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Pastor Jack Morris: I have Jesus in my heart. He is the miracle worker. He does great and extraordinary things. He turns darkness to light and he brings about great and mighty things. Friends, you've got to talk Jesus talk.

Guest (Male): Welcome to the Healing Word, a radio ministry of the Largo Community Church. Here's Pastor Jack Morris with today's message that will grow your faith in God and lead you to a closer walk with Jesus.

Pastor Jack Morris: You have been hearing people greet one another for several days now with that grand old greeting full of good cheer and goodwill. Happy New Year. You've heard that? Come on, say it. Happy New Year.

Guest (Male): Happy New Year.

Pastor Jack Morris: Now, that I I like it. I think it's a great grand old greeting and I like to say it. And so and I enjoyed hearing you say it, but I want you to turn to your neighbor now, one on your left, one on your right. Two times I want you to say happy New Year. Will you do that? Now, as I said, that's a grand old greeting full of goodwill and good cheer, but listen to me. It's superficial unless we do something about making it a happy New Year. It doesn't come by just simply saying happy New Year.

It's not wishful thinking. Someone said all good things come to him who waits. Well, you can wait, but nothing's going to happen. You'll still be waiting at the end of the year, but there is something you can do and I can do to make that become a reality, a truly happy New Year. Number A in your outline, a happy New Year. This year can indeed be happy. Now, regardless of what happens, there can still be a joy down deep within us experiencing the presence of the Lord, knowing that we're not alone, that he is with us always to bless us and to help us.

Even though we don't know what's ahead, he certainly knows what's ahead and he's going to be with us. That's his promise. So, two things that you and I must do to make that prediction or that prophecy come about. I'm referring to the prediction, the prophecy happy New Year that you just gave to your neighbor on your left and on your right. We have to turn our back on the old and we have to push forward to the new. We can do better. We can move forward. We can turn things around. So, stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and being sad and down.

Get up and do something. Turn it around. Come on. Somebody ought to clap on that one. Listen. You can go for next month, the next quarter, 6 months. You're going to bring in if you don't stop it and you have the power to stop it in the name of the Lord, by the power of the Holy Ghost, through the power of prayer. Listen. That's what you've been saying all along, haven't you? You've been studying and reading the word of God, learning about prayer, hearing these messages, knowing that God is almighty. Well, then put him to the test and let him begin to work for you.

This is the will of God for you, moving forward and making it right. Now, these problems, these mistakes, these weaknesses, these regrets are going to try to force themselves back into your thinking. They will. You you've got to put them out. You put them out. They're going to try to force themselves back again. And if you begin to think about it, if you begin to nurture, if you begin to ruminate, if you begin to think now, why did I do this? Why did that You you can figure it all out and answer all the whys.

We've got to forget those things that are behind and press forward to those things that are before. Start today, right today. Think about it, pray about it, make some notes about it and get out there and do it. Don't keep planning, planning, planning. Plan and do. Plan and do. Put your faith in action. Faith without works is dead. It's like a person in a rowboat. There's the one paddle. That's the paddle of faith. The other paddle is the paddle of works. If you just work one paddle, you just turn yourself in circles. That's all. You got to work both of them.

And make it go. You can make life go for you through power and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You can turn it around. The new year will not be a repeat of the old year. It will not be the same old same old. You don't have to keep being that same person that you were. You can make it happen. Now, there's a minister I know, he's a friend, well, a casual friend. He he goes out and he jogs before daylight in the early in the morning. And he said he was out jogging and he was going down the street and he got to the dead end and he had to either go right or go left.

And he thought, well, if I go left, the sun is going to come up at my back. But he said, I decided I'm going to face the sun. I'm going to turn and I'm going to jog toward the sun and when the sun comes up over the horizon, it's going to hit me right in the face. I'm going to move and face the sun. Now, doesn't the scripture make a promise to us that the Lord will lift up his countenance upon us, that he will smile upon us, that he will cause his face to shine upon us?

So, friends, get rid of that shadow and gloom off your face and let God's shine on you and shine on your life. Move toward God. Face toward You have to turn toward God. That's the first thing you have to do. Now, the second thing you need to do, you have to push toward the new. You have to do something. Don't just pray and wait. Pray and do. Come on, say it. Pray and do.

Guest (Male): Pray and do.

Pastor Jack Morris: That's right. Get up. Faith without works is dead. You can have all the faith in the world and come up on 09 just as sorry a man and sorry a woman as you were in 07. Come on, take control. Come on, concentrated effort on your part, not simply wishing for circumstances to change. Nothing's going to change until your attitude to your heart changes to your thinking changes. That's the change always takes place inside. A person said, well, prayer changes things. Well, no, it's better to say it this way. Prayer changes me and then I change things in the power of the Lord and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now, I've heard people and you perhaps have heard people say this. Well, I've known people all my life who who have never changed. They just they're just never going to change. They they're just always the same. Actually, they get worse. They don't change. If they any changes, they just get worse. Have you heard heard that before? You know, I used to think that way. They never improve, but I have changed my thinking. I have seen people change. I have seen them change as they turn their face toward the sun of God. And they they allowed Jesus to shine upon them, their family, their marriage, their career.

They have pushed toward the new and I've seen wonderful changes take place, glorious changes take place, all because they positioned themselves, this individual positioned themselves to face Jesus and to face him head on and he faces them head on. So, so run, walk toward the sunrise and you will find that old things will pass away and all things will become new in the Lord. Now, if the motivation is strong enough and if the desire is deep enough. Let me say it again. Lazy Christians continue to fail. Lazy Christians continue to do the same thing over and over again.

Lazy Christians study the word of God, but they don't live the word of God. Lazy Christians talk about faith, but they never exercise faith. They they they have all of the knowledge, but they have no zeal, no energy. You have to get out there and step on the water. You have to get out there and cause the mountain to move. You have to step into the Red Sea before it's going to part, but you got to get up and get on your feet and do some stepping in Jesus' name. And you will see the glory of the Lord come upon you.

Now, again, I 'm going to say it again. If the motivation is deep enough, if the desire is strong enough. I can't put that desire in you. I can't make it happen. I can only tell you what will happen if the desire is there. If the motivation is there, it will happen. You will have a happy New Year. But you're going to have to move, mister. Ma'am, you're going to have to move. You're going to have to move by faith in the Lord. But faith never never settles for nothing. It never stops. Faith is an active word.

It's not a passive word. You will have a happy New Year. You will be a happy, victorious person, more happy and more victorious than ever before. You'll be stronger than you are, happier than you are, more considered than you are, more forgiving than you are. This is God's blessing.

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Pastor Jack Morris: The Lord Jesus comes into this new year to speak abundance. The word of abundance. He gives pressed down, shaken together, overflowing. Hey, when Jesus does it, he does it in a big way. He does it in a big way. Listen. Do you lack joy? He'll speak the word of abundance. Do you lack happiness? Do you Do you lack warmth? Do you Do you lack warmth in your home, warmth in your marriage? Do you lack your career is lacking, something you lack success? Listen, friends, where do you lack? Oh, I wish I had time today. I'd ask you to take out a pencil and a paper and write it down.

You're You're listening to what I'm saying, but you're not thinking where you're lacking. Put your mind in gear and say, hey, this is where I lack. You know, I lack finances. I just don't have enough to go around. My home lacks warmth and love. My children lack discipline. My my career is really lacking something. I'm like, where is it? Are you thinking with me? It might be well for you to go ahead and and write it down. See, what what we're doing, we are pushing now when we start thinking, we are pushing toward the new.

We're We're We're putting Jesus out there where he can do something for us. We're getting involved with him. We're saying, look, Lord, I lack but you have all power. Lord, I am weak, but you are almighty. Lord, I'm deficient, but you're all sufficiency. See, this is what I say. Where do you lack? Just take a moment. I'm going to pause. I'm going to pause. Friend, I don't want to preach sermons just to preach sermons and say words. But I love you so much and I want you to live in victory and I don't want you to lack anything.

The reason I don't want you to lack anything is because the Lord doesn't want you to lack anything. He put that desire in my heart. Where is it? You're coming up short. If you don't deal with that now, you'll come up short in 09. You came up short. Things didn't work out right. Some things fell apart. Well, friend, you can make it make a difference today. All right. Bow your heads with me. I want you to think about it for just a moment. Where do you lack? The word of abundance. The word of abundance. Father, I pray for those who are lacking.

Now, I'm going to talk about some other things, but now those of you the I believe the Holy Spirit wants you to stand up right now if you if you if you're lacking something, wherever you're lacking something, something I've mentioned, something I haven't mentioned yet, I want you to stand up. Okay. See, just stand up. Okay. Father, you see your people. These are your children. Jesus died on the cross to save them. Life has been difficult. Life has beat them down. They are lacking. There is a need. There is a void. Lord, in the home, in the marriage, in the finances, with the children, with the career, you come to speak abundance today.

You're going to give a blessing, a wonderful blessing, an overflowing blessing in Jesus' name. Now, friend, I want you to say to Jesus, I receive the blessing of abundance.

Guest (Male): Jesus receive abundance.

Pastor Jack Morris: Now, think where you're going to receive that blessing of abundance. Think where it's coming in to your career, to your home, to your marriage. Think where it 's going to come in. You got it in mind. You have to have it in mind. You have to be thinking about it. Now that you have it your mind fixed on it, say, I receive your word of abundance.

Guest (Male): I receive your word of abundance.

Pastor Jack Morris: In Jesus' name.

Guest (Male): Jesus' name.

Pastor Jack Morris: Amen. Okay. Now you may sit down. Look to Jesus. He's the source of power. He's the source. He's my source. He's your source. He is blessing us. Now, he also spoke the word of healing when he was here. He did some of the most wonderful things. And I know he's here today and he's willing to be with you always. He 'll never leave you. He's going to come in the in the rapture. He's going to take us away and even then he's going to be with us all through this life and when the rapture takes place, he's going to be with us always.

But he's going to be with us in this new year. If Jesus tarries and you live, it's going to be better than any year you've ever lived before because you are looking to Jesus and he is shining on you today. The word of healing came. People in Jesus' day were in terrible physical condition. They came to him in droves. I I can only imagine how it must have been because of that time that I was in Ethiopia and all of those ministers came and people, I think about they must have been other people other than than the ministers who came.

We had one doctor and his wife who tried to treat all of them and all of the and another pastor and myself. The doctor was treating them and we were praying for them until I started feeling nauseous. I mean the the heat and and the odor and the people and when I tried to move through them, I mean we just moved through them like like a crowd. I mean everybody jammed together and I just had to push. I mean mobs of people, sick people, hurting people, diseased people. That's how it was in Jesus' day. And they came to him.

And what did he do about it? Huh? He healed them. He spoke the word of healing. Say it. He spoke the word of healing.

Guest (Male): He spoke the word of healing.

Pastor Jack Morris: He spoke the word of healing. And he's speaking today. He is the word of God. He is the sound of God's voice and he speaks today. And wherever there is hurt and pain, whether it be physical, emotional, he speaks the word of healing. The psalmist says, he sent his word and healed them. Friend, his word is being sent this morning. You're hearing it right now. He's sending his word right now where you are. The miracle of healing in your soul, in your emotions, in your anxiety, in your depression, in your home, where in your body, the miracle of healing can begin to take place right now.

No one even has to lay their hand upon you. All you have to do is be hearing the word of God coming in. Faith comes by hearing, hearing, hearing. God bless our ears. That we will hear the word of God and be blessed and be helped. He spoke the word of healing, the word just as he did this wonderful savior in the beginning of time when there was only darkness and chaos. And I know Christians who feel that there is absolutely just darkness and chaos right now and they have no idea where their their healing, wholeness, completeness is going to come from.

Well, you do know and let me remind you again, it's going to come from Jesus who spoke into that chaotic darkness and said, let there be light. And there was light. Let dry land appear and dry land appeared. Jesus spoke the word of healing. What a year this is going to be, a dynamic, wonderful, miraculous, life-changing year. And then the word of life. You know, Jesus raised people from the dead. Did he do that? He raised people from the Now, I hear people say, well, when you're dead, you're dead. Dead people stay dead. Well, I have seen Jesus raise people from the dead spiritually speaking.

He's going to raise everybody from the dead some of these days. Some will be raised to life. Some will be raised to damnation, but everybody's going to come back to life again. But right now, I've seen people raised from the dead. Really. I mean their life was so bored. You feel like saying to them, hey, friend, get a life. I mean they're they're just Woo! I mean they're depressing to be around. They I mean they're just filled with regret. All they can think about is what they've done wrong, how life has treated them, how sorry they are for themselves.

I'll never do anything right. I'm always making mistakes. I'll never be any good. Friend, you're prophesying your own doom. You keep saying that. You keep saying that. You've got to turn that thing around and say, I'm a child of God. I have Jesus in my heart. He is the miracle worker. He does great and extraordinary things. He turns darkness to light and he brings about great and mighty things. Friends, you've got to talk. Jesus talk. And you've got to walk. Jesus walk. Walk with him. He's going to walk with you. Every day I pray, Lord, I want to walk with you today.

I don't know where you're walking, but you're going somewhere. I'm not asking that he walk with me. I know he's going to be with me, but I I might walk in the wrong direction. I don't want to take Jesus somewhere where he doesn't want to go. He's going to take me someplace and what a day it's going to be. Hey, you know, Monday's going to be a wonderful day. Yeah, it's not a such thing as a blue Monday, is there? I just I'm I'm just enjoying you right now and I'm going to enjoy Monday. I don't know what's going to happen, but I know I've got Jesus just as much on Monday as I have him on Sunday here at the Largo Community Church.

And he's going to walk with me. Hallelujah. But I'm going to walk with him. That's the that's the secret. But Jesus rose raised people from the dead and I have seen I mean I've been around a while now. I've seen dead careers come alive and people start getting promotions. I've seen dead marriages come alive that people said there's just absolutely no hope. Can this marriage be saved? I've seen it saved. I I've seen young people who have failed and flunked to college and got poor grades and and dismissed. I've seen their lives turned around and I've seen go back and pass with honors, go on and get their degrees.

Jesus still raises the dead. And he will do that spiritually dead people who whose lives and faith has just grown so cold and so dull. They just died on the inside. But Jesus is here to raise the dead. He is doing it. Now, the original question that I started out with just a few minutes ago, can a person become a new happy person? Can an unhappy, sad, weak, insecure person become a new person? And can I get rid of old problems, old resentments, and old habits? Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes. You can.

You can. Jesus can perform the miracle in your life and make the old go away. He'll make the new come. Those undesirable habits, those those old hates and old resentments. Friend, listen to me. Aren't you tired of of resenting that person that you resent? You know that person you resent? Aren't you tired of resenting him or resenting her? Just forget that person. Just go on and serve the Lord and love Jesus. They hurt you short. They did wrong. Of course they did. You now resent them, but stop resenting them. You're not doing anybody any good.

You're only stressing out yourself and it's displeasing to the Lord. Just pray God forgive them. They're dummies and you know they're dummies. I know they're dummies. And just forgive them, Lord, and help them not to be a dummy anymore. And help me not to be the bigger of the two dummies by carrying resentment. Amen. Amen. Jesus says, I make all things new. That's his promise. I'm not looking to the psychics today. I'm looking to the infallible word of God and to the one who says, I make all things new. Praise the Lord.

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