New Year,new building Same Mission

Pierce hearts with the love and truth of Jesus.

HOW: SEEK GOD, SERVE OTHERS, LOVE EVERYONE

IM TIRED

last week; not in it emotionally---my cupeth wasn’t running over....was running dryeth!---MICROCOSM

THIS WEEK different---im in it!! SEASONS OF LIFE THATS HOW IT GOES

I DON’T NEED A PERFECT 2026--

I NEED THE SAME FAITHFUL GOD WHO WALKED WITH ME IN 2025

IMPORTANT THAT WE LOOK BACK AND REMEMBER WHAT GOD HAS DONE!!

2025 SPECTACULAR YEAR;

DOZENS COME TO FAITH

50 BAPTISMS

HUNDREDS OF GOSPEL ENCOUNTERS OUTSIDE THESE WALLS

WE SPENT THOUSANDS ON PEOPLE OUTSIDE THESE WALLS CLOSE TO 20K IN DECEMBER ALONE!!!!

WE’VE FED HUNDREDS, WE’VE KEPT LIGHTS ON, WATER RUNNING, WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO BE THE YES TO HUNDREDS OF PRAYERS IN OUR COMMUNITY

ALL WHILE TRANSITIONING THROUGH 3 DIFFERENT BUILDINGS!!!

SPEARHEAD’S 2025 IS KIND OF A MICROCOSM OF THE BIBLE, OF WHAT GOD DOES, THORUGH THE WAITING AND WONDERING/WANDERING…AND IN PARTICULAR I WANTED TO LOOK AT OUR YEAR WITHIN THE BACKDROP OF THE FAMOUS STORY OF THE ISRAELITES FLEEING EGYPTION OPPRESSION AND MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE PROMISE LAND.

WHILE I AM COMPARING US TO THIS STORY LET’S BE REAL----WANDERING THROUGH PUL COUNTY IS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN DESERTS and wilderness OF sinai peninsula

but let’s also be real: might not have had the egyptian army with swords and chariots chasing

powerful enemy:

1 Peter 5:8 ESV

8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

LET today serve as a reminder of what god has done, a reflection of our history here as Spearhead church, and a warning---of how to handle the blessings of God!!!

NEVER BEEN ABOUT A BUILDING, AND IT WON’T BE.

BUT IT SURE IS NICE TO HAVE A PLACE YOU CAN CALL HOME!!!

blessing can be a burden: but if you carry with the Lord’s strength and wisdom.....it’s a beautiful thing!!

glance through this story.......GLANCE: important, don’t get stuck my boys and old pics!!

10 PLAGUES: EXODUS 7-11 . PHAROAH PHAROAH WHOAAAA, LET MY PEOPLE GO!

EXCITING, BROKE FREE---NEW CHAPTER

FREE; exciting; new land, new adventure---miracle; our lives are completely changed

RICH 12:36 egyptians favorably disposed towards israelites gave them gold/silver

FOR US last year: stm 4th building, 3rd borrowed church; saw an opportunity for freedom!!! STONEBROOKE CENTER opportunity

EXPENSIVE opportunity---------GOT IN THERE!!! AMAZING AND TERRIFYING

SEEMED LIKE JACKPOT, BUT ALSO TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE....and it was....throughout this time lot of talking, negotiating, buying building and daycare, all sorts of possibities.....ultimately way too much $$$ that we couldn’t afford and someone else could!!

LESS than 2 months of being in there, got our 30 day notice: another church. Easter will be our last service

1 John 5:14 ESV

14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

WE DON’T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER WILL BE BUT

THE ANSWER ALWAYS BEGINS WITH PRAYER

new life example

the isrealites got there freedom and then god was strategic in their path

Exodus 13:17–18 (ESV)

17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” 18 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.

God knew what they could handle

for us....GOD knew we can’t go back to stm, we had doubled in size.....he knew what would break us

before our last service at stonebrooke Godd already had this spot lined up for us

MOSES WORDS TO JOSHUA AS HE TOOK COMMAND

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV

8 It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

REMEMBER THIS PROMISE IN 2026

so GOD purposefully led them to the Red Sea, Pharoah heart hardened toward them and he decided to chase them down, so his army in coming

Exodus 14:10–14 NIV

-08126 10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” 13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

BEFORE WE EVEN GOT IN HERE WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE FUTRE

camp: temporary but not permanent, WHERE ARE WE GOING GOD, are we building brand new or finding something else

talking to bank, leadership, realtors, contractors the retroplex seemed to be the answer IN FEB.....HOLD UPS WAS ROOF…INSURANCE CLAIM

SUNDAY AUG 3 LAST COMMUNICATION WITH SON

Exodus 14:14 NIV

14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

DOESN’T MEAN DO NOTHING. YOUR PRAYING. YOUR WAITING. YOU’VE PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD AND YOUR CONTENT WITH THE LORDS WILL TO BE DONE!!!

2 MONTHS GO BY .......SEPT 30 I SEE ROOFERS WORKING

OCT. 28 OFFICIALLY UNDER CONTRACT AND HOPING TO CLOSE THIS YEAR dEC 28 ......DEC 18

Exodus 14:29–31 (ESV)

29 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

31 Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE.

Deuteronomy 1:29–35 (ESV)

29 Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. 30 The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

32 Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God, 33 who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

34 “And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, 35 ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,

LET US NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE THINGS WE PRAYED FOR!!!

I DON’T NEED A PERFECT 2026--

I NEED THE SAME FAITHFUL GOD WHO WALKED WITH ME IN 2025