How To Thrive In 2025 - Pastor Bobby Davis

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Pastor Bobby Davis kicks off the new year by challenging the congregation to join a 21-day fast with 21 area churches.

The episode opens with Pastor Bobby Davis welcoming the congregation and announcing a 21-day prayer and fast starting the next day, involving 21 area churches. He introduces the sermon's title, 'How to Thrive in 2025,' based on Proverbs 13:19, emphasizing thriving in soul over financial, physical, or social success. Davis discusses the biblical principle that souls who follow their hearts thrive, while fools bent on evil despise matters of the soul. He explains that being 'bent on evil' means being self-centered instead of God-centered, linking this to emotional instability. Davis redefines evil beyond extreme acts like murder to include jealousy, selfishness, and uncontrollable anger, citing James 3:14 and James 1:19. He shares a personal example of considering a job change without praying, calling it evil because it ignores God's ownership. The sermon contrasts self-centeredness with God-centeredness, using Satan's fall in Isaiah 14:12 as a warning. Davis urges listeners to avoid New Year's resolutions, which have a 6% success rate, and instead seek a 'heart revolution' from God. He recounts his own experience with cocaine addiction 33 years ago, highlighting how God's intervention, not his resolutions, led to lasting change. Davis explains that after being born again, the Holy Spirit lives in one's heart, but the body still craves evil, creating an internal war as described in Galatians 5:16-17. He shares a recent personal repentance for not pursuing God enough and reflects on the challenge of seeking an invisible God over tangible worldly pleasures. Davis describes God as 'not cheap,' requiring pursuit to experience His rarity and value. He recounts a recent prayer meeting where he prayed for a man with ringing ears, and the symptoms subsided, illustrating God's power. The sermon concludes with practical advice on starting a prayer life using the Lord's Prayer as a model and an altar call for repentance and commitment.

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A New Year's sermon connecting fasting, prayer, and service with a turn away from self-focus.

This New Year's sermon treats fasting as more than seasonal resolve: it presents 21 days of prayer and fasting as a way of loosening ordinary cravings so attention can turn back toward God.

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You want a new-year reset that makes room for God through prayer, fasting, and a sharper focus beyond yourself.

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