Speaker 1: This is Pastor Ambrose Nyong'ao, senior Pastor of Parkland Baptist Church, greeting you in the new year, and I want to decree and declare to you may the Lord bless you in this amazing new year that he has in store for us, 2024.
Speaker 1: I want to read Isaiah, chapter 43, verse 18 and 19.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says this Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.
Speaker 1: Behold, I will do a new thing.
Speaker 1: Now it shall spring forth.
Speaker 1: Shall you not know it?
Speaker 1: I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Speaker 1: God has an amazing year in store for us and I want to let you know that God is a God who plants.
Speaker 1: The Bible says I know the plants I have for you, says the Lord plants for welfare, not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Speaker 1: And as we introduce this new year, three things we want to say from that passage.
Speaker 1: Number one God is saying behold the new season.
Speaker 1: And secondly, behold the new mindset.
Speaker 1: And thirdly, behold the new vision.
Speaker 1: Three things we must remember the season, the mindset and the vision.
Speaker 1: When we talk about a season, it's important for us to realize that we have just come out of a season that has been a blessing.
Speaker 1: For some of us, 2023 was a very blessed season For some of us.
Speaker 1: Others, it was a very challenging season.
Speaker 1: It had its ups and downs, its victories, its joys and its sorrows.
Speaker 1: Now we have stepped into a new year and God is saying behold our new season.
Speaker 1: In fact, isaiah was speaking to the Israelites who had gone through a very difficult time, and he was telling them do not remember the former things, don't let the past paralyze your future.
Speaker 1: And how do you do that?
Speaker 1: You need to behold.
Speaker 1: The Bible says see, there's a new season that has come.
Speaker 1: Declare it, walk into it, celebrate it.
Speaker 1: Behold our new season.
Speaker 1: In this new season, god has new dreams for us.
Speaker 1: God has new blessings for us.
Speaker 1: God has opportunities for us to make good new friends.
Speaker 1: There are new jobs coming our way.
Speaker 1: We are going to great heights.
Speaker 1: And so the Lord is saying behold our new season.
Speaker 1: But secondly, he's saying behold the new mindset.
Speaker 1: To enter into a new season, you need to enter it with a new way of thinking.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Romans 12, verse 2, do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that you may know what the will of God is what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Speaker 1: We need to renew our minds.
Speaker 1: Maybe last year your mind was really polluted with all kinds of things Diseases, illnesses, sicknesses, wars, rumors of wars.
Speaker 1: But God is saying behold a new season.
Speaker 1: And in beholding a new season he is saying behold a new mindset.
Speaker 1: That's why it says in the Bible that behold, I will do a new thing.
Speaker 1: Now it shall spring forth.
Speaker 1: Shall you not know it, shall you not perceive it, shall you not start thinking in a new way?
Speaker 1: God's plans are amazing.
Speaker 1: Goodness and mercy will accompany us.
Speaker 1: Wealthy will come our ways, health will be our portion.
Speaker 1: Strength from strength will be our pathway in 2024.
Speaker 1: In other words, behold the new mindset.
Speaker 1: But thirdly, not only are we to behold the new season and the new mindset, we are talking about the new vision In Habakkuk.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in chapter 2, verse 2, write the vision down so that those who read it may run with it, for the vision is for an appointed time and in the end it will speak, though it may tarry.
Speaker 1: And so today we are saying, as we engage the new year, we are saying behold the new season, behold it with a new mindset and then behold it with a new vision.
Speaker 1: Write the vision down, read it, run with it, action with it.
Speaker 1: God will not fail you.
Speaker 1: May God bless you.
Speaker 1: May God increase you One more time.
Speaker 1: Happy new year, happy 2024.
Speaker 1: God bless you.