Podcast Summary: Change Church Podcast

Host: Pastor Dharius Daniels
Episode Title: It Won't End Like This
Date: December 29, 2025

Overview: Theme & Purpose

Pastor Dharius Daniels’ year-end sermon is a prophetic and motivational message centered on hope, recovery, and transformation. He challenges listeners to face loss with faith, highlighting that while loss is inevitable, defeat is not. Drawing from Matthew 9:27 and the stories surrounding Jesus’ miracles, he teaches that God is a God of recovery and restoration, urging listeners not to accept defeat as their final outcome: “It won’t end like this.”

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Nature of Loss: Inevitable but Not Defining

• Main Point: Loss in life is inevitable; losing is optional.
• Quote: “Loss is inevitable, but losing is an option... Loss is what happens to you. Losing is what happens in you.” (09:22)
• Insight: Everyone leaves a year with some losses. 2025 has seen “losses emotionally, relationally, financially, reputationally," and often we “lost some things we wanted to keep and kept some things we wanted to lose.”
• Practical Encouragement: The way we steward our losses can determine whether these losses become lessons and, in turn, blessings.

2. Lessons and Blessings from Loss

• Losses offer “education about who you are” (13:55) and reveal areas for growth, stripping away self-deception.
• Memorable Quote: “You can never become who you think you already are.” (15:03)
• Losses also provide “progressive revelation” about God, showing new sides of Him—especially His nature as a restorer and the provider of recovery.

3. The God of Recovery: Scriptural Illustration

• Pastor Daniels recounts stories from Matthew 9:
  • The Woman with the Issue of Blood (21:00):
    Her loss (health, money, hope) set the stage for a miraculous revelation; “her faith needed to touch Jesus” (24:40).
  • Jairus’ Daughter (25:50):
    Overcoming communal mourning rooted in resignation. Jesus challenges their perception: “Just because you think it’s done doesn’t mean God thinks it’s done.” (29:33)
• Application to Listeners:
  Don’t prematurely “funeralize” things God intends to resurrect or restore.

4. Overcoming Limitation Through Faith

• The two blind men persisted in seeking Jesus, undeterred by their blindness.
  • Quote: “In 2026, you must refuse to be limited by your limitations.” (36:14)
  • Instead of focusing on what you lack (“my eyes don’t work”), use what you have (“my legs, my ears, my words”). (36:45)
• God sometimes lets you hear about miracles in others’ lives not so you ask for the same, but so you believe: “If you did it for them, do it for me.” (40:05)

5. Faith Positioned for Recovery

• Jesus asked the blind men, “Do you believe I’m able to do this?” (44:00)
  • Distinction: It’s not about whether something can be done generally, but “Do you believe God is able to do this for you?”
• Insight: Faith becomes powerful when it’s personal, specific, and audacious.
• Memorable Quote: “They believed boldly.” (54:45)

6. Three Principles for Experiencing Recovery

1. Pursue Persistently

   • The blind men followed Jesus from place to place, not giving up (51:00).
   • “Too many people want recovery, but they won’t walk for it long enough.”

2. Believe Boldly

   • Audacity is vital. “Recovery requires audacity... Many have lost their boldness because of bad teaching on humility.” (54:45)
   • Passive faith doesn’t produce miracles—the woman with the issue of blood and Bartimaeus got miracles through bold action.

3. Receive Willingly

   • “Some people want recovery, but you won’t let God touch the areas you need Him to fix.” (56:50)
   • Surrender is key to restoration.

7. Encouragement for the New Year

• Message to Listeners:
  Just because you feel depleted, hurt, or unstable does not mean that’s where your story ends.
  • Quote: “You are depleted; you don’t have to stay that way—we serve a God of recovery.” (58:09)
• The upcoming season is an opportunity for divine recovery: relational, emotional, physical, and spiritual.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Losses properly stewarded become lessons, and lessons are some of the greatest blessings.” (11:38)
• “You can never become who you think you already are.” (15:03)
• “He’s a God of recovery and restoration. I don’t know what you lost, but… it won’t end like this.” (20:41)
• “Just because you think it’s done doesn’t mean God thinks it’s done.” (29:33)
• “If you blind, how are you following Jesus?”... “Don’t focus on what you don’t have; leverage what you do have.” (36:14–36:45)
• “Do you believe I’m able to do this?” (44:00)
• “Recovery requires audacity... Not a cockiness, not arrogance, but audacity—to say, He’s a miracle worker.” (54:45)

Important Timestamps

• Loss vs. Losing: 09:22
• Self-Deception & Revelation: 13:55–15:03
• Progressive Revelation of God: 16:54
• Woman with Issue of Blood Story: 21:00–24:40
• Jairus’ Daughter & Perceptions of Grief: 25:50–31:05
• Prematurely Funeralizing Dreams: 29:33
• Limitations and Leveraging What You Have: 36:14–36:45
• Pursuing Jesus Despite Blindness: 51:00
• Audacious Faith: 54:45
• Receiving Willingly/Surrender: 56:50
• Closing Encouragement & Prayer: 58:09–End

Conclusion & Tone

Pastor Daniels’ tone is energetic, compassionate, and prophetically encouraging, marked by humor and deep conviction. He repeatedly calls the congregation to engage (“Drop some fire in the chat,” “Clap your hands!”), making the spiritual message interactive and personal. The episode ends with a fervent prayer for “divine recovery in every area of loss,” and a charge to enter the new year with bold faith—expecting that, with God, your story will not end in defeat.

Summary by segment:

• [00:00–09:22] Setting the stage; theme of loss and hope.
• [09:22–16:54] Loss vs. losing, lessons from losses, deliverance from self-deception.
• [16:54–29:33] Scripture exploration (Matthew 9); Woman with issue of blood, Jairus’ daughter, improper mourning.
• [29:33–36:45] Premature resignation, seeing with faith, leveraging your resources.
• [36:45–58:09] Blind men’s pursuit, principles for recovery (pursue, believe, receive), encouragement.
• [58:09–End] Prayer for divine recovery; final encouragement.

Listener Takeaway:
No matter how the old year ends or what you’ve lost, with God, “it won’t end like this.” Boldly pursue, fiercely believe, and willingly receive—divine recovery is possible.