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This lesson makes it clear that 2026 will reward those who choose clarity, discipline, and structure over excuses, emotion, and scattered effort. It challenges you to take full ownership of your life by building systems, focusing deeply, choosing the right relationships, and delaying gratification—because the future pays those who act intentionally, not those who merely hope.
As time drains away and another year slips into silence, the lesson confronts the listener with a sobering tension: everything seen is fading, yet beyond the dying calendar stands an unaging promise of eternal life in Christ. With piercing urgency, it exposes the emptiness of fleeting worldviews and presses a final question into the soul—will you let the year end in quiet loss, or will you step into the eternal beginning secured by the One who conquered death?
The 2025 ACAC Conference in Sierra Leone unfolded as a defining moment, revealing Africa’s awakening from a mission field to a mission force through powerful testimonies and unexpected breakthroughs. Yet, behind the triumph lies a gripping challenge that will determine the future of evangelism—will the Church rise with renewed zeal, unity, and sacrifice, or allow apathy and limitation to slow the advance of the gospel?
This lesson asks an unsettling question: what if the real reason your life is stuck is not lack of money, but lack of discipline, direction, and courage to resist pressure? It pulls the listener into a quiet tension between pleasing people and obeying God, revealing that the choice you make—especially now—will determine whether the next year becomes a breakthrough or a repeat of the same painful cycle.
The lesson reveals that friendship—rooted in trust, laughter, and emotional safety—is the foundation that sustains intimacy and resilience in marriage across every season of life. It further shows that this marital friendship shapes children’s emotional security and leaves a lasting legacy, calling couples to intentionally nurture companionship for the strength of both their home and future generations.
This lesson offers an intimate portrait of shepherding that strips leadership of status and spectacle, revealing it as a calling forged through listening, presence, family faithfulness, and shared burdens among the flock. By exposing the tensions between authority and vulnerability, it concludes that true shepherding is measured not by control or charisma, but by humility, accountability, and quiet faithfulness where no applause is given.
Wealth begins the moment you confront the inherited fears your family called wisdom and decide that their excuses will not define your future. Generational poverty breaks the day one courageous person chooses responsibility over limitation and replaces inherited excuses with bold, disciplined action.
Terah began with purpose and promise, but he stopped in Haran—a halfway place—and never reached Canaan, reminding us that a good start means nothing without a faithful finish. Today, many believers have spiritually stalled in their own Haran—places of comfort, fear, or disappointment—abandoning divine assignments and letting dreams wither in the silence of compromise. But God is calling you, like Abram, to rise, obey, and press beyond the pain—because your destiny is not in Haran, but in the land of promise where faith walks, purpose breathes, and legacies are born.
This lesson pulls back the curtain on the making of a shepherd, tracing how quiet obedience, unseen struggles, and faithful relationships forged Brother Keith Bingham’s leadership long before any title affirmed it. As the tension unfolds between distant authority and lived-among shepherding, the episode leaves a haunting question hanging in the air: will leaders rule from conference rooms, or step into the dust with the flock where true leadership is tested and proven?
Brother Wagner emphasized that leading a diverse church requires grounding decisions in the Bible, practicing absolute love and acceptance over politics, and maintaining elder unity through consensus rather than voting.
His key advice for new shepherds is to get involved early and personally with members, sharing struggles to build relationships and proactively anticipate crises, relying on the Holy Spirit for the necessary strength