Farewell to the Past, Hello to a Future Filled with Blessings

 As we stand on the threshold of a new beginning, Joshua and I invite you to bask in the warmth of gratitude and the light of faith that beams from our latest Word Become Flesh podcast. We're waving goodbye to the shadows of yesteryear and stepping into 2023's embrace, carrying a treasure chest of triumphs and lessons learned. Together, we've navigated the tumultuous waves of the past and now set sail towards a horizon brimming with promise and divine favor.

In this heartfelt gathering, we extend our hands across oceans, from Edmonton to the bustling streets of India and the vibrant heart of Nigeria, celebrating the expansion of our family to four countries strong. The echoes of our collective victories, the miracles large and small, resound as a testament to the enduring power of unity and faith. Joshua and I share in the spirit of jubilation, honoring the blood of Jesus that has brought us this far, and invoke His continued blessings for the splendid journey into 2024. Tune in for an episode that's not just a podcast, but a mosaic of voices, a chorus of souls united in an anthem of thanksgiving and hope.

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to the word become flesh podcast. My name is Joshua. Happy New Year's. And here's your host, mary. Thank you, joshua.

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Happy New Year to everyone. Thank you, welcome to your new year. It is a new year of prosperity, a brand new year of blessing. Hey, congratulations to yourself. You made it to a brand new year. God is so good. Let's give it up to Jesus. He has entered us in new years. He has been so faithful with all the trials that we went through tribulation.

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Overcomer. We are overcomer in the mighty name of Jesus and we thank you, lord, for this wonderful new year. Thank you, jesus. You have kept in us to the year of 2023 alone, and 2024 shall continue to be a great year. In the mighty name of Jesus. It is only by your grace, lord, that we have made it this far.

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Father, we are so, so grateful. We are grateful, jesus. We say thank you, thank you, thank you your goodness and your faithfulness. O God, oh, we thank you, my Father, god, o Lord, for the time that we cry for the year of 2023,. O Lord, father, you wipe out where our tears. O God, mighty God, for the time, my Father, god, that we thought we could not make it up. O Lord, we have entered a new year, a brand new year. Mighty God Lord, we are grateful. We are grateful, father, we are grateful for another season of the word become flesh podcast. O God, I am so grateful, my Father, god, for the community of the word become flesh. My Father, god, every soul, every listener, o God, lord, we thank you, my Father, god Lord, we only started only in Edmonton, my Father, god. But, father, now we're in Edmonton, we are in the US, o God. We are in India, o God. And we are in Nigeria, father, we have made it to four countries. It was only by your grace, it was only you, jesus, lord, we say thank you. Thank you, lord, my Father, god, almighty God, many of us, we were involved in the accident, but our life did not end. O God, lord, we say thank you, we bless you, jesus. Oh, we are so, so grateful. O God, almighty God, it is only you, jesus, it is only your grace, o God. Your grace has brought us this far. Your faithfulness, o God, your love, o God, thank you, jesus, thank you Lord, my Father, god, oh, we bless your name, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you, jesus. We are saying thank you.

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A brand new year, o God. Oh, rekeria Baravosa, renda Baravosa, Shinda Baravosa, daddy, it's gonna be an incredible year, an incredible year of 2024, almighty God, I year my Father, god, that you are brightening up a light. You are brightening up a light this year. Oh, renda Baravosa, kerea Baravosa, shinda Baravosa, daddy, we're not carrying no carryovers of 2023, but we're assuring we enter to a brand new year. A brand new year, o God, a brand new year, father, we thank you, thank you. So, thank you, thank you, jesus, thank you, king of King, thank you, jesus, because the blood is still have power, because the blood is still have power. Jesus, oh, we are so, so, so, so, thank you, o God. Oh, we are grateful. It is a brand new year. It is a brand new year, o God, we say thank you, thank you, my Father, god. The enemy fighters O God, oh, renda Baravosa. Many battle, my Father, god, my Father, we overcome it. Many battles, many struggles, many rejections. Oh, renda Baravosa, the grace of Jesus sustain us. The grace of Jesus sustain us, o God, oh, my Tigara, that you never lost a battle. You never lost a battle, jesus. Oh, father, we are so, so, so grateful. We thank you, jesus. Oh, what a year, what a year of 2024. Oh, welcome to the World Became Flesh Podcast. I want to welcome you, saints. You are welcome, you are welcome to your brand new year. Indeed God has been so faithful, indeed God has been so great. I wanna welcome new souls that they're joining us New family, that they're joining this community of the World Becomes Flesh Podcast. I wanna say welcome, welcome, welcome. You have made it, you have made it. Congratulations to you. It is a brand new year, a brand new year, a brand new year. We thank you, lord, we love you, we love you, we love you. We give you glory. We say thank you, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Oh, so grateful I'm, so I'm so, I'm super excited and honored that God has chosen and allow us to see this brand new song. Oh, this brand new year. We thank you, jesus, we love you, we love you, we love you. Oh, we thank you Lord. Thank you, lord, welcome to your brand new year, welcome to your brand new year. Can you tap yourself on the back and say congratulations to me? I have entered a brand new year, a brand new year where the Lord, the Lord, have so many, so many in store for you, so many in store for you, so many in store for you, so many missed. All for you. Amen, I am so. I am so overwhelmed and overjoyed that I have made this new year Now.

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I was. I was just sitting with God and and and just thinking God, where are you taking us with the world become flesh community? Where are you taking us with the world become flesh? And I was just so meditated and and just start thanking God that that he had chosen me to be a voice. I did not see my worth. I don't see my worth every day for me to come talk about him and for me to come talk about his word. And I was just. I was just looking back into my life and I'm like God, wow, wow, and and for all the comments that I get, the testimony that I get upon upon how people that the word of the word become flesh podcast, that has helped their life and it has helped their relationship with God. I'm just so in awe in this journey because because in 2020, most of you guys know me and most of you guys don't know my story In most 2020, I lost my I would say more like 2020, 2019 I lost my identity, my identity in Christ. I lost my identity in Christ. I lost my trust on trusting God's word and and just believing God word and speaking God's word. So just just for me to think, to think that he want me to speak of him, he want me to speak of his word. Oh my God, how, how, a how a soul like me, just looking back at my experiences and and looking back on my hurt and looking back at my trauma, I'm like God, you're so good, you can literally destroy me. You can, you can literally destroy me. But you did not destroy me, jesus. You did not destroy me. You find me worthy again, oh God, when I rejected you, when I rejected you, you find me worthy again. You find me worthy again when I didn't want have nothing to do with you. I didn't want nothing to do with God anymore, my life. So I'm just looking back. I'm like God. Well, it's all I can just think. It's wow for the joy that he have given me back again of trusting his word, understanding his word and encouraging other to pick up his word. I'm just so, I'm just so grateful. I'm grateful to God and I am grateful that we're all here. We all made it. We are here in 2024. Indeed, when he said he prepared a table in the presence of my enemy. Indeed, indeed, he's preparing a table in front of your enemy. Indeed, when he spoke on his word, he said he is my shepherd. I shall not lock nothing. Indeed, jesus, he is definitely our shepherd, that we do not lack of anything, that he's preparing a table in front of our enemies. Indeed, his word are true. Indeed, his word are true. So, this 2024, if I can encourage you, the only thing I can encourage you this 2024, it's hold on to Jesus, hold on to him and hold on to his word. Hold on to Jesus and hold on to his word. Indeed, he's a true friend. Indeed, he's a true father. Indeed, we don't deserve him, but I encourage you this 2024. I don't know where you have left Jesus, I don't know where you have put Jesus, but this 2024, I just want to encourage you hold on to God, hold on to Jesus, walk with God, the Father, walk with God, the son and the Holy Spirit. Don't forsake him, don't forsake his word, don't forsake him. Look for him, look for him. Whatever you have left Jesus, go back and look for him. If it's because of your trauma, if it's because of your hurts. I definitely encourage you that you find a community, that you find a church. You submit yourself under leadership and the spiritual authority. Find yourself a spiritual father, find yourself a spiritual mother and submit yourself under the authority and allow them to guide you back to the lights. Allowed you to do them to guide you back to the light of Christ. Do not forsake Jesus this 2024. Look for him. Sick him in his word. Grab your Bible. If you can't read your Bible, put the audio Bible. There is a wonderful, great app. It reads you the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation, through the whole year, the whole year. It just reads the Bible for you and that's a daily audio Bible. Or you can, or you can definitely follow it on a daily audio audio Bible podcast, arranging from Genesis to arraiging, from Genesis to Revelation. This 2024, if Jesus have left your house, put your house in order and invite Jesus to come back into your life. Invite Jesus because the Bible said I am knocking and knocking, I am searching whoever's gonna open their heart and let me in. I am willing to come in. I am willing to come in. Jesus is still waiting on you this year. Jesus is waiting on you this 2024. Jesus is knocking, is knocking. Would you open up your door this year? Would you give him room again? Live down the anxiety, live down the abominance, live down, live down the rejection and just take back Jesus. And just take back Jesus with you. Allow Jesus to come into your heart, allow him to walk with you again. Amen, I mean that's, that's just my short testimony. Like, if I go on and on, god has been so good and, and I understand, I understand the hurt of being hurt by a church, I understand the hurt of being hurt by a minister, I understand the hurt of being hurt by rejection. Like you might, you might listen, and you're like, okay, no, she doesn't understand. She's just here bragging. I went through it, I went through it. I went through it. I understand, I understand the meaning of making the Word of God become alive into you. Speak the Word of God, meditate on the Word of God, pick up your word, because what indeed, he said? I never forsake you or never leave you. Indeed, god never forsake. Indeed, jesus, he never leave us. It is us that we leave him. It's just us, again, to pick up our, to pick up ourself. And I encourage you to pick up your self. You, yes, there is moment that you will pick up yourself by yourself, but there is moment that you will need that spiritual covering, that you will need that spiritual authority, that you will need that spiritual community. So I encourage you, connect yourself into a community, a community that. A community that believer that Jesus, he, is the Son of God, a community believer that God, he's God the Father, he's God the Son and he's God the Holy Spirit. Search that community and engage yourself into that community and submit, submit yourself, submit yourself under spiritual authority. There is a blessing, there is a most grace blessing of being under spiritual authority, obeying under spiritual authority. Do not forsake the gathering of the saints. Saints, we're all saints, we're all children of God. If the church that you've been going through, the church haven't heard, I've heard you take it with the Holy Spirit as Holy Spirit. I'm in this church but I'm not bearing fruits. I'm in this church, I'm in pain. Anything that the pastor said I'm not getting. Asked the Holy Spirit for guidance, and I'm sure the Holy Spirit will give you guidance. I'm sure the Holy Spirit will respond. He would direct you. He did it for me. He did it for me. He did it for me. I say he did it for me. I said I said I don't know how many times. I said many times I didn't have nothing to do with the church anymore. I didn't have nothing to do with the church. But it said I knew I need church. I was like I know I need God, I know I need a church. And I asked God. I say, lord, if you want me to go to a church, send me. And the Lord will give me certain revelation and he will give me certain dream about a church that I need to be go. He will answer. He will answer me in dream but I'll refuse. He will send people to come invite me and then I'll be like no. But eventually, when I let my pride down and I was like I'm gonna submit and I'm gonna go, it was the most greatest decision I never made again. The first decision that I made it was to give my life to Christ at the age of 8 years old. The best decision that I've made, it's rid dedicate back my life to Christ at the age of 27 years old. It's okay to be hurt, but don't sit down on your hurts, don't sit down on your right. I want to encourage you guys. I give you a little bit of my little testimony now. I really encourage you. This is a popular, this is a popular story in the Bible and and it is a story of it is it's a story of royalty, is a story that you look and you and then you're like, hmm, indeed, I had a place in my father's house. Let me return back to my father's house, amen. So I'm just gonna. I'm gonna read the story because I love the story. It's look 15, 11, 32, look 15, 11, 21, 11, look 15, 11, 32, jesus could. Yeah, look, 15, 11, 32, jesus, continue. There was a man who had two son. The younger one said to his father father, give me, father, give me my share of my state, so he divide his property between them, none longer. After that, the younger son got together all he had set off for the distant country and there was a squander, a scrender, his, his wealth in wild living. After he has spent everything, there was a server, female, famen in the whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hire himself out as a season of the of that country who sent him to his field to feed pig. He long, he long to feel his stomach with ponds, that the pigs were eating, but not. But no one gave him anything. When he came, when he came to his sense, he said how many of my father, higher servant, have food to spare and here I am starving to death? I will sit out and go back to my father and say to him father, I have sinned against heaven and and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your higher servants. So he got up and went to his father, bow. But well, he was still long away off. His father saw him and was filled with compassion for him. He ran to his son and threw his arm around him and kiss him. The son said to him father, I have sinned against you. I have seen, I have seen against heaven and against you. I'm no longer worthy to call to be called your son. But the father said to his servant quick, bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger, sandal on his feet, bring the fitting coffin, kill it. Let have a feast and celebrate, for this son of mine was dead and he's alive again. He was lost and he is found. So they begin to celebrate, celebrate that's. Look 15, from verse 1 to 20. Look 15, 11 to 22. So this 2024, I want to encourage you to go back to your father's house. Go back to your father's house. Your soul does not belong with the word. Your soul belongs to Jesus. I Mean this son. He had anything, everything in his house. Everything, everything that we need in God is found in his word and he's found in his house. Everything that we need, it is found in God's word and he is found in his house. So, this 2024, whatever goal that you have, whatever desire that you have, and encourage you if you have left Christ, if you have left Jesus, and Encourage you return back to your father's kingdom. Come back to your father's kingdom. Come back. He is longing for you, he is longing for your soul. Jesus is longing for you because he has already fulfilled. He has already fulfilled and he already overcome. He already fulfilled and he already overcome. So, this 2024, don't be late To rededicate back your life to your father's house or to rededicate back your, your life to Jesus. Return, return to him, return to Jesus. Jesus is calling. Would you answer his call this year? Would you answer the call of God this year. Jesus is knocking Return back to your kingdom, to His kingdom. Come back to your Father's house, where he has so many rooms for you and he's sitting on the table and he's waiting for you. He's waiting for you to feast on the table with Him. Jesus is singing my son, my daughter, you are so worthy to me. Come and let me close you. Come, let me close you. Let me close you with my joy. Let me close you with my peace. Let me close you. Jesus is calling. He's saying my son, come, come, come as you are. Don't say, god, I need to go fix this. Then I will come. Jesus says come as you are and let me put a robe around you. It's okay if the robe that you're wearing had stain my blood, it will wipe away that stain. Come, come, my son. Jesus is saying that His blood has already done it for you. All you have to do is just come to Him. He will close you. He will close you. He will close you out. He will close you with glory. He's going to close you with glory. This is 2023. This is 2024. And say it aloud your light, I'm going to make your light shine so bright. Come, don't worry about the filthiness of your soul. Don't worry about the filthiness of your soul. Come and I will cleanse it. I die on the cross for you. I shed blood for you. They pierced my hands for you. He said they're flogging me for you. Come, my son, I will restore you. Just come as you are. Just come. Come as you are, come as you are. Come as you are. He said he's giving you a new robe. Come as you are. If this is your prayer this 2024, or if youthis is your prayer this 2024, and you want to come to Christ, I invite you to pray with me. This prayer Say Lord, jesus Christ, I believe you are the Son of God and I believe you die for me on the cross of Calvary. I know I am a sinner and today I come to you to forgive me of all my sin and to make me a brand new creation. I accept you as my personal Lord and Savior. Thank you, lord, for forgiving me and make me a born again. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah. Now you might say, oh, that was simple, that was very simple. Okay, it started with a simple prayer, but it started with a simple prayer of accepting Christ in your heart, but I want to encourage you to go back and find yourself. If you're not in a home church, find yourself a home church. Now, if you're in Edmonton and you need a home church and you don't have a home church and you absolutely need a home church, I want to come to invite you, take an invitation and come and be a part of Cornerstone Christian Church of God on 9249 and 50th Street. We are waiting for you to welcome you. You don't have to do this alone. You don't have to walk alone. There's a whole community there waiting and to welcome you. And keep on meditating on the Word of God, keep on reading the Word of God, submit yourself to the Word of God, submit yourself to God, the Father, god the Son and God, the Holy Spirit, and allow the Holy Spirit to continue. Lead you this 2024,. Go out there and be a light and be a voice to Jesus. God bless you. Happy, happy New Year. Happy New Year. So before we go, I have a quick, quick, quick announcement. I have a quick announcement the Word Become Flash podcast is now officially on YouTube. So there is a new episode right now on YouTube waiting for you to go see it, and many of you guys been requesting that. You guys want to see my face. You guys want to see me. Okay, I have. I have answered your call of you guys seeing my face. And now the Word Become Flash you can cast. You can still catch us on all platform, on, on, on all platform that you listen your podcast on iTunes, on Google, on Spotify, and also, too, you can catch us on YouTube. Now we're not on YouTube? 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