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Jan. 23, 2024

A Journey Back to Jesus Through Authentic Worship and Witness

A Journey Back to Jesus Through Authentic Worship and Witness
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CityLight NYC Church
A Journey Back to Jesus Through Authentic Worship and Witness
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Season 1
Unlock the spiritual fortitude to hold fast to your God-ordained visions and aspirations while resisting the pull of societal conformity. Be inspired as we share heartwarming stories of faith.
Exploring the essence of returning to our first love for Jesus, we delve into the importance of establishing a solid personal and familial spiritual routine. Worship, the Word, and witness form the pillars of this intimate journey as we discuss the impact of an authentic, non-transactional approach to God and the power of a life overflowing with the love of Jesus. 
Our discussion is peppered with personal anecdotes, including my own spiritual rejuvenation, and we invite you to join us in making a heartfelt U-turn back to Christ's embrace.
We emphasize the importance of discipline and the courage to endure hardships in pursuit of our calling. As we encapsulate the journey of reaffirming our commitment to a pure-hearted devotion to God, we remind you of the power inherent in revisiting past prophecies and guidance to stay true to our divine purpose.
Transcript
00:00.100 --> 00:05.012 You've been hanging out with people and now their vision has become your vision. 00:05.340 --> 00:06.424 Where is your vision? 00:07.460 --> 00:10.269 You know what God has called you to do as a family. 00:10.600 --> 00:20.105 You know what God has asked you to do, but you have forsaken that because you want to look cool and you want to look accepted and you want to look happening and you become part of some cool vision. 00:20.165 --> 00:20.948 Guess what happened? 00:21.300 --> 00:23.167 God did not call you for the cool vision. 00:23.500 --> 00:25.587 God gave you a specific vision. 00:26.400 --> 00:28.388 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.680 --> 00:34.944 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.760 --> 00:40.330 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom. 00:41.620 --> 00:43.406 That's CityLightNYCcom. 00:44.840 --> 00:51.906 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.680 --> 01:02.428 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 01:06.140 --> 01:12.064 Bonnie Andrews is here a fantastic preacher and evangelist who is a blessing and a friend of City Light Church. 01:12.480 --> 01:16.271 So put your hands together and help me welcome our friend, bonnie Andrews. 01:17.463 --> 01:19.247 Come on, city Light, make some noise. 01:21.682 --> 01:22.707 Somebody say hallelujah. 01:24.222 --> 01:36.152 Oh my God, this morning I'm filled with gratefulness that I'm alive, I'm fully well, I'm blessed and highly favored and I get to share the Word in this amazing church. 01:36.280 --> 01:37.544 Come on, give some praise right now. 01:40.958 --> 01:47.712 Amen, so happy to be here and I'm a great friend of this church. 01:49.540 --> 01:50.866 This is like a second home. 01:51.100 --> 02:04.946 I want to thank God for the man of God, pastor Boyan, who is a senior pastor of this church founding senior pastor and for the great vision that God has given him and how he's able to steward it right. 02:04.986 --> 02:15.710 In this house Many people are not ready to pay the price for what God has asked you to do, but he's been faithfully standing in the front line and being served in the Lord. 02:15.820 --> 02:19.470 I want to thank God for the pastors in the house Pastor James, pastor Moe. 02:20.261 --> 02:22.591 I want to thank God for the amazing worship team. 02:22.611 --> 02:26.867 Amen, amen, amen. 02:27.540 --> 02:28.766 So I bring greetings. 02:28.900 --> 02:31.108 I bring greetings from our ministry. 02:31.240 --> 02:44.924 I just want to say this church has been a generous partner and supporter of our ministry on reaching students not only in America, especially in the US, on college campuses and high schools around the world. 02:45.721 --> 02:50.691 I just want to play a quick video from our recent event at UC Berkeley over to you. 03:16.438 --> 03:19.400 I personally do not know what you call it as agnostic. 03:19.540 --> 03:38.017 Okay, we're inside the auditorium. 03:38.160 --> 03:44.033 This is pretty interesting situation is changing this room entirely to make the event really, really special. 03:44.480 --> 03:55.699 I'm just trying out light bulbs to dim it and really going above and beyond. 03:56.240 --> 03:59.871 I am super pumped, expectant for what God is about to do. 03:59.940 --> 04:20.763 I'm going to look at the one that has full house the big warm welcome to doctors Rice Brooks and Brian Miller. 04:53.930 --> 04:58.695 I was going to ask you this girl you have to point out all religions were kind of the same, but then half way through the talk she just started crying. 04:58.715 --> 05:02.859 And then after the talk she came up to us and she was like hey, do you know anything about the Christian people who come to us on Sundays? 05:02.919 --> 05:03.820 I'd love to go to that. 05:05.785 --> 05:10.703 The fine-tuning argument is probably the most compelling In my personal life. 05:10.744 --> 05:20.871 Right now I have a close person who has lost the will to continue and this gave me a direction to help. 05:21.600 --> 05:24.586 Even if you are losing hope, there's a purpose. 05:24.606 --> 05:25.448 I was fantastic. 05:25.468 --> 05:26.049 I really enjoyed it. 05:26.069 --> 05:28.634 Awesome night, Learned a lot, Excited to take it with me and share the good news. 05:28.895 --> 05:30.277 It's kind of pulling me stronger towards Christianity. 05:30.297 --> 05:30.838 Come on, somebody. 05:30.859 --> 05:31.520 400. 05:38.690 --> 05:42.876 478 students in one of the most liberal campuses. 05:43.040 --> 05:46.349 Let me just say that Jesus is still changing lives. 05:47.740 --> 05:49.307 Jesus is still changing lives. 05:49.560 --> 05:58.312 Those two guys, the captains of the football team you understand the influence that these team members have on the campus, especially those young girls that really had. 05:58.372 --> 05:59.906 You know, this is like a serious event. 06:00.080 --> 06:01.907 It's not like a revival gathering. 06:01.940 --> 06:02.985 This is an apologetics event. 06:04.323 --> 06:05.628 We got the best of the best people. 06:05.720 --> 06:06.985 The author of God's Not Dead. 06:07.360 --> 06:12.490 We have a scientist from MIT joining us and we share the gospel through evidence, through evil. 06:12.880 --> 06:13.061 You know. 06:13.081 --> 06:15.786 Share about the arguments around the evidence of. 06:16.388 --> 06:17.810 You know, the Bible, the Scriptures. 06:17.831 --> 06:18.752 We talk about evil. 06:19.440 --> 06:21.544 Why do bad things happen to good people? 06:21.627 --> 06:22.878 We talk about evolution. 06:22.878 --> 06:33.330 We talk about all the science aspects, science and faith, and then we share the gospel and let these kids take a response and I'm telling you God is moving mightily on the college campus. 06:34.200 --> 06:35.484 Pray for us, especially this month. 06:35.585 --> 06:41.985 On the 23rd, we are going to be at MIT, right here on the East Coast, and my prayer is that God would open up. 06:42.626 --> 06:46.425 One of the most influential corridors in the world is right where we are. 06:47.100 --> 06:56.726 You know the entire Northeast, some of the best universities in the world are here, the nations are coming to our nation and we get this amazing opportunity. 06:57.180 --> 07:04.300 Leonardo Ravenhill said the opportunity of a lifetime has to be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity. 07:05.585 --> 07:15.442 I want to say that again the opportunity of a lifetime has to be seized in the lifetime of this opportunity, and that's what we're trying to do these kids while they're here. 07:15.483 --> 07:21.988 We have a window to share the gospel before they head out into the world, and we get this opportunity to share the gospel. 07:22.120 --> 07:35.410 One big report 1.1 million students 2020, a big report from 2020, 2023 is that 1 million students will reach for the gospel around the world in 42 cities. 07:36.280 --> 07:47.189 Out of that, 56,000 students were in person and over 11,200 seekers on our chat line just asking questions, and we've been able to share the gospel, send a Bible to them. 07:47.440 --> 07:48.585 Thank you so much for praying. 07:48.960 --> 07:57.911 If you'd like to partner in any way, want to give to us, please get in touch with the church and they will be able to pass it on to you and you get your tax breaks as well. 07:58.251 --> 07:59.193 So thank you so much. 07:59.320 --> 08:00.884 Is everybody excited for the Word of God? 08:03.580 --> 08:16.831 We had a powerful service and I believe that this Word is from heaven for you and I believe that this is for us, and I want to have that picture of my family right here on the screen. 08:16.960 --> 08:23.494 This is my beautiful family who's speaking at an event on 2024, 31st night, and this is a picture from them. 08:23.600 --> 08:25.167 I've been married to my beautiful wife. 08:25.280 --> 08:27.144 They're probably watching me online. 08:27.184 --> 08:28.848 Hi, hello, love you. 08:28.888 --> 08:29.870 See you soon for lunch. 08:30.411 --> 08:34.089 Okay, so well, I want to say that I've been married to my wife for 14 years. 08:34.200 --> 08:35.886 We've got three beautiful boys. 08:36.720 --> 08:46.685 We can, you know, we can put them together in a New York apartment, so we've actually officially moved to the burbs and we have some more room. 08:47.340 --> 08:51.049 And you know, let me just say 14 years of being married to this woman. 08:51.470 --> 08:54.426 It's been a joy, it's been, it's been, it's been amazing, right? 08:55.360 --> 09:04.711 But one of the things I know is that you know, for people I just feel like let me just throw it out to you People who wanted to get married this is totally off the topic. 09:04.840 --> 09:17.123 I just want to say, I want to throw it out for you guys, for people who need, who need to get married, we're not able to take a step of faith and you're wondering about where the money for the marriage is going to come from, where the money for the wedding is going to come from. 09:17.175 --> 09:21.324 So when I met my wife and you know, we finally decided to get married. 09:21.345 --> 09:23.980 I couldn't wait Because I knew this was it. 09:24.055 --> 09:31.125 You know, when God spoke to me at a word and confirmations, and I said I couldn't wait, I walked up, coming in from an Indian background. 09:31.516 --> 09:40.224 We walked up, I talked to my in-laws and here I'm talking to my mother-in-law and I was telling her hey, listen, I really I feel like we need to get married. 09:40.837 --> 09:45.724 I don't want to paint the town red and I want to go around, you know, I just want to make sure that I want to get married as soon as possible. 09:45.775 --> 09:51.247 So here's my beautiful mother-in-law telling me listen, we need some time to prepare. 09:52.155 --> 10:02.607 Okay, we need some time to prepare, which means we need some time to prep our finances put together, because in our sort of, you know, culture, everybody puts in the money. 10:02.635 --> 10:04.762 It's not just a couple, right, pastor James? 10:05.776 --> 10:07.442 So everybody puts in the money. 10:07.895 --> 10:08.818 So, listen. 10:09.099 --> 10:10.964 She basically said listen, we got to work on it. 10:11.535 --> 10:13.321 I'm like man, I'm in a hurry. 10:14.035 --> 10:15.821 Okay, and listen, I'm in a hurry. 10:15.901 --> 10:16.664 And I got the faith. 10:17.035 --> 10:20.163 I had no money in my bank, but I just told my mother-in-law. 10:20.223 --> 10:22.478 I said don't worry about the money, I'll be paying for everything. 10:23.435 --> 10:24.580 Let's get going. 10:24.635 --> 10:26.702 Okay, it was a step of faith and I want to say something. 10:27.375 --> 10:29.229 He is Jehovah Jireh. 10:30.035 --> 10:30.919 Okay, he's Jehovah Jireh. 10:31.535 --> 10:34.764 Jehovah will provide for us according to His riches and glory. 10:35.735 --> 10:40.765 All we need to do is that every promise in the Scripture is yes and amen. 10:41.627 --> 10:41.808 Right. 10:42.335 --> 10:43.901 If it is in the book, it can happen. 10:44.255 --> 10:46.804 So I just stepped out in faith and I wanted to tell you something. 10:47.195 --> 10:48.520 It was not just a normal wedding. 10:49.235 --> 10:58.566 We got married in the top five destination spots in all of our country, right on the beach, beautiful, exotic place, and the Lord paid for every bill. 10:59.415 --> 11:01.583 We had extra money to start our home. 11:01.635 --> 11:04.000 I didn't have to put a registry, I already had the money. 11:04.215 --> 11:05.661 I just had to go there and buy it. 11:05.915 --> 11:08.744 I'm telling you God is a providing God. 11:09.415 --> 11:10.581 I'm looking at people in the room. 11:10.675 --> 11:13.324 You're wondering God, where is my money going to come from? 11:14.980 --> 11:15.943 How am I going to get married? 11:15.983 --> 11:16.906 Where's the money for the ring? 11:16.995 --> 11:26.825 I'm telling you step out in faith and watch what we'll do in and through your life, because His name is Jehovah Jireh. 11:27.095 --> 11:28.323 This is totally off the topic. 11:28.375 --> 11:30.904 I just feel like in my spirit, somebody needed to hear this. 11:31.255 --> 11:34.358 Did anybody need to hear that he's a provider? 11:36.155 --> 11:37.381 Sometimes you feel like a minister. 11:37.776 --> 11:39.879 Oh my God, we're poor guys, man, we can't afford it. 11:40.300 --> 11:45.246 Let me tell you something you set the ceiling and the Lord exceeds our imagination. 11:45.935 --> 11:53.603 The Bible says as creative people as Sean and some of these people and some of our people in the room, we're creative people. 11:53.655 --> 12:01.567 We can think about some crazy things, but the Bible says he will do exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or imagine. 12:01.587 --> 12:02.048 What does that mean? 12:02.375 --> 12:05.403 He's going to exceed your imagination. 12:06.755 --> 12:09.440 How's that Somebody getting excited right here? 12:11.238 --> 12:13.244 He's going to beat your wildest dreams. 12:13.955 --> 12:28.244 He's going to beat your wildest imaginations, but only if you step in faith and receive and say God, if it is in your word, if God can speak and provide for this curry-eating man, he can do it for me. 12:28.757 --> 12:29.701 If you believe, it's an amen. 12:30.377 --> 12:34.592 Now, coming back to the topic, you know Mark Riscall. 12:34.632 --> 12:43.029 He made a quote like this you dated your wife to get married, but you have to continue to date your wife to stay married. 12:43.336 --> 12:43.598 Amen. 12:44.463 --> 12:45.208 Somebody need to hear that. 12:45.953 --> 12:48.382 Yes, you dated your wife to get married. 12:48.603 --> 12:51.904 Oh my God, pastor Moore, you know what I'm talking about. 12:52.216 --> 13:00.205 You had flowers, chocolates, gifts, time you were doing everything possible and borrowed ideas. 13:00.335 --> 13:01.520 And now you've got chat, gpt. 13:02.075 --> 13:10.746 I mean you're making poems and you're making write-ups and you're writing blogs and you're writing things about her, somehow some way to get her on boat. 13:11.615 --> 13:16.403 And then, men as men, we are conquerors, we conquered, we conquered her. 13:16.735 --> 13:18.241 Now we're on to the next assignment. 13:19.035 --> 13:23.364 Let me tell you something we got to have romance back in our marriages. 13:23.945 --> 13:25.749 Amen, we got to date your wife. 13:25.975 --> 13:27.241 That's why we need to have date nights. 13:27.335 --> 13:30.144 We need to have, you know, we need to find out the five languages of love. 13:30.515 --> 13:33.344 Read Gary Chapman's great book Five Languages of Love. 13:33.955 --> 13:37.345 Sit down with your wife and find out what are the top languages of her. 13:37.435 --> 13:41.386 Like, when I do something for my wife she's probably watching me right now she gets so excited. 13:41.535 --> 13:42.881 She says thank you, like five times. 13:42.935 --> 13:49.041 I'm like I just I mean I just watched the dishes Writes of affirmation big on her. 13:49.455 --> 13:50.379 You know, time is big. 13:50.795 --> 13:57.804 So all I'm trying to say I'm just trying to bring some context here to continuously woo your wife and your husband. 13:57.895 --> 14:01.523 The Bible says if you do not honor your wife, your prayers are hindered. 14:01.543 --> 14:01.944 You're praying. 14:02.004 --> 14:03.408 I'm like my God, what's happening? 14:03.755 --> 14:10.185 He's just hitting the ceiling, coming back down, because the Bible says if you honor your wife, your prayers are going to be heard. 14:10.535 --> 14:11.760 How is that correlation? 14:13.799 --> 14:19.540 Well, coming back to the topic of what I'm trying to say is that this is same in the life of the church. 14:19.560 --> 14:20.826 We got saved. 14:20.846 --> 14:22.735 I got saved in 1993. 14:22.896 --> 14:25.544 I was recently in India visiting my mom. 14:25.675 --> 14:26.619 I just fell in my heart. 14:27.416 --> 14:31.406 Man, I've been wanting to, you know, spend some time with my parents, especially around Christmas. 14:32.115 --> 14:33.702 My family wants me to hear me Christmas. 14:34.136 --> 14:36.001 So I'm trying to balance it out and decide. 14:36.041 --> 14:38.547 In less than 24 hours I'm getting on a plane. 14:38.635 --> 14:41.843 My parents can't handle that, you know, maybe American parents can't handle that. 14:41.995 --> 14:43.160 They show up in the door and knock. 14:43.856 --> 14:46.460 They're like wow, I was surprised my parents were probably died. 14:47.217 --> 14:50.626 So I thought, let me give them 24 hours notice. 14:50.755 --> 14:57.645 And I just showed up in their home and I'm like holding my mom out and just walking around the mall and just really dating my mom and spending time. 14:57.956 --> 15:02.006 And probably, if I would ask her, she probably said this is probably the best time of her life. 15:03.157 --> 15:03.679 We talk to her. 15:03.739 --> 15:04.983 I mean, we talk to each other every day. 15:05.095 --> 15:06.742 She's my greatest prayer warrior. 15:06.815 --> 15:11.195 She probably would be praying for me if she would know that I'd be ministering here Now. 15:11.215 --> 15:14.283 Let me just try to say it, tell you something, just like you know. 15:14.564 --> 15:17.220 And I finally got to the point that I found my Bible. 15:17.581 --> 15:18.304 That's what I wanted to say. 15:18.876 --> 15:23.795 I found my Bible that I started reading when I was saved, when I got saved in 1993. 15:23.855 --> 15:25.802 Oh my God, that Bible is colored. 15:26.135 --> 15:27.218 It's like a coloring book. 15:28.462 --> 15:29.385 God was speaking to me. 15:30.157 --> 15:31.482 I got notes on the side. 15:32.035 --> 15:32.376 I got the. 15:32.436 --> 15:35.044 You know, I got notes everywhere colors, crowns. 15:35.495 --> 15:38.683 I mean, I'm telling you I was on fire for Jesus. 15:40.055 --> 15:42.482 I didn't have an agenda when I went to prayer. 15:43.895 --> 15:45.581 I didn't have a ministry to run. 15:46.495 --> 15:47.920 I didn't have a family to feed. 15:49.715 --> 15:55.027 Every time I went before God is because I love Jesus and I want to love Him more. 15:55.795 --> 15:59.102 And when I love Him more than when I receive His love, I want to tell that to other people. 16:01.727 --> 16:02.548 Where are we right now? 16:03.859 --> 16:05.043 I want to show that picture right here. 16:05.095 --> 16:10.098 If you see the sign anywhere on the street, what does this mean? 16:11.382 --> 16:13.117 Take a U-turn Tonight. 16:13.158 --> 16:14.423 I want to say I have two messages. 16:14.495 --> 16:16.101 It's probably my lifetime messages. 16:16.975 --> 16:24.882 One of my messages is the main thing is if you are, if you do not know Jesus, you're walking away from Jesus, you're living your own life. 16:25.835 --> 16:37.566 It's time for you to take a U-turn, turn your life around, turn that car around, turn your life around and follow Christ, because the Bible says God came down. 16:38.556 --> 16:40.201 The Bible says John 3.16,. 16:40.241 --> 16:46.106 He loved, he so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son. 16:46.195 --> 16:52.179 I'm telling you, coming from the place that I am coming in from, we have 33 million gods, as they say in India. 16:54.236 --> 17:04.076 You can have a God for yourself, if I may say it right, and every religion in this world is based on this idea that man's got to try to reach God. 17:04.116 --> 17:10.765 Somehow I got to crawl on the floor, I got to climb up a mountain, I got to fast, I got to do this. 17:11.415 --> 17:15.597 I got to do 10 different things through works trying to reach God, every religion. 17:17.055 --> 17:24.463 And then you read the Bible, the greatest love story on the face of planet Earth God came down to man. 17:25.495 --> 17:28.160 It's not man trying to reach God, god came down to man. 17:28.815 --> 17:34.017 And there are people hearing at the frequency of my voice that you have never given your life to Jesus. 17:34.417 --> 17:46.504 This morning is your time to give your life to Jesus, because he loves you, he cares for you and he wants to take you away from the messes that you have been through and give you a new life and take a U-turn. 17:47.095 --> 17:55.069 But from the church this morning, I feel like the church, you and I, we need to take a U-turn. 17:56.677 --> 18:02.470 2024, we're like, oh my God, I believe God, you're going to bless me, you're going to prosper me, you're going to increase me. 18:02.775 --> 18:05.002 You're pulling every scripture that talks about the blessing. 18:05.975 --> 18:15.246 You want to be on that express road, be on that Tesla, the hybrid car, and just ramp it up full speed with your life and enjoy the blessings of God. 18:15.335 --> 18:21.037 But let me tell you I'm here to tell you, before you get on that exit, you need to take a U-turn. 18:22.895 --> 18:25.944 You need to go back and finish some unfinished business. 18:26.915 --> 18:35.083 Revelation, chapter 2, verses 4 to 5, if you can get your scriptures up, this is what John speaks to this church right here. 18:37.435 --> 18:37.876 Let me get this. 18:43.367 --> 18:43.888 What does it say? 18:44.455 --> 18:53.148 Revelation, chapter 2, I have this against you that you have left your first love. 18:54.695 --> 19:00.007 Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works. 19:00.677 --> 19:02.062 There are three words to be looked at here. 19:02.315 --> 19:03.740 Number one remember. 19:04.695 --> 19:06.188 Number two repent. 19:07.055 --> 19:08.822 Number three go back to the first words. 19:08.975 --> 19:09.658 What is the first word? 19:10.335 --> 19:11.098 Repeat it all over again. 19:13.195 --> 19:22.915 We have walked away from the first love to Jesus and this morning is a wake up call for all of us. 19:23.665 --> 19:26.668 Are you coming to church because you oh my God, it's Sunday morning. 19:27.585 --> 19:29.251 Are you going through the motions of religion? 19:30.305 --> 19:31.832 Are you going through the motions of church? 19:32.427 --> 19:34.708 Oh my God, today's Sunday morning, you gotta be in church. 19:35.545 --> 19:37.632 Are you doing things for the sake of doing it? 19:38.165 --> 19:41.494 Are you here to pursue a brand, pursue a person? 19:42.305 --> 19:46.549 I know there's amazing worship leaders and pastors and speakers in this house. 19:47.465 --> 19:52.410 Are you pursuing the person, the personality or the person of Jesus? 19:54.145 --> 19:56.653 Are you pursuing Jesus in your life? 19:57.825 --> 20:00.774 Are you here to worship because you wanna have more of him? 20:01.085 --> 20:05.691 You wanna worship him, you wanna be intimately in love with him, you wanna adore him? 20:07.345 --> 20:14.556 The scripture says the people of Israel looked at the hands of God, looked at God as an ATM. 20:15.909 --> 20:16.692 What can his hands do? 20:18.045 --> 20:20.894 What can I do to get his hands to work on my behalf? 20:21.365 --> 20:30.928 But the Bible says the people of Israel looked at his hands, but Moses sought the face of God City Light Church. 20:30.968 --> 20:36.550 This morning there is a call for all of us to return back to our first love. 20:36.625 --> 20:37.407 Is everybody with me? 20:40.335 --> 20:41.197 And I wanna tell you something. 20:41.385 --> 20:46.512 There are three indicators to understand where we are standing with our first love. 20:46.946 --> 20:49.234 The number one is worship and prayer. 20:50.705 --> 20:54.435 How is your personal time with God? 20:55.465 --> 20:57.831 The word is TAG T-A-W-G. 20:58.092 --> 21:00.217 Time alone with God. 21:01.565 --> 21:02.950 How is your time alone with God? 21:04.125 --> 21:13.367 Does it have, like you know, every time you have to come to prayer, do you have like a whole list of things that you have to get by before you can actually seek the face of Jesus and adore him? 21:14.771 --> 21:15.633 You have an agenda. 21:16.665 --> 21:18.872 I know we come from corporate world where we have an agenda. 21:19.845 --> 21:23.175 Can we come to God in worship without an agenda? 21:23.605 --> 21:33.789 The only agenda is to fall in love with Jesus all over again, is to love him, to adore him, to worship him for who really he is, Not for what he can do. 21:35.345 --> 21:36.770 So how is a worship time? 21:37.905 --> 21:41.795 What is a personal worship time as a family? 21:43.625 --> 21:53.554 As we start this year on the 21 day fast, somebody said doing the same things again and again and expecting different results is called insanity. 21:54.725 --> 21:59.614 The beginning of this year, can you rebuild that family altar at home. 22:03.146 --> 22:05.789 I'm not pointing my finger to you, I'm just saying can we do that? 22:07.436 --> 22:08.223 I put it on my calendar. 22:08.243 --> 22:11.705 Every day, 1900 is family time. 22:11.745 --> 22:13.324 I tap my wife onto it. 22:13.446 --> 22:15.414 It's on my calendar, it's a reminder. 22:16.085 --> 22:17.622 I can't have a meeting at this time. 22:18.430 --> 22:20.004 It's time for us to pray together. 22:21.394 --> 22:28.605 It's time for us, as a family, to seek God together, to turn my house from a place that plays Netflix to a house of prayer. 22:28.625 --> 22:34.143 Restore the family altar in our life. 22:35.065 --> 22:41.391 Restore your personal altar, your personal worship time, your personal prayer time. 22:41.672 --> 22:48.865 Is your prayer time all about telling God what you want, or is your prayer time just talking to Jesus? 22:49.807 --> 22:52.405 Oh, I gotta pray because I gotta talk to Jesus. 22:52.425 --> 22:55.085 I gotta pray because I gotta seek what is on his heart. 22:55.165 --> 22:57.107 I gotta pray because I gotta pray what is on his heart. 22:57.729 --> 23:00.069 I gotta pray because I need more of Jesus in my life. 23:00.686 --> 23:02.812 Or I gotta pray because I have an SOS. 23:03.725 --> 23:11.534 My budget is in the red, my business is not doing well, my math is always an SOS prayer that we have. 23:11.865 --> 23:16.953 I think it's time for us to shift and pivot from SOS to adoration. 23:19.045 --> 23:19.286 Amen. 23:19.326 --> 23:20.291 How's our worship time? 23:20.345 --> 23:21.169 How's our prayer time? 23:21.645 --> 23:23.211 Number two how's our word time? 23:25.370 --> 23:28.107 This preacher's just trying to make it all W's right Masterful. 23:28.930 --> 23:29.713 Number one is worship. 23:29.765 --> 23:30.448 Number two is word. 23:31.726 --> 23:33.212 How much time do you read? 23:33.385 --> 23:35.953 I mean this little glass screen that we have. 23:36.685 --> 23:38.572 If you look at the screen time that we're doing. 23:38.865 --> 23:41.974 How much time do we spend on YouTube? 23:42.865 --> 23:45.434 How much time do we spend on Instagram? 23:45.845 --> 23:49.408 How much time do we spend on every other app but the Bible app? 23:51.774 --> 23:52.697 Thank God for the Bible app. 23:52.825 --> 23:54.471 Over half a million downloads. 23:55.465 --> 23:58.048 If you have never seen me on it Jan 17,. 23:58.108 --> 23:59.312 I'm back on the worst of the day. 24:01.425 --> 24:08.172 Over two million people they say read that worst of the day every single day, and it's on the most download app. 24:08.485 --> 24:13.451 But my point is it's not about having that app on the phone, it's about getting those streaks up. 24:13.625 --> 24:14.489 There's a thing called the streak. 24:15.385 --> 24:17.739 How many times have you read the Bible continuously? 24:19.728 --> 24:25.073 Is your streak breaking from time to time, going back to zero, or is it just keeping on adding up? 24:25.705 --> 24:27.029 Is it like 364? 24:29.445 --> 24:31.232 I'm asking you, what is your word time? 24:31.365 --> 24:35.415 The Bible says whatever his word is like the best steak in the world. 24:36.365 --> 24:40.650 I got to eat that word, I got to meditate on that word, I got to make that word mine. 24:42.225 --> 24:45.233 And the last piece is that what is your witness time look like? 24:46.905 --> 24:49.853 What is the last time that you shared the gospel with somebody? 24:51.085 --> 24:55.468 I know you're busy, I know you're corporate life Every time you get. 24:56.351 --> 25:01.387 If you are in love with Jesus and if you are receiving his love, I'm telling you. 25:01.427 --> 25:03.653 You just want to be telling everybody about it. 25:05.546 --> 25:17.654 A year ago, my wife and I and the whole family, we drove across the country I think I've shared this year 9,000 miles, 30 days, from cross country across the country, praying Because God spoke to Abraham, walked the length and breath of this land. 25:17.765 --> 25:19.030 We felt like this is our mandate. 25:19.685 --> 25:24.870 This summer we're going to create history and every night we were in a different city, almost every night in a different hotel. 25:25.885 --> 25:26.366 And the kids. 25:26.868 --> 25:31.209 We went to this hotel, we checked in and nice place, great hospitality. 25:31.825 --> 25:36.892 We're about to check out and the kids, you know, at the counter they just feel like that's got this metal card. 25:37.325 --> 25:40.334 They can swipe it and swing it and wave it and everything's going to come. 25:40.645 --> 25:48.033 So they just went and picked up two Frappuccinos, come into the counter to get checked out and the lady at the counter says oh, no, no, it's on us. 25:49.065 --> 25:51.112 I'm like, wow, it's pretty cool. 25:51.865 --> 25:57.953 The next place a week later we were in another city, another part of the country, the same hotel chain. 25:58.685 --> 26:00.251 The kids go pick up some gummies. 26:00.885 --> 26:03.534 Kids love gummies, especially the colored ones. 26:04.789 --> 26:06.494 So you know they're going to check it out. 26:07.185 --> 26:10.455 And then the counter lady says, oh no, no, no, it's on us. 26:11.085 --> 26:16.406 I'm like, wait a minute, this kind of generosity I've never, ever seen it Right. 26:16.466 --> 26:18.032 And then I'm on to the next place. 26:18.085 --> 26:23.071 Next place we are happy to look for the place that you know, a city that has that brand on. 26:24.325 --> 26:26.754 And the third city, again, the same thing, all over again. 26:26.865 --> 26:28.952 So I just like, wait a minute, let me just talk to that lady. 26:29.845 --> 26:33.550 And she tells me this is part of their core values generosity and hospitality. 26:34.445 --> 26:38.108 And I became an evangelist of this brand Everywhere I'm going. 26:38.168 --> 26:40.409 Oh guys, man, you got to check out, the yogurt is so good. 26:40.665 --> 26:43.591 There's a bike outside, there's the, it's all green. 26:43.831 --> 26:44.674 I mean it's a green place. 26:44.945 --> 26:49.257 I'm just, I've become an evangelist of this hotel chain. 26:49.385 --> 26:59.698 I'm telling people they're not even paying me, but I'm just telling people, if you are so full of Jesus, it will ooze out of you. 27:01.265 --> 27:03.754 Some people we got to squeeze and squeeze. 27:03.865 --> 27:05.070 There's nothing in that, brother. 27:06.085 --> 27:07.270 It's a flat tire. 27:08.265 --> 27:09.270 It's a flat balloon. 27:09.425 --> 27:10.369 There's nothing in it. 27:11.005 --> 27:14.455 There used to be some air back in the day 20 years ago. 27:15.265 --> 27:20.053 Like most preachers say, these hands have been laid on people like 20 years ago. 27:20.165 --> 27:21.912 Tell me about stories that happened yesterday. 27:22.225 --> 27:24.253 Tell me about stories that happened six months ago. 27:24.585 --> 27:26.452 Tell me about stuff that happened two years ago. 27:26.865 --> 27:28.050 Tell me something fresh. 27:30.485 --> 27:32.893 I want a fresh story of intimacy with God. 27:33.205 --> 27:41.135 So if your life is in sync and in love and it is oozing the revelation of God you got I mean, you touch it. 27:41.265 --> 27:42.911 You sit next to somebody on a plane. 27:44.585 --> 27:45.368 It's going to come out. 27:46.465 --> 27:53.775 You don't care what other people would think about you, because you're like man, I don't care If you don't get this, even if you die on this plane. 27:54.127 --> 27:54.973 I mean that's the best thing. 27:55.033 --> 27:55.637 I get people. 27:56.909 --> 27:59.971 It's sit on a plane and you talk about it, like if this plane goes down, what's going to happen? 28:00.192 --> 28:05.492 Yeah, this is the biggest wake up call you can get people. 28:05.665 --> 28:12.771 They're like why is president, president, everybody's scared of their life, but we're like, we're cool, I'm gonna miss family, but guess what? 28:12.885 --> 28:14.611 I'm gonna go straight to Jesus. 28:15.725 --> 28:21.974 I'm so full of that, that assurance, that faith, I'm saying how much of that is being shared with other people. 28:22.325 --> 28:39.252 So if your worship time is down, if your word time is down, if your witness time is down, it is a great call this morning for all of us to return back to the first love, to fall in Jesus, with love in Jesus, all over again and say God, I need you more. 28:40.145 --> 28:40.949 One of his commandments. 28:40.969 --> 28:44.574 The only thing probably, he said is that, you know, forget the 10 commandments. 28:44.805 --> 28:45.930 Jesus said do this. 28:47.045 --> 28:56.575 Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself, because when you love Jesus, it will automatically flow. 28:57.085 --> 29:01.671 Your neighbors will know your work, people will know, everybody around will know. 29:03.585 --> 29:04.267 Is everybody with me? 29:06.125 --> 29:12.850 I know this is not the coolest, happiest praisey message, but this is the heart of God for all of us this morning. 29:13.345 --> 29:17.016 It's that for us to return to our first love. 29:17.065 --> 29:18.008 If you believe it, say amen. 29:19.845 --> 29:31.388 The second piece of this is to return back to the ancient boundaries that God has placed upon my life or our lives, and I've been working out recently in a new location. 29:32.050 --> 29:36.667 I found my tribe, been working out every day and see these guys that I work out with. 29:36.708 --> 29:37.450 They are maniacs. 29:38.485 --> 29:39.449 They're Christian maniacs. 29:40.425 --> 29:44.653 They do things and they make me do things that I would probably never done in my lifetime. 29:45.245 --> 29:47.814 I'm stretching my body, I'm doing more things. 29:48.105 --> 29:49.069 I'm killing this flesh. 29:49.129 --> 29:51.811 By the time I finish my work, I'm like, oh my God. 29:54.370 --> 30:00.054 But at the end, when we are leaving the place, our man makes a statement, one of the friends out there. 30:00.125 --> 30:01.430 He says you know, he's a pastor. 30:01.945 --> 30:04.955 He tells me listen, bro, don't waste this workout. 30:06.145 --> 30:06.647 What does that mean? 30:07.285 --> 30:08.771 Don't go and eat some junk. 30:10.285 --> 30:11.851 Don't go eat some sugary things. 30:12.885 --> 30:18.171 Don't go get that frappuccino with four pumps of sugar soon after you get your work. 30:18.212 --> 30:20.610 Do your workout because you wasted it. 30:22.925 --> 30:32.933 When you're discipline your body, there are boundaries in your life, in your life, in your health, in the food that you're eating. 30:33.905 --> 30:34.226 Oh my God. 30:34.247 --> 30:34.648 You're weighing. 30:34.688 --> 30:35.632 You're looking at the back side. 30:35.665 --> 30:38.293 You never looked at the back side of a Coke bottle. 30:39.465 --> 30:40.249 You never looked at. 30:40.329 --> 30:41.407 You know whether. 30:41.427 --> 30:42.711 How much calories is God? 30:43.092 --> 30:44.135 How much sugar is God? 30:44.405 --> 30:45.530 How much sodium is God? 30:45.705 --> 30:47.271 I mean, you're getting into details these days. 30:48.165 --> 30:48.286 Why? 30:48.326 --> 30:54.550 Because it matters to you, but as a child of God, you have to go back to the ancient boundaries. 30:56.965 --> 30:58.871 As a child of God, as a Christian. 30:59.945 --> 31:04.412 What is permissible for other people is not permissible for you. 31:06.345 --> 31:07.911 Don't tell me what other people are trying to do. 31:08.685 --> 31:12.691 Don't tell me how other people live their life, what is their value system. 31:13.005 --> 31:17.053 Don't bring that into your home, because this is uncharted territory. 31:17.385 --> 31:22.695 What is permissible for my boss, even some Christian brothers and sisters? 31:23.985 --> 31:30.335 When I hang out in most circles these days, I'm feeling like, oh my God, what is different between us and the ones outside? 31:31.585 --> 31:33.030 We're pretty much doing the same thing here. 31:34.085 --> 31:42.331 It's just that we got the holy talk and the holy tag and the holy caps that we wear to remind ourselves that we are. 31:42.785 --> 31:46.828 But let me tell you, a lifestyle doesn't reflect the separation. 31:46.848 --> 31:48.690 You know the boundaries. 31:48.790 --> 31:54.848 God created boundaries for us in the scripture, Our sexuality. 31:55.510 --> 32:04.869 There are boundaries for it, boundaries for a single person, boundaries for a married person, boundaries for sin, sexuality. 32:07.266 --> 32:09.233 In the New Testament it doesn't even tell me I have to. 32:09.625 --> 32:10.911 You know I have to sleep with somebody. 32:11.185 --> 32:15.733 The Bible says if I look at somebody with lust in my eyes, I've already sinned. 32:17.985 --> 32:19.109 Don't tell me oh my God. 32:19.129 --> 32:19.892 You know my friends are. 32:20.446 --> 32:21.390 You know they're cool people. 32:21.705 --> 32:23.767 You know I don't think they have a problem with us living in. 32:23.988 --> 32:25.413 Oh my God, when is that? 32:26.165 --> 32:27.450 When did that happen in the church? 32:28.585 --> 32:30.392 When is that written in the Word of God? 32:32.065 --> 32:37.291 We have slaughtered the fear of God at the altar of relevance. 32:38.105 --> 32:38.989 We wanna be cool. 32:39.425 --> 32:40.088 Did you hear me right? 32:41.325 --> 32:45.191 You have slaughtered the fear of God at the altar of relevance. 32:45.265 --> 32:46.229 We wanna be relevant. 32:47.325 --> 32:48.208 Let me tell you something. 32:48.549 --> 32:50.053 Relevant church is dead. 32:51.205 --> 32:52.991 Relevant Christianity is dead. 32:54.245 --> 32:55.109 They tried to do it. 32:55.249 --> 32:55.791 It didn't work. 32:56.245 --> 32:57.289 It worked for some time. 32:58.245 --> 33:02.468 We have moved the goalpost of our life a lot. 33:06.754 --> 33:09.920 When did profane language become okay? 33:10.581 --> 33:17.485 As a child of God, the Bible says the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart. 33:18.327 --> 33:24.279 Let it be pleasing to you, oh God, help us with our language. 33:25.061 --> 33:35.435 No matter how frustrated you are, no matter how sick you feel, no matter how betrayed you feel you, as a child of God, you got to watch the words that come out of your mouth. 33:35.570 --> 33:41.400 The Bible says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 33:44.030 --> 33:45.013 Am I preaching to somebody here? 33:46.136 --> 33:46.718 Is this helping? 33:47.038 --> 33:47.660 Is this helping. 33:48.652 --> 33:49.215 This is helping. 33:49.370 --> 33:50.474 This is really the heart of God. 33:52.350 --> 33:53.475 We have boundaries. 33:53.570 --> 33:54.474 Romans, chapter 12,. 33:54.855 --> 34:04.426 It says therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. 34:04.827 --> 34:07.577 This is your true and proper worship. 34:07.971 --> 34:08.640 What is worship? 34:09.390 --> 34:13.377 What is true worship when you offer your bodies as living sacrifice? 34:13.638 --> 34:21.977 It goes on to say do not confirm to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 34:22.790 --> 34:25.238 You are in this world, but you're not off this world. 34:26.055 --> 34:27.674 Oh my God, oh my God. 34:28.070 --> 34:28.532 I preach that. 34:29.270 --> 34:33.171 When is the last time that you hung out with somebody who didn't tell you things that you like? 34:35.310 --> 34:37.437 When is the last time you read a book that convicted you? 34:38.550 --> 34:46.352 When is the last time that you heard a sermon that you felt like, oh my God, ouch, and the kids are getting? 34:49.010 --> 34:52.821 Do you hang around with mentors who say, oh my God, barney, look at that leather jacket. 34:53.712 --> 34:54.836 Oh man, you look so cool. 34:55.270 --> 34:56.896 The way you speak is amazing. 34:57.470 --> 35:00.298 I don't want people to tell me all the good things of life. 35:01.510 --> 35:03.336 Tell me all the things that I need to change. 35:04.650 --> 35:10.061 I don't give money to a coach to help me to affirm what I'm already doing. 35:10.402 --> 35:14.458 I need to change, I want to go to the next level, and there is a price to pay for that. 35:16.190 --> 35:18.417 The Bible says who may ascend the hill of the Lord? 35:19.590 --> 35:20.453 Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? 35:21.790 --> 35:21.971 I'm going. 35:22.011 --> 35:22.654 Old school guys. 35:23.690 --> 35:33.638 Old school, old school here, bible school, old school, he who has clean hands and a pure heart. 35:36.750 --> 35:47.963 This morning the Lord is calling us as a church to return back to the ancient boundaries, return back to our first love with Jesus. 35:49.227 --> 35:54.319 Amen, amen, don't go beyond what God has authorized. 35:56.450 --> 36:01.840 And on the other side, we have gone into the religion world where we have to do, do, do, do, do, do. 36:03.750 --> 36:05.737 Jesus did not come to create a religion. 36:06.330 --> 36:08.295 He came to create relationship. 36:08.355 --> 36:09.037 That was broken. 36:10.830 --> 36:12.497 So in the church we've got to beat religion. 36:12.590 --> 36:13.994 We have to slaughter. 36:16.210 --> 36:20.962 We have slaughtered intimacy at the altar of religion. 36:21.953 --> 36:25.756 Oh, no, no, no Time to go back to intimacy with Jesus. 36:26.190 --> 36:30.239 The other piece is to return back to the original vision of your life. 36:32.150 --> 36:37.002 You've been hanging out with people and now their vision has become your vision. 36:37.550 --> 36:38.373 Where is your vision? 36:40.370 --> 36:43.059 You know what God has called you to do as a family. 36:43.470 --> 36:46.873 You know what God has asked you to do, but you have forsaken that. 36:47.074 --> 36:52.860 Because you want to look cool and you want to look accepted and you want to look happening, and you become part of some cool vision. 36:53.150 --> 36:53.734 Guess what happened? 36:54.310 --> 36:55.956 God did not call you for the cool vision. 36:56.550 --> 36:58.396 God gave you a specific vision. 37:00.270 --> 37:08.191 He asked you to do something and I'm telling you, vision is not easy Vision. 37:08.512 --> 37:09.815 The Bible says those. 37:10.997 --> 37:14.733 Let me get the scripture right for you Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 18. 37:14.773 --> 37:17.319 Where there is no vision, people perish. 37:19.230 --> 37:24.241 In this presidential election year, every candidate is not talking about what they have done. 37:25.031 --> 37:27.430 They're telling about what they want to do. 37:27.430 --> 37:28.675 They're casting a vision. 37:29.670 --> 37:31.436 What is the vision for your life? 37:32.530 --> 37:34.078 What is your vision for your family? 37:34.590 --> 37:36.496 What is your vision for your? 37:36.697 --> 37:41.734 I mean, if you take vision seriously, your calendar is going to reflect your vision. 37:42.710 --> 37:44.837 If you don't have a vision, you're going to go everywhere. 37:45.350 --> 37:48.960 This prayer meeting, that prayer meeting, this leaders meeting, that meeting, this meeting. 37:49.270 --> 37:51.297 You're going to go everywhere and try to please people. 37:51.950 --> 37:54.457 That is the biggest trap that you can ever be in. 37:55.830 --> 37:59.741 If you're focused on your vision, you know exactly where to go. 37:59.950 --> 38:02.298 Your calendar will reflect your vision. 38:03.030 --> 38:05.117 Your budget will reflect your vision. 38:05.590 --> 38:07.778 Your eating habits will reflect your vision. 38:08.290 --> 38:13.585 Where you live will reflect your vision, where you work and who you hang out with will reflect your vision. 38:13.626 --> 38:26.678 Because if you hang out with toxic people, let me get this straight for you the Bible says those who hang out with the wise will become wise, but those who hang out with the wicked it doesn't say you will be wicked. 38:27.110 --> 38:28.955 The Bible says you will be destroyed. 38:32.250 --> 38:35.618 So watch the people that we hang out with and watch your vision. 38:37.590 --> 38:40.357 Vision is the bridge between the present and the future. 38:42.110 --> 38:45.597 If you do not have a vision, you do not have a future. 38:48.184 --> 38:50.370 And vision gives pain a purpose. 38:50.760 --> 39:04.265 Oh man, I'm telling you, is it hard to get up in the morning, especially in New York, you know, I mean, it's cold, the seat is cold and these cars they just charge you just to switch on the heating on the steering wheel. 39:04.580 --> 39:05.725 That's another $5,000. 39:06.924 --> 39:07.848 I mean, that's how they sell. 39:09.080 --> 39:15.186 So your seat is heated, but your steering wheel is not and you don't feel like getting up in the morning. 39:15.226 --> 39:15.848 It's cold. 39:16.460 --> 39:24.267 You have every reason why you don't want to go work out, even though your buddies and no gym wants you to be there, because everybody shows up in the gym. 39:24.421 --> 39:27.826 They don't want me in your room, so they want you to take the membership and just stay at home. 39:29.720 --> 39:30.042 Yes or no? 39:30.082 --> 39:33.023 Am I preaching If everybody shows up in the? 39:33.926 --> 39:34.428 You know this model. 39:35.440 --> 39:38.469 But I'm telling you, vision gives pain a purpose. 39:39.460 --> 39:51.190 So it's painful for me to get up in the morning and to follow the disciplines of my life to do what God is asking me to do, but if I do it I will be the most fulfilled person on earth. 39:52.060 --> 39:54.168 So you gotta pay a price for your vision. 39:55.480 --> 39:56.786 Just keep you state focused. 39:56.860 --> 39:59.008 So God is saying go back to the original vision. 39:59.140 --> 40:01.428 I don't know your vision, I know mine. 40:01.680 --> 40:03.267 That's why I keep sharing it every time. 40:03.460 --> 40:04.445 You probably know it by heart. 40:04.840 --> 40:08.826 Every student in every nation gospelize and mobilize. 40:09.241 --> 40:12.485 Every student in every nation gospelize and mobilize. 40:12.800 --> 40:15.484 Every student in every nation gospelize and mobilize. 40:15.840 --> 40:24.683 I gotta keep reminding myself Because if I'm not careful and if I hang out too much with other people, their vision becomes my. 40:24.824 --> 40:25.907 Oh my God. 40:25.947 --> 40:26.449 Wait a minute. 40:27.000 --> 40:29.905 I gotta raise all this money Like a half a million dollar budget. 40:30.020 --> 40:30.623 I gotta raise it. 40:31.340 --> 40:33.107 I wish I would be a salaried guy. 40:35.960 --> 40:37.426 I wish I could just be like a guy. 40:37.446 --> 40:40.007 A regular guy Could be a regular bivocational ministry. 40:40.100 --> 40:40.522 Isn't that cool? 40:41.405 --> 40:41.867 Is that cool? 40:42.360 --> 40:43.203 Of course it is cool. 40:44.085 --> 40:45.048 Is there models in the Bible? 40:45.088 --> 40:48.148 Of course, but is that what God is calling you to do? 40:50.100 --> 40:56.402 When I hang out with you know I love pastors, but I know they have their own journey to take, but I feel like man. 40:56.443 --> 41:08.965 Maybe I just need to be a pastor, you know, or maybe just you know, I'm telling you, there's been several offers to me to deviate me from the focus that I was supposed to be. 41:09.506 --> 41:12.572 Here's the check, here's the thing, here's that, here's this you can do. 41:12.732 --> 41:22.554 I'm telling you I have to say no because I am clear about what God wants me to do Money, money. 41:23.240 --> 41:24.124 Vision gives direction. 41:24.260 --> 41:25.285 Vision evokes passion. 41:25.380 --> 41:28.604 Vision motivates, vision disciplines, Vision prioritizes. 41:33.240 --> 41:39.028 God is calling us to return back to the original vision on your life. 41:39.880 --> 41:42.328 When in doubt, go back to square one. 41:43.340 --> 41:45.006 When in doubt, go check your journal out. 41:45.660 --> 41:47.487 When in doubt, go check your prophetic word. 41:48.101 --> 41:52.252 Oh, my God, you have a hard disk filled with prophecies. 41:52.880 --> 41:55.789 Guys, it's time to go back and get some road maps. 41:56.660 --> 42:02.786 Rather than going out to the next prophetic word, it's time for us to go and check the old prophetic words and check if you have fulfilled it. 42:05.280 --> 42:09.311 God is calling this church into the next level. 42:09.400 --> 42:19.570 He loves you so much that he sent a curry eating man to share this word Not just for you, I take it as a we word, it's for me. 42:22.240 --> 42:24.885 The last piece is to return back to covenant and to relationships. 42:26.500 --> 42:30.324 The other day I was talking to somebody I haven't talked in that you know there are people in your life. 42:30.861 --> 42:44.084 Dr A Ebonad says you know, some people come in for a season, some kind of reason, some for a lifetime, and they say it takes about 200 hours to build trust with anybody Like me and Pastor James give me a high five, bro, listen me and him. 42:44.164 --> 42:49.664 For me to just be like thick, thick, I need to be given in a 200 hours of just hanging out with him. 42:50.460 --> 42:53.909 That's like 200 hours, 200 coffees, 200 meals. 42:55.160 --> 43:03.990 Putting that time at the very basic at $50 an hour, that's like $100 just to meet for an hour, plus the meals, plus the food, plus, you know, the transport. 43:06.000 --> 43:09.444 Imagine the amount of money that you've invested into relationships in the future. 43:11.189 --> 43:17.204 But this season, prophetically, I speak to you that God is reminding you to make that call, and call somebody right now. 43:18.220 --> 43:22.585 He's bringing some concentric circles of relationships back into your life. 43:23.100 --> 43:24.366 I know it finished a season. 43:24.500 --> 43:27.064 There are people that I thought, oh my God, we had a great run in India. 43:27.104 --> 43:27.747 God bless you. 43:28.340 --> 43:29.806 That was great, that was great, fantastic. 43:30.180 --> 43:31.124 You move to the next place. 43:31.164 --> 43:31.967 You are in the Middle East. 43:32.400 --> 43:34.168 Oh my God, they are in the Middle East. 43:34.180 --> 43:35.244 They are now in Dubai. 43:36.348 --> 43:38.005 Oh my God, they move from India to Dubai. 43:38.160 --> 43:39.364 Oh, we have one more round here. 43:40.680 --> 43:41.262 Dubai is over. 43:41.644 --> 43:42.206 Praise the Lord. 43:42.246 --> 43:42.748 God bless you. 43:42.880 --> 43:43.622 Peace, peace. 43:43.983 --> 43:48.467 You know, whatever you're the rock guys, peace guys, peace done. 43:49.160 --> 43:50.143 You come to the US. 43:50.965 --> 43:52.771 They are now in your neighborhood. 43:53.980 --> 43:55.426 They've showed up in your neighborhood. 43:55.680 --> 43:56.884 They're now in the East Coast. 43:57.085 --> 43:58.409 They're now two hours away. 44:01.100 --> 44:11.186 All that 200 and over hundreds of hours of relationship is now paying out in different terrains of my life because God is saying you're not done with them yet. 44:12.360 --> 44:15.250 One more round, one more round of dreaming together. 44:15.723 --> 44:16.291 One more round. 44:16.311 --> 44:16.940 Let me tell you something. 44:16.940 --> 44:24.668 When I partner with somebody, when I partner with this church to go to campuses, hey, man, this church wants to go to campus, but they can't. 44:26.202 --> 44:28.249 They were looking like we want to reach the next generation. 44:28.560 --> 44:33.590 Show us a person who reaches the next generation and God shows me up in this circle. 44:33.860 --> 44:40.244 And now we have a perfect fit here of a partnership where the church wants to reach them, but they don't know how to. 44:40.264 --> 44:43.145 But they're now partnering, which means co-ownership. 44:43.286 --> 44:46.346 Oh my God, partnership means co-ownership. 44:47.360 --> 44:50.625 If you're partnering financially with the ministry, you're co-owning it. 44:53.340 --> 44:54.284 You know, as a non-profit. 44:54.304 --> 44:57.107 I just wanted to let you know that you can't take nothing out of that. 44:58.280 --> 45:00.006 All you can expense is expense it out. 45:00.840 --> 45:02.347 It's not like your own company that you're like. 45:02.460 --> 45:03.263 I got stake in it. 45:03.544 --> 45:05.249 I've been doing this for the last 20 years. 45:05.620 --> 45:06.744 I have no equity in it. 45:07.980 --> 45:11.690 I can put it on my LinkedIn and say that I was the founder, that's it. 45:14.046 --> 45:15.310 You cashed out with nothing. 45:15.680 --> 45:23.207 I mean you cashed out with everything that God has asked you to do, but on the business world, I mean you left a company you exited with like tons of money. 45:24.980 --> 45:33.543 So when you're partnering with somebody, what's happening is you're becoming a co-owner of that vision and I'm telling you, god is bringing relationships back in your life. 45:34.085 --> 45:40.222 To do one more round of kingdom activity together to reach students Out of the blue. 45:40.262 --> 45:41.246 This young man called me up. 45:42.040 --> 45:49.767 We did a lot of stuff together in different cities, dreamed together, did some crazy things, filled stadiums and I'm like all right, bye-bye, cheers, peace. 45:51.020 --> 45:52.927 The next thing I know is I haven't heard from him for years. 45:53.780 --> 45:54.623 I get a call from him. 45:54.663 --> 45:54.924 Listen. 45:54.964 --> 46:08.984 I've now moved to the US and I'm married and I live in Phoenix, and that just one conversation led to us dreaming about the largest outreach to the South Asian tech community in Phoenix. 46:10.000 --> 46:14.431 Over 300 tech people showed up, over 25 people got saved. 46:15.200 --> 46:20.988 All because of that one call of re-engagement with a friend that I haven't seen for a long time. 46:21.060 --> 46:27.289 But in the right time, when carers means chronos, god is bringing concentrated relationships back again. 46:28.523 --> 46:29.688 Maybe I'm prophesying somebody. 46:30.662 --> 46:32.409 Maybe it doesn't make sense, don't take it. 46:33.085 --> 46:33.854 If it doesn't make somebody. 46:33.874 --> 46:35.985 If it makes sense, god's bringing those. 46:36.205 --> 46:37.690 Some people you don't like, listen. 46:38.643 --> 46:39.506 Some people you don't like. 46:39.527 --> 46:47.289 You wish you didn't want to work, but you have seen the ugly side of him, so you know exactly what to expect. 46:48.002 --> 46:54.700 You know what can possibly go, what is the damages that could happen, but you have built trust here. 46:54.780 --> 46:57.360 You have built a covenant relationship. 46:57.400 --> 47:00.268 That's why somebody said if you find your people, hold on to them. 47:01.380 --> 47:06.900 If you're on this church, hold on to somebody, give a high-five to somebody and say we found ourselves. 47:06.900 --> 47:09.931 We found ourselves, we're in the right place, we're the right community. 47:10.173 --> 47:18.180 That's why we ask you to go, come together, you know, praying together, sharing the gospel together. 47:18.254 --> 47:21.995 Somebody said, if you don't evangelize, you will fossilize. 47:23.409 --> 47:25.563 Why is the church in need of a church in America dying? 47:25.583 --> 47:26.828 Why is the church in the West dying? 47:26.860 --> 47:34.226 Because, man, they're just feasting on last year's glory, they're feasting on the last 20 years of glory, nothing they have done right now. 47:34.640 --> 47:39.031 And if you don't evangelize, evangelism is a marketing wing of the church. 47:40.460 --> 47:43.204 If you're on a business, if you don't do marketing, nobody knows about you. 47:44.000 --> 47:45.185 Well, word of mouth gets around. 47:46.040 --> 47:51.169 I'm saying that some people I've heard like oh my bro, you know I don't do business, I don't do marketing, it's just word of mouth. 47:51.361 --> 47:52.856 I'm like great, great, great. 47:53.501 --> 47:58.429 But if you wanna lift it to the next level, you got to do marketing and that is the great commission. 47:59.780 --> 48:04.589 So I'm saying right here that God is I wanna ask the worship team to come and I'm gonna land the plane. 48:04.640 --> 48:16.390 But what I'm asking you to do today, as I did in the first sermon, the first service, is to step out, not because you've sinned, but you wanna say God, I wanna return back to my first love. 48:16.600 --> 48:19.205 I mean, I would be here, right here in the front, if I would give a call right now. 48:19.800 --> 48:22.725 It's not account numbers, account hands, account heads, account butts, nothing. 48:23.940 --> 48:33.349 I want you to just take a step of faith, not just a step of faith, an intentional step, a response of moving out from your seat. 48:33.400 --> 48:36.327 Like Billy Grant would say, in a few minutes from now you're gonna walk out. 48:36.480 --> 48:42.080 He got everybody ready for the last 20, 30 minutes of him speaking, just for them to come forward here. 48:42.141 --> 48:48.105 I am asking you to come forward and say God, I need to go, I'm hungry, I wanna be in love with Jesus again. 48:48.880 --> 48:52.968 I don't wanna talk about 20 years of stories, last year's story like five years story. 48:53.100 --> 48:54.727 20 years ago I was this and that. 48:55.000 --> 48:56.125 Tell me where you are right now. 48:56.220 --> 49:01.425 If you need to go back, you need to bounce up from that seat right now, as we all stand up right now. 49:02.100 --> 49:03.144 We all stand up right here. 49:04.121 --> 49:05.466 I wanna open up the altar right now. 49:06.280 --> 49:08.428 This is the City Light Church podcast. 49:08.880 --> 49:17.486 If you've 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