It's a new year 2026

• You may feel as though you are facing impossible odds in the coming year. You have cried out to God over and over with little or seemingly no response. But you don’t know what’s ahead or how God will be glorified through this. 

Exodus 14:10-18 ESV

• Verses 13-14 seem like easy instructions until you’re the one being told to fear not, stand firm, and be silent. 
• You may have seen God do the impossible and the battles ahead seem much smaller. You’re on a mountain top that you’ve never been on before. Things seem to be smooth ahead. 

Joshua 5:10-15 ESV

• 11 Their entire lives they have been told about this land. Now they have received that promise. 
• 12 The promise that had sustained them for their entire life had came to an end because of the promise they were receiving. 
• One provision was ending while another was just beginning. 
• Joshua was on a mountain top he had never been on before and was ready to take on whatever was in front of him. 
• The phrase that got his attention was in verse 14 No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord

What do we do in times like these? Facing major obstacles or on top of the world. 

2 Peter 1:3-11 ESV

• Take every opportunity to search yourself and grow through in spite of or because of circumstances around you. 
• Verse 9 calls those who lack these blind. 
• We are left with the challenge to practice the things we lack.