Values don’t just shape behavior, they shape desire.

And desire always determines direction.

Before Presence is a feeling,

it’s a way of living before God’s face.

Not hype. Not performance. Not religion on autopilot.

Presence is relational before it’s experiential.

It’s God being known, not just near.

When Presence leads:

• Prayer becomes dependence

• Proclamation carries weight

• People become sacred

• Power becomes authentic

Without Presence, even success is failure.

This is about learning to walk with God

in ordinary moments, unseen decisions,

and everyday obedience.

Presence isn’t something you chase.

It’s Someone you behold.

And when His face becomes your focus,

everything else finds its place.

Presence doesn’t just touch us, it forms us.

Walk before His face.

As you go.

2026 has a word.

Not a slogan. Not a vibe. A weight.

We sing it.

We shout it.

But this word won’t let you stay casual.

When it shows up in Scripture:

• People fall

• Systems shake

• Sin is exposed

• History bends

The word is GLORY.

Glory isn’t hype.

It’s the manifested weight of who God is, His holiness, goodness, authority, and truth made visible.

And here’s the mystery: Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27

We don’t give God glory because He lacks it.

We give Him glory by removing rivals.

By acknowledging Him as the heaviest reality in the room.

2026 isn’t about chasing moments.

It’s about carrying weight.

If God is truly first:

• His Word weighs more than feelings

• His presence matters more than pace

• His kingdom outweighs convenience

This is the year we slow down enough to feel again.

This is the year we reorder what matters.

This is the year glory stops being a concept and becomes a lifestyle.

We all come to Christmas for different reasons.

Some come for theology—God with us, light entering darkness, hope stepping into history.

Some come longing for meaning, peace, or a sense that the world might still be redeemable.

Some come for family, tradition, nostalgia, generosity, or simply to survive the winter.

And some come carrying grief, loneliness, and quiet exhaustion.

The Christian claim is not that Christmas fits only one of those stories.

It’s that the birth of Jesus is wide enough to meet all of them.

In this teaching, we tear down the cardboard version of Christmas and return to the disruptive reality of Luke 2. God does not enter history from the top, but from the bottom. No palace. No power play. No room in the home. God arrives already displaced—crowded out not by hostility, but by distraction.

We follow the story from the manger to the fields, where hope is announced not to the impressive, but to the overlooked. Shepherds—ceremonially unclean, socially invisible—become the first witnesses of God’s intervention. Not because they were qualified, but because they were awake in the dark and available.

This episode explores why biblical hope does not fix your life—it adopts you into a new one. Drawing from Romans 5 and John 1, we see that God’s answer to suffering is not explanation, but belonging. Christmas does not promise an easier life. It promises that you will never face it as an orphan again.

Finally, we confront the unavoidable question of Christmas: not whether you admire the story, but whether you will receive the Person. To receive Jesus is not to agree with an idea—it is to make space, to take hold, and to be given a new name: child.

Christmas is not soft.

It is not safe.

It is God interrupting history at the lowest level and offering a home to anyone willing to receive Him.

This episode invites you to stop observing Christmas—and to step into it.

Not pressure.

Not performance.

Just posture.

Will you receive?