WEBVTT 00:00:02.169 --> 00:00:05.629 Hey podcast fam CJ Hansen the pastor of wave 00:00:05.629 --> 00:00:07.870 point church. Thank you so much for joining us 00:00:07.870 --> 00:00:10.550 today We love you and we pray that this message 00:00:10.550 --> 00:00:12.849 will build your faith and empower you to share 00:00:12.849 --> 00:00:22.190 the message of Jesus to the world Enjoy If you're 00:00:22.190 --> 00:00:24.410 here for the first time, thank you so much for 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:26.649 joining us this morning. It's probably the best 00:00:26.649 --> 00:00:28.370 Sunday that you can come to church if you're 00:00:28.370 --> 00:00:30.929 here for the first time, amen? Because if there's 00:00:30.929 --> 00:00:33.109 something that I love speaking about, that is 00:00:33.109 --> 00:00:36.189 vision. And not just vision corporately for us 00:00:36.189 --> 00:00:39.210 as a church, but vision for yourself. That's 00:00:39.210 --> 00:00:41.520 it. In the worship while we were busy singing, 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.299 I'm playing here. As you can see, I haven't been 00:00:43.299 --> 00:00:45.659 in a while so they let me play. You will play 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:48.039 and you will preach as well, all right? You haven't 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.119 been here in a while. But I love it and it reminds 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.659 me of not so long ago when it was just me behind 00:00:54.659 --> 00:00:57.619 the piano playing and leading the worship. Remember 00:00:57.619 --> 00:01:00.939 those times, right? But I thank God that I wasn't 00:01:00.939 --> 00:01:03.950 doing it without vision. There was vision there 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:06.189 was always vision behind everything that we were 00:01:06.189 --> 00:01:09.250 doing even in the earlier years of church Otherwise, 00:01:09.250 --> 00:01:11.969 we wouldn't be here today We would still be stuck 00:01:11.969 --> 00:01:16.209 at 20 15 people if there was no Vision because 00:01:16.209 --> 00:01:19.829 what does the Bible see say that my people? perish 00:01:19.829 --> 00:01:23.510 They perish they they go astray. They go they 00:01:23.510 --> 00:01:26.390 lose their way things go a little bit a bit murky 00:01:26.390 --> 00:01:28.810 and muddy as you go along why because there is 00:01:28.810 --> 00:01:32.959 no vision And another scripture says when it 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.299 speaks about vision, it says that vision has 00:01:35.299 --> 00:01:39.040 to be casted all the time, where there is no 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.260 prophetic vision, which means when something 00:01:41.260 --> 00:01:43.780 is prophetic, something is fresh from the heart 00:01:43.780 --> 00:01:49.459 of God. Hello? So why is a Sunday like this important? 00:01:49.579 --> 00:01:52.480 It's not that we're gonna redo our vision. The 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:55.140 vision of Waypoint will stay the vision of Waypoint, 00:01:55.180 --> 00:01:59.379 but here's the thing, vision leaks. Let me say 00:01:59.379 --> 00:02:04.319 it again. Vision leaks. How many times when your 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.519 kids were growing up as parents and you keep 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.039 having to tell them every single day, don't forget 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:10.979 to do this, don't forget to do this. Can you 00:02:10.979 --> 00:02:12.840 do, don't remember them? And then they do it 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.960 again. Why? Because vision leaks. And Sundays 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.439 like this, I love it. Why? Because we just get 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.460 to dial in a little bit and relook again at our 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:24.620 vision as a church corporately. But I also want 00:02:24.620 --> 00:02:26.539 you to take time today to look at your vision. 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:30.199 What is it that God has told? You, why are you 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.900 here? What was the mandate? What was the scripture 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:36.000 that God gave you 10 years ago? Are you still 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.879 with that scripture? Are you still standing on 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.819 that word? That's what these Sundays are about. 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:44.759 Just to redarl it in a little bit, hallelujah. 00:02:45.379 --> 00:02:49.080 So I'm excited to be here. I know my wife's been 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.199 preaching up a storm the last couple of weeks, 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.840 hallelujah. Amen, come on. And I'm so blessed 00:02:54.840 --> 00:03:00.229 and I'm so thankful for my wife. Man, you know 00:03:00.229 --> 00:03:02.509 what, I said something to Sintershe last year. 00:03:02.949 --> 00:03:06.990 Sometimes we think that what's best is what God's 00:03:06.990 --> 00:03:12.990 best is for us. And if we settle, we will miss 00:03:12.990 --> 00:03:16.009 out actually on the best that God has for us. 00:03:17.189 --> 00:03:19.569 So I want you to take some stock today and think 00:03:19.569 --> 00:03:21.650 about the things that you trust in God for, and 00:03:21.650 --> 00:03:23.669 you saying, man, if I get this, this will be 00:03:23.669 --> 00:03:26.789 the best for me. If I get this person, this husband, 00:03:26.849 --> 00:03:28.689 or this person that's gonna be my wife, it will 00:03:28.689 --> 00:03:31.310 be the best for me. I want you to take some stock 00:03:31.310 --> 00:03:33.669 today and just say, God, is that really the best 00:03:33.669 --> 00:03:36.750 for me? Because I don't wanna miss out, because 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:39.550 God will bless you at that level. But if there's 00:03:39.550 --> 00:03:41.590 something else that he has for you, I rather 00:03:41.590 --> 00:03:45.590 wanna step into that. Hallelujah? So this morning, 00:03:45.629 --> 00:03:47.490 if you can shout me down, if you can say some 00:03:47.490 --> 00:03:50.069 amens, you know how I'd appreciate it, is that 00:03:50.069 --> 00:03:53.020 okay? All right. I can feel a little bit in the 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:55.819 house this morning. It's the 25th of January. 00:03:56.500 --> 00:03:58.400 And some of you have already started telling 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.300 yourself it's probably gonna be the same again 00:04:01.300 --> 00:04:04.639 this year. It doesn't feel like anything is gonna 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.300 change in 2026. I want you to be careful of that. 00:04:08.340 --> 00:04:10.479 I want you to be careful that the enemy doesn't 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:15.379 come and whisper lies in your ear. And as a result 00:04:15.379 --> 00:04:18.000 of him whispering lies in your ear, what happens? 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:22.129 Your vision begins to leak. And before you know 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:24.670 you're living, you're just living every day, 00:04:24.670 --> 00:04:27.329 every day, but not actually intentionally and 00:04:27.329 --> 00:04:33.310 with a vision. Amen? I love this scripture. It 00:04:33.310 --> 00:04:37.310 says, and then God answered. That's a good scripture 00:04:37.310 --> 00:04:42.670 right there. And then God answered. Come on, 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:45.410 He's a God that responds to you. He's a God that 00:04:45.410 --> 00:04:48.060 speaks back to you. Amen? If you just begin to 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:50.300 lean in, if you just put your ear on His heart 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:52.720 and on His chest, He will speak to you. And the 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.300 Bible says, and then God answered and He says 00:04:55.300 --> 00:05:00.879 this, write this. He says, write what you see. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.480 Write it out in big block letters so that it 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:11.060 can be read on the run. How cool is that? Write 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:14.000 it down in big bold letters so that it can be 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:18.230 read on the run. I mean, think about it, which 00:05:18.230 --> 00:05:20.730 means that you cannot write the vision that God 00:05:20.730 --> 00:05:22.350 has put in your heart just on a small little 00:05:22.350 --> 00:05:24.970 piece of paper. God is saying, I want you to 00:05:24.970 --> 00:05:27.370 be bold about the vision that I've given you. 00:05:27.430 --> 00:05:29.750 I want you to be bold about the dream that I've 00:05:29.750 --> 00:05:31.649 given you. Why? So that when people run past 00:05:31.649 --> 00:05:35.370 you, it can be read on the run. And have you 00:05:35.370 --> 00:05:37.209 ever been in a big city with a big bull board? 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:41.399 Have you seen that? You drive down the freeway, 00:05:41.420 --> 00:05:45.240 you can do 120, but as you do 120, you can read 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.019 the vision. You can read that statement on the 00:05:47.019 --> 00:05:49.680 wall, right? That's what God is saying. Your 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:52.459 vision has to be that big that it can be read 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:56.120 on the run. But here's the problem is that some 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.379 of us, we don't even write it down. Pastor God 00:05:59.379 --> 00:06:01.519 gave me that idea to start a business. He's given 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:03.019 me this, he's given me, but we don't even write 00:06:03.019 --> 00:06:05.660 it down. It's not vision if it's not written 00:06:05.660 --> 00:06:10.300 down. Write it down, write it down so that it 00:06:10.300 --> 00:06:14.740 can be read on the run. Amen. What is vision? 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:21.199 Vision is not what I can see with my sight. Vision 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.439 is what I see when my eyes are closed. What do 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.600 I see? What do I see down the line for 2026? 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.180 What do I see for my life? What do I see for 00:06:30.180 --> 00:06:33.480 my children? When I begin to close my eyes, I 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.259 say, God, you need to give me a vision. What 00:06:36.259 --> 00:06:39.879 do I see? you know yesterday I was I was walking 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:41.779 on a beach there and I was just going over my 00:06:41.779 --> 00:06:43.839 notes and praying and just speaking to the Lord 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.240 because This is like an important Sunday for 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.019 me why because I love vision. I love casting 00:06:49.019 --> 00:06:51.899 Vision, you know and and I remember ten years 00:06:51.899 --> 00:06:55.839 ago This year ten years ago. I was on the beach 00:06:55.839 --> 00:07:00.240 on Paradise Beach over there ten years ago And 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.199 I had a vision and a dream in my heart for days 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.319 like today For days like where you will be in 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.970 the room For days like today when I will play 00:07:08.970 --> 00:07:11.050 the keyboard not in another church, but in our 00:07:11.050 --> 00:07:14.269 church Days like today when we sense the atmosphere 00:07:14.269 --> 00:07:16.810 and the presence of God days like today It's 00:07:16.810 --> 00:07:19.410 what I envisioned ten years ago. I was walking 00:07:19.410 --> 00:07:21.449 on a beach and things were so different back 00:07:21.449 --> 00:07:24.290 then Things are so different. It was so different 00:07:24.290 --> 00:07:27.110 for us as a family where we were it was different 00:07:27.110 --> 00:07:30.750 for us Financially where we were but somehow 00:07:30.750 --> 00:07:34.279 God gave me a vision And when I used to walk 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.240 on that beach every morning with my wife, we 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.339 were beginning to pray about WavePoint Church. 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.660 We begin to see it in existence. I remember going 00:07:41.660 --> 00:07:43.699 to conferences, standing at conferences, and 00:07:43.699 --> 00:07:45.980 I hear the people worship, and I say to myself, 00:07:46.019 --> 00:07:49.120 God, I hear this in Jefferies Bay. I see this 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.180 in Jefferies Bay. It is vision what got me here. 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:57.220 It's vision that got me here. And I want you 00:07:57.220 --> 00:07:59.139 to come alive this morning. I want you to say, 00:07:59.300 --> 00:08:01.279 if you don't have a vision, I say, God, that 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.420 you give me a new vision. Let me begin to see 00:08:04.420 --> 00:08:07.839 the promises that you have for me Hallelujah 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.019 And when God gives you that vision be bold about 00:08:11.019 --> 00:08:14.040 it so that it can be read on the run. I love 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:15.500 that scripture I didn't even know it was like 00:08:15.500 --> 00:08:17.779 written like that. It's in the message translation 00:08:17.779 --> 00:08:22.300 So that it can be read on the run. Hallelujah 00:08:22.300 --> 00:08:24.959 Come on. I'm a result of the goodness of God. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.600 Don't get me wrong, but also God gave me a word 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:31.220 God will give you a picture of your future and 00:08:31.220 --> 00:08:33.980 if you trust it And if you zero in on it, young 00:08:33.980 --> 00:08:36.379 people, I wanna encourage you, 10 years seems 00:08:36.379 --> 00:08:40.259 a long time, but it goes past like that. Purpose 00:08:40.259 --> 00:08:43.080 in your heart today, purpose in your heart, God, 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.960 give me a vision. You might think that while 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.460 I still have time and I'm still kinda just hanging 00:08:48.460 --> 00:08:53.000 about, whatever, 10 years go by like this. 10 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.559 years go by like this in your marriage. Don't 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.440 coast, don't just take it easy. Hello? I don't 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.440 know you guys yet, but yesterday when I was walking 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.340 on that beach, I was praying for you. And I pray 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:09.360 that God will give you a vision in the months 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.639 that you are here. And if God has given you a 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.960 vision already, that you will begin to dial it 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.720 in. You'll begin to take time over the next couple 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.379 of months. And we're not playing around. We're 00:09:18.379 --> 00:09:20.860 not just here for surfing. Hello? We hear that 00:09:20.860 --> 00:09:23.600 God will clear and give us clear direction of 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.159 where we're going. Amen? Can I release that to 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.120 you? Is that okay? All right, awesome. She's 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:30.399 smiling, so that's good. It's all good, it's 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.639 all good. So I've got, I don't have a lot of 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.139 time, but I have almost like something prepared 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:39.259 that is threefold and I wanna speak about vision. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:41.120 And then I wanna give you a word that I feel 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.899 God has given to us as a church this year. Amen, 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.899 is that okay? Cool, so here's the thing with 00:09:46.899 --> 00:09:51.600 WavePoint is that our vision is always a place 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.379 to belong, to connect with Jesus and to empower 00:09:55.379 --> 00:10:01.840 people to change their world. This is now What's 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.100 six years ago? When did we do straight up seven 00:10:04.100 --> 00:10:07.279 years ago? myself Roy and a couple of people 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.980 Sharon we were just in a room and what we did 00:10:09.980 --> 00:10:13.019 we took a big white board and All Roy did was 00:10:13.019 --> 00:10:16.320 he began to ask me questions He began to take 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.240 me down this pathway of hours 40 I turned 41 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.600 at the time and he began to take me down 40 years 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.980 of just my laughs asking questions and the Lord 00:10:26.980 --> 00:10:29.639 is already I placed this vision in my heart before 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.460 coming to Jefferies Bay, but within him asking 00:10:32.460 --> 00:10:36.720 questions, it began to dial in the vision. Things 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:39.200 began to make even more sense. Oh, is that why 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.919 this happened? Because God needed to shape me 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.740 for this moment, right? And literally after a 00:10:44.740 --> 00:10:47.659 couple of days, we walked away and we had a plan 00:10:47.659 --> 00:10:50.299 on a page. Is that what you call it? PO something. 00:10:50.419 --> 00:10:52.360 Sorry, those are fancy words. You know, I'll 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.940 leave it for those guys. But we had a plan on 00:10:54.940 --> 00:10:58.730 a page seven years ago. And I don't have it here 00:10:58.730 --> 00:11:00.950 this morning, and next week when I'm back here, 00:11:00.950 --> 00:11:03.750 I'm gonna put it up on the screen. And vrachtach. 00:11:05.649 --> 00:11:08.070 If you don't know what that means, vrachtach. 00:11:09.230 --> 00:11:14.110 Vrachtach. I went and found that plan on a page, 00:11:14.690 --> 00:11:17.549 and it is incredible to see how we are starting 00:11:17.549 --> 00:11:22.049 to hit all those things seven years later. I'm 00:11:22.049 --> 00:11:24.649 telling you, when you begin to refine, when you 00:11:24.649 --> 00:11:28.070 begin to dial in and take time, Take time to 00:11:28.070 --> 00:11:31.009 just take some time Intentionality get in a room 00:11:31.009 --> 00:11:32.990 with somebody that loves you that that cares 00:11:32.990 --> 00:11:34.710 for you that believes in you And let them begin 00:11:34.710 --> 00:11:36.730 to ask you some questions about the future. Where 00:11:36.730 --> 00:11:40.090 are you right now? What's going on in my life 00:11:40.090 --> 00:11:41.909 right now? What do I need to refine? What do 00:11:41.909 --> 00:11:47.269 I need to dial in? Why am I keep using this word 00:11:47.269 --> 00:11:50.830 dial in because this word dial in it's actually 00:11:50.830 --> 00:11:54.600 a surfing term By now if you can tell I'm a surfer 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.460 hallelujah phrase guy a Surfer that hasn't surfed 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:01.419 in 25 days So I don't know if it still makes 00:12:01.419 --> 00:12:04.240 me one, but you know But before I get to that 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:05.980 I'm I think I'm running ahead of myself But I 00:12:05.980 --> 00:12:08.059 just want to want to say this to you when you 00:12:08.059 --> 00:12:09.779 walked into the door this morning There's a little 00:12:09.779 --> 00:12:12.700 board and some stuff that's lying there and you 00:12:12.700 --> 00:12:14.840 can see the actual board next to it That's finished 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:18.659 the shaper took time to shape the board But actually 00:12:18.659 --> 00:12:21.779 there's a process that takes place with the surfer 00:12:21.779 --> 00:12:25.200 and the surfboard shaper Is that there's a process 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:26.899 where he shapes the board and then he starts 00:12:26.899 --> 00:12:29.620 working with the surfer and he begins to dial 00:12:29.620 --> 00:12:32.659 in some things on the board Why because when 00:12:32.659 --> 00:12:35.519 he takes time to dial it in with the surfer is 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.399 so that you can have maximum speed while you're 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:42.080 riding down the line You know what I mean, and 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:43.919 I believe prophetically this morning is what 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:47.070 God wants to do for you He's already given you 00:12:47.070 --> 00:12:49.309 something he has given you a word, but he wants 00:12:49.309 --> 00:12:52.269 you to allow him to begin to dial in some things 00:12:52.269 --> 00:12:55.649 in your life So that you can have the right of 00:12:55.649 --> 00:12:58.809 your life Sorry, I'm running ahead of myself, 00:12:58.830 --> 00:13:01.509 but I got to tell you this last year. I think 00:13:01.509 --> 00:13:07.990 it was November Waves are cooking kitchen windows 00:13:07.990 --> 00:13:12.250 beats break four foot five foot I can say six 00:13:12.250 --> 00:13:16.139 foot you wouldn't know You know, I can exaggerate 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:18.580 that, but you wouldn't know. But it was a big 00:13:18.580 --> 00:13:21.600 solid beach break. And somehow over the last 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.799 couple of months, I've come to love to surf the 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.179 beach break. Because it's so quick and you have 00:13:26.179 --> 00:13:29.279 to react. You need to be on your feet. And I 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:30.899 remember that morning was Friday morning after 00:13:30.899 --> 00:13:32.620 prayer. It's maybe because I came to pray, you 00:13:32.620 --> 00:13:36.179 know? And I was sitting in the back and I saw 00:13:36.179 --> 00:13:39.519 the wave. Sam shouted me down. And the next moment 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.990 he just said, boss, CJ, go. And I went, and this 00:13:42.990 --> 00:13:46.250 wave was this big. I mean, I'm going down the 00:13:46.250 --> 00:13:48.309 line, not even right, I'm going left. And it's 00:13:48.309 --> 00:13:51.909 just going. I look beyond me, the wave is like 00:13:51.909 --> 00:13:55.830 just going, right? But what was so amazing for 00:13:55.830 --> 00:13:57.710 me is that it's just that feeling. It is true 00:13:57.710 --> 00:14:00.429 what they say, only a surfer knows. There's a 00:14:00.429 --> 00:14:02.669 feeling that comes with it. There's an, you know 00:14:02.669 --> 00:14:05.129 what I mean? It's like, you're like, this is 00:14:05.129 --> 00:14:08.490 so good, right? But what's even better is that 00:14:08.490 --> 00:14:12.039 as I finished my ride, I looked around and the 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.179 rest of my crew was sitting in the back saying, 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:21.740 Boss, the CJ is amazing. Right? But you have 00:14:21.740 --> 00:14:24.399 to take time to be dialed in. You know what I 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.600 mean? I know I keep going ahead of myself, but 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.460 I got the privilege for our shaper locally to 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:32.019 shape me aboard. And what I didn't know at the 00:14:32.019 --> 00:14:35.000 time was when I was on a foamy, he was out there 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.620 surfing. And by the time I came to him and asked 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:40.120 him to shape me a board, he already was watching 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.759 me. He's been watching me all along. And as we 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:46.279 begin to speak about shaping me this board, he 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.200 started saying to me, you do this in the water, 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:50.960 the waves are like this, you need, we paddle 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.360 a lot out there, kitchen windows, so I need to 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.159 make you a little bit more volume in your board, 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.340 your rocker needs to be a little bit more, you 00:14:57.340 --> 00:14:59.840 know, like that language and stuff. And I was 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.799 so surprised, I was so surprised. And I began 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:07.600 to realize that The shaper, which is God. He's 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:10.580 so intentional about you. He watches you. He 00:15:10.580 --> 00:15:12.759 knows what you need. He knows what he needs to 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.679 dial in. And when you are willing to lay your 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:20.179 life down on that little thing there in the shaping 00:15:20.179 --> 00:15:23.940 bay and allow the shaper just to come and take 00:15:23.940 --> 00:15:26.100 the machine and will be painful sometimes for 00:15:26.100 --> 00:15:28.940 stuff to come off. You know, you'd have to take 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:32.269 a little bit of sandpaper, which is a bit. They 00:15:32.269 --> 00:15:35.129 need to have to just kind of do this. But I can 00:15:35.129 --> 00:15:37.830 tell you if you allow him that, you'll have the 00:15:37.830 --> 00:15:41.070 right of your life. You'll have the right of 00:15:41.070 --> 00:15:43.990 your life if you allow him to dial in your vision, 00:15:44.149 --> 00:15:47.850 hallelujah. So our vision is a place to belong, 00:15:48.210 --> 00:15:51.389 to connect with Jesus and to be empowered to 00:15:51.389 --> 00:15:55.370 change your world. And this year corporately 00:15:55.370 --> 00:15:58.169 for us is that I really want us to pay attention 00:15:58.169 --> 00:16:02.179 to that. I want us to dial in. That vision and 00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:05.480 I actually I want us to come into unity with 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:08.320 the vision You shouldn't be here if you don't 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.360 believe in the vision of this house Let me say 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.399 it again. You shouldn't be here if you don't 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:16.039 believe in the vision of this house not believing 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.740 CJ Because I can I can disappoint you I might 00:16:19.740 --> 00:16:21.639 not answer your call next week or I might not 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:23.919 respond when you want me to respond You will 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.779 get disappointed by CJ. But if you say I believe 00:16:26.779 --> 00:16:29.990 that God is aligning me with this Vision, a place 00:16:29.990 --> 00:16:32.710 to belong, connect with Jesus and empower to 00:16:32.710 --> 00:16:35.049 change your world. Then you need to be here. 00:16:35.570 --> 00:16:37.649 Is there anybody that can say that this vision 00:16:37.649 --> 00:16:40.669 has impacted my life? I've experienced it and 00:16:40.669 --> 00:16:44.870 I've seen it. Anybody? Same for me. Amen. Obviously 00:16:44.870 --> 00:16:49.389 every year we, you know, we take time to pray 00:16:49.389 --> 00:16:52.190 and we trust God for a word for us as church. 00:16:53.009 --> 00:16:55.210 And this is not a, it's not, our vision doesn't 00:16:55.210 --> 00:16:58.080 change. And I believe what that word does, it 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:01.200 is part of helping us with the dialing in of 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.019 what we need to focus on in 2026. Amen. Can I 00:17:04.019 --> 00:17:07.099 give you that real quick? All right. I was at 00:17:07.099 --> 00:17:10.920 a conference last year, October, and this pastor 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.700 was doing the offering. Can you believe it? God 00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:16.180 speaks to me in offering somehow. And he went 00:17:16.180 --> 00:17:19.019 to Genesis 11 and he read the scripture. And 00:17:19.019 --> 00:17:22.259 when he read it, it just came alive in me. I 00:17:22.259 --> 00:17:25.089 saw something in it. Quickly give some context. 00:17:25.390 --> 00:17:27.769 This is the story about the Tower of Babel. Who 00:17:27.769 --> 00:17:29.670 knows the story of what happened? The people, 00:17:29.769 --> 00:17:31.950 right? And how many know that scripture, what 00:17:31.950 --> 00:17:34.890 it does, it helps us, it guides us, we can learn 00:17:34.890 --> 00:17:37.869 from scripture. Amen. We know that this was a 00:17:37.869 --> 00:17:40.289 little bit of a bad situation, but I saw something 00:17:40.289 --> 00:17:42.970 in it that I believe, and if we can take it out 00:17:42.970 --> 00:17:46.230 of that, it will help us in 2026. Amen. So I 00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:48.730 wanna read it to you. In verse one, he says, 00:17:49.009 --> 00:17:54.980 and now the whole world had won. language. And 00:17:54.980 --> 00:17:58.920 they had a common speech. And he says, as people 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.380 move each word, they found a plane in Shana and 00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:06.339 settled there. They said to each other, come, 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:11.480 let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:15.279 used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar. 00:18:15.819 --> 00:18:19.099 And verse four, and then they said, come, let 00:18:19.099 --> 00:18:23.740 us build ourselves a city. With a tower that 00:18:23.740 --> 00:18:27.400 reaches to the heavens so that they so that we 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:31.839 may make a name for ourselves Within there we 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.619 see the problem is that they had the ability 00:18:34.619 --> 00:18:37.380 to build something, but they kept pointing everything 00:18:37.380 --> 00:18:40.039 to themselves Let's do it for ourselves. Let 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:44.400 it benefit me It's all about us and we as a people 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.140 But what is powerful that we can learn from this 00:18:47.140 --> 00:18:49.259 the scripture is that the Bible says that the 00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:53.059 people spoke one language Throughout it, we see 00:18:53.059 --> 00:18:56.059 that they were in oneness. They were in unity. 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:58.640 They had a common cause that they wanted to go 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.960 after, right? The problem that the people here 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.460 got into is that their common cause and what 00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:06.400 they wanted to do, it didn't line up with what 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:10.759 God wanted to do. Does it make sense? And then 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:16.359 this one here in verse four, sorry, verse five. 00:19:16.700 --> 00:19:20.299 But the Lord came down to see the city and the 00:19:20.299 --> 00:19:23.660 tower the people were building I want this is 00:19:23.660 --> 00:19:25.500 important This is what I'm gonna land on and 00:19:25.500 --> 00:19:27.960 the Lord came down to see the city in the tower 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.619 With the children of men built and this is what 00:19:30.619 --> 00:19:34.660 God says. What's the next one verse 6? And the 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:39.200 Lord said behold What are the people? Come on. 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:44.259 What are the people? The people is one and they 00:19:44.259 --> 00:19:50.269 have all won Language and this they begin to 00:19:50.269 --> 00:19:54.809 do and now Nothing will be restrained from them, 00:19:54.809 --> 00:20:00.289 which they have imagined to do And when I saw 00:20:00.289 --> 00:20:02.390 that and when I read that it just leaped into 00:20:02.390 --> 00:20:05.250 me and I said God What if wave point is the church 00:20:05.250 --> 00:20:07.769 where you come down and you say nothing that 00:20:07.769 --> 00:20:11.869 they imagined to do they can't do Why because 00:20:11.869 --> 00:20:16.230 they are in? Unity, they are a people that are 00:20:16.230 --> 00:20:20.730 in oneness. Does it make sense? And as I saw 00:20:20.730 --> 00:20:23.349 this and I begin to sit in this atmosphere, the 00:20:23.349 --> 00:20:24.910 Lord dropped the word in my heart and I knew 00:20:24.910 --> 00:20:28.769 that this is the word for 2026. And this is our 00:20:28.769 --> 00:20:35.609 word, alignment. The people were aligned. They 00:20:35.609 --> 00:20:37.829 were aligned, they were in oneness. And that's 00:20:37.829 --> 00:20:40.470 my prayer this year as we dialing into what are 00:20:40.470 --> 00:20:42.630 we actually doing? We're coming into alignment. 00:20:43.769 --> 00:20:46.349 Hello, maybe I want to tell you last year wasn't 00:20:46.349 --> 00:20:50.690 a failure. You were just misaligned. That's it. 00:20:50.950 --> 00:20:52.390 You were just misaligned. Don't let the enemy 00:20:52.390 --> 00:20:54.589 lie to you. Don't let it make you feel guilty. 00:20:54.849 --> 00:20:56.630 Like, oh, is this gonna be the same year again? 00:20:56.849 --> 00:20:58.710 No, you were just misaligned. And if you begin 00:20:58.710 --> 00:21:02.089 to realign yourself again, just begin to realign 00:21:02.089 --> 00:21:04.630 yourself with the things of God again. Realignment 00:21:04.630 --> 00:21:08.109 again, I can tell you and you trust me that God 00:21:08.109 --> 00:21:10.829 will begin to shift things in your life. Hallelujah. 00:21:12.129 --> 00:21:16.369 And I'm gonna be back next week, hopefully. And 00:21:16.369 --> 00:21:19.730 I wanna come and share a little bit more on alignment. 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:23.089 Is that okay? Right? God, I believe that He wants 00:21:23.089 --> 00:21:25.829 us to align this year. You know, I have a little 00:21:25.829 --> 00:21:27.349 book. I don't know if you guys saw the post that 00:21:27.349 --> 00:21:30.529 I did two weeks ago. I've got a little book that 00:21:30.529 --> 00:21:33.230 I go back to every year. And in that book, I 00:21:33.230 --> 00:21:35.569 wrote the vision down of WavePoint Church. In 00:21:35.569 --> 00:21:37.450 that book, I wrote the word that God gave me. 00:21:37.529 --> 00:21:39.769 for WavePoint shirts. And every year in the beginning, 00:21:39.809 --> 00:21:42.930 what do I do? I go and realign myself with what 00:21:42.930 --> 00:21:46.289 God said. Does that make sense? When your car 00:21:46.289 --> 00:21:48.470 goes out of alignment, what happens? You start 00:21:48.470 --> 00:21:51.930 spending more money on fuel. When things are 00:21:51.930 --> 00:21:54.069 out of alignment, you're starting to spend more 00:21:54.069 --> 00:21:55.589 time on things that you're not supposed to be 00:21:55.589 --> 00:21:59.869 spending time on. But when we begin to realign. 00:22:00.930 --> 00:22:03.569 So God, I'm gonna realign. And here's the thing 00:22:03.569 --> 00:22:07.089 is that I got an injury a couple of months ago. 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:12.640 When I was surfing, my wife was like, yaw. And 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.539 when I got injured the first time, I went for 00:22:15.539 --> 00:22:18.160 physio. I got better. It was like six weeks. 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:21.039 It got better. I thought it was better. But what 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:24.920 I didn't realize that something worse or something 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:27.640 happened deeper than just what I was feeling 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:29.740 in my... Remember I said to you, I had all these 00:22:29.740 --> 00:22:34.559 little... What's the medical word for your glutes? 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:36.119 I had all these glutes on my screen. Remember 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:38.589 that. All right, because I thought that my glute 00:22:38.589 --> 00:22:41.490 was giving me problems. But actually what I didn't 00:22:41.490 --> 00:22:44.730 know that the problem was in my back. I hurt 00:22:44.730 --> 00:22:48.390 my back. The disc moved and it was starting to 00:22:48.390 --> 00:22:52.329 push against my nerve, my sciatic nerve. And 00:22:52.329 --> 00:22:53.990 the more and more that I was thinking people 00:22:53.990 --> 00:22:57.349 were trying to fix my back or trying to fix the 00:22:57.349 --> 00:22:58.930 pain, sorry, that was in my leg. It was actually 00:22:58.930 --> 00:23:01.650 my back that needed to be fixed. And while I 00:23:01.650 --> 00:23:03.569 was lying on the couch then I couldn't do anything. 00:23:03.930 --> 00:23:06.190 God was saying that CJ is that I'm realigning 00:23:06.190 --> 00:23:10.380 you. It's realigning you. And as you begin to 00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:13.200 realign what happened, the pain and all those 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:16.660 things started disappearing. Amen. So I wanna 00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:19.539 next week speak a little bit more on alignment, 00:23:19.700 --> 00:23:24.819 amen? That as we align and I had a cool closing 00:23:24.819 --> 00:23:31.940 here, I'm gonna close with this. Alignment precedes 00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:37.160 acceleration. Amos 3 verse 3 says, Can two walk 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:41.660 together unless they are in agreement? Can we 00:23:41.660 --> 00:23:47.619 walk together unless we are aligned? Then we 00:23:47.619 --> 00:23:49.579 can walk together and then we can actually do 00:23:49.579 --> 00:23:53.799 things together. Hello? The Bible says an unstable 00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:59.859 man is, yeah. Sorry, a double -minded man is 00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:05.819 unstable in his ways. Get aligned, get into alignment. 00:24:06.029 --> 00:24:10.210 And when God sees the people who are one, nothing 00:24:10.210 --> 00:24:13.569 that we imagined, we cannot be restrained from 00:24:13.569 --> 00:24:16.750 it. When God sees us as a people of one, we will 00:24:16.750 --> 00:24:19.089 build a building for him. We wanna be in oneness. 00:24:19.309 --> 00:24:22.210 We wanna be aligned, amen. So today I want us 00:24:22.210 --> 00:24:24.309 to as a church, I want us to say yes to alignment. 00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:28.089 I want us to say yes to positioning. And I want 00:24:28.089 --> 00:24:33.089 us to say yes to what God has spoken to us. 2026, 00:24:33.930 --> 00:24:36.720 alignment. And here's the thing for some of us 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:39.539 here is that you might not experience the thing 00:24:39.539 --> 00:24:43.099 that you want yet in 2026. But here's the thing, 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.799 if you align, if you come into alignment in 2026, 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:50.480 what could happen in 2027? That's it. This year, 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:53.119 I got up with so much pain. I was like, for a 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:54.680 couple of weeks, I was just lying in pain and 00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:56.920 pain. And I was like, but God, you gave a word 00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:59.380 last New Year's Eve. You're doing a new thing. 00:24:59.420 --> 00:25:01.140 And I don't feel like I'm sitting in a new thing. 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:04.000 Why? Because some things were out of alignment 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.890 in my... physical body I Can't just go back to 00:25:07.890 --> 00:25:10.450 surfing now There's a process that I need to 00:25:10.450 --> 00:25:13.609 walk out before I can get back into that water 00:25:13.609 --> 00:25:16.329 And I might not remember the feeling that I said 00:25:16.329 --> 00:25:17.930 to you earlier that you feel when you're surfing 00:25:17.930 --> 00:25:21.329 I might not have that feeling this year And I 00:25:21.329 --> 00:25:22.910 have to be okay with it because I want to come 00:25:22.910 --> 00:25:27.049 into a line And if it means that in general in 00:25:27.049 --> 00:25:29.390 January next year that I get back into the water 00:25:29.390 --> 00:25:33.009 and start surfing again It means that because 00:25:33.009 --> 00:25:34.990 I don't want to shortcut what God wants to do 00:25:34.990 --> 00:25:37.990 in my life. The doctor booked me off a couple 00:25:37.990 --> 00:25:40.089 of weeks ago. He said, you're not going to church. 00:25:40.490 --> 00:25:42.349 We're launching a church. I have to be at church. 00:25:42.710 --> 00:25:45.109 He says, so are you focusing on right now or 00:25:45.109 --> 00:25:48.490 are you seeing down the line? And that's what 00:25:48.490 --> 00:25:50.630 alignment is. He's saying, I'm putting all the 00:25:50.630 --> 00:25:52.950 things that I saw quickly, the quick gratification. 00:25:53.430 --> 00:25:55.190 God give me a quick little word. I'm putting 00:25:55.190 --> 00:25:57.990 all those things aside and say, I'm gonna align 00:25:57.990 --> 00:26:01.160 with what God wants me. And I can guarantee you, 00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:02.700 it might not be in a month, it might not be in 00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:07.019 six months, but 2027 is coming. Things can shift 00:26:07.019 --> 00:26:10.380 in 2027 for you, hallelujah. Amen, can we stand 00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:24.220 on our feet? Amen. Come on, this year we're gonna 00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:28.279 allow God to shape us, amen. We're gonna get 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.799 into the shaping bay. and let him make us and 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:35.079 let him, he says, I'm the potter, you are the 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:40.900 clay. Some of us, we are misaligned. We think 00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:44.140 that we are the potter. Not just think, we've 00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:46.900 taken the place of the potter. God, I get this. 00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:49.660 Talk about alignment, I can get myself into alignment. 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:53.039 But we need to allow him, we need the things 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:57.079 shift. You are out of alignment. You're not in 00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:59.700 where God wants you to be. Allow him to be the 00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:03.410 potter. and you'd be the clay. And say, God, 00:27:03.410 --> 00:27:05.589 in whatever way you wanna mold me and shape me 00:27:05.589 --> 00:27:09.309 and make me, I've been pushing against it. I've 00:27:09.309 --> 00:27:11.769 been just resisting you. I know that I'm supposed 00:27:11.769 --> 00:27:13.609 to go in this direction, but I'm still pushing 00:27:13.609 --> 00:27:16.349 to go into this direction. But this morning, 00:27:16.529 --> 00:27:18.450 today, as we were talking about vision and what 00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:20.869 God wants to do, I realized that I'm not aligned 00:27:20.869 --> 00:27:26.269 with him in my life. I'm not aligned. Jesus came 00:27:26.269 --> 00:27:29.230 and what did he do? He realigned us with God. 00:27:30.379 --> 00:27:32.660 He got on that cross, he died for us so that 00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:35.960 we can come into alignment with God. So the first 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.200 place that we can start off today is to get in 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:42.440 alignment with Jesus. Alignment starts by surrender. 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.880 Say, Jesus, I surrender my life to you. That's 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.740 where it starts this morning for you. And I wanna 00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:50.460 give you that opportunity, if you standing here 00:27:50.460 --> 00:27:52.980 this morning, you say, CJ, my life is not aligned 00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:57.420 with Jesus yet. If I really had to look at my 00:27:57.420 --> 00:28:02.990 life, I am not 100 % aligned. with Jesus. Can 00:28:02.990 --> 00:28:05.109 I ask every eye to be closed as we give this 00:28:05.109 --> 00:28:07.049 moment and allow this moment for people. If that's 00:28:07.049 --> 00:28:08.970 you this morning, on the count of three, I want 00:28:08.970 --> 00:28:11.130 you to lift up your hand and we wanna pray for 00:28:11.130 --> 00:28:13.369 you. I'm not gonna put you on the spot or anything, 00:28:13.690 --> 00:28:18.250 but we wanna pray with you. And then I wanna 00:28:18.250 --> 00:28:20.549 make another call is that maybe you've given 00:28:20.549 --> 00:28:23.289 your life to Jesus, you've walked with the Lord, 00:28:23.769 --> 00:28:25.410 but you know that there's some areas in your 00:28:25.410 --> 00:28:30.940 life that is not 100 % aligned with him. There's 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:33.599 still some things that are pulling my attention. 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.019 It's like, am I gonna have the same year again? 00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:41.700 Am I gonna have to go through the same thing? 00:28:41.900 --> 00:28:46.160 No, you don't have to, just realign. Realign, 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:49.420 just realign, just realign. Is it gonna cost 00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:51.339 you something? Yes, it probably will cost you 00:28:51.339 --> 00:28:53.880 some friends, it will cost you, you're gonna 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:55.680 have to give up something, but I can tell you 00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:00.720 now that your life will change. The chains that 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:02.400 what you've been looking for maybe in friends 00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:06.559 and in alcohol or with partying or whatever that 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.880 may be. You know when you come back home, it's 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.259 like, man, there's still something missing. I'm 00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:14.339 still out of alignment. This is the moment that 00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:16.440 God's creating for you this morning is to come 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:21.579 into alignment. So if that's you, just as a response, 00:29:21.779 --> 00:29:24.640 I want you to lift up your hand. This is not 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.140 a moment to embarrass. This is just, God, I wanna 00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:29.000 come into alignment.