The River

-God knows and sees where you are and wants to show you how to navigate that.

-Heal the wound of betrayal

-Forgiveness is the most important thing to your spirit. The most toxic spiritual component you could ever have is unforgiven-ness.

-unforgiveness messes up our worship and our blessings

-unforgiveness affects our prayer life

-unforgiveness affects our ability to hear and receive from God

-unforgiveness opens the door for the devil to come in

-unforgiveness keeps our grace low, which makes life harder

-unforgiveness can keep us from being forgiven.

- Jesus not only sees who we are but who we are supposed to be.

- God knitted us together with great destiny.

- It's important to get clean and filled not just clean and empty.

Three things to make your family successful:

1. Committed

2. Consistency

3. Communication

-Diamonds don't come out of the earth polished

-Most people would overlook a diamond in the rough

-Jesus sees you and can polish you

-God's called us to come up higher. Eagles don't fly with chickens

-Prayer is a circle: breathing in and breathing out

-God can move things from your prayer list to your Thanksgiving list

-Allow God to paint pictures on your heart. Things that you can't even verbalize and that are impossible for you to accomplish on your own.

-The door to the supernatural swings on two hinges:

#1 I Believe

#2 I Speak

-Sound came before sight

-If your faith is strong enough to move your mouth then its strong enough to move your mountain

-God has a destination for me this year

-I must keep my mouth moving with the word

-God is God of the spoken word

-If you want the presence of God in your life, you have to make room for Him

-Two points of conversation:

Lord, what do you want from me this year?

Lord, this is what I want.

-Nothing changes if nothing changes

-It took a million miracles to get one Christmas miracle

-God knew what He was doing to get you here

-We may question Him many times, but He always has an answer