Opening Words for 2026

[music] [Group Singing] I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord, I will sing, I will sing. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing. Of the mercies of the Lord, one more time. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing. Of the mercies of the Lord. With my mouth, with my mouth, will I make known thy faithfulness, thy faithfulness. With my mouth, will I make known, I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing. Of the mercies of the Lord. One more time. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing. Of the mercies of the Lord. With my mouth, with my mouth, will I make known, I make known thy faithfulness, thy faithfulness. With my mouth, will I make known, I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing. Of the mercies of the Lord. [Speaker 1] Blessed be the name of the Lord our God. This is the first episode of a Marriage Forum in the year 2026. I want to particularly say thank you, Jesus, for sparing our lives, for keeping us till today. And like we did with Singles Club on last week when we started, I think it would be good to just bless the name of the Lord before we go into the program. Let's, wherever you are, our brethren who are joining us on Telegram, our brethren who are joining us on Mixlr, let's just worship God wherever you are. Let's worship him. Glory, glory, glory, glory, Lord. We thank you, our Father. We bless your name. We give you glory. We give you honor. We give you praise. We give you adoration. We appreciate you for your mercies and for your love. We thank you for all who you are. We thank you for all that you are. We give you glory. We give you honor. Thank you, our Father. Thank you, our God. Thank you, Jesus, for keeping us. Thank you for bringing us into 2026. Thank you for the first episode of Marriage Forum for this new year. We bless your name for 10th January 2026. That was how you took us through from January through to December in 2025. Lord, we believe you again that as you took us through 2025, you will take us through 2026. To you be glory. To you be honor. To you be adoration. Blessed be your name, our Father. We will sing of his mercies, and my prayer is that the mercies of the Lord will continue to avail upon our lives, upon our marriages, upon our relationships in the name of Jesus Christ. Today, we'll be doing a similar thing that we have done in our other two meetings. For our discipleship class, we gave what is like a word of direction for 2026, and that is that God wants us to live by inspiration. In our Singles Club, we gave similar direction that this is one thing that God wants us to do: to live on the basis of inspiration from the Lord. And today, for our Marriage Forum, we want to bring a similar message, even though not exactly the same because of the variations of the meeting, the differences in the meeting, but essentially coming from the same thing, this matter of the need to live by God. The need to live, to run your relationship on the basis of divine inspiration. And we are going to take it in two ways this morning. The first way we're going to take it is, I don't know whether your plan this year is to start a relationship for those of us who are not yet married. I don't know whether your plan is to start a relationship this year, or maybe you're already in a relationship, your plan is to settle down this year. And maybe you're already married, and you're looking at how it's going to go for the marriage this year. Maybe you already have children, you are saying how is it going to go for the marriage and the family this year. That is what we want to do this morning, and we will just take them bit by bit. And like I told you in our Singles Club, the purpose of this meeting is actually to give a word of direction for 2026. If you look at what we sent out in the flyer that was sent out, you notice that what I wrote there is opening word for 2026. Opening words for the year 2026. What are we going to open with? And I said this morning meeting will focus on opening words for 2026, and that is our focus. We want to open the year for Marriage Forum, and our opening word for you for this year in those four categories. Category one: You are planning to start a relationship this year. You have said 2026 is my year. We would like to show you what the author of marriage did. Or on the other hand, maybe not exactly like that. It is the other way around: you are already in a relationship already, and you are planning to settle down. We want to also give a word that, okay, this is what you should note as you plan to settle down. How did the author of marriage, God, who authored marriage, how was it done? Maybe you already settled down already, and you are thinking, 2026, how will the marriage look like? We want to show you what the author of marriage did. And maybe the marriage has gone beyond just marriage, you already have children. It is now how will the marriage and the family look like. I always deliberately want to make people understand the difference between marriage and family. Marriage is not family. Family is quite a different thing from marriage. They are two different things, and we should not mix them up together. Some people have used family to kill marriage because they did not properly separate the two. Family is the marriage plus children. Children are not part of the marriage. We always say this in our meeting and we always try to clarify it. Children are not part of your marriage; children are part of the family. Two people are involved in marriage: the husband and the wife. The children, they are third parties. After some time, they will carry their load. A man shall leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they will go. It will remain you and your wife. So, unfortunately, some people because they don't understand this separation, they allow children to scatter their marriage. In some situations, I've seen where husbands prefer children to their wives, and I've also seen where wives prefer children to their husbands. It's quite unfortunate. It shouldn't be so. The marriage comes before the children. It's very, very important. Then we also have the extended family, that is not just your children now, but your brothers, when you begin to bring in your brothers, your sisters, the in-laws, all of that becomes extended. For some people, it's not even the children that kills the marriage; it is the extended family that kills the marriage. So let us be on our guard. Now to our focus for the year. Opening word for us under this forum. What should we note under this forum for 2026? What should we note? And we want to take you to what we have been looking at since we opened up this year. Genesis chapter 2. Let's go to the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter 2. I will take my reading from verse 1. It says: Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done." I want you to notice that I do tell people, please don't forget that originally the Bible did not come with chapter and verses. At a point, somebody introduced chapters. At a point, somebody introduced verses just for the convenience of reading. So actually, Genesis 2:1-3 is actually a rounding up of Genesis 1. If you look at it, it says "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished." What he was saying is chapter 1: day one, day two, day three, day four, day five. I hope I'm very clear. So he just continued like that. "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work." So he closed up what he was discussing in chapter 1. So in chapter 1, everything is, he told us that he has made us to see the day that each creature came into existence. So by the time you enter verse 4, it says: Genesis 2:4-7 "These were the generations of heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord has not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. And a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground. Then the Lord God formed man from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being or you can say a living creature." He became a living creature. So chapter 2 helped us to understand what happened in Genesis 1:26. You know, in chapter 1, we were not told how the man was made. He just said God made man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. Now in chapter 2, he's now telling us how that thing was done. The way it was done was that God took dust, gathered it together, then God now breathed the breath of life. There was this breath of God that came into man, and when the breath came, man became a living being or a living creature. So what makes man living? What makes man a living creature? The breath of God. But it's important to understand that God told man in chapter 2:15-17: Genesis 2:15-17 "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.'" Now I want us to look at something just a very crucial thing, just looking at it closely. When man ate this fruit, did they die? When they ate the fruit, when God said, "The day you eat this fruit you will die," the day they ate it, did they die? Does that mean that the word of God is not true? So what happened to them when they ate it? What then did God mean by this death? Their eyes were open. They became like God, knowing good from evil. Isn't it? When God now came, he said, "I'm naked." God said, "Have you eaten?" So it means the death that God meant here is that their eyes would be open. They will become like God, knowing good from evil. So when God said man was alive, when he said man became a living being, it means what God meant by that "man became a living being" was that man became a creature whose eyes were closed. Isn't it? Who does not know good from evil. Now if your eyes are closed, what will happen to you? Will you be able to do a lot of things? What will happen to you once your eyes are closed? You will need a guide. If you want to do something, somebody will have to help you. So let's look at it. It means when God created man with his breath, man became a creature that is normally guided by God. Man was a creature, for man to be a living creature, he's a creature that is guided by God. That is what it means to be living. Because when God said they will die, physically they were still alive. So which means a man can be physically alive but actually he's dead. How do we know that the man is dead? Because he cannot be guided by God. Once a man cannot be guided by God, what has happened to that man? He's dead. And that is what we are saying for 2026. That when God was speaking through the Lord Jesus—sorry, when God spoke in the Lord Jesus. God did not speak through the Lord Jesus; God spoke in the Lord Jesus because the Lord Jesus too is God. God spoke through the prophet, but God spoke in the Lord Jesus. When God spoke in the Lord Jesus, what did he say about God? He said God is the God of the living. He is not the God of—is God the God of dead people? No. That's what I want you to understand. God is the God of the living. God is not the God of the dead. The implication for 2026 is that we need to understand that for us to have our relationship, our marriages, to be living, God must be our guide. God must be our guide. As long as God is not the one guiding us in our marital relationship, if God is not our guide, what are we? We are dead people. And we will apply that to the different people. If you are not in a relationship and you are planning to enter into relationship, look at how God did it. Look at the original creation. Look at how it was done. Genesis 2:18-23: Genesis 2:18-23 "Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.' Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Are you planning to go into a relationship this year? Look at how it is done here. How was it done? Number one, it was God who noted that it is not good for the man to be alone. If you are planning to go into relationship this 2026, I want to believe that in your walk with God, you have come to an understanding that God is saying it is time for you to go into it. That's number one. If you are planning to go into relationship this year, please ascertain from God. There is time for everything. Ascertain from God your timing. Number two, you notice again that it was God who created Eve and brought her to the man. So number two, please be on your guard. It is not something you have to manipulate to get somebody. God will work it out. It is something God will work out for you. Don't begin to think that, ah, this year, let me begin to give 20 gifts to this sister or plenty gifts to this brother so that I can capture the sister's heart. No, you don't need all of that. Just live your normal Christian life. Live your normal Christian life; God is able to work it out. God is able to work it out. That's one thing you need to know. God is able to work it out. Number three, what you need to know, we are looking at the example that God did. For those of you who might be planning that this year I want to settle down. Number three, you will notice that while Adam was asleep, God did everything he needed to do and he brought the woman to the man. If you are a sister, you will notice that God brought the woman to the man. If you are a sister, you need to have a clear understanding: if you don't have a walk with God, you may not be getting marriage right. God brought her. They worked together to go and meet Adam. So be careful. Sister, if you're planning to go into relationship this year, what is the level of walk you have with God? Be sure that it is God that will work you into it. It was God who brought her. God worked her. It must be out of your walk with God. Make sure that you're going into relationship this year for the sisters, make sure it is out of your walk. You are walking with God and God led you into it. And for the brothers, number four that you must note: Adam was asleep when God brought Eve to Adam. And when Eve was brought, Adam was not there when Eve was being formed. He was not trying to help God form it, put it together, no. He did not form it with God. But there was something that you find in Adam, and that's for the brothers now. For the brothers, if you are planning to go into relationship this year, there was something that was clear in the life of Adam. When God was through and brought Eve to Adam, what did Adam say? He said, "This is now bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman because she was taken out of a man." I want to ask you, that knowledge, where did it come from? Because he was asleep when God did everything that he did. But something helped him. Job 32:8: Job 32:8 "But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding." Are you seeing that? "But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding." Thank you, sir. NIV: "But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding." NLT: "Surely it is God’s spirit within people, the breath of the Almighty within them, that gives them intelligence." Are you seeing that? Please, what makes man a living being? The breath of the Almighty. The breath of God made man a living being. Isn't it? That breath, what does it also do? When we say man became a living being, what do we mean by that now? Man became a man that can understand through God. So anybody who cannot understand by God is a dead man. Whatever you are understanding, if you don't understand it by God, you're a dead man. It is the breath that gives understanding. So when he said "became a living being," we mean he became a being of understanding by the breath of God. So what I'm saying for us, if you are a brother, what made him to understand that "This is the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, she shall be called Woman, she was taken out of man," what helped the man to understand it? The breath of the Almighty. So if you are planning to settle down this year, make sure it is by the breath of God. That's what we are saying. So that is for the first category of people, people who are planning to settle down. Those are four important things they should note about their life. Be sure God is saying this year is your year. Number two, you must be sure you are not trying to work it out. Don't become like Rebekah. God told him, "The elder will serve the younger." She was trying to work it out and that led to commotion in the family. She should allow God to do what God wanted to do, but she was trying to work it out, poisoning the heart of the younger one against the brother, so he could cheat his brother and say, "No, give me your birthright or else I will not give—" He was struggling for it. It was something the mother put in him. How did he know? Why was he fighting for birthright? Something came by association; something don't just come ordinarily. And you see him and the mother again, "Your father want to bless your brother, quickly, go and cook something." And the boy said, "Ah, no, I'm afraid my father may—" She said, "No, let the curse be on me." You don't need to work it out for God. Don't work out anything for God. God spoke to her. If God told you this year is your year, please don't try to work anything out. Don't begin to look at every sister, "Ah, this one. Oh yeah, let me corner this sister. This one is my friend, let me corner that brother." Leave it for God. God will work it out. Just continue your walk with God. Number three that I said, sister, make sure for the sisters, make sure it is out of your walk with God that you are led into marriage. And for the brothers, make sure that what you are understanding about that sister is from the breath of God. Don't just say "Ah, because the father is a pastor, in fact, the father has a marriage ministry. She is even from among the—" which culture should we use now? Just mention any one. She's from X culture, and that culture, they normally respect their husband, so she will respect me. If that is how you are working it out, ah, I'm sorry for you. Make sure you understand her by the breath of God. So that is for the first category of people. Second category of people: we are talking this year that we must live by inspiration. We must live by the breath of God. That is what we discussed in Singles Club last week, and we are now applying the same thing to our marital relationship. Opening word for 2026. Are you already in it? And you are planning, second category, you are planning, "Ah, this year we are going to settle down. This year I want to settle down." What are you to do about this? Again, we are showing you that it is by the breath of God. It's going to be by the breath of God. What are you to note about this? What we are telling you is that in going into it, we are giving you Proverbs 3:5-7. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding. And the first way I want to talk about this is for provision and supply. If you want to settle down this year, don't begin to look at your father, your mother, your uncle. "Ah, the marriage will be loud. The ceremony will be loud. My uncle has promised me five point something billion." If that is what you are trusting in for the ceremony, you are not wise. I want to encourage you about provision and supply. Please let your trust be in the Lord. I may not know who I'm speaking to, but category B, category B, let your trust be in the Lord. Don't begin to look at one person, one individual, one person, one thing. Trust the Lord. Put your heart on God for supply. And I'm telling you, those that wait upon the Lord, they will renew their strength. They will mount on wings as eagles. They will run, they will not be weary. I'm telling you, for everybody who put their trust in the Lord to settle down this year, the Lord will surprise you. But make sure that your trust is in the Lord. Let it be in the Lord. Number two that you must note, in all your ways acknowledge him, he will direct your path. Let me tell you something. You want to settle down, oh, you need a new accommodation. Where should we settle down? Should it be in Lagos? Should it be in Abuja? Should it be in Canada? Should it be in US? I don't know what you are planning. But I want to tell you something: God want to speak to you. God want to direct the path. You may be thinking just taking accommodation is a very simple thing; you can just take anyone. No, it's not like that. I will tell you something that happened to me when I was about to take accommodation. That was in the year 1998. 1998, it's not '99, it's '98. The whole plan started in 1997 into 1998. I was planning to get accommodation, I was planning towards settling down in my wedding. So there was this fantastic self-contain, one room, room and parlor self-contain. This is a good place for us to start with. And that place, it is in—then I was in Plateau State. They call that area Masallaci Juma'a area. That is where you have the central mosque of the Muslims, and the house is not far from that central mosque. So that area is called Masallaci Juma'a area, that area. So I got the accommodation, it was a very fantastic one. I paid the agent to perfect and then give me the key to the house. So it became a matter, you know I've been looking for the house in 1997 to 1998. Eventually, bring the house, don't bring the house. Ah, the key, I'm coming, I will give you. Before you know, one month, two months. It was already getting towards the time I wanted to do the wedding. I was to come down to Ondo State for the wedding. October, they have not given me key. November, they have not given me key. We entered December, first week, second week, the key had not come. I'm to travel second week of December out of Plateau State. So I told the agent I'm traveling, please the key. Then he began to tell me that, "You see, you see, the landlord actually have somebody in mind that he wants to give the accommodation. I didn't know that the landlord had somebody already." After three months, you are just finding out the landlord had somebody already to give the house. To cut the story short, I didn't get the accommodation. I traveled down for the wedding. He now sent the money back to me. So I came down for wedding, no accommodation back in Jos that I'm going back to. You know, I had to be looking at the agent. I was so pained, I was so angry. I said all kinds of things about the agent. That's why you see over time in life, I've learned to take things patiently. I've learned to believe that even when I face serious disappointment from people, I should always understand that my life is in the hand of God. Today, I don't know, but I believe God is helping me to have this great understanding from my experiences. There is nothing again that can hit me hard about what anybody does. I will just believe that God is working something out for me. That's my belief. It has become my pattern of life. I just, if something happens, can't you see, I sent you, I did this. I can't see it again because over time I've come to see something else, and I've come to see that God, my life, I'm too precious to be a victim. I'm too defended to be vulnerable. I've come to understand that. I can never be vulnerable. If something happened and it happened, my life is too precious to God. Even if I'm going to God like a foolish man, my life is so precious to God that God will guide me. I am precious to—I've come to know it. I've come to understand that the life of the believer is so precious even when I don't know God. I remember as I was drinking, living my life, God cornered my life to where I got salvation. That time I was not praying; I was like "remember our song then, I love palm wine, I no go lie, na inside am I go live and die." That was our—we were not looking for God, and God guided us to salvation. Now that I'm looking for God, even if I'm going to go like a foolish man, go wrong, God knows how to guide me back to where he wants me to be. I've come to understand that. I've come to know that. But now not to talk of now that I'm praying, "God, please guide me, God please help me, help me to know what to do." So even if I'm going wrong, oh, hallelujah! Hallelujah! That's why I said I'm too defended to be vulnerable. I've come to know it. But then, I was not this mature. I said all kinds of things about the agent: stupid man, worthless man, oluburuku, olofo, all kinds of things that I said. Because it was looking so stupid to tell people that there is no accommodation and you came for wedding ceremony. You know how they'll be looking at you. So that was how I was looking at the agent. But you know what I'm saying all of these things is that eventually, because I was also praying God to guide me, and I pray for those of us who are planning to settle down, the Lord will direct your path. The Lord will direct the path of the kind of accommodation you will take, where you—look, God needs to direct your path. Do you know that eventually, we did the wedding, we went back to Jos. When we went back, I first had to stay in the house of a pastor friend to now look for accommodation. We looked for accommodation, accommodation we now got was now in another location called Utan. Not more in Masallaci Juma'a, but Utan. But you know what happened? 2001, we were in our house, 11th 2001, that was September. September 8, 2001. September 11 was that of US when Osama bin Laden directed those jets into the Trade Building. Three days before that day, that was the day of Jos. We slept in Utan, we woke up, they said "Ah, thank God for this new day." We did devotion. We didn't know that that 7th into 8th, that was when religious crisis began in Jos. It began at that Masallaci Juma'a area. They killed the Christians in those area. They were killed. We were in Utan, we didn't know anything that even happened in town. We were not aware that anything happened. It was only when we woke up that news began to filter, "Hey, crisis oh, they are killing Christians." "Ah, where?" "Masallaci Juma'a area, all the Christians along that area." Immediately they finished their Juma'at Friday worship, they just started the battle. That was when it dawned on me that oh, I see, I see. And as at this time that I'm speaking with you, when this thing was happening, it was a time when my wife was pregnant. You see the point I'm trying to bring out? God saw what was to come. So when the landlord eventually changed his mind, who was in charge? Go and read what the Bible says about the children of Israel. The Bible says he brought famine upon the land and he sent Joseph ahead of them so that he can feed them in Egypt. Check again, it said later, he caused them to deal deceitfully with his people. Hallelujah! He caused them to deal deceitfully with his people. It looks like it was a Pharaoh who did not know God that began to deal that way. But what did the Bible say? God said God caused them to deal deceitfully with the Israelites so that they can begin to cry "God, we want to go back home," so that God can work. He told Abraham they will be there for 400 years, they would have become a nation, then he will take them back home. How will God do it? They are getting fat and growing potbelly in that place, they won't go. They won't cry to God to go. So God had to change the condition to become hard, to become difficult, they began to cry "Oluwa Jesu, Jesu, please, please deliver us." He responded to their prayer. You need to understand this our God: God na helele, eh, God na waya. God na helele, I say God na waya oh. Nobody be like am, nobody be like am. Ewore wone, God na helele. This our God na helele, this our God na waya. Now wonder you can't understand him, you can't fully know this God. And that is why if you are planning to settle down, trust the Lord with all your heart, do not lean on your own understanding. God wants to direct you. That is the second thing, those who want to settle down, God wants to direct you. He wants to direct you, even the kind of accommodation you will take, where you look. God needs to direct your path. And the third thing, those who want to settle down, verse 7: "Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and depart from evil." Please don't cross corners. Don't begin to, "Ah, ah, I need money, I need money, let me quickly do this sharp business, let me turn 5,000 to 5 million." You don't need to do what is evil. Don't try to follow shortcuts. "Ah, this person I want to marry self, how am I sure she will give birth? Let me impregnate her first so that I can be sure there will be a child." Don't, just go on trust the Lord. Don't be wise in your own eyes. I'm begging you, if you are planning to settle down this year, don't be wise in your own eyes. Let God, just obey the voice of scripture. Walk in integrity, walk in sincerity, walk in holiness. Don't do any sharp practice. The Lord will perfect it. The Lord will make it possible. The Lord will bring it to pass in the name of Jesus Christ. And the third category and the fourth category, I'm merging them together. You're already in your marriage. You're already in your marriage, you're looking at how will this marriage be better? Or the marriage you already have children, you are saying how will the family be better? And for you people, I'm having Isaiah chapter 48 verse 18. Isaiah 48:18. Two things that you must note: Isaiah 48:17 and 18. "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God who teaches you to profit. O that you had heeded my commandments, then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea." Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. You are seeing that is the word of the Lord for you, still based on this inspiration thing. Make sure you are led by the breath of God. It is this breath of God, God is speaking, he said, "Look, I'm your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the Lord your God who teaches you to profit." God wants to teach you how your marriage will profit you, how your family will profit you. Maybe you have not been making so much profit in terms of your family life, your marriage life. Your Redeemer this year wants you to profit. He wants to teach you for that your marriage. I'm talking about your marriage, your family, something that will profit your wife, profit your husband, profit your children, profit your relationship together. But he needs to teach you. So you need to wait upon him, like category two. Those of us who are married and have families, let us look, God wants to teach you. He wants to direct you, he wants to teach you in the way you should go. God wants to teach you the way you should go to have profit. God wants to show you. And number three is that God wants you to listen. He wants you to listen. Look at what he said in verse 18: "O that you have heeded my command, then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the wave of the sea." God don't only want to teach you, God wants you to listen to what he wants to teach you and apply it. Because it is one thing for God to teach you, it's another thing for you to apply it. Number one, remember that he's your Redeemer. Number two, he wants to teach you. God wants to show you your own. Number three is that when he shows you, he wants you to do it. Be obedient to what God is showing you. Walk towards it, that thing that he's showing you. Don't just sit down motionless. Begin to take steps, take steps, take steps. Maybe towards your children, maybe towards your wife, maybe towards your husband, maybe towards your finances, maybe towards your health, maybe towards your plans. Oya take steps, take steps, take steps. As he's teaching you, take steps. For all categories of people, 2026 shall be glorious. For all the categories, 2026 shall be glorious. For all the categories, 2026 shall be glorious. Technician please check whether there is any question for us to respond to before we want to pray now. Is there any question for us to respond to? 2026 shall be glorious. For all of us as we close this morning, all the categories. You want to enter into relationship, you want to settle down, you have your marriage no children yet, or you have your children you already have a family. We have spoken to the four categories this morning, and I'm trusting the Lord what he told us, that 2026 will be glorious. It will be glorious for us all. Any questions for us? No questions. Let us close. Almighty God, we thank you for today. We give you praise, we give you glory. Lord, you have instructed us very clearly. You have instructed us very, very clearly. All the categories: those who are still single, those who are in relationship and are planning to settle down this year, those who have settled down they are already married and there are no children yet, and those who have already settled down there are children, there's already a family. You have spoken to us. You have spoken to us about this matter of we must be living being. It is the breath of God that makes us to be living. It is your breath. We are not the God of the dead; you are the God of the living. We must be able to understand by you, we must be able to have understanding. There is a spirit in man, it is the breath of God that makes him living, it is the breath of God that gives him understanding. Oh God, I pray for all the categories: we will not be dead people. We will not just be existing, we will be alive, we will be alive, alive to God in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. And as we are alive, Bible says he became a living creature, he became a living being. As we live, relating with you, receiving inspiration from you, receiving direction from you, I prophesy: we shall progress, we shall make progress, we shall move forward from one glory to another level of glory, in ever increasing glory in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. We prophesy the 2026, it shall be fruitful for us all. Everything will go well for us. Thank you, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Let's share the Grace together. The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore. Amen. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. This message is coming to you from Family Tents Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission help. Our regular activities are: Discipleship class every Monday, 5:00 PM; Adolescents and Singles Club every first Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Marriage Forum second Saturday of every month at 10:00 AM; Family life seminars, regular school outreaches, and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location: Life's Camp by the first bridge, Ilere community, opposite Verity filling station along Igede road, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles: familytents@yahoo.co.uk, familytentsministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentsministry.org. Our phone numbers are 08033861136, 07033613848. God bless you all.