Lugar de peça ajustada é gerando vida no Corpo. | Efésios 4:16-18 | Pr. Wellington | 04/01/26

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Onde a frieza que ha de amor Onde a ódio perdão Para que o teu corpo cresça sim O a perfeição a começar em mim

Hello, hello, hello. Hello, good evening. Good evening. Hello, good evening. Grace and peace. Amen. Any visitors?

We are here today, thank God. Amen? Amen.

Tomorrow, 7:30 am, at 8:30 am here in the church. And, any other notice? No, only this. Today is the first course of the year, right? First Sunday. I will read the passage in 2 Timothy 1:7. "For God gave us not a spirit of cowardice, but of power, of love, and of self-control."

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Remember that God is always walking with us. And sometimes even with fear, with fear, we have this spirit of courage to move forward in a project, even more projects for the work. There are several things that are happening.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

De todas as tribos, povos e raças, muitos irão te louvar. De todas as culturas, línguas e nações, no tempo e no espaço, irão te adorar. Bendito seja sempre o Cordeiro.

Son of God, Son of David, blessed be your holy name. Son of Jesus, present here. Rebbed, bought, great multitude, many will praise you.

People have chosen your kingdom and nation In time and space they will worship you Blessed is always the Lamb Son of God, King of David Blessed is your holy name

Cristo Jesus presente aqui. E a nós? E a nós só nos cabe tudo dedicar, oferta suave ao Senhor. Tons e talentos queremos consagrar, e a vida no teu altar, pra teu louvor.

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Alleluia. Amen, Senhor.

Proclamai a sua salvação

Annunciar entre as nações as suas glórias Entre todos os povos as suas maravilhas Porque grande é o Senhor, muito digno de ser louvado

More fearful than false gods. Glory and majesty are before him. Strength and form.

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Proclamai a sua salvação

Annunciai entre as nações as suas glórias, entre todos os povos as suas maravilhas,

Glória e majestade estão diante dele, força e formoso.

Let's sing with the voices. Glory and majesty are before him.

Once again. Those who wait for the Lord will not be disappointed.

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You are our eternal God, our eternal God. Never give up, never tire. Of the weak is the defender. Comfort us, Lord. Put us above.

Oh, God, reign forever in you.

You are our eternal God, our eternal God. Never give up, never tire. Of the weak is the defender. Comfort us, Lord. Put us on the cross.

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Hallelujah, my brothers, hallelujah. It doesn't even need a drum, right? The brothers clapping. But really, it's a lot of happiness to know that God has taken care of us, has been the support. And I'm sure the brothers here have proven this in practice. It's not just a song.

And all of us here have been through very difficult times this year, I'm sure. Some more, others less. But everyone found in God the refuge, that safe place. That's why we praise you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Pray our morning star. Holy Lamb that brought us peace.

Thank you, Lord. You are our star.

Reza a nossa estrela da mão Cordeiro santo que nos trouxe a paz Em tuas mãos está tudo vencer Resposta a todo aquele que cai

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Manifesta o teu perdão e poder E assim vamos te adorar Para sempre, ó meu Deus Te louvamos, ó Senhor Te louvamos, ó Senhor

Pelo teu imenso amor Manifesta o teu perdão e poder E assim vamos te adorar Para sempre Seremos de nós sem o teu amor Antes de eu falar Tu cantava só

But everything paid for me

Impressionante

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I can't buy it

I'm telling you that you were going to stay here with me? No? No way? Let's pray for our children, for us.

Amen.

2026. It started. Did it really start? Did it start? Some people think it will start only after the carnival. Brazil only starts to work after the carnival. But for us it started. And then the question I ask you is: how did it start? How did you start 2026? Then of course you will tell me a story, that you ate a lot of rice with raisins, that you

I went to the beach to see the fireworks, which were very beautiful for those who went to see them. I saw the photos and I was satisfied with the photos, with the videos. I was satisfied. The photos and the videos were enough for me. You can say, "I started, I don't know, scared." But, brother, my proposal to you tonight is that we are actually starting. It's the first of 52 Sundays a year.

And the way you adopt, the posture you adopt on this first Sunday may be that it will be broken, it will have consequences for everyone else. And I would really like you to start right, so you can finish better than you are starting. I believe everyone had a good time, we have good news, we are here, God has been good to us, we have news happening.

Pastor Cornélio and Raquel are with us now that I'm seeing them. Pastor Cornélio, I'll even make an addendum here. Pastor Cornélio is our... Pastor, he's going to help us here from this year. And he and his wife are going to develop the ministry with us here. They are very welcome. Could you stand up so the people can see you two again? Yes, you two. Are there more people with you too, Pastor? Yes?

the daughters, is it the first time you come? niece, is it the first time you come? so someone must have already come close to you, left a contact, who is close can greet, does not pay anything, right? you just don't get too close to the visitor, my brother, if you have a laugh, but if you have brushed your teeth, everything is fine, you can smile, you can hug Pastor Cornelio will bless us here this year, in 2026, he will walk with us here, I work with couples

And when we have more details to pass to the church, we will do that. In the end he will come here and we will pray with him here. He will impart the blessing at the end of the service. But you can sit down. You are very welcome, the visitors are very welcome. Pastor Cornelio is already on the team, he is already playing with us here. How are you going to start the year? I would really like you to start the year well. For what? So that you can finish the year even better.

you started well to end up better. Sometimes we don't start the year well or we don't live well because of some choices, some situations that we could make different. Some things that end up disturbing us in our journey. Choices that we make. For example,

look at wrong issues. Because what can get in the way of starting a good year and going well throughout the year? Wrong decisions about what is important in this life, in our daily lives. There are people who are... I'm going to talk here, I'm talking about people... I usually talk about New Zealand, but there are people here in Brazil too, that their sport is to observe the world, life. They are always thinking about the macro.

in the collective, always thinking about the amplitude, the amount of people. So, normally, those who are in this kind of footprint, they consider things like: "Look, society, Brazil..." Regarding the group that was there enjoying Guarapari, because everyone knows that Guarapari is a mining city that is here on our coast,

"Oh, the Miners!" He always talks about generalization, he always makes a note like this: "The problem of the Miners, the problem of the Holy Spirit..." Then you know that the Holy Spirit, despite being a small state, has more than 70 municipalities. Not all have the same characteristics, the same difficulties, the same confrontations and the same joys. But the person treats things like this: "Oh, the Holy Spirit..."

"Ah, Vila Velha! Vila Velha has more than 500,000 inhabitants!" If you had an experience in a certain place, you say: "Ah, Vila Velha is like this!" Not the entire Vila Velha. It's like this. It's that way. And the boring thing about treating things this way is that we don't realize that, while we're looking out,

looking at the macro, looking at society, that society is like this, Brazil is like this, Brazil, Brazil... Then you forget that before something happens in Brazil, that maybe it never happens, that you want it to happen, things have to happen in you. You need to make decisions, make choices, make commitments, honor with certain responsibilities,

that you are easy to happen something with you, because you, especially you who is here, you serve a God who walks with you.

who loves you, who attracted you to Him, and who comes to live inside you with the Holy Spirit. That is, there are great things that can happen to me. With Brazil, I don't know. Can it happen? It can. It may not happen either. It may not happen. But I know that with me there are possibilities that if I keep looking outside, I stop looking inside, I stop looking at myself and I don't realize what fits me. And it's in this that a month passes,

Years pass by, decades pass by, and there are many people who continue to be mingled, weak, skeleton, sick, in certain areas that she could have developed, she could have grown. If she stopped evaluating everything that is out there and took care of her own life, if she looked at herself.

Instead of saying, "Lord, because there, I don't know where, it's like this, the people there do this, kill them because they are like that." It's a prayer that no one does here, but there are people who do it somewhere. If we, instead of acting this way, we would say, "Lord, I'm here, I didn't understand what you want for me in this area, I'm going to bend my knee, I'm going to fast, I'm going to seek you in such a way that I need to hear you."

I want to know what you want for me this year. I want to be more mature. I'm still getting stressed with stupid things, with stupid things. I need to mature, I need to grow, to have more self-control. You live in me, the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Where is it, Lord? Why isn't the Holy Spirit acting in me? I can do that and I can receive. You too. Things you should think for yourself. For what?

Why? Are you in a contest? At the end of the year we'll do a test, here in Pebe and Itaparica, test, see who grew the most, started well, let's see who will win, will compete for a prize, will win, I don't know, the Calvino Institutes. No, that's not it, people. Nobody is disputing anything. That's not it. It's because, in fact, it weighs on us a need for growth, for development. We need to walk, have intimacy and mature.

I hope that 2026 will be a year where we want to mature more, while people get closer, get more attentive and have more intimacy. Intimacy to pray.

and to see God doing things, not because God is being placed against the wall, because I'm fasting now and God has to do it, none of that. It's because it's a path that God really brings to us, and from fasting, prayer, and seeking, you experience many actions of God in your life, and you grow as a believer, as a Christian. I want you to grow in other areas too.

I just don't want you to grow up in the circumference, because you don't need to. Nobody wants to grow up like that. But, that you grow up, intellectually, your work, wonderful, all right. But one thing I'm going to fight with you this year is: grow up. We need to grow up in intimacy with God, in maturity with this life. You can't be a baby the rest of your life, you can't be a little child. You can't, you can't, you shouldn't, you don't have to be like that.

But I was saying that there are some things that hinder us from growing. Let me put some here. Let's see if it works the other way. I'm going to take the opportunity for those who are listening to us on the internet to apologize for the difficulties we have had with the transmission. And the brothers are already busy trying to fix it this week. It's not easy, but they will try. Then...

Look for that too, because it's always on Sunday that there are more problems. It's not showing up here either. I'll ask you to pass it on, please. So, brothers who are accompanying from home, because they can't be here with us, we apologize for doing a service more or less there. Now, you who are at home, who could be here, then you just take it and come. It's easier. It's much better here present. Together it's much better. Let's go.

I don't know why. Please, move on. Third slide. Go. You have to press the start button for him to walk. You'll see that, right? Next. One more, please. You won't? Then turn it off. Turn it off, it's better. Then I won't look at this thing, it'll be easier. I won't disturb you here. But what does it get in the way? Disagreement. Disagreement gets in the way of us starting well. Or taking good initiatives. Why does it get in the way?

Because we run out of energy. Now, think with me, why are you discouraged? Why are you discouraged? Disappointment is the result of what? Many times, discouragement is the result of a poorly managed resource. You have 24 hours a day, I also have. You have food to eat, I also have. You have a bed to sleep, I also have. We have the same things, people.

We have everything at our disposal, but then we are discouraged, tired, why are you tired? Why is it missing for you and not missing for me? Or is it missing for me and not missing for you? Why the discouragement when making good decisions? Because we manage it wrong, we spend energy in the wrong place, we think we will rest seeing things, and then discouragement. It's a problem, it's a thief of good decisions.

The discouragement. But if you manage correctly your resources, time, mind, everything you have, I'm not talking about financial resources only, but everything, if you manage it right, you'll have it. For example, reading. Reading the Bible. We'll talk about it many times, but reading the Bible, or something else you want to think about, but in my case it's the Bible. Why don't you read the Bible? Or why do you read what you read?

You read the Bible a little, why do you read so much? God showed you that it was like that, it was enough, your food base is in these conditions, it's what you need, okay, fine, calm. But why do you read less or not read? Why? Sorry, sorry. It's a lack of starting something and insisting. Start reading one chapter this year, one chapter, just one chapter. Then it will reach the end of the year, you will have read how many?

How many days are there in a year? Yeah, but four is gone, so there will be 361. If you start today, 362, right? I don't know if I'm doing the math right. There will be more than 360 chapters of the Bible, and you will have read this year if you read only one chapter per day. Start in the New Testament, which is easier, or from some book from the Old Testament that you like the most, but do it every day, every day, you stop there. You won't spend 10 minutes to do this. What 10 minutes? 5 minutes to read a chapter of the Bible.

And at the end of the year you will say: "I read 360 chapters of the Bible, but I don't have time, I'm discouraged, I spent all my energy watching Dorama, now I can't take it anymore. Who watches Dorama here? Raise your hand just to know. I don't watch, I'm just kidding. I don't even know what it is. It's just that there's a little thing on the finger that makes a little heart, right? So, that's it. Let it be. I'm discouraged.

resources wasted in the wrong place, lack of faith, we don't believe that things can happen, that small things can generate big things. A mountain, this is old, right? A mountain, it is made of small pieces that have been built, it has become big. Of course, you know that, everyone knows that. Any big construction that you see here in the city, we have many, and there is one being born there in Joaquim, maybe the biggest in the state, that

It wasn't born that big, there are many bricks, bricks, bricks, bases, a lot of things, a little bit, a little bit every day, every day, every day, every day, the stuff is that big. But then, there are some of us, sometimes we get deceived, distracted, thinking that no, if I read the Bible one chapter a day, it won't make any difference. It does!

If I stop for a while to pray to God, only 15 minutes, I only have 5 minutes to pray, to stay quiet, to talk to God and such. "5 minutes is little, God deserves more." Of course God deserves more, but if you can offer 5 minutes, offer this one. Start well so you can finish well, brother. Start well. Believe that little attitudes you took at the beginning of the year may lead you up there, will make you grow, mature, have intimacy with God.

Because we want to be more mature and intimate in 2026, closer to the Lord. Focus on the right. Stop seeing the news and saying: "If I did this, I would do that, I would do that." You won't do it, I won't do it. Look at your life. Stop looking at the other's Instagram and thinking: "I had to do this, I had to do that." Stop with that, take care of yours. Better, take care of your life. Your life. Your life.

I keep imagining that some people think that the day we have to get the Lord right in our lives, that God will say something to us, and then we will say: "No, there was no time!" Yes, there was. You were straight, just in the middle. "No, but it's because Brazil was like this!" I'm asking about you. It's your life. I gave you responsibilities, I gave you great opportunities, I'm asking about you. The others, I'll solve them later.

Focus on the right place. Resolve your life. There are some phrases that are even beaten, right? That the subject wants to change the world, but he doesn't clean the house. He talks about education all the time, "It has to be like this, education, we have to improve education." I've been listening to these speeches for 20 years, but I don't even educate myself. There's no book to read right. So, it's ridiculous, isn't it? It's ridiculous. The subject who created one of the most harmful theories, in my opinion,

about the functioning of society, it's the same comrade who didn't work and kept on beating the other one who beat him, who had a child outside of the marriage and didn't even disappear, because otherwise he would break, he would get sick, he would get badly seen. He wants to change the world, he wants to change the universe. There are a lot of fools who still run after this theory. He wants to change the world, he wants to change the universe, but he doesn't take into account the basics that are close to home. He doesn't treat the dog and wants to make an NGO for animals. I think you're understanding.

Small things can make a big difference. I heard a story Glenda told me these days, I liked it a lot and brought it to you here. About the girl in the blue dress. Who knows the story of the girl in the blue dress? The story of the girl in the blue dress is more or less like this: maybe I'm going to miss something here that I'm not going to read, but the girl went to school every day, a little messy, a little ugly clothes, and then the teacher saw that she was a brilliant girl, dedicated,

She said: "This girl is so sad, I came to class with this outfit, I'll help her to look prettier." She bought her a blue dress. She came home with a blue dress, showed it to her parents, they were happy. But she said: "Oh my God, she always goes without getting her hair done, without taking a shower, to wear a blue dress, we will need to take better care of her to match the dress, to look well dressed."

Then she went to school, with a new dress and a smelly bath. When she got there, the other children saw that she was well-tidy too. This brought a certain strangeness, difference, and they also wanted the same thing. But while she was at school, the parents, on the third or fourth day, thought: "Our house is so dirty, so messy, the holes..."

We could improve, because now we have a girl with a beautiful blue dress inside our house, we can improve this house. So, in the intervals he had, he could, the father went there and painted the house, painted the house outside, painted the house inside, it took a day, but he did it. What happened? The neighbors looked and said, "My God, look how his house looks beautiful." But we had to do it here too. Some for inspiration, others for... how do you call it?

out of envy, but that's how it works. They started painting, so they started moving that street, which was a very far street, it started to get all colorful and all tidy. Then a councilor passed by, looked at it, tried to find out what story it was, and they told him the story. He said, "Damn, but everyone is tidying up things, they have difficulties, they are low income." Man, the city hall,

They could do something to help, so that the whole city would be well organized. There had to be some public action for that, and then a movement started. They threw it to the Chamber, the mayor approved, and the city took on a different look, a different look. The mayor started to do "Pracinhas", "Zé Pracinha", and then the mayor of Vila Velha was born. But the moral of the story is simple.

The teacher, actually, couldn't have moved that villa, couldn't have moved that house, but she could have given a dress to the girl. It was a small thing she could have done. Now, because she had given that dress to that girl,

The house felt the need to change some things, some habits, the neighborhood too. Small gestures, small attitudes. Start well in the year of 2026, start right, so you can finish better. Do small things, good things. "But it's too small, it's nothing." It's nothing, but it's something. Do it, do it. Get involved with the right things for you to notice.

But if I were saying this here and there was no reason for the Bible to guide us in this way, there would be no reason. Ephesians 4:14-16 says: "The purpose is that we are no longer like children, because children are taken from one side to the other by the waves,

And not thrown here and there, by all the wind of doctrine, and by the cunning and expertness of men who induce error. Before, the truth in love, following the truth in love, we grew in everything in that which is the head, Christ.

Verse 14.

A loving invitation, an invitation that you can choose. It's not a choice, it's an option. Let me see the menu here. "Do nothing", "Grow a little", "Do not grow", "Decrease"... There is no such menu for you to choose. Jesus is calling me and you to develop, to grow, to mature. Spiritual growth is not an option for a Christian, it is a duty.

It's a sacred call. The target, and the text says, the target is Jesus. The target is the stature of Christ. There's a model for us to follow. There's a pattern. And when we positively respond to this call, we are living within an eternal purpose, because God did not call us to be conformed to Christ's image, and not to remain stagnant in faith. Unless there's someone here who says, say it later, okay? Later you talk to me.

If you want, we can go to my room and talk. Suddenly you will tell me a very nice story. Pastor, I am already the size of Christ. Identical to Jesus. There is nothing else to happen, to grow, to develop in me. Everything that Jesus has, I have. Everything Jesus does, I do. Everything Jesus says, I say. Everything Jesus thinks, I think. So, my brother, if you prove that you are in that position, you are out of this conversation here. But as far as I know, all of us here have areas of life that we need to develop.

We have to grow. And the call to growth is not an invitation, it is a call. It is dangerous, my brother. You and I live as spiritual children because we will listen to things and we will think that we will not have discernment. The child, as the text says here, is the one who is taken to the next level. "Go there, let's go too. Now it's here again." I really like this one. "Now it's in the middle, come here."

When we don't mature, while we are children, we take this risk. But that's not what God wants. God wants from me, from you, in 2026, maturity, intimacy, closeness to Him. And maturity enables us to fulfill the purpose of God, to influence people. It's maturity, it's intimacy, it's closeness to Jesus that makes us look at Him and say, "Is that so, Jesus?" And we do.

If He is our target, our model, our mirror, what we look at and want to copy, it will be like that. So, to grow is a call, a call, not an invitation. Simple. Still in the text, you will see I marked verse 15, he will say, "First, following the truth in love, let us grow in everything in that which is the head of Christ." Guys, it's easy, it's very clear, isn't it?

The text is telling us to grow. It's an invitation, it's a call. Growing requires abandoning some things. And I would say it requires abandoning some excuses, you know? Some excuses that we fix. I put some here for us to think. To grow, you have to abandon excuses, you have to stop making excuses and resolve them. The first excuse is the lack of time. I don't have time to seek God. There's a Miner who is seeking.

But I have hours of entertainment and social media. Growing up requires us to grow the way we need to, start well in 2026, to finish even better. It requires us to reorganize these things in our lives. I'm telling you never to touch your cell phone again. That's not it. I'm not saying that. It's not my duty to tell you these things. I'm saying that there's something you have to look for first.

There is something more important, there is something more necessary. And that lack of time, I will only believe that you have a lack of time if you look at... There are some things on the cell phone that you see everything that moved, right? Digital well-being. It gives a graph of everything there. Okay. I didn't have time this week. Instagram, three hours a day. Oh, miserable. Who is it? It will fall into this. Do you believe? You don't believe in this. Sorry, I'm flattered.

The other excuse, number two, is the excuse of circumstances. There are people who say: "When my life improves, I'll dedicate myself more." But God is calling us to be challenged now, today. It's in the midst of challenges, problems, difficulties, that He calls us to live with fidelity. You won't. You won't improve. You won't commit yourself when things are good. First, because life won't be good.

No, it won't, my brother. This world is falling into the evil and you are waiting for it to become a heaven to do certain things. Man, you are losing the course of history. You are lost and don't know. Things will not improve. But you will improve, you will win, you will unwind. You were called to take a different attitude, to swim against the current.

Not to get excuses. Start well, start 2016 right so you can finish it better. Stop with excuses of circumstances. "When I know how to play three guitar notes, I'll play." Then you learn the three and say, "No, four. Three is not enough. I have to know more. It's not four, I need seven."

And in this footprint, the person, while he doesn't learn the classical guitar, he won't play. He won't serve. Because he doesn't want to serve, he's making excuses. Circumstances are only giving him a make-up, because in fact it's his heart that is not committed. He doesn't want to grow in this area. This would also be a truth about the other so many things. The person has a ministry, he has a capacity, he received from God an ability.

But he doesn't use that in favor of the kingdom of God. He doesn't bless anyone, neither inside nor outside the church. Because he thinks it's not the time yet. It's not the time. And we need to overcome with God these limitations, these excuses. Brothers, I've said it several times here with you. And I'm going to say this maybe all my life, because until today God hasn't changed. After 25 years as a pastor, he hasn't changed. I'm a shy person.

I don't like to speak in front of people. Here I like it. I know you because I'm at home. I go to another place, I go, but inside it's... If I preach every Sunday and I make a sermon, when I preach outside it seems like I'm making three twins and they're all still in a mess. Because I don't like it. I've never been the child of conversation, of going forward, presenting work, none of that. But I know it can be overcome. Because if God calls and if we obey, it can be overcome.

We can do it. You can do it too. Start today with this thing that is holding you, holding you. Start today. Start well, start right. Because by the end of 2026 you will be much better. It's a construction. You want to see? There's one more excuse there. The excuse of comparison. I haven't got there yet, but I'm better than many.

It goes back to that illustration I was bringing up at the beginning, right? "Ah, because this is so-and-so, it's life, it's society, it's the team..." Oh, my brother, your standard, your model is Jesus. You have to look like Christ, man. It's Jesus. My sister, Jesus is your standard. You don't have to be better than your neighbor, your colleague here in the church. No, your standard is Christ. The measure is not the other.

It's the spiritual measure. It's living like Jesus. That's why we need to be involved in some way, in a training, in a conversation, in a small group, so that these things can be sharpened, they can be, you know, kind of beaten, disputed, to see if it's really happening. Because otherwise we end up hiding in a habit, in a mania. And the text is saying: "It's to stop being a child and to look like Jesus." That's how it's written there in Ephesians chapter 4.

2026 will be the year of abandoning justifications and embracing discipline. Discipline, here, constant resolution that produces genuine growth in our walk. Finally, let's read the text. I would like you to read the two verses there, 15 and 16. Let's go? Before, amen. Brothers, to grow, finally, to grow is to walk with Christ and with the Church. Walk together with Christ.

and with the church. But this walk, I find it interesting to imagine it. It's not like Jesus is walking and I'm walking to go near him. No, to know where he's going. The walk with Jesus is side by side. And the walk with the church is the same thing. I walk next to Jesus, he talks to me, I talk to him, I get to know him, I look and I learn, I model my life from him.

I look at my brothers and I do the same thing, I learn from them, I model my life with them, they model their lives with me, because we are all copying Jesus. But it's a walk, not a run, a run, "let's see who gets there first!" No, it's a walk together. But to mature, to have intimacy, to grow in fact in 2026, you need to walk with Christ and with the Church, with Christ and with the Church.

Again, with Christ and with the Church. With Christ? With Christ. Talk to Him. Listen to what He has to say. Wait for Him to guide you. Jesus is alive. Jesus is not a figure, like what happened, a story, but now we don't have access to Him. No, no. He speaks to us, including through the Bible, through prayer, through the Word, through meditation, through the Holy Spirit that dwells in us. Talk to Him. Walk with the brothers.

You can't grow and mature alone. What grows alone is arrogance. What grows in me alone is the stubbornness. I think that I know little, I don't know more. Alone, that's it. What grows is the distance, the separation. Because then, alone, I read, I take my ideas, I choose my preferences, and if you don't fit in them, you're stupid.

You're slow, but we have to walk with others. Show others what we see, let them show us what God is showing them. Growing up, maturing, having intimacy is an exercise that is done in walking with Christ and the Church. Intimacy with Christ. Cultivate a deep time with Jesus in the Word, in daily prayer. It's not possible, it's not possible, it's not possible, it's not possible. It's very obvious here. I can't, you can't be intimate with anyone you don't spend time with.

It's not possible. Sometimes we see people who... I've seen a lot of stories of artists, famous people, saying that he's there in the hype, everyone is accessing him, watching his content, and the guy decorates everything he does. And then, the day they meet, at a theater, at a show, something like that, the guy comes up to him and thinks he's his friend, but he's not. He knows everything about the artist.

But they are not friends. But the fan thinks that they are not friends, that they want to talk. But the guy who is there says: "You know everything about me, but I don't know anything about you. You are nothing to me, you are a fan. Do you want me to sign something? Do you want to take a picture? Let's go." But that's it. That's it. But with Jesus it is not like that.

With Jesus, it's intimacy, indeed. But intimacy needs time, investment, conversation, silence, connection with the church. Each member contributes to the growth of the body. You saw it in verse 16. Each one uses their gifts, their talents, to serve one another. Mutual, it's mutual. One helps the other. When I help to grow, I grow too. It's an advantage for me. But it's a experience, a love experience.

It's interesting that he says here, to speak the truth in love, to live the truth in love. And when we think about the truth, without love, it's hard. And there are people who think that way. I've done this several times. And I apologize, I don't do it anymore. At least I won't give this excuse, right? For being rude, for being direct. No, because I'm talking the truth. I'm the truth, I'm transparent. The Bible says to speak the truth, yes. In love, in love.

But we can't stay on the other side. If we love and don't speak the truth and don't live the truth, we're mistaken. We're mistaken. We're overdoing it. It won't work. So, verse 15 says, Let's read the text again. All together, let's go. The purpose...

Amen. I'm going to propose to you now, so we can close, five areas for you to practice in 2026. With this perspective. Start well, start right in 2026. Make real, good, right commitments, so that you can get there in 2026, at the end, or January of next year, right? In 2027. You're better. You've grown. You've developed. You've been expanded.

Something in you, inside your soul, became clearer, clearer, more tense, more pleasant. And I start by saying the word of God. Commit to daily reading and meditation in the scriptures. Establish a biblical reading plan for the whole year. What reading plan? What you choose, but establish one. You want me to help you? I help you. You look for me, I help you.

If you take three years to read the Bible, no problem, man, three years. But you read. You were there every day saying: "I want a little of your word, I want a piece of this bread from heaven." But establish, commit yourself. Remember when you went to a show that you bought and suddenly it started to appear, before you got to the show, a lot of difficult things started to happen and you almost couldn't go. What did you do? You turned around and went.

Sometimes famous artists come to Brazil, Rio, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, all over Brazil. And there are people who set up camps there to buy tickets. You know why? Because it's very important to be close to that personality. For them, that thing is very important. That will give them energy. And they will stay, they will take pictures, they will be able to say: "I will tell my grandchildren that I went to the show."

We are not talking about a singer, an artist, of doubtful taste. We are talking about the Lord of our souls, who gave us a book, who communicates with us, that when we read, we see and realize ourselves.

And that we don't read it alone. Every time we read the Bible, the author is there with us, to help us explain, to understand, he's on our side. So, if you commit to the least you can do, you must do, to start well, to finish well, it's better to say, "I'm going to read the Bible this year, every day." Some will be braver and say, "No, I'm going to read the Bible all year, every day." Okay.

Go in faith. But if you say, at least, that you will read the Bible every day, even if it's just one chapter, half a chapter, it doesn't matter, but I will read the Bible, I will stop and read the Bible every day. Why? Because this is an exercise that I can't stop doing. For those little brothers who take medicine every day. Every day you take medicine, you don't stop taking it, because you believe that that medicine is keeping your health balanced. Take it, give the word, do the same thing, have the same discipline, it's a commitment.

Do you forget to take your medicine? Ok, but you don't forget it every day. Then you recover. You continue again. That's right. The Bible is a remedy for us, brothers. If we want to grow in this year of 2026, to get more mature, more intimate with our God, we need to read the Bible every day. Every day. Every day. Push it and you won't miss it. On the WhatsApp of the church, every day. Three times a day I go there. I give a pat. A push. But you...

"I'm having difficulties, I don't know what to do, how is this thing?" Look for me in particular, because I help you. I help you with joy, I help you with satisfaction. Life of prayer: reserve daily time to talk to God, develop a prayer list and follow the divine answers. Make a diary, a map of what is happening. I don't know about your habits, I know about some habits, few. I know that when I go to the bakery near the church, at 7 am,

Usually it's the time I go, I let the kids in class, then I go to the bakery, have a coffee, eat bread with eggs. The newspaper is on, it's passing by. Only nice things. 7 am. The motorcycle fell, a shot that I don't know where, a mischief. 7 am. It's the diet, right? It's the diet of that people there, at that time, every day.

Every day, he sits there, I notice that I see the crowd watching TV, then I say, the guy comes every day to have a coffee and he has to consume this business. But we also need this, there is a journalist here in the church who needs to know about the news, he doesn't even need to know about this whole thing. But I believe that you need to know about the Bible, that you need to know about your God, what he wants for you, it's just praying that you will be able to understand this.

The problem is that most of the time we ask God for things and he runs away. It's like that story I told you about the boy who presses the bell and runs away. When the person opens it, there's no one there anymore. Separate time. Reserve some time to talk to God. Take a notebook or a block on your cell phone and go making requests. Follow it. See. When I answer, you...

Write, "Oh, the Lord answered me this, this, right? Thank you Lord." And so on. This will strengthen your faith. Start well, my brother. Start right. You will finish 2026 much better. Three more suggestions here for you. Fraternal communion. Participate actively in a relationship group. Build authentic friendships in the local church. The other slide says that. Build.

Friendship with God is like that, and with me too. It's the same thing between us. Yes, there are people who have been in this church for many years, they already have a history, they have lived together for a long time, it's true. But even these need to be cultivated, need to be fed. Communion, participate. We have a group of relationships because it's to have relationships, to have coexistence.

It's so that we can really know each other's lives in a safe environment, so we can talk, pray. It's for that. It's not a fashion. "Now the Taparica Church is in the fashion of the IPB in Manaus." It's not. We just went there to get the way, to get the model.

But it's because we believe that you need, I need to be in a small group, to live with some people, where I can share my joys, and when I'm tired too, when I'm discouraged, when I'm tired, when I'm hopeless, for someone to come and say: "This will pass, wait, let's pray." And we go, taking care of each other. But it's something built. Friendship is not something like this: "Pah!" It doesn't happen. You need to invest. Fourth, fifth, it ends.

Serve the Kingdom, discover your spiritual gifts in the body of Christ, get involved with some ministry in the church. Do you know what the problem is with people? The danger, right? Not everyone does this, but the danger of people who don't get involved is that they have a lot of time to be able to evaluate what the others are saying, what the others are doing. From the moment you get involved, you will realize. A brother here came to me once and said: "Yes, Reverend, this thing of being a pastor is difficult, right?"

I didn't want to be. I said to him: "Me neither. I wanted to be a policeman. I wanted to kill people." He said: "No, that's too complicated." I said: "Yes, but you know what's more complicated, more difficult for me today? If I don't do what God wants me to do, what He prepared me to do." God gave each one of us gifts, talents, opportunities, influence, that we can all put this at the service of the Kingdom. Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, but you need to find out.

"Again, I'm here to help you, but get involved, participate, there's always something that can be done, it can be too simple, small, bring a glass of water here, help me." There are people who do this, right? I'm just giving an example. There are other things, but you need to get involved. Start well in 2026, you need to finish well. "My business is with children." So, put your hands up, throw it in.

Make, program, plan, seek, ask for help. Finally, a personal transformation. Identify areas in your life that need to change. Let God, the Holy Spirit, show you. Work the character, work the conduct. Do you need to change? Why are you Marília Gabriela? "I was born like this, I was always like this, I will die like this, always Gabriela." You don't need to.

We have a wonderful God dwelling in us that has the capacity to lovefully transform us. I want to get to 2026 better than I started. And I'm starting well. I finished a book on the second day, I'll finish another one soon. The group of disciples is multiplying, I'm excited about it.

We'll have the seasons during the year. This year will be ninja, it will be great. It will be good. I'm sure that this fasting thing that we've been talking about, is catching people. There are people who are going, fasting, dedicating themselves and having experiences with the Lord. It will be more intimate, it will be more mature. Of course it will. If you are like this, it continues. If you are not, start this year. Start well this year so you can finish better.

Maybe the prayer we need to do is this: "Lord, 2026 will be the year of my growth." "Ah, the growth of the church!" No, it's yours, man. Remember what I said at the beginning? This thing of talking on behalf of others, people, us, us, no, it's you, it's you. It's your question. Choose an area for you to grow this week. My suggestion here is: share your commitment with someone who can support you on this journey. Don't go alone, no. Alone you will give up.

You will get frustrated, you will get embarrassed. Get someone to talk to. "Hey, man, how are you?" "You don't even have to talk to him yet, you haven't started yet." "No, but we will start." Someone who can do this, to stimulate you. "We are together on this journey, this church is with you to support your growth." "What you have to do, it has already been suggested here, participate in our cults, in small groups, activities, set goals."

52 Sundays. How many Sundays will you come this year? How many? How many? That's a good goal, huh? I'll come as much as possible. I'll come. It's raining, I'll come too. I don't come standing up, I come by car. If I don't have a car, I have a brother who has a car, I can call him and he will help me, he will bring me, because that's how it works. Unless when we are proud and don't ask for help, right? How many? Start well, 2026. Start right.

Make decisions, take a notebook, a schedule, a block on your cell phone, there are so many resources for that, right? Take something, start well so you can finish better. In the name of Jesus. Let's read the text again and let's close. Slide 14, please. The Bible text. This other text that is on the slide, it's very bad to read, I'll send it to you on WhatsApp, it will be easier.

Let's read the Bible text for us now here? The purpose, amen, amen. Let's stand up, I'll invite the people of the Lovô to come here. We are going to chant one of the songs that we sang earlier. Maybe the first one of the opening there, the beginning in me, or if they have already chosen another, it's also good.

You will also enjoy this moment of the songs. You who are prepared will deliver your dízima, your offer. Here is the gasofilácio. There, at the back of the chairs, you have the pix of the church. You already know how it works. You are invited to participate in this. Pastor Cornelio, please come forward. You will close the worship for us here in a little while. We will pray for you and then you will pray for us.

Let us all be like you are in us. Start in me. Break hearts. Let us all be like you are in us.

Let's all be one.

As you are in us. Amen. Pastor Cornelio, please give me a microphone. Brothers and sisters, Pastor Cornelio has been with us here. You already know him. Pass it to him. He is his wife, Raquel. He officially started on the 30th, when we had the meeting. On the 30th. He is with us here. This month of January...

He already has some occupations, some agendas. And he's also coming from another church. So he has a period of rest too, of holidays. So I left him at ease, because he's coming. He, Raquel... Do you want to embarrass your wife, bring her here in front? Raquel, please, let's go. Take advantage that you still don't have the freedom to speak, no? That's it. Then...

Raquel comes here too, so we can pray for them, my brothers. They are coming to bless us and we as a church will bless them too. It can't be something just from one side to the other. It's a double-edged sword. We bless, they bless us, God blesses all of us. So we will pray for this period here of Raquel, of Cornelio, with us in this year of 2026.

Those ministries, those ideas that he has dreamed, planned here to work with us this year, that at the right moment will be announced, okay? And say, Cornelio already said this many times, to Raquel, that you are very welcome. Everyone here is too good. The worst of this church here, more or less, is the pastor. The rest is all very good people. And I want you to be very comfortable here with us, okay?

I will pray for him and then he will pray, ending and giving the blessing about us. Lord God, we are here, Lord. Thank you for the life of my brother, Pastor Cornelio, of Raquel.

Okay.

I want you to be good to all of us, that in our struggles we find and reach victory in you. That when we stumble on something that is difficult, we get strength from you to overcome it.

Father, that's what I want. And that Cornelio and Raquel are very welcome and that they are well welcomed and respected here to minister our hearts in this year of 2026. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen, Lord. Amen, Lord.

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Amen. Amen. Be at ease, my brothers. Let's close our worship. Let's go. There's a lot of good things to happen this year with us, right? God bless you, dear. God bless you.

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