We'll happy new years to all of you.

I pray that in all of our campuses and all of our network churches, and those of you

gathered from all over the world at church online, I pray that you are exceptionally

blessed by God in this new year.

Question, and I'd love for you to be honest, how many of you, at all of our locations,

if you are really, really truthful, you'd say, I'm a little bit relieved and glad that

last year is gone.

How many of you say, I am, it's been a tough year for so many people, in fact, I just want

to tell you that our whole staff, we are all right now on a 21-day fast, where we are

going to deny ourselves physical food at different levels so that we can seek God spiritually.

And we would love to pray for you in this new year.

If you have any kind of prayer needs, we would love for you to tell us.

You can just write that down on your communication card and drop it in the buckets at the end

of our experience, and we would be honored to pray for you.

Also, many of you, as we start in this new year, I know that a lot of you are going to want

to be a part of a life group.

If you're new with us, a life group is what we would call an axe to biblical community,

where believers can gather together and they can share in God's word and open up their

lives to each other.

And what I'd really like to encourage you to do, as you experience this message today,

is, truthfully, I want to beg you to talk it over.

Don't just hear what God would say to you today, but I pray that you would bring some

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