Speaker 1
We want to welcome you to this message. I'm in Hereford, and I'm sure that wherever you are around the world, there's such a privilege and honor that I get a chance once a year, beginning of the year, to speak this message, and we film it and send it out, and it's landing into your church right now. And we are a family of churches all around the world, seeing incredible things. But I prepared this word that I believe is going to speak right into our churches, into our lives, into our situations for 2026. And Heather and I are just so excited for what's next. 2026. And maybe you've come into our church and maybe you're a guest and you're thinking, I chose a great week. I've got to watch a video. But guys, don't discredit what God wants to do through this message. I believe there's God's power in it that can change lives. And I'm going to even believe and pray for that at the very end of this message, that God is going to arrive in your situation and he is going to come and he's going to move in your life. But first of all, I want to celebrate some global statistics. Because 2025, it was a year of all sorts of mix and great things and maybe some challenges. But I want to celebrate the salvation that we have seen. in our global movement. Now, when Heather and I, when we started, we started in our home with six people. And we started 38 years ago. So now we see all of our church family around the world. Some of you we haven't even met, but we're just excited for what God has. And do you know what? In seven years, we saw one salvation, one person who chose to follow Jesus. Seven years. And we preached every Sunday. We went every week believing, believing that God had moved. And then we celebrated that one after seven years. Can you imagine? And so when I announce this figure right now, we have totaled up all the salvations. People that have chosen to follow Jesus, you will be amazed. Just in 2025, across all our churches, our church families, we have seen 903 salvations. 903 salvations just in this year. I mean, come on, Josh. Yes. Come on, church. Wherever you are, you've played a part of this. And, guys, I want to thank you because I know that we have an army of volunteers in our churches around the world. And this figure, this is your legacy. That people came in and made a decision. Over 900 people. It took us seven years for one. I think I would have given up on me. but God had so much more in store. And I just want to share one other statistic. I want to share about our growth. I believe that God wants to grow his church. It is true that somehow, you know, around the world, that churches are closing. Some churches are struggling. But I just want to say that God is on the move and the kingdom is advancing. And in one year, it would be fantastic if we just said, hey, we managed to stay the same number. That would be a bit sad. But, you know, you might think, well, at least we didn't go backwards. If we grew by 10%, it would be like, that's pretty amazing to grow 10%. 20%, I mean, as a business, it would be amazing. Like, you know, we've grown our figures, whatever. But when you're talking about people coming in, 2025, we grew by 40%. So this is a church movement. We grew by 40%. And again, I want to honor you guys. All of these figures, you say, oh, they're figures. They represent people's lives. When Jesus came, he came for people. And every number represents a life, represents a story. And I just want to take that moment for us as a church family all around the world just to celebrate what God has been doing. And we're part of this. What's he going to do in 2026? Hey, what is he going to do? So I've got this word for you that is, I don't know if I really call it like a vision word, more of a word that is going to speak God's word into our year. And it's almost going to bring dead bones alive. There's something about it speaking life. There's a breath in it. And I'm going to speak this into this year into our lives. But before I do that, I want to tell a story about, I've got a few stories. And I've got this story about going to an auction, a property auction. And this was probably, I don't know, about 18 years ago. I went to a property auction and I went to buy some land. It was actually for church. And I went and it just went over the limit. It was like beyond what we were thinking. So I stayed in the room. The room was packed out and it was very healthy. Lots of bidding going on. So it got sold. I thought I would just stay there. So I moved sort of towards the front. I thought I'd just watch, see what else comes up. And then I saw this old derelict barn come up. And I was interested because I'd looked at this barn. I'd actually been to look at this barn. And in England, especially where we live, we have properties that are hundreds of years old. This property was from 1640. And it was like made of brick, brick walls like this, oak frame, roof. But the whole thing was all leaning over like this and was being propped up because it was going to fall over. So it's like, who's going to buy this barn? Because if it falls over, you might not get permission to build it again. And so there was a big risk to it. It was also listed, which means it's protected by the historic people. They're the people that make you sort of do lots of things. And by the time you've done them, the thing falls down. But anyway, I'm looking at this barn. And I went to look at it because I was just fascinated. And I went and looked at it, spoke to a friend who was a professional. And he said, don't touch it with a barge pole. He said, you need like a chest full of cash. It's going to cost so much money to restore this barn. And so I saw it come up and it was up for 250,000. That was the guy, 250,000 pounds. It's a lot of money going back 18 years ago. And again, I just thought, wow, that's so much money. So I was watching and something really weird happened. I'm watching and lots of people are bidding. It goes from 100, it's going up, it's going up. And then it gets to about 145, and it's really going up. I thought this is, normally it goes sort of fast up to about 225 and then starts to falter. So I don't know what happened, but something moved at the back of my brain. And it sort of came from behind, and it was like, it sort of made my hand go up. I bid. I put my hand up. You know they say, don't move because you could buy something. I put my hand up on 150, because I think, let's just give it a go. Now, I haven't got 150,000, but I put my hand up and I'm there and put it down. I thought, well, it's bound to go on further and further, so I'm safe. Then the auctioneer says, why has everyone stopped bidding in the room? And I'm thinking, come on, there were lots of people bidding. I put one bid in, 150, and it all stopped. And I'm going, please, someone, please, someone, can you bid? Can you bid? And anyway, he's at the front going, I don't know what's happened. He said, right, sold once, sold twice, sold the third time to the fresh blood in the third row. It's me, the fresh blood. And so afterwards, I am there just wetting myself. And I'm there, I'm like thinking, what have I done? This is like a legal binding thing. So I then go at the front and he said, oh, we need tech. It's amazing because he said the reserve price, because I thought there's bound to be a higher reserve. He said it was 200. But this morning, the owner put it down to 150, so it's yours. He said, sign here and give me 10%. So I wrote a check. Back in those days, we had checks. I know in the US, you still use checks. But 150,000, 10%, 15,000. So I wrote this 15,000. I had no money in the account. I figured I had three days for it to clear. So that was the first challenge. The second challenge was I had to go home and tell Heather. I sat her down. I said, something happened today. She said, what? And she's really happy in the house that we'd built a few years before. She's really happy, almost settling in. She said, what happened? What could have happened? Well, I did something. I didn't really mean to do it. But I bought an old derelict barn that's going to fall over. And we haven't got the money. And we went on a journey. I had 28 days to raise the $150,000. Do you know what? On the 27th day, God sent a man along in my sort of life that I'd never seen before, in banking and stuff, that basically ended up financing. On the day before, the contract was going to be sort of causing me trouble. And then we set about two years restoring this barn. You couldn't walk on the floors because you'd fall through. They were all rotten. The walls all had to be taken out with props throughout the whole thing. It was like it was a mammoth task. But God went on the journey for two years. And we eventually, we moved in and we saw God move in a powerful way. The reason I'm telling you this story, church, is because we're in the business of restoration. You might not realize this, but the gospel, the church, every week we come together, every day we get up. It's about restoration. God has called us and I want to speak to you. And the word that God's given me is restoration for this year. I believe that God, the restorer, wants to come and restore. I believe that God wants to come and repay that which has been broken down. He's into the business of restoring. He's into the business of coming where other people say, don't touch it. It will cost too much. He sends his son and he says, I'll give it all. There's something powerful about understanding that he died for you. He died for me. He is the great restorer. And so I've had this fascination for restoring things that are broken. And it's like, I don't know why I do it. But it's difficult and it's challenging and it's a journey. It's not just, yeah, I've got the money for it. And I think even right now, God is speaking to us as a church. And he said, right now, what I want for you as a people, as a church around the world, you might look and think, we can't afford that. God is going to do something greater than what you can afford. It's the way he works. I tell you, if you can afford his vision, then it's cheap. If you can afford it, it's not worth it. There is something about you going on the journey. And we, as the church right now, are stepping in 226 saying, this is going to be your restoration. I want to share this scripture here and base this message on Mark 3, verse 1 to 6. Talking about Jesus, it was another time that Jesus went into the synagogue. Notice he goes into the synagogue and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus. So they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. Because it wasn't allowed on the Sabbath. Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, stand up in front of everyone. Do you love this? He's not doing it hiding. They're waiting for Jesus to make a mistake. And he says, stand up in front of everyone. You want to see God move? We're going to do it right now. Then Jesus asked them, which is lawful on the Sabbath? to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill. But they remained silent. They didn't know what to say. He looked around at them in anger and deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts. And he said to the man, stretch out your hand. So he stretched it out and his hand was completely restored. Completely restored. He opened something that was closed. He brings healing and wholeness to something broken. Completely restored. And then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. It's like we have just seen Jesus perform this miracle with our own eyes. What's going to be the result of our heart? Let's plan to kill the healer. Let's plan to kill the restorer. Why? Because it was on the Sabbath. Oh, Jesus, he's a troublemaker. There were two miracles here that Jesus wanted to do. The first one was physically, he wanted to restore the withered hand. But the second miracle, you might not realize what he's trying to do, is he's trying to restore hearts that are cynical. He's trying to restore the withered hearts of the Pharisees. He's trying to step in, Jesus all the time. He's trying to step into those that have got caught in religion and law. And he is saying, we're going to do it right in front of you. And you've got a choice in this room to either believe and see the healing, the physical healing. But God wants to do an incredible work in the hearts of people. And this is what he was doing. See, many people, they want God to restore things broken in their life. And even coming into this year, 2026, I'm sure many of us are saying like, it's the new me. Do you know what I mean? It's like me and H had this discussion. You wait, the new me is coming. And we go off in our separate rooms and do our stuff and then come out, the new me is coming. We do do that. I know it sounds strange. So there's something about the new me. But what I've learned is we all have a blind spot. And even as you enter this year, 2026, and we go through this year, we want to change. And there are obvious things that we see that we want to change. Obviously, some of those things are very clearly visible. Some of those things are attitudes or habits and things like that. But often we don't see the very thing we need to change the most. Often someone else needs to show us what we need to change the most. Like, hey, I'm a really great husband. Have you tried being married to you? You know, I think we're pretty good parents. Have you tried being parented by you? It's like, it's so funny how we can have an opinion about ourself and how we're doing. And we can think, well, yeah, according to my opinion. And I just believe that even here, God is coming in and he wants to reveal. but we've got to have a heart to say, show me the things that I can't see, not just the things I think I should do better at. It's a little bit like, you know, if you've ever been out for a meal, out for a lunch, and you've had some of that sort of, you know, the salad with all the little green kale bits and whatever, and then later on, you go about your day, your business, and then end of the day, you come into the bathroom, to the mirror, you look and you see the green, like the big green sort of bit stuck between your teeth, And you're thinking, why didn't anyone tell me? You know, you need to have words with your wife. She's not going to tell you that you've got a big green lump stuck between your teeth. But this is what it's like. This is what it's like for us sometimes. We need someone else. I'm not talking about being judgmental. I'm talking about just saying, hey, Holy Spirit. Hey, God. And maybe even right now, God is saying, hey, you want to change. You want to restore. When I talk about restoration, you see, you've got to understand that with restoration, you've got to see what needs to do. And when we took on this barn, it was no good just putting a new roof on. We had to excavate under the foundations. I can put a nice roof, nice windows in, nice kitchen. But if we don't renovate and we had to go down sort of a meter, three foot or so, and then we had to dig all these concrete sort of pinions to rest the thing on. I don't get an expert to do that. When I looked at it, I thought it was not too bad. And this is what we're like in our lives. And I want to encourage you. You want to see restoration. You've got to be willing to say, come on, give me an inspection, Lord. Inspect my heart and show me. Because I don't want to go through another year where it looks like things are falling over. I want to see the restoration of God in my life. And it starts with this thing of restoration. is preceded by recognition. Restoration is preceded by recognition. We want to see restoration, but you've got to recognize where the brokenness is. And sometimes just you isn't enough. That's why counsel is wise. That's why the Bible says that there is wisdom when you seek counsel. Because how can you make an informed decision when you don't know everything or you haven't asked? Do you know what? When I came to put my faith in Jesus as my savior, I had to recognize my state of brokenness. I got restored because I recognized I needed a savior. And you can't get restored unless you recognize. All right, today God wants to do a work in your life. And maybe there's some debt issues. Maybe there's some finance things in your life. Maybe there's a pattern in your family that has just gone from generation to generation. Until we sit up and recognize there's something that needs to change. As long as we keep making excuses, we just pass into the next year. Say that big crack on the wall, we'll just leave it. Let's wallpaper over it. God wants to do a deep work of restoration because he loves you. Ooh. See, when you look at the cause of brokenness, because that's why restoration is needed, there's three basic elements. And the first one is that brokenness was caused from life. Others, outside of me, things that went on that I had no power over. That's why we bring brokenness before the cross. Some of those things happened and life happened and that can be difficult. Secondly, there is a thief. And Jesus said, hey, the enemy, he comes, he's a thief. He wants to rob, steal and destroy. And some of us have experienced the enemy robbing our life, robbing health, robbing our children. There is a real enemy. So there is that component. But lastly, there's ourself. Come on, guys. There's some things we are blaming on the enemy that we just made poor decisions on. And even right now, God wants to restore. But we need a recognition of actually, yeah, I made some poor decisions. Until I stop making the same cyclical decisions, I'm going to keep going back. It's like God restore it and then I'm just going to break it again. Yeah? It's like you want to learn a new pattern. You want to learn a new thing. And from this, there can be consequences of sin. I just want to say this. You know, if you've made decisions and I've made decisions and that caused brokenness on my family or others, there's a consequence. God can restore my life, but I'm going to have to work through and believe and hope that God can heal. But sometimes those things won't be restored. What he'll do is he'll restore who I am within it. You know, sometimes it's like you're going to need to learn to live and accept that even through failure, Christ died for me. Even when decisions and things happen that I regret, I'm not going to live in regret and be defined by it. I'm going to move on because God has more. The Bible calls it the renewing of the mind. I've got to renew the way I think about myself rather than wishing this I'm going to learn what it is to forgive people I'm going to learn what it is to release people so I can move on because when Jesus died on the cross for us and he spilled his blood do you know what? he took it all on the cross for you and when he took it he took every debt and he took every part of that so that we wouldn't have to pay so when we come there is something about God doing something new and restoring our hearts. Sometimes there's consequence of the past, but what he does is he presents a future of hope. And this is what I love, is that God loves restoration. He wants to move. There's a guy, another story in John chapter 9, a man born blind. And Jesus is in the synagogue, he's having a conversation, and the Pharisees, they say, Is he blind because of what his parents did or blind because of what he did? See the thinking? So his blindness is a result of sin. That's what they're saying. And Jesus says neither. You got the wrong end of the stick. And some of us, we need to realize that maybe our hardship, maybe our brokenness, it's not because of sin. And sometimes we buy into it and say, well, maybe I just deserve it because of choices I made. I want to bring a powerful truth of God's word today that when he brings restoration and forgiveness, he makes the way clean. He doesn't come and say, no, you're going to have to pay for it. No, Jesus paid for it all. That is the gospel. You cannot do anything by trying to live a better life. He did it all and paid the price for it all. And yet you see legalism and law and religion will say, I know Christian churches around the world that will say, Well, they've got that and they're suffering because probably of sin in their family. You're disempowering the gospel. The gospel came. We do not end up suffering because what the enemy wants to do is make out that God is a God who then punishes. And the sacrifice of Christ on the cross wasn't enough. It was everything. Jesus was everything. And I believe today, even through this word, some people need to find a new release from shame. There's something in your past and because of your struggles, you've associated it with the fact that, well, I did make some poor decisions and I did this and I went through that and went through this. And that's why I'm suffering. You need to come against that lie of the enemy and say his plans for me are good. His plans for me are good. All things work together for good for those that love him. Here he is. we ought to be careful like the withered man who almost learnt to turn up at church with his withered hand for many years he just learnt to live with it what are you learning to live with that God wants to say stretch it out and get healed what have we thought well maybe it's not as bad as being blind it's just a withered hand maybe you're thinking is it really big is someone else's a bigger issue And yet Jesus comes in and says, stretch it out, fully restored, fully restored. What are we learning to live with? That God wants to come and say it's time to stop defining yourself through mistakes that you made. And get free. Number two, restoration is unfair favor. I want to say this because it's sort of, this blows my mind every time. restoration is unfair favor you count with God you count with the gospel thing well they deserve it more than this person I've seen God come in and heal and move and save and restore families and over here there's been a struggle and it's not it's difficult and it's not it's like grace is different great grace is like unfair you can't explain it you know you can have someone that commits adultery and goes through life you know the and then they meet Jesus and they come with They're past. And Jesus says, there's forgiveness. If you follow me and turn around your life, sin no more and follow me, there's forgiveness. And I'm sure that if you were on the receiving end of that adultery, you'd be thinking that's unfair. Yeah? And yet, if we start saying that, we cancel ourselves out. Because every one of us failed in some way and failed another and hurt someone. Or, you know, we needed grace. And you see, this is what the Pharisees were doing. They were saying who deserved it and who didn't. The people that were really right and then the people who, they were bad. Grace is unfair favor. God is drawn to brokenness. You've got to get this, guys. God isn't shy of brokenness. In fact, if there's brokenness in your room right now and you're listening to this message, In your church, in your place. God is actually drawn to the brokenness in this room more than the wholeness. He says, you know, Jesus even said, I didn't come to make the well better. I came for the sick. It's like I came for the sick. He doesn't stay with 99 sheep. He goes after the one. Right through. He's drawn to the lost. He's drawn to the brokenness. He's drawn to the mistake. The person that made the regret. The person that offended God, he's like, I'm here, I'm right here. The person who came in and did what they shouldn't do, and there's brokenness in their life, and they're wounded by it. And he says, oh, I don't shy off. I'm drawn. I'm drawn to chaos. I just love this about the gospel. See, we think it's polished in our nice churches, or in the nice Christian-y people who pray a lot. No, he's drawn to the addict. to see them free. He's drawn to the person who has brokenness from abuse. He's drawn. That's why you thought you chose him and you somehow found. No, he came looking for you. Right now, he's looking for you wherever you are. He's bringing you in. And I'll tell you what, even the religious, the Pharisees going, come on, you need your heart healed because you need to know freedom. And I want us to understand this going into 2026. If we pretend that we're all good, God's not impressed I actually sort of like God what do you need to restore in me I don't want to be like at the place of yeah doing pretty well this past year has been pretty good you know I've polished up a few areas saying God there's more to restore there's more to work in my foundations why do I react like that in my insecurity God I need your restoration I know you're drawn to it so I want to be open to it recognition precedes restoration Restore me. Clean my heart. Move within me. God is drawn to this. He loves the no-hopers. He loves the people that say, I think my situation is impossible. He said, I'm right here, right now. Give me a try. Give me a go. Give me a go right now. Oh, I dare you. You come on a walk with me, Jesus says. Come on. Come on, put out your hand. Let's see what we can do. Come on, open it. Oh. See, you thought there was no hope. He loves the write-off. He loves the undermined. He loves the sign that says no entry. It's called a closed tomb. He specializes in things that say closed the end. And he says it's a new day. It's a new day. This is the message of restoration. The restoration of the gospel in all of our churches. Our world needs this, but unless we have it, unless we grab hold of this and we carry it with us. Purveyors of restoration. Jesus broke the rules to restore you. Whose rules? The religious rules. He broke them for you. So that you didn't have to live with shame. See, self-condemnation is not humility, deception that will keep you enslaved. Because I hear many people say, I've got faith for someone else that's broken. I've got faith for that abuse, that addiction, that heartache. I've got faith for that. But when it comes to me, some of us aren't great at having faith for ourselves. Some of us are like, I've got faith for the world. I've got faith to see others. But when it comes to your situation, there's almost a self-condemnation. And somehow we can think, well, maybe it's just me. I've got to humble myself. No, you've got to walk out in freedom. And it's like, no, you can do it for me, Lord. And this year is going to be a year of restoration. But you've got to stop saying those things. You've got to stop saying for everyone else, but I don't know about me. God wants to free you and release you so that you can see the fullness of God. Now, in Luke chapter 13, another story. There's a woman who had had a sickness for 18 years. And she was bent doubled. So she walked around like this for 18 years. But it says this interesting thing. This happens in the synagogue as well. See, he's a troublemaker. She's in the synagogue, 18 years, and it says that Jesus comes. And this woman, it states clearly that this woman has had this sickness because of a spirit. not because of something physical because of the spirit a spirit that's like a demonic spirit and i want to just pull this out because some of you might get a bit uncomfortable we can deal with jesus healed the withered hand open the blind eyes but it says clearly in the bible and if you believe your bibles it says here that she has a sickness for 18 years and it says clearly because of a spirit And so he comes and says, today, the oppressed are free. Be released. And it says, after 18 years, she stands up straight. I just want to mention this because there is healing. There is healing of our hearts. Physical healing, emotional healing, healing of our minds. But there is also a freedom of the oppressed. And we believe in our church. and we have seen and we got countless testimonies of how people were set free from something the enemy put upon them in oppression, that at the name of Jesus they can be free. And I want to declare that over this year as well, that there is going to come freedom, freedom where we have been bent over where he's going to say it's time to stand up. What happens when you stand up? You get full vision. Your world's going to change, 2026. It's going to change. you're going to get a new vista, you're going to get a new vision for what is coming. This is who he is. He restores the hand. He restores hearts. But often what we complain that is broken in our hand originated in the heart. Sometimes even our physical response and struggle and illness is from a heart attitude. And so he speaks and says, let's heal your heart. Then it will heal your body. And that's what he was doing. That's what he was moving in. You cannot contain what he wants to do. See, anything you reach out with your hand starts in the heart. think about sin choices what you reach out for that's figured it what you reach for it starts in the heart so this is where we need restoration restoration why does jesus he heals on the sabbath so just a very quick uh you might know this but healing wasn't allowed on sabbath because it's seen as work like you couldn't you if you threw a ball with one hand on the sabbath you can catch it with the same one. It's seen as work. You had to catch it with the other one. There's like, they just had all these laws that were like, you can only walk so far. Many, many things. So to heal on the Sabbath is seen as work. That's what religion did to stop it all. And Jesus, there are seven healings on the Sabbath. He does perfect number of seven complete. He's making a big message. Why is he doing it causing so much trouble? Cause they want to kill him because he heals on the Sabbath. And he goes right into the synagogue. He goes into the lion's den and heals in front of everyone seven times. Why is that? I ask myself. And I believe it's this, because Jesus wanted to show that compassion overcomes legalism every day of the week. Compassion overcomes legalism every day of the week. Even right now, God wants to set some of us free from legalism. About how we sometimes say, is that worship acceptable to me? Is it to this, to that? Should women speak in church? Should they not? Just think about it. We have modern translations. Should people dress like that? Should they do communion like that? They got caught up in all the legalism. And Jesus comes in into the center and he said, this is about compassion. We have a God of compassion. And he steps right in and he is the God who restores. Ooh, you can't contain. restoration the last one last one guys and then we're going to pray last one is the year of favor is grace for restoration the year of favor is grace for restoration what I mean by that is I believe and I'm speaking out over all of our churches over your families everywhere right now. I'm speaking this word of restoration. And I believe that this year, 2026, and I haven't done this before. So in 38 years, it's like, you know, this is something I haven't done before. But I felt God speak to me end of last year saying, 2026, I said, restoration, I know what you're about. He said, no, I'm talking about a favor for restoration. There's a favor for restoration that will land. I don't think just on our church, I think this is going to be something you'll see around the world. There is something that's going to flow and it's going to move in our churches, in our families, in our homes, in relationships, on our finances, on our health, in freedom from oppression. This word restoration, there is a favor. God moves in seasons and epochs of time. So it's not just the same every year. We've entered into something. And right now I'm proclaiming it to you. I'm proclaiming that there's favor of restoration. There are things that you've waited for for eight years. And every year you keep coming and saying, when's it going to change? When's it going to get restored? When's it going to move? And I heard God say, this year is going to be a year for many people that will say this is the year. Why this year? Because there's grace and favor for restoration. You've kept going back and looking for the cloud. It's like there isn't anything there. There isn't anything there. and then you're going to go back and say, I can see something's coming. I want to speak faith and life into you right now, that there is something great that's coming. That this restoration our world needs, it's coming. It's coming as a breakthrough. And this last scripture I'll share with you is from Luke 4, verse 18 to 19. And this is Jesus. These are his words. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Because he anointed me to bring good news to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and has set free those who are oppressed. And here is the proclamation. Why? To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. That's what I'm proclaiming over our churches, over our families, over our lives, personally, right now, the year of favor. Jesus was saying, up till now, they used to do a year of jubilee every 50 years where debts were cleared, where things were just finished, where things were restored. It was like a year of rest, but it was every 50 years. Jesus is coming right now, and he's quoting from Isaiah, and he's quoting, and he's saying, that's over. Right now is the year of favor. You don't have to weigh anymore, but you've got to proclaim it. proclaim it proclaim it for your lost ones proclaim it in your marriage proclaim it over your health proclaim it where innocence was lost proclaim restoration proclaim restoration where that first love was lost proclaim it proclaim it see we've got to get it out got to speak it out see the year of favor is a God anointed season of salvation that's what this is saying so this year is going to be we've seen 903 in this last year 2025 and I'm saying God what do you have next so I'm declaring right now this is going to restoration, salvation is the greatest restoration restored to our father the harvest is coming the second one is restoration of sight to the blind people who could not see will see revelation is one of the greatest things you can get no we're blindness but revelation people are going to walk in to our churches they're doing it they're going to walk in and say I don't know I just have this like something spoke to me I just need to come in see there's going to come a revelation of sight this is where Jesus something about Jesus I just need more of him and then the last one is freedom to the captives we're in the restoration business church that's what this is all about You might not see it, but every week we are digging. We are putting in foundations. We are restoring that which is rotten. We are coming and repairing and rebuilding the breaches to see the house of God. Why? Because it says God's glory will be greater in the latter than it will be in the former. He's a God of restoration. God of restoration. God always restores better than before. and even when things are delayed and there's destruction God has an amazing way of still bringing restoration it's not over God has so much more and right now when I think of those 903 people who were healed they came to know who Jesus was 903 represent individuals in this past year that got restored. Marriages got restored. People got set free. They found a freedom like never before. They found a purpose. They found peace. They found forgiveness. They walked out of the tomb of shame. Wow. We've got some people in the room right now who are part of that number

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and we give thanks to God because he rescued you and we get to be a part of the restoration of God's house.