Welcome to 2026. A Kairos invitation when time becomes sacred. I know most of you, if you've been listening to me or been with me over the last several years and even more in 2025, I keep saying that God is moving in a greater capacity within us and globally. And I believe 2026 is a year that we're going to experience something that I don't have words for, so I just will say that we could ask, think, or even imagine. And the approach in this is different. And that's where Kairos comes in. So if you're like me and you're sensing that 2025 was a year that you started to feel a lot of unrest. You started to feel that things were not working, tired and those things. 2026 is actually bringing us to this place. And I will say this right off the bat: 2026, if you add the numbers up, 2026 equals 10, and 10 equals 1 plus 0. 1 plus 0. 0 meaning beginning. So I want you to just listen to this episode, and I'm going to follow it up with an article. But I do believe that we are being invited into something special, and I'm calling it an invitation, not an opportunity, because we have to say yes to it. And it's going to change the way that we view our lives and we view life moving forward. So allow me this time to just speak to you from my heart what I've been receiving, and now I'm ready to release. There are moments in history when something shifts beneath the surface. Nothing looks different at first, but everything feels different. I believe 2026 is one of those moments. Not because of what will happen on the calendar, but because what God is inviting us to notice. This is not simply a new year, it's a threshold. Kronos, a chronological time, and what's happening with the weariness of the soul. We live most of our lives in what scripture and what the Bible and tradition calls chronological time: the ticking of a clock, the turning of a calendar, the constant pressure of what's next. Chronological time measures productivity, progress, age, success, failure, outcomes. And for a while it works. But for many of us, both inside and outside of the church, are discovering something unsettling, something different. We realize that we've done all the right things, made all the right decisions, and we've stayed faithful and worked hard, and yet we're tired in the way that the regular rest doesn't seem to heal us. We're tired internally, we're tired spiritually, where even twelve hours of sleep is not giving us the rest that we are desiring. This is not burnout alone, it's not burnout by itself. This is what I'm referring to as Kronos exhaustion. This happens when we manage life and not receive life as it is presented to us. And this brings us to the place of Kairos, when eternity touches the present. I was at church yesterday, and the song said, Can you hear the sound of heaven touching the earth? And for me, this was a beautiful example, lyrics and of words spoken that reflected the heart of God in the season and in the moment that we're in. Can you hear the sound of heaven touching the earth? Scripture speaks of another kind of time. Kairos. Kairos is not about minutes or hours. Kairos is about meaning and purpose. Kairos asks a different question. Not what time is it, but what is God doing now? Kairos moments cannot be scheduled. They interrupt us, they slow us, they awaken us. Kairos is when eternity presses gently into the present and says, Pay attention. This moment matters. And I believe twenty twenty six is not arriving as Kronos time, but it is being offered as Kairos time. And why does twenty twenty-six feel different? Why does it feel like something else is going on? When you add the numbers, like I said, I started out, when you add the numbers of 2026 together, you arrive at ten. And in scripture and in Jewish thought, ten represents completion under divine order, not an ending, but a crossing, not closure, but an alignment. Says, You have come as far as human effort can take us. Now let agape lead us. Let me say that again. We have come as far as human effort can take us. Now let agape lead. This is why striving feels heavier now. This is why agency feels thin. And this is why effort is no longer producing fruit, yet doing all the right things, but yet the results are not coming. We are being invited to step away from control and into communion. We are being invited to step away from control and into communion. The hidden river of agape. And remember recently I heard a line while I was watching the 2023 Chosen Christmas special on Netflix that names something I've been sensing for several months, almost years. And the person said it this way: they said, Rivers symbolize the perforation between existential realities, between before and after the former and the yet to be. Scripture has always known this. Rivers appear at every threshold: creation, deliverance, healing, restoration, eternity. A river is not the past, it is not the future, it is the crossing. The hidden river of agape flows quietly through all things, not forcing, not demanding, not overwhelming, but persistent. And here is the truth the Holy Spirit keeps returning me to. Because here is the difficult but necessary truth that I'm willing to speak. Because many Christians and non-believers are experiencing the same exhaustion, the same loss of hope, the same disillusionment, not because God is absent, but because both of us, those in the church and outside of the church, are living primarily from agency without alignment. Agency can move us forward, but alignment sustains the soul and a heart. Agency produces exhaustion without fruit, effort without peace, success without joy, obedience without intimacy, faithfulness without freedom. Kairos invites us back not to do more, but to return. So here, a Kairos posture for 2026 or this coming year. If 2026 is Kairos, then the posture required is not urgency, but attentiveness. This year is asking us to choose stillness over speed, discernment over decision making, alignment over agency, communion over control, and belovedness over performance. This is not a retreat from the world, it is a readiness for transformation. Me say this again: this is not a retreat from the world, it's a readiness for transformation. We are told in scripture that we are in this world, but we are not of this world. The outpouring of agape is not something we prepare for, it is something we must become able to receive. It's not the water, it's the ground's ability to absorb it. So let me leave you with this invitation. Don't ask what goals should I write, what resolutions should I come up with? Don't ask this question. Let this be the year that you remove the inner box and allow Kairos to expand all dimensions of your life. So don't ask, what should I? What I what should I do in 2026? Instead, ask the question, what is God forming in me now? Or what is God inviting me to? Don't rush to cross the river, stand in it, feel its current, wade in the water, and let it soften the ground of our hearts. Because Kairos does not come to those who are busy. Kairos comes to those who are awake and aware. Twenty twenty six is not a year to manage. It is a moment to receive, and the river is already flowing. He who has ears to hear, let them hear, and has eyes to see, let them see. And I declare the blessings of the Lord over your life, and may He increase his presence of agape in all aspects of your life. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. And be blessed.