God is Good for You - Will Brocker 12-28-2025

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Praise God. I just want to say thank you to all of you who, of course, that are here, but uh I forget sometimes to, you know, the time and the in which we live, the world has become very small because of technology. And um we can sit right here in this uh humble setting with you wonderful believers and uh and also impact people all over the world. And uh of course, from this little ministry, we sow into a lot of other ministries. I always look for the ones who are making the most impact and to make the most impact on me, trying to make an impact on you, if that makes sense. But um we uh when I look and just check to see uh who's who we're reaching, it's it blesses me. So I want to take the time to to tell those of you who listen or hear or watch um in other places at other times. Um as always I say that the in the spirit there's no time constraints or boundary limits, and and if you think of yourself as part of this church, so do we. And I pray for everyone who will every week, my earnest prayer that everyone who hears this message, starting here with us and uh and carrying it out all over the world to anyone who hears anywhere, you are being prayed for, and I pray that this seed of this word goes into your heart, takes root, and bears fruit in your life, and that you become so strong in the Lord that you are able to impact the kingdom of God and make sure that everyone you know meets you in heaven. But once in a while I like to, I just noticed the other day that not only the United States, of course, but uh those of you in Canada and the United Kingdom and Germany and Ukraine and Lithuania and Finland and Japan has seen a big ups up uh uptick and uh Brazil, just to name a few. I just I like to do that from time to time. I know you're there, and so thank you. God bless you. Just I want you to feel like you are part and that you are seen. Amen. Praise God. Well, just like the seasons of our lives change and move on to the next. Here we are again, having just celebrated another Christmas and the wonderful gift of God that uh that he has given us in his son Jesus Christ. And uh we come to the close of another year, and we look forward to the new year. Amen. And uh it's just like chapters turning in our lives and new beginnings, and I'm here to remind you today, it's good to focus on the goodness of God. I want to tell you today, God is good and God is for you. Amen. Say this with me. The blessing of the Lord is upon me, and the favor of the Lord surrounds me, and something good is gonna happen for me today. Amen. You need to receive that by faith, and these are the kind of declarations that are good to make over yourself every day. Hallelujah. Heavenly Father, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for everything we just mentioned, everything that you have placed on my heart for today, for your children. Use me as a vessel to spread the seed of the word of God, the manner from heaven. Help it to inspire, encourage, edify, and to disciple your children for your will and your work. In Jesus' name. Amen. This church, this little part of the church, this Grace and Truth Church, GTC, we believe in what God gave me as just the word help sitting there next to my wife so many years ago. Healing, empowerment, love, and prosperity for the body of Christ. Receiving all that God has for us and growing into strong disciples, building strong disciples, so in turn, as is God's plan and his will, we can go and take that same help we've received to help others. Amen. It's that simple. And a big part of being successful in receiving the help is being sure that we have the right opinion of God. Isn't that right? God is good, God loves us, God sent his son Jesus Christ to us to prove that love. David Wilkerson, man of God, gone on to be with the Lord. He said any worship that ends at the manger is unacceptable to God. Why? Because as believers in his son Jesus Christ, God isn't angry with us. God isn't judging us or pouring out his wrath on us because of our sin. Even though religion will tell you the exact opposite in many cases, he's not. We don't have to live with the guilt and condemnation and worry and shame once we've turned our lives over to the Lord and come to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Now, as believers, as born-again believers, we don't want to sin, which gives access to the enemy, destroys our witness, and it just goes against our new being, our new nature. Amen. So lots of reasons not to sin. But God is not accepting or rejecting us based upon our own merit, what we deserve. And it's important to know that. Well, why is that? It's not because God changed, is it? God's still holy, God still hates sin, God is still a God of justice, holds himself accountable to his own justice and his own word. And the only punishment for sin, of which we were all guilty, is death. And to those who think that they're better than their neighbor or the Christian next door, you're guilty of every commandment. Yes. Because not only were they hard to live up to when they were on the stone tablets, Jesus came and just made them harder. Some of those really bad ones you can break just by thinking the wrong way. And the Bible teaches us that if you're guilty at one point of the law, you're guilty of it all. I don't know if you've ever seen one of those in tempered glass. It shatters into a million pieces. It can't be fixed, it has to be replaced. God didn't patch us up and send us back out there. He replaced, gave us a new identity. We are a new creation in him. Amen. That's why we can't leave Jesus in the manger. Right? As wonderful as it was for him to come, we're so thankful for God's indescribable gift. More was required. The cross. The last blood sacrifice, and the only one that truly wipes away sin. And the resurrection and the enthronement, all of it were required, and Jesus did it all for us, for you and for me. Amen. Romans 5 8 says, but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. You know, the prophet Isaiah prophesied so poignantly about the death of Jesus and what would take place on the cross in Isaiah chapter 53, 700 years prior to Jesus' arrival. In the fourth verse, he says, surely he has borne our grief speaking of Jesus on the cross and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. And in the fifth verse, but he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and by his stripes we are healed. So God exhausted his judgment and wrath upon the body of Jesus Christ, who took your place on the cross, God legally and righteously held Jesus accountable for your sin and mine, so that you could be free and made righteous with Jesus' righteousness. Amen. So, because of the things Isaiah prophesied in chapter 53, the things he said in chapter 54 make sense. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but it's necessary to get where we're going. Amen. Isaiah chapter 54, now that Isaiah chapter 53 has been accomplished. In Isaiah chapter 54, the ninth verse, he says, For like this is like the days of Noah to me, God said, As I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you. God, it no longer sees you as a sinner in Christ. As the fallen first Adam. He sees you as the last Adam, as his very own son, Jesus Christ, when he looks at you. Some people that's hard to say, I'm not Jesus. Yes. When, when, let me ask you this. When Paul got knocked off his horse or whatever, on the road to Emmaus, when the Lord made himself known to him, did he say, Why are you persecuting those who believe in me? What'd he say, Joey? Why are you persecuting me? Right? So when he when someone comes against Heather, Jesus says, You're messing with me. Because that's my daughter. And she's in me, and I'm in her. We're one. One flesh. Just like the picture of marriage. Amen. So he doesn't see us any longer as the first Adam, as fallen, corrupted sin nature, fallen, corrupted seed, in need of that number five, the redemptive grace of God. He sees us as having that, and so now he sees us as Jesus once we belong to him. And he loves us. He's not angry with us, not even a little bit. He will not rebuke you. He will not be angry with you. And he only wants good for you. Jeremiah 29, 11, which we all love, says, I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future. Hallelujah. That's good.

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And he loves us so much that even once Jesus did everything and accomplished everything that he came to do, he sent us his Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God. The Spirit of Jesus Christ is always with us, here to help us and to lead us and guide us all the way through this life to our destination with our heavenly bridegroom. Jesus said in John 14, 17, he says, the Spirit of truth, speaking of the Holy Spirit. The world cannot receive him because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you do know him, for he abides with you and will be in you. And he's in you. I will not leave you as orphans, he said. I will come to you. And that's how he's come to us. In the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. Thank you, sir, that you're with us. In a little while the world will see me no more, he said, but you will see me because I live, you also will live. The 15th verse, he says, For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. But you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry, Abba, Father. I heard a preacher get up and preach such a hellfire and brimstone message one time. I kept thinking, when's he gonna get to the gospel? But he so nastily said, Don't get you called, God daddy. Abba is exactly what that means in Hebrew. Hallelujah. Romans 8.28. For we know that for those who love God all things work together for good for those who are called, who love God and are called according to his purpose. You're born again, you have Jesus, you are called according to his purpose. Hallelujah. Romans 8.31. What shall we say then? If God is for us, Samuel, who can be against us? It's just a rhetorical question, amen. Hallelujah. Nobody, nobody can stand against the living God. Little Ruddy David knew that when he stood and faced that giant. I went and saw that new animated movie with my grandchildren. I loved it. Ish. They watered it down so much. That's okay. It's better than some of the stuff out there. I don't want to be the critic of anything that people are trying to do for God. Amen. So all this to remind you that you have a God and Father and Savior, not a Godfather, as some churches would represent him. So Andrew talks about Malachi 3. Some some preachers, and I've and I've sat in some of those settings and ministries when I was first came into the ministry. And they literally taught things like that. That they taught your tithes and giving and things like that, which we definitely believe in. I don't know if I can even say that anymore. Praise God, that's a good thing. But it's not by obligation. I do it out of greed. Not really. I do it because I'm a kingdom builder. And I know the law of sowing and reaping is real, praise God. And I sow it with expectancy. And when you sow here, it's getting prayed over. And for that thousandfold return, praise God, into the kingdom and back to you. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. God is good. He only wants good for us. And that is essential to know that we embrace the true character and the love of God towards us. Amen. You know why? What I say all the time. We're trying to help people to know and believe, have the right opinion of God, the right understanding of the way he sees us so that they run to him and not from him. It's that simple. I'd like to have a big sign. Run to God, not from him. He loves you. He's waiting with open arms. Hallelujah. Because once we learn that we can always run to him, there's no judgment, there's no condemnation, there's no shame. Then we can go to him. Then we will remain in his presence, his presence, and seek his will and his promises and his plan for us. And we put our trust in him, Joey. Concerning everything regarding us. And everything and everyone we care about. Psalm 91, we all love, talks about that. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. And it goes on and on. But there's comfort and protection and love and mercy and guidance there in his presence. Amen? He just wants you to trust him. That's faith. And it comes by focusing on his goodness, on his promises, on his word, which I believe is infallible. Amen. Isaiah 26, 3. We quote it often. I learned it from Peter, not that scripture, but to repeat it often, because he taught us that redundancy is good in God. Amen. He says he'll keep us in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on him because we trusted him. That's where the peace and the protection and the provision are found in his presence. Bill? Amen. And because of our covenant with God through Jesus, we are his children. And we have an open invitation right into his presence. Right into a place that was always forbidden for man. Only Jesus was ever allowed to dwell there. One man got to visit once a year, but he had a rope tied around his leg in case he had any sin in his life, and they'd just drag him out. But now we're invited to just boldly go right in there and dwell in his presence, the place where only Jesus had ever been. Why? Because we are in Jesus. We are the same. We are one. Not only to come and dwell in his presence, but in a manner that was only ever allowed for his children, his family. Hebrews 4, 16. Let us therefore come boldly, not arrogantly, but confidently. And that's what we're trying to get. Confidently into the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. I think of my grandchildren. They come to me, Papa, and the battle's already lost. Papa? Oh my God. They are shocked if I ever say no. That's how we need to get with God. You think I love them? And I mean it's pretty obvious. You think I love them more than God loves you? It's impossible. Well, you might say, if if God is good and we're his children, then why do we even need mercy and help and have need? I'm glad you asked. But that's a whole nother six-week series. We live in a fallen world, don't we? Yeah? Bad things happen to good people. And besides that, do your children ever need mercy and grace? Yes, they do. And so do we. Praise God. In this fallen world, we have an enemy, don't we? That mankind empowered, by the way, in the fall. His name is Satan. He's a loser. And he only wants to do you harm. He wants you discouraged, defeated, and destroyed. By the way, the Holy Spirit never discourages the children of God, believers. Any voice, any influence or teaching that does discourage Christians, I'm not talking about bringing loving correction. There's a place for that. Through the Word. Hallelujah. And that's what he uses. He'll show you the scripture where you're off. And he'll say, why aren't you trusting me right there? You know, I love you. But if it's discouraging, it's not from God. It's not from the Holy Spirit. But we do have an enemy: Satan, the devil, the liar, the deceiver, the thief. Those are just some of his names. Also accuser and slanderer. Jesus just calls him in John 10, 10 the thief. He said that thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they might have life and have it more abundantly to the full. Jesus wants us to live a life of abundance and health, eternal life, prosperity, supernatural life. He died to provide us with total health and victory in every area of our lives. The sozo salvation, the all-inclusive, blessed life that he has paid the price for through every divine exchange that took place through the cross of Calvary. That we might model him and live for the kingdom of God within us. To live inside out, Bill. Now that the kingdom of God has come to dwell inside of you. Now, not like our old life, where we were just carnal by nature, living from our natural senses, what we saw, when I see it, I'll believe it, that sort of thing. Now we live from the inside out. Hallelujah. And that's how God works. Acts 10.38 tells us the true nature of God. Jesus said he had told us that if you've seen the Father, you've seen me. I mean, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. And so everything that He did and said, that's a representative of the heart of the Father, who is good and only has good for you. And in Acts 10.38, which we like to talk about, talks about how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit, the same as he has you, and with power, and he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. And he wants us to do the same, Evelys. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But it requires faith, a trust, and a love for the Father and all people. Hello. All people. It's a supernatural life. And that comes from truly knowing God, which is the meaning of eternal life. That passionate, intimate relationship with God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. Because God is love, according to 1 John chapter 4, right? Do you want to know a powerful truth? Religion will never teach you. Understanding the true love and the grace of God for you will cause you to live wholly without even trying. Because I believe that right believing produces right living. 1 John 3, starting in the first verse, says, see what kind of love everything produces after its own what? Every seed produces after its own kind. See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God. And so we are. Oh, the magnitude of that. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now. Now, now. Why did he have me say that three times? Now, now, five times for grace. Because so many people are still trying to, they're still wondering if I'm going to make it, if I'm going to be good enough. Subconsciously, even knowing the truth that I've taken all this time laying the foreground for a message, and subconsciously, many still think that it is performance-based. Whether they admit it or not. And we have to fix that. Because we want to help others. And trust me, we have beautiful buildings, and I love the church at large, the entire body of Christ, and don't want any harm to come to any of them. We are a spirit-filled, Bible-based, tongue-talking, supernatural, living body of believers. But just like in the old covenant, two and a half tribes of the nation of Israel did not go across that Jordan River with that second baptism, and they were still part of the whole. Amen. In fellowship. And we love everyone. So I'm not trying to harm anyone. But beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Hmm. See, knowing him makes us want to be like him. Amen. This is not a lecture, people. This is a buffet. Hallelujah. The more you know him, the more you want to be like him. And the Bible says, and that's important, that everything I say lines up with the Word of God. And it will. If not, I'll repent. Because that matters to me. Unlike some of the other places that, see, all the teaching here has to. All that I've preached up to now is just to try to get through some of the hard candy shell that's been placed on a lot of believers from other churches, from religion, to undo some of the wrong doctrine and things that I'm just saying, it just doesn't line up with the word of God. I love you, but come on, at least make sure it lines up with the Bible. Because God is good and good for you and only wants good for you. So when we see Jesus, we'll know him because we're going to be like him. And as he is, so are we in this world right now. Right now. Your spirit is identical to Jesus. You have the mind of Christ in your born-again spirit. All the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control you're ever going to need is full-blown, full grown, right here. All you got to do is dip down into the well and tap into it. Amen? Let it flow. Let her rip, tater chip. Hallelujah. I don't know where that came from. And the more intimate, the more, the closer you get in your relationship with him, the more you'll reflect his glory. Amen. That's the truth. Titus 2 tells us that the grace of God teaches us to live upright and godly lives. So through the divine exchange of the cross of Calvary, Jesus even gives us the power and the ability to be and to do all that he's created us and called us to. Hallelujah. Effortlessly. And not to earn his favor, but because we already have it in Christ. I know I've said that five different ways to Sunday, what's that term? But I'm trying to make it, I'm trying to beat it into our heads. Amen. Because you have to convince others of this. A lot of the problem is not that they really care to believe the things that they've been taught incorrectly, the bad doctrine. It's just that they're spiritually lazy. I love you. But you might be spiritually lazy if you don't go find out for yourself what God really said. Andrew had a dear lady that he was painting her house one time and she said, Boy, you need to come to the Baptist church. Why aren't you? He said, I was a Baptist, but they kicked me out when I got the Holy Ghost. She goes, Oh, you're talking about that talking in tongues? He said, Well, that's that's just part of it. It's like tennis shoes that tongues come with it, you know. Oh, we'd have kicked you out of my Baptist church too, she said. But he pulled out his Bible. You know, Andrew's always got a Bible. I don't know why he carries it. He doesn't need it, he knows it. It's pretty wild. But he showed her in the word. But look here, and look here, and look here, and look here, and look here. And he proved, he proved it out through the word, which is how we're supposed to do. And her answer was, if truth be known, the answer of many believers. Oh, there's a lot of stuff in there we don't believe, she said. What else do you say to that person? What else? You pray for them. That's all. Now, I have to tell you that we have to prepare daily for the fight. Because when we meditate on these things, these truths about God, that we're trying to get intimacy, we're trying to get closer, all these things I'm encouraging you. And he's saying, Come to me. Abide in the shelter, in the protection, and the love, and the presence, because that's where your provision and protection and the love and the everything that you need, you'll find because someone is out there to hurt you. Because we do have an enemy in this world. And we have to prepare for that fight daily. You know, I was just looking at this and I was smiling and talking with God. I talked, I ask all kinds of questions. I'm like that little kid that once they start asking questions, they never stop. That's how I am with the Lord. And, you know, he was talking about his armor. I'm like, you know, I was thinking about this right here. We have to stay ready, prepare daily for the fight. I'm like, well, what, I just, so you gave me your armor, so do I not sleep with it on too, you know? He said, no. I said, wait a minute, what are you trying to trick me? What is this? He says, well, what do you pray at night? Almost every night, and you've already forgotten? I will both lie down in peace and sleep because you alone, O Lord, watch over me. If you just declare that I'm there alone watching over you and protect you, then you think I need you to be suited up too. I got you. But when you get up, put it on. Put it on. All of it. Not just the helmet of salvation running around in your baby spiritual diapers. Put it all on. Hallelujah. We got to fight the good fight of faith. Amen. That's the fight. Your enemy, the devil, roams about like a roaring lion. He's not a lion, he's just a mouse with a megaphone. Hallelujah. Seeking whom he may devour. Now, what is that? You see, he has no claim on you. He has no authority over you unless you cooperate with him. And now this isn't a condemning thing because a lot of it is unknowingly. And that's what God's trying to get us out of. He says, My people are perishing for a lack of knowledge, Hosea 4.6. Lack of knowing him, of a knowing his will and his ways and everything that he's put into place for our benefit. So we must gain wisdom and understanding and grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that right? 2 Corinthians 5.17 says that we are a new creation in Christ. And I'm going to be talking more about that in the weeks to come. But there's no condemnation now for you. There's no judgment for you. See, feeling condemned, unfit for use is what keeps people from running to God and being strong in the Lord and prepared to fight the good fight of faith. The enemy doesn't want you to believe that that's your status and standing in God. He doesn't want you to know who you are and what you have, the authority and the power you wield in the name of Jesus. Jesus has already defeated him, but in this world, he still uses lies and deception to steal, kill, and destroy. Now, some of the tragedy in the world is not even the devil. A lot of it is. You know? But even more real and more powerful than those natural laws like gravity and centrifugal force and electricity and all those things. There are spiritual laws that we need to be aware of and make use of because they're there for our benefit, so that we can possess the land of promises that God has for us in this life, Joey. Isn't that right? So I'm finishing. God has put this on my heart and coming into the new year as the as the Lord permits in the weeks and the to come in the new year. Amen. So that uh so that we'll become as strong in faith as we need to be to lay hold of all that God has for us. Say, raise your hand and say, I want all that God has for me. And right now I just receive it by faith. I expect good things from God in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, God is just good. That's the message. God is good, God is good for you. You. If you belong to Jesus, most of what you really need in this life, God will bring to you. That's how good He is. That's true. You can just rest in that if you want to. That's not God's best. But it's comforting to know. I mean, just look back at the track record of faithfulness in your life. And it helps you. He's going to provide for his children. But he wants you blessed abundantly. You can call this a prosperity message. I don't care what the trolls have to say. They need to read the Bible. Now, if I'm telling you to learn how to cooperate with all God's laws of blessings and provisions so that you can hoard it all up for yourself and have every carnal thing that's going to take your, that's going to replace God in your life, then I would be wrong. But if you say, oh God, you've blessed me enough, I don't need anything else, then you are carnal. You are selfish because the Bible says you're blessed to be a blessing. So what you really need to say is, Lord, make me an amazing steward and help my wife and I to be in agreement. This is a good prayer. Talk to us together, Lord. Help it to be a fun adventure because it's hard when you're not in agreement. But you're blessed to be a blessing. So your best prayer is to just, you know, like I, you know, you pray for that person that just won that tremendous amount of money the other day in Arkansas. Pray that they are true believers in a spirit-filled, Bible-based church that understands the principles and the laws of God and so that doesn't destroy them and their family. That kind of money has destroyed more families than it's helped, believe me. But if they see it as an opportunity to be a kingdom builder, and of course, you know, the sprinkler's always going to stay wet. So, you know, he'll be blessed too. Or she, I don't know what happened, but you see what I'm saying? Imagine the impact you can make for the kingdom of God. He wants us blessed abundantly to be a blessing. Amen. But the big dreams, you know, he'll bring you what you need. But the big dreams and the things that God has put in your heart that you want and that he wants you to possess, you're going to have to go and get. You're going to have to go and fight for. The good fight of faith. The great Smith Wigglesworth, one of the generals of the faith, he said, great faith is the product of great fights. Speaking of spiritual battles, of course, our battle is not against flesh and blood. Some of the spiritual laws, just finishing up and just kind of giving you a little trying to get you excited about the coming weeks as we grow closer to the Lord and grow in our faith with the Lord. Some of the spiritual laws that we need to understand and cooperate with to lay hold of the life that God has for us. And all the promises and all the other laws hinge on the first one. Which is what? Jesus said, if you don't understand this, you won't understand any of the parables. Talking about the law of sowing and reaping. Reap what you sow. More than you sow, later than you sow. Seed time and harvest. Amen. And we believe for the thousandfold return here. Hallelujah. I can try to bear that out scripturally. I'll show you. Glory to God. Go big or go home. The second one that I'm just thinking of, these are just some of the ones. And this is fluid, so definitely gonna go there though. The second one that comes to mind, Proverbs 18, 21, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Our words are powerful. Our words are powerful. The third one from Proverbs 4.23, keep your heart with all vigilance. For from it flow the springs of life. Be careful what you allow into your heart. Be careful what you allow into your heart. Because eventually it's going to come out of your mouth, and you're going to release a spiritual law, and you're going to have what you say. And the fourth thing is about our thought life. The Bible says that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Our thought life is under our control. And see, some of you need help with that because when I said that, I heard you think, no, it isn't. I can't help what I think. I've heard that so many times. And always, it's like scratching on a chalkboard to me when I hear somebody say that. I can't help how I feel. I can't help how I think. Yes, you can. Our thoughts are under our control. And our lives are going to go the predominant way of our thinking. Yes, they are. And then the fifth thing, just to just to read the reach the number for grace, is Ephesians 3.20. Now to him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask, which is where most people stop. There's a second part to that, right? According to the power that works within us. Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us. We have power, we have authority from God, and we have a part to play in the relationship. And that's how it is with all of the spiritual laws that we have to learn to cooperate with if we want to reap the full benefit of everything that God has for us. Amen? All right. Well, I can see some of you have eaten so much at the buffet that it's making your eyes heavy. Kind of like drinking out of a fire hydrant here sometimes. I know. That's why I expect you to listen to it over and over again. Glory to God. I love you all. Gotta learn to laugh too. Laughter doth good like medicine. There's another one. Hallelujah. I love you all. And when I see you, it's going to be the new year again. So happy new year. I hope you'll take these truths into the new year with you and be reflecting on them. I love you all. If you have my my new book, and I'm not trying to, I mean, I'll give you one. I'm not trying to sell books. I'm saying, I really think it's an awesome thing. I ought to get you to give a testimony. Once you get through it, we'll do that. How's that? He's on day 21. But anything we can do to accommodate the message here today, to get through our. I say the hard candy shell. I keep just wanting to be silly. I don't know. But from our from our heads to our heart, we need to get the truth that when Jesus, when God looks at you, he sees Jesus if you have, if you're in Christ. And that's, I mean, it's hard to say. So you have to look in the mirror and say, look who Jesus loved. Look at the disciple whom Jesus loved. Until it just is the truth. God is good, and you need to expect good things. He only wants good for you. And this is going to be a great year. Because we're going to draw closer and closer and closer, and we're going to strengthen our faith muscles, and we're going to grow in our identity and our confidence in God, which brings humility, you see? Because to be to dwell in his presence, we have to go lower and lower. Humility is required, you see. You can't, you he's not present when your nose is in the air. Hallelujah. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the coming weeks. I love all of you. Next week, bring everybody you know. We have a couple chairs left here. Pray for those who couldn't be here and wanted to be here. Pray for all of our church family online. It's growing. This is an interesting, an interesting thing that's going on with this church and ministry. And I just feel it. We're right there. I just feel the it's just. I had a prophecy spoken over me some years ago in a in a in a in a in a man that a man of God that is just uh and and I just had some more this week. Uh and they all point to the same thing. And so I uh I just feel like this is a season where that that gusher is just about to blow.

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Hallelujah. These hands intend to heal thousands and bring thousands upon thousands into the kingdom of God with us. Not that I'm doing it. I'm like Peter and John. Don't look at me like I healed you. Don't look at me like I saved you. The Lord Jesus heals you. Amen. But hey, I'm just a willing vessel. And I know all of you are too. We're gonna grow in that. Amen. When we get to heaven, there are gonna be so many people there looking forward to speaking to us about the seed that we sowed that helped them to get there. Amen. Isn't that gonna be awesome? Won't that be fun? Eternity is a long time, folks. So toward that. It's gonna be awesome. I love you all. God bless you. And I'll see you in 2026. Heavenly Father, thank you for so much for this day. We thank you for every day that you give us, for every year that you have given us and the year to come. Lord, we just thank you for the gift of your son Jesus Christ. And we thank you for his amazing love and his completed work through the cross of Calvary and His resurrection and enthronement, and that He's seated right next to you saying, Go ahead and give it to them, Father. They're mine. Bless them, Father. They're mine. That one's one of mine. I love him. Draw that one to me, Father. Help them, Holy Spirit. Oh, it's wonderful. Oh Father, I see the river flowing from the throne. Hallelujah. I see it. Oh, so crystal clear. Hallelujah. Help us to all drink of this living water, Lord, and help others to do the same. Oh, Lord, I see all of us just running around, picking the leaves off of the trees on each side of the river and just feeding them to all the people who come hungry for you, Lord. Oh my goodness, for the healing of the nations. Oh, bless you, Lord. Oh, bless you, Lord. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name. Help us all to be kingdom builders, Lord. Help everyone who hears this message, Lord, if they don't know you, help them to say this prayer. I have come to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He came and died for my sins on the cross. That he was buried and on the third day he was raised from the dead and he lives today. And he's seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven. Jesus, I ask you to be my Lord and Savior. Hallelujah. Amen. If you said that prayer, we believe you've entered into the kingdom of God and that you are now a born-again believer and child of God. Now just begin to ask him to fill you with his Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And thank him. Just begin to thank him for that. In Jesus' name. We love you all. I look forward to hearing from anyone and everyone who would like to speak to me or has a testimony from somewhere else in the world or anyone who hears this message anywhere else. Love all of you that are here. I'm going to be here as long as you need to pray and to visit with you. God bless you and happy new year. Amen.