Start here, Start now (A fresh start)

Morning everybody. You looking good today.

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I got to see and your hair. I'm going to point. Do I knew if you got any questions about the next thing I'm about to slay? All Scania 2025 is a special year. I asked a question last week and some of you may not have seen it on WhatsApp. What was special about the number 2025? One answer would be 1 + 229 squared equals 2025. Also 1 cubed + 2 cubed all the way out to 9 also equals 2025 - 2026. So why am I bothering to give you all these mathematics? If you got any questions about mathematics, Alex, gonya, she's got a great degree mask for a special. Yeah, it's a special. Yeah, it's a precious year. Start by saying a fresh start to happen because it's a new year. A French that you can have a fresh start this week. You don't have to beat yourself up and say I didn't do it lost in some of you will think about going to the gym. The gym loves to work in the gym. You say it lost about three months for many, many people, but it makes got good chunk of money out of it. But my point is this, let's not just stop because you said you yet, I stopped because we need to stop. If we need to restart, we need to reboot. How many people have caught a computer, or use the computer? Okay, lots of people want to tighten up to the technology department to say, what do you go to problem? What's the first thing when you wring out the help desk? What's the first thing? They say? It's a very, very simple thing is basically, clear out everything that was in it and start again. I don't want to say that to us, judge, let's just clear the rubbish, out 43:19, what we focused on last week and irrational, fasting diet? It remind us to go back to 17. We said, forget the former things, forget the former things, that's one of the things we need to do when we make a restart, forget the things that note that matter anymore, leave them behind them up. Some of you have spent this week, packing up, my Christmas decorations and putting them away. You won't see them again for 12 months. Some of you is saying hallelujah because he's all that dust and everything else, but just fresh. But stop now. Whenever now he's for you now, he's now Are white 10 seconds. Now, he's now it just keeps on moving. So now moves I'm so I want to mix in the whole bunch of things. I want to share a whole bunch of things, but let me start with 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians chapter. 2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is, or he or she is a new creation. Old things are passed away, all things have become new. Some things have become new. All things have become new, 1041 in Christ, he is a New Creation Church, you are a new creation as Believers in Christ you're in. And you can, if you don't know what that means, then come and talk to me off to it. What it means to put our trust in Christ and say he's my site, that he paid the price for me on the cross of Calvary, I'm baffled. As I put my trust in him. The old things, the old man, the old woman as being left behind. And I step into a new clothing, a new dress, like Walk The Friendly, I dress differently because the old things are passed and the new things have come.

But it goes on to say this, but you keep your head in all situations.

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But you keep your head in all situations.

Enjoy your trip through the work of an evangelist instructions, from Paul, to Timothy discharge the duties of your ministry. I don't know what your ministry is, but whatever it is, do it with passion. Do it a little more. Yo, you will feel more satisfied if you step into the clothes that you're meant to be wearing, if you aren't Evangeline's talk to someone about Jesus. If you have someone who said something to someone different, if you're someone who's been cool to Mike Finance for the kingdom, keep on making some fun at to keep on giving it away to know what, my definition of a millionaire. He's not someone who's on.

Giving away a million times but do the juices that we charge to do. So what happened to get these that you have used it won't go Rusty, it'll get Dusty, it'll stay in the room. So let me talk as I talked a little bit about money. That let me just jump to her account. See some more slides. What's happened? okay, I'm Thank you. If you didn't hear that coming from the front side, open on the game was the encouragement that the budget one?

So I must be stepping to 2025 one of the things that I want to do is just to encourage us that God has been teasing difficulties with intelligence and we had to present but we lost weight unintentionally we ended up being back of Virginia Lodge miscommunication. The college hadn't expected us with all. We end up back in Virginia look. Do you know what? If you don't mean that as well? And that would be since last week even though it is kind of still would not have fit it in last week if you double turn up and so that's why we have to move next week. We will put more chairs out next week. We got a fantastic Voice. Italy to go. Wale adenuga what is the new car? He's a good friend of mine is a better friend to shut off your Nike. We some of you know and I appreciate it later is a fantastic way. She was going to come live worship. Preach. Just just look up volume and you will find in that there are literally hundreds of songs that he's written. He's on the hose, on a label if you like, but he's going to be coming and we will put as many tries out as we can get into the room safely, to be honest. Cuz that will be visitors. I'm sure that's just an example of how do you think we're going to start a quick and people in teams to do stuff? We're going to stop pressing into being the church to go. To court has to be, but I lost my kind of lost your broccoli rabe to our Treasurer Judy's. Our bookkeeper, we're awfully turned over in the calendar year, just under forty five thousand pounds. I'm believing that we need to be setting a budget for about sixty-five thousand pounds for this calendar year. That's a stretch that suffice thing. But you know what? If we feel these things we will have to do other things. We will need an alpha course or something. And you believe, this course will probably need different ways of doing food in Polish.

Is an example in scripture, feeding 5000, before we can do it again. Thank you, rob. Somebody else agree with me. That we can see miracles. I'm in a training and equipping people, we will train and equip people, we will go away and do things together. That it's a lifeless UK conference in April, with the ladies are going away later, in the year, there's a half a that doing with v bird from Canada. In May, the men will be going to wait a minute. Got to got to do something social as well like during the summer, but there's a whole bunch of things that we will be doing. So that's just to give you a bit of a stretch to it and some things to think about. So what do I mean by being part about CF? Well, I believe we will grow in the room but little so grow outside the room online. Bible studies have people that you have never met a man. I have never met physically. Those are who came. So so he's bought the ladies group in South Africa. She's being spiteful. You on the Bible study very, very regularly. They having a husband that's kind of the summer, great to see them, but they used to live in Scotland. Now, they live in South Africa, you know, we will grow not just in the room. We will grow is an online church, and I am fascinated by a couple of things that go to lines up. So, let me give you an example less. He was down to MC that the Sunday before Christmas, or something. We planned months ago, 7 months and we had a student who graduated that way from Peru, from Peru and he brought his whole family, His whole family. Many of them couldn't speak English translated into Spanish for them. How could we have planned that? We didn't you? And yeah, we now blog on all services, weep sorry. Weekly blog in English Spanish, Tamil Hindu Persian I'm supposed to do and want to go to my pin day and he's an interesting things than you security guard. Of this building will be looking after us. At each week is for Lincoln. I'm going to send him a message, just sending the blood each week and just so you know, whether we reach it in time of Yo Gotti daughter and dozing, lots of very creative and amazing ways. So where we going to start and what are we going to do? You want to give me the next description, my car cuz I can't see anything on my phone. So,

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Timothy wrote this. I have a fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Do you know how many people like doing exercise? A few people. Okay, I'm told you feel better at the end and the beginning. Something about endorphins, analyze things, flying through about a I'm making you feel like that is good, that's why I'm so significant.

Doing things together as much as Bible Church. I want encourages oil to get into the habit of doing things together. Let me give you an example. That's why you had it in your heart to gun. Knock on someone's door. Let me know in advance to say hi and Poppy, man. Why not take somebody with you and be a blessing? You can talk on the way if you're working. You don't get the car if you driving Do you know if we do it together? He's so, so, so, so, so much easier.

And pull, right? These I have finished the good one. Good fight. I have finished the rice. It's good to finish. It's good to finish well, as well.

Why is it good to finish as you guys don't decide. Now that was a store for me, the crown of righteousness which is the Lord, the righteous judge which will award to me on that day. And not only me but also to all who have longed for his appearing We know Christ, we looking for his return, if we're excited about his return, the eyes are probably ready? Are you ready for someone? Need to come and sit next to you. Turning a great example to be warmer to sit next to somebody. That's true. You will get some of the radiant heat coming from that body. So why do we say? It's an interesting question. Don't just judge Abingdon cinemall of the actors that were captains and business makes things happen to love the place. Why do we fill out the back seats first? Yep. Could be could be right could be sinus.

Yes, absolutely. But I think about the people who turn out light, always flustered, because maybe they got stuck in traffic, will I got lost or whatever. So, if we try, not like, we want to make it feel as easy as falling asleep in the back. Seat down on the seat. So let me encourage you regulars. Please move forward to seats further forward than you normally sitting just doesn't care. He's going to ask you to sit in the front.

Well, okay, if we run it, right? So we finished about sometimes, we don't finish what I might want to look at that. And I want to look at what the Bible says about that. What we read that we were told you were running a good writer who counting on you to keep you from obeying the truth. What you doing? What you should have stopped, you finishing the rice.

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I don't know why what's wrong with it, but you know what? She was going to finish the rice, she was going to finish the rice and she wanted to finish. Well, you're sometimes, there are things that happened on expect you to, because I'm going to give up Sometimes that's a moment for a fresh start. It's not the it's not the way restarting their rights but we all restarting in here but no I know I'm choosing to go on. Okay I haven't got enough energy but God's going to give me more. I haven't got enough fun and she's in my bank to make this but I'm believing cuz God said, then I'm going to press into that. I'm going to make that step.

You heard me tell stories before now but one story that I still will instinctively remember it would be very different for me to die. Imagine but when I was a student at University of East Anglia used to go to different churches and I found a check to settle into and I went on Sunday morning and asked him to the offering time. I felt the Lord Sai Put a good offering until I am not what I said, I put my hand in my pocket and one pocket and took out the money that I had in that pocket. And I felt the father guide

set for the rest of my bus pass to get home again.

And I just felt like just not necessary for you. I'm just trying to see what happened. I emptied my pockets, that. It wasn't a large amount of money, but it wasn't my best offer. And then when he went, I went okay with the microphone but 5 times 5 times. Now, you might think I'm crazy. So cold walk home cuz it was February time. I remember it was cold like a nice today. and I, Is the thing off to check the gentleman came up to me and said, would you like to come back to our house for lunch? So, I went back to the house for lunch. I will send it this dude. You never say no to free. Lunch to sew it. Back to the house for lunch lunch.

I didn't have to work. You know what I really do wonder. I don't know, but I really do wonder whether if I hadn't have emptied my pockets, whether he would have asked me about for lunch. I don't know why they're going to like that. But what I'm saying is, I just know that I gave all that. I had in that moment. My head.

I'm in when I went. Okay, yeah, I can work. So, the whole lot when it's just a simple thing, it's a free fresher than mine start. Now. Again start fresh. So what kind of thing is cuffing on you without doubt cups in a fight with men and women to fight that will come to know? So regular basis to pick another John 10:10. I think it's in the sliced feather on John 10:10, says the enemy comes only to steal kill and destroy. Now, I love this picture but not because of the first part. You might put you purposely type, you posted this policy many times, but I see if you read the second part but I have come that you might have life and have it to the fool. All kinds of knowledge is the enemy says, yes, he loves to mess our lives. He loves to trip us up. We left the closest to not finish, all right? But Christ has come that we might have life and have it to the full. Anybody Wonderful Life. Oh, and some people didn't. Okay, maybe your hands were stuck in your pocket. Have life and have it to the fool.

so, I'm going to keep this. So what do I mean? When I talk about calling, I'll see you at home, whether it's online or face-to-face. First places, you love us, you love us and you want to be with us in some way or another. Maybe you can only come once a month, you love us, but you still want to be their number to you want to pray, you know, a Christian should pray a Christian should pray, because we're in touch with the most powerful being in the universe. And he wants to talk to us and he wants us to talk to him and press how we do that. You're sometimes Google speak back to you. Sometimes it was ugly sometimes to somebody else, sometimes it just a dream but a couple speak back to you now and I honestly believe the more, we talk to him, the more he'll talk to us.

T-Pain to someone. He knows everything. Anyway, why do I? Why do I need to tell him anything? Well it just wants us to acknowledge what's important to us, he knows everything. So what's important to you, who is it? You want to pray for today. We will bring different people and circumstances in different situations to him. So we love this place, we want to pray, we want to give financially in some time and we want to serve and that's true for those people online and I'll see if we have people around the world now who are the hours at church? And some of those people help us. We stop online. We have a guy in New York, who helps us with them? Know, I was just a simple thing, like them know, it's 8 something on the computer, a good picture on a computer, but tell me to help says we that I need a thousand on a regular basis.

So when I start talk about Staffing, now I want to let me finish love us, pray, give serve the full thing, that's really how we can, and you can do that with you physically here, whether you're regularly have or whether you're joining us online.

So to stop is to start. Now I'm so let's go back to our scripture for the year.

Isaiah chapter 43. Think it begins at 17818 Siam. Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to the things of old look. I am about to do something new, even now if he's coming, do you not see it in the, I will make your way in the wilderness on the rivers in the desert. What a kind of drool my words to a conclusion to die by just encouraging you to paint some pictures with God's. I'm going to close our eyes. I saw people joining us online from Turkey, Norway Egypt, Germany, South Africa, some of the countries, and I'll reach he's getting bigger church. So please get used to multinational connections. I just wanted to ask you to close your eyes. I don't want till you imagine a Barren place. If you want to make a desert that's fine, if you just want to make it, there's nothing growing that going to make it to thunder and it's very snowy.

And then I want you to imagine how we could change. How it could change? What would burst forth will be the first Plum? It appears, what would be the first thing that you see? Will be the first sign of growth? Moby. The green shoots it. So water has landed seeds of that.

Seats are amazing things. She's carry the DNA of the full design. Not just how they going to stop, but how they going to finish the defective seed will produce a defective plum?

I'm so, when we see seeds in the ground, and I know this to be prophetically true, there are many, many, many people listening online and those in the room who have see prophetic seeds, the album sewn in your life, but I'm not yet been imported, and it's not because it is it's about time they come.

And I will be a springing forth, an expensive, springing forth that will results. In streams in the desert.

Swing Thai Chi now, to take that image and think about a place in your world. A place in your situation place in your ministry, a place in your family. Why you see a little bit of desert? You look at it and go, this could do with Voltaren. We could do with a clear pathway through it pops in the wilderness.

That's what I'm going to pray for. I'm going to pray for that right now. So even matching some way and you'll situation, they might be working. Might be a friend, might be family situation. Might be your own personal. Life might be that you've done some things wrong. I have a Christmas that you don't proud of and you don't know what to do about it. You know what? Return to Christ turn again, that's what repentance means to turn again to turn away from the wrongdoing. And look back to Christ. Don't forgive us. If we repent.

So, if you want to see fruitfulness in our lives, let's turn back to go. Let's lift our eyes up. And look, let's pray for the rain to come. Let's pray for the rain to fool, and let's look for the signs of Revival. Let's look for the signs of new fruitfulness. Let's look for the new signs of a new start. So let me pray.

I should not. Let me make you pass on looking to see what it is, but if you have a picture in your heart right now, you'll bring you before the little, but you stand. Would you stand, it is a picture that you as a place of desert is a place of no fruitfulness. It's something that you just want to bring back before a little inside. Look at this.

Some people just want to die. Not include you. How you may as well just want to stand by your side? Lord made a bit of a mess here is wrong. I need some help. Lord, forgive me. Anybody else want to stand, then I'm going to pry.

All the, thank you that you created us to be visual people. Father, give us fresh dreams for the days ahead. Father, I pray for those parts of our lives that are not what they should be other than not submitted to you then help with the time again. Father, if we've stepped away from the path and Lord, let your light shine Andrews back to your papa and let us get back on track. I'll order those things that we can do nothing about no. We want to bring it to the foot of the cross and say hi. Will have your why do what you need to do? Little to complete this. We pray in Jesus name and so fatherly, Pride fuel light to shine. Your brain. To come on your spirit to be released into these circumstances and situations in Jesus mighty name. I meant. So what do I mean? French thought that you can sit down again. Thank you everybody who stood in for those who you can sit down as well.