2025… The Year God Did It

2025 … “The Year God Did It”

(Repentance to Restoration)

12/29/24

Pastor Mark England

Joel 1:4 (CSB)

What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.

When God sent the plague of locusts, it wasn’t just type, time. It was types whose destruction only as they passed through Israel.

Does your worship God, or God?

What does your look like?

Are you going through the in your worship?

Even now— this is the Lord’s declaration— turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster. Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, so you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God.

For 21 Days, we are going to offer up and turn to God with all our through , , and .

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (CSB)

For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. ¹² You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.

True worship is and gets God’s .

The blessing of worship is found in complete .

I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— my great army that I sent against you. You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied. You will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame. You will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

The Lord promises to Israel. But He doesn’t stop there, He promises not lack, He promises His , and He promises that His people will never be put to shame.

This same promise for Israel can impact when we and restore!

2025 is the year that we and Restore!

What are we believing God can restore at Diversity?

– Our Leadership

– Our Pastoral Team

– Our Ministries

– Our Finances

– Marriages

– Relationships

– Families

– Mental Health

– Homes

Only thing is necessary.

Luke 10:38-42 (CSB)

While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. ³⁹ She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to what he said. ⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.” ⁴¹ The Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, ⁴² but one thing is necessary. Mary has made the right choice, and it will not be taken away from her.”

I have decided to make the of the New Year.

Ephesians 5:15-16 (CSB) Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—¹⁶ making the most of the time, because the days are evil.

I have decided to get rid of every .

Hebrews 12:1 (CSB) Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

I have decided to prioritize the in my life.

Philippians 3:7-8 (NLT) I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. ⁸ Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Give God the of your year, and see what He can do with the other .

21 DAYS OF PRAYER

January 5^th – 25^th

Prayer Services: Monday – Friday 6:00AM

Saturday 9:00AM

Sunday Worship 10:30AM