Thank you, Jesus. We worship you and honor you, Lord, for your presence in the room today.

I'm so excited to be sharing the word with you. If you can't tell, I'm excited. Happy New Year to you all.

I'm sure many of you are making your New Year's resolutions or your anti-resolutions.

You're just going to be exactly the

same this year because you're tired of making resolutions that you're not going to keep, right?

Everybody knows that people often start the year with a resolution, which is a what? What am I going to

do this year? What goals am I going to set for myself? What things do I want to accomplish?

What accolades am I trying to achieve?

Everybody starts off the year asking what.

But if you're like me, the question is probably not what.

The question is how.

Because the goal's been the same.

I want to drop about 20, right?

The goal has been the same for a number of years,

so you're not even asking yourself what, you're just asking yourself how. You're Googling

what diet, you're Googling what fast money scheme is out there, you're preparing a money laundering

business in the back, right? You're doing whatever you can to prepare yourself for how.

You're going to do the what.

But here's the question that I want to pose to you today.

What if today, what if this year, this isn't the year to know your what?

It's not the year to know your how, but what if this was the year to know your why?

What if this was the year that instead of starting out asking yourself, what am I going to do

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