{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Church OKC","title":"Summer Mixtape - Succession - Passing the Baton","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2553,"description":"Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT) Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.\n\nThis life of faith is likened to a race.\n\nHebrews 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, \n\n\nThis race is an endurance race…not a sprint!\n\nThere are obstacles in a race \n2 Timothy 4:7 (NKJV) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.\n8 And now the prize awaits me--the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing.\n\nThis race is a relay race.\n\n\nThere are 3 generations involved in our handoff.\n\nActs 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:\n\nSons and daughters prophecy.\n\nYoung men see visions. \nOld men dream dreams\n\n\nIt all starts with the older generation turning.\n\nMalachi 4:5 (NLT) “Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives.\n6 His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.”\n\n3 things to do.\n1. Flow with the changing methods of the time\n\n2. Be encouraging    \n\n3. Listen\nJames 1:19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.\nConclusion\n\nHebrews 12:1 (KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bnHuiqv1vzbVKS3-CGSScUOuOFSAm4CGeToUp1bnpos/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOTVl/MTRhMTgxNzM4MDZl/YmFlNGVmYzkzMGRm/MjkyZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}