God is calling us unto a new path this year. You know what kind of reformation your heart and life must embrace. You know what you have to sacrifice from your life, so that you may become a living sacrifice for God. Ghedeon, until he became the great man of God, do you remember what he first did? He went into his father's house, by night, took the altar for idols, and destroyed it. He reformed his house and the place where he was. He knew that a new path was coming for him with God. There is no way to walk with God on this new path if you serve at the altars of worldly activities, things with unholy people in different places. All types of unholy activities with unholy people must be sacrificed or destroyed from your life. You used to meet with a friend in the last year, but your discussions did not conform with God's will and Spirit to strengthen, equip and renew you, and were only gossip, slander, then you should destroy these type of altars. If you hold these types of activities and discussions you cannot walk with God. To whatever ungodly place, people, or activities you join your life to - for example, giving and living your life for social media entertainment through phone or PC, receiving in your mind all types of polluted images and entertainment - all these worldly altars must broken and removed from your life in order to walk with God on His new way. You are not fit on this path, you don't understand what is required from you on this path from God. The first thing that you have to focus on, has to do with the total reformation of the heart and life, destroying every ''altar'' around you which draw strange fire. Destroy the altar of pornography! Destroy the altar of anger! Destroy the altar of gossip, slander, rage, and unforgiveness! Destroy them! Do as Ghedeon did! Joshua could not longer advance on the path of God to conquer for a reason. Why? Because a certain man Achan, though God gave them victory over Jericho, took unholy things and hid them in the camp of Israel. Israel could not advance with God. Joshua said, "Lord what is happening?" "There is someone with you, in your camp who is working unrighteousness." "This one is not bringing you benefit, only damage!" "Who is it Lord?" "Achan!" He should be removed from the camp! The people and relations in your life that are not benefitting you, I'm not saying to you to terminate them, but to pray for them and if they don't change is more convenient to keep distant. You cannot advance with God having wrong company with you. Again God told Joshua to circumcise Israel (Joshua 5:2). It is not what God demands for us! Paul the apostle says in Colossians chapter 2, that we as Christians should be circumcised inner our hearts. Spiritual circumcision. Why? Because from within starts reformation and from there you can start walking with God! Circumcise from your heart all altars, and weaknesses, because you will walk on a path that has no place for such things. Am I subscribed to all kinds of worldly, carnal social media platforms and apps that contaminate me and pollute me? I will unsubscribe, and erase them! On the path of holiness with God you cannot walk without thorough reformation of heart and life. Why did only Caleb and Joshua make it in Canaan, and advance on this new path with God? These two men of faith, among all from Israel -603.500 men who could fight, only two men made it and advanced because their heart was circumcised towards Egypt; they obeyed the instructions of the Word daily! "Lord, with You is the safest way, not as we knew!" Have this in your mind, that inwardly there is a need for the reformation of the heart and life - spiritual circumcision - , remove everything is unglody. The second thing you have to focus on is that you need to start/continue building God's character in your life. The character of Christ Jesus in you! You placed the foundation through the reformation of the heart and life. God told Jeremiah when He called him to be a prophet, "I assign you today upon kings, nations, and Israel to uproot, cut, and remove what is filthy, to reform and then to build, consolidate, and what I will ask you to do!". God demands reformation of the heart, but after this work comes the work of building - Christ's character in us -. The likeness-character of Jesus Christ in us is the most valuable thing, that God seeks in His people. When He looks towards us, He wants to see His Son in us, and not at the level of a baby, but at the level of maturity. Christ as a baby in us cannot be used by God, because the carnal man with its desires dominate. Christ's character in us has to do with the development of His nature in us, this is what the character of Christ means. To build His character in us can be done in two ways, yet many people run from it. We all like the word 'character', saying here and there, "Look what a nice character he/she has!" I want to tell you that you don't need a nice character in you, but Christ character in you. No matter how nice your character is, still it belongs to you; no matter how good according to your standards or people views, is yours. God wants His Son character in you - this is different! This means that you are so conformed with Christ Jesus, that His Spirit with your spirit is one; Christ Jesus thinks, speaks, acts, reacts, is silent, stretches the hand. He does His works through you, because you are dead and He lives in you! God is inviting you this year on the new path with Him after you have reformed your heart of the old things, to start building Christ character in you. It will hurt you, but when there is pain then there is spiritual gain if you have the right attitude! The first way God builds character in us has to do with trials, opposition, difficult circumstances in your life, family. Through all these things there is a general purpose, your growth, development, and progress toward God; it is not easy if you don't have a biblical foundation of resources to manage them. This is a way by which God cuts, works, and does what He needs to do in us. To find spiritual gain from difficult situations, your answer to it is very important, your attitude is crucial in such a situation. This is a way by which a godly character is being built through trials. The second way to build godly character is the Word of God. When you read it slowly, repeatedly at your best time and afterward you meditate upon what you read. The third thing we need to focus on, is in the fact that we need to establish a clear objective and plan through out the year. What is the goal, the result we want? Where do we want to see our prayer life at the end of 2024? Where do we want to stand with the Word of God at the end of 2024? Let me give you and example, "I want my prayer life at the end of 2024 to be filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit and to be happening 3 times per day, not as a burden but as a holy desire with passion!" If you plan to reach that level you need to start preparing it from now on! Start with what you have left, reading His word, praying and you will heat up the coals, smaller, bigger and slowly, slowly you reach at the end of 2024 full of God's fire in prayer fulfilling your objective, praying at the level you wanted, because you have planed it from the beginning and maintained that resolution. At least once pass through the Word of God - establish this goal -. If you will read 4 chapters a day you will read it once, if you go to 8 chapters a day you can pass it twice, in the right way, so that character shall be built and you become richer inwardly. Another objective you can establish, is "Lord, if last year I supported a family and helped it, this year I plan to do so more!" Establish goals and objectives because they will be before you during the year as indicators, reminding you that you promised God something and you will hold on to that promise. Don't just allow things and days to go without any plan! If we do not want to end up like the masses out there, Christians or unbelievers who are unsure of their plans thoughts and objectives, your objectives must be clear today! [ Music ]