1/12/25 Change Your Focus: God’s Doing A New Thing
Scripture: Isaiah 43:18-19
Preacher: Elder Randy Jackson, Sr.
- 2025 Theme: New Beginnings to Thrive in 2025!
- Our year ended with New Self Love. The love and intimacy in my single most important relationship with God
- Nothing supersedes my love and relationship with God
- New Self Honest: The honesty and truthfulness with the Holy Spirit in my single most important relationship with God
- New self-honesty is the key to new beginnings and how to thrive in 2025
- If you can’t self evaluate and self critique you are incapable of change and your incapable of growth
- Who is a self aware person?
- A person who has honest conversations with themselves so that no on one else has to
- Forget the former thing and do not dwell on the pass. For God is doing a new thing!
- New Vision! New Beginnings! New Thing!
- Step 1: God wants us to embrace the new things He wants to do in our lives, we need to change our focus by using New Self Honesty.
- Quit looking behind and start looking ahead.
- You can not depend on past victories to sustain
- God’s commandments are not suggestions
- You cannot live on yesterday’s faith or last years.
- Step 2: Clarify our focus. Discover what it is that God wants for us
- What do you see when you look at your life?
- Do you see problems or possibilities?
- Romans 8:1-2
- We need to see our possibilities the way God sees them
- The final step is the be committed to God’s plan and process
- Do you want what God is offering you today?
- Are you willing to accept God’s plan and process?