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Sept. 26, 2023

Faith's Triumph Over Adversity: A Tale of Paul and Silas

Faith's Triumph Over Adversity: A Tale of Paul and Silas
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Faith's Triumph Over Adversity: A Tale of Paul and Silas
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Season 1
Experience the power of faith, obedience, and praise as we journey through the biblical narrative of Paul and Silas's second missionary venture. You'll gain insights into their miraculous earthquake experience and the significance of trust in God. We promise to shed light on their undeterred commitment to follow the Holy Spirit's directives, regardless of immediate gain or perceived opportunities.
 
Transitioning to another intriguing encounter of Paul and Silas with a demon-possessed woman, you'll appreciate the power of standing against the devil's constant harassment. We'll analyze Paul's actions and explore the inherent power within Christians to cast out demons and disrupt demonic systems. We’ll also expose how contemporary platforms like Disney advance agendas that can influence the younger generation. Our discussion guarantees to empower you with a clear understanding of the Kingdom of God's role in global revival and strategies to protect our children.
 
In the face of adversity, open doors of blessings and abundance await you! We’ll illustrate this with the story of Paul and Silas, who used praise as a weapon to change their circumstances. By examining the power of the key of David, we'll unlock the mystery of doors that no man can close. You’ll be inspired to voice life into any bleak situation and understand the power of praise and worship. This episode will reignite your faith and equip you with the keys to open doors of opportunity even in challenging times.
Transcript
00:00.140 --> 00:03.991 I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. 00:04.501 --> 00:06.246 He shall open. 00:06.266 --> 00:07.630 This is talking about Jesus. 00:07.920 --> 00:16.041 When Jesus comes, there's a key that's going to be laid on him and it's going to be the key of the house of David, which is the key of intimacy, it says. 00:16.081 --> 00:21.688 The key is going to be laid on him, on his shoulder, it says, and he shall open. 00:23.300 --> 00:25.328 There's a door that's getting ready to open. 00:26.300 --> 00:28.388 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.661 --> 00:34.950 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.701 --> 00:40.448 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom. 00:41.460 --> 00:43.407 That's CityLightNYCcom. 00:44.780 --> 00:51.909 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.641 --> 01:02.430 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 01:05.821 --> 01:08.470 All right, let's get to Acts, chapter 16. 01:08.761 --> 01:11.827 Acts, the 16th chapter, and I'm going to read two verses. 01:11.940 --> 01:13.467 It's going to be 25 and 26. 01:13.801 --> 01:14.986 And I'm going to get into the Word. 01:15.320 --> 01:19.990 It might start off slow but it's going to end strong, Amen, Amen, Y'all with me? 01:20.011 --> 01:24.490 Yes, Okay, I can't have the first service with 85 people. 01:24.861 --> 01:27.146 Be louder than y'all with like 200 people in here. 01:27.166 --> 01:37.326 Amen, yes, Okay, I see y'all who are like you're not going to play me, man. 01:37.367 --> 01:43.066 I got Acts, chapter 16, verse 25,. 01:43.106 --> 01:48.560 Here's what it says At midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. 01:48.881 --> 01:52.417 At midnight, the darkest time, the most challenging time. 01:52.517 --> 01:55.015 It was midnight, it was midnight, it was a dark season. 01:55.962 --> 01:57.414 It was a dark season. 01:57.455 --> 01:58.060 It was a dark moment. 01:58.521 --> 01:59.867 Our nation's at a dark place. 02:00.222 --> 02:02.093 Our nation's at a dark moment. 02:03.766 --> 02:04.600 It's a dark season. 02:05.041 --> 02:05.664 But guess what? 02:06.561 --> 02:08.649 They decided to pray and praise anyway. 02:10.921 --> 02:14.808 It says and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. 02:17.183 --> 02:28.938 Verse 26, it says suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors. 02:29.820 --> 02:30.101 Hold on. 02:30.142 --> 02:31.406 Two people were praising. 02:31.487 --> 02:37.367 But let's try that one more time. 02:38.441 --> 02:43.926 Everyone was there in the prison, but only two people were praising. 02:45.201 --> 02:57.112 But because they were praising, the Bible says to all of my sermonists all the doors are going to open this year. 03:01.361 --> 03:03.869 I don't care how impossible it looks. 03:04.441 --> 03:06.087 I declare the doors are opening. 03:06.841 --> 03:11.009 Some of you have been waiting on contracts and I declare that the door for the contract's opening. 03:11.220 --> 03:15.510 Some of you have been waiting on a job and I declare the door for employment is opening. 03:15.841 --> 03:18.490 Some of you have been waiting for salvation for your family members. 03:18.881 --> 03:22.231 I declare that the door of salvation is opening. 03:22.541 --> 03:26.367 Some of you have been in a financial crunch, in a financial dry season. 03:26.801 --> 03:32.569 I declare the door of blessing and prosperity is getting ready to open for you. 03:32.649 --> 03:39.928 Today After today, every door that's been shut by faith is getting ready to open. 03:40.481 --> 03:42.850 I declare there's a door of healing opening. 03:43.281 --> 03:45.689 I declare there's a door of glory opening. 03:46.101 --> 03:48.870 I declare there's a door of power opening. 03:49.261 --> 03:53.327 I declare there's a door of opportunity If you believe in show. 03:57.101 --> 03:58.948 Oh, that's the Faithfield Church right there. 04:01.521 --> 04:09.628 In order to understand what was happening here with Paul and Silas, we need to go back a little bit into the Book of Acts, one of my favorite books in the entire Bible. 04:11.263 --> 04:29.591 And what was happening was that Paul was on his second missionary journey he had already did his first and this was his second time going out and preaching the gospel and ministering the gospel in different cities and in different places all around the known world at that time. 04:30.100 --> 04:43.848 And Paul got into a little scuffle with his friend Barnabas over his nephew John Mark and they decided not to do ministry anymore. 04:44.541 --> 04:51.180 So Paul decides to connect with Silas and him and Silas were about to go into Asia Minor. 04:51.400 --> 04:58.681 But as they tried to in the first service, I really went in on this, but this service I don't feel like I should See. 04:58.721 --> 05:00.186 That's why every service is different. 05:01.902 --> 05:07.350 And as they were trying to go into Asia Minor, the Bible says that the Holy Spirit prevented them from going. 05:07.721 --> 05:10.550 And Paul gets a dream to go to Macedonia. 05:10.981 --> 05:14.310 Paul gets a dream that there's help that's needed in the region. 05:14.550 --> 05:17.829 Paul gets a dream See, we need spirit-led preachers. 05:18.121 --> 05:23.887 We need spirit-led people who are not just going to do what they always do and expect a different resort. 05:24.421 --> 05:28.160 We need people who, when the Holy Spirit tells you to go right, you go right. 05:28.542 --> 05:47.851 When the Holy Spirit tells you to go left, you go left, because when you do it God's way, you could be saving a life and not even realizing the problem is that many of us are doing things based off what it can do for us financially, my God, the connections it can bring us, and the Holy Spirit is completely left out of the equation. 05:48.241 --> 05:53.093 But we need to get back to the place where we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us. 05:53.521 --> 06:01.409 Even if it doesn't seem financially beneficial to us, even though it may not open the doors, even though it may not be the biggest opportunity. 06:01.761 --> 06:03.814 You need to be led by the Holy Spirit. 06:03.834 --> 06:05.782 Amen, I pray. 06:05.982 --> 06:16.951 As a preacher, I'd never get big enough to say no to the small churches Wow Because I feel like they don't have the resources to take care of me. 06:17.401 --> 06:26.311 I want to be led by the Holy Spirit that if he tells me to go to a church with three people, I know that there's a miracle getting ready to happen in that place. 06:26.901 --> 06:32.750 If God tells me to go and preach on the street, it's because there's a soul that needs to be saved. 06:33.021 --> 06:34.828 We need spirit-led people. 06:39.148 --> 06:40.872 That's how revival is going to break out. 06:42.261 --> 07:03.842 And so what happens is that Paul and Silas, as they're on their way to do what God told them to do, they end up in a place called Philippi, the first city in Macedonia, the first city and they land there Before they even start preaching any sermons, even before they start ministering to anyone. 07:04.070 --> 07:10.097 They go into prayer, because prayer is the foundation for anything God is going to do on the earth. 07:12.870 --> 07:16.880 Prayer is the foundation for everything God is going to do on the earth. 07:18.350 --> 07:22.479 Even before Jesus, jesus… we're talking about Jesus, the Son of the Living God. 07:22.590 --> 07:25.118 We're talking about a hundred percent man, a hundred percent God. 07:25.138 --> 07:30.601 When he was on the earth, even Jesus prayed and fasted for 40 days before he started ministry. 07:30.970 --> 07:33.338 But some of you want to do ministry, void of prayer. 07:35.864 --> 07:36.529 They could say Ow. 07:38.015 --> 07:39.279 No one said amen on the heaven. 07:39.851 --> 07:44.014 They said Ow, before he could even be launched out into ministry. 07:44.255 --> 07:47.082 40 days, 40 nights, fasting and prayer. 07:47.470 --> 07:57.894 If Jesus had to do it, how much us, how much more you and me have to get into the mode of seeking God Before we're launched out? 07:57.974 --> 08:00.199 Prayer has to be your food. 08:02.250 --> 08:03.696 You know what birthed my ministry? 08:03.910 --> 08:04.676 It was the carpet. 08:06.510 --> 08:08.157 I was on the carpet on my face. 08:08.471 --> 08:10.029 That's what birthed me in ministry. 08:10.993 --> 08:13.380 I didn't get birthed in ministry because I was a great preacher. 08:13.790 --> 08:15.657 There's preachers a million times better than me. 08:16.070 --> 08:24.372 But what birthed me in ministry was I had a ministry of prayer for the nations Just on the earth. 08:24.954 --> 08:26.078 Great that God wants to do. 08:26.230 --> 08:29.457 He's looking for someone to begin to pray and intercede. 08:29.818 --> 08:30.600 Can I get to the text? 08:30.640 --> 08:31.462 I'm almost there. 08:33.093 --> 08:36.141 You see, I had a strict time restriction in the first service. 08:36.470 --> 08:38.874 It's not as strict, but it's still a little bit strict. 08:44.110 --> 08:46.397 I'm going to try my best to keep an alignment. 08:47.870 --> 08:51.079 Paul and Silas go to Philippi. 08:51.830 --> 08:58.397 They go to the city and the first thing they do is they go into prayer every day, every day, as they're going into prayer. 08:58.779 --> 09:01.673 The Bible says that there was a woman who was demon-possessed. 09:03.311 --> 09:07.738 She was a soothsayer, she was a divination. 09:09.350 --> 09:13.301 She worshiped false gods and she was able to tell people's future. 09:13.892 --> 09:14.997 She was a fortune teller. 09:15.150 --> 09:16.838 She was able to tell people's future. 09:17.390 --> 09:18.214 She was a palm reader. 09:18.470 --> 09:23.961 She was able to tell people's future as Paul and Silas walked every day to prayer. 09:24.242 --> 09:28.081 This girl will begin to cry out these are servants of the Most High God. 09:28.430 --> 09:29.936 These are servants of the Most High God. 09:30.350 --> 09:35.591 It wasn't her words that were wrong, it was her spirit that was wrong, paul and Silas. 09:35.792 --> 09:39.762 They let it go on a few days and the Bible says one day, paul gets annoyed. 09:40.912 --> 09:44.720 You see, god is looking for some people who will just get annoyed by the devil. 09:46.110 --> 09:51.302 The devil's been harassing your family, bringing sickness in your body, bringing confusion all around you. 09:51.630 --> 09:56.462 You need to start getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. 09:56.810 --> 10:04.314 You need to get sick and tired of the enemy throwing shots and arrows at you and saying it's time to fight back. 10:06.710 --> 10:09.376 What's interesting is Paul didn't counsel the demon out of her. 10:12.770 --> 10:14.513 Some of you need counseling, some of you. 10:14.773 --> 10:16.276 The demon needs to be casted out. 10:21.910 --> 10:29.836 I knew there wasn't going to like that, but the church has become so accustomed that when something's wrong, why don't we just talk and have a conversation? 10:30.570 --> 10:32.105 Some things are not meant for a conversation. 10:32.670 --> 10:37.557 Some things are meant for rabah kosotonakayet, Come out in the name of Jesus. 10:37.930 --> 10:39.998 You have no authority here, devil. 10:40.611 --> 10:42.763 There's some stuff you can't counsel out. 10:42.964 --> 10:43.990 You have to cast out. 10:44.451 --> 10:45.434 You have to say Devil. 10:45.474 --> 10:50.357 You have no authority here in my family, you can't stay in my house any longer. 10:50.890 --> 10:53.178 This rebellion is not from God. 10:53.439 --> 10:56.008 It's not from God it can't stay here any longer. 10:56.069 --> 11:06.997 Come on, where are some holy ghost people that say I'm ready to cast out some devils, I'm ready to cast out some demons. 11:07.410 --> 11:10.420 I'm ready to tell the devil you've got no power. 11:10.550 --> 11:12.913 You're here in my family in? 11:12.953 --> 11:15.015 My church in my life. 11:24.745 --> 11:25.546 Can I tell you something? 11:25.830 --> 11:29.817 It is not just me who has that power, each and every one of you. 11:33.510 --> 11:39.303 Jesus already told you in Mark, chapter 16, you will cast out devils. 11:41.696 --> 11:43.261 Some of you have some devils on your job. 11:43.710 --> 11:46.177 You will cast out devils. 11:47.990 --> 11:49.035 Some of you are your bosses of the devil. 11:49.230 --> 11:56.033 You will cast… Some of you are your kids' god devils you will cast…. 12:01.570 --> 12:05.177 Wherever I step into, whatever region I step into, hell should be afraid. 12:08.490 --> 12:10.437 I'm talking to the wrong side, maybe this side. 12:11.831 --> 12:20.940 Wherever you step, hell should be afraid that you step on the scene, because greater is you that lives within you than he that is in the world. 12:21.310 --> 12:24.520 Hell should be afraid because there's power on the inside of you. 12:26.234 --> 12:27.157 Hell should be afraid. 12:31.610 --> 12:36.019 Hell should be afraid when you step into a region because you've got power. 12:38.350 --> 12:39.896 You know why there's some stuff. 12:40.912 --> 12:42.637 Why is this person always angry when I'm around? 12:44.350 --> 12:45.572 It's because you stir up their demons. 12:52.470 --> 12:56.480 You can ask my wife and I promise I'm not lying. 12:57.210 --> 13:01.121 I walk down the street and people just start am I lying? 13:02.271 --> 13:08.630 Leave me alone, get out of here, sir. 13:08.671 --> 13:15.097 I don't even know you, ma'am, I've never met you before, but they know me by the Spirit. 13:19.184 --> 13:19.825 You've got power. 13:20.190 --> 13:22.971 Somebody say I've got power, I've got. 13:23.051 --> 13:23.332 Holy. 13:23.372 --> 13:24.175 Ghost power. 13:25.670 --> 13:27.416 That means you're armed and dangerous. 13:28.270 --> 13:29.925 That means you're armed with power. 13:30.570 --> 13:32.197 You're armed with the full armor of God. 13:32.310 --> 13:33.937 You've got the sword of the Spirit. 13:34.310 --> 13:38.237 You've got the helmet of salvation, you've got the breastplate of righteousness. 13:38.630 --> 13:41.939 Your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. 13:41.959 --> 13:45.133 Come on, somebody, I'm armed and dangerous. 13:53.910 --> 13:55.715 They cast out this demon out of this girl. 13:56.096 --> 13:58.973 And here's the thing they're casting out the devil. 14:01.830 --> 14:04.996 She made lots of money for the people in that region. 14:07.901 --> 14:08.262 Do you know? 14:08.302 --> 14:18.711 When the people of God start arising into our God-given authority, we start disrupting demonic commerce and demonic economy. 14:20.440 --> 14:21.283 Let me say that again. 14:22.360 --> 14:24.027 When we start moving in our divine…. 14:24.320 --> 14:36.482 Let me tell you, the strip club is going to have to get shut down because we're going to step in there and we're going to destroy the economic ecosystem of every satanic scheme and plop. 14:40.300 --> 14:42.110 So many people are going to start getting saved. 14:42.140 --> 14:43.706 They're not going to have business anymore. 14:45.303 --> 14:46.186 Three people shouted. 14:46.888 --> 14:47.710 It's happened before. 14:47.960 --> 15:07.640 I believe this city is going to hit such revival that the demonic infrastructure is going to have to be torn down, that the demonic systems are going to collapse under the weight of God's glory and God's power and God's anointing. 15:07.860 --> 15:09.063 Somebody shout in here. 15:14.402 --> 15:20.208 I was actually looking something up, because I know some people have made this into a political thing, but I do think it's really powerful. 15:20.421 --> 15:26.644 I think if kingdom people start tapping into this reality, we'll see God do more than we've ever imagined. 15:28.442 --> 15:33.271 As a church, we have powered up bankrupt demonic systems. 15:35.720 --> 15:37.383 The Lord began to show me Disney. 15:43.421 --> 15:48.812 They were promoting LGBTQ agenda to children. 15:51.389 --> 15:52.660 They were promoting demonic…. 15:53.142 --> 15:54.627 You see that's what I'm talking about a system. 15:54.840 --> 15:56.305 Some of you just look at Disney as innocent. 15:57.200 --> 15:58.480 They just do movies. 15:58.480 --> 16:00.145 You don't see the spirit behind it. 16:02.200 --> 16:05.828 Discernment helps you look beyond the words and the message and see the spirit. 16:08.040 --> 16:17.546 What's happening is that there's a spirit that's being disseminated upon this generation that says everything's okay, just live the life the way you want it. 16:17.880 --> 16:19.025 Don't listen to your parents. 16:20.843 --> 16:21.906 They're a little bit crazy. 16:23.881 --> 16:27.608 Listen to me, y'all are, but I'm just kidding, but I'm serious. 16:30.760 --> 16:34.671 But we need to bankrupt these demonic systems. 16:35.341 --> 16:39.308 Disney lost $50 billion of its market cap. 16:43.216 --> 16:44.037 Come on, church. 16:44.097 --> 16:45.380 It's time for us to arise. 16:46.483 --> 16:48.610 We're going to be the righteous standard on the earth. 16:49.321 --> 16:49.762 You know what? 16:49.782 --> 16:56.606 We're going to come up with our own entertainment systems as the systems of the world collapse. 16:56.927 --> 16:59.212 We're going to come up with our own system. 17:00.082 --> 17:02.186 It's going to be called the kingdom system. 17:05.700 --> 17:11.752 What is going to disseminate on the earth is righteousness, holiness, good morals, love, peace. 17:12.440 --> 17:13.885 Come on somebody. 17:18.120 --> 17:22.628 I don't promote alcohol, right, because I don't drink, and I just don't personally. 17:24.080 --> 17:25.322 They're sipping saints, but not me. 17:32.920 --> 17:35.348 Some of the old school saints are going to understand that joke. 17:36.180 --> 17:38.325 The new school saints are like oh my God, she's so condemning. 17:41.900 --> 17:42.662 But the old school saints? 17:42.682 --> 17:45.089 There was a book literally written called Sipping Saints. 17:46.280 --> 17:48.147 Back in the days you couldn't do everything with a sin. 17:48.980 --> 17:53.383 You breathed too loud, you were sinning, you were coughing and you were sinning. 17:59.960 --> 18:00.925 Now nothing's a sin. 18:01.281 --> 18:01.944 I just don't get it. 18:02.800 --> 18:04.546 We went from one level to the next. 18:05.880 --> 18:06.362 Everything was a sin. 18:06.382 --> 18:07.146 Now nothing's a sin. 18:07.240 --> 18:16.061 I'm like God, bring us back to the balance of your word, budweiser. 18:16.421 --> 18:30.552 $27 million lost Target $15 billion lost. 18:30.580 --> 18:34.631 Demonic systems are collapsing all around us. 18:35.260 --> 18:44.330 We can't see in the Spirit enough to realize what's happening as a church, because we're starting to unite, and it's not a racial thing. 18:44.350 --> 18:49.691 We're united around more than our race, more than our culture, more than where you grew up. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.568 You know the uniting force for the church, jesus. 18:53.060 --> 19:06.863 You know the uniting force, the kingdom of God, I don't care how you look, we're united on one thing, and it's the power of the gospel of Jesus that makes hell scare. 19:13.000 --> 19:14.304 We need a church that really has power. 19:17.080 --> 19:20.508 We need a church where demons can't hide, where witches can't hide. 19:22.560 --> 19:23.663 We need that power again. 19:26.942 --> 19:38.646 All right, let me get to my point, because I'm talking about all the doors being open and I didn't really get to touch on it the way I wanted to in the last service. 19:43.340 --> 19:49.011 Paul after he does what he does, he faces persecution. 19:50.860 --> 19:54.822 The Bible says they take him into the marketplace, the place he disrupted. 19:57.406 --> 20:01.494 That's the place they took him into to persecute him. 20:02.721 --> 20:07.830 See, there's Christian companies being persecuted in the place that they're disrupting the marketplace. 20:10.880 --> 20:29.255 You don't think that Twitter has an agenda, facebook or Instagram when they block certain Christian, certain companies that have Judeo-Christian values? 20:30.964 --> 20:32.489 No, it's just normal, just regular. 20:33.321 --> 20:37.426 No, no, it's a form of persecution that's about to increase. 20:38.288 --> 20:47.083 As the days become more evil, as wickedness begins to increase on the earth, the persecution of the saints are only going to get worse. 20:48.320 --> 20:58.043 I know that's not a good news message, but it is a good news message, because a good news message is this that even as the persecution increases, the church is going to grow. 20:59.680 --> 21:08.791 I prophesy this right now and you can see it all throughout Scripture Every time the church is persecuted, that's the hour where the church grows, the more. 21:09.480 --> 21:15.092 That's the hour where there's more miracles and more signs and more wonders and more glory. 21:15.600 --> 21:30.595 And I declare as America begins to persecute Christians because they don't want to succumb to the LGBTQ T-A-F-G-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T agenda. 21:33.247 --> 21:34.450 That's how confusing it is. 21:36.062 --> 21:49.023 Now I don't even know plus minus equal sign, because we won't succumb to it. 21:49.704 --> 21:54.865 There's a persecution coming and guess what. 21:56.360 --> 21:59.309 It's not time to say I'm just going to do what my job tells me to do. 22:01.007 --> 22:02.556 Yeah, if they want Heeshe, I'm just going to say Heeshe. 22:02.576 --> 22:03.702 You know, I'm calling you by your name. 22:06.846 --> 22:09.803 I don't want to get fired, so I'm not going to use pronouns, but I'll just say your name. 22:11.483 --> 22:12.006 Hey Jim. 22:14.400 --> 22:17.928 Because I'm not going to feed into craziness and insanity. 22:20.380 --> 22:35.054 We got to take a stand as a church and some people may not like it, but I don't care, Because the system of the nuclear family of man and woman was not something that I created. 22:35.461 --> 22:37.047 It's something that God created. 22:37.580 --> 22:41.969 The Bible says at the beginning he created a male and a female. 22:44.400 --> 22:49.767 And I don't care who tries to change it, I don't care what they say about it, I don't care what science comes out. 22:50.260 --> 22:52.204 They're all wrong and God's right. 22:58.000 --> 22:59.845 So he's persecuted, he's whipped. 23:00.467 --> 23:01.590 He's him. 23:01.690 --> 23:05.168 And Can I tell you what's interesting? 23:05.880 --> 23:07.624 This is Silas first trip. 23:14.086 --> 23:17.191 Imagine I'm like yo, Pastor Moe, I'll be traveling, preaching. 23:17.231 --> 23:18.794 Come with me First trip. 23:20.545 --> 23:24.320 They take us out to the marketplace, start beating us, throw us in jail. 23:24.440 --> 23:28.286 He's like I'm never traveling with this dude. 23:33.994 --> 23:34.495 My first. 23:35.040 --> 23:39.964 That's what we call a baptism right there, my first trip. 23:40.004 --> 23:41.403 I'm getting they beat me to. 23:41.980 --> 23:43.968 I'm just imagining how the beatdown happened. 23:48.167 --> 23:51.794 Hold on, I'm going to beat down my first trip, god. 23:55.986 --> 24:05.455 Someone said I know, but this is what the story gets a little bit interesting. 24:08.126 --> 24:12.262 Can I pause right here to just talk about a couple of the doors that God's getting ready to open for you? 24:13.787 --> 24:14.690 Is that cool with everyone? 24:15.141 --> 24:23.187 I know it's not like perfect in the way you're supposed to preach a sermon and my point is I don't really care, I'm just going to flow with the Lord. 24:24.860 --> 24:35.124 Can I tell you the first door that's going to open for you this year Okay, y'all didn't want to hear it this is the year of open doors. 24:36.560 --> 24:41.531 The first door that God is getting ready to open for you is called wide and active doors. 24:42.760 --> 24:54.846 In the midst of opposition, there are doors that are going to open even while opposing forces are coming against you, and they're going to be so big, they're going to be so powerful, they're going to be so wide. 24:55.000 --> 24:56.446 All right, let's open up to the scripture. 24:56.740 --> 25:01.711 First Corinthians, chapter 16, and I only want to look at the last verse, verse nine. 25:02.581 --> 25:07.629 Here's what it says, and this is Paul speaking, because he was trying to get to Ephesus and get to the people. 25:09.140 --> 25:11.446 Verse eight says that he was trying to get to them in Ephesus. 25:11.847 --> 25:20.232 But he says let's go to verse eight, let's read that, but I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost because he was trying to get to them in Corinthians. 25:20.580 --> 25:24.871 So he got stuck in Ephesus and he goes man, I got to wait in Ephesus until Pentecost. 25:25.220 --> 25:25.883 But here's what he said. 25:26.300 --> 25:28.043 He says for a great. 25:31.270 --> 25:33.214 That word great literally means wide. 25:34.963 --> 25:45.004 So the door you're about to walk into you won't just be barely getting into it, it's tailor made, even though you put on a few pounds. 25:53.660 --> 25:54.443 Then here's the second thing. 25:54.483 --> 25:58.748 It says it's an effective door, which means an active door. 26:00.140 --> 26:01.766 You know what happens when a door is active. 26:02.220 --> 26:04.811 That means things just keep coming and keep coming and keep. 26:05.012 --> 26:12.881 Can I prophesy that the blessing is just going to keep coming, that the abundance is going to keep coming, that the opportunity come on somebody? 26:13.142 --> 26:16.190 The opportunities are going to just keep coming. 26:17.340 --> 26:21.089 You won't even be able to keep up with how big the blessing is going to be. 26:24.506 --> 26:25.128 And here's what he says. 26:25.300 --> 26:26.525 This is my favorite part of the passage. 26:27.060 --> 26:31.011 Great and effective doors has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. 26:32.122 --> 26:35.650 He's saying, in the midst of warfare, I'm still experiencing open doors. 26:37.500 --> 26:37.941 Can I tell you? 26:38.202 --> 26:48.533 I know you've been facing a lot of warfare and a lot of attacks, but even in the midst of it, I declare God is opening great and effective doors for you. 26:48.694 --> 26:53.302 In Jesus' name, I cannot tell you. 26:53.322 --> 27:05.631 The second door that God's getting ready to open for you, the second door that God's getting ready to open for you, is a door that no man can close. 27:09.940 --> 27:11.005 This is one of my favorites. 27:11.680 --> 27:12.785 I don't care what anyone tries to do. 27:13.060 --> 27:14.927 Your boss may try to stop you from getting a promotion. 27:15.020 --> 27:15.963 They can't even stop you. 27:18.980 --> 27:20.426 I don't care how much power they think they have. 27:20.500 --> 27:23.385 The board will look at them and tell them no, they must get the job. 27:27.853 --> 27:30.563 Look at this Isaiah, chapter 22, verse 22,. 27:31.424 --> 27:37.034 And I will place on his shoulder the key of David. 27:37.460 --> 27:43.624 I'm reading from the ESV, even though the NKJV is up there, don't worry, I'm doing my own thing. 27:46.180 --> 27:48.907 I will place on his shoulder and I told them the NKJV. 27:49.067 --> 27:50.570 But this is just me doing my own thing. 27:51.600 --> 27:53.184 Don't judge the media people, it's me. 27:53.566 --> 27:58.108 Judge me Right, they're amazing. 27:58.380 --> 28:01.149 Judge me, I'm judged. 28:05.798 --> 28:10.191 Thank you, I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. 28:10.760 --> 28:12.427 He shall open. 28:12.600 --> 28:13.836 This is talking about Jesus. 28:14.200 --> 28:15.238 It's talking about Jesus. 28:15.420 --> 28:17.565 It's talking about Jesus when Jesus comes. 28:17.746 --> 28:24.051 There's a key that's going to be laid on him and it's going to be the key of the house of David, which is the key of intimacy. 28:24.420 --> 28:27.089 It's just the key of the house of David, right? 28:27.220 --> 28:31.872 The key of the Messiah, the key of the ruler, the master. 28:32.260 --> 28:35.550 It says the key is going to be laid on him, on his shoulder. 28:35.900 --> 28:38.084 It says, and he shall open. 28:43.160 --> 28:49.632 There's a door that's getting ready to open and the Bible says and no one shall. 28:52.831 --> 28:57.542 All right, here's the third door. 29:03.346 --> 29:04.792 Adore into good things. 29:07.405 --> 29:08.511 All right, let's open up there. 29:08.625 --> 29:11.755 Matthew, chapter seven we're gonna look at verse seven. 29:11.885 --> 29:13.912 That we're gonna look at, I think, verse 11. 29:14.012 --> 29:23.554 Here's what it says Ask, and it'll be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it will be open to you. 29:23.885 --> 29:29.373 Then verse 11 tells you what you're gonna be, what you're gonna get the benefit of it being open. 29:29.605 --> 29:29.947 Look at this. 29:30.885 --> 29:41.341 If then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father, who is in heaven, give good gifts? 29:43.405 --> 29:43.726 Man. 29:43.746 --> 29:45.051 God don't want me to be blessed. 29:46.405 --> 29:47.926 He don't want me to have good things, you know. 29:47.966 --> 29:50.193 He just wants me to just barely be able to pay my bills. 29:50.485 --> 29:51.249 The devil is a liar. 29:53.065 --> 30:05.794 The Bible says how much more will your father, who is in heaven, give good gifts, man, I'm just barely holding on and barely surviving, and barely and barely, and broke, busted and disgusted. 30:05.894 --> 30:12.982 No, no, he wants to give you Good things. 30:13.245 --> 30:19.891 There's a door of good things coming to you, good opportunities. 30:23.062 --> 30:26.406 All right, here's. 30:27.109 --> 30:30.894 I'm gonna spend a lot of time on these because I've already taken too long. 30:32.205 --> 30:34.273 Here's the third one, oh, fourth one. 30:35.685 --> 30:39.796 A door into financial increase. 30:43.325 --> 30:55.452 All right, let me say the lame answer A door into money, a door into wealth, a door into real estate, a door into owning property. 30:57.027 --> 31:00.555 I declare the door be open for your business. 31:01.637 --> 31:02.379 Come on somebody. 31:02.565 --> 31:05.534 I declare the door of promotion be open for you. 31:06.445 --> 31:07.611 Oh, three people are shouting. 31:07.805 --> 31:09.412 I need some real saints who believe it. 31:10.945 --> 31:13.694 The door is getting ready to open in Jesus' name. 31:16.385 --> 31:18.011 Look at this, let's go there. 31:18.505 --> 31:20.011 Isaiah, chapter 45. 31:20.605 --> 31:22.533 We're gonna look at verse one and then look at verse three. 31:22.585 --> 31:23.107 Look what it says. 31:23.925 --> 31:33.653 Thus says the Lord to his anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue the nations before him and to loose the armor of kings to open before him the, the double doors. 31:35.026 --> 31:38.709 Hold on, hold on. 31:39.846 --> 31:41.511 God, ain't he just opening the door for you? 31:42.505 --> 31:44.512 He's getting ready to open a double door for you. 31:50.305 --> 31:57.475 In my room there's a double door and I remember when we were moving there were certain things that couldn't fit in the regular door. 32:01.206 --> 32:02.249 Our mattress couldn't fit. 32:02.650 --> 32:12.837 When the door was just One of the doors was open, so what we had to do is we had to take the lock off and then we had to open the double door. 32:13.565 --> 32:15.151 And what couldn't fit before? 32:19.205 --> 32:22.871 Can I tell you, there's a blessing so big that one door isn't enough. 32:25.065 --> 32:28.275 There's a miracle so big that one door isn't enough. 32:30.065 --> 32:31.752 I declare double doors over you. 32:33.505 --> 32:41.551 I declare double the wealth, I declare double the salary, I declare double the square footage. 32:42.865 --> 32:50.584 I declare double the clients or I need someone to shout like they believe it Double is coming on you now in Jesus' name. 32:50.745 --> 32:52.920 Double for your trouble, double for the warfare. 32:54.991 --> 32:56.899 I declare double in Jesus' name. 32:58.186 --> 33:00.405 It says double doors and the gates will not be shut. 33:00.405 --> 33:01.444 Look what verse three says. 33:01.586 --> 33:07.153 It's going to tell you why the double door has to open because of the amount of what's coming in. 33:09.017 --> 33:10.125 I will give you the treasures of darkness. 33:11.868 --> 33:19.203 That means money, treasures, wealth that were in dark places. 33:21.933 --> 33:30.205 I mean money that was In the grip of evil people. 33:32.555 --> 33:34.142 I'm going to give that to you, amen. 33:36.114 --> 33:41.398 There's no way the people of God should be suffering and the wicked should be prospering. 33:45.231 --> 33:47.178 And hidden riches. 33:47.198 --> 33:49.024 Hold on. 33:51.695 --> 33:58.420 So there's money that's hidden that only an open door can bring to you. 33:58.848 --> 34:00.204 See, this is why I don't play around. 34:02.336 --> 34:06.365 If God says open door, I'm believing open door Because I need that hidden money to start here. 34:06.365 --> 34:08.470 I need that hidden money to start hitting my cow. 34:11.036 --> 34:11.457 Amen. 34:13.385 --> 34:22.488 It says hidden riches of secret places that you may know that I, the Lord who called you by your name, and the God. 34:22.885 --> 34:27.553 I'm not doing this for any reason except to boast in how good I am. 34:32.365 --> 34:34.508 All right, can we get back to the text? 34:35.885 --> 34:36.793 Is that all right with everyone? 34:36.813 --> 34:38.386 Yes, all right. 34:38.406 --> 34:46.332 So let's get back to Acts, chapter 16, and then I should be done with the preaching part, and then I want to lay hands on every single person in the house. 34:47.234 --> 34:51.634 Amen, see, I like the people who be provoking me. 34:51.785 --> 34:53.667 Amen, one person. 34:53.708 --> 34:54.410 I'm going to lay hands on that. 34:54.551 --> 34:56.932 One person, since all of y'all said nothing. 34:59.405 --> 35:00.270 One person amen. 35:00.385 --> 35:01.311 I'm like I ain't laying hands. 35:01.465 --> 35:02.631 Even you, babe, you didn't amen. 35:02.765 --> 35:03.407 I'm not laying hands. 35:08.045 --> 35:10.754 My own wife, I thought she was going to at least say amen. 35:18.425 --> 35:21.010 But when you go back to Acts, chapter 16, something interesting happens. 35:21.105 --> 35:35.670 Paul and Silas are currently in prison, bound up, changed around them prison doors, closed around hardened criminals. 35:37.865 --> 35:44.428 But here's the crazy thing they don't stop praising. 35:46.725 --> 35:50.609 They don't allow what they're going through to become their identity. 35:52.685 --> 35:56.113 You could be in prison and not have a prison mindset. 35:58.825 --> 36:01.832 You could be going through hell and hell not get into you. 36:04.445 --> 36:05.651 Oh, I like this right here. 36:05.725 --> 36:06.909 This is my type of preacher. 36:08.025 --> 36:11.052 You could be going through storms and the storm doesn't get into you. 36:11.225 --> 36:12.551 It doesn't affect who you are. 36:12.905 --> 36:22.472 You could be going through some stuff and still have a good attitude and still worship and still praise, and still everyone doesn't have to know you're going through a hard time. 36:24.445 --> 36:27.868 It's hard to say why everyone got to know you're angry and upset and going through. 36:28.265 --> 36:29.551 Put a smile on your face. 36:29.825 --> 36:31.412 Jesus rose from the dead. 36:34.885 --> 36:36.833 I don't want to look like what I'm going through. 36:45.505 --> 36:55.351 You know that you have power, that no matter how crazy your region, your home, your community is, you have atmosphere, shifting power. 36:57.705 --> 36:58.891 I'm going to try that one more time. 36:58.965 --> 37:08.235 You have atmosphere shifting power that because you step on the scene even though crazy things are happening, it won't get in you. 37:11.905 --> 37:12.869 There was a storm. 37:13.985 --> 37:21.952 There was a really crazy storm to the point where professional fishermen got scared, people who had been out in the water every day. 37:21.972 --> 37:27.307 They were like nah, they say no, no, I'm going to die, I'm going to die. 37:29.845 --> 37:31.711 Jesus didn't even let it get inside of him. 37:32.785 --> 37:36.074 They let the storm affect their eternal reality. 37:37.285 --> 37:41.432 They started speaking death instead of life when they saw what was happening externally. 37:42.845 --> 37:48.673 Some of you have allowed external circumstances to affect so much of who you are internally. 37:50.385 --> 38:00.373 So everything that happens on the outside starts seeping into your spirit, seeping into your soul, and it starts becoming a part of who you are and you start thinking man, life is just terrible. 38:01.105 --> 38:04.748 You start making those confessions man, life is just not good for me, it's good for others. 38:05.386 --> 38:12.110 What you guys start changing, the way you talk Life and death is in the power of your tongue. 38:13.054 --> 38:15.804 I don't care how bad it looks, I ain't speaking that. 38:15.844 --> 38:17.308 I'm going through struggle and pain. 38:17.368 --> 38:18.692 No, god is with me. 38:20.441 --> 38:23.531 No greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world. 38:24.801 --> 38:26.887 Nope wealth and riches are in my house. 38:27.068 --> 38:28.292 I start speaking the word. 38:30.341 --> 38:30.843 So look at this. 38:31.305 --> 38:39.349 I, I read this, and, and Paula Silas, they, they start praising in the midst, they start praising, they start singing. 38:39.670 --> 38:42.195 There's Jairah, you are enough. 38:43.921 --> 38:48.230 I wish I could sing like Sean and I could play the saxophone like that. 38:48.411 --> 38:49.152 What's your name young? 38:49.333 --> 38:53.449 Oh my god, jordan, oh my god, she killed it. 38:55.141 --> 38:59.872 Yo, the worship team, y'all went higher. 38:59.953 --> 39:02.944 It was crazy man y'all. 39:02.984 --> 39:03.946 They killed it. 39:04.968 --> 39:06.932 I mean killed, it was urban colloquial terms. 39:07.052 --> 39:12.342 They were amazing Gosh. 39:12.542 --> 39:15.249 I was like yo, what should I play nice saxophone? 39:15.289 --> 39:16.973 I was like, oh, it's like some smooth jazz. 39:19.922 --> 39:28.965 I was still in the spirit, but I was like oh yeah, hey, we need to go to a jazz club Next. 39:29.005 --> 39:40.951 Y'all need a horn section because if one, if the sax could sound that good, imagine if you get the trumpet in the oh man, trumpet player, arise to your destiny and start playing. 39:46.561 --> 39:47.925 Okay, yeah, so they were praising. 39:49.389 --> 39:54.905 It was midnight, it was the darkest time of the night. 39:55.125 --> 40:06.250 When it says midnight, that's literally what it means, because it's usually that darkest time where you can grow the most, because that's what you really learn who God is, because you can't depend on anyone else. 40:06.270 --> 40:06.672 You can't. 40:08.101 --> 40:08.642 This is Paul. 40:08.662 --> 40:12.210 The Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening. 40:12.250 --> 40:13.333 They weren't even praising. 40:14.821 --> 40:16.166 Look what it says what? 40:16.186 --> 40:17.190 Look what their praise did. 40:18.581 --> 40:21.586 Verse 26 Suddenly there was a earthquake. 40:23.183 --> 40:25.651 Okay, I don't think you realize the power of your praise. 40:27.761 --> 40:34.134 They prayed so hard that it literally changed the dynamic of what was happening on the earth. 40:36.141 --> 40:43.793 Baby, I Believe that if you would just praise, that you begin to shift what's happening in the nations. 40:45.503 --> 41:05.300 If I could just find two people in the house like Paul and Silas To praise, no matter how dark things look in the nation, no matter how dark things look in your family, no matter how dark things look in your situation, I guarantee that God's gonna send a divine earthquake and begin to shift. 41:05.982 --> 41:20.190 Oh, my costa tara, mark the foundations of things the Boba says of the prison and it was shaken, and and immediately, and there's the last door. 41:23.603 --> 41:32.794 Oh, so if I told you about the four doors and it didn't fit anything that you wanted, can I prophesize something to you? 41:37.041 --> 41:38.627 Okay, I need some praises in here. 41:40.741 --> 41:43.908 Who know that all the doors means the doors in your marriage. 41:44.269 --> 41:46.213 That means the doors in your finances. 41:46.541 --> 41:48.545 That means the doors in your prayer life. 41:48.825 --> 41:50.769 That means the doors in writing the book. 41:51.030 --> 41:53.274 That means the doors in completing the assignment. 41:53.541 --> 41:55.225 That means the doors of contracts. 41:55.506 --> 41:57.351 That means the doors of your education. 41:57.681 --> 41:59.470 That means the doors of your purpose. 41:59.752 --> 42:01.360 That means the doors of your calling. 42:01.861 --> 42:09.763 I declare and decree that all the doors are getting ready to open for you Today. 42:09.823 --> 42:14.060 Come on, I need you to shout in this place if you really believe it. 42:14.741 --> 42:23.871 Every door that's been held up, every door that's been limited, it's about to open for you now, in Jesus name. 42:27.422 --> 42:28.807 I'm gonna end with this last thing. 42:32.321 --> 42:40.280 I'm from New York, but when I moved to Pennsylvania, I realized that Pennsylvania moved completely different when it came to guns. 42:44.918 --> 42:53.006 Oh, that was random, right, moisa, that's so random, babe, you forgot I'm a preacher. 42:53.146 --> 42:54.230 Okay, I'm gonna tie it in. 42:57.122 --> 43:00.120 She be forgetting sometimes, like you be forgetting who I am. 43:03.264 --> 43:04.745 I'm forgetting why am girl. 43:10.953 --> 43:13.896 I'm sorry, that's my, that's my woman. 43:18.382 --> 43:21.982 I got distracted, okay. 43:25.883 --> 43:29.409 So Pennsylvania, the gun laws are completely different. 43:29.469 --> 43:32.693 Like people move, different, like it's it's. 43:33.635 --> 43:39.144 It ain't Texas, but it ain't New York. 43:41.089 --> 43:44.700 And so I was like you know what new state, new lifestyle? 43:50.290 --> 43:51.432 Oh, god's gonna protect you. 43:51.492 --> 43:55.583 Yep, and my nine, damn. 44:00.201 --> 44:01.305 We was about to move to New Jersey. 44:01.345 --> 44:08.280 I said, nah, babe, we can't do it, so go to the gun store. 44:10.629 --> 44:34.300 I Didn't even make a point and as a gun novice, I have tons of questions and thankfully this gun store isn't judgmental, because some of them are like you don't know anything. 44:35.162 --> 44:37.127 You're 30 year old man, you know about guns. 44:38.590 --> 44:39.512 I'm right from here. 44:39.532 --> 44:42.165 All right country bumpkins out here. 44:47.001 --> 44:47.863 But he was kind. 44:47.883 --> 44:49.448 He was so kind he went through the process. 44:49.809 --> 44:51.052 Yes, I said yeah. 44:52.221 --> 44:54.750 So like I want like a nine to protect my family. 44:55.171 --> 45:01.148 He's like oh, that's a good gun for like self-protection, protection, like what he's. 45:01.188 --> 45:16.023 If you really want to protect your family Me say you need a shotgun, say why didn't he have that big gun to protect my family? 45:16.035 --> 45:19.585 He says you don't understand why you use a shotgun. 45:19.935 --> 45:22.664 You use a shotgun so that you don't have to use a shotgun. 45:29.355 --> 45:31.562 So I'm like what do you mean? 45:32.335 --> 45:57.200 He said, when someone's trying to break down your door and they hear kuh kuh, that sound alerts them that something's happening in the house and that if they step in the house it's going to be trouble for them. 46:00.235 --> 46:05.242 Then the Holy Spirit started speaking to me and said do you know what the church's shotgun is? 46:06.535 --> 46:07.319 It's praise. 46:08.256 --> 46:16.343 Yeah, ok, I need about three people Ha te ko, shan, le da ka satara ma. 46:16.975 --> 46:24.346 You got a shotgun in the spirit and the devil's trying to get entry, but all you got to do is go kuh, kuh, kuh. 46:24.956 --> 46:27.033 All you got to do is go hallelujah. 46:27.295 --> 46:29.107 All you got to do is praise the Lord. 46:29.375 --> 46:31.402 All you got to say is thank you, jesus. 46:32.037 --> 46:32.643 And guess what? 46:33.035 --> 46:36.693 The devil goes running, because there's power in your praise. 46:42.788 --> 47:01.328 I just need three praisers to stand to your feet, open up your mouth and shout hallelujah. 47:06.015 --> 47:07.220 You want to make hell afraid? 47:08.055 --> 47:08.937 Start praising. 47:13.015 --> 47:14.421 So here's what we're going to do on the count of three. 47:14.995 --> 47:28.916 Praise this crazy, radical, insane praise, and it's going to begin to shake the region and shake the nation and shake every prison and it's going to begin to open every door One, two, three shout. 48:00.425 --> 48:01.968 Shout the sound of victory. 48:03.055 --> 48:04.642 Shout the sound of victory. 48:05.756 --> 48:07.498 Shout the sound of triumph. 48:18.436 --> 48:19.258 Hallelujah. 48:23.196 --> 48:25.383 I just saw some devils running out of this place. 48:26.861 --> 48:30.822 I just saw some demons that have been harassing your family run out of this place. 48:31.498 --> 48:35.742 I just saw some sickness that had been on your body running out of this place. 48:36.296 --> 48:41.503 I just saw the spirit of fear leave and say I ain't coming back and messing with those praisers. 48:45.902 --> 48:47.685 Hey, hey. 48:50.757 --> 48:52.905 This is the City Light Church Podcast. 48:53.338 --> 49:01.866 If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansic and City Light Church, visit us at CityLightNYCcom. 49:02.939 --> 49:04.887 That's CityLightNYCcom. 49:06.121 --> 49:08.995 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 49:09.641 --> 49:10.975 We would love to connect with you. 49:12.102 --> 49:19.644 We 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