Miracles in Motion is a New Year message about stepping into 2024 expecting God to move: speaking His promises, saying yes to His will like Mary did, and building like Nehemiah, with one hand on the work and the other ready for the fight. A guest pastor preaching at NTC Ministries calls it a season of double doors, new beginnings and supernatural acceleration, and he grounds each point in Scripture and in stories from his own life and church.
Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the message, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a table of the number meanings he gives for 2024, a timestamped outline, practical steps for this season and answers to common questions about the message.
Sermon at a Glance
This message was preached at NTC Ministries, which the speaker calls New Testament Church, and posted on January 23, 2024. The speaker is a visiting pastor who leads his own congregation, which he calls the church back home. He tells the congregation he had prepared another message, but when the worship leader spoke about 2024, it changed what he preached.
He describes himself as a participatory preacher, and the message is full of declarations the church repeats aloud. It runs about 49 minutes, moving from prophetic encouragement to practical teaching from Luke 1, Psalm 133 and Nehemiah 4.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Speaker | A visiting guest pastor |
| Series | Stand-alone New Year message |
| Main text | Nehemiah 4:15–23 and Luke 1:38 |
| Key theme | Aligning with God’s will to walk through new doors in 2024 |
| Length | About 49 minutes |
Divine Alignment for a New Season
The speaker opens with a word for the host pastor, Dr. Hohman, from Psalm 102:13: You will arise and have mercy, for the time to favor her, the set time, has come. He believes new favor and greater doors of opportunity are opening, and he tells Dr. Hohman to get ready for double influence in this season, even beyond the many nations the ministry already reaches.
Before teaching, he leads the church in a prayer from a spiritual warfare Bible that a friend gave him years ago. The congregation declares that they are lined up vertically and horizontally with the will of God, and asks the Father to bring them into a new season of alignment, for themselves, their families, their children, their city and the state of Wisconsin. “God is still in control,” he says, whoever is in charge.
The same prayer declares that the blood of the everlasting covenant covers them, that they are laying a good foundation for the future, and that they will not be pushed to and fro because they are maturing daily in the things of God. It also declares that signs, wonders and miracles happen around them on a normal basis, as they did in the book of Acts. The speaker asks how many expect to see that again, and the church answers with a shout.
He then welcomes listeners on the radio and online, and asks how many are glad 2023 is behind them. His point is simple: a new season has begun, and the people of God should walk into it expecting Him to move.
The Decade of the Mouth: My Words Form My World
His foundation is Jeremiah 29:11, which he reads as God’s plans for good and not for disaster, to give a future and a hope. “There is only winning ahead of you,” he tells the church.
At the beginning of 2020, he says, the Lord led him to teach his own church that they were entering a new decade on the Jewish calendar, year 5780, which he calls the decade of pey. He explains that pey means the mouth and signifies your words. In this decade, he teaches, what you say will either pummel you or propel you, so believers must be careful what they say.
That applies to the words you speak over yourself, your family, your body, your money and your region. He chooses to speak blessing and favor. Over those who are not feeling well, he declares Isaiah 53:5: He was wounded for our transgressions, and by His stripes we are healed. He says he expects people to contact the church to report that something shifted in their bodies.
He has the church repeat, “My words form my world.” He senses that someone has been praying for a son and declares that the son is being touched by God. When some doubt household salvation, he points to Acts 16:31: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household. He believes prodigal sons and daughters are coming home.
His application is that believers must proclaim God’s promises, because, as he teaches it, prophetic declarations over your life come to pass when you agree with them. He wants to take the church out of the natural and into the supernatural, starting with what comes out of their mouths each day.
Miracles in Motion: Double Doors and New Beginnings
Next comes what he calls a math quiz. He breaks the year into its numbers and explains what each one means to him. The table below follows his reading, step by step.
| Number | Where he finds it | Meaning as taught |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 | New beginnings |
| 4 and 4 | 2 + 2 = 4, then the 4 in 24 | A door, so a double door |
| 20 | The 20 in 2024 | A double 10 |
| 10 | Ten commandments, ten plagues, passports renewed every 10 years | A journey, the end of a cycle, divine completion |
| 40 | Israel’s years in the wilderness | Four cycles of ten before entering the promised land |
| 12 | Twelve apostles, twelve months | Governmental order, here doubled |
Because 2024 adds up to eight, he expects it to be a year when many new things are created. He tells the church he still believes in miracles, including creative miracles, and has them shout it back. He declares a double door of healing, a double door of victory, a double door of peace and a double door of power, and he tells them they will get back twice what the enemy stole. This, he says, is their season of recompense.
He also quotes his mentor, who told him he would rather see him be a wildfire than have no fire at all. The speaker admits he is a little wild in the pulpit, and he declares that bad cycles are ending this year. Then he adds a condition: “I must be obedient to the will of God,” he has the church say. The double door is open, but obedience is how you walk through it.
Saying Yes Like Mary and Crossing Over
In Miracles in Motion, the model for obedience is Mary. In Luke 1:38, she told the angel she was the Lord’s servant and asked that everything said about her would come true. The speaker asks the church, those online and the whole region whether they are willing to say yes to the will of the Father. When Mary said yes, something miraculous took place, and she crossed into a new season, but first she had to conform to God’s will.
He defines conform as being obedient and compliant, in agreement with what God says, and moving in harmony and unity. That leads to Psalm 133:1–3: how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, for there the Lord commanded the blessing. He explains that the word for unity is related to our word symphony: everyone in the same key, on the same timing and on the same note. A worship team playing in C, D and F at once does not sound beautiful, and neither does a divided church, marriage or community.
He believes the church is crossing over sickness and disease into health, out of debt into financial breakthrough, and into freedom in praise, worship and miracles. He also speaks of supernatural acceleration: what took years will take months, what took months will take weeks, and what took days will take hours.
His picture of acceleration is Jesus’ first miracle in John 2:1–11. Jesus told His mother His hour had not yet come, which the speaker reads as this miracle not being scheduled for that moment. Mary told the servants to do whatever He said. There was no time to squeeze grapes or let them ferment, yet as soon as they drew from the water, it became wine. It is time, he says, to draw on your faith. The master of the feast said the best was saved for last, and he believes this is the last season before Jesus comes.
He then shares a testimony. In 2023, his wife faced three physical attacks, including an abscess around a wisdom tooth that four surgeons said would break her jaw when removed. They prayed about which surgeon to choose and found one who was a Christian. Afterward, he reports, the surgeon said the tooth simply wiggled out and the jaw did not break. “Every hindrance is going to move out of your way,” he declares.
One Hand on the Shovel, One on the Sword
The speaker says the enemy ramped up his attack at the start of the decade to put a pause button on believers’ lives through fear, and that the same enemy will try again because he knows the church is on the verge of a breakthrough. To understand 2024, he urges people to study the book of Nehemiah and ask the Holy Spirit for specific keys.
In Nehemiah 4:15–18, God frustrated the enemies’ plans, and the people returned to the wall. From then on, half worked while half stood guard with spears, shields, bows and armor. The builders worked with one hand and held a weapon in the other, each with a sword at his side, and a man with a horn stayed close to sound the alarm. The leaders stood behind the house of Judah, and the speaker reminds the church that Judah means praise.
Nehemiah, he says, made 2024 clear: a season of the miraculous where believers keep one hand on a shovel and another hand on a sword. There will be opposition, but in the middle of opposition there will still be progress. He senses the enemy fighting this church right now, seen when worship team members and volunteers cannot make it. But the church will keep building, because greater is He who is in you (1 John 4:4).
He warns that you cannot build with frenemies, people who praise you at first and leave three months later. The right connections stick with you through thick and thin. He tells of a hard season in 2003 when his church grew from 20 or 30 people to about 300, then faced conflict that cost him and his wife everything. A board member put a finger in his chest and told him he was not going to quit. Now he tells Dr. Hohman and the church the same thing.
In Nehemiah 4:23, Nehemiah, his relatives and his men did not even take off their clothes, and they carried their weapons everywhere. Saying “I can’t get anywhere because of all this warfare,” he notes, suggests others doing God’s work have none. Everyone faces warfare. “Toughen up, buttercup,” he tells them: put on the armor and get moving. The wall was finished in just 52 days (Nehemiah 6:15–16), even though opposition continued.
Provision in the Middle of the Battle
After Nehemiah, the speaker turns to Strong’s Concordance. He points out that entry number 2024 is the Greek word epichoregia, which he explains as provision, supply, equipment, support and lavish resources, making an event a grand production. He applies it to the church: not only resources, but lavish resources, with capable cameras, sound systems and productions to do what God has called it to do.
When we position ourselves in the will of God, he teaches, it releases supply and equipment. He urges believers to walk with people going the same direction and to step away from negative voices. He has learned, he says, that his losses and setbacks were really setups by God. His current church meets in a small place compared to NTC, but it has more money than ever, and it gives generously, including well-stocked backpacks for homeless people at Christmas. It is time, he says, for the church to leave the poverty mentality.
Victories, he adds, are not won on the mountaintop. It is easy to praise God when someone writes a large check, but harder when you are a hundred dollars short on rent or your car breaks down. He tells of his college-aged son calling about a ruined tire. After hours of research, he bought a full set of new tires and texted him happy birthday. Even in the middle of a battle, God supplies all your need according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4:19).
His wife’s jaw still has a gap that doctors said could take years to fill, and he says he is believing for supernatural acceleration in that healing and in his own. He closes by declaring that God is divinely aligning the church into a new season.
Living It Out This Season
The message is built to be acted on. These steps come straight from what the speaker taught:
- Watch your words. Speak blessing over your body, family, money and region, because your words form your world.
- Say yes to God. Like Mary, tell the Lord you are His servant, then walk through your double door.
- Pursue unity. Get in tune with your church, your marriage and your community, where God commands the blessing.
- Draw on your faith. Like the servants at Cana, act on what Jesus says before the miracle appears.
- Keep building like Nehemiah. Hold the shovel and the sword; do not stop the work because of opposition.
- Choose your builders. Pray for clarity about the people around you, and stay close to those who encourage.
As he puts it, the church will keep building the wall and see the promises of God, which are yes and amen, come to pass (2 Corinthians 1:20).
Timestamped Outline
- 0:00 Psalm 102:13: the set time of favor
- 0:58 A prayer for divine alignment
- 3:03 2024 and Jeremiah 29:11
- 5:02 The decade of the mouth
- 6:00 Isaiah 53:5: by His stripes
- 7:09 My words form my world; household salvation
- 8:14 2024 adds up to eight
- 9:29 Double doors
- 12:01 Twenty as a double ten
- 14:00 Luke 1:38: Mary says yes
- 17:19 Conforming to God’s will; Psalm 133
- 19:23 Crossing over into health and freedom
- 20:24 Supernatural acceleration
- 21:23 Water into wine
- 24:18 His wife’s jaw surgery testimony
- 29:30 Nehemiah 4:15–18
- 31:43 Opposition and progress
- 33:51 You cannot build with frenemies
- 39:56 Nehemiah 4:23: always ready
- 40:59 Toughen up, buttercup
- 41:55 52 days and Strong’s 2024
- 44:18 Setbacks as setups
- 46:21 Victories come from the valley
- 48:16 God supplies all your need
Frequently Asked Questions
Who preached Miracles in Motion?
A visiting guest pastor, whose name is not given in the recording, brought the Miracles in Motion message to NTC Ministries, where Dr. Hohman is the host pastor. He mentions his wife, his college-aged son and a mentor who shaped his ministry. He also shares a difficult season he went through as a pastor in 2003, and he encourages the NTC congregation as a fellow pastor who has been through warfare and kept going.
Why does the speaker say the church needs to get comfortable with expansion?
He believes God is about to open a double door for the church, to grow it and double the reach of its ministry beyond the nations it already serves. Growth will bring change, he says, so if you arrive late and someone is in your seat, do not be offended. Like the builders in Nehemiah, the church should return to work with new vigor, pushing to work harder while keeping an eye out for trouble.
How should believers handle negative people in a new season?
The speaker says negative people who always say you will never make it should not be the ones you build with. He encourages believers to ask God for clarity about everyone around them and to position themselves with people heading upward, who bring encouragement. He is thankful for friends who prayed for him and warned him about people he trusted too quickly.
Scripture References
All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:
- Psalm 102:13 — the set time to favor
- Jeremiah 29:11 — a future and a hope
- Isaiah 53:5 — by His stripes we are healed
- Acts 16:31 — you and your household
- Luke 1:38 — Mary’s yes
- Psalm 133:1–3 — the commanded blessing
- John 2:1–11 — water into wine
- Nehemiah 4:15–18 — building with a sword at the side
- Philippians 4:19 — all your need supplied
How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.
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