We are standing on the threshold of a new year, a year filled with possibilities, new potential for you to explore, new songs to sing, new dreams to bring into visibility. But do you have the power to see it through? That’s the question I’d like to put to you today.

Sometimes it’s hard to get started in a new direction. We need that push forward through the inertia to get moving in a certain direction. When we think about our dreams and our goals and our visions and our purposes and begin to pray about them, they come alive to us. We begin to see what we want to achieve.

But we must go further than that. Let me illustrate by referring you to the scripture in Exodus 14:15, where we find Moses and the people of Israel on the edge of the Red Sea having escaped from Egypt and bondage. Here they are, faced with the Red Sea before them and no way to get across, the Pharaoh and his army in back of them approaching rapidly. What were they to do? They were panicking and Moses told them to stand still, that was the first thing, to “Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.” In other words, to pray, to get still. I’m sure he was praying pretty hard right then. What was going to happen? It was a scary moment. You’ve been in those moments, between a rock and a hard place.

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