January 2026
Bible Quizzing Update
WOW, Florida! We’re blown away! 39 Senior teams and 54 Junior teams will be present at the 2026 FBQ Kickoff on January 17th! It’s going to be a great year!!!
Children’s Ministry Update
January is the kickoff for the 2025 Save Our Children offering campaign, with a STATE goal of raising $156,000 by April 20.
Our goal is 100% participation with every church and daughter work giving to the SOC Offering. Through your efforts, we will reach our goal and the Kingdom will be blessed!
Also, please become familiar with the social media platforms and sites below, as these will provide the most current CM resources including dates, events, forms, and more:
Website: https://www.fldistrictchildrensministry.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FLDistrictCM/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floridadistrictcm/
If you have children who want to participate in the Toby’s Top Dog Program, please visit the Children’s Ministry website or go to this LINK for resources.
New Concepts for the New Year
Every new concept demands we develop a new language.
Not just resolutions, but a language that creates the proper frames of mind that will determine whether we drift or advance, whether we repeat another lap around Kadesh Barnea or enter the Promised Land.
Scripture gives us a striking picture of this truth.
Exodus 1:5–10 (KJV) – 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Psalm 105:24 (KJV) – 24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Listen closely to the word within the word: God multiplied His people Israel until even their oppressors recognized their potential and declared their strength.
Egypt’s Pharoah didn’t know their history, but he could still read their destiny. He looked at Israel and saw them as they truly were: “more and mightier.” Heaven had increased them and the King had to admit it.
And yet, Israel still lived under whips they no longer needed to fear. They still wore chains that had already been broken, but they could not perceive it.
Why? Concepts.
The lenses they looked through distorted their view and the language they used to describe themselves was twisted and wrong. This year we will change our language and speak a new concept for the new year that will produce a new life.
The King we serve is not Pharaoh. The scepter in our God’s kingdom is grace. His law is resurrection and he has decreed increase, and multiplication.
Wrong Language Creates Chains that Can’t be Broken
Let’s name these taskmasters of the new millennium church:
Negative Thinking — the inner Egypt that still uses the old language to speak defeat and despair, even though we have a promise.
Poor Self-Image — the language that is polished by bondage; it tells the truth about your past but it lies about your future.
Slave Mentality — the habit of quitting even when the door is open.
Nature Teaches these False Narratives:
Put fleas in a lidded jar and they learn the height of captivity. Remove the lid, and they still jump to the old line.
Tie a young elephant with a small rope. One day the rope is a thread and the beast is a mountain—yet it stays because yesterday said, “You can’t.”
Let’s consider why, even though what once held us has been removed, we continue to live as though the chains remain unbroken?
I choose to adopt a new language and I declare that God has promised us more than we can possibly imagine.
Channels or Chains
Our concepts will either become channels that carry glory or chains that choke it. They will be blockades or boulevards, weights or wings. So, we pray with Paul: “Open the eyes of our understanding.” Let us see as heaven sees:
As the angel who spoke a new language to Gideon—not as a man hiding in a winepress, but as a mighty man of valor.
As the enemy saw Israel—a barley cake rolling into camp, overturning tents. The Midianites unintentionally spoke their own defeat.
As Scripture names us—salt and light, a peculiar people (peculiar not as odd, but as rare treasure), a royal priesthood, a chosen generation.
Lift your head, sons and daughters. Princes ought not to walk while servant’s ride. Open your eyes, let the Word show you that they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
The Language of a New Concept
Exodus says: “There arose a new king which knew not Joseph.” He didn’t know Israel’s small beginnings or their fight for survival. He saw them as they were—fruitful, multiplied, mighty—and he feared their potential. If Pharaoh could recognize their increase, we should be able see our own!
Too many of us are trapped by false concepts. We honor Pentecost as it was, not as it is.
Look around you. God has given us anointed preaching, beautiful sanctuaries, magnificent choirs, and tools that the previous generations never imagined.
We are not a back-road people anymore as they were back then. This is now. We are not “under-privileged children” nor “undesirable Pentecostals.” We are blood-bought, Spirit-filled, heaven-sent, and harvest-ready. We aren’t seventy souls anymore. We are Psalm 105 in motion: increased greatly and made stronger than our enemies.
Israel’s résumé read like revival: fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied… more and mightier. That was Pharaoh’s appraisal, not theirs. History hints they could have walked out sooner than they did. The lid was off, but they still jumped low. The rope was threadbare, but they refused to move.
Never forget that what kept them in Egypt almost kept them out of Canaan. Numbers 13 rehearsed the same language of defeat—the people are too strong, the walled cities are too high, and the giants of the land eats up its inhabitants. And Hebrews 3:19 tells us unbelief barred the door.
The Language of New Concepts
So, what new concepts must we receive?
I Am who grace says I am.
I Will Do what faith dares me to do.
I Will Go where the Spirit sends me, without apology.
I Will Have everything necessary for life and godliness.
This is not motivational varnish on a fragile hope. It is the natural outflow of a new King’s reign. When grace holds the scepter and resurrection writes the law, increase is not an accident; it is a decree.
Our task is to align our concepts with His crown.
So, lift your eyes, step past the line your fear once painted. Snap the rope your yesterday tied. Refuse to let the old lid define your new leap.
If a king who didn’t know Joseph could declare Israel “more and mightier,” what might the people who do know their God speak? “We will be strong and do exploits.”
Let’s change the narrative and speak a new language. Let’s bless what God has already blessed and build where God has already set the foundation.
Let’s plan ministries that require miracles, pray prayers that anticipate answers, and speak words that carry the weight of promise.
Let’s be the kind of people whose very presence prophesies a future: not because we are loud, but because we are aligned.
For He has increased His people greatly— and He is not finished yet.
Yours for the Kingdom,
Pastor Kinsey
