] enough [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he's been good to me hallelujah [Music] [Music] so good [Music] jesus when i think about you your faithfulness over this [Music] [Music] come on have i got a witness we've got so much to thank you for going to [Music] [Applause] [Music] that you've been so good you've been better than good to me [Music] [Music] hallelujah cause you've been so good yes you've been so good you've been so good jesus you've been so good when i thought i lose my mind spending months and months in quarantine see that she kept my mind and you were jehovah shalom so i give [Music] [Music] [Music] so good if you're at home just sing it with us say you've been so good oh you should have you've been everything i need jesus [Applause] [Music] you've been jesus so good you you've been you've been so good you've been so good [Music] [Music] glory because he's [Music] he's been good he loves you he loves you hallelujah thank you god praise the lord as we uh gather together once again on another significant new year's eve i am so honored you've taken the time to join me tonight looking back i believe god has something amazing to tell us tonight about the year that's coming but also to take any questions you may have out of the year that you've already experienced tell you what the specific spiritual significance of it is what god was trying to say we're going to talk about some things that are going to be rather difficult but and intrusive but absolutely necessary for you and i to fully understand the move of god the process of god how god is managing if you will how god is processing the times that we live we've had an amazing service so far and i'm looking forward to god speaking to us in such a profound way that you will understand clearly why god has allowed what he has allowed during this past year father i bless your name for what you're about to do bless my mind with the holy spirit open it up as you always do and i thank you in jesus name amen turn with me if you will no genesis chapter 8 verse 1 genesis chapter 8 verse 1. and i want to lift out of this phenomenal story of trial and test and judgment just a few words from verse one and god remembered noah and god remembered noah and every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the ark and god made a wind pass over the earth and the waters were assuaged and god remembered new year's 2021 the year of restoration the year of reversal and the year of revival the year of restoration the year of reversal and the year of revival it goes without saying that uh 2020 even though it is the first fruit of this new decade has been an extraordinarily testing trying confusing year we witnessed the second most significant public execution in history only second to the crucifixion of christ that is when george floyd lost his life and galvanized if you will not just a nation but a world impacting those that never were impacted before he is indeed i believe the second most significant international crucifixion that we have ever seen we saw the repetition of obvious injustice we saw politics shift the principles of the national church we saw people being less about love more about themselves more selfish we endured what appeared to be a national acceptance of something that would create indignation as a in us if it was happening in another nation we began to accept things that we call third world countries primitive those same principles would have caused us to be critical we saw a flood of turmoil the pandemic and in the midst of all this judgment all this trial god is still looking for someone to anchor his promises to and god remembered noah now you must understand there's a spiritual necessity that the people of faith the people of god the church have a revelation of the season a clear revelation of the season that we have been enduring we've been facing something that we never thought we'd face before we have participated in an incredible test of faith both yours and mine our faith has been tested and tried i don't know about you but my patience has also been worn thin at times but it's not just a test of faith but it also is a test of the identity not only of the national church but of the people of god you see it's a test of our confession it's a test of our foundations and its strength the foundations of our faith have been challenged during this year but only challenged because they are biblical necessity and that biblical necessity is in the form of a judgment beginning with god's people the bible tells us that judgment begins at the house of god in other words despite the natural national agenda despite the visible agenda there is a spiritual necessity to what we are experiencing now this judging i'm talking about is not a condemnation but a judgment revealing the identity of your faith the identity of yourself as a child of god the identity of the national church revealing not only identity but faith and yes spiritual integrity has been on display this year or the lack thereof the body of christ therefore is confused virtually every child of god has wondered what is god doing during this time but not only what is god doing but why are you doing this is a season watch this now of spiritual revelation presumptive prophets have suddenly gone silent or even more ironic have changed what they said god said to them this is a season when prophets that have been presuming for many years and you weren't sure were revealed because once they've stuck their head up out of spiritual hole they cannot take it back at this point the politics was revealed as a driver of the utterance supposedly by the spirit of god politics became the driver not the spirit of god for what god quote unquote was saying but the holy ghost does not make mistakes he only speaks or declares what it is that god and the integrity of god is consistent with in other words when the holy ghost speaks he doesn't make mistakes because he is an agreement with god in every word this pandemic season has revealed what you and i could not sense in the spirit and uncleanness had been hidden in the national church let's take a look at this thing go to mark chapter five let me show you something got some good stuff to tell you as we step into some understanding and watch the blessing come out of what god is going to tell us today mark chapter five something very familiar but we're going to take a really strange look at it so when we look at mark chapter 5 it's a very familiar story to many of you and it's about this demoniac watch what it says in mark chapter 5 verse 1 and they came over unto the other side of the sea into the country of the gadarenes and when he was come out of the ship immediately they met him out of the tombs of man with an unclean spirit who had his dwelling watch this among the tombs and no man could bind him no not with chains because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains and the chains had been plucked to suddenly by him and the feathers broken in pieces neither could any man tame him and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones but when he saw jesus afar off he ran and worshiped him and cried with a loud voice and said what have i to do with the jesus thou son of the most high god i endure thee by god that thou torment me not for he said unto him come out of the man thou unclean spirit and here it is and he asked him what is your name and he answered saying my name is legion for we are many this unclean spirit unidentified by anyone but the lord seen as some kind of cultural issue with the young man jesus confronts him and what god showed me was this is an identity issue the same type of identity issue that the national church the international church is facing right now the integrity of the spirit of the body of christ is on display now we've uncovered a dilemma jesus in this season has been asking the church repeatedly what is your name jesus only asked the question when the identity watch this is hidden from from from observation but known within we don't know our name there's too many identities on display the demonic dwells in a place that memorializes men instead of god the bible says he dwells among the tombs a graveyard another place a cemetery that has monuments to people not to god he dwells comfortably among the dead traditions of the past no longer believing in promise or future monuments to a life lived focused on the memory of men not the testimony of god when we build my brothers and my sisters we must remember to be quite certain who we are building for god has revealed in this pandemic season the true purpose of many it is unfortunate that sometimes it takes crisis to reveal character during this time during the pandemic monuments have been built to accomp monuments to accomplishment rather than to the glory of god some people of faith have felt deceived by the unveiling of the national church shifting truths and the lack of true love and a coldness by some of our national leaders part of the national church has an image but they've lost their voice oh my you must be careful that you don't build an image but lose your voice in other words the manifestation of the spirit of god in your life the church seems to no longer be concerned with the poor for the poor sake that's building a monument to yourself not really in it to serve those that don't have what they need not tending to the sick for the sick sake no concern for those who are hungry and living on the edge of life according to mark chapter five this man is indeed powerful he seems unhindered in his ways this is amazing jesus there is a need in the text that there will be no deliverance for this man the restoration brothers man unless he reconnects in relationship and the bible calls it he comes and worships him the insecurity of the moment is revealed the identity of the question is being asked by the lord not only to the man in mark chapter 5 but to us today what is your name his exterior gives no indication he has lost his identity many tried to address him and his and his situation but could not because the man needed restoration renewal and revival he needed something to reverse his life this pandemic season has placed the national church squarely in what i call this watch the second example matthew 13 go to matthew 13 for me let's watch how this works now matthew 13. i want to take you down to verse 24 let's see what god says matthew 13 24 and the kingdom of heaven and another parable said he put forth saying the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed seed in his good field now whenever you see a parable remember i've taught you this before when you see a parable jesus is taking something earthly to reveal something heavenly so the field belongs to the man which means the field belongs to god but while the men slept his enemy came sowed tears among the wheat and went his way but when the blade was sprung up and brought forth then appeared the tears also so it they they are planted together the seeds are quite similar they begin to grow and not until there is some revelation of what's in the seed does there appear to be a difference watch what happens so the man's servants come to the householder and said unto him sir verse 27 does not thou sow good seed in thy field good seed versus bad seed in your field is there not both good seed and bad seed in your field says from then when has it tears watch what it says he said unto an enemy have done this an enemy has slipped in and put if you will something that looks like wheat but indeed is not wheat the servant said unto him well thou that we go and gather them up and he said no lest while you gather them up you root up also the wheat with their meaning that this um this imitation is firmly woven in with the reality and to pull one up prematurely before exposure and the revelation of a season when the harvesting is proper would be premature watch what happens now he said no don't pull them up because you'll mess around and mess watch this verse 30. let both grow together until the harvest the harvest is the judgment so here's something you're going to think is unfair a lot of people have been revealed during this time and you want god to exact some judgment now but god says not until i come in judgment will they be fully judged but you will recognize them for who they are he says gather them together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn this is about judgment so watch what happens don't be fooled by what you see now as the enemy winning the battle don't be fooled by what you see as the enemy winning the body what we have witnessed is a maturity of the harvest you need to hear me all this incongruity in the national body of christ what you're witnessing is a maturity watch this that if they could have hidden it they would have hit it i have contemporaries people that preached here for years people that called me friend over the last 30 years and did not know until a few months ago the condition of their hearts did not know after all this time how they really felt national people who had been criticized for bringing before this not because of what they have said but criticized because people thought these relationships that i had excluded them rather than trying to be included in them god has let us grow together so we can be revealed to one another this is a season where god has decided has made plain who are his and who though appearing legitimate have been sown like tears among the wheat it's an identity question now you need to understand why does god have what is god doing god is a creator of cycles animals plants night days sowing and reaping seed time and harvest summer and winter hot and cold day and night he created the cycles that impact our lives these cycles will always reveal our identity all right let's go to exodus chapter 12 let me review something with you so we can get to the end of this because i've got a revelation for you tonight exodus chapter 12. all right let's see now so we understand that the children of israel have been in captivity for a number of years they've been in a season uh that is in the plan of god that is in the permissive will of god not the perfect will of god for his people because they ended up in egypt because of their abject disobedience to god so in other words they volunteered for the captivity they broke the law of god therefore some type of uh incarceration if you will was absolutely necessary so watch what happens when we go down to verse chapter 12 of exodus verse 29 and it came to pass at midnight that the lord smote all the firstborn in the land of egypt from the first born of pharaoh that sat on his throne into the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of cattle and pharaoh rose up in the night and he and all his servants and all the egyptians and there was a great cry in egypt and there was not a house where there was not one dead stay close to this now and he called for moses and aaron by night and said rise up and get you forth from among the people both you and the children of israel and go and serve the lord as she has said amazing pharaoh telling moses you all go and serve the lord as you have testified watch how this works so the prophetic certainty of the sovereignty of god israel in exodus chapter 12. has become like the demoniac in mark chapter 5. god allowed the plague the pandemic to come through egypt demanded that his people identify themselves by putting blood on the doorpost i've taught you this early in the year listen to this prophetic word the only reason that god would have required his people his people dwelling in egypt light dwelling in darkness to have to post blood on the doorpost so the death angel could tell the difference between them and the egyptians because there was an identity problem god was asking israel at that moment what is your name israel like the demoniac has lost its identity else why the blood god wanted to see the difference god wants to see a difference a marked difference an identity between us and the world the judgment was on egypt and israel don't miss this point the judgment was on egypt and israel egypt because they rejected god israel because they needed to re-identify themselves god was trying to get them back to covenant back to promise back to testifying and praying preparing them for the restoration for the reversal and the revival that he had promised them because i told you first earlier in this message god is looking for someone to connect promise to god remembers you god was looking for people to connect to his covenant in the midst of a pandemic god reminded his people this is a time for restoration a time for reversal and a time for revival watch what this thing says now this is amazing to me now watch what blows my mind it is not coincidence that we are here tonight anticipating the transition from one if you will season of time to another it is not two incidents that the transition uh begins at midnight mid midnight has a very special significance in the word of god it was at midnight when paul and silas prayed and a great quaking happened and liberation and freedom happened to those people that were within the sound of their worship and their praise pharaoh tells now watch this now you need not miss this point pharaoh tells israel go serve your god so pharaoh confirms the identity of god's people when god's people were not playing in the sight of god he said go servant as you have testified on the heels of the pandemic worship is the beginning of restoration i need you to give god glory now you need to understand three things and i'll be done in just a moment restoration in the bible means to give back i don't know what it is you need to get for god to give you back in this season but 2021 is the year that anything that the enemy decided he or she was going to take for you god is going to give back somebody say restoration it means that promises broken will be mended during this time it's the renewable promises broken by god's people watch this the renewal of promises broken by you and i god is giving you another chance in 2021 because he's looking for someone to connect covenant and promise to in the year that we're about to enter another definition of restoration is to be repaid in full oh my god repaid and full not just for the year that has passed but for the life that you lived god is saying to us right now not only am i going to restore you but i'm going to repay you in full restoration watch this the restoration of one dislocated from the body of christ that if 2021 or even beyond that saw you walking away from god instead of getting closer to god 2021 is the year in just a few moments it's going to be your time to come back to god dislocated that makes good sense dislocated limbs watch this are not disconnected they're dysfunctional they cause more pain than they do support they're more of a distraction than a help they're not in unity with the body so if sin has caused you to become dislocated in 2020 then god is saying i want to restore you in 2021. at midnight not only will uh restoration begin but reversal somebody say reversal your enemies will watch this want nothing to do with you after this year ends there is a financial reversal on god's agenda for you in 2021 you need to raise your hand in faith right now favor will be the frustration of your enemies the favor being released in 2021 that comes along with the reversal your adversaries and your enemies your favor is going to aggravate them and then the bible lets us know there's going to be revival revival means to regain life and i'm just talking about regular natural life i'm talking about the abundant life that you once enjoyed the abundant life that something in your heart has told you that god has waiting for you this abundant life a regaining of the life you know the dreams that you thought would come to pass the future that you had planned for yourself but now you realize it must be in in keeping with what god has purposed in your life you had some some upset some sickness or a divorce or some kind of heartbreak or some kind of termination during this 2020 year and it's been difficult for you and god is saying to you in 2021 there will be a revival you will regain your life you will get the life god promised you in the word of god the first fruit of the decade known as 2020 is god showing us the ground has been plowed the difficulty of the year has been god plowing the ground the tares have been identified the national church has been revealed as divided between spirit and politics the prophetic identity of many has been revealed and i must confess some i know very personally that have stretched out on what they said was the spirit of god but now find themselves either silent or having to reverse their field because god did not tell them it was not the spirit of god it was the politics of their own mind the ark has been preserved the church has been preserved in the midst of the judgment i was talking to so many people earlier in the year they were talking about is this going to be the end of the church the end of the church only if you believe that it's built upon you jesus says upon this rock watch this i will build my church it's my church he says and because it's mine hell shall not prevail either externally or internally it shall not prevail midnight tonight is going to reveal that god has remembered you and like the waters of noah flowers flood like the waters of noah's flood the waters of time called 2020 are receding right now midnight is revealing this in the mind of god time is receding the flood of time is receding now what's amazing about that it is not until the waters receded that the mountains of promise were revealed the mountains of turn around were revealed the mountains of reversal were revealed in the story of noah so as this 2020 year begins to fade it is so the blessing or the turnaround of 2021 can be revealed reversal restoration and revival the blessing cannot be revealed for 2021 until the year of 2020 has ended i want you to receive by faith this word that 2021 is your year of restoration fully repaid reversal all that was taken all that was lost coming back to you life regen and revival god doing for you what you thought what you believed at one time was his will for you and his purpose for you and you watch god begin to bring it back once again this is the 2021 that the tumultuous nature the plowing season of 2020 has revealed it's been preparing you for the breakthrough of your life and i want you to remember that in the midst of the turmoil of 2020 the reason you're about to step into the next dimension of your life called 2021 is because god has remembered you so now instead of pining away and fretting over the difficulties of the previous year i want you to begin to celebrate with an earnest heart celebrate through the power of the spirit that god has caused you to come through so you will experience not your restoration but his not your reversal but his not your revival but his revival in your life 20 21 the year your restoration god restores you god reverses your situation and god revives you now pastor nick has been talking to us it is our custom as we have been fasting uh for the three days going into the new year we are absolutely believe in the power of fasting prayer jesus teaches us very clearly some things are only moved by prayer and fasting i also want you to remember this our customer is that every new year's we sow a first fruit now the bible teaches us that first fruit is that tithe that additional tithe for the year i'm doing it i know many of you will join me with it but we also understand that during this special season some may not be able so that 100 seed that first fruit that seed of restoration reversal and revival that seed that represents the manifestation of your faith that i believe god is going to restore me i believe god is going to reverse my situation i believe god is going to revive my life and then there are those of you that are in situations the time has been tough and we call it get in where you fit in do what god lays on your heart for those of you who really understand the move of god and the bible numbers teaches us very clearly it is not about gross or net that tithe is about all that comes into your hand so it's the gross god gave me a revelation that when uh abraham is having a conversation with the holy ghost uh the bible is being written in the book of hebrews i believe they talk about how um abraham was let jesus was yet in the loins of his father and that when he tithed he tithed on what he not only could see but what he could not see so we see now that it's not about whether it's a net or gross because numbers teaches us that whatever whatever the farmer received that was a firstborn male now watch how significant this is the first born male was the male that the shepherd would depend upon to procreate his flock so there were flocks in the male sheep you need to hear me there were flocks in the male sheep and in his loins if you will and the lord required that he sacrificed that male lamb to him so it was not only about the land that they could see but the sheep that he could produce in the future and the bible tells us in the book of numbers it says uh he says the sun son comes to him one day and says look dad we're in the sheep business why are you sacrificing these male sheep repeatedly so well number one the law says that the the bible says and and get this for those of you who are uh very strict about this thing exodus is before the law exodus 12 14 is before the law so this is not being legalistic this is before the law he says i'm going to give him the firstborn. he says if i don't i might as well break the neck of the donkey in other words i'm going to give him the firstborn and if i don't i might as well break the neck of the burden bearing part of my flock in other words i'm going to give him that gross amount and and and if i don't do it i might as well break the back of what i'm depending on to support me this is amazing to me now i'm so enthusiastic about it because it was a while ago that god showed me this revelation and i began to move in this and i wanted to i want to tell you my life changed immediately because i was looking for a reason not to give god what he asked for i know you can join me in that understanding so later on in the text his son comes to him and says look dad why are you doing this he says evidently you don't understand our testimony it was the lord that brought us out of slavery it was the lord that brought us out of egypt and this i do gladly because of what he does so numbers gives us the perfect definition of the cheerful giver i don't give this as a sacrifice i give it because it belongs to god we give this first fruit because it belongs to him and we give it out of gratitude and relationship and understanding just how far he has brought us but also the promises and the blessing that god wants to release on those of us that are watch this those that he can attach covenant to he's looking for someone to remember because we have remembered him won't you release that extra time or that hundred dollars or get in where you fit in as a first fruit for 2021 that first fruit of restoration reversal and revival i'm so glad that you joined us this evening i'm thankful that god has preserved your life i want you to have a blessed 20 21 i want you to remember this now faith acts like a thing is so even when it's not so that it might be so god bless you and i'll see you next time happy new year happy happy new year 2020 has been tough for us all but since we are blessed and highly favored i challenge everyone to look back over the past 12 months and i bet that you could identify at least one area where you have grown despite everything that has happened so i thank god for that area of growth i'm believing god for a better 2021 i believe in god for his will to be done in my life and in your life to my bethany usherboard family i miss you all and i look forward to seeing everyone around the plaza in the new year god bless happy hey bethany family it's the ashleys and we are wishing you a happy new year [Music] and we want to speak something into your life okay we got a little poem for you okay roses are red god is on our side okay and in 2021 we gonna be you gonna be we're the [Music] okay happy new year everybody we love you we miss you see you later 20 20. joyful new year everyone [Music] from the harris family happy new year bethany family hey what's up bethany family i just want to say happy new year happy new year we've made it you know it's definitely been a rough year for you know plenty of people um there's a lot happening this year has been challenging it's been challenging to my feet but um you know to just still be here is a blessing within itself and still praying for those families and those who are still going through different situations uh concerning what we're in but you know 2021 is right around the corner we've made it and i'm just believing god for some just for growth you know what i mean just to continue to grow to continue to be grounded and you know though the world may shift and do what it's doing to stay firm in the faith you know just be thankful to you know coming to another year i don't know what's ahead but i just want to leave in a guy's hands and i know if i leave it in his hands that everything should be all right so you know i'm thankful for that happy new years to you and your families love you family and y'all be blessed hey bethany family desiree here just wanted to wish you all a happy new year this 2020 has been one for the books we all know that but blessings are on the way restoring is on the way can't wait to see you in 2021 and have a blessed day praise lord everybody happy new year from pastor nick and from my family we hope that you are going into 2021 with your faith on your hope 2020 was a very interesting year tragic good times bad times exhausting strengthening we learned about god being our shepherd we learned about god being our strength i just want to say happy new year to you all as we go into the year of revival reversal and restoration believe god it's going to have its challenges but stay open to the move of god stay open to his plans his plans are greater than ours choose his over yours just want to wish you a happy new year we made it god bless you and we'll see you in 2021 [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Published: Thu Dec 31 2020