The bridge to your next
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 1/4/2024Proverbs 28:26
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages believers to cross the bridge into their next season by trading self-reliance for Godly wisdom and faith. Using Proverbs 28:26, he warns against the trap of human reasoning and exhorts the congregation to use their spiritual authority to overcome the enemy's intimidation and claim God's abundant promises.
Key points
- •Relying solely on one's own intellect or 'flesh' is a spiritual trap; true progress requires divine wisdom from God's Word.
- •Life transitions, symbolized by a bridge, require a Bridge of Faith to move from past failures or brokenness to future wholeness and prosperity.
- •The adversary (the devil) prows around seeking to intimidate believers, often attacking at the 'midway point' of a journey when they are most vulnerable or exhausted.
- •God has empowered believers through the Holy Spirit to 'shut down' the enemy's plans and speak life into their future.
- •God's promises and spoken words over a person's life cannot be nullified by the enemy; they remain available through faith and obedience.
Scripture
Wisdom
Faith
Spiritual Warfare
Purpose
Stewardship
Life application
This week, identify one area where you have been relying on your own understanding rather than seeking God's wisdom. Commit to reading Scripture related to that topic daily and ask the Holy Spirit for specific direction before making any decisions.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of your life during the past year did you feel like you were 'trusting in your own mind' rather than walking in wisdom?
- What 'sounds' of intimidation or fear has the enemy been using to try to get you to turn back from your progress?
- Are you currently at a 'midway point' where you feel tempted to quit? How can the truth that 'it is the same distance to go forward as to go back' encourage you to keep going?
- What specific plans of the enemy do you need to 'shut down' in your life today using the authority given to you by Christ?
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Full transcript
0:01you and I are literally stepping
0:06off or stepping onto a bridge I should
0:09say that is connecting us from 2023 into
0:162024 so please allow me to talk to you
0:20about the bridge to your
0:23next the
0:25bridge to your
0:28next you see life involves waking up
0:32each day and making choices that align
0:36with pleasing God and building the life
0:40he has desired for
0:42you that's really what life is all
0:45about it's getting up every single day
0:50making the effort to align yourself up
0:54to the will of God that's the
0:58goal that's the purpose for for our
1:00faith is how do we get in alignment with
1:05God's word not trying to be the most
1:08holy and righteous person on the
1:12planet not trying to be the judge of
1:15other people's
1:17sin not trying to see how much we can
1:20get from God but simply to be in
1:23alignment with his
1:26word and in order for us to do that we
1:29must rely on God to give us the wisdom
1:34to do
1:36so how do we get from one place in our
1:41lives to the next it's wisdom we have to
1:44we have to ask God for
1:47wisdom how do we get from our teenage
1:51years if you will to adulthood into our
1:54senior years how do we navigate through
1:57all of that takes the wisdom of God how
2:02do we deal with our relationships for
2:05those of you are single and you're
2:07dating how do you navigate through the
2:10dating pool today how do you really
2:13discover if that person is really for
2:15you and and so forth how do you find the
2:19knowledge to deal with your marriage
2:21when the enem is attacking so many
2:25relationships how do you navigate
2:27through
2:28that how do you deal with your
2:31education making sure that your mind is
2:34at the right place so that you can study
2:37and pass your exam and ultimately
2:40graduate how do you navigate through
2:43life with your
2:44finances handling your finances to make
2:48sure that you uh be the best you can at
2:52at managing your
2:55money so in order for us to do all those
2:58things we need the wisdom of
3:00God not our
3:03flesh cuz that's what the enemy wants he
3:06wants us to use our flesh our own
3:08intellect to try to figure out how we're
3:11going to successfully navigate through
3:15life I want you to look at Proverbs 28
3:19verse 26 one verse it sums it up it's
3:23straightforward it says whoever trust in
3:26his own mind is a
3:28fool but He Who Walks In wisdom will be
3:32what
3:35delivered the book of wisdom is telling
3:38us here whoever trust in his own mind in
3:42his own
3:44thinking whoever believes that you know
3:47what in order for me to be successful in
3:50order for me to be good at what I
3:54do I just figure it out on my
3:58own the way I run my business let me
4:01just follow what I believe and what I
4:05think the way I'm going to find a
4:08partner in life or the way I'm going to
4:10stay together with my spouse or the way
4:12I'm going to raise my children or the
4:15way I am going to navigate my spiritual
4:18life I'm going to do it on my own the
4:21Bible says that person is a
4:24fool it is when you make the decision
4:28well I you know I I just I'm going to
4:30figure out God on my own I don't need
4:33nobody else I don't need a pastor I
4:35don't need a church I don't need uh the
4:38community of Believers to grow I don't
4:41need to go to those places because after
4:45all all these church people are
4:49hypocrites so I don't need to go to
4:51church I can do my own thing I can be my
4:55own man I can worship God at my house
5:00I can create my own Facebook platform
5:02and Facebook
5:04church so that's how I'm going to grow I
5:08really don't need anybody to talk to me
5:10about my
5:11money it's my money I'm very private I
5:15earn it so I must spend it the way I
5:19want to spend it I don't need a
5:21counselor I don't need an advisor I
5:23don't need anybody to tutor me on how to
5:27manage what God has entrusted me
5:31with well the Bible says whosoever trust
5:34in his own it didn't say in the wisdom
5:38of God a
5:40man because the Bible also says safety
5:43is in the counil of
5:48many be careful when you isolate
5:51yourself and build walls around you and
5:55say nobody can talk to me and tell me me
6:01anything I am my own man and I am my own
6:06woman be very
6:08careful sir that's the
6:11downfall of your
6:14life it is when you
6:16think that you are the
6:20greatest and nobody can counsel you the
6:24Bible says when you trust in your own
6:27thinking you're a fool
6:30but if you walk in wisdom you get
6:32delivered delivered from what the traps
6:35of the
6:37enemy oh he's got traps for
6:40you he has traps for you in your
6:44finances oh listen do you think he wants
6:48you prosperous and
6:51blessed do you think the enemy of your
6:53soul once at the end of every year you
6:57can show what you you have done with
7:00your
7:01resources that you don't live in a
7:03system that is designed to take every
7:07penny from you and you not
7:11save you not being able to leave an
7:14inheritance for your children's
7:17children that as a man your
7:20responsibility is to make sure you leave
7:23an inheritance for your children so what
7:26the enemy will do is to let you stay in
7:28your own mind mind and stay on one side
7:31of life saying this is my money this is
7:35how I spend it I don't I don't need
7:37anybody to discipline me and to tell me
7:40how I need to use my resources how I
7:43need to have a budget I I how I need to
7:47really structure my life so after 12
7:50months I can say well I paid my bills at
7:54least I took my family on vacation I
7:57took care of my children and I inv
7:59invest something for the
8:03future so I get delivered from the trap
8:07of
8:08society that wants me to spend out of
8:13control let's be honest there's a lot of
8:16guys in this room you're wonderful
8:18you're really nice guy man you're
8:21sincere you even got your clothes all
8:26coordinated amen you are a handsome guy
8:31there's no doubt about
8:34it what do you have to show for 12
8:39months let's reason
8:42together
8:44sh I don't need you to tell me because
8:46that's none of my business but based on
8:49the Holy Spirit speaking
8:51now look how much God put into your
8:56hands these last 12 months
9:03let's give an account for it sir where
9:06is
9:08it where is
9:10it so you mean to tell me like in the
9:14Bible the scripture says it was an asike
9:20principle the talents that were
9:24given talents were given for people to
9:27trade with it and to give an
9:30account two people came and said hey you
9:34blessed me I traded and I multiply it
9:39but there was
9:41one who the Bible says took his talent
9:45his resources it was
9:47money and dug a hole in it in the ground
9:51if you will and buried his talent and
9:53when the master came to ask him what
9:56have you done with what I have entrusted
9:59you with he got in an
10:02attitude and says you're
10:06unreasonable how dare you asking me for
10:10what I've done with my talent when you
10:13only gave me
10:17one it's kind of like some of you guys
10:21sitting in this room now some of you
10:24streaming that's your attitude how dare
10:27you Pastor coming to question me about
10:31my money it's my money what have you
10:35done with
10:37it have you purchased a
10:40home have you paid some debts
10:44off what have you done with it think
10:47about
10:49that
10:52whosoever depends on his own
10:55wisdom won't be
10:58delivered from the traps of the
11:02enemy where has it gotten you as a
11:05fellow as a man in your love
11:09life your own wisdom your group of men
11:14has indoctrinating you and what a man
11:17ought to be and how a man ought to man
11:20up and be who he's supposed to be where
11:24has that gotten you have you consulted
11:28the word of God to find out what a man
11:32should be and not what Society wants you
11:36to
11:38be let me go to the ladies for just a
11:40moment I won't spend a lot of time on
11:42you because there's a lot of you in here
11:44and I don't want you to get mad with
11:46me and start throwing shoes at
11:51me let's read the scripture again cuz
11:54something is bubbling up in me whoever
11:57trust in his own mind is a fool but He
12:01Who Walks In wisdom walks in wisdom will
12:06be delivered from the traps of the enemy
12:11ladies where have you gotten and how far
12:15have you gotten I should
12:17say with your own thoughts that are
12:21outside of the word of God all the
12:24resources that God has given you what
12:26have you done with it
12:30let's be reasonable about
12:32it and I know in a few hours your New
12:35Year's resolution is going to be God get
12:38me out of debt 2024 is the year for me
12:41to get out of debt it is my breakthrough
12:44year of finances and I'm going to do
12:47this and I'm going to do that and I'm
12:49going to that's what you said last
12:55December and then the question is since
12:57last December you prayed you have to ask
13:01yourself the question did God
13:05provide did God provide the truth is he
13:09did could it be that
13:11you are a poor
13:16manager of the resources he gave
13:20you because perhaps you lived all 12
13:24months fixing the ex
13:27external yes and not the
13:36internal I wonder if we're going to live
13:402024 as the first part of the
13:43verse or the second part of the verse
13:46cuz Deliverance is possible you can be
13:50delivered the verse says but He Who
13:52Walks In wisdom the only way you can
13:55have Deliverance is when you walk in
13:57wisdom the only way you can break the
13:59cycle the only way you can break
14:01generational curses is when you walk in
14:05wisdom that's it your 2024 can be
14:09totally different can be totally
14:13blessed if you walk in wisdom or you can
14:17repeat the same cycle and live the first
14:20part of the verse who whoever trust in
14:22his own
14:25mind is a
14:27fool
14:30so today commemorates three years since
14:35I declared that God would grant us a
14:38period of
14:40Unstoppable
14:42breakthroughs lasting for three years if
14:44you
14:45remember three years
14:49ago God spoke a word to this house and
14:52he saidou going to have three years of
14:56Unstoppable breakthroughs
14:59somehow God foresaw that we would face
15:02an adversary attempting to obstruct the
15:06Strategic connections that he has
15:09aligned for
15:10us God doesn't
15:14lie if he said three years ago he was
15:18going to allow you to be in a season of
15:22unable breakthroughs you have to
15:26understand that what the adversary wants
15:28you then to do is to walk in your own
15:31wisdom is to walk in your own mindset so
15:35you miss
15:37God please work with me here now so you
15:40miss God you will never walk in the
15:42wisdom of God to be delivered and to see
15:46the salvation of God in your
15:48life this is why 1 Peter 5:8 let's go
15:52there for a minute 1 Peter 5:8 it tells
15:55us be what sober minded be sober minded
16:00I wonder who's going to go into
16:022024 Being Sober
16:07minded not going into the next year oh
16:11you know I want this I want that no be
16:13sober minded and then the Bible says Be
16:16watchful your adversary of the devil he
16:19prows around he prows around like a
16:23roaring lion seeking someone to
16:27devour
16:29you have to see the plan of the enemy
16:32according to this verse the Bible says
16:35your adversary who the devil he doesn't
16:39want you to succeed he doesn't want you
16:42to be in the will of God he doesn't want
16:44you to serve God with all of your heart
16:47your soul your mind and your strength so
16:49he prows
16:52around he sneaks
16:55around and when you're thinking that
16:58you're safe and you're not
17:01vulnerable he sneaks upon
17:04you and he makes a sound like a
17:12lion he makes sounds to intimidate you I
17:17wonder what sounds you have heard this
17:21year that the devil used to intimidate
17:24you and you got
17:26afraid and in instead of acknowledging
17:30that greater is he who is in you that he
17:34that is in the world that no weapon
17:36formed against you shall prosper instead
17:39of standing up to the devil you gave in
17:44to the tricks of the devil cuz he's a
17:48Prowler he sits
17:51around and he waits for when you're most
17:56vulnerable when you're in your thought
17:59process and you're thinking how am I
18:01going to handle this situation how am I
18:04going to figure this thing out and he
18:06prows around and he waits until you're
18:10weak he waits until you're out of your
18:14word he'll wait to your process in life
18:19and instead of running to the
18:21Bible you shy away from the Bible and he
18:25prows around and he says don't don't go
18:28to church don't go don't read your Bible
18:32no don't do that don't do that every now
18:34and then you get a prompting of the Holy
18:36Spirit man you need to do better you
18:38need to get back into the will of God
18:41and he prows around cuz he knows you're
18:43wrestling with the voice of God he knows
18:46that you know you're not comfortable
18:48with where you are you're out of the
18:50will of God you're not in alignment with
18:52God's will but he just sneaks up on you
18:55and he'll stay at a distance and he will
18:57say okay don't don't don't don't don't
18:59pick up that pbook don't don't don't
19:01don't don't don't don't don't get that
19:03phone get the phone get the phone yes
19:05stay on the app stay on the app stay on
19:08it stay on social media stay on that
19:11phone call yeah go out with your friends
19:15hang out happy hours do all of that all
19:18of that you go through five days of hard
19:21work on the job and I know you're
19:24exhausted oh go to happy hour on Friday
19:27oh go on Saturday go party go have fun
19:31and but you know Sunday morning yeah
19:33you're tired yeah
19:37yeah don't worry go lay down honey lay
19:40down go to sleep go to sleep God
19:44understand you have to work you oh oh
19:48streaming is good just stream baby
19:51stream it's okay don't worry about
19:55that he sits around and and he'll say
19:59okay you earn this don't worry about no
20:02budget don't worry about no budget just
20:04just spin spin go to the mall go to the
20:08mall oh and he's he's a sneaker man he
20:13will he will see you with $100 or $1,000
20:17and he'll wait until you get your salary
20:20and all of a sudden he will tempt you
20:23bam pop up on your feed 30% sale
20:36he let somebody text you
20:38girl you heard they having 70%
20:42[Applause]
20:50off cuz he's a
20:54Prowler every area of your life he want
20:58wants to
21:00sabotage and he'll wait until you spend
21:04it
21:05all he'll wait until you get in your
21:08weakest moments because watch this now
21:11it's
21:13not if you're going to walk in
21:16trouble it's when you walk in
21:20trouble whenever you walk in trouble
21:24then that's the moment the devil says I
21:28got him I got her because now he or
21:35she's out of place they can't use human
21:40reasoning to get out
21:43of they have no word in
21:46them when the devil tempted Jesus after
21:50he came out of a
21:52fast Jesus used the word to the devil
21:59if you don't have no word in you when
22:02you're in your most vulnerable state
22:06listen you're not going to survive he's
22:08going to devour you but when you've got
22:11the word of God hidden on the inside of
22:15you David said Thy word have I hid in my
22:18heart so I will not sin against you I
22:22will be like Daniel you can turn up the
22:25fire seven times I will not b now to the
22:29Temptation Of The Devil and somebody
22:31ought to give God a praise in the
22:39house some of you are
22:41unaware of the devil's
22:44schemes and his intentions to interrupt
22:49and nullify God's plan for your life in
22:552023 you are unaware
23:00that all through the 12
23:03months
23:06Satan
23:08plotted against
23:10you and I hate to say it I'm not trying
23:13to be
23:17negative you open the
23:21door you heard the
23:26knock
23:30and you didn't have the spirit of
23:33discernment to say who is
23:38that and you had a conversation like
23:43Eve with a stranger at the
23:47door and you opened up your home to the
23:51devil you opened up your love life to
23:54the devil you opened up your finances to
23:57to the devil you opened up your career
24:00to the devil you opened up your children
24:03to the devil you opened up your
24:05resources to the
24:09devil cuz you
24:11didn't discern who it was scripture says
24:16my
24:18sheep see when God's talking to you
24:21listen when you stay in the word of God
24:24when he's talking to you you will know
24:25his voice and he'll know your voice
24:31voice you see God is determined not to
24:33let his spoken word over your life be
24:36interrupted instead he wants you I
24:40firmly believe he wants you to make
24:45certain that you won't miss what's
24:48coming in the next season
24:52amen here's the good thing about it
24:55let's be honest today this very hour is
24:58a season of
25:01just
25:03self-examination please don't point at
25:06nobody else look look at your own
25:10life there's some stupid stuff we did
25:13this
25:15year we missed so many opportunities in
25:212023 okay now that we're
25:25here here's a thing that I love about
25:29God it's about his
25:33Mercy his Mercy
25:36endures
25:38forever and the word that he spoke over
25:41your
25:42life honestly Satan cannot nullify it
25:47how do I know that according to Matthew
25:492435 the Bible says Heaven and Earth
25:52will disappear but my words will never
25:56ever
25:58disappear that should be encouraging to
26:01all of us that means every word that God
26:04spoke over your life I'm telling you you
26:07might have missed it this year but it's
26:09still available to you how bad do you
26:12want it how bad do you want the
26:14Breakthrough how bad do you want the
26:16Deliverance how bad bad do you want the
26:19power of God to manifest in your life
26:22how bad do you want it because it's
26:24still
26:25available because his word the Bible
26:28says will not return unto him void so I
26:31want you to recognize that God allowed
26:34you to live through all 365 days of this
26:38year to lead you to the next phase of
26:42your
26:44life you are here now next phase of your
26:48life and therefore I'm confident that we
26:52have our own personal testimonies of
26:56what God did for each of and every one
26:58of us this year and we should use those
27:00testimonies to strengthen our belief
27:03that he preserved us for what lies
27:08ahead he preserves us we are standing
27:13here
27:15today because God preserved
27:19us for something
27:26greater I dare you to look at your
27:28neighbor and said your next is
27:32greater something greater I don't care
27:35what you've lost this year I don't care
27:38what didn't happen this year your next
27:42is
27:43[Applause]
27:45greater oh somebody ought to receive
27:47that this morning somebody streaming
27:50ought to receive that my next is greater
27:54oh I got knocked down this year but
27:57Glory to God eyes have not seen oh what
28:02God is getting ready to do in our lives
28:05in
28:062024 I wish I get a church who knew how
28:09to praise God this
28:16morning so as I close this word today I
28:20want to encourage you to leave every day
28:21seeking to know more about God more
28:25about God and serving in the kingdom of
28:28God because this is how you get the
28:32power of God
28:34working in and through you look at what
28:39Ephesians
28:413: 20 and 21 tells us I love
28:45this so you want to know how you're
28:48going to get from where you are to where
28:52you need to
28:54go you want to know what is that bridge
28:59that's going to take you to your
29:02next we are literally at the edge of the
29:06close of
29:082023 and we're about to step on a bridge
29:12that's going to bring us into
29:152024 and you want to know how I know
29:19that we are going to have a year where
29:23God is going to let his word come to
29:25pass in our lives here is what the
29:28Apostle Paul stated in Ephesians 3 he
29:31says now to him who is the him we
29:34talking about we're not talking about
29:36the government it is a year of politics
29:39it's going to be an election year I am
29:41so glad I'm not depending on the
29:44Republicans or the Democrats The
29:46Independents to supply my every need I
29:50don't care who gets in the power my God
29:53shall
29:56supply
29:58it's not about government it's not about
30:00government it's not about government
30:02it's about him somebody shout his name
30:07Jesus it's about him the Bible says now
30:11unto him who is
30:14able his name is not just Jesus he's
30:19able there is no failure with him
30:23nothing is impossible with him now unto
30:26him who is able to do watch this more
30:30not just abundantly but more abundantly
30:34than all that I
30:37ask what you're asking God for is way
30:41less than what he's about to give
30:47you wo glory to God somebody ought to
30:51get happy for
30:53[Applause]
30:562024
30:57[Applause]
31:02the scripture says he's able to give to
31:05you more than what you're asking
31:08for keep on asking but you can't ask too
31:13much of God and then it says according
31:16to the
31:19power you're not only asking God for
31:22things
31:23verbally but some of us are thinking
31:26things
31:28God says I'm going to give you
31:30more but here's how it's going to work
31:33some of you want God to come down from
31:36heaven and do what you are empowered to
31:41do y'all didn't get that let me say it
31:44again some of you are waiting for God to
31:47leave Heaven come down here and do what
31:50he has empowered you to do that's why
31:54Jesus prayed the prayer and he said
31:56father let thy will be done on Earth as
32:01it is in heaven then he said whatsoever
32:06you
32:07[Applause]
32:12bind whatever you bind on the earth is
32:17bound in heaven that means in 2024 you
32:20ought to go around and shut some things
32:26down oh I feel a shut down spirit in
32:30this church this morning we're about to
32:33shut down everything that the devil has
32:36ordained and structured in
32:402024 you have the power shut it down
32:44somebody lift your right hand and Shout
32:47It Out shut it
32:50down shut it
32:53down every plan to my family I shut it
32:57it down every plan he has for my
32:59children I shut it down every plan he
33:03has for my job I shut it down every plan
33:07he has for my finances I shut it down
33:10every plan he has for my body I shut it
33:14[Applause]
33:14[Music]
33:15down I shut it
33:22[Applause]
33:23down because the Bible says according to
33:28the
33:29power that
33:33work I got the power to speak those
33:38things that are not to speak those
33:40things the way I want to see them
33:44[Applause]
33:55manifest
33:58let me read this sit down for a moment
34:01he says to
34:02be glory in the church and in Christ
34:07Jesus throughout all generation so for
34:09those of you are saying well that was
34:10for back then all
34:13generation he says
34:15forever and
34:17ever and there's a
34:20word that we only use it when we're
34:25praying but the word amen is similar to
34:30the word
34:31CA that you see in many of the
34:35psalm and the word CA is simply saying
34:44done some of you looking at me like what
34:47does that mean when when when when when
34:50the Apostle Paul says forever and ever
34:53to all generation the blessings of the
34:55Lord will come upon on you he's saying
34:58done deal it's done not going to argue I
35:01don't need nobody to try to convince me
35:04sea I put a CA on it so in other words
35:09and whenever you cross over into
35:112024 you ought to wake up every day
35:15saying
35:16[Applause]
35:17[Music]
35:20amen I don't see
35:22it amen I don't feel good amen amen why
35:28it's already done I have the power to
35:31speak blessings upon my life can
35:34somebody give God a praise in the house
35:37[Applause]
35:40today and so 2023 was the year of
35:45preparation for the Fulfillment of God's
35:47word in every aspect of your
35:50life hence God strategically aligned you
35:54with certain people and environment to
35:57bring you to this specific
36:01moment a moment urging
36:04you to take significant
36:08Steps of
36:11Faith because you're on the
36:14verge of departing from your
36:18past and now
36:21entering to what
36:24lies ahead of you
36:27I'm only going to wrap this up and talk
36:29to a few of you because there's a few of
36:32you you're not going to listen you're
36:33not going to listen I don't know I don't
36:36know I don't know you heard so many
36:39sermons this
36:42year I don't know I'm not giving up on
36:44you cuz God didn't give up on you but
36:46Lord
36:49Jesus Lord Jesus some of you some of you
36:52I don't know I don't know I don't know I
36:55don't know I don't know what what it's
36:56going to
36:58take for you to understand the hour that
37:01you're living
37:03in you're on the verge or at the verge
37:07of departing from your
37:09past now entering what's lies ahead of
37:14you so how do you get from your past to
37:17what lies ahead of you how do you get on
37:20that bridge and what is that
37:23bridge to your next
37:27what is
37:29it many of
37:32you get stuck on your
37:36past and though time is
37:40passing you're still in your
37:44past but there are
37:47two levels to
37:50conquer how do you conquer your
37:54past move from it
37:56[Music]
37:59you listen you cannot conquer your
38:02past camping out
38:08there you're going to
38:11lose you have to move from your past and
38:14then look back and simply say now Look
38:17What the
38:21Lord Has
38:22Done but you can't be living out there
38:26in your past expecting to conquer it so
38:32Faith got you to this point and faith
38:37will carry you to whatever God permitted
38:41in
38:432024 Faith got you to where you are
38:48now Faith got you to where you are now
38:53and for those of you I was talking to a
38:55few moments ago I don't know what we're
38:57going to do with
38:59you let me let me let me just really
39:02talk to you for a
39:04moment you can go through another 12
39:07months listen those of you streaming if
39:10you choose to go through 12 more
39:12months of living in
39:15fear
39:17doubt and
39:20scared to step
39:22out and trust God that's your business
39:27I promise you December 31st 2024 you're
39:30going to be right where we left
39:34you you're going to be right where we
39:38left you am or you can make a decision
39:42right now to say God I trust
39:47you and I'm going to step out in
39:51faith
39:53believing that the bridge of fa
39:56faith is going to take me to my
40:00next that The Bridge of Faith is going
40:03to take me from
40:04unrighteousness to
40:07righteousness
40:08Faith it's going to take Faith if you're
40:11not a Christian if if you are not
40:13following Jesus Christ and so forth then
40:17The Bridge of Faith will take you from
40:20that unrighteous
40:22mindset you know that mindset that is
40:26now saying well this Jesus stuff this
40:29God's stuff we this is just crazy and I
40:32don't believe the Bible I don't believe
40:35you listen you're not that smart to
40:37Define who God
40:43is if you ever rely listen to me if you
40:47ever rely on human reasoning alone to
40:50figure out God you will never believe in
40:54him never
40:56never believe in God if all you rely on
41:00is your human mind I don't care how much
41:03degree you
41:05got to try to figure out a God who
41:08showed up according to the only
41:10reference we have about God is the Bible
41:13so don't even come to discuss the god to
41:16me if you don't read your Bible we can't
41:21communicate we can communicate and the
41:24only reference we know about God is in
41:27the beginning he came from his world and
41:31showed up and started empowering people
41:34to write a lot of stuff in the
41:37Bible where did he come from we don't
41:42know I can't figure that out to use my
41:46mind to think okay wait a minute one day
41:50this God just showed up and there was
41:54nothing do you understand there was
41:55nothing nothing nothing there was no
41:58Heaven there was no Earth there was no
42:00sea there was no land mass there was no
42:03there was no um space there was just
42:07nothing cuz he didn't come from
42:11Heaven he didn't come from
42:13Heaven you know we said we're going to
42:16go to heaven you're not going to
42:18heaven I know we use the term we're not
42:21going to go to
42:23heaven he created heaven
42:28we're going to go where he is where is
42:31that place I don't
42:35know have you ever been driving in the
42:37car and somebody said where you going I
42:39don't
42:40know I'm just driving will I go
42:43somewhere
42:45absolutely but he came from his world
42:48showed up and all of a sudden I think I
42:50shared this recently and he just looked
42:53to the
42:54ground make up something created a man
42:57out of
43:00it now come on now some those of you got
43:03degrees explain that to
43:06me dust then you make a man and then you
43:10put a man to sleep then you took a rib
43:12out of him then you made a
43:15woman let me try to figure that
43:18out then he said to Moses pull out your
43:21Rod divide the ocean I think I said it
43:24recently go try that this afternoon down
43:27the
43:27beach you go try that I mean this this
43:31is the god that we've been we've been
43:33talking about the Miracles that he has
43:36performed he turned water into wine I
43:40mean all of these things we can only
43:42watch this understand him by the
43:49Spirit by the
43:51Spirit by the spirit so when people
43:55especially especially in the society
43:57that we're living in now oh the
43:59prowler is just looking around and he's
44:03saying okay I love it when the church is
44:07divided love it love
44:11it cut you one another down keep it keep
44:14doing it keep doing it keep getting in
44:16your feelings and being angry and
44:20upset yeah I love it I love when you
44:23come to church and all you do you sit
44:25there and you analyze
44:28everything oh don't worship don't
44:30worship don't don't even I don't want
44:32you to hear the spirit of God speaking
44:34to you I want you to be judgmental I
44:37want you to criticize just do everything
44:40that I tell you to keep it up man keep
44:43it up don't believe in God everything
44:45don't make sense it trust me I don't
44:49want know and he puts all these thoughts
44:51into our head because the intention is
44:56is is to keep us in the unrighteous
45:00state so we never get over to the
45:03righteous
45:05position The Bridge of Faith will get
45:07you from Brokenness to
45:11wholeness so the bridge to your necks
45:14are you broken this
45:16morning and the question is do you want
45:18to stay broken you know what I'm 59 and
45:22I've discovered this some people love
45:26love
45:29[Applause]
45:32toxicity they love
45:35that they
45:37love to camp out where dysfunction is
45:43D do you want to take the Bridge of
45:47Faith from your
45:50Brokenness how long are you going to
45:52keep talking about what people did do
45:59you how long you going to still be angry
46:01over that
46:03person how long are you going to you you
46:06mean to tell me 12
46:09months 12 months you kept all that
46:14hurt bitterness and anger and you
46:18telling me it didn't affect you look in
46:21the
46:24mirror so from your Brokenness The
46:27Bridge of Faith can take you to
46:29wholeness The Bridge of Faith can take
46:31you from Fear to boldness or uh and
46:34confidence The Bridge of Faith can take
46:36you from lack to Prosperity The Bridge
46:39of Faith can take you from sickness to
46:43Wellness The Bridge of Faith can take
46:46you from
46:49ignorance to
46:52wisdom so if you want the next season of
46:55of your life to be great go back to the
46:58scripture Proverbs
47:0228:26 and I
47:07close if you want your next picture
47:12yourself could you go back to the
47:14picture with the bridge
47:17please picture
47:21yourself on this side of
47:24life
47:26and you're about to go into
47:2924 and if you're like me I'm
47:33brave I'm a dear devil you know I try
47:37stuff but that right
47:39there is
47:43scary
47:46scary
47:48because life forces you to move from the
47:53past into the future
47:57hanging on to
48:00hope that you will get to the other side
48:07safely I wish we had an image of a
48:09better structured
48:11bridge that these Engineers have
48:15developed that when you're walking
48:17across the
48:19bridge you feel safe and secure
48:24that is scary
48:29I wonder how many of you are at the
48:31point in your life where you're saying
48:36God I want to get to my
48:40next but I just don't
48:44like what you put in front of
48:47me it's
48:50scary the path that you put in front of
48:53me it's scary God
48:57and because of that many of you are
48:59going to start out 2023 or
49:022024 the same way you've done it Last 5
49:05Years New Year's resolutions
49:08excited oh yeah great year I'm going to
49:11lose weight you go in the gym for about
49:1410 days and it's done that's it that's
49:16it it's over with great year I'm going
49:19to save money I'm going to do that and
49:21by February it's all
49:24gone
49:26I'm going to do better whatever it is
49:28you make all these
49:31resolutions you never make
49:34it I don't know what your midpoint of
49:36the year is going to bring I don't know
49:38what July is going to bring in
49:412024 June I don't
49:43know but it's a bridge of
49:46hope it's a Bridge of
49:50Faith I remember a few years ago my
49:52sister who lives in New York called me
49:54and she was going through a difficult
49:58time and she was
50:02heartbroken and she was just had a bad
50:06place and she said
50:09Henry something happened to
50:12me and I think it changed her life
50:14forever she she
50:16said my dream was to always walk across
50:19the Brooklyn Bridge was to go across the
50:23Brooklyn Bridge that was her goal to
50:28walk across
50:30it so in her state of mind it was
50:34something to
50:36conquer and she said one day she decided
50:38to do it please don't miss this and
50:41we're going to have communion and close
50:44it and she says she started out walking
50:47across Brooklyn Bridge like many of
50:52you same thing happened to you this year
50:57started out reading your word started
50:59serving
51:01God sadly some of you going to do the
51:03repeat of what you did this year into
51:072024 but then she
51:10said she got to the halfway point of the
51:16bridge
51:19tired kind of not just physically but
51:23mentally
51:24drained
51:26that's what life is going to do to
51:28you whenever you're in the will of God
51:32to get to the other side you're going to
51:36get tired frustrated and it's going to
51:39mentally drain
51:40you and she said at the halfway
51:45point watch this her flesh started
51:49talking to
51:50her whoever trust in his own
51:54mind right it's a
51:57fool her flesh said to her
52:01Heather
52:03quit watch
52:06this turn
52:08around and go
52:12back go
52:14back go
52:18back but when she heard that voice she
52:24said the latter part of the verse kicked
52:26in but He Who Walks In
52:29wisdom will be delivered one voice said
52:33turn
52:34around turn around go back but she said
52:37another voice said to her
52:41Heather that doesn't make sense this is
52:44the wisdom of God listen this is the
52:47wisdom of
52:49God the voice of God said to her Heaven
52:53that doesn't make sense
52:57you are at the Midway
53:01point it's the same
53:06[Applause]
53:08distance it's the same
53:11distance from where you are to going
53:14back to where you are to going
53:18forward and I just believe so many of
53:21you allow the enemy to trick you at the
53:25Midway point of your life you are so
53:28closer to your breakthrough you are so
53:31close to your
53:35Miracle but he wants you to turn
53:38[Music]
53:40back and it was at that point my sister
53:44said she made it across the
53:49bridge and finish her
53:53walk I wonder who in this room this
53:56morning that God is talking to you about
53:59this bridge of
54:01hope that the bridge to your
54:05next is going to come with a lot of
54:08obstacles it's going to come with a lot
54:10of pulling away and tugging of the mind
54:13and thoughts and feelings and people in
54:16and out of your
54:18life but will you make the decision to
54:22say your GPS spiritual GPS says you are
54:26locked in to the
54:28Finish you're locked into the
54:32finish and so you're going to close this
54:35year saying
54:38God I am going to have
54:42communion with
54:45you that I will
54:48finish what you have
54:51started
54:52in me
54:55yes would you bow your heads
55:00please I don't know who's
55:04watching
55:06and those of you are in this house today
55:10who just need
55:13to ask God where wherever you are ask
55:16God
55:18God help me not to miss my
55:21moment help me not to miss what you've
55:23got for me
55:25in 2024 help me not to walk in my own
55:29wisdom maybe you just need to do that
55:31right
55:32now maybe you just need to ask the Holy
55:35Spirit to to help you cuz I don't care
55:38how strong you are we all get weak at
55:41times we all want to look back we all
55:44want to say it's not worth it all but I
55:48promise
55:51you going back takes energy and time
55:56going forward takes energy and time it's
56:00your
56:02choice father this morning we thank you
56:06for speaking to
56:08us and I
56:10think we've heard you loud and clear and
56:13we made a decision today that we're
56:15going to use the Bridge of Hope to get
56:17us to our
56:19next The Bridge of
56:21Faith that we can do all things through
56:24Christ who gives us the
56:27strength as we partake of communion on
56:30this last
56:32day of this year the Year of strategic
56:37alignment once again we ask that the
56:41power of your name the power of your
56:46blood be manifested in us as a
56:53congregation that we do
56:55this in
56:58remembrance of
57:01you and there three things we can do to
57:06reverse what has been done in
57:112023
57:13yes because it is a
57:16spiritual thing and a healthy thing to
57:18take a moment to pray to you repenting
57:22of our sins
57:25the sins that we've committed in
57:292023 and that we are literally
57:33stepping off the
57:35bridge that connects 2023 and
57:40[Music]
57:422024 so therefore
57:45Lord we ask your
57:51blessings upon what we should
57:53do
57:55what we will
57:57become we ask your
58:00blessings on our
58:02lives that you will give us
58:05direction that you will take us to the
58:08next level that you'll bring
58:11us to where we ought to
58:15be we ask today that you'll make us holy
58:20pure and
58:22righteous and as we give our seed this
58:25morning our very last
58:27offering to help further the
58:30work here at the Faith
58:32Center may your people give from their
58:37hearts may your people this morning will
58:41give a year-end
58:43seed that will
58:46represent how you have blessed
58:49them I bless this offering that as we
58:53give it
58:55that God it will truly
58:58truly meet all the needs of this
59:02ministry in Jesus name we pray and
59:05somebody say
59:08amen
59:12amen I'm going to ask the ushers if you
59:14would go and put those containers out
59:19quickly and let's receive the seed then
59:23we'll partake of
59:28communion they're going to put on the
59:30screen the various platforms you can use
59:34to sew your financial seed into the
59:39ministry uh please use your preferred
59:44option to help
59:47us fund what we do here at the Faith
59:52Center for those of you who are using in
59:54the offering envelopes they're in the
59:56pockets of the chairs in front of you
59:58would you please reach out and grab a
60:00hold of one complete it with your name
60:03and use whatever form of giving you're
60:05going to use and in just a moment I'll
60:09give you
60:10instructions to pass it around I'll give
60:13you instructions to pass it
60:15around
60:19amen God bless
60:23you God bless
60:25you
60:29amen hold to your sacraments and we
60:34will do that as our
60:38benediction the close of our
60:43service we pray multiple times here at
60:45the Faith Center during our services so
60:48in just a moment we're going to put up
60:50our prayer over our seed this is going
60:52to be done
60:53corporately
60:55uh so those of you who are watching
60:58online what do you feel is your best
61:02seed you give that to the Lord and God
61:06Rich richly bless you those of you
61:08believe in Tien this is your opportunity
61:11to do so
61:13amen all right why don't we go ahead and
61:16say the prayer over our seed that's the
61:19confession and we're going to say it out
61:22together as loud as possible
61:25and then we will allow you to turn in
61:29your seed all right are you ready let's
61:31read in the name of Jesus I declare that
61:35things are good and better though my
61:37Beginnings were small yet shall my end
61:40greatly increase I thank you Father that
61:43you're doing a good work in me and it is
61:46marvelous in my eyes I have the peace of
61:49God I am whole there's nothing missing
61:52nothing lacking and nothing broken in my
61:55life I thank you Father that I'm being
61:58transformed by your word I have new
62:01ideas and a new attitude I walk in
62:05prosperity I have a prosperous mind a
62:08prosperous soul and a prosperous body I
62:11thank you Father that you have given me
62:13the power to get wealth so that your
62:16Covenant may be established I declare
62:19that I'm a child of the most high God
62:22and I can boldly say that I'm more than
62:24a conqueror I am an overcomer and no
62:27weapon formed against me shall prosper
62:29or stand God you've given the command to
62:33bless and it cannot be reversed
62:36therefore I declare that I'm blessed to
62:38be a blessing until all the fames of the
62:41Earth have been blessed amen