• Our salvation is a gift, but our rewards will be earned. 

• When we receive gifts, we feel loved. When we receive rewards, we feel valued because we are useful.

• We are rewarded for pleasing God.

• Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons will not be pleasing to God.

• Whatever is happening in the world right now, if you belong to God and your expectations are from God, you will not end up like other men. 

• God always separates between right and wrong, good and evil, the just and the unjust… eventually. 

• The inheritance of the saints includes trials and tribulations.

  
  

• To grow into maturity, our diet must change.

• When Jesus tried to change their diet, many disciples left Him.

• The way the modern church presents Jesus and His message is underwhelming.

•  Jesus was not seeker-friendly. He was hungry-friendly, thirsty-friendly, truth-friendly, weary-friendly.

There is a straight line from deception to depression.

Deception- Independence-Distraction-Indiscipline-Depression

God’s answer to deception is sanctification.

• Great Grace is available for the seriously thirsty.

• For those who are seriously thirsty, spiritual upgrade this year will be rapid.

• Grace grows, as we grow in grace. 

• Growing in Grace requires a continued upgrade in our appetite, desires and ambitions.

• To grow into maturity, our diet must change.

• They were still the Lord’s people, but they were no longer on the Lord’s side.

• When we live for ourselves, we are pleased, when we live for Christ, God is pleased.

• Great Grace is always God's response when His people please Him.

• Knowing the will of God must be preceded by a determination, a willingness to do the will of God, whatever, it may be. 

• A stumbling block for many Christians is insisting on first learning the will of God before deciding if they will comply. 

• When willingness precedes knowledge, it is an act of faith. 

• If we insist on first knowing, that would be walking by sight. 

This is a year of faithful obedience to God, using the “Kingdom Principles” rather than “Empire Principles.”

Kingdom Principles: Faithful Selflessness

Empire Principles: Effective Self-promotion

A carnally minded Christian and an unregenerated person are often so similar you cannot tell the difference.

• The Lord will do strange things this year and it will take great humility, relying on the Holy Spirit to keep up with Him.

• This is not a year to tell God, but a year to ask God.

• This is not a year of negotiation, but a year of instruction.

• 2026 is a year of pursuing God’s priorities.. His Name, His will, His kingdom, the things of God, rather than the things of men.

• This is a year to recognize and reject distractions.

• God will show a difference between those who seek Him those who do not.

• Those who seek the Lord will find Him and all other things. Those who seek other things will miss the Lord.