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From Pastor Sheli's Weekly 'Prayer & Praise' email
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1/11...Vision Day 2026
1/15...Womens Bible Study
1/18...Youth Class Following Worship
1/24...Men's Prayer Breakfast
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Good Evening Church Family! God is able and faithful and Happy New Year!! What a wonderful year we had last year! We saw God be faithful to His promises and pour out His blessings on our lives, our church and our nation. It was a year of miracles and breakthroughs but I am even more excited about 2026!! There is an anticipation in my heart for the outpouring of the Lord like we have never seen before. I know that there have been some amazing outpourings of the Lord in the past, but I am believing for the later rains of the Lord to be greater than the former! I am looking for the days when He will pour out His Spirit on all flesh and I'm believing that these are the days Joel prophesied about (Joel 2:28) and Paul reminded us about in Acts 2:17-18! "In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my menservants and maid servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy." I believe this is what we are about to enter into in 2026! I was drawn to look into the number 26 Biblically and it has a powerful meaning. The numerical value of YHWH, the sacred name of God, in Hebrew is 26! This is the Year of the Lord! Through its association with the Lord, the number 26 represents divine completeness and perfection. It serves as a reminder of God's sovereignty and the fulfillment of His promises! Hallelujah! As God pours out His Spirit in 2026, we are going to see His completeness... things that have been broken or not fully completed are complete in 2026! We are going to see perfection! Things that have not been perfected in our lives... will be perfected! Why? Because of the Lord! He is our completeness! He is our perfection! He is faithful to all His promises!! Hallelujah!
Completeness and perfection make me think of puzzles. We put them together piece by piece until it is complete. Many of us have been putting the pieces of our lives together just like a puzzle... piece by piece. God has been leading us and guiding us and we are almost to the last piece. I feel like this is the year that God is going to provide the last pieces! The things we have been believing for and standing for are about to be fulfilled! The last few pieces are being placed in our lives in 2026 and we are going to see a completed picture! I am so excited to see what God has in store for each of us. It is so important for us to not give up, to not grow weary, to now be discouraged. This is time for rejoicing and praising in faith for what is coming. God said that He would pour out His Spirit and He will be faithful so we need to be ready. 2 Timothy 2:20-21 says, "In a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also vessels of wood and clay; some for special purposes, some for common use. Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be earthenware vessels for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work." I don't know about you but I want to be one of the vessels Paul talks about in the last part of the verse. I want to cleanse myself so that I am ready for the special purposes God has for me to do. I want to be useful to Him and ready to do what He wants me to do! God is going to pour Himself out but we have to be ready to receive. 2026 is going to be an amazing year and we have a choice to be ready or not. Just like the story of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25, 5 were ready and 5 weren't. It was a choice that they made to be ready or not to be ready. This seems like such an easy decision but if it was so easy why did 5 choose not to be ready? Because being ready means you have to do something to make yourself ready. We are in day two of 2026... don't wait one more day to get your vessel ready! Ask the Lord what you need to do to cleanse yourself from the latter so that you are ready when He pours out His Spirit. As we enter into 2026, let's be anticipating the outpouring of His Spirit and let's be praising Him for the things He is completing and perfecting in our lives! Let's daily ask the Lord to help us to be cleansed and ready so that we don't miss out on anything that God has in store! We are so excited to see all the things that God is going to do in each of our lives in 2026. Have a blessed rest of your week, Church Family and let's praise God in advance for all He's about to do! Blessings, Pastors Sheli and Steve
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