Jesus Wants His Stuff Back

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We want to be heard.

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We want to have an opinion.

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We want what we think to matter.

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And there are some things where the Lord is saying, you don't talk about it, you just move.

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And I'm telling you that we've been in the season of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

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Podcasts and online messages and all of it good and helpful.

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Most of it good.

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But there is a moment where I have to go, hey, I can't just eat.

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I can't just listen.

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I've actually got to do something with what I have.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

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That's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

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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.

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Why don't you put your hands together as we welcome David Wagner as he ministers the Holy Ghost to you.

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Come on, will you give Jesus a shout of praise this morning?

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Jesus, we love you.

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We lift you up.

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We magnify you.

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We declare there's no one like you.

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There's no one but you.

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And Lord, we know that if you'd be high and lifted up in New York City, right here in Queens, that you would draw all men to yourself.

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I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying that this is the season of the great drawing.

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For I'm drawing people unto me.

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I'm going to use you, but I'm bringing them to me.

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And I felt like the Lord said that he's about to envelop this city with his heart.

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He's about to envelop this city with its heart.

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And even though everything here seems to move fast, the Lord says that I'm coming and I'm releasing divine timing and perfect peace.

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For the Lord says there's going to come an unusual peace, not the absence of conflict, but the peace of the Lord that passes all understanding.

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I have a friend who says it like this.

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Sometimes I have the peace that passes all understanding.

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You've got to give up your right to understand.

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And the Lord's going to do things that are about to be mind-blowing and earth-shaking at the same time.

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We're in that season where everything that can be shaken is being shaken.

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But it's with purpose so that the unshakable kingdom can remain.

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And so, Lord, I thank you that your word comes, that the prophetic word comes, the scripture comes to shake everything in us that's not like Jesus.

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So, Lord, would you cause some things to shake off of us this morning?

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Lord, some of us are going to get breakthrough.

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Some of us are going to have shaked through.

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Lord, where you're just shaking things off that we've carried that you never called us to carry.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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You can be seated.

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What a great day to be alive.

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Amen.

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There's never been a day like today.

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I saw a corny Hallmark card who said it like this.

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Today's a gift.

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That's why they call it a present, right?

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Come on.

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Some of the dudes are like, bro, turn in the man card, man.

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Right?

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But it is a great honor and privilege to be with you.

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I get the privilege of being a friend of Pastor Boyan.

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And, you know, there's people in your lives that are like drains.

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He's not that.

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You ever been around people that just kind of drain the life out of you?

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But then you get around other people, and all of a sudden, it's like a fountain.

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Your faith goes up.

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Your expectation goes up.

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Your hope goes up.

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Your love for life goes up.

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And that's what Pastor Bo is to me.

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He's actually been an answer to my prayers for over 11 years because I have great opportunities and ministry events that I can do.

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But I stopped praying long ago for messages to speak or churches to go to.

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And I just said, Lord, I don't need any more obligations or commitments, but I'll take as many friends as you give me.

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And the Lord answered that prayer within a few weeks and gave me Pastor Boyan.

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And him and Emily and their two kids have been a vibrant part of my life.

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And you know you're good friends when you can text, call every once in a while.

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But when you get together, it's like you've never been apart.

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And that's the way the body of Christ is designed to work, by the way.

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That every joint supplies.

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I love these words of King David.

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He said, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go in the house of the Lord.

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He was happy to go to church.

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It was never an obligation for him.

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He knew everything that he needed was in the house.

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I have a crazy word for you.

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Everything you need is in the house.

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It's in the house of the Lord.

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Why?

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Because when the Father's present, every need is met.

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When the Father shows up, every chain can be broken.

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Every striving can cease.

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You're fully protected.

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You're fully loved, fully surrounded.

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It's the place where we get to not only go, but it's the place we actually get to grow.

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I love this.

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In Isaiah chapter 66, verse 1, it says, Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool, but who will build me a house?

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Basically, the Lord is saying, I have everything I need, and if I need anything else, I can just create it.

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But he actually gives an invitation to us to build him a place to dwell.

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How many know this was never designed to be a place where you visit God, but a place where you get to dwell with God?

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I like the name City Light Church.

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I wouldn't tell you to change it at all.

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But I think God has a nickname for you, and that's his dwelling place.

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I was sharing last night in the meeting.

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I used to always pray this prayer.

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Holy Spirit, come.

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Lord, won't you come?

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Lord, Holy Spirit, come.

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And I think it's a good prayer and a powerful prayer.

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But a few weeks ago or a couple months ago, I was praying that prayer, and the Lord said, who invited who?

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Like, you're inviting me.

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I think he appreciates that.

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But how many know before the foundation of the earth, the Lord was standing in this moment at 1211 on August the 23rd, 2026, waiting for us to get here.

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And he already set the table.

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He already created the atmosphere for you to step into what you need in this very hour that we're living in.

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Here's what I love about the Lord.

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He always has fresh bread.

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And the Lord gave me a message for first service.

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I'm not going to preach that same message because there's fresh bread for second service.

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And here's why.

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There are these moments in God that we miss because we get repetitive.

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There's moments in God that we get because we actually come to a place where we become familiar and we think we've got it figured out.

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But how many know sometimes the Lord wants to surprise us?

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And so I believe we're stepping into a season of supernatural surprises.

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I believe the Lord's really about to blow our mind because we're thinking things are going to go like this.

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But God shows up.

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Things look like this is what's happening.

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And all of a sudden, miracles begin to manifest.

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Cities begin to turn their hearts towards God.

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I don't believe it's fairy tale.

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I don't believe it's just some kind of great revelation or a dream or a vision.

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I believe it's actually the reality of God.

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How many know when God says something, it's already happened?

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It's already in motion.

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We're actually needing to catch up to it.

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I believe the Lord's called this church to be forerunners, to actually go ahead.

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See, I think in the kingdom there's two kinds of people.

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There's pioneers and there's settlers.

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There's settlers.

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Settlers settle into what somebody else pioneered.

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But there is a grit and a glory of God that comes upon those who actually don't just settle for here, but whose minds are always fixed that God's taking us there.

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Even when you don't know where there is or what it looks like.

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I think one of the keys, and I said it last night, is this, is that the Lord is inviting us to learn how to live being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

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If I can have it all figured out, I should just stay home and watch online.

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But there's something that happens when we begin to assemble.

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We begin to come and we bring our faith in together.

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It changes everything.

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And so I believe there's really a new perspective taking place.

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What I felt was this.

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What the enemy distorts, he destroys.

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And what the enemy confuses, he controls.

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How many know that the enemy has distorted the narrative over New York City

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He's distorted the word of the Lord over New York City.

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He has no power over the word, but he does try to control what we hear about it.

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And there's many people right now walking around in dire confusion.

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I was talking to a young man a few weeks ago and he was just saying, I'm this and I'm this and I'm this and I associate with this and I identify with this.

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And he just went on with all the things that he thought about himself.

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And I just said, you're not this and you're not this and you're not this.

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I think you're just confused.

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And that confused him.

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Because I accepted him for who he was, but I wasn't going to affirm the lie in him.

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Because here's the truth about lies.

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Lies in your head will always create an issue in your heart.

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A lie in your head will create an issue in your heart.

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So if I believe something wrong about you, if I don't see you the way the Lord sees you, I'll actually believe a lie that you're different than what God said.

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How many know it's true?

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Because a lie will tell you that your best friend is actually your worst enemy and you'll miss out on friendship.

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Because you're not seeing them the way the Lord sees them.

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And I'm telling you the Lord is bringing us to that place of great clarity.

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God is bringing us out of our old comfort zones.

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It's sad to say we actually get comfortable in church.

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It's sad to say that preachers actually get comfortable in the pulpit.

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And I will tell you that I never get comfortable preaching the word of the Lord because I still have the fear of the Lord.

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And the fear of the Lord isn't being afraid of God.

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It's just being afraid of doing anything without him.

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And if you'll let that marinate in you for a few moments, the fear of the Lord will actually provoke you.

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It will actually release wisdom in your life, but it will also keep you aware of the awe and the wonder of God.

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we can't lower him to the commonplace.

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We actually have to see him rightly.

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He's ruling and reigning on the throne.

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That throne has never been in jeopardy.

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And I believe we're about to see him come in an amazing new way.

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I want you to know that the Lord is bringing us to a place called there.

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It's a place we haven't seen, fathomed, known, or even dreamed of yet.

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It's an Abraham moment where,

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It says, by faith, Abraham left her.

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He left everything he knew, not even knowing where he was going, but he was looking for a city whose builder and maker is gone.

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So if I think with a kingdom mind, I would go like this.

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New York City is God's idea.

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If I think like a New Yorker, like an American...

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Sometimes we think it's a mayor's idea or a governor's idea or, or wall street's idea or, but, but, but there is this place that God by his divine providence, uh, and love made to be a melting pot, a gathering place for people from all tribes, tongues, and nations gathered in one place just here in the borough of Queens.

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Like, well, you know what I love about Queens?

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It ain't vanilla.

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Like, like Maurice, uh, Mauricio was bringing me for a cup of coffee and I thought he's going to bring me to St. Arbuck's or Duncan or, you know, or five bucks, whatever you'll call it.

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Um, uh, or, you know, some, some of the, but he brings me into this Brazilian coffee shop.

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He double parks.

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He breaks the law, puts his flashers on.

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He doesn't even lock the door.

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Somebody could have taken me, you know, way to go, man of God.

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I'm watching people.

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I'm praying in tongues.

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And I hope they're hearing it in their own language, you know?

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But I'm looking around and it's like, man, there was everything.

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And everyone from everywhere.

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And I'm thinking, Lord, you call us to go to the harvest.

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And some people haven't gone to the harvest.

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So you're actually sending the harvest to us.

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That's how I'm rightfully...

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discerning the time and the season that we're living in.

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Isn't it amazing?

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Just look in this room.

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It looks like the kingdom.

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I mean, there's some vanilla sprinkled in here.

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It's all right, but it's kind of Neapolitan too, you know?

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I love that.

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Listen, I believe that we have to actually change the way we look.

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I'm not talking about physically.

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because how can you improve on this?

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But we have to change what we're looking at.

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And a lot of times, like we were singing it in the song, I said it last night, that your destiny is greater than your history.

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And I don't want to see New York City according to its history.

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I want to see it according to its destiny.

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But the truth is this, that I cannot look or see the past and the future at the same time.

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And some of us are stuck looking at the past.

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Some of us are stuck looking at what we haven't seen yet.

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But God's about to give us eyes to see.

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Don't believe that the lie that your past is greater than your future.

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Every season has a purpose.

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In the prophetic word I was giving to Pastor Muhammad yesterday, the word was like, the Lord sees your roots growing down and bearing fruit in and out of season.

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And then I realized most people don't like winter.

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We would prefer summer.

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We would prefer spring or the beginnings of autumn when everything is colorful and bright and warm and all of those things.

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But in winter, we're burdened down with boots and coats and snow and all kinds of stuff.

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And it's kind of like we don't like winter.

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But actually in winter, when the roots grow deep,

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And if you didn't go, if they didn't, if trees didn't endure winter, they would never be able to bear the weight of new growth or fruit.

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They would bend over.

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They would break.

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And I realized that we don't like seasons.

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The church really doesn't like seasons much.

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Every prophetic guy, you're in a season, about to be a season and a season and a season.

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And I've sang seasons more than the song Seasons.

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But the truth of the matter is, I think we like some seasons more than others.

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Like, I think most people like spring because we like strawberries.

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But how many know that we have to change our spiritual appetite?

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Because strawberries are fruit of spring, but we've created artificial environments to create something that we want to eat all year round.

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So we never fully eat of the season that we're in.

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Listen, I believe that we're about to see that the Lord's about to bring forth fruit in its time.

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And there's some seeds you sown way back then you're about to eat the fruit of now.

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There's seeds you're sowing today that you're about to eat the fruit of tomorrow or next week or a month from now or a decade from now.

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But the fruit's coming.

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And I believe we're in a season where there's not only fruit coming, but it's fruit that remains.

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I've been focusing a lot on how God answers prayer.

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And I realize he answers prayer like five different ways.

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Sometimes he answers prayer yes.

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Sometimes he answers prayer in ways I don't like, like no.

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Sometimes his answer is wait.

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I don't like that one.

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Sometimes the answer is go.

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And sometimes the answer is grow.

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And I believe we're in a season where some of you, you're in that place where God is anointing you to go and to grow, but you've got to navigate the time and the season you're in.

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A lot of us don't feel like we're ready for what God's called us to.

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But here's what I've discovered about the Lord.

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He never asked me what I don't have.

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And he goes, hey, David, I want you to go to Mozambique.

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Well, Lord, I don't have, no, I didn't ask you that.

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I just told you to go.

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He never asks us what we don't have.

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He only asks us what we do have.

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And sometimes all I have is a little bit of faith.

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Sometimes all I have is my obedience.

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Sometimes all I have is my yes to whatever God said.

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And whatever you have, God will use.

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How many know we're all useful to God?

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We're all valuable to God.

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We all have the same value.

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It doesn't matter if you hold the microphone.

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My value is not in the microphone.

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My value is that I am a child of God, that I've been washed in the blood.

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I've been bought by the blood of the lamb, just like you.

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And when I understand that, it changes everything.

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Here's some good news, right?

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Are you ready?

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Most of you right now are in some sort of battle.

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If you're not in some sort of battle, you've probably been in a battle.

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And if you haven't been through a battle or going through a battle, you're gonna go through a battle.

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And the good news in all of it is this, is that the battle is the Lord's.

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It's not your battle.

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I've got good news for you.

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You want some good news?

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The dark season of the soul has come to an end.

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I woke up with that burning in my heart, my spirit this morning.

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The dark season of the soul is coming to an end.

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Where you're just stuck.

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Anybody ever feel stuck?

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Like I'm stuck in the same job.

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I'm stuck in the same situation.

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My finances are stuck.

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My marriage is stuck.

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My kids are stuck.

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Right?

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And it's like, I'm just stuck.

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But I'm telling you right now, the Lord's about to shift you out of stuck and there's about to be forward momentum coming to you.

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The dark season of the soul is about to come to an end.

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Listen, everything God has for you is not behind you.

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It's right in front of you.

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And you have to go forward.

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And I felt like the Lord said that there's a word coming over city like this morning and the word is forward march.

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there's a moving forward.

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It's not falling back, it's moving forward.

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God always responds to faith.

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I have a word for you, please don't get mad at me.

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If you are mad at me, don't worry.

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Pastor Boyan will be speaking next Sunday, you can get over it.

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But the Lord is calling us not to be complacent.

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Let me give you another word for being complacent, being spiritually lazy.

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to let somebody else read the scripture for you, to let somebody else pray for you.

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But if we'll actually engage with what God's doing, we're about to watch his kingdom come and his will be done like never before.

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Listen, God isn't gonna let you fail.

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Why?

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Because he's good, he's faithful, and he's true.

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He keeps his word.

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I was reading the scripture, and when I read the scripture, I had a laugh.

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In Exodus 14,

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The Bible says these words.

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God said to Moses, why cry out to me?

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Speak to the Israelites, order them to get moving.

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Hold your staff high and stretch your hand out over the sea.

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Split the sea.

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The Israelites will walk through the sea on dry ground.

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Meanwhile, I'll make sure the Egyptians keep up their stubborn chase.

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I'll use Pharaoh and his entire army, his chariots and his horsemen to put my glory on display so that the Egyptians will realize that I am God.

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Okay.

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That's a good thing.

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He's like, you're going to have victory.

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It's time to go.

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All these great things are going to happen.

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And I read that first.

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Cause here's the funny part.

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Ready?

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In verse 14, it says this, God will fight the battle for you and you, you keep your mouth shut.

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And the hardest thing about a kid from the South side of Chicago, like me and New Yorkers like you is keeping your mouth shut.

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Right?

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Because we want to be heard.

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We want to have an opinion.

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We want what we think to matter.

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And there are some things where the Lord is saying, you don't talk about it, you just move.

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And I'm telling you that we've been in the season of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

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podcasts and online messages and all of it good and helpful.

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Most of it good and great and helpful, but not all of it.

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But there is a moment where I have to go, hey, I can't just eat.

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I can't just listen.

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I've actually got to do something with what I have.

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Because revelation requires a response.

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It requires me to do something beyond what I've seen and known.

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And if you keep doing what you've always done, you're going to keep getting what you always got.

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Yeah.

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That's why God is breaking cycles.

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He's breaking cycles of defeat.

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I shared these things in the first service.

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I'm just going to give you the overture.

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But I believe the Lord is breaking some things off of us.

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Number one is distraction.

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We live in a distracted culture.

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And I'm telling you, this is going to be a season of great focus.

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He's healing us, setting us free from distraction.

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The second thing he's setting us free from is disappointment.

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Because if we're honest, some of us have been disappointed in ourselves, in our kids, in our mate, in our family, in the church, with our parents, all of those things.

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But can I tell you something?

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He's the God who never disappoints.

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Because Romans 5 and 5 says that hope doesn't disappoint.

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It doesn't when your hope is in the Lord.

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I think the other thing is discouragement.

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There are a lot of people that are discouraged because they feel stuck.

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They're discouraged because I was talking to somebody that I prayed for for a long time and this is what they kept saying to me.

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Nothing is happening, nothing is happening, nothing is happening.

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And then I made them mad.

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I said, when you feel like nothing is happening, that's when everything is happening.

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Because you can't see it.

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You're like in the, you're in the hurricane and all you can see, you're just holding on for dear life.

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But behind the scenes, God is working all things together for good.

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And I think the other thing that we're caught up in is in delay.

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So things aren't happening in our time frame.

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Or, you know, I think the word should come to pass tomorrow.

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And sometimes it does.

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But there's something that God develops in the waiting.

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And the Lord's bringing us into that place.

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So I love...

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everything about Jesus.

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But what I really love about him is anything Jesus touches changes.

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Anytime Jesus shows up, everything changes.

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And I said it last night, you cannot improve on the methods of Jesus.

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We should read through the Gospels over and over again.

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Because you think you suffered, then you realize what Jesus Christ went through.

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And you realize, wow, wow,

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What he did, how he lived, what he said is so relevant to me today.

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But what I also love is this.

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Is that Jesus never told anybody come back tomorrow.

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Because he said today is the day of salvation.

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And I believe that today is the day of salvation.

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How many know he doesn't just save your soul so that if you die tonight you can go to heaven?

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Amen.

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But he's able to save your circumstance, your situation, your family, your spouse, your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, your great grandmother.

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Like he's able to save your finances, he's able to save your body.

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Like it is all inclusive, like paid in full is paid in full.

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Otherwise it would be, I paid it in par.

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And I still owe interest.

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But Jesus actually paid it all.

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I realize there's things that I carry that don't belong to me.

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A few years ago, I was in ministry.

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Things were great.

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I was on some of the greatest stages with some of the greatest men and women of God, thriving in it.

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But I've always dealt with a couple of things in my life.

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Those things are fears.

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And how many of you think that I look nervous this morning?

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Scared to death.

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Because one of my biggest fears is public speaking.

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And God has this amazing sense of humor to let me face my fear on almost a daily basis.

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My second biggest fear is the fear of rejection, which really feeds into the public speaking thing.

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And the reason I had a fear of public speaking is I used to have a stutter.

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and a lisp, and I wasn't very easy or good to listen to.

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But there came a moment where God didn't focus on my weakness, he said, I'm gonna take that, and I'm gonna heal you.

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And then I had the fear of man, like, you know, I used to, after every service go, is that all right, Pastor Bo?

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You know, can you give me some feedback?

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Like, and some of it I would say from a spiritual way, I wanted to grow.

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But from a very fleshly way, I'm like, hey, stroke my ego and tell me that's the best message you ever heard.

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Because I'm human, right?

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And there are things in our life that we struggle with.

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And so I'm in this conference, I'm in Australia, and the first night, man, it was like, I felt like I hit it out of the park.

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The next day, I'm up speaking, and man, it's silent.

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I'm hitting people's buttons.

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They don't like what I'm saying.

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They're just staring at me.

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like pastors falling asleep, guest speakers falling asleep.

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It wasn't jet lag like, but I'm giving them what the Lord told me to do, right?

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I'm supposed to speak that night.

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I go home in the afternoon.

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And really what I want to do is pack up quietly, call a taxi, go to the airport, fly back to America and let them figure out that I was raptured or something.

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And my body's racked with pain and I've got a headache and my neck hurts.

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And I'm trembling in fear because I feel like I'm not even called to preach.

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And I'm laying in the bed.

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And if I'm honest, I was having a little bit of a pity party.

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And I sent the invitation to the Lord to come to the pity party.

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And he didn't RSVP.

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And so I'm laying there in my own misery because he's not responding to my pity.

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He only responds to my faith and my obedience.

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He's moved with compassion.

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It's not like he doesn't care about me in those moments, but he's like, hey, Wagner, that's not you.

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And so I'm laying there and I'm like, oh, Lord, get me out of here.

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I promise you get me out of here alive.

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I promise I'll never come back.

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That's what some of you have been praying about living in New York.

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Lord, if you get me out of here alive.

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Mauricio was checking if I believed in raising the dead yesterday.

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If they kill you, you're going to... Just kidding.

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I actually feel so safe in this city.

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You know, the funny thing is, I have no natural fears.

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Meaning about physical stuff.

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I don't fear a storm.

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Tornadoes were actually coming over my house last April.

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And my friends and neighbors around me were like pounding on the door like, is everybody okay?

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And going to storm cellars.

459
00:29:35.233 --> 00:29:35.853
I was sleeping.

460
00:29:37.874 --> 00:29:40.496
I always figure if I'm going to go up, I'm going to go up like Elijah, you know?

461
00:29:43.718 --> 00:29:46.140
But I don't fear that stuff.

462
00:29:47.705 --> 00:29:52.568
I've been held at gunpoint, not in New York, but it hadn't bothered me.

463
00:29:52.588 --> 00:29:53.769
I've been stabbed in the chest.

464
00:29:54.049 --> 00:29:54.830
It doesn't bother me.

465
00:29:55.590 --> 00:29:57.732
Like, I don't fear, like, you understand that?

466
00:29:57.752 --> 00:29:59.252
Like, I don't fear physical stuff.

467
00:30:00.553 --> 00:30:02.074
But I fear a lot of things up here.

468
00:30:02.895 --> 00:30:05.216
Because this thing right here is my best friend and my worst enemy.

469
00:30:06.477 --> 00:30:10.159
With it, I dream the dreams of God, and I talk myself out of them like 30 seconds later.

470
00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:11.340
Right?

471
00:30:12.721 --> 00:30:14.202
And so it's all up here.

472
00:30:15.342 --> 00:30:20.705
And I'm laying in the bed, I'm having this pity party and I'm in pain and agony internally.

473
00:30:21.966 --> 00:30:23.527
And the door's kind of cracked open.

474
00:30:23.547 --> 00:30:27.389
It's an old, super old Victorian kind of house thing with a wooden staircase.

475
00:30:28.269 --> 00:30:32.272
And I hear this noise, like deliberate footsteps coming up the stairs.

476
00:30:33.532 --> 00:30:36.034
And I don't know if I was dreaming or vision, it was so real to me.

477
00:30:36.814 --> 00:30:43.418
And Jesus is walking up the stairs and he's got, you know, it's not like beaming with love and compassion, like he's

478
00:30:44.363 --> 00:30:45.183
coming to do business.

479
00:30:46.644 --> 00:30:50.185
And like in this moment, dream vision, I don't know, felt real to me.

480
00:30:50.785 --> 00:30:51.925
The door comes open.

481
00:30:52.125 --> 00:30:56.106
Jesus walks in, points his finger at me and says, I want my stuff back.

482
00:30:58.047 --> 00:31:03.568
And I go, you can have the house, the car, the bank accounts, the dogs, please take the dogs.

483
00:31:06.029 --> 00:31:09.049
Like, like, like it all belongs to you anyway.

484
00:31:09.069 --> 00:31:10.210
He said, no, not that stuff.

485
00:31:10.290 --> 00:31:11.270
I gave you that stuff.

486
00:31:12.245 --> 00:31:14.506
But that pain in your body doesn't belong to you.

487
00:31:14.526 --> 00:31:15.106
It belongs to me.

488
00:31:15.166 --> 00:31:15.906
I paid for it.

489
00:31:16.346 --> 00:31:17.247
I want my stuff back.

490
00:31:18.507 --> 00:31:21.688
That fear you're dealing with right now, that's not your fear.

491
00:31:22.288 --> 00:31:23.008
It doesn't belong to you.

492
00:31:23.028 --> 00:31:23.629
It belongs to me.

493
00:31:23.689 --> 00:31:26.450
I have the crown of thorns on my head for your sound mind.

494
00:31:27.030 --> 00:31:27.990
I want my stuff back.

495
00:31:29.150 --> 00:31:30.311
And he just went through the list.

496
00:31:31.391 --> 00:31:34.432
And I realized that I carry things like they're my own.

497
00:31:34.952 --> 00:31:37.973
Even sometimes I'll carry them like this is my cross to bear.

498
00:31:38.693 --> 00:31:39.914
But he already bore the cross.

499
00:31:41.847 --> 00:31:46.290
He already crucified my sickness and my rejection and my abandonment.

500
00:31:46.370 --> 00:31:48.051
All of that stuff was nailed to the tree.

501
00:31:48.331 --> 00:31:49.732
He took it because he paid for it.

502
00:31:51.573 --> 00:31:55.195
But I keep trying to steal it back because I think it makes me more spiritual.

503
00:31:57.136 --> 00:31:59.618
And I'm telling you right now, if I have a word for you, it's this word.

504
00:31:59.898 --> 00:32:01.059
The Lord wants his stuff back.

505
00:32:02.840 --> 00:32:04.421
That's what he's crying out in New York City.

506
00:32:04.441 --> 00:32:05.301
I want my stuff back.

507
00:32:07.103 --> 00:32:07.743
I paid for it.

508
00:32:09.484 --> 00:32:10.925
Man, it changes my perspective.

509
00:32:12.522 --> 00:32:16.104
Because I realized, Jesus, I am actually your representative in the world.

510
00:32:17.986 --> 00:32:22.089
I should have a smile on my face because I was just a sinner.

511
00:32:22.129 --> 00:32:22.909
I was a mess.

512
00:32:23.890 --> 00:32:27.432
Alcoholic, schizophrenic, depressed, suicidal, dead.

513
00:32:27.913 --> 00:32:29.574
And you came in, it changed everything.

514
00:32:31.515 --> 00:32:32.116
Isn't it something?

515
00:32:32.256 --> 00:32:33.637
Like we give the Lord everything.

516
00:32:34.857 --> 00:32:38.120
On the day we get saved, we get on fire like, ah, never felt so great.

517
00:32:39.225 --> 00:32:42.928
And for the rest of our life every day, we're trying to carry what Jesus took.

518
00:32:45.529 --> 00:32:50.333
And I'm telling you right now, the Lord is saying to us, I want my stuff back.

519
00:32:50.353 --> 00:32:51.273
Can you hear that this morning?

520
00:32:52.494 --> 00:32:55.616
So one of my favorite stories in the Bible, I'll end here, try to do it as quick as I can.

521
00:32:57.157 --> 00:33:02.121
It's a story in Mark chapter 10 and verse, around verse 42.

522
00:33:02.161 --> 00:33:05.583
There's a man there that they call Blind Bart.

523
00:33:06.204 --> 00:33:06.464
Okay.

524
00:33:07.304 --> 00:33:08.025
Blind Bartimaeus.

525
00:33:10.040 --> 00:33:12.701
And this guy, man, he's born blind.

526
00:33:13.601 --> 00:33:14.841
He has a beggar's garment.

527
00:33:14.881 --> 00:33:17.881
He sits by the gate to Jericho every day.

528
00:33:18.982 --> 00:33:21.062
And that beggar's garment identifies him.

529
00:33:21.942 --> 00:33:27.303
It actually is his license to go, I have permission to beg because there's no other hope or provision for me.

530
00:33:28.663 --> 00:33:31.864
And he's sitting there day in, day out doing the same thing over and over again.

531
00:33:32.964 --> 00:33:37.765
But Jesus has begun to move around the countryside and through Jericho and all these places

532
00:33:38.757 --> 00:33:43.138
And people are coming back through that gate and he's hearing, did you see that Jesus healed the blind?

533
00:33:43.158 --> 00:33:45.678
Did you see that Jesus set those people with demons free?

534
00:33:45.698 --> 00:33:47.038
Did you see that?

535
00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:49.479
Like the man with no legs, the legs grew up.

536
00:33:49.499 --> 00:33:50.039
Did you see that?

537
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.019
The lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear.

538
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.000
And he's hearing this testimony.

539
00:33:55.140 --> 00:34:00.001
And I think he starts rehearsing in his head, I may be blind and begging today, but there's gonna come a day.

540
00:34:00.861 --> 00:34:03.882
I don't know when it is, but Jesus is coming through the gate.

541
00:34:05.362 --> 00:34:06.062
And when he does,

542
00:34:07.515 --> 00:34:09.055
I'm going to get what he has for me.

543
00:34:10.596 --> 00:34:14.817
The Bible says one day Jesus came from the multitudes with a great multitude following.

544
00:34:15.517 --> 00:34:18.038
And they're going through the gate of Jericho.

545
00:34:18.338 --> 00:34:20.518
And Bartimaeus perceives that it's the Lord.

546
00:34:21.338 --> 00:34:22.679
Isn't that a funny word for a blind man?

547
00:34:25.019 --> 00:34:27.640
He didn't say he heard it was the Lord, thought it was.

548
00:34:27.680 --> 00:34:28.440
He perceived.

549
00:34:28.460 --> 00:34:31.441
He saw something that this is Jesus coming.

550
00:34:32.574 --> 00:34:33.255
And he does something.

551
00:34:33.275 --> 00:34:38.079
He begins to cry out in a loud voice, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

552
00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:42.422
Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

553
00:34:44.584 --> 00:34:50.890
And the disciples were tired and they were ornery and they wanted Jesus to themselves for a while.

554
00:34:51.090 --> 00:34:53.532
And they said, shh, shut up.

555
00:34:54.953 --> 00:34:55.593
Kayate.

556
00:34:57.795 --> 00:35:00.618
I just wanted to show you I was multicultural, a little bit multilingual.

557
00:35:06.108 --> 00:35:07.248
be quiet, shut up.

558
00:35:09.269 --> 00:35:10.369
Jesus is tired, man.

559
00:35:10.389 --> 00:35:12.349
You should have been on the hillside last night.

560
00:35:12.469 --> 00:35:13.529
Every blind guy got healed.

561
00:35:14.330 --> 00:35:17.370
You should have been in the meeting, right?

562
00:35:17.450 --> 00:35:19.130
And they're trying to talk him out of his miracle.

563
00:35:20.171 --> 00:35:20.991
They say, shut up.

564
00:35:21.031 --> 00:35:23.651
And the Bible says, but he would not, but he cried out all the more.

565
00:35:23.911 --> 00:35:24.832
So he got even louder.

566
00:35:25.192 --> 00:35:27.772
Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

567
00:35:29.212 --> 00:35:32.433
Don't you ever let somebody with a religious spirit talk you out of your miracle.

568
00:35:33.675 --> 00:35:42.959
Don't you ever let somebody with a religious, I don't care how anointed they are, how full of scripture they are, don't you ever let anybody talk you out of your moment and gone.

569
00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:50.083
And all of a sudden the Bible says, so Jesus stood still.

570
00:35:52.964 --> 00:35:58.046
Multitudes thronging, chaos everywhere, and Jesus just stops.

571
00:35:59.727 --> 00:36:03.109
And he commands for the blind man to be called.

572
00:36:04.222 --> 00:36:11.624
So the same people that he said, not for you today, be quiet, have to go back to him, probably Peter.

573
00:36:14.425 --> 00:36:14.665
Right?

574
00:36:16.686 --> 00:36:19.407
Hey, get over here.

575
00:36:22.167 --> 00:36:24.288
Jesus will see you now, but hurry up.

576
00:36:25.388 --> 00:36:26.789
Places to go, things to do.

577
00:36:28.669 --> 00:36:29.370
People to see.

578
00:36:31.250 --> 00:36:34.051
And the Bible says immediately he threw off his garment and he threw off his garment

579
00:36:34.928 --> 00:36:39.630
The thing that identified him, marked him and gave him permission to stay where he was.

580
00:36:40.850 --> 00:36:41.931
Immediately he threw it off.

581
00:36:41.971 --> 00:36:42.731
He wasn't healed yet.

582
00:36:43.951 --> 00:36:45.292
And he goes running to Jesus.

583
00:36:45.312 --> 00:36:46.392
How many know that's blind faith?

584
00:36:51.474 --> 00:36:53.875
And he gets to Jesus, goes, just takes off running.

585
00:36:55.636 --> 00:36:57.176
He saw something in the spirit.

586
00:36:57.196 --> 00:36:58.917
He saw something in his mind.

587
00:36:58.937 --> 00:37:01.138
He saw something without seeing something.

588
00:37:03.087 --> 00:37:04.788
And he goes running to Jesus.

589
00:37:05.969 --> 00:37:06.870
How did he not run into him?

590
00:37:08.851 --> 00:37:10.112
Could have knocked the master over.

591
00:37:11.493 --> 00:37:12.854
Goes running to Jesus.

592
00:37:13.974 --> 00:37:17.417
And then Jesus has the gall to ask him this question.

593
00:37:18.657 --> 00:37:19.998
What is it you want me to do for you?

594
00:37:22.660 --> 00:37:23.741
I have some blind friends.

595
00:37:24.922 --> 00:37:26.663
I don't need a word of knowledge to know they're blind.

596
00:37:26.683 --> 00:37:30.105
I can see it in their eyes.

597
00:37:30.125 --> 00:37:30.946
I can see it in their eyes.

598
00:37:32.457 --> 00:37:35.920
I can see it in how they walk and how they're trying to feel out of room.

599
00:37:38.422 --> 00:37:43.226
Jesus is really saying to him, hey, I ain't felt faith like this in a long time.

600
00:37:43.586 --> 00:37:44.087
What do you want?

601
00:37:45.227 --> 00:37:47.229
I think he could have asked for anything he wanted in the moment.

602
00:37:48.510 --> 00:37:52.113
I'll take a five bedroom tent with indoor plumbing.

603
00:37:53.334 --> 00:37:56.557
I'll take that Mercedes Camel.

604
00:37:56.957 --> 00:38:00.820
I'll take that horse, that Porsche horse, man.

605
00:38:00.860 --> 00:38:01.421
I'll just take it.

606
00:38:02.698 --> 00:38:06.439
But he's an old rabbi teacher that I might receive my sight.

607
00:38:08.459 --> 00:38:10.280
And then Jesus says these words to him.

608
00:38:11.740 --> 00:38:12.360
Go your way.

609
00:38:12.900 --> 00:38:14.261
Your faith has made you whole.

610
00:38:16.401 --> 00:38:20.402
And that blows my mind because he didn't just go say some other words.

611
00:38:20.422 --> 00:38:21.322
He didn't say my faith.

612
00:38:22.082 --> 00:38:22.903
He said your faith.

613
00:38:25.163 --> 00:38:28.644
And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.

614
00:38:30.928 --> 00:38:34.190
I think what I want you to hear from this story is this.

615
00:38:35.931 --> 00:38:42.716
Is that no longer how long you've been waiting at the gate, Jesus is about to come through.

616
00:38:44.677 --> 00:38:47.359
And when he does, don't you let anybody talk you out of your miracle.

617
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:53.143
Because there is an appointed time and an acceptable moment for the miracle to manifest.

618
00:38:54.664 --> 00:38:57.385
I think greater than the miracle of his eyes is probably the miracle of his mind.

619
00:38:58.766 --> 00:38:59.847
He began to think differently.

620
00:39:01.184 --> 00:39:03.566
because he threw off that garment, I'm not gonna need it anymore.

621
00:39:05.388 --> 00:39:06.749
And he went running to Jesus.

622
00:39:08.770 --> 00:39:17.518
And I believe this, that there is a grace and an anointing upon your life and a love that he has for you that causes him to stand still.

623
00:39:19.460 --> 00:39:20.781
Like he won't pass you by.

624
00:39:22.282 --> 00:39:26.826
And the reason I'm saying that is sometimes we have this picture that sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't.

625
00:39:28.167 --> 00:39:31.768
But I'm telling you that the Lord's not up there shooting craps.

626
00:39:32.788 --> 00:39:38.289
And if the right number comes up and the right prayer is prayed and the right scripture is quoted and the right song is sung, you get healed.

627
00:39:40.469 --> 00:39:45.951
There is something when you just go, Lord, I don't know how it's going to happen.

628
00:39:45.971 --> 00:39:46.951
I just know that you're able.

629
00:39:48.811 --> 00:39:49.771
I just know that you're willing.

630
00:39:51.052 --> 00:39:54.032
I will tell you this, that God would rather have you question his can than his will.

631
00:39:56.013 --> 00:39:57.533
Because if he can do it, he will do it.

632
00:39:58.647 --> 00:39:59.728
I'll end with a funny story.

633
00:39:59.748 --> 00:40:07.311
I have a son named Josh, and Josh was born with a cord wrapped around his neck, didn't breathe for about four minutes.

634
00:40:09.131 --> 00:40:10.912
God gave him life just supernaturally.

635
00:40:12.493 --> 00:40:14.033
So I've always called him my miracle boy.

636
00:40:15.574 --> 00:40:24.878
A few years ago when he was about four years old, I'm preparing a message for a conference we're doing in our home church, and the name of the conference is called Hope Rising.

637
00:40:26.038 --> 00:40:35.760
And so I'm sitting there, it's about 6 a.m., I'm writing notes, the Lord's talking to me, and Josh gets out of bed and he comes and he cuddles up next to me.

638
00:40:37.900 --> 00:40:42.521
And all of a sudden as he's cuddling, he just goes, dad, with this horrific morning breath.

639
00:40:43.682 --> 00:40:46.562
Like the Lord brought him to life but didn't heal his breath, I don't understand.

640
00:40:47.543 --> 00:40:50.163
Dad, I love you.

641
00:40:51.783 --> 00:40:54.264
You're the best dad in the whole wide world.

642
00:40:55.517 --> 00:40:56.838
I love you too, Joshie.

643
00:40:57.258 --> 00:40:58.159
Can I have a popsicle?

644
00:40:58.179 --> 00:41:01.501
I said, son, it's 6am.

645
00:41:01.521 --> 00:41:02.842
You can't have a popsicle, right?

646
00:41:04.323 --> 00:41:05.964
Five minutes goes by dad.

647
00:41:06.744 --> 00:41:09.706
You're the best dad in the whole wide world.

648
00:41:10.506 --> 00:41:11.367
Can I have a popsicle?

649
00:41:12.568 --> 00:41:17.871
No, I can't have a popsicle every five minutes for an entire hour.

650
00:41:21.153 --> 00:41:21.794
I love you.

651
00:41:22.754 --> 00:41:24.315
Best dad in the whole wide world.

652
00:41:25.176 --> 00:41:26.097
Can I have a popsicle?

653
00:41:27.698 --> 00:41:31.160
So I tell the kid no for like the 12th time.

654
00:41:32.621 --> 00:41:38.105
And all of a sudden, he looks at me with his eyes and goes, but daddy, I feel hope wising.

655
00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:46.591
Now you may call it manipulation.

656
00:41:46.611 --> 00:41:47.692
But.

657
00:41:48.546 --> 00:41:50.888
But for the sake of this message, I call it faith.

658
00:41:53.030 --> 00:41:56.592
And I said, son, go ahead in there and you get you one and get me one.

659
00:41:57.193 --> 00:42:00.255
Because my mama never let me have a popsicle before morning ever either.

660
00:42:01.256 --> 00:42:06.120
And we had this popsicle party with Jesus at 6.55 in the morning.

661
00:42:07.561 --> 00:42:11.784
And the reason I'm sharing this story is what he was saying to me is, dad, you can.

662
00:42:13.285 --> 00:42:16.748
You have the power and the authority to give me what I'm asking.

663
00:42:18.284 --> 00:42:19.245
And I know you can.

664
00:42:19.305 --> 00:42:20.546
And if you can, I know you will.

665
00:42:22.027 --> 00:42:23.928
It wasn't about wearing me down, although he did.

666
00:42:26.010 --> 00:42:27.931
Because I'm not El Shaddai, I'm just El Shadad.

667
00:42:29.692 --> 00:42:34.076
What are you saying?

668
00:42:34.376 --> 00:42:35.837
Dad, I know if you can, you will.

669
00:42:37.713 --> 00:42:45.377
And I'm telling you right now, the Lord's about to put his can and his will on display in New York City, in this house and in your life.

670
00:42:45.757 --> 00:42:46.397
Are you hearing me?

671
00:42:47.338 --> 00:42:49.339
So what are you carrying that doesn't belong to you?

672
00:42:50.740 --> 00:42:52.080
That depression doesn't belong to you.

673
00:42:53.341 --> 00:42:54.842
That anxiety doesn't belong to you.

674
00:42:56.122 --> 00:42:59.644
Those voices spitting lies out at you like rhymes don't belong to you.

675
00:43:01.045 --> 00:43:02.746
That blood disease doesn't belong to you.

676
00:43:04.052 --> 00:43:07.314
That pain, that nerve pain, that sciatica doesn't belong to you.

677
00:43:08.275 --> 00:43:13.438
That headache, that cancer, that heart disease, that diabetes, that blood pressure issue doesn't belong to you.

678
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:15.460
It belongs to him.

679
00:43:17.481 --> 00:43:22.144
And I'm just telling you right now in faith today that the Lord wants his stuff back.

680
00:43:24.045 --> 00:43:25.286
The Lord wants the pain back.

681
00:43:25.926 --> 00:43:27.467
Well, Lord, I thought you only wanted good stuff.

682
00:43:27.487 --> 00:43:27.788
No, no.

683
00:43:28.953 --> 00:43:33.574
He wants whatever is hindering your life, hindering your walk with him.

684
00:43:33.874 --> 00:43:36.975
He wants his stuff back.

685
00:43:36.995 --> 00:43:37.915
Very simple today.

686
00:43:39.775 --> 00:43:45.016
If you're carrying stuff that don't belong to you, it's time to unload it today.

687
00:43:47.417 --> 00:43:57.039
It's time to unload the poverty, the fear, the anxiety, the pain, the sickness, the disease, the unknown, the doubt.

688
00:43:58.741 --> 00:44:01.783
He took it all with a crown of thorns on his head, the stripes on his back.

689
00:44:02.203 --> 00:44:04.685
He bore it all on the tree for you and I.

690
00:44:05.766 --> 00:44:09.008
And I'm telling you right now, it's never been more true as it is today.

691
00:44:09.028 --> 00:44:13.191
It's same as it was 2000 years ago because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

692
00:44:14.172 --> 00:44:16.273
The repetitive sin, he wants his stuff back.

693
00:44:17.914 --> 00:44:19.576
The porn issues wants his stuff back.

694
00:44:20.316 --> 00:44:22.157
The self-medication wants his stuff back.

695
00:44:22.177 --> 00:44:24.579
The anger wants his stuff back.

696
00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:25.800
The anger wants his stuff back.

697
00:44:28.127 --> 00:44:29.768
The disappointment wants his stuff back.

698
00:44:30.948 --> 00:44:33.209
The rage, he wants his stuff back.

699
00:44:34.790 --> 00:44:36.271
The divorce, he wants his stuff back.

700
00:44:37.832 --> 00:44:39.392
The betrayal, he wants his stuff back.

701
00:44:40.713 --> 00:44:42.274
The shame, he wants his stuff back.

702
00:44:43.795 --> 00:44:44.335
Get the picture?

703
00:44:45.976 --> 00:44:54.980
Because if you could be at that place called Jericho, carrying all this stuff that has somehow become an identity to you, because a lie in your head created an issue in your heart, he wants his stuff back.

704
00:44:55.930 --> 00:45:02.313
And if you're willing to throw out that garment and that label and that tag and all of that stuff and go running to him, Jesus is standing still.

705
00:45:02.353 --> 00:45:06.035
He's commanding that you be called today because he wants his stuff back.

706
00:45:07.676 --> 00:45:08.456
Simple message.

707
00:45:08.476 --> 00:45:09.196
It's the gospel.

708
00:45:10.297 --> 00:45:11.117
It's the good news.

709
00:45:12.058 --> 00:45:13.118
I've got good news for you.

710
00:45:15.139 --> 00:45:16.220
I got good news for all of us.

711
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.120
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me.

712
00:45:19.201 --> 00:45:20.942
And the spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon you.

713
00:45:21.907 --> 00:45:22.788
He has anointed me.

714
00:45:22.828 --> 00:45:27.933
He's anointed you to preach good news to the poor, to bind up the brokenhearted and set the captive free.

715
00:45:29.034 --> 00:45:29.855
It's the mandate.

716
00:45:29.895 --> 00:45:30.716
It's the message.

717
00:45:30.796 --> 00:45:33.859
It's the miracle on our lives and in the room this morning.

718
00:45:35.060 --> 00:45:38.243
And there are some of you this morning that need to lay it all at the cross.

719
00:45:39.637 --> 00:45:45.562
For some of you, you may need to surrender your life and lay it at the cross and receive the free gift of salvation.

720
00:45:46.643 --> 00:45:53.529
If you've never made Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of your life, the Bible says in Romans 3 and 23, we've all sinned, fallen short of the glory of God.

721
00:45:53.769 --> 00:45:57.112
It's bad news because that means we all deserve to die and go to hell.

722
00:45:58.621 --> 00:45:59.542
But we can't stop there.

723
00:45:59.562 --> 00:46:04.925
It continues to say, but while we were yet sinners, Christ came and died for us.

724
00:46:05.626 --> 00:46:10.649
Not when you were perfect, not when you had it all worked out, not after you made catechism, got confirmed or baptized.

725
00:46:12.930 --> 00:46:16.793
He said, while you were yet sinners, when you were my enemies, I loved you and I died for you.

726
00:46:17.573 --> 00:46:18.254
Isn't that powerful?

727
00:46:19.935 --> 00:46:22.456
The Bible says, whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

728
00:46:23.377 --> 00:46:27.580
Paul the apostle said, you believe in your heart, confess with your mouth, then you become children of God.

729
00:46:28.547 --> 00:46:32.148
Jesus took it a step further, said, if you confess me before a man, I'll confess you before my father.

730
00:46:34.849 --> 00:46:35.809
And here's the beautiful thing.

731
00:46:37.590 --> 00:46:37.990
It's free.

732
00:46:38.010 --> 00:46:38.570
I don't know about you.

733
00:46:38.630 --> 00:46:39.251
I like free.

734
00:46:41.191 --> 00:46:44.212
But we live in such an age that if I offered you something, you're like, what you want from me?

735
00:46:47.473 --> 00:46:49.354
And the fact is that Jesus paid it all.

736
00:46:51.134 --> 00:46:52.235
He didn't just need you.

737
00:46:52.295 --> 00:46:52.895
He wants you.

738
00:46:55.068 --> 00:46:55.829
Can you think about that?

739
00:46:56.429 --> 00:46:58.350
That God doesn't just love you, but he likes you.

740
00:47:00.852 --> 00:47:01.352
He loves you.

741
00:47:01.392 --> 00:47:01.993
He likes you.

742
00:47:02.413 --> 00:47:03.274
He wants you.

743
00:47:03.394 --> 00:47:04.014
He chose you.

744
00:47:04.054 --> 00:47:04.675
He called you.

745
00:47:05.235 --> 00:47:06.075
He adopted you.

746
00:47:07.496 --> 00:47:08.597
Even after he created you.

747
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:12.220
And he wants his stuff back this morning.

748
00:47:13.961 --> 00:47:17.203
If you're in this room today, you've never made Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of your life.

749
00:47:18.964 --> 00:47:21.306
And you would know it's you, because you know you're empty.

750
00:47:21.386 --> 00:47:24.048
You wouldn't know if you died tonight, would you be in heaven or hell?

751
00:47:24.977 --> 00:47:28.539
But you can know for sure before you leave this building, I need to give my life to the Lord.

752
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:31.661
Or maybe you're away from God and you're like, once I walk with him, I find myself away from him.

753
00:47:31.681 --> 00:47:33.161
I want to give my life back to him this morning.

754
00:47:34.122 --> 00:47:37.384
I don't want to embarrass you, but I do want to pray for you if you want me to include you in that prayer.

755
00:47:37.964 --> 00:47:40.565
Dave, I want to make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of my life.

756
00:47:41.246 --> 00:47:43.167
I want to give him all this stuff I've been carrying.

757
00:47:44.668 --> 00:47:47.569
If that's you in this room, when you just put your hand up, you put it right back down.

758
00:47:47.589 --> 00:47:49.510
I don't want to embarrass you, just want to pray for you.

759
00:47:49.530 --> 00:47:51.591
I see your hand back there.

760
00:47:51.611 --> 00:47:52.112
Thank you, honey.

761
00:47:53.215 --> 00:47:54.115
See your hand back there, sir.

762
00:47:54.155 --> 00:47:54.556
Thank you.

763
00:47:55.336 --> 00:47:55.936
See your hand.

764
00:47:56.216 --> 00:47:56.536
Thank you.

765
00:47:56.556 --> 00:47:56.936
Thank you.

766
00:47:57.017 --> 00:47:57.437
Thank you.

767
00:47:59.557 --> 00:47:59.998
Thank you.

768
00:48:02.399 --> 00:48:03.979
It's the beautiful thing about Jesus.

769
00:48:06.660 --> 00:48:08.281
He comes and he seeks us out.

770
00:48:10.402 --> 00:48:11.762
He's not waiting for you to find him.

771
00:48:11.802 --> 00:48:13.623
He's been pursuing you your whole life.

772
00:48:15.720 --> 00:48:19.001
for those of you that just raised your hand, I'm going to ask you to do something really bold.

773
00:48:19.021 --> 00:48:20.721
Again, not going to embarrass you.

774
00:48:20.761 --> 00:48:23.242
Just want to pray for you and make it easier on me.

775
00:48:24.442 --> 00:48:27.423
It's going to ask you to get out of your seat and just come stand right to my right here.

776
00:48:28.764 --> 00:48:30.204
I promise you, we're not going to cost you.

777
00:48:30.224 --> 00:48:31.564
This is not about joining a church.

778
00:48:31.604 --> 00:48:36.406
It's not about, you know, anything else, but, but they're stepping out.

779
00:48:36.426 --> 00:48:37.766
Well, Dave, can I pray in my seat?

780
00:48:37.866 --> 00:48:43.047
Absolutely positively, but there's something about you leaving where you are and coming to where he is.

781
00:48:44.228 --> 00:48:45.088
It changes everything.

782
00:48:46.472 --> 00:48:47.893
No embarrassment, no judgment.

783
00:48:50.755 --> 00:48:55.458
I believe with all my heart today that this is the greatest miracle you'll ever see.

784
00:48:57.659 --> 00:48:58.700
I love when arms grow out.

785
00:48:58.720 --> 00:48:59.961
I love when blind eyes are open.

786
00:48:59.981 --> 00:49:01.201
I love when deaf ears are hearing.

787
00:49:01.261 --> 00:49:02.582
I love all of that.

788
00:49:02.842 --> 00:49:07.645
But the greatest miracle is when you see one person go from death to life.

789
00:49:09.307 --> 00:49:11.748
When they receive Jesus, the Bible says that there's a party in heaven.

790
00:49:12.669 --> 00:49:14.590
Y'all are responsible for a big party today.

791
00:49:14.610 --> 00:49:14.710
Okay.

792
00:49:16.520 --> 00:49:16.980
Right?

793
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:17.621
There's a banquet.

794
00:49:17.721 --> 00:49:18.522
There's a celebration.

795
00:49:18.582 --> 00:49:20.924
All the angels are celebrating.

796
00:49:22.305 --> 00:49:25.888
Because today you don't just get saved or rededicate your life to the Lord.

797
00:49:26.908 --> 00:49:29.050
You get a new song and it's called the song of the redeemed.

798
00:49:29.070 --> 00:49:30.551
And that's a song that angels don't know.

799
00:49:32.133 --> 00:49:33.334
Just think about that for a moment.

800
00:49:34.675 --> 00:49:40.079
So those of you who've come, I'm going to ask you just to either hold out your hand like you're receiving a gift because that's what salvation is.

801
00:49:41.060 --> 00:49:42.961
You can lift your hands as a sign of surrender.

802
00:49:43.824 --> 00:49:44.824
I like to look at it like this.

803
00:49:44.864 --> 00:49:48.606
I'm coming like a little boy or girl running to his father, jumping into his arms.

804
00:49:50.466 --> 00:49:53.727
It's not a spiritual stick up where I say, put all your money and wallets in the thing, okay?

805
00:49:54.848 --> 00:49:56.208
It's not that part of Queens, all right?

806
00:49:57.269 --> 00:49:57.969
Just kidding.

807
00:50:00.990 --> 00:50:05.591
Listen, I'm gonna lead you into a prayer and I'll tell you this, the prayer doesn't save you.

808
00:50:06.352 --> 00:50:07.452
It's just a tool to get you there.

809
00:50:08.352 --> 00:50:09.973
It's what you believe in your heart right now.

810
00:50:12.289 --> 00:50:12.949
And that prayer is this.

811
00:50:12.969 --> 00:50:13.909
So just repeat after me.

812
00:50:13.949 --> 00:50:15.730
Maybe everybody in the room, you can pray this with us.

813
00:50:16.310 --> 00:50:19.991
Say, Lord Jesus Christ, today I give you everything.

814
00:50:21.411 --> 00:50:22.371
I give you my past.

815
00:50:23.351 --> 00:50:24.291
I give you my present.

816
00:50:25.172 --> 00:50:26.152
And I give you my future.

817
00:50:27.292 --> 00:50:28.672
I believe that you're the son of God.

818
00:50:30.193 --> 00:50:31.753
That you died on the cross for my sin.

819
00:50:33.473 --> 00:50:34.814
And that God raised you from the dead.

820
00:50:36.534 --> 00:50:38.014
I admit, confess, I'm a sinner.

821
00:50:40.075 --> 00:50:41.975
In the past, I've broken your heart and your law.

822
00:50:44.385 --> 00:50:49.408
But today I declare and believe that you're my perfect savior.

823
00:50:50.990 --> 00:50:59.395
I invite you today, Jesus, to come into my life, to be my Lord, be my savior, and my very best friend.

824
00:51:00.296 --> 00:51:06.981
And from this moment on, I want to do my best to live for you in Jesus' name.

825
00:51:08.242 --> 00:51:10.043
I'm just going to come and lay hands on you quickly.

826
00:51:10.922 --> 00:51:15.809
And when I do, I believe this, that the fullness of all that he is is coming on the inside of you.

827
00:51:16.550 --> 00:51:19.213
If you prayed that prayer, the Holy Spirit's already on the inside of you.

828
00:51:20.014 --> 00:51:22.117
But he's not just coming inside of you, he's coming upon you.

829
00:51:23.219 --> 00:51:25.101
From this moment on, if you'll grab this truth,

830
00:51:25.898 --> 00:51:29.340
That in this very moment, you're not receiving baby Jesus in the manger.

831
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.001
You're not receiving an idea of Jesus.

832
00:51:32.021 --> 00:51:34.923
You're not receiving a beat-up Jesus or a teenage Jesus.

833
00:51:35.883 --> 00:51:40.626
But you're receiving a full-grown, resurrected, filled with power from on high Jesus to live on the inside of you.

834
00:51:41.486 --> 00:51:44.570
He's putting his hands inside of your hands, his feet inside of your feet.

835
00:51:45.310 --> 00:51:47.313
He's giving you the mind of Christ, the heart of God.

836
00:51:47.333 --> 00:51:57.824
And Lord, right now, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you, Lord, for these amazing men and women, Lord, that have come to declare who you really are to them.

837
00:51:57.844 --> 00:52:01.328
And Lord, right now, I release the anointing of God upon this son.

838
00:52:02.009 --> 00:52:04.931
Lord, I thank you for what you're about to produce in him.

839
00:52:05.691 --> 00:52:11.575
Lord, I thank you right now, Lord, for the gifts of God, the creativity, the production on the inside of him.

840
00:52:12.175 --> 00:52:15.377
The things that are going to come out of his mouth that you're going to create with his hands.

841
00:52:15.937 --> 00:52:18.078
Lord, I thank you right now for the purity of it.

842
00:52:18.118 --> 00:52:20.440
Lord, I thank you for a heart after God.

843
00:52:20.500 --> 00:52:22.161
Lord, I ask right now that you would fill him.

844
00:52:22.181 --> 00:52:25.083
You would baptize him with your Holy Spirit and fire.

845
00:52:25.563 --> 00:52:26.643
In Jesus' name.

846
00:52:27.424 --> 00:52:28.424
In Jesus' name.

847
00:52:29.465 --> 00:52:33.068
Father, I just thank you for this amazing man of God.

848
00:52:33.268 --> 00:52:40.434
Brother, I don't play golf, but when I put my hand in your hand, I heard the word for, like when a golfer's getting ready to tee off.

849
00:52:41.195 --> 00:52:42.436
And I was like, Lord, what's that about?

850
00:52:42.456 --> 00:52:44.538
And I need to show me Galatians 4.4.

851
00:52:45.479 --> 00:52:48.001
When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son.

852
00:52:49.022 --> 00:52:52.785
And I'm telling you right now that you're stepping into a fullness of time moment.

853
00:52:54.146 --> 00:52:55.647
There's a fullness of time moment.

854
00:52:56.469 --> 00:53:04.335
And I'm telling you right now, my friend, I don't know where you've been, what's gone on in your life, but this is how the Lord sees you as righteous and integrous.

855
00:53:05.416 --> 00:53:13.402
And Lord, I just thank you right now for the fullness of time and the fullness of God rising up, filling him to overflowing in Jesus name.

856
00:53:13.982 --> 00:53:19.887
Father, I thank you right now for this amazing woman of God that Lord, you have Lord made just a little bit lower than the angels.

857
00:53:20.972 --> 00:53:24.713
Lord, according to your word in Psalms 8 verse 5, you've crowned her with glory and with honor.

858
00:53:25.313 --> 00:53:30.374
So Lord, let that crown, not just a princess to your, but the crown to rule and reign with you come upon her.

859
00:53:31.014 --> 00:53:34.415
Lord, right now, I thank you for every place where she thought was broken.

860
00:53:34.455 --> 00:53:35.375
Lord, you're about to build.

861
00:53:36.015 --> 00:53:37.655
You're about to build with broken pieces.

862
00:53:37.675 --> 00:53:38.496
You're about to build.

863
00:53:38.576 --> 00:53:39.496
You're about to restore.

864
00:53:39.516 --> 00:53:40.416
You're about to redeem.

865
00:53:40.856 --> 00:53:41.716
You're about to renew.

866
00:53:41.736 --> 00:53:47.017
Lord, I thank you for the season of the renewing of the mind and even changing the way she thinks about herself today.

867
00:53:47.677 --> 00:53:48.758
In Jesus name,

868
00:53:52.521 --> 00:53:56.808
I saw Jesus beaming from ear to ear, holding your hand, having you on his arm.

869
00:53:57.670 --> 00:54:03.720
And it was like wherever he went, it was like he wanted to introduce you because he was happy to be seen with you.

870
00:54:04.951 --> 00:54:09.254
And I just felt like the Lord wants you to know that if you only knew how important you were.

871
00:54:09.274 --> 00:54:16.000
I have these pictures of you walking with him and then all of a sudden jogging with him, running with him, marathoning with him.

872
00:54:16.120 --> 00:54:18.141
Some people get into this thing thinking it's a sprint.

873
00:54:19.202 --> 00:54:28.509
But you're gonna, like the Lord's gonna expand the capacity of your heart and your spirit to run this marathon, this miraculous marathon of miraculous faith out with him.

874
00:54:28.529 --> 00:54:33.173
And Lord, right now in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you that you make all things new.

875
00:54:34.678 --> 00:54:35.799
You make all things new.

876
00:54:36.740 --> 00:54:42.204
Lord, right now, I thank you that you're about to take her from grace to grace, glory to glory, faith to faith.

877
00:54:42.845 --> 00:54:45.207
In Jesus' name, amen.

878
00:54:45.808 --> 00:54:48.670
Lord, I thank you right now, Lord, for your healing hand.

879
00:54:49.811 --> 00:54:53.134
Lord, I thank you that, Lord, you're not just touching her, but you're changing her.

880
00:54:53.834 --> 00:54:56.497
Lord, I thank you for the transformation that's taking place.

881
00:54:57.598 --> 00:54:59.579
Lord, I thank you for, Lord...

882
00:55:02.337 --> 00:55:03.338
I don't want to read into it.

883
00:55:03.678 --> 00:55:04.718
That sounded like an alarm.

884
00:55:05.018 --> 00:55:06.819
And when alarms do something, they wake us up.

885
00:55:08.040 --> 00:55:12.822
And I feel like the Lord is releasing that anointing on your life to wake people up to life.

886
00:55:13.703 --> 00:55:15.223
To wake people up to life.

887
00:55:15.303 --> 00:55:21.587
And Lord, right now, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you even for the physical touch of God for healing her body.

888
00:55:22.452 --> 00:55:30.358
Lord, you said that the same spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead is living on the inside of us and will quicken, will give life even to our mortal body.

889
00:55:31.038 --> 00:55:36.522
And so, Lord, I pray that you would even heal every hole and every cell of her body today.

890
00:55:37.062 --> 00:55:38.143
In Jesus' name.

891
00:55:38.823 --> 00:55:39.864
In Jesus' name.

892
00:55:40.345 --> 00:55:42.586
Lord, thank you for this man of God.

893
00:55:42.806 --> 00:55:48.890
Lord, I thank you, Lord, for the gift of God over his life, for how much you love him.

894
00:55:49.771 --> 00:55:52.952
And Lord, you've been hovering over him, but today I see you covering.

895
00:55:53.052 --> 00:55:58.493
And Lord, I thank you for, Lord, putting him underneath the shadow of your wing.

896
00:55:59.193 --> 00:56:03.334
Lord, I just kept seeing that scripture from the book of Amos.

897
00:56:04.515 --> 00:56:10.336
It says, and the son of righteousness, I'm sorry, Malachi, and the son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.

898
00:56:10.976 --> 00:56:11.837
Lord, I thank you for that.

899
00:56:11.857 --> 00:56:13.537
Lord, I thank you for the divine protection.

900
00:56:14.277 --> 00:56:16.938
Lord, I thank you for his sound mind, his right mind.

901
00:56:17.578 --> 00:56:21.982
That, Lord, you're going to use him to minister to some people that think they're crazy.

902
00:56:24.003 --> 00:56:31.709
Lord, but I thank you right now that, Lord, he's going to walk in an anointing that sets captives free and brings deliverance wherever he goes.

903
00:56:32.350 --> 00:56:34.431
In Jesus' name, amen.

904
00:56:34.451 --> 00:56:36.653
Father, I thank you right now for this son.

905
00:56:36.673 --> 00:56:38.555
That, Lord, you see him.

906
00:56:38.695 --> 00:56:39.596
Lord, you know his heart.

907
00:56:39.656 --> 00:56:40.837
You've searched him and you've known him.

908
00:56:40.857 --> 00:56:41.237
Amen.

909
00:56:41.577 --> 00:56:46.082
And Lord, I thank you even for the things that he's walked through that didn't make sense and were hard.

910
00:56:46.142 --> 00:56:49.786
But Lord, I pray that you would show him right where you were in the midst of it.

911
00:56:49.806 --> 00:56:54.331
Lord, I thank you that, Lord, there's a thundering in the heavens over his life.

912
00:56:54.952 --> 00:56:57.174
Lord, and to me that sounds a whole lot like celebration.

913
00:56:57.998 --> 00:56:59.299
Lord, that you love who he is.

914
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:04.440
Lord, you see where he is, but you also know where you're taking him and who he's becoming.

915
00:57:05.201 --> 00:57:11.063
And Lord, I just thank you that you're a friend who sticks closer than any brother and that Lord, he would know true friendship with God.

916
00:57:11.603 --> 00:57:13.524
In Jesus name, amen.

917
00:57:13.544 --> 00:57:16.465
Can you give God a shout of praise for one of the greatest things you'll ever see?

918
00:57:23.168 --> 00:57:26.189
If you're here today, Jesus wants his stuff back.

919
00:57:28.117 --> 00:57:33.180
You've got stuff you've been carrying and you've been holding on to that.

920
00:57:34.180 --> 00:57:35.121
Doesn't matter what it is.

921
00:57:35.341 --> 00:57:39.803
Doesn't matter big, small, but you know you need like, Jesus, I want to give you your stuff back.

922
00:57:40.723 --> 00:57:42.764
Could have been stuff I've listed, stuff I never listed.

923
00:57:44.485 --> 00:57:50.608
I'm telling you, I'm the first one up here today because as much as I know this and I experienced it, there's still things that I try to carry on my own.

924
00:57:52.489 --> 00:57:57.292
But when you realize that he said, come unto me all who are weary and heavy laden.

925
00:57:58.309 --> 00:57:59.309
And I will give you rest.

926
00:58:00.429 --> 00:58:02.470
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

927
00:58:04.390 --> 00:58:06.951
If you unload this stuff, I'm telling you, his yoke is easy.

928
00:58:07.811 --> 00:58:08.891
His burden is light.

929
00:58:09.911 --> 00:58:13.852
And I just felt like if you got stuff you need to unload and lay down today, would you just stand to your feet?

930
00:58:14.612 --> 00:58:16.653
And just, you know, you're just giving it to him.

931
00:58:19.213 --> 00:58:21.854
So Lord, I just give you that fear.

932
00:58:21.874 --> 00:58:23.034
I gave you that anxiety.

933
00:58:23.074 --> 00:58:24.214
I give you my finances.

934
00:58:24.294 --> 00:58:26.335
I give you my marriage.

935
00:58:26.415 --> 00:58:27.415
I give you my kids.

936
00:58:28.569 --> 00:58:29.449
I give you my pain.

937
00:58:29.509 --> 00:58:31.830
I give you my sickness.

938
00:58:31.850 --> 00:58:32.950
I give you my doubt.

939
00:58:33.030 --> 00:58:34.091
I give you my depression.

940
00:58:35.151 --> 00:58:38.432
There's not one thing that he didn't pay for at the cross.

941
00:58:40.132 --> 00:58:41.613
He's familiar with our sufferings.

942
00:58:42.873 --> 00:58:43.853
A man of sorrows.

943
00:58:45.374 --> 00:58:49.295
And he bore it all on the tree so that you and I can be free.

944
00:58:50.996 --> 00:58:58.581
And I just feel like even some of you may need to make a declaration over your life prophetically and in faith today that I'm finally free to be me.

945
00:58:59.981 --> 00:59:01.282
My past doesn't define me.

946
00:59:03.464 --> 00:59:05.425
My future is greater than my past.

947
00:59:07.206 --> 00:59:10.288
I just declare over you the greatest days aren't behind you, they're in front of you.

948
00:59:11.232 --> 00:59:16.196
So Lord, I just thank you for that balm of healing that you're releasing over your people today.

949
00:59:16.977 --> 00:59:19.799
Lord, of blessings and breakthroughs and testimonies that will come out of it.

950
00:59:20.359 --> 00:59:24.703
Lord, I thank you for the miracles you want to release in all of our hearts, all of our minds.

951
00:59:25.363 --> 00:59:29.867
Lord, I just thank you right now for the new thing you're doing in all of us.

952
00:59:29.927 --> 00:59:30.847
In Jesus' name.

953
00:59:31.528 --> 00:59:34.931
Brother, on the third row with the beard, now I have beard envy, man.

954
00:59:34.951 --> 00:59:35.371
Amen.

955
00:59:36.777 --> 00:59:42.860
the whole time I've been looking at you, the thing I've, so this is, what I'm about to say first is not prophetic, it's just observation, okay?

956
00:59:43.860 --> 00:59:45.801
It's like your eyes have been wide open the whole time.

957
00:59:47.221 --> 00:59:51.843
And what I love about that and what the Lord loves about that is you're not gonna miss anything.

958
00:59:53.284 --> 00:59:58.606
And what I think is most powerful is that you have something that most people that have been saved their whole lives never asked for and don't have.

959
00:59:59.106 --> 00:59:59.966
It's called discernment.

960
01:00:01.387 --> 01:00:04.108
Because in the depths of your heart, you just want what's real.

961
01:00:05.749 --> 01:00:07.891
Like, Lord, if it's a word from you, I want what's real.

962
01:00:08.211 --> 01:00:09.652
If it's a touch from you, I want what's real.

963
01:00:10.673 --> 01:00:12.834
And there may even be parts of you like, I don't even know what I want.

964
01:00:14.195 --> 01:00:18.478
But I am telling you that the Lord is drawn to you like a magnet, man.

965
01:00:19.799 --> 01:00:24.202
And when I was looking at you, I kept hearing words like, I'm about to captivate him.

966
01:00:24.783 --> 01:00:25.924
I'm about to fascinate him.

967
01:00:27.563 --> 01:00:30.765
And what I felt was that you're about to get caught up in his love.

968
01:00:30.785 --> 01:00:34.246
You're about to get caught up in the fact that there is a God who loves you.

969
01:00:34.266 --> 01:00:41.349
And that love is about to be poured out through you like wildfire in ways that you can't even comprehend or know.

970
01:00:42.530 --> 01:00:49.153
And I felt like today when I was preaching, if God didn't change my message for anybody else, I believe he changed it for you.

971
01:00:50.073 --> 01:00:51.474
And I don't know if it makes sense to you or not.

972
01:00:51.494 --> 01:00:52.935
And hopefully at some point it will.

973
01:00:54.147 --> 01:00:57.690
But I just believe right now that everywhere I go, people know me here.

974
01:00:57.870 --> 01:00:58.811
I pray this prayer all the time.

975
01:00:58.851 --> 01:01:00.212
Lord, show me the person I came for.

976
01:01:02.174 --> 01:01:04.997
And I'm glad that I came for everybody that's been in the room the last few days.

977
01:01:06.478 --> 01:01:09.560
But I believe the Lord sent me so that you would hear this word.

978
01:01:09.901 --> 01:01:11.342
Not talking about just what I preached.

979
01:01:12.103 --> 01:01:13.444
But to hear this word I've just given you.

980
01:01:14.465 --> 01:01:18.468
Because in a room full of people, God knows where to find you and he'd stop anything for you.

981
01:01:19.429 --> 01:01:21.451
And that's just the truth of his goodness and who he is.

982
01:01:22.578 --> 01:01:23.758
He'll stop a freight train for you.

983
01:01:23.798 --> 01:01:25.919
He'll stop a meeting for you.

984
01:01:26.219 --> 01:01:34.800
He'll send a guy with a messed up accent from Chicago by way of Pensacola and Nashville to find you in Queens.

985
01:01:35.921 --> 01:01:44.422
And Lord, I pray that, Lord, even if none of it makes sense and he forgets all of it, Lord, I pray that he would feel your love cascading over him like a waterfall today.

986
01:01:45.022 --> 01:01:46.983
In Jesus' name, amen.

987
01:01:47.003 --> 01:01:47.543
God bless you.

988
01:01:47.583 --> 01:01:48.323
Thanks for listening.

989
01:01:51.970 --> 01:01:54.151
This is the City Light Church podcast.

990
01:01:54.552 --> 01:02:03.857
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991
01:02:04.177 --> 01:02:06.878
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992
01:02:07.339 --> 01:02:10.400
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993
01:02:10.841 --> 01:02:12.382
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994
01:02:13.302 --> 01:02:20.907
We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

995
01:02:21.687 --> 01:02:22.608
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996
01:02:23.108 --> 01:02:28.592
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