2025: The Year of Completeness

This year is very significant - it means a lot - and we might as well begin our count down to the Lord’s soon return.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing (James 1:4 KJV). "Perfect" in the verse above means "complete," and "entire" means "complete in every part; nothing is needed or missing."

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God (Colossians 4:12 KJV). In this verse, "complete" means to be full or replete. So the question is, full of what?

This year that we’re entering, you’ll need to be more conscious of who you are in Christ - you’ll need to be much more conscious than ever before of who Christ is to you and what Christ means to you.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship. It is the description of the life of Christ in a human being, it is Christ at work in a human body. When you say you receive Christ into you, you’re not making a religious statement, it’s reality.

Christ is “Messiah, the Anointed One” - what the Jews understood by “Messiah” was Daniel’s “Son of Man.” According to Daniel, the Son of Man was the description of the Son of God. Son of God means “God in human flesh.” The Messiah is God manifest in flesh - that is the meaning of Christ, when we say that Jesus is the Christ. That is what Jesus was crucified for - never forget it. He was crucified for declaring that He was the Christ. The importance of this is that when you receive Christ into your life, His life is made manifest in you.

As you journey into 2025, become conscious of what the Bible says. There are many who don’t go to church - start now - because in church, you will learn the Word of God. When are you going to study the Word of God? When will you know it? Don’t assume that you’ll just know it - you have to search the Scriptures and meditate on the Word!

This year, acknowledge and walk in the fullness of the blessings of the Gospel (Philemon 1:6). To not do this is to short change your life and to make huge mistakes.

Now that you’re in Christ, there are certain good things in you that He wants you to have epignosis of - full discernment, a recognition. Your faith will become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing in you. You can only get this precise and accurate knowledge through the Word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit (Romans 15:29). This is where you're going in 2025: you're going to walk in the fullness of the blessings of the Gospel (Colossians 1:9-12).

The Lord is bringing the Church into that state of maturity (Ephesians 4:13).

You were created to be like God, and you’ve got to walk in this understanding! Live the life of the new self, created to be like God (Ephesians 4:24 NIV, 1 John 4:17).

This year, walk in the fullness of Him. The Church is the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 3:19, Colossians 2:10, Ephesians 1:23, Ephesians 5:30). You have to have this consciousness every day - 24 hours a day - that you are one with Christ and you are replete with Him.

This year, we will complete the full preaching of the Gospel in all the nations!

Some would ask, "Is this really possible?" In Romans 15:19 AMPC, Paul said of his own work, "...I have fully preached the Gospel [faithfully executing, accomplishing, carrying out to the full the good news] of Christ (the Messiah) in its entirety." By the time we're through, there will be nowhere else left to preach! There is a definite number that the Lord is waiting for.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come (Matthew 24:14 KJV).

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in... (Romans 11:25 NIV).

This year, we must now be expecting the Lord. Set your heart and begin the countdown from this year.

You've got to think like Paul. We're gonna so preach this Gospel that we will know that we have done it, and we will say that we have fought a good fight (2 Timothy 4:7-8). Light up your world in 2025!