Hey podcast fam CJ Hansen the pastor of wave
point church. Thank you so much for joining us
today We love you and we pray that this message
will build your faith and empower you to share
the message of Jesus to the world Enjoy If you're
here for the first time, thank you so much for
joining us this morning. It's probably the best
Sunday that you can come to church if you're
here for the first time, amen? Because if there's
something that I love speaking about, that is
vision. And not just vision corporately for us
as a church, but vision for yourself. That's
it. In the worship while we were busy singing,
I'm playing here. As you can see, I haven't been
in a while so they let me play. You will play
and you will preach as well, all right? You haven't
been here in a while. But I love it and it reminds
me of not so long ago when it was just me behind
the piano playing and leading the worship. Remember
those times, right? But I thank God that I wasn't
doing it without vision. There was vision there
was always vision behind everything that we were
doing even in the earlier years of church Otherwise,
we wouldn't be here today We would still be stuck
at 20 15 people if there was no Vision because
what does the Bible see say that my people? perish
They perish they they go astray. They go they
lose their way things go a little bit a bit murky
and muddy as you go along why because there is
no vision And another scripture says when it
speaks about vision, it says that vision has
to be casted all the time, where there is no
prophetic vision, which means when something
is prophetic, something is fresh from the heart
of God. Hello? So why is a Sunday like this important?
It's not that we're gonna redo our vision. The
vision of Waypoint will stay the vision of Waypoint,
but here's the thing, vision leaks. Let me say
it again. Vision leaks. How many times when your
kids were growing up as parents and you keep
having to tell them every single day, don't forget
to do this, don't forget to do this. Can you
do, don't remember them? And then they do it
again. Why? Because vision leaks. And Sundays
like this, I love it. Why? Because we just get
to dial in a little bit and relook again at our
vision as a church corporately. But I also want
you to take time today to look at your vision.
What is it that God has told? You, why are you
here? What was the mandate? What was the scripture
that God gave you 10 years ago? Are you still
with that scripture? Are you still standing on
that word? That's what these Sundays are about.
Just to redarl it in a little bit, hallelujah.
So I'm excited to be here. I know my wife's been
preaching up a storm the last couple of weeks,
hallelujah. Amen, come on. And I'm so blessed
and I'm so thankful for my wife. Man, you know
what, I said something to Sintershe last year.
Sometimes we think that what's best is what God's
best is for us. And if we settle, we will miss
out actually on the best that God has for us.
So I want you to take some stock today and think
about the things that you trust in God for, and
you saying, man, if I get this, this will be
the best for me. If I get this person, this husband,
or this person that's gonna be my wife, it will
be the best for me. I want you to take some stock
today and just say, God, is that really the best
for me? Because I don't wanna miss out, because
God will bless you at that level. But if there's
something else that he has for you, I rather
wanna step into that. Hallelujah? So this morning,
if you can shout me down, if you can say some
amens, you know how I'd appreciate it, is that
okay? All right. I can feel a little bit in the
house this morning. It's the 25th of January.
And some of you have already started telling
yourself it's probably gonna be the same again
this year. It doesn't feel like anything is gonna
change in 2026. I want you to be careful of that.
I want you to be careful that the enemy doesn't
come and whisper lies in your ear. And as a result
of him whispering lies in your ear, what happens?
Your vision begins to leak. And before you know
you're living, you're just living every day,
every day, but not actually intentionally and
with a vision. Amen? I love this scripture. It
says, and then God answered. That's a good scripture
right there. And then God answered. Come on,
He's a God that responds to you. He's a God that
speaks back to you. Amen? If you just begin to
lean in, if you just put your ear on His heart
and on His chest, He will speak to you. And the
Bible says, and then God answered and He says
this, write this. He says, write what you see.
Write it out in big block letters so that it
can be read on the run. How cool is that? Write
it down in big bold letters so that it can be
read on the run. I mean, think about it, which
means that you cannot write the vision that God
has put in your heart just on a small little
piece of paper. God is saying, I want you to
be bold about the vision that I've given you.
I want you to be bold about the dream that I've
given you. Why? So that when people run past
you, it can be read on the run. And have you
ever been in a big city with a big bull board?
Have you seen that? You drive down the freeway,
you can do 120, but as you do 120, you can read
the vision. You can read that statement on the
wall, right? That's what God is saying. Your
vision has to be that big that it can be read
on the run. But here's the problem is that some
of us, we don't even write it down. Pastor God
gave me that idea to start a business. He's given
me this, he's given me, but we don't even write
it down. It's not vision if it's not written
down. Write it down, write it down so that it
can be read on the run. Amen. What is vision?
Vision is not what I can see with my sight. Vision
is what I see when my eyes are closed. What do
I see? What do I see down the line for 2026?
What do I see for my life? What do I see for
my children? When I begin to close my eyes, I
say, God, you need to give me a vision. What
do I see? you know yesterday I was I was walking
on a beach there and I was just going over my
notes and praying and just speaking to the Lord
because This is like an important Sunday for
me why because I love vision. I love casting
Vision, you know and and I remember ten years
ago This year ten years ago. I was on the beach
on Paradise Beach over there ten years ago And
I had a vision and a dream in my heart for days
like today For days like where you will be in
the room For days like today when I will play
the keyboard not in another church, but in our
church Days like today when we sense the atmosphere
and the presence of God days like today It's
what I envisioned ten years ago. I was walking
on a beach and things were so different back
then Things are so different. It was so different
for us as a family where we were it was different
for us Financially where we were but somehow
God gave me a vision And when I used to walk
on that beach every morning with my wife, we
were beginning to pray about WavePoint Church.
We begin to see it in existence. I remember going
to conferences, standing at conferences, and
I hear the people worship, and I say to myself,
God, I hear this in Jefferies Bay. I see this
in Jefferies Bay. It is vision what got me here.
It's vision that got me here. And I want you
to come alive this morning. I want you to say,
if you don't have a vision, I say, God, that
you give me a new vision. Let me begin to see
the promises that you have for me Hallelujah
And when God gives you that vision be bold about
it so that it can be read on the run. I love
that scripture I didn't even know it was like
written like that. It's in the message translation
So that it can be read on the run. Hallelujah
Come on. I'm a result of the goodness of God.
Don't get me wrong, but also God gave me a word
God will give you a picture of your future and
if you trust it And if you zero in on it, young
people, I wanna encourage you, 10 years seems
a long time, but it goes past like that. Purpose
in your heart today, purpose in your heart, God,
give me a vision. You might think that while
I still have time and I'm still kinda just hanging
about, whatever, 10 years go by like this. 10
years go by like this in your marriage. Don't
coast, don't just take it easy. Hello? I don't
know you guys yet, but yesterday when I was walking
on that beach, I was praying for you. And I pray
that God will give you a vision in the months
that you are here. And if God has given you a
vision already, that you will begin to dial it
in. You'll begin to take time over the next couple
of months. And we're not playing around. We're
not just here for surfing. Hello? We hear that
God will clear and give us clear direction of
where we're going. Amen? Can I release that to
you? Is that okay? All right, awesome. She's
smiling, so that's good. It's all good, it's
all good. So I've got, I don't have a lot of
time, but I have almost like something prepared
that is threefold and I wanna speak about vision.
And then I wanna give you a word that I feel
God has given to us as a church this year. Amen,
is that okay? Cool, so here's the thing with
WavePoint is that our vision is always a place
to belong, to connect with Jesus and to empower
people to change their world. This is now What's
six years ago? When did we do straight up seven
years ago? myself Roy and a couple of people
Sharon we were just in a room and what we did
we took a big white board and All Roy did was
he began to ask me questions He began to take
me down this pathway of hours 40 I turned 41
at the time and he began to take me down 40 years
of just my laughs asking questions and the Lord
is already I placed this vision in my heart before
coming to Jefferies Bay, but within him asking
questions, it began to dial in the vision. Things
began to make even more sense. Oh, is that why
this happened? Because God needed to shape me
for this moment, right? And literally after a
couple of days, we walked away and we had a plan
on a page. Is that what you call it? PO something.
Sorry, those are fancy words. You know, I'll
leave it for those guys. But we had a plan on
a page seven years ago. And I don't have it here
this morning, and next week when I'm back here,
I'm gonna put it up on the screen. And vrachtach.
If you don't know what that means, vrachtach.
Vrachtach. I went and found that plan on a page,
and it is incredible to see how we are starting
to hit all those things seven years later. I'm
telling you, when you begin to refine, when you
begin to dial in and take time, Take time to
just take some time Intentionality get in a room
with somebody that loves you that that cares
for you that believes in you And let them begin
to ask you some questions about the future. Where
are you right now? What's going on in my life
right now? What do I need to refine? What do
I need to dial in? Why am I keep using this word
dial in because this word dial in it's actually
a surfing term By now if you can tell I'm a surfer
hallelujah phrase guy a Surfer that hasn't surfed
in 25 days So I don't know if it still makes
me one, but you know But before I get to that
I'm I think I'm running ahead of myself But I
just want to want to say this to you when you
walked into the door this morning There's a little
board and some stuff that's lying there and you
can see the actual board next to it That's finished
the shaper took time to shape the board But actually
there's a process that takes place with the surfer
and the surfboard shaper Is that there's a process
where he shapes the board and then he starts
working with the surfer and he begins to dial
in some things on the board Why because when
he takes time to dial it in with the surfer is
so that you can have maximum speed while you're
riding down the line You know what I mean, and
I believe prophetically this morning is what
God wants to do for you He's already given you
something he has given you a word, but he wants
you to allow him to begin to dial in some things
in your life So that you can have the right of
your life Sorry, I'm running ahead of myself,
but I got to tell you this last year. I think
it was November Waves are cooking kitchen windows
beats break four foot five foot I can say six
foot you wouldn't know You know, I can exaggerate
that, but you wouldn't know. But it was a big
solid beach break. And somehow over the last
couple of months, I've come to love to surf the
beach break. Because it's so quick and you have
to react. You need to be on your feet. And I
remember that morning was Friday morning after
prayer. It's maybe because I came to pray, you
know? And I was sitting in the back and I saw
the wave. Sam shouted me down. And the next moment
he just said, boss, CJ, go. And I went, and this
wave was this big. I mean, I'm going down the
line, not even right, I'm going left. And it's
just going. I look beyond me, the wave is like
just going, right? But what was so amazing for
me is that it's just that feeling. It is true
what they say, only a surfer knows. There's a
feeling that comes with it. There's an, you know
what I mean? It's like, you're like, this is
so good, right? But what's even better is that
as I finished my ride, I looked around and the
rest of my crew was sitting in the back saying,
Boss, the CJ is amazing. Right? But you have
to take time to be dialed in. You know what I
mean? I know I keep going ahead of myself, but
I got the privilege for our shaper locally to
shape me aboard. And what I didn't know at the
time was when I was on a foamy, he was out there
surfing. And by the time I came to him and asked
him to shape me a board, he already was watching
me. He's been watching me all along. And as we
begin to speak about shaping me this board, he
started saying to me, you do this in the water,
the waves are like this, you need, we paddle
a lot out there, kitchen windows, so I need to
make you a little bit more volume in your board,
your rocker needs to be a little bit more, you
know, like that language and stuff. And I was
so surprised, I was so surprised. And I began
to realize that The shaper, which is God. He's
so intentional about you. He watches you. He
knows what you need. He knows what he needs to
dial in. And when you are willing to lay your
life down on that little thing there in the shaping
bay and allow the shaper just to come and take
the machine and will be painful sometimes for
stuff to come off. You know, you'd have to take
a little bit of sandpaper, which is a bit. They
need to have to just kind of do this. But I can
tell you if you allow him that, you'll have the
right of your life. You'll have the right of
your life if you allow him to dial in your vision,
hallelujah. So our vision is a place to belong,
to connect with Jesus and to be empowered to
change your world. And this year corporately
for us is that I really want us to pay attention
to that. I want us to dial in. That vision and
I actually I want us to come into unity with
the vision You shouldn't be here if you don't
believe in the vision of this house Let me say
it again. You shouldn't be here if you don't
believe in the vision of this house not believing
CJ Because I can I can disappoint you I might
not answer your call next week or I might not
respond when you want me to respond You will
get disappointed by CJ. But if you say I believe
that God is aligning me with this Vision, a place
to belong, connect with Jesus and empower to
change your world. Then you need to be here.
Is there anybody that can say that this vision
has impacted my life? I've experienced it and
I've seen it. Anybody? Same for me. Amen. Obviously
every year we, you know, we take time to pray
and we trust God for a word for us as church.
And this is not a, it's not, our vision doesn't
change. And I believe what that word does, it
is part of helping us with the dialing in of
what we need to focus on in 2026. Amen. Can I
give you that real quick? All right. I was at
a conference last year, October, and this pastor
was doing the offering. Can you believe it? God
speaks to me in offering somehow. And he went
to Genesis 11 and he read the scripture. And
when he read it, it just came alive in me. I
saw something in it. Quickly give some context.
This is the story about the Tower of Babel. Who
knows the story of what happened? The people,
right? And how many know that scripture, what
it does, it helps us, it guides us, we can learn
from scripture. Amen. We know that this was a
little bit of a bad situation, but I saw something
in it that I believe, and if we can take it out
of that, it will help us in 2026. Amen. So I
wanna read it to you. In verse one, he says,
and now the whole world had won. language. And
they had a common speech. And he says, as people
move each word, they found a plane in Shana and
settled there. They said to each other, come,
let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They
used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar.
And verse four, and then they said, come, let
us build ourselves a city. With a tower that
reaches to the heavens so that they so that we
may make a name for ourselves Within there we
see the problem is that they had the ability
to build something, but they kept pointing everything
to themselves Let's do it for ourselves. Let
it benefit me It's all about us and we as a people
But what is powerful that we can learn from this
the scripture is that the Bible says that the
people spoke one language Throughout it, we see
that they were in oneness. They were in unity.
They had a common cause that they wanted to go
after, right? The problem that the people here
got into is that their common cause and what
they wanted to do, it didn't line up with what
God wanted to do. Does it make sense? And then
this one here in verse four, sorry, verse five.
But the Lord came down to see the city and the
tower the people were building I want this is
important This is what I'm gonna land on and
the Lord came down to see the city in the tower
With the children of men built and this is what
God says. What's the next one verse 6? And the
Lord said behold What are the people? Come on.
What are the people? The people is one and they
have all won Language and this they begin to
do and now Nothing will be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to do And when I saw
that and when I read that it just leaped into
me and I said God What if wave point is the church
where you come down and you say nothing that
they imagined to do they can't do Why because
they are in? Unity, they are a people that are
in oneness. Does it make sense? And as I saw
this and I begin to sit in this atmosphere, the
Lord dropped the word in my heart and I knew
that this is the word for 2026. And this is our
word, alignment. The people were aligned. They
were aligned, they were in oneness. And that's
my prayer this year as we dialing into what are
we actually doing? We're coming into alignment.
Hello, maybe I want to tell you last year wasn't
a failure. You were just misaligned. That's it.
You were just misaligned. Don't let the enemy
lie to you. Don't let it make you feel guilty.
Like, oh, is this gonna be the same year again?
No, you were just misaligned. And if you begin
to realign yourself again, just begin to realign
yourself with the things of God again. Realignment
again, I can tell you and you trust me that God
will begin to shift things in your life. Hallelujah.
And I'm gonna be back next week, hopefully. And
I wanna come and share a little bit more on alignment.
Is that okay? Right? God, I believe that He wants
us to align this year. You know, I have a little
book. I don't know if you guys saw the post that
I did two weeks ago. I've got a little book that
I go back to every year. And in that book, I
wrote the vision down of WavePoint Church. In
that book, I wrote the word that God gave me.
for WavePoint shirts. And every year in the beginning,
what do I do? I go and realign myself with what
God said. Does that make sense? When your car
goes out of alignment, what happens? You start
spending more money on fuel. When things are
out of alignment, you're starting to spend more
time on things that you're not supposed to be
spending time on. But when we begin to realign.
So God, I'm gonna realign. And here's the thing
is that I got an injury a couple of months ago.
When I was surfing, my wife was like, yaw. And
when I got injured the first time, I went for
physio. I got better. It was like six weeks.
It got better. I thought it was better. But what
I didn't realize that something worse or something
happened deeper than just what I was feeling
in my... Remember I said to you, I had all these
little... What's the medical word for your glutes?
I had all these glutes on my screen. Remember
that. All right, because I thought that my glute
was giving me problems. But actually what I didn't
know that the problem was in my back. I hurt
my back. The disc moved and it was starting to
push against my nerve, my sciatic nerve. And
the more and more that I was thinking people
were trying to fix my back or trying to fix the
pain, sorry, that was in my leg. It was actually
my back that needed to be fixed. And while I
was lying on the couch then I couldn't do anything.
God was saying that CJ is that I'm realigning
you. It's realigning you. And as you begin to
realign what happened, the pain and all those
things started disappearing. Amen. So I wanna
next week speak a little bit more on alignment,
amen? That as we align and I had a cool closing
here, I'm gonna close with this. Alignment precedes
acceleration. Amos 3 verse 3 says, Can two walk
together unless they are in agreement? Can we
walk together unless we are aligned? Then we
can walk together and then we can actually do
things together. Hello? The Bible says an unstable
man is, yeah. Sorry, a double -minded man is
unstable in his ways. Get aligned, get into alignment.
And when God sees the people who are one, nothing
that we imagined, we cannot be restrained from
it. When God sees us as a people of one, we will
build a building for him. We wanna be in oneness.
We wanna be aligned, amen. So today I want us
to as a church, I want us to say yes to alignment.
I want us to say yes to positioning. And I want
us to say yes to what God has spoken to us. 2026,
alignment. And here's the thing for some of us
here is that you might not experience the thing
that you want yet in 2026. But here's the thing,
if you align, if you come into alignment in 2026,
what could happen in 2027? That's it. This year,
I got up with so much pain. I was like, for a
couple of weeks, I was just lying in pain and
pain. And I was like, but God, you gave a word
last New Year's Eve. You're doing a new thing.
And I don't feel like I'm sitting in a new thing.
Why? Because some things were out of alignment
in my... physical body I Can't just go back to
surfing now There's a process that I need to
walk out before I can get back into that water
And I might not remember the feeling that I said
to you earlier that you feel when you're surfing
I might not have that feeling this year And I
have to be okay with it because I want to come
into a line And if it means that in general in
January next year that I get back into the water
and start surfing again It means that because
I don't want to shortcut what God wants to do
in my life. The doctor booked me off a couple
of weeks ago. He said, you're not going to church.
We're launching a church. I have to be at church.
He says, so are you focusing on right now or
are you seeing down the line? And that's what
alignment is. He's saying, I'm putting all the
things that I saw quickly, the quick gratification.
God give me a quick little word. I'm putting
all those things aside and say, I'm gonna align
with what God wants me. And I can guarantee you,
it might not be in a month, it might not be in
six months, but 2027 is coming. Things can shift
in 2027 for you, hallelujah. Amen, can we stand
on our feet? Amen. Come on, this year we're gonna
allow God to shape us, amen. We're gonna get
into the shaping bay. and let him make us and
let him, he says, I'm the potter, you are the
clay. Some of us, we are misaligned. We think
that we are the potter. Not just think, we've
taken the place of the potter. God, I get this.
Talk about alignment, I can get myself into alignment.
But we need to allow him, we need the things
shift. You are out of alignment. You're not in
where God wants you to be. Allow him to be the
potter. and you'd be the clay. And say, God,
in whatever way you wanna mold me and shape me
and make me, I've been pushing against it. I've
been just resisting you. I know that I'm supposed
to go in this direction, but I'm still pushing
to go into this direction. But this morning,
today, as we were talking about vision and what
God wants to do, I realized that I'm not aligned
with him in my life. I'm not aligned. Jesus came
and what did he do? He realigned us with God.
He got on that cross, he died for us so that
we can come into alignment with God. So the first
place that we can start off today is to get in
alignment with Jesus. Alignment starts by surrender.
Say, Jesus, I surrender my life to you. That's
where it starts this morning for you. And I wanna
give you that opportunity, if you standing here
this morning, you say, CJ, my life is not aligned
with Jesus yet. If I really had to look at my
life, I am not 100 % aligned. with Jesus. Can
I ask every eye to be closed as we give this
moment and allow this moment for people. If that's
you this morning, on the count of three, I want
you to lift up your hand and we wanna pray for
you. I'm not gonna put you on the spot or anything,
but we wanna pray with you. And then I wanna
make another call is that maybe you've given
your life to Jesus, you've walked with the Lord,
but you know that there's some areas in your
life that is not 100 % aligned with him. There's
still some things that are pulling my attention.
It's like, am I gonna have the same year again?
Am I gonna have to go through the same thing?
No, you don't have to, just realign. Realign,
just realign, just realign. Is it gonna cost
you something? Yes, it probably will cost you
some friends, it will cost you, you're gonna
have to give up something, but I can tell you
now that your life will change. The chains that
what you've been looking for maybe in friends
and in alcohol or with partying or whatever that
may be. You know when you come back home, it's
like, man, there's still something missing. I'm
still out of alignment. This is the moment that
God's creating for you this morning is to come
into alignment. So if that's you, just as a response,
I want you to lift up your hand. This is not
a moment to embarrass. This is just, God, I wanna
come into alignment.