Speaker 1: Music playing.
Speaker 1: I greet you in the name of Jesus and another week of God's blessing is before us and today we want to talk about the new year.
Speaker 1: We have said that this year God has given us a theme and the theme is the year of the uplifted open door.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 7, hour 2, 8 and I want to just speak verse 8.
Speaker 1: Jesus is saying and he says behold, I open a door before you that no man can shut, and I shut, and no man has given us an open door vision and it is very important for us to catch it.
Speaker 1: We were talking about this last time, that we need to catch the vision, but today I want to talk about this open door vision, and it is an uplifted door.
Speaker 1: It's not a door that is in front of you.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, that Jesus spoke to John and said come up here.
Speaker 1: So the door is uplifted and it is important for us to be able to walk through this door.
Speaker 1: And it is uplifted for three major things.
Speaker 1: Number one uplifted to see.
Speaker 1: Uplifted to walk.
Speaker 1: Uplifted to possess.
Speaker 1: God is uplifting us in 2024.
Speaker 1: The Bible says forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.
Speaker 1: And in this season God wants to lift us up.
Speaker 1: He's actually lifting us up to a new dimension.
Speaker 1: Number one uplifted to see.
Speaker 1: God wants us to see.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in 1 Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 9 and 10 what our eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, nor the heart conceived, god has prepared for us.
Speaker 1: There are things that God wants us to see.
Speaker 1: God wants us to see is to see His glory.
Speaker 1: God wants us to see who he is, not just what he does, but who he is.
Speaker 1: And when we see who he is, we're going to begin to understand who we are.
Speaker 1: Because many times we get distracted by so many things.
Speaker 1: We get distracted by this leader and that leader, this challenge and that challenge.
Speaker 1: But God says I want you to see Me.
Speaker 1: So this vision is uplifting us to see God in a new way.
Speaker 1: Secondly, it is uplifting us to walk in a new place.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Matthew, chapter 6, verse 33, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things shall be added to you.
Speaker 1: We have been called to walk in the kingdom and in the kingdom way.
Speaker 1: The kingdom way is a way of righteousness.
Speaker 1: The kingdom way is walking according to the principles of the King and the principles he has placed us in the kingdom as we do.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 1: This vision is going to open up for us in amazing ways.
Speaker 1: How are you walking?
Speaker 1: The Bible says walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Speaker 1: But thirdly, this vision, this open door vision, is uplifting us not only to see, not only to walk, but also to possess.
Speaker 1: God wants us to possess his inheritance.
Speaker 1: The inheritance is not for angels, the inheritance is ours.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in 1 Peter for you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Speaker 1: God wants us to possess that which he has possessed for us in Christ.
Speaker 1: So this is an open vision, open door vision, number one, uplifting us to see God's glory, uplifting us to walk in the ways of the kingdom.
Speaker 1: But thirdly, uplifting us to possess all that God has for us.
Speaker 1: I like that scripture that says in John 10, 10, that thief comes to steal and to kill and to destroy.
Speaker 1: But I have come that you may have life and have it abundantly.
Speaker 1: May God give you all that is yours in this season and in this time.
Speaker 1: So be uplifted to see, be uplifted to walk, be uplifted to possess all the life that God has in store for you.
Speaker 1: May God richly bless you in Jesus' name, amen.