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  2019： THE YEAR OF FAITH AND FAVOR
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes 2019 as the year of faith and favor,
urging believers to surrender to God's plan and receive His abundant
life. It highlights the need for a fresh touch of heaven, a willingness
to change course, and a prayer for divine enablement to live out God's
purpose. The message calls for a revival of faith, a rise of the church,
and a commitment to be vessels of God's power and love in a dark world.

Topics: "Faith and Favor", "Divine Enablement"
Scripture References: John 10:10, Acts 9:3, 2 Timothy 3:5, Psalm 78:4, Matthew 25:8, 1 Peter 2:9, Genesis 22:18, Joshua 1:9, Matthew 25:21, Acts 2:41

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This sermon emphasizes 2019 as the year of faith and favor, urging
believers to surrender to God's plan and receive His abundant life. It
highlights the need for a fresh touch of heaven, a willingness to change
course, and a prayer for divine enablement to live out God's purpose.
The message calls for a revival of faith, a rise of the church, and a
commitment to be vessels of God's power and love in a dark world.

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The title of my message this morning is 2019, the year of faith and
favor. 2019, the year of faith and favor. John chapter 10, please, if
you would, and also the book of Acts chapter 9. John chapter 10, and the
next book to the right is the book of Acts chapter 9. If you'd just put
a marker there.

Father, I thank you, God, with all my heart. Lord, you have always
spoken to this church. You've never left us in the dark.

You've never left us in a place where we didn't hear from you. You've
given us direction over the years. You even warned us before 9-11.

God, thank you. You've been more faithful to us than we have been to
you. I'm sure of that.

But I thank you for mercy. I thank you for grace. I thank you for the
anointing of your Holy Spirit.

I thank you, God, with all my heart for the strength, Lord, that you
give to everyone who touches this pulpit and to those whose hearts are
open to hear the word of God. Line by line, step by step, you've pushed
back our enemies, oh God. Let our hearts burn for you now this coming
year.

As the men on the road to Emmaus, if we're going in the wrong direction,
turn us around, oh God, and head us to our own Jerusalem. Father, I
thank you for the touch of heaven. You've never failed me one time in
this pulpit, not once, never.

And Lord, I thank you, God. I pray as the psalmist prayed in Psalm 78,
now that I'm old and my hair is turning gray, oh God, don't take your
hand from me until I've shown your power to this next generation. Oh
Lord, let it be, God.

Let it be, Lord. Jesus Christ, that you raise up another generation,
Lord, of young men and women who will get up and go into that place of
promise and make a difference in our world today. Oh God, call, anoint,
ordain, set apart for yourself today, Lord, those whose hearts are open
to hear your voice.

And I thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God.

And good morning to Luke this morning. My grandson, Luke, he watches
online and he yells at the screen because he doesn't know the difference
between FaceTime and the Internet. Good morning to you, Luke.

God bless you this morning. John chapter 10, verse 10. I want you to
know that nobody is here by accident today.

The Lord brought you here. The Lord brought you here. You may think that
somebody beside you invited you, but God put it on their heart to invite
you and then on your heart to come.

That's why you're here today. Let God speak to your heart. John chapter
10 and verse 10.

The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I
have come that they may have life and that they may have it more
abundantly. Now, who can debate that the thief is running almost
unchecked? I'm talking about the devil himself and the powers of
darkness under his hand, running almost unchecked in this generation,
stealing, killing, and destroying.

Everything that the Bible talks about is God and good. I thank God,
though, that Christ speaks of us. Yes, the thief is stealing.

He's killing. He's destroying. Some of you know that firsthand.

You say, Pastor, you know exactly what my life's been like up to this
point. I've had a lot stolen from me and a lot that should have lived
died and a lot that should have been secure was taken away and
destroyed. But Jesus says to you, I have come that you might have life
and that you might have it more abundantly.

Now, that's for you. That's not for somebody else. It's not just for
those who've got a good track record.

It's not just for those who've done it all right. It's not for those who
have memorized more scripture than anybody else. It's an open door.

It's an open door for every heart, for every life, everyone who's
hungry, whether you're on the right path right now or you're on the
wrong path. The promise of Jesus to you is life and life more
abundantly, not just eternal life. That's a promise because of the
cross.

But God promises a full and inspired and exceedingly abundant, divinely
led, purposeful, God honoring, fruit bearing life on this side of
eternity. That's the promise of God for you, for you. You know, thank
God he didn't say in this verse, I've come that a few might have life
more abundantly.

No, you and me, all of us. He is the door. We go through that door and
he says in the verses just before that, you go in and you come out and
you find pasture.

In other words, every time you open the door of this book and you go in,
you find something that gives you strength. You find something that
gives you more life. You find another victory.

You find the strength to go another mile. You find the strength to keep
on for another day. Now second Timothy chapter three in verse five
indicates that many, many people are called by the name of God in the
last days.

We'll settle for an appearance of godliness without any power behind it.
An appearance, just a new clothes, big Bible, going to church, cleaning
up the vocabulary a little bit, but it's all simply just appearance. The
abundance that's promised is not behind it.

The new life is not behind it. The ability to reach into darkness and
bring life and light is not there. Thank God the Lord's brought you here
today and he's brought me here today because I believe in my heart that
you're not willing to settle for that kind of a life.

I believe that you're not willing to be a spectator in a divine arena,
having been drafted in a sense to team God, holding the papers in your
hands, but refusing to believe that you can actually get into the game.
Somehow maybe afraid to get hurt, maybe afraid that you'll be
embarrassed, maybe afraid that your abilities are not what they ought to
be. But I want to remind you today the abilities that God gives are not
of you.

When you walk into the work of God, there is a divine enablement comes
into your life. Something of God becomes yours that is not attainable by
knowledge alone. It's not attainable by human effort.

It's only attainable by the indwelling presence of Christ. It's Paul who
said in the book of Acts, in him we live and move and have our being.
Christ in you, Paul says, the hope of glory.

Paul knew this life. He knew what he had been. Jesus warns in Matthew
chapter 25 and verse 8 that in the season of Christ's return, which I
believe we're in now, there will be a people who claim to belong to God
but have no divine ability in their life.

They've never been taken out of the natural and brought into the
supernatural. They've never let the hand of God inside of them begin to
animate them and move them and lead their thinking. They've never walked
through that door.

Everything is in the natural. They've never been willing to go through
the open door that God sets before them. That place and that purpose
that he's ordained for their life that they may be used to bring glory
to his name.

They just simply won't go through that door. And there will be people in
the last days that maybe theologically know that the bridegroom is
coming because Matthew 25 seems to indicate they became aware of the
nearness of his return. But they have no ability inside.

They can't see. They have no vision. They've got no oil inside.

And they have no voice. There were others who were saying, Behold, the
bridegroom. Go out to see him.

But you see, they couldn't see because the ability we need to see is
God-given. It doesn't come from human effort. Their prayer is as it's
always been.

They turned to those who had oil and said, Give us of your oil because
that had been always their prayer. Give us. They came to church, Oh God,
give us.

Give me. Enhance my self-image. Make me a bigger, better person.

And some of these things are necessary in the beginning. But there's a
point where they fail to understand that the abundant life that Jesus
promises is for two reasons. Firstly, to glorify God on the earth.

And secondly, to lead others to the knowledge of who he is. That's the
reason for the abundant life. It's not to consume it upon myself.

It's not so that I may sit back and say, Look how good God has been to
me. Oh, that's part of it. But you and I are called to bring glory to
his name on the earth.

We're called to live in such a way and allow God to be something inside
of us that our testimony becomes, I gotta tell you what Jesus did for
me. There's an inner knowledge I could never do this for myself. And to
lead others to the knowledge of who he is.

Leading others to the cross. Leading them to that ability that God wants
to give them that they too might become an expression of his kindness to
this generation. Peter says in 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 9, You are a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special
people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of
darkness and into his marvelous light.

In other words, you are a people separated under God. You are a people
who are given a new heart, a new mind, a new spirit, a new song, a new
life, a new path, new abilities, new strengths. God does something so
powerful in your life that all you can do is shout about it from the
rooftops.

And people who see, people who see what God has done in you, just like
the book of Acts chapter 2, 3,000 coming home from the religious
exercise in the temple. 3,000 very devoted people, but very dry, very
empty after all the things they were involved in in the temple. And they
suddenly encounter 120 people who have a living relationship, a living
presence of God inside of them.

And when they saw and they heard what came from these people, suddenly
all the religious exercise fell to the ground. And they said, what must
we do to be saved? We are called of God to reclaim His praises because
we've been called out of darkness and we now walk in His light. In
Genesis 22, 18, God's promise to Abraham, which of course, through the
Jewish people, subsequently through our Messiah, now to us, is that in
your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

This is the purpose of my life is that God would take me and use me as a
blessing to others. It has been my experience. I believe that's maybe
why God brought me here in the first place.

He sent David Wilkerson to warn of the coming judgment on the city and
perhaps on the nation. And he also told him that we were to gather a
remnant as a church. In other words, gather a people who can still hear
the voice of God.

I believe this is why the Lord sent me here in some measure because I
have an experience with God. I know what it's like to have nothing to
bring to Him. I know what it's like to be taken out of the natural and
into the supernatural.

I know what it's like to be taken on a journey for which I'm completely
unqualified to travel apart from His presence in my life. I know what
it's like to be delivered from the walls that bound me on every side. I
know what it's like to be taken from one place and brought to another.

So I'm not bringing you just a theory about a relationship with God, but
an actual experience that has been mine. The people of God of Abraham's
generation, they were led out of captivity and brought right to the
shores of divine promise. And of course, as many of God's people are
like that today.

We all were captivated by something. And when we came to Christ,
suddenly prison doors opened. Suddenly we're given new abilities, or at
least we're aware that we have new abilities and we're brought to this
incredible place of promise.

We start opening the word of God and we start seeing something in it
that God has for us. But they refused to go in. Isn't that sad? They saw
it.

They saw the fruit of it, but they wouldn't go in. And not going in, the
majority of them lived and died in a barren, fruitless place. I don't
know about you, but I said to my wife when I came to Christ, Pastor
Teresa, I said, if this thing is real, I want the whole package, and if
it isn't, I want none of it.

There's a certain resolve has to come into your heart. I'm not going to
go halfway with this. If this is God, this is God's word, this is God's
kingdom.

If heaven is real and it's eternal, if there really is a hell and people
are going there who don't know Christ, if I am called to be a living
witness of who Christ is to my generation, then I'm going all the way
with this thing. I'm not going to settle for an appearance of godliness
without power. I'm not going to settle for just sitting in church week
after week after week, living in a dry, barren, fruitless place.

I'm not living there. And there is a point, my brother and my sister,
where that resolve's got to get into your heart. I'm getting up, I'm
getting out of this place, and God's going to use my life for his glory.

I'm going to ask him for a spirit of love that casts the fear out of me.
I'm going to start speaking his name. I'm going to believe him for
victory over these areas in my life that are the lion and the bear
trying to stop me from what God's called me to do.

I'm going to get up and be the man, the woman, whatever your case is
that God has called me to be. He has a plan for my life. I'm going to
find that plan.

I'm going to walk in that plan. When God's word says that Christ came to
give me abundant life, I'm not going to settle for mediocre life. When
God says I'm going to give you abundant life.

And the beauty of Christ, I love this, is that he cleans up your mess
too as well. Cleans up your mistakes as a Christian. Picks you up, lifts
your head, puts his glory on you.

Praise God. I said to somebody this morning, you'll never know grace
until you've failed. Grace is just a concept until you've failed.

But once you've failed, praise be to God, you'll be singing amazing
grace like you've never sung it in your whole life. That saved a wretch
like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found.

Was blind, but now I see. You know, we in America, as a church age, have
been largely marginalized. Largely our voices have not been heard.

Our influence has not overly been felt. It's tragic when you consider
that the people of God are more and mightier than the people who are
godless, who are now dictating the agenda for a nation. Because many,
many of God's people have stayed on the outside of that place of promise
for them.

That's really the reason why. We've gravitated to church, and you know,
sadly, we've hoped that our, we've hoped that we get a high-profile
preacher and that'll bring the people in. We've hoped that our new
carpets will bring them in.

We've hoped that our choir will bring them in. We've hoped that a sign
outside will bring them in. But it's you that's supposed to bring them
in.

It's the people of God. You are the voice of God. You are the
representative of Christ.

Your life is supposed to be compelling. You remember Jesus told us the
parable of the master who created a feast, and then the final group he
sent out to gather people to this wedding banquet, he said, go into the
highways and byways and compel them to come in. Compel them.

Compel them. Let your life be a compelling testimony. Let the passion of
your voice indicate that you really believe what you're trying to tell
them.

Let the love in your heart compel them to come into the presence of God
and into the house of God. And in this nation, we've abdicated maybe for
a generation our duty, our ministry, our calling. But just like in
Moses' day and Joshua's day, another generation arose that were willing
to go in no matter the personal cost.

Willing to go in. Willing to be separated under God. Willing.

Willing. The scripture says the people will be willing in the day of
your power. In the day when you are willing to show yourself strong, you
will find a willing people that say, God, I'll go with you.

And where you lead me, I'm going to follow you. In the beginning of
God's favor starts with faith. And faith begins with a prayer.

This is where I come to the book of Acts chapter 9. A man called Saul on
a journey. On a religious journey, might I add, as he saw it. And as he
journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly a light shone around him
from heaven.

Suddenly, the presence of God was all around him. Suddenly, he felt
something of God that he had never felt before. None of his religion had
ever given him this feeling.

But he felt as if God had literally surrounded him and come to him. Then
he fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, Saul, Saul, why are
you persecuting me? Why are you standing up against what I want to do in
your life? Why are you resisting the call? And he said, who are you,
Lord? Then the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you're persecuting. It is
hard for you to kick against the goads.

In other words, Saul, I've been prodding you in a certain direction and
you've been pushing against it. I've been trying to move you to
something through which the kingdom of God is going to be made known in
a way deeper than you think it can be made known. But you have been
resisting it.

How many of us does that speak to today? Where the Holy Spirit says,
I've been prodding you, I've been prodding you, I've been whispering to
you. It's that thing that you put on headphones so you don't have to
listen to that voice any longer. I've been speaking to your heart about
something I want to do in and through your life.

I've been speaking about something I want you to put away from your
life. But you're resisting the things that I'm trying to do and the
places I'm trying to take you. So he trembling and astonished said,
Lord, what do you want me to do? Then the Lord said to him, Arise, go
into the city and you will be told what you must do.

This is where it all began in Paul's life or Saul's life. Obviously, he
now had a physical affliction. The Bible tells us he couldn't see.

Because of the brightness of the light, he became blind for three days.
When his prayer could have been, God, please, give me back my sight. He
could have been self-focused, but being a determined man by nature, his
prayer was the prayer that unlocked something of God that gave him words
that we're still reading today and are guiding much of the testimony of
Christ worldwide.

Lord, what do you want me to do? Now, he was doing a lot for God the way
he saw it up to this point, but having an encounter with God, all of
that now changes and all of it becomes, Lord, what do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? Do you even dare
pray that prayer? Do you dare pray it? This day, before we go into 2019,
Lord, what do you want me to do? Now, he didn't answer him right away.
He said, go into the city and you will be told what you must do. And so
this is the word of the Lord to you today.

If anybody here wants to pray that prayer, you go home. The Lord says,
you'll be told. I'll open it to you.

I will speak very, very clearly to you. You will know what you need to
do. There has to be a willingness in our hearts to, just as Paul, to
have our journey changed.

He was on a journey and having an encounter with God, it changed the
course of his life. To have his plans put away and a new plan formulated
by God coming to life in his heart. And to have his self-identity put
away.

That's incredible. Imagine, God, everyone God meets, he changes their
name. You ever notice that? Saul becomes Paul.

Cephas becomes Peter. You look at all the people and, are you willing to
have your identity changed? Some of you, you really think you're just a
real mover and shaker, right? Maybe he wants to change that. Oh, you're
going to shake eventually.

Trust me, you're going to get old like me and you're going to start
shaking naturally. But your self-identity, what you think you are, where
you think you're going, what you think your life is going to amount to,
what you think it's going to look like 10 years from now, an encounter
with God changes all of that. Some people think they're just going to
make it big in the business world, but you're going to be a missionary.

You're not going to be a businessman at all. The willingness to have all
of these things interrupted and replaced with the divine purpose that
God has for my life. Let 2019 be the year that you and I believe that
God's plan is the best for our lives.

That's where faith comes in. We simply believe, God, your plan is better
than mine. Your ways are better than mine.

Your thoughts are higher than mine. This could be the beginning of
something miraculous for you. 2019, the year that I gave up and gave it
all to God.

The year that I said, Lord, not my will, but thine, be done. The year
that I surrendered my heart fully to the will and to the ways of God.
The year that I believed that his plan is better than mine.

And the year that I received the divine enablement to live an abundant
life into which he has called me. Faith says, God, your plan is better.
Favor is God opening the heart and saying, here's everything you're
going to need for what I've called you to do.

What I've called you to be and where I've called you to go. And I
believe with all my heart for many, most, and hopefully all that are
here today, that 2019 will be the year of faith and favor for you. The
year that we rise again as the body of Christ.

The year that you bring so many people to the house of God that we can't
contain it anywhere, any building, on any block, in any part of any
city. The year that we rise as a church. The year that we roll away the
stone of whatever stone has been placed in front of us.

The year that we hear the voice of God and are called out of inability
and called out of just being paralyzed into the life that God has for
us. The year when we begin to believe, God, whatever you have for my
life, that's what my life is going to be. I'm going to go inside of the
boundaries of this place of promise and I'm going to believe it.

And when the door opens, I'm going to walk through it. When I first got
called to speak by the Lord, you know my story, right? I would run out
of a room if people's attention focused on me. So paralyzed by fear.

So feeling judged. So feeling like a failure. Or like I was going to
fail.

That I didn't want to run the risk of it. Yet God opened the door and
started asking me to speak in certain places. Little groups of people.

20, 15, 12. I remember they'd be introducing me and I'd be dry heaving
in the bathroom. But I went through the door.

You'll never know the power of God until you go through the door. You
don't get the power before you get it when you walk through the door.
You walk through the door.

You'll be amazed what God will begin to do in your life. You'll be
amazed where he'll take you. You'll be amazed at the journey that he'll
send you on.

You'll be amazed at the boldness, the wisdom with which you speak, the
giftings of the Holy Spirit. Suddenly you're just walking into your
neighborhood and you see a person you've known for a long time and God
gives you a word for them. Which breaks down all of the resistance and
all the barriers.

The next thing you know you're crying and praying together. You're
leading them to Christ. You watch what God will do in your life.

I firmly believe in my heart that 2019 is the year that church rises.
The year the people of God come back to the fore. The year that we
finally realize who we are again.

We are the people of God. We are the testimony of Christ in the earth.
We are not just marginal players in somebody else's game.

Each of us are called into the body of Christ. Each of us are gifted.
Each of us are given a pathway.

Each of us are given abilities of God to do things we could never do in
our own strength. The year of faith and favor. The year like in Joshua's
day where another generation rose up and they said okay we're done with
the wilderness.

Our parents may have chosen to live there but we're not living there.
We're going into that place that God has promised us. We're going to
find our inheritance in Christ.

And if there are giants there we don't care. We're going to fight them
and we're going to beat them and we're going to win. Because that's who
God says we are.

I'm going to face every giant that ever stands up against my life, my
home, my family or the testimony of God that he has determined to
establish through me. And by the grace of God we will be the church. By
the grace of God.

We've known an anointing in here folks. We've had 31 years of the
presence of God here. Now we're going to know the anointing out there.

By the grace of God every home is going to know the anointing of God.
When you walk into your place of work the presence of God will walk in
with you. People around you will be suddenly convicted of their sin and
they don't even know why.

By the grace of almighty God. Hallelujah. And so here's my altar call
today.

Let 2019 be the year in my life oh God where I believe and your favor
starts coming into my life in a new way. In a deeper way than I've ever
known it before. Let this be my year.

Lord Jesus Christ if you're coming back soon I don't want to have
standing there with an empty basket. God let me bear fruit for your
kingdom's sake. Let my life be a testimony of who you are.

If that's the cry of your heart we're going to stand up in just a
moment. And here in the main sanctuary the balcony and the annex in
North Jersey as well as all the people in our home fellowships. I
challenge you to rise up and be the church.

I challenge you to rise up and be a supernatural church. I challenge you
to rise up and believe God for what you can't do in your own strength. I
challenge you to rise up and become the person you can't be in the
natural.

Let him take over. Let him give your life purpose and meaning abundance
and a new song. And you watch what God will do.

People are hungry. They're starving for truth now in this generation.
And they're looking and longing for the church to arise.

Praise be to God. Thank you. Thank you Lord.

Just lift your hands just for a moment. Just pray. Just pray.

Ask the Lord to give you a fresh revelation of who he is, a fresh touch
of heaven. Thank you Lord God. Thank you for hearing the prayers of your
people God.

The cry of your church Lord. God, so many lives depend on your church
now. Give us the power Lord.

Rise us up oh God out of weakness and bring us back into strength again.
And Lord we thank you God that you always respond to the sincere heart.
You never turn away the hungry from you Lord.

I know my heart was hungry God. And you've given me more than I could
even wish or dream or think. As your word says that you do Lord.

And so God I'm asking you for your people. For your church Lord. I'm
asking for this church God.

For a fresh baptism of your Holy Spirit. I'm asking you God for an
empowerment of heaven. I'm asking you Lord for faith to explode in every
heart God.

There be an expectation of this coming year Lord. That you will do
something so far beyond us. So far beyond our own ability.

So far beyond our expectations even. God you will take us to a deeper
place than we've ever known before God. There be a song of joy in our
heart that can't be taken away by circumstance.

God there be victory in our homes. Lord we'll have a testimony. We'll
have compassion for our neighbors.

Oh God you will do something in us Lord that only you can do. We are
your vessels oh God. We are your temple Lord.

God give this temple back it's song Lord. Give this temple back it's
glory. Give this temple back it's power.

My God my God. Your temple in Solomon's day was only a foreshadow of the
church. And what the church should look like.

People's breath should be taken away when they see your people Lord. So
God oh God oh God. Oh God oh God.

Thank you for the last thirty and a half years. Thank you for those
years. But we're we're facing a new day.

We're facing a new challenge. We're facing a new generation. And Lord we
need your power more than we've ever needed it before.

And they need your church to know your power. For the sake of the lost.
For the sake of those who live in darkness.

Oh God oh Jesus. Take us outside of ourselves God. Our own consumption
with our own thoughts and our own needs.

And give us the power Lord to have your heart God for this generation.
Give us a voice Lord when our own voices have become silent. Oh Jesus
son of God.

Son of God. Visit this city Lord. Visit New York City.

Have mercy on this city oh God. Have mercy Lord in all the boroughs in
New York City. In the surrounding areas Lord where so many people don't
know what is just ahead of them.

They have no idea what eternity without God is going to be like. Oh
Jesus help us. Help this city Lord.

Help us God. We're not, we don't have a plan. You're the plan.

There's no other plan but you Lord. Your presence, your redemption, your
power. Oh God.

Oh God. Oh God. Oh God.

Oh God. We thank you for all that you've done but we recognize our need
now. We recognize that you're the only one that can do this oh God.

And Father we thank you Lord. We thank you that you will not turn away
our cry. You told us that everyone asks, who asks receives.

Everyone who seeks finds and to everyone who knocks it shall be open.
God these are your words. These are not ours.

These are yours. And you cannot lie. So Lord thank you that we're asking
and we will receive.

We're seeking and we shall find. We're knocking and it shall be open to
us oh God. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you for what you're gonna do.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you that our hope is not in vain.

My God. My God. My God.

My God. Thank you Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for what you will do this
year Lord.

This year God. This year Lord. This year.

This year God what you will do. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God. God we
lift ourselves up before you as leaders in this church Lord and we ask
you for a fresh fire in all of our hearts God.

A fresh touch of heaven God for those who lead your people Lord. Oh God.
I thank you Lord.

I thank you God. For everyone. Everyone who walks through the doors of
this church Lord.

Let the fire of God touch every heart. Every life. Every home.

Every circumstance. Oh God. Oh Jesus.

We love you Lord. We love you Jesus. We love you Lord.

We love you God. Give us the grace that we need now. Give us the grace.

Oh my God. Give us the grace. Give us the grace.

Oh Lord. Give us the grace to be there for the people whose expectations
will be dashed one more time again this year Lord. Give us the grace to
be there for them.

Oh God. Oh Lord. Oh let not our mouths be closed any longer.

Let not our hands be clenched any longer. Oh God. Oh Jesus.

Son of God. Visit this vine Lord. You planted this church Lord.

Visit this church. Oh God. Give us a fresh touch of heaven Lord.

God we thank you Father. We thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Lord. Lord we thank you for hearing this prayer today. Lord I
pray that Lord we would have the same anointing as Joshua and Caleb.

Lord when you spoke and you promised the promised land oh God. The other
ten oh God they only saw it as giant land. But the people of faith saw
it as the promised land.

Lord we know following you there is giants. We know oh God what stands
up against us as your people. We know Lord giants of distractions and
giants of addictions and giants Lord of boredom and or sometimes a
struggle oh God to stay focused.

Lord sometimes a struggle to care, to pray. But Lord I thank you. We
will not see what you have for us in 2019 as giant land but you are
calling us into promised land.

Hallelujah. I thank you God that your word, anointed word said that
those enemies, those giants would be bread for us. That Lord as we would
take one step of faith forward Lord we would fall upon them and consume
them.

That us fighting we would grow stronger. They would be bread for us.
That if we would fight we would grow stronger.

If we will fight we will grow stronger. Our enemies and our giants will
become bread for us. Not because oh God it's us but Lord we are given oh
God if we want.

Lord the power and the vision to take one step and God you will come in
mightily. Because the overwhelming never-ending perfect reckless love of
God will never fail us. You will stir us oh God.

So God let us see it not as giant land but as promised land and you will
be faithful to bring a victory oh God. Lord we receive this. We receive
the strength to take one step.

We receive the strength. We receive the vision to take one step into
giant land. And you will turn it into promised land because you are that
good.

Lord there is a calling on us and we receive it oh God. No matter how
weak the giant says we are oh God. We know you are greater and you are
stronger.

You went to a cross for our freedom. Lord we step out of places of
despair and powerlessness and strengthless places. Lord water can't take
the weight of a man but Peter walked on water.

And I thank you God by the authority of your word Lord we will do what
we couldn't do before. Because Lord you are with us and you love us. So
let us receive this word today.

Let us be Lord envision us with this word. Let us not look at it as
giant land but promised land. And we thank you we'll be changed and
we'll go in Jesus name.

Amen. Now tomorrow night people are going to be shouting out here for
nothing. For glass coming down.

A ball that disappoints. But today we're not shouting for something that
disappoints. We're shouting for God's truth God's favor.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/7gNBIv0SgmE.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/carter-conlon/2019-the-year-of-faith-and-favor/
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