it is not the movement of the clock
that produces the newness of life it is the movement in your mind
you're gonna hear all kinds of things said about you
throw it behind you
the enemies that you see today you will see them no more
no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper every
tongue that wises against you God will condemn
truth of the mighty is everybody in here is going through a change
you don't have to be ashamed of yours we are all in the process
to a higher
fear that I'm worth a higher better expression of myself don't let the habits of my past
stop me from this metamorphosis
New Year knew me
what separates us is transformation
the possibility of change the desire to evolve
the passion to get up off the ground and stop eating dirt
I'm tired of doing what I used to do if I always do what I've always done I'll always be where I've
always been I'm going through it behind me there's somebody in this room that that nobody would think
would be in a church tonight but you drew them to this place tonight because you want them to be a
new me in a New Year and have a new attitude and a new mind a surreal Battleground is in your mind
that's where the fight is you lay down with it you get up with it you go to work with it you can't
digest your food because of it smiling in front of people and nobody knows that there's gunfire
going off in your head it's not a geographical location it's not dead it's not money it's not
haters it's not enemies it's not Liars it's not backbiters that's not the Battleground stop
wasting your weapons on what people say because it is not what they say about you that matters
it is what you say about you that threatens your destiny you will never be defeated by
what they say about you you will be defeated by what you say about you I dedicate this to you
to the greatness in you and to the dream that you showed up on the planet to produce
and it's simply this if you want to think bad enough to go out and fight for it
to work day and night for it to give up your time your peace and your sleep for it
if all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without
it and if you gladly sweat for it in fret for it and plan for it and lose all your Terror of
the opposition for it and if you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity
strength and sagacity faith hope and confidence and Stern pertinacity if neither cold poverty
famish or gold sickness or pain or body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want
if doggetting Grim you besiege and beset it with the help of God you'll give have greatness in you
what I'm trying to tell you beloved is that you can have a new year
but it don't mean Jack diddly if you don't have a new mind
I'm telling you that you can buy a new car but if you put the old man in a new car you
still want to have the old experience I'm telling you that a new house doesn't make a new marriage
talking about a new outfit doesn't make you a new person and if you think you are magically
gonna be a new person I hate to be the bearer of bad news because New Life comes from a new mind
and a new way of looking at your life foreign I cannot step into the future and still think
in my past I cannot let the rumors and the stain of what they said about me destroy my opportunity
slap somebody and tell them I gotta kill it tonight gotta destroy it tonight I gotta get
to give him behind me tonight I can't drag that same old mess into another year