The Pacesetters Chapel

Setback is an event that causes a delay or a reversal in your progress, and it is often what a loss leaves behind when the pain is not handled well. This message sits with the righteous man of Proverbs 24:16 and the promise of Micah 7:8, where falling is written as when and not if. Before honour there is reproach, before appointment there is disappointment, before acceptance there is rejection. The fall is certain for a righteous man, and so is the rising. God is saying over this season that there will be no more loss and no more setback.

There is a difference between your time and your turn, and knowing it changes how you wait. Your time is the season of preparation, when you are ready but no door has opened yet. Your turn is when the door opens, and it stays open only for the person who used their time well. This message moves through Psalm 40, Revelation 3 and Isaiah 60 to show why God gives you time before he gives you a turn, what it costs to skip the preparation, and why this season is both your time and your turn to arise and shine.

Joy is coming and this message is the preparation for it. Working through the raising of Lazarus in John 11, it takes on the silent season every Christian meets: the years of pain, delayed answers and questions that come back empty. Three things restore your hope in that season. Place value on the presence of God, settle it that any time God shows up is the right time, and roll away the stone of doubt and fear that is keeping your situation buried.

God gave you a new thing. A new name, a new season, anew marriage, a new health. This message draws one hard line: giving the new thing is God's job, keeping it new is yours. From this message we learn what it means to guard, value and preserve what God has restored. You will see why our God is a Re-God who refines, rebuilds and renews, why carelessness always begins with a loss of value, and why the thief is alreadyat the corner watching what you leave unguarded. If God has started something new in you, this word is about how to keep it.

Affliction Shall Not Rise Again

This message sits with the seasons no believer likes to admit to, when prayer will not rise, prophecy has failed, and the money did not save anybody. What is still standing after that? It works through why hope is not optimism but a settled verdict about tomorrow, why the greatest hindrance to a man's future is concluding a matter before the matter has ended

Jesus pulled his disciples away to rest at the height of their success, not their failure. This teaching sits on two questions most people never ask before a retreat: when do you actually need one, and why are you going? Most people cannot answer the second, which is why they come back exactly as they left.

A message on new seasons, spiritual hunger and the capacity to carry what God is about to do. Drawing on Luke 5:37-39, Matthew 9:16-17, Isaiah 43:18-19 and Haggai 2:9, it presses one question: are you a new wineskin, or an old one dressed as new? Learn why God is more interested in your tomorrow than your today, why He fills only the mouth that opens wide, and why the word you study changes you faster than the prayer you repeat.

Your name is not just what people call you. It is the summary of who you have been, who you are, and who you are becoming, and Scripture says as a person's name is, so are they. In this word you will see why no life ever changes until the name changes, how both blessing and trouble gain access to you through the name you answer to, and why every encounter with God in the Bible ended in a new name: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Saul to Paul. There is a name heaven is calling you by. The day you answer to it, your destiny takes a new turn.
Key texts: Isaiah 62:1-2, 1 Samuel 25:25, Genesis 2:19, John 1:40-42, Philippians 2:9, 2 Corinthians 5:17.

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