And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2: 10 KJV
Luke 2: 10 -13
We are all hoping for a better 2020,
much better than 2019, and I pray that by the sound of the numbers 2020, it
will be a year of perfect vision. It will be a year of rounded blessings. It
will be a year of accelerated speed. It will be a year of great increase in the
name of Jesus Christ. 2019 was a very strange year. A year that even the Queen
of England said was a little bit bumpy. And what was a little bit irritating or
annoying to me was that towards the end of the year, it tends to claim a lot of
people, most of them very young, under the age of 40. Somehow, the year swept a
few people away. I want to decree and declare that 2019 has done its worst,
2020 will be a year of compensation, a year of encouragement, a year when God
will wipe away our tears, a year where God will recover you, a year where God
will restore you, a year where God will lift you up, a year where God will say
I’m proud of you. Everybody that has shed tears in the year 2019, the Lord will
wipe away your tears himself. Everybody that has lost someone or something in
the year 2019, the Lord will encourage you. The Lord will put his hands into
the eyes of the devil and he will pluck the eyes out and he will rescue our
children and it shall be well with us.
A lot of people come to Church on the
last day of the year. Some have not been in Church in a long time. Some are
coming maybe for the first time. Let me tell you, let this not be your last
time in Church. It is not what you do once, but what you do consistently over
time that causes your change. Today, God will bring you a new change. Some of
us are in church thinking – ‘if I start
my year with prayer, maybe God will answer my prayers. Church is a holy place.
It’s a place of protection. If I start in church, I am protected for the rest
of the year.’
It’s best to start on a right footing.
It’s not how you start but how you end that is important. There is no point
starting in church and not continuing in Church and in fellowship with the Holy
Spirit. There is no point starting well, and then abandoning the cause midway
or midyear. There is no point starting in church only to go back to your old
ways; worldly music, champagne, alcohol, fornication, adultery, lying,
wickedness. If you go back to your old ways, nothing will change. If you go
back to your old ways, the old ways will stay with you. It’s not the once-in-a-year
visit to church that makes a transformation. It’s a consistent fellowship with
God and fellowship with the people of God that brings a steady change.
We have said so much about the dangers
of sin, the dangers of wrong thinking. A lot of people think sin is an offence
to God but the real meaning of sin is doing something that will damage your own
life. That is what sin is. Not necessarily an offence to God. So a lot of us
say, well God doesn’t mind a little bit of sin. It has nothing to do with God
but it has everything to do with you. Sin is something that damages your own
life. And because you don’t see the damage immediately does not mean that the
damage has not been done. My prayer is that God will help us in the year 2020. God
will stand by us in the year 2020. God will make this year a wonderful year.
God will make this New Year a delightsome year. God will make this year an
extraordinary year and God will make it a happy new year.
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